[Plsfaculty] Important - please let me know if you wish to opt out

[Betsy Arnold]

Dear colleagues,

A University-wide proposal will be submitted in the very near term to the
Science Foundation Arizona Graduate Research Fellows Program, with the aim
of seeking support for up to 33 outstanding, newly recruited doctoral
students.  If supported, SFAz will provide a one-year fellowship stipend of
$31,500 per student, and the student will receive the full cost of tuition,
mandatory registration fees and student health insurance.

This is an important opportunity and I would like the School's newly
recruited graduate majors in Plant Pathology and Plant Sciences to be
considered for these fellowships.

To this end, I need to provide a list of our faculty to the proposal
organizers that includes a statement of interests and a link to web
profiles. This is a *provisional list of potential faculty mentors* --
basically, it states that if you would hypothetically be willing to mentor
a student if one were a good fit for you. There is no commitment at this
time. Because time is VERY tight I need to respond right away to the
organizers.

*Therefore, I would like to suggest that if you do NOT want to be
considered a potential, provisional mentor on this non-binding list, please
let me know by Thursday, Feb. 21 at 11am. *

*To opt out from the provisional, non-binding list please just send me a
note that says 'opt out.' (Arnold at ag.arizona.edu).*

Being included on our list will not 'stick you' with a student or create
any other commitment; not appearing on this list will not exclude you in
the future. This is just to give the organizers a sense of what we
collectively offer and could provide as an intellectual/training community
for incoming students.

I aim to submit our list of faculty and interests from our School website,
filtered appropriately, at 11am tomorrow.

More information about the SFAz program is below.

Thank you, and I apologize for the short notice (had the flu).

Betsy








The objectives of the program are:

o   Recruit the highest quality graduate students in the nation to
Arizona’s research universities to advance research in areas important to
Arizona i.e, BioScience, Information Technology and Communications, Clean
Energy and Environmental Sustainability, and Aerospace and Defense.

o   Provide an immediate response to the need for more and better
STEM teaching in Arizona K-12 schools. Fellows may participate in advancing
existing formal and informal programs or seeding innovative new programs
for the purpose.

o   Support interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research approaches as
well as outstanding programs within traditional STEM disciplines.

o   Encourage participation in pre-professional and/or internships programs
that are entrepreneurial and, when possible, move the research from the
laboratory into the marketplace.

o   Ensure a serious focus on the time-to-degree issue to ultimately create
an advantage for Arizona’s programs in graduate education.

Measure the performance of the GRF program by the increase in the
competitive research capacity of the State of Arizona. (SFAz GRF RFP 2.0,
2013)
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A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold
School of Plant Sciences
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721

http://arnoldlab.net
arnold at ag.arizona.edu
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