OSU Ecampus has two funding opportunities for faculty, staff and administrators to pursue professional development and/or research related to online and hybrid education. Learn more by attending one of two information sessions on the Ecampus Professional Development Program and Ecampus Research Fellows Program. The sessions are at 10 a.m. Sept. 20 (Valley Library, 3622 West), and 1 p.m. Sept. 21 (Valley Library, 3622 East). RSVP to an info session today.

2017 Alan T. Waterman Award

~ The National Science Foundation’s Highest Honor ~

(Deadline: October 21, 2016)

The National Science Foundation is pleased to accept nominations for the 2017 Alan T. Waterman Award. Each year, the Foundation bestows the Waterman Award to recognize the talent, creativity, and influence of a singular young researcher. The award consists of a $1,000,000 prize, a medal, a certificate, and a trip to Washington, DC, to receive the award.  For details about the Waterman Award’s history, the nomination procedure and the selection criteria please visit http://www.nsf.gov/od/waterman/waterman.jsp.
Nominees are accepted from any field of science or engineering. Nominations must be submitted electronically using NSF’s FastLane system at https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/honawards/index.jsp.

Please direct all inquiries about the award and the nomination procedures to waterman@nsf.gov.

Together with our sponsors, Mars, Incorporated, and the National Science Foundation, ORAU is pleased to announce the call for nominations, as well as dates and deadline for the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting with Nobel Laureates from the field of Chemistry.

The meeting will be held June 25 through June 30, 2017. This note is to advise you of our expected timeline for nominations.
Selected students will have the opportunity to attend formal lectures and informal meetings with the Nobel Laureate scientists and peers from around the world. Information on past meetings is available at http://www.orau.org/lindau.
Institutions are encouraged to hold internal competitions to nominate a maximum of two students per university.
In 2017, the meetings will feature recipients of the Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry.  You may nominate students to attend the chemistry meeting who:
??       is U.S. citizen currently enrolled at a university as full-time graduate students;
??       has completed by June 2017 at least two academic years of graduate studies toward a doctoral degree in the discipline of chemistry or a related discipline, but not be planning a dissertation/thesis defense before December 31, 2017
We are especially interested in receiving nominations from a diverse group of students, including women, minorities and people with disabilities.
The selection process for the Lindau Meeting occurs over three phases. All nominations from the universities for the chemistry meeting must be submitted by email to lindau@orau.org before Friday, October 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm, Eastern Time.  Please be sure to save the PDF before emailing with the last name of the nominee in the file name.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Michael Ickowitz (michael.ickowitz@orau.org).

Greetings OSU Undergraduate Researchers,

The Office of Undergraduate Studies is organizing an Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium (USRS) to be held at OSU on August 30 in LINC 314.

The symposium is open to all OSU undergraduates – those conducting research this summer, and those that have conducted research earlier. The symposium is an excellent opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with others. All participants will be eligible for the Research Fellow Transcript Notation. http://undergraduate.oregonstate.edu/research/transcript-notation.

Two presentation options will be available:
a.      10 minute presentations
b.      3 minute presentations

Questions can be sent to ugr@oregonsatte.edu

All participants will need to attend at least one (more, if interested) of the following Practice Sessions to be held 2.00 to 4.00 PM in ALS 4000 on:

August 18
August 19
August 25
August 26

Undergraduates should discuss their interest in participating in the symposium with their research mentor and then send an email by July 29 to UGR@oregonstate.edu with ‘USRS’ indicated in the ‘Subject’, and the following in the body of the email:

Name of Undergraduate Researcher:
OSU ID:
Primary Major:
Name of Research Mentor:
Presentation Category: 10 minute or 3 minute presentation
Research Topic (Broadly describe area of research in one sentence):

This information is requested for planning the symposium.

Thanks,

Sujaya

Sujaya Rao, PhD.
Director of Undergraduate Research
Division of Undergraduate Studies
Oregon State University
Sujaya-ugr@oregonstate.edu

Please distribute this paid internship announcement to the students in your department https://www.zintellect.com/Posting/Details/2112.

We hope to have two fellows start anytime between June 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. Therefore, please encourage all to apply now even if they do not graduate until December.

Overview
An applied research project, which is administered by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), is available at the Technical Support Center (TSC) of the Office of Water, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will gain experience and educational benefits from this project looking for emerging contaminants in drinking water.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for taking the time and distributing the position to the students in your department.

Have a wonderful day,

Brenda Parris
Environmental Scientist
USEPA OW OGWDW SRMD
Technical Support Center (MS-140)
26 W. Martin Luther King Dr.
Cincinnati, OH 45268
parris.brenda@epa.gov
(513) 569-7961

Greetings from UC Berkeley!

The Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (E3S REU) for is accepting applications for summer internship positions. Please share this opportunity with your students. Also, please do not hesitate to contact me with questions.

Please Post Widely – More program details and the online application at: http://www.e3s-center.org/E3SREU2016.htm

Kind Regards,
Lea

The Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) is accepting applications for summer internship positions at UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Florida International University, and University of Texas at El Paso.

