Scientific Reports Publication
Wei Luo, Xingeng Wang, Colin Meyers, Nick Wannenmacher, Weekit Sirisaksoontorn, Mike Lerner and David Ji recently published an article in Scientific Reports entitled Efficient Fabrication of Nanoporous Si and Si/Ge Enabled by a Heat Scavenger in Magnesiothermic Reactions. Congratulations everyone and keep up the good work!!
Funding Opportunity
Find attached another batch of funding opportunities posted this last month –
- there are several updates / reminders on various NSF programs;
- four new opportunities via NIEHS (NIH);
- three USDA NIFA opportunities (with short turn-around times; all due end of August!),
o Department of Defense Child Care Curriculum Development (DoD CCC),
o National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grant, and
o Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP);
- the Early Careen Research Program through the DOE; and
- a few more misc. opportunities (USFWS, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, even NIST).
Please share with your faculty and have them contact me as needed. As a reminder, all opportunities are posted to the searchable webpage at http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/research/fo/ and posted daily on our Facebook page which you can “like” at https://www.facebook.com/research.cas.osu.
NSF Opportunity – Workshop Related to STEM Teaching and Learning
“Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning – An Ideas Lab to Foster Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning”
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13565/nsf13565.htm
Synopsis of Program:
The goal of this activity is to foster novel, transformative, multidisciplinary approaches that address the use of large data sets to create actionable knowledge for improving STEM teaching and learning environments (formal and informal) in the medium term, and to revolutionize learning in the longer term. These approaches will involve the work of learning scientists, STEM disciplinary experts, computer scientists, statisticians, database experts and educational researchers who design and study learning environments. Among the potential benefits of integrating approaches from these disciplines are improving student learning and engagement, optimizing personalized instruction, and supporting rapid decision making to help educators respond more effectively to the learning needs of individuals and groups of learners in multiple settings. These approaches may be risky but should have the potential to rapidly advance the field. The scope of this activity does not include infrastructure development focused on data base design and development for education domains. The new approaches envisioned in this solicitation will require the generation and use of data that range from micro-level data on individual learners, to data from online learning sources (such as massively open online courses), to meso-level data from the classroom that provide information to students and teachers about how learning is progressing, to macro-level data such as school, district, state, and national data, including data from federal science and policy agencies. Participants in the Ideas Lab, selected through an open application process, will engage in an intensive five-day residential workshop, the development of multidisciplinary collaborative proposals through a real-time and iterative review process, and, for the participant teams invited to submit full proposals, the subsequent submission of full proposals.
Meeting the Challenges of the New Work and Life Reality – Handout
Tenure Track Position in Inorganic Chemistry
Dear colleagues,
Wellesley College’s Department of Chemistry is searching for a tenure-track inorganic chemist. I would appreciate your bringing the attached job ad to the attention of appropriate post-docs and advanced graduate students in your department. Please note the very early closing date for applications of 15 September.
I would be very happy to answer any questions about the position or the application process.
(I apologize if you are no longer chair of your department. I was using the latest edition of the ACS DGR, but it is already out of date. Please feel free to forward this message to the appropriate person.)
thank you very much.
Sincerely,
—
Adele J. Wolfson
Nan Walsh Schow ’54 and Howard B. Schow Professor in the Physical and Natural Sciences
Professor and Chair of Chemistry
Wellesley College
Wellesley MA 02481
781-283-3106
Request for Assistance with Exploring World Ag, Food Systems, and Natural Resource Management Tours
The Exploring World Agriculture (EWA) class is a long standing CAS course culminating in a faculty-led Educational Tour abroad. The EWA course continues to be very popular, relevant, and an important piece of CAS’ commitment to enhancing and challenging our students’ global perspectives. In order to enhance the learning opportunities for students and faculty we are constructing a 5 to 7 year plan for the course and educational tours.
The course is currently being facilitated within the CAS Academic Programs Office and taught either by faculty, currently Dr. Dale Weber, or myself. The course utilizes guest speakers who provide students with insight into agriculture, food systems, and resource management across the world. We plan to continue our support of the course, with a few changes to its structure. We appreciate the many faculty who continue to support the course with guest lectures.
Although the course provides an excellent learning opportunity, the Educational Tour aboard has truly inspired and changed the lives of many CAS students. We are dedicated to continuing to provide this opportunity but to do so we need to tap into CAS faculty knowledge, expertise, and leadership. We know that CAS faculty have a wide variety of international agriculture, food systems, and resource management experience and contacts that could be shared with our students.
We are soliciting brief proposals from faculty of potential 10-day to 2-week tours they can envision leading once in the next 5-7 years. In order to create greater incentive for leading these tours, the Academic Programs Office will dedicate staff resources to work with faculty in making travel arrangements, if desired; recruit and orient students who elect to travel; and provide cost-share funds for faculty travel expenses.
Please send the following information to Paul Dorres ( Paul.Dorres@oregonstate.edu) by August 30th regarding your interest area in leading an Educational Tour. If you have an interest but no specific country in mind we have existing contacts we could visit with you about regarding the creation of a trip – but let us know.
