The CAHSS Dean's Office has announced an opportunity to nominate up to one early-career faculty member for the William T. Grant Scholars Program, which supports career development for promising early-career researchers.
Please see the attached PDF for guidelines and further information. Prospective nominees must email a set of specified materials to Preminda Jacob, Associate Dean for Research and Community Engagement (pjacob2@umbc.edu) by 11:59pm on April 1, 2021. A selection committee will then review all internal submissions, and the UMBC nominee will be notified within two weeks.
The selected nominee will then submit a complete proposal to the William T. Grant Foundation by July 7, 2021, with mentor and reference letters due in advance, by June 16, 2021.
For your reading and listening leisure, please find these useful NIH Podcasts to assist you in your proposal development:
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2021/02/22/all-about-grants-podcast-considerations-for-a-research-plan/
Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For your reading and listening leisure, please find these useful NIH Podcasts to assist you in your proposal development;
n “Considerations for Developing a Research Plan.” Listen to experts in the research field on the topic of developing a strong research plan for grant applications.
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2021/02/22/all-about-grants-podcast-considerations-for-a-research-plan/
n “Ever Wondered What Happens During the Scientific Review of an NIH Grant Application?” Listen to the NIH Peer Review “Mock” Study Section as scientist review three fictional applications.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.
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Don Engel, Ph.D., PMP
Associate Vice President for Research Development
Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Affiliate appointments in Physics and the Imaging Research Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, ITE 220
Baltimore, Maryland 21250
donengel@umbc.edu, (410) 455-2837
The Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences invite you to attend short talks by new faculty in the college.
Please join us on March 5th at noon via WebEx to meet recently hired tenure-stream faculty and learn about their research.
Kerri Evans, Assistant Professor, Social Work
Molly Franz, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Karrie Godwin, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ramon Goings, Assistant Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture
Yusuke Kuwayama, Assistant Professor, Public Policy
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Assistant Professor, Public Policy
Brian Van Wyck, Assistant Professor, History
Lira Yoon, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Join us on March 9th at noon when Jeff Mantz will discuss NSF opportunities and funding for the social sciences.
Jeff Mantz has been at NSF since 2012. He is the Program Director for Cultural Anthropology, Program Director for the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) program, and is NSF’s Human Subjects Research Officer. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and has previously taught at George Mason University, Cornell University, California State University at Stanislaus, and Vassar College. His own research takes him to the Caribbean and Central Africa, where he explores issues related to inequality, resource extraction, and commodity supply chains.
Click here to visit the original event post.
Upcoming Application Deadline for 2021 Summer Institute
In Summer 2021, RSF will sponsor a Summer Institute for doctoral students and early-career scholars in Social Science Genomics.
Applications are due April 9, 2021.
We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and depending on various factors including vaccination rates, CDC recommendations, and state/local policies, we may modify the institute to include online instruction or postpone in-person instruction to the following year. We apologize for the ambiguity and uncertainty, but we want to make sure that the summer institute is both high quality and safe experiences. We expect that a final decision on the institute will be made in late May or early June.
The Russell Sage Foundation, in conjunction with the JPB Foundation, will sponsor the fourth Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics from August 8 – August 20, 2021 at the Stoweflake Mountain Hotel in Stowe, Vermont, unless circumstances require us to change it to an online event. The purpose of this two-week workshop is to introduce graduate students and beginning faculty in economics, sociology, psychology, statistics, genetics, and other disciplines to the methods of social-science genomics—the analysis of genomic data in social science research. The program will include the interpretation and estimation of different concepts of heritability; the biology of genetic inheritance, gene expression, and epigenetics; design and analysis of genetic-association studies; analysis of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions; estimation and use of polygenic scores; as well as applications of genomic data in the social sciences.
Visit the Russell Sage Foundation website for more information.
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