Read the research blog Further Findings.
Research Prizes and Honors
[Have you or a colleague won a research-related prize or honor? Let the Research Alert know.]
BUSINESS PROFS RECOGNIZED FOR RESEARCH
Three professors in the McCombs School of Business were honored by their colleagues for their research. They are:
- Andrew Whinston, professor in the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, the Career Award for Outstanding Research Contributions
- Violina Rindova, associate professor in the Department of Management, the Award for Research Excellence
- Alok Kumar, assistant professor in the Department of Finance, the CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Find more information the McCombs School blog.
News and Information
OSP SCREENS PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH ADMINISTRATORS
The Office of Sponsored Projects offers two chances to see the second program in the National Council of University Research Administrators TV Broadcast series titled “Cost Sharing: Why No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.”
The screenings are June 9th from 10:15 a.m.-2 p.m. in ACE 2.402, and June 16th from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the EME/CEER Building (Building 133) on the Pickle Campus.
Register through TXClass SP202 (requires UT EID), or contact Maria Winchell.
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.]
New York Times
June 2, 2009
HEADLINE: In That Tucked Tail, Real Pangs of Regret?
(From an article asking whether animals feel regret.)
No one knows, of course, exactly how this sense of regret affects an animal emotionally. When we see a dog slouching and bowing, we like to assume he’s suffering the way we do after a faux pas, but maybe he’s just sending a useful signal: I messed up.
“It’s possible that this kind of social signal in animals could have evolved without the conscious experience of regret,” said Sam Gosling, a psychologist at The University of Texas, Austin. “But it seems more plausible that there is some kind of conscious experience even if it’s not the same kind of thing that you or I feel.”
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 EDUCATION
Recovery Act: Office of Innovation and Improvement; Overview Information: Teacher Quality Partnership Grants Program
Deadlines: Notice of Intent to Apply (encouraged), June 26, 2009; Application, July 23, 2009
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Recovery Act: Geothermal Technologies Program
Deadline: July 22, 2009
Recovery Act: Regional Sequestration Technology Training (opens PDF). Download Adobe Reader.
Deadline: July 22, 2009
Recovery Act: Site Characterization of Promising Geologic Formations for CO2 Storage (opens PDF)
Deadline: Aug. 3, 2009
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
Recovery Act: NIST Construction Grant Program
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, June 25, 2009; Aug. 10, 2009
[This is a limited submission. For more information, please contact limitedsub@austin.utexas.edu.]
Recovery Act: Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Program
Deadline: July 13, 2009
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Environmental Finance Center Grants Competition
Deadline: July 15, 2009
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Sept. 14, 2009; Application, Oct. 14, 2009
Biomarkers for Early Detection of Hematopoietic Malignancies
Deadline: Oct. 5, 2009
Identifying Non-coding RNA Targets for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention
Deadline: Oct. 5, 2009
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2009
ARTS, HUMANITIES AND CULTURE
National Endowment for the Humanities
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects (collaborations between K-12 teachers and humanities scholars)
Deadline: Oct. 7, 2009
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
John F. Kennedy Foundation
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Fellowship (for Kennedy foreign policy research)
(for Kennedy foreign policy research)
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2009
Kennedy Research Grants (for Kennedy period studies by PhD students or PostDocs)
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2009
Research Project
[Let the Research Alert know about your research projects.]
No project this week.
