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Research Prizes and Honors
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DEAN OF SOCIAL WORK SELECTED TO FIRST BOARD OF
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE
Dr. Barbara White, dean of the School of Social Work, has been selected as an inaugural board member and fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, a society of scholars and practitioners in the field.
COMPUTER SCIENTIST NAMED AAAS FELLOW
Keshav Pingali, professor of computer science, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his efforts to advance science and its applications.
Pingali was elected for his distinguished contributions to the “development and application of computer science technologies to enhance the effectiveness of formulating, compiling and executing parallel and distributed programs.”
News and Information
CATCH TRAINING SESSION FOR SCIVAL AT 10 A.M. DEC. 18
An online overview session for SciVal, