MEMORANDUM

DATE:              11/22/2022

TO:                  Business Managers/Department Chairs/Center Directors/Faculty

FROM:            Michael T. Walsh, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

RE:                  OSP Winter Break Deadlines: Dec. 23, 2022 – Jan. 2, 2023

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This is a special announcement concerning the OSP schedule for reviewing/approving proposals with deadlines to Federal, State, and Other Agencies that occur during UMBC’s Winter Break this year. 

Please note the following:

1.     All proposals with submission deadlines occurring between Friday December 23, 2022 and Monday January 2, 2023 must be fully routed, ready for submission, and releasedto the OSP office for final review and submission by the close of business on Monday December 19, 2022; and

2.     All proposals with submission deadlines occurring between Tuesday January 3rd and Thursday January 5th, 2023 (the first 3 business days after the break) will be due to OSP by 9 AM on Wednesday December 21, 2022.

This schedule is consistent with our current policy, which requires the submission of complete proposals to OSP at least three (3) business days before the agency submission deadline. Since UMBC is closed during the Winter Break, OSP will also be closed and OSP personnel will not be available during the Winter Break for consultation or proposal submission(s). 

The campus closure during Winter Break traditionally has imparted a heavy workload on OSP staff. Therefore, we will enforce our current policy more consistently, with little maneuverability.   Proposals received after the OSP deadlines specified above will be reviewed on a first-come/first-serve basis and will be submitted only if time permits.  In keeping with the deadline enforcement policy of ORCA (Office of the Vice President for Research & Creative Achievement), any proposal not fully routed and ready for submission by 9:00 a.m. of the deadline date will not be submitted to the agency.  If the deadline occurs over Winter Break, please refer to the deadline presented in #1 above.

Thank you for your understanding…and best wishes for a great Holiday season and Winter Break.

Best Regards,

Dr. Michael T. Walsh

Director

UMBC Office of Sponsored Programs

Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Center for Social Science Scholarship
Summer Fellowships!

Download the application here.

Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship.  The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research by tenure-track or tenured faculty in the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, resulting in a submittable product by December 2023.  Up to three fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2023. 

By December 2023, each Fellow agrees to complete a submittable product, which can include an external grant or fellowship proposal, journal article, policy paper, book manuscript, or book chapter; upon completion, Fellows shall provide a copy of this submitted product to the Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Fellows who are preparing an external proposal are expected to work with CS3's research administration staff for pre- and post-award assistance.

Interested faculty should complete and submit an application consisting of this downloadable 2-page cover sheet and proposal that adheres to the specified guidelines. The deadline for applications is FEBRUARY 15, 2023.

Applications will be reviewed and ranked by members of the Center for Social Science Scholarship Advisory Board, according to the following criteria:

• Quality of proposed research project;
• Significance of the project in its field;
• Publishing/funding potential of the work;
• Qualification of the faculty member to carry out the work, including the requisite expertise in the topic area and prior research productivity;
• Likelihood that the proposed work can be successfully completed with fellowship support and that it will result in a submittable product within the specified time period;
• Approval and recommendation of faculty member's department chair.

For more information, interested faculty may contact Christine Mallinson, Director, or Felipe Filomeno, Associate Director.  

Funds for this fellowship are provided by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), and the UMBC Vice President for Research.

On this episode we hear a rebroadcast of a 2022 UMBC Social Science Forum Lecture organized by the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication.  

The lecture, which took place in October, featured the work of two linguists, David J. Peterson and Dr. Jessie Sams. David and Jessie currently work full time as “conlangers,” or creators of invented languages.

Click here for the full lecture recording.  

On Campus Connections, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. Renee Lambert-Bretiere of the UMBC Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication (MLLI).

Relabeling and Word-Order: A Construction Grammar Perspective

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On this episode we hear a rebroadcast of the 2022 UMBC Constitution Day lecture with Dr. Robinson Woodward-Burns of Howard University.  Dr. Woodward-Burns delivered remarks based on his recent book, published in 2021 by Yale University Press.

Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize U.S. Politics (2021, Yale)

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On Campus Connections, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. William Blake, Associate Professor of Political Science at UMBC. 

“Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates”

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