2016 E3S Summer Research Internship
Date: June 5-August 6, 2016
Locations: UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Florida International University, and University of Texas at El Paso
Application Deadline: January 29, 2016

What is the E3S Summer Research Program? A 9-week program that introduces energy efficient electronics science to undergraduates who are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in science and engineering. Summer interns have the opportunity to join E3S researchers working in a collaborative and innovative environment to make fundamental breakthroughs in the underlying physics, chemistry, and material science of electronics systems. Learn more at: www.e3s-center.org/research/

Internship Overview
Real-world experience: Work on challenging projects developing materials and devices for ultra-low energy electronics
Summer salary: $4,000 stipend
Live and work in Boston, El Paso, Miami, or the San Francisco Bay Area: Travel to/from institution, and summer housing provided
Mentorship: Work one-on-one with research mentor and program staff
Professional development: Graduate school preparation seminars, GRE prep course, guest speakers, and lab tours
Eligibility
US citizen or permanent resident
Rising sophomores, juniors, and non-graduating seniors
Engineering and physical science majors
Minimum GPA: 3.25
E3S Commitment to Diversity: E3S is committed to broadening participation in science and engineering. We strongly encourage students from historically under-represented groups in science and engineering to apply to our internship program, including students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, first-generation college students, or have limited access to undergraduate research in their undergraduate constitutions.  Our program is designed to promote future student success by providing support through mentoring, leadership training and various networking activities.

For additional information, join us for our upcoming online webinar to learn more about the application process. We will have online info sessions on December 2, January 19, and January 25.  Use this time to hear more about E3S REU and ask any questions you may have about the application.  RSVP online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016E3SInfoSession

Questions: Contact Lea Marlor at e3sprograms@e3s-center.org or 510-664-4882
Lea Marlor
Education Manager| Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) University of California, Berkeley
562 Sutardja Dai Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1764
Office:  510-664-4882
E-mail: lkmarlor@berkeley.edu

Applications for the L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Fund are due Friday, April 30. The fun provides individual faculty members with grants of up to $2,200, and up to $4,400 for joint proposals in each funding cycle for professional development activities that have a clear connection to the enhancement of teaching and student learning at OSU. Applications and guidelines are available at: http://oregonstate.edu/ctl/grants

The Research Office is accepting applications for the Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC) program for Summer term 2015 and Fall, Winter and/or Spring term(s) 2015-16. This program supports undergraduate research activities from all academic disciplines within the university. NOTE: the program description and application have been revised: http://research.oregonstate.edu/incentive/undergraduate-research-innovation-scholarship-creativity-urisc.  Information: Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu. Deadline: April 13.

The Teva Pharmaceuticals Scholars grants program will begin accepting proposals on March 16th. Proposals are due by May 1st.

The Teva Pharmaceuticals Scholars grants program is administered by the ACS Office of Research Grants with funding provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals. The program is a philanthropic grant program that supports academic researchers in the fields of organic and medicinal chemistry.

Award Information
Amount: $100,000 per year for 3 years
Number of awards: 3
Award period: September 1, 2015 to August 31, 2018

Eligibility
An applicant must be a recently-tenured faculty member of a PhD-granting department in the United States.

Research Area and Evaluation Criteria
Applications for the Teva Pharmaceuticals Scholars grants must propose research in the area of organic chemistry, with potential or direct connections with medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry, such that the successful results would be of potential practical benefit to the discovery of organic compounds useful as human medicines. Proposals are evaluated on: a) scientific merit, creativity and novelty; and b) addressing unexplored fields in organic and/or medicinal chemistry. General aspects of research proposals will also be considered, such as: Is the project achievable within the time frame? Are the personnel and facilities adequate? Does the applicant consider and address potential problems?

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/grants/teva-pharmaceuticals-scholars-grants.html

Multiple submissions are allowed assuming separate PIs. The Foundation Services office can assist in the proposal writing process http://osufoundation.org/foundation_services/.

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Request for Proposals in Support of Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.*  Open textbooks and course materials are digital in format and made freely available online.   Free and open textbooks and course materials are being developed in many disciplines at a fast and growing rate and are funded by organizations such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.  Oregon State University is committed to supporting this endeavor.  To that end, Open Oregon State is a unit that has been created within Extended Campus to assist faculty in the research, use and creation of open educational resources.

Open Oregon State and the office of Summer Session are partnering to pilot a program to encourage the use of open textbooks and other course materials in order to address textbook/course material affordability for our students.

Proposals for the use of open educational textbooks and course materials for use in a face-to-face Corvallis or Hatfield Summer Session course are now being accepted.

Funding for accepted proposals is up to $1,000 per course.

Open Oregon State will assist faculty in finding and evaluating suitable open textbooks and course materials for their Summer Session course.   Summer Session agrees to highlight courses that have adopted OERs at no cost to students.  The faculty member agrees to use the open textbook and/or course materials in their Summer Session course.
In addition, the faculty member agrees to submit a 1-2 page review of the textbook/course materials that were used in the course, addressing the suitability of the materials for use in future courses using these review criteria.  This RFP and the Review Criteria are also attached.

For more information, contact:

Dianna Fisher                                    Claire Cross
Open Oregon State                            OSU Summer Session
dianna.fisher@oregonstate.edu      claire.cross@oregonstate.edu
541-737-8658                                   541-737-3107

*Defined by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Open Materials Review Criteria 2_13_15