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Research Prizes and Honors
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ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOR DOCTORAL STUDENT WINS MICHAEL H. GRANOF OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Christian Rabeling, a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the $10,000 Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the University Co-op/Graduate School Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education.
The Excellence in Graduate Education awards recognize and reward outstanding graduate students for distinguished scholarship, research, writing and teaching.
Find more information about Rabeling’s research and award.
ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR RECEIVES POWE AWARD
Sarah Dooling, an assistant professor in the School of Architecture, has been named a winner of a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards from the Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities organization.
Dooling studies urban ecology and is affiliated with the Environmental Sciences Institute. She will receive $5,000 from ORAU, which will be matched by the University. Dooling was one of 30 chosen from 118 applicants.
The award provides seed money for research by junior faculty at ORAU member institutions. The awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities.
News and Information
ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION AND FUNDING SOURCES IN CENTRAL TEXAS
An informational meeting about funding criteria for entrepreneurs seeking seed stage and early stage funding will be held June 2, 2009 at the MCC Building. It is presented by the Austin Technology Incubator, the City of Austin, the Central Texas Angel Network and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization.
CLASS FOR SUBMITTING GRANT PROPOSALS
Learn how to use Cayuse424 to prepare proposals for Grants.gov submissions.
The class (SP 110) takes place June 9, 2009 from 9-11 a.m. in Room 5.332 in the North Office building (NOA). Registration is through TXCLASS (UT EID required).
QuotedUT Researchers in the News
[A sampling of recent quotes by university faculty members and researchers. To be included in this section, let the Research Alert know when you or a colleague have been quoted.]
Business Week
May 18, 2009
HEADLINE: CEOs Secretly Want Health-Care Reform:
Some top executives are so fed up with the status quo that they wouldn’t mind government intervention
But in private, “CEOs overwhelmingly want out of this business,” says Benjamin Sasse, an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush who’s now an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “They just do not want to be seen as more willing to dump [benefits] than their competitors are.” Sasse says many CEOs he has talked with would even pay a new tax if it got them out of the insurance business.
NOTE: Last week’s quote from Prof. Rod Ruoff is now online.
Research Opportunities
Important university research deadlines:
Awards and Grants
Limited Submissions
AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT
The University of Texas at Austin Stimulus Package Web page is online.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
DOE ANNOUNCES $2.4 BILLION FOR CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE PROJECTS
Initiatives are:
Advance Research Project Agency-Energy (Opens PDF)
Deadlines: Concept Paper, June 2, 2009; Application, 31 days after Concept Paper determination
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research Planning Phase
[This is a limited submission. For more information, please contact limitedsub@austin.utexas.edu.]
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
2010 INCITE Call for Proposals (large-scale, computationally intensive projects leading to transformational advances in science)
Deadline: July 1, 2009
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Role of Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Organ in Reproduction and Infertility
Deadline: June 5, 2009
Economics of Treatment and Prevention Services for Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Deadline: June 16, 2009
Exfoliated Cells and Circulating DNA in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis
Deadline: June 16, 2009
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Evolutionary Processes Cluster
Deadline: July 9, 2009
Population and Community Ecology Cluster – Population and Community Ecology Program
Deadline: July 9, 2009
Developmental and Learning Sciences
Deadline: July 15, 2009
Expeditions in Computing
Deadlines: Preliminary Proposal, Sept. 10, 2009; Full Proposal, Feb. 10, 2010
Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2009
Geospace Environment Modeling
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2009
ARTS, CULTURE AND HUMANITIES
Sundance Institute
Sundance Documentary Film Program
Deadline: July 7, 2009
The Malevich Society
Research Grants (for research about artist Kazimir Malevich and his work)
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2009
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
American Hearing Research Foundation
Research Grants (for hearing or balance functions of the ear)
Deadline: Aug. 3, 2009
Research Project
[Let the Research Alert know about your research projects.]
Computer simulations and theoretical studies of protein translocation
RESEARCHER: Dmitrii Makarov, associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, principal investigator
AGENCY: National Science Foundation
AMOUNT: $145,000
The project will study biological phenomena that involve the translocation of proteins through pores. Makarov and his research group are developing computational tools and applying them to characterize the relationship between the structure of proteins and their resistance to co-translational unfolding. These computational studies complement recent single-molecule protein translocation experiments. An interdisciplinary workshop on single molecule dynamics that brings together theorists and experimentalists from a variety of disciplines is being planned.
