Voices for Economic Opportunity Grant
Grand Global Challenges, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Deadline: November 13, 2019
The goal of this challenge is to elevate diverse voices that can help broaden the conversation about the issues inhibiting economic mobility and generate deeper awareness and actionable understanding. Most Americans believe it is right to help others, so that they may have the opportunity to live healthy and productive lives. Yet skepticism exists about the efficacy of anti-poverty programs in the U.S. and deep-seated stereotypes remain about people experiencing poverty and who deserves to rise out of it. Many community practitioners and social movement leaders in the U.S. are already working to address this challenge. Still, there is a need for new ways of bringing personal stories to life to help others better understand why people fall into or remain hindered by barriers that impede their ability to advance and what the obstacles to building and maintaining economic security are. We seek proposals for creative, scalable, strategic new ways to generate awareness of the structural and historic barriers to economic mobility; to communicate that poverty is not just something that happens to other people and everyone is deserving of the chance to move out of it; and to change the predominant misconceptions about poverty in a way that creates the conditions for effective programs and policies to be adopted by the public and private sectors.
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Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (NSF)
Deadline: November 15, 2019
With an emphasis on two-year Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.
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Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science Phase II Grant (NSF)
Deadline: November 20, 2019
Transdisciplinary Research In Principles Of Data Science (TRIPODS) aims to bring together the statistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science communities to develop the theoretical foundations of data science through integrated research and training activities. Phase I, described in solicitation NSF 16-615, supported the development of small collaborative Institutes. Phase II will support a smaller number of larger Institutes, selected from the Phase I Institutes via a second competitive proposal process. All TRIPODS Institutes must involve significant and integral participation by all three of the aforementioned communities.
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Environmental Health Disparities Research (NIH)
Deadline: November 22, 2019
Social determinants of health--the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age--shape individual and population health and wellbeing across the life course, and include a broad range of factors such as access to safe housing, affordable healthy food, potable water, green space, clean air, and supportive social networks. These health determinants are in turn shaped by wider forces including economics, social policies, politics and personal and community beliefs and value systems. Unequal distribution of health-promoting social determinants across various populations is increasingly understood as a significant contributor to persistent and pervasive health disparities. A focus on health equity calls for addressing determinants of health that put health disparity populations and vulnerable communities at a disadvantage for achieving positive health outcomes. This initiative will support multidisciplinary research to generate innovative approaches to mitigate environmental health disparities and improve access to healthy and sustainable environments for health disparity populations and vulnerable communities. Each center is expected to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, synergistic research projects (see descriptions of required components below for examples of synergy), and core support that enhances the ability to achieve goals and objectives.
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Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support (NSF)
Deadline: December 16, 2019
Oceanographic facilities and equipment are supported by the Integrative Programs Section (IPS) of the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE), Directorate for Geosciences (GEO). These awards are made for the procurement, conversion and/or up-grade, enhancement or annual operation of platforms in the ocean, coastal, near-shore and Great Lakes. Awards are generally directed specifically to support facilities that lend themselves to shared use within the broad range of federally-supported research and education programs. Most of these platforms and facilities also receive partial support from federal agencies other than NSF. This includes state and local governments and private sources on a proportional basis usually through a daily rate mechanism. The primary objective of these awards is to ensure the availability of appropriate facilities for federally-funded investigators and educators. Individual project-based facilities and instrumentation, limited to one, or a small group of investigators, should be supported through appropriate research programs as opposed to the IPS programs listed herein.
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Formal Methods in the Field Grant (NSF)
Deadline: January 22, 2020
The Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF) program aims to bring together researchers in formal methods with researchers in other areas of computer and information science and engineering to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for designing and implementing correct-by-construction systems and applications with provable guarantees. FMitF encourages close collaboration between two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in the area of formal methods, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as principled approaches based on mathematics and logic, including modeling, specification, design, program analysis, verification, synthesis, and programming language-based approaches. The second group consists of researchers in the “field,” which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is defined as a subset of areas within computer and information science and engineering that currently do not benefit from having established communities already developing and applying formal methods in their research. This solicitation limits the field to the following areas that stand to directly benefit from a grounding in formal methods: computer networks, cyber-human systems, distributed /operating systems, embedded systems, and machine learning. Other field(s) may emerge as priority areas for the program in future years, subject to the availability of funds.
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And please don't miss out on these Internal Opportunities:
September 27, 2019
The social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences have a tremendous impact on quality of life. With increasingly rigorous methods and an increasingly diverse workforce, the SBE sciences are making transformative advances in many areas. At NSF, we are looking for ways to build on that progress.
