[Plsfaculty] Honors resources, small grants, and more

[Arnold, Betsy - (fungi)]

Dear colleagues,

I serve as our liaison to the Honors College. Some recent announcements might be of interest to you. Please see below.

Best regards,
Betsy

>From the Honors College: If you have any questions about any of these initiatives, please reach out to Tori Nardinelli, Assistant Director of Research, Creative Expression, and Professional Initiatives at outfleet at arizona.edu<mailto:outfleet at arizona.edu>.

Exploratory Mini-Grants Now OPEN


We are excited to announce that applications for new Exploratory Mini-Grants are now available! Please see the webpage<https://frankehonors.arizona.edu/exploratory-mini-grants> for more details. The application is open through November 8th for funding disbursed for the Spring semester. We could really use your help getting the word out to Honors students!


New Faculty Database


In an effort to create more resources to help students find faculty mentors, I would like to introduce a new faculty database....  This form<https://airtable.com/appfAgimJ6RWdpco4/shr4zoDADYspHtk5M> will allow you to indicate the types of research mentorship that you may be willing to offer honors students. Even if you were on the old list that was piloted for the Quest program last year, please resubmit a new form. The list will be purged and updated on a yearly basis.


Research Opportunities Kick Off


We are hosting a Research Opportunities Kick Off event in 1067/1068 from 5:00 – 6:30pm on Wednesday, October 11th.



The vision is 45 minutes devoted to a student panel of previous Quest participants and 45 minutes devoted to faculty pitches/mingling/Q&A. If you would like to be included in the faculty pitch (either by video pitch proxy or in-person; in-person preferred), please RSVP here<https://forms.gle/BErU8CMSo9nJoeLA9>. We have limited space and priority will be given to our Honors Interdisciplinary Faculty members, so please RSVP early.


D2L Post


If you are teaching an honors course, please consider posting an announcement on D2L. If you’d like a template<https://arizona.box.com/s/ugtz6w117z6ydtkuedqpiewk6lsbbnnk>, you can find one here.





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Dr. A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold (she/her/hers)
Associate Director for Faculty Advancement, School of Plant Sciences
Professor, School of Plant Sciences and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Curator, Robert L. Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium
Chair, Ecosystem Genomics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
1885 Scholar and Fellow, Bart Cardon Academy for Teaching Excellence
Member, BIO5 Institute
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721

Co-Director, NSF NRT: Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences (BRIDGES) • A graduate training program dedicated to diversity, inclusion, belonging, interdisciplinarity, and scientific excellence at the University of Arizona • We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. • Contact us to apply!

For more information:
www.arnoldlab.net<http://www.arnoldlab.net/>
www.gilbertsonherbarium.net
<http://www.gilbertsonherbarium.net/>www.BRIDGES.arizona.edu<http://www.bridges.arizona.edu/>
www.msafungi.org<http://www.msafungi.org/>

Zoom room: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/4619575532
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