-Lead Faculty (1-3 faculty may be listed):
-Country/Region of Trip:
-Brief Description of Trip and Opportunities: (1-2 paragraphs describing what students might expect to visit/experience and your connections/contacts/interest with agriculture, food systems, natural resource management in the selected country/region.)
-Best Time for Trip: (the best times for student travel have been: Winter Break, Early Summer/June, Late Summer/September)
-Academic Year Interested in Leading Trip: (for example 2013-14 or 2015-16)
-Other Faculty You Know Who Have Connections to Country/Area:
If you have questions regarding the course or trip please contact myself or Paul Dorres.
Penelope L. Diebel
Assistant Dean of Academic Programs
College of Agricultural Sciences
Funding Opportunity: OSU Venture Development Fund
Oregon State University seeks to facilitate the further development of applied innovations and commercialization. The purpose of this RFP is to encourage proposal submission and present proposal requirements and evaluation criteria. This information will be used by the Oregon State University Venture Development Fund Advisory Council (Council) to assess submitted proposal and provide the Vice President for Research (VPR) a funding recommendation.
An overview of the OSU Venture Fund can be found here: http://oregonstate.edu/research/occd/osuventurefund
OSU Venture Development funding is a competitive process open to OSU faculty eligible for principal investigator (PI) status to facilitate development and commercialization of intellectual property (IP) created by OSU faculty and students. Students who wish to apply for a grant must identify an OSU faculty member who will serve as the PI for the student proposal. Applications through non-OSU faculty or students who have been accepted into the OSU Venture Accelerator will also be accepted. Release of funding to non-OSU faculty or students will be conditional upon approval from the VPR and an agreement providing appropriate future company remuneration. Approximately $600,000 is available for this round of proposals.
Due Date for Applications: September 2, 2013
Funding Opportunities: American Chemical Society
The Research Office has become aware of the following funding opportunities. Please forward this information to faculty that may be interested.
American Chemical Society (ACS):
- 2013 ACS Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable Research Grant for Green Fluorination of Pharmaceutically Relevant Organic Molecules
ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is seeking a 1-year R&D commitment focused on developing greener and safer methods, reagents, or engineering solutions (such as flow chemistry) for the selective fluorination of pharmaceutically relevant organic molecules. Proposals are invited from public and private institutions of higher education worldwide. One grant is planned to be awarded and the total award is limited to $50,000 for a grant period of 12 months. Deadline for receipt of proposals is August 21, 2013 at 5 pm EDT (GMT-4).
- 2013 ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Research Grant for Non-Precious Metal Catalysis
ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is seeking a 1-2 year R&D commitment to target identification and development of Non-Precious Metal Catalysis alternatives for widely employed Transition Metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, with a focus on substrates that are widely applicable to the pharmaceutical industry. Proposals are invited from public and private institutions of higher education worldwide. This project is intended for a student within the selected Principal Investigator’s research group. One grant is planned to be awarded and the total award is limited to $100,000 for a grant period of 1-2 years. Deadline for receipt of proposals is August 21, 2013 at 5 pm EDT (GMT-4).
ACS GCI program information: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/grants/gci.html
American Chemical Society (ACS)
- ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
While the ACS Petroleum Research Fund does not have a specific category of green chemistry research, several green chemistry projects have been supported by PRF. The program welcomes applicants with high quality fundamental research in the petroleum or fossil fuels fields which may have a “green” focus. Submissions are accepted September 30, 2013 to November 1, 2013.
ACS PRF program information: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/grants/prf.html
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Webinar
The Director of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) will hold a Webinar to discuss the application process for a Graduate Fellowship on 31 July at 10AM PDT, 1PM EST. (-7 GMT)
We won’t be able to post a webinar link for individual login, but we’ve reserved rooms at the Universities who’ve shown interest.
Meeting rooms are:
OSU: Gilbert 224
UO: Space is limited, contact andyb@uoregon.edu
and
Washington University, St. Louis: McMillen Lab 311
Some useful information on the Fellowship:
GRF is restricted to US Citizens, US nationals and permanent residents, only.
The GRF is restricted to students studying in fields supported by NSF.
So medicine, veterinary science, clinical psychology, etc., are not supported. Chemistry and molecular biology directed toward disease/medical research are in a gray area – students who wish to be in this area should seek one-on-one guidance from a faculty member on your campus who is knowledgeable about GRF.
There *may* be time during the webinar to address this question in a broad way, but they can’t give a personalized answer to each student participating.
There is useful information about GRFP available at http://www.nsfgrfp.org/
– The general information about eligibility, application process, etc., are very helpful. Note that this information is a bit out-of-date. The new program solicitation will be posted sometime in August (for a deadline sometime in November). But the best model we have is the solicitation from last year.
The “tips”http://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicant_resources/tips_for_applying and FAQs http://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicant_resources/frequently_asked_questions
(again, the tips and FAQs haven’t been updated for this year, so the dates in the eligibility section are off. You’ll need to check the site again).