With this goal in mind, the SBE Directorate is proud to announce a repositioning of some of its basic research programs, as described in this Dear Colleague Letter.
SBE is hosting a series of webinars and virtual office hours to present details about what the repositioning means for SBE research communities.
Monday, September 30th
4:00-5:00pm EDT
SBE Repositioning Webinar
Friday, October 4th
4:00-5:00pm EDT
SBE Repositioning Webinar
Wednesday, October 9th
3:00-4:00pm EDT
SBE Repositioning Webinar
Tuesday, October 15th
2:00-3:00pm EDT
Virtual Office Hours
Friday, October 25th
2:00-3:00pm EDT
Virtual Office Hours
Friday, October 25th
4:00-5:00pm EDT
Virtual Office Hours
SBE Assistant Director, Arthur Lupia, will walk participants through the proposed changes during each webinar and will be on hand during virtual office hours to answer participant questions after a very brief overview presentation. Closed captioning will be provided for all events, please contact SBE IT Help (sbeithelp@nsf.gov) for any additional requirements.
For more information, please contact sbe-communications@nsf.gov.
Randall Ainsworth, History and Philosophy ‘20, was selected as a fellow in the Governor’s Summer Internship Program through the Public Service Scholars Program. https://history.umbc.edu/randall-ainsworth/
Terry Bouton, History, discusses the economic and political principles behind the founding fathers' beliefs about self-governance. Democracy Dies When Labor Unions Do (New York Magazine)
Dennis Coates, Economics, explains the economic impact of injuries to key football players. What is the true cost of the Ben Roethlisberger and Drew Brees injuries? (Fox Sports)
John “Johnny O.” Olszewski, Ph.D. ’17, Public Policy, The Daily Record highlights the career of Baltimore County executive "Successful By 40" VIP List: John “Johnny O” Olszewski, Jr. (The Daily Record)
Derek Musgrove '97, history, discusses complex perspectives of the founding fathers on representation for D.C. residents. Washington Bullpen: Inside the District’s fight for voting representation in Congress (Capital News Service) (Richmond 2Day)
Ashanté Reese, Geography and Environmental Systems, participates in a Q & A about food access in working-class neighborhoods. Former Spelman professor Ashanté Reese explores food access in new book (AJC)
William G. Rothstein, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, comments on HBCU coalition lawsuit. HBCUs embroiled in a lawsuit with the state blocked other universities from creating programs (The Baltimore Sun)
John Rennie Short, Public Policy, discusses how congestion pricing in urban centers would have a limited effect on low-income people. Can congestion pricing help Americans break up with their cars? (Sierra)
Colin Studds, Geography and Environmental Systems, discusses the impact of climate change on dragonfly migration. Swarms of dragonflies are popping up on radars in Virginia (News Leader/USA Today)
Every spring semester the Political Science Department offers opportunities to earn academic credit for internships with state legislators, judges, attorneys, and many other types of actors in politics, public policy, public administration, and law. It also offers some internship placement assistance and internship-related scholarships to qualified students. Students interested in an internship with Maryland’s state legislature or in obtaining assistance from the department with placement into a different type of internship must apply by October 24, 2019. Meanwhile, students who obtain their own internships may add one of the department’s two spring internship classes, POLI 438 or POLI 448, at any time during the registration period after obtaining the permission of the instructor. Please visit poli.umbc.edu/internships for more information.
The Scholars Strategy Network (SSN) connects university-based researchers to journalists, policymakers, and other civic leaders to improve policy and strengthen democracy.
The application to join the network has three simple parts: the profile, the introductory phone call, and the short written contribution. Scholars are encouraged to complete the application in the order outlined below, however, scholars who are contacted to contribute to a specific project may complete the parts out of order.
To be eligible for Scholars Strategy Network Membership you must:
Have or be pursuing an advanced terminal degree.
Be affiliated with a university or research institution
Conduct rigorous research
Be committed to sharing your expertise with policymakers, journalists, and other civic leaders to improve policy and strengthen democracy.
Please direct questions about the application process to Ben Miyamoto, Director of Membership & Research, at ben@scholars.org.
TO APPLY: FILL OUT THE ACADEMIC & CIVIC PROFILE FORM
The profile form gives scholars an opportunity to curate what appears on their www.scholars.org page. A well-curated scholar profile helps members connect with journalists, policymakers, and other civic leaders.
The data collected in the form are also essential for matching incoming inquiries to members’ unique areas of expertise. Fill out the profile form here: https://scholars.org/new- member-survey.