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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Grad & Postdoc Funding Opportunities [mailto:GRADFUNDING@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shelley Hawthorne Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 01, 2012 1:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> GRADFUNDING@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br><b>Subject:</b> June 2012 GradFunding<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>June 2012 GradFunding Newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>This GradFunding newsletter includes the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Advice: Turning the Dissertation Proposal into a Fellowship Application<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Current funding opportunities: this month with a special emphasis on post-doctoral opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Turning the Dissertation Proposal into a Fellowship Application<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Almost all fellowship applications evolve out of documents written for an academic audience. So you might be surprised if a superb dissertation proposal is turned down in a fellowship competition. <i>What happened?</i> You might wonder. <i>The reviewers obviously weren’t paying attention when they read my application.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>This may be true – the reviewers may not pay attention when they read your application. But it is your job in the application to get their attention, and to keep it. Writing an application for a fellowship is a different project than writing a seminar paper or dissertation proposal. Here are some tips on transforming academic work into a fellowship or grant application. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Make it easy to read</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: Reviewers do not spend nearly as much time as (most) professors spend reading your work. To make your application stand out in a stack of twenty similar applications, try the following strategies:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=a><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Have an engaging and relevant introduction. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Get to the research questions and hypothesis immediately, preferably in the first or second paragraph. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Strategically use visual aids such as subtitles, line breaks, and bold or underlined text. When appropriate, use a graph. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo5'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Speak directly to the review criteria. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=2 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Organize from the reviewer’s perspective</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: Do your best to understand the reviewer’s perspective. If the application asks questions in a certain order, answer the questions in that order. If and when possible, organize the essays according to the review criteria.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=3 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Appeal to your audience’s interests</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: In a dissertation proposal, professors want to know how your work will contribute to their field. In a fellowship application, reviewers want to know how your work will advance their goals. Do your best to understand the reviewers’ priorities (search the website, talk to people, and research previously funded projects) and then directly address those priorities in your application. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=4 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo5'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Make the application cohesive</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: As a whole package, your application should make a single argument. The essays, the literature review, and the letters of recommendation should all speak to one another so that the entire application has a unified message. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The process of turning a dissertation proposal into a fellowship application can feel tedious at first; you are translating your work for a new audience. It can also feel like a distraction from your “real” work. But the process will help you think outside of the academic world to consider the impact of your research on other situations and, inevitably, you will find that doing this will improve your academic work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Current funding opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Most of the fall fellowship competitions have not yet been announced. As mentioned in the previous newsletter, if you plan to apply for the big fall competitions (such as NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays, Ford Foundation, etc), use the announcement from last fall to begin your application now. Many of the announcements below include both dissertation and post-doctoral opportunities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><br><a href="http://www.discoversleep.org/researchaward.aspx"><span style='text-decoration:none'>American Sleep Medicine Foundation - Strategic Research Award</span></a> <br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline: August 15, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Up to two grants of $75,000 will be awarded to doctors planning and conducting research aimed at improving healthcare delivery in the field of sleep medicine. Physicians (MD, DO) and PhDs are eligible to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline: August 15<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.jsmf.org/apply/fellowship/index.php"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Complex Systems Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>(James S. McDonnell Foundation) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The Complex Systems program supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address important questions in diverse fields. While the program's emphasis is on the development and application of the theory and tools used in the study of complex research questions and not on particular fields of research per se, JSMF is particularly interested in the continued development of complex systems science, and in projects attempting to apply complex systems approaches to coherently articulated questions. Proposals intending to apply complex system tools and models to problems where such approaches are not yet considered usual or mainstream are appropriate to the RFA but should be well justified as to why such approaches would be an advance. Awards of $200,000 over two years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: June 15, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://my.depauw.edu/admin/acadaffairs/cfd/fellowship.asp"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>(Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333'>Applications are invited in all disciplines of the liberal arts and engineering. Recipients must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents committed to and willing to contribute to enhancing the diversity of our colleges and their faculties and should have no more than five years of teaching or relevant experience before holding a fellowship. Two types of residential fellowship awards are available under this program. The dissertation fellowship is intended for scholars who have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. or the M.F.A. except the dissertation.</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> <span style='color:#333333'>The postdoctoral fellowship is intended for scholars who have been awarded the Ph.D. or M.F.A. no later than the beginning of the fellowship year and no earlier than five years before the beginning of the fellowship year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333'>Deadline</span></i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333'>: before October 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/postdoctoral_program.shtml"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Environmental Chemistry Postdoctoral Program</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>(Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The Dreyfus Foundation’s postdoctoral fellowship program will provide a principal investigator with an award of $120,000 over two years to appoint a postdoctoral fellow in environmental chemistry. Research areas of interest will be in the chemical sciences or engineering related to the environment, including but not limited to the chemistry associated with: the climate, the atmosphere, aquatic or marine settings, toxicology, soil or groundwater. Also of interest are chemistry-related energy research (renewable sources, sequestration, etc.), and new or green approaches to chemical synthesis and processing, with a clearly stated relation to the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline: August 20<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.cies.