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Research Prizes and Honors
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ACCOUNTING PROFESSOR RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP
AT SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
John Robinson, professor in the accounting department, has been selected as the Academic Accounting Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, the regulatory agency announced July 16.
Academic Accounting Fellows in the Division of Corporation Finance serve as a research resource for the staff on current financial reporting and auditing issues. In addition, Academic Fellows work with the Division staff to address issues involving difficult and unusual accounting, auditing and financial reporting questions, participate in rulemaking projects, and review filings by public companies to identify significant accounting and disclosure problems.
News and Information
APPLICATIONS FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FUND WANTED
The Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC) is seeking applications for start-up funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Central Texas-based entrepreneurs, inventors and businesses seeking early-stage investment in new, technology-based, private entrepreneurial entities that collaborate with a Texas public or private institution of higher education may qualify. Applications are due July 28, 2009.
Find more information at CenTex RCIC or by contacting the center at 512-322-5677 or mholody@austinchamber.com.
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
July 16, 2009
HEADLINE: Some See Exxon Investments Into Alt Energy Signaling ‘Paradigm Shift’ for Big Oil
(From an article about whether oil companies such as Exxon will move into alternative fuels.)
“I think they see changes to the energy system coming over the next decades,” said Michael Webber, an energy expert and engineering professor at The University of Texas. “It’s pretty transparent that the energy field will be different 30 years from now. They’re an energy company, so they had better be prepared than to wait.”
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.
—ARRA–NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements
List of links to supplement sites of NIH centers
Deadline: Continuous
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award
Deadline: Sept. 24, 2009
[This is a limited submission. For more information, please contact limitedsub@austin.utexas.edu.]
—ARRA–DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Recovery Act: Development of Algal/Advanced Biofuels Consortia
Search FedConnect for reference number DE-FOA-0000123
Deadline: Sept. 14, 2009
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
FY 2010 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2009
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Nonproliferation Research and Development for Proliferation Detection
Deadline: Aug. 25, 2009
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIAID Partnerships with Product Development Public-Private Partnerships
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Sept. 30, 2009; Application, Oct. 30, 2009
The Human Connectome Project
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Oct. 24, 2009; Application, Nov. 24, 2009
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Cultural Anthropology
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2009
Foundations
Deadline: Oct. 6, 2009
Plasma Physics
Deadline: Oct. 9, 2009
SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants
Deadline: Oct. 19, 2009
Evolutionary Processes Cluster
Deadline: Jan. 9, 2010
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Marine Fisheries Initiative
Deadline: Aug. 17, 2009
ARTS, HUMANITIES AND CULTURE
National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation
2010 Two-Year Stria Vascularis Project
Deadline: Oct. 9, 2009
Kress Institutional Fellowships in the History of European Art
Deadline: Nov. 30, 2009
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Visiting Scholars Program for Post-Doctoral and Junior Faculty Fellowships
Deadline: Oct. 16, 2009
Research Project
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