40 @ 4 Webinar Series

UMBC’s Erickson School of Aging invites you to its first of two webinars in the Longevity Economy. The 40 @ 4 is designed for busy individuals by packing a 40-minute webinar with innovative material designed to expand your awareness of growing opportunities in the competitive longevity economy market.

March 31st, 4 p.m. ET

40 @ 4 Webinar Series

The Global Longevity Economy: In 2021 Creativity Counts

An international take discussion on the expanding longevity economy. In this 40 @ 4 webinar, our speakers will discuss the opportunities, innovations, and entertain solutions for healthy longevity in our aging global world.

Speakers:  

Jon Warner, Ph.D., CEO, Silver Moonshots

Joo Hyung Han, Ph.D., CEO, 50 + Korea

Moderated by: 

Brittany Weinberg, MBA, MSG, Founder & CEO, BW Global Consulting, LLC

Questions for our panelists? Submit them today. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions during the webinar on March 31st.

Mark your calendars for the second installment of the Spring 2021 40 @ 4 Webinar Series, May 5th, at 4p.m. focusing on entrepreneurship in the longevity economy and older adults.

The Erickson School is thankful to the American Institute of Financial Gerontology (AIFG) for its sponsorship of the Spring 2021 40 @ 4 Webinar Series. For nearly two decades, AIFG has provided innovative curriculum to financial and non-financial professionals. 

Reposted from the Asian & Asian-American Faculty & Staff Alliance at UMBC.

On the surge of hate crimes against Asian, Asian-Americans and Pacific-Islanders (AAPI), we want to share updated data and resources with our community. 

According to Stop AAPI Hate’s March 2021 national report, 3,795 incidents of discrimination against AAPIs were reported from March 19 to February 28, 2021 via the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center. Below are a few highlights. Visit https://stopaapihate.org/reportsreleases/ for the full national report and other reports. 

• The kinds of English teaching jobs available internationally
• Short-term employment and long-term career possibilities in the field of international English teaching
• Training available at UMBC to open global doors for you

Dr. Michael Lane, Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Studies, has been awarded a highly prestigious Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. The award will allow Dr. Lane to finalize his research in the Lake Kopaïs basin of Boeotia, Central Greece, and to interpret and contextualize his findings in a book entitled Minyeia, which promises to be a tour de force of archaeological investigation and scholarship.

A new framework for articulating broader impacts in research proposals is now available from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

NSF's existing criteria for evaluating research proposals through both intellectual merit and broader impacts remain unchanged. The new framework offers guidance on how researchers can better articulate the potential impacts of their proposed research and how those impacts can lead to benefits for society, including improved quality of life. The framework includes questions for researchers to consider when developing the broader impacts of their research and suggestions on how to explain them.

“By effectively describing a project's potential broader impacts, researchers can help others understand the relevance of that research to their lives,” says Arthur Lupia, head of NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. “As more researchers do this, more people in the U.S. will understand the tremendous and irreplaceable public value of fundamental research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences.”

To read the framework, see Dear Colleague Letter: A Broader Impacts Framework for Proposals Submitted to NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.

The AERA-NSF Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data sets in their research.

The AERA-NSF Grants Program emphasizes the advanced statistical analysis of data sets from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, NSF, and other federal agencies. The program also supports studies using large-scale international data systems (e.g., PISA, PIRLS, or TIMMS) that benefit from U.S. federal government support. In addition, statewide longitudinal administrative data systems enhanced through federal grants are also eligible for consideration. Proposals are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as, but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.

AERA Dissertation Grants. AERA provides dissertation support for advanced doctoral students to undertake doctoral dissertations using data from large-scale data sets. The award provides professional development, training, and networking opportunities for students. The selection process is competitive. AERA-NSF Dissertation Grants are awarded for one-year for an amount of up to $25,000.

AERA Research Grants. AERA provides small grants for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars to undertake quantitative research using data from large-scale data sets. The selection process is competitive. AERA-NSF Research Grants are awarded for one or two years, for an amount of up to $35,000.

The next proposal deadline is Wednesday, May 12, 2021 (11:59PM PT). Please the AERA-NSF Grants Program via email (grantsprogram@aera.net) or phone (202-238-3200) if you have any questions regarding the program.