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Fulbright Scholar Program</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800+ U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. New programs this year include: 1) an expanded program in Brazil--the new Fulbright-Science Without Borders Core Scholar and Distinguished Chair awards—in which U.S. scholars will be affiliated with top Brazilian universities and research centers in their areas of specialization, fostering increased cooperation and institutional collaboration between applied researchers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); and 2) a reopened program in Haiti, active after more than 10 years of hiatus. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline: Aug 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Core Fulbright Scholar Program: <a href="http://www.cies.org/">http://www.cies.org/</a><span style='color:#6A6A6A'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Brazil Fulbright-Science Without Borders: <a href="http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=3477">http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=3477</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Haiti Program: <a href="http://catalog.cies.org/searchResults.aspx?wa=&dc=HA&di">http://catalog.cies.org/searchResults.aspx?wa=&dc=HA&di</a>=<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><a href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/How-to-do-Research-at-the-Kennedy-Library/Research-Grants-and-Fellowships.aspx"><span style='text-decoration:none'>John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Fellowships</span></a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation invites scholars and students to apply for support of their research and use of the archival, manuscript, and audiovisual holdings of the Library under the following programs. Each application will be evaluated for support in all appropriate areas. Areas include: foreign intelligence and the presidency, or a related topic; Latin American or Western Hemisphere history or policy studies during the Kennedy Administration or the period from the Roosevelt through the Kennedy presidencies; immigration, naturalization, or refugee policy; domestic policy, political journalism, polling, or press relations; any topic relating to the Kennedy period or requiring use of the holdings; topics requiring the use of the Hemingway Collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: August 15, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/knight-news-challenge-seeks-breakthrough-ideas-unl/"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Knight News Challenge: Data</span></a><br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The second round of funding for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge media innovation contest will be awarded to individuals as well as organizations (nonprofit or commercial) from anywhere in the world for innovative digital media projects that help unlock the power of data by making it available, understandable, and actionable.<br><i>Deadline</i>: June 20, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/evla/"><span style='text-decoration:none'>National Radio Astronomy Observatory</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> (EVLA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) consists of 27 25-meter (82 ft) diameter antennas and is located on the Plains of San Agustin in West-Central New Mexico. Based on the Very Large Array (VLA), it is currently being upgraded with state of the art receivers and electronics, resulting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>in a telescope of unprecedented sensitivity, frequency coverage, and imaging capability. The antennas are spread across the United States from St. Croix in the Virgin Islands to Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii, making it the world's largest dedicated, full-time astronomical instrument. Different configurations are available at different deadlines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadlines</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: Aug 1 and Feb 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vlba"><span style='text-decoration:none'>National Radio Astronomy Observatory</span></a> </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>(VLBA)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The National Radio Astronomy Observatory makes its observing facilities available, on a competitive basis, to qualified scientists and students, without regard to their affiliations. While in residence, visitors have access to the full resources of the observatory both with regard to hardware instrumentation and to software and computing support. The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a system of ten radio telescopes controlled remotely from the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico, that work together as the world's largest dedicated, full-time astronomical instrument. The ten VLBA sites range from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands. Each VLBA station consists of an 82-foot (25-meter) diameter dish antenna and an adjacent control building that houses the station computer, tape recorders and other equipment associated with collecting the radio signals gathered by the antenna. The VLBA's sharp vision, or resolution, is an ideal tool for learning new things about a wide variety of astronomical objects and processes. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadlines</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: Aug 1 and Feb 1<o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11547/nsf11547.htm"><span style='text-decoration:none'>NSF Science, Technology, and Society Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS)considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Through the SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE DDRIG) program, Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) awards grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field and archival research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. The usual limit on a dissertation award is $10,000 for research in North America. The usual limit for international research is $15,000. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadlines</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: varied<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.alexslemonade.org/grants/nursing"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Nurse Research Grants</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Nurse researchers are invited to apply for pediatric cancer patient care grants. Two-year grants ranging in amount between $10,000 and $50,000 annually are available to nurse researchers at all levels of practice for projects to help nurses find better ways to care for children undergoing cancer treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline</span></i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: Aug 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://my.depauw.edu/admin/acadaffairs/cfd/fellowship.asp"><span style='text-decoration:none'>School for Advanced Research</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Resident Scholar Fellowships<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The School for Advanced Research (SAR) awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>SAR provides Resident Scholars with low-cost housing and office space on campus, a stipend up to $40,000, library assistance, and other benefits during a nine-month tenure, from September 1 through May 31. A six-month fellowship is also available for a female postdoctoral scholar from a developing nation, whose research promotes women’s empowerment. SAR Press may consider books written by resident scholars for publication. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Deadline</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>: Nov 1, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Smith Richardson Foundation Grants to Support Dissertation Research</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>The Smith Richardson Foundation is announcing a new annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history. The fellowship’s objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training. In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Deadline: October 2012 (website will be updated)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>This newsletter is compiled by Shelley Hawthorne Smith under the direction of Georgia Ehlers in the Graduate College Office of Fellowships and Community Engagement. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></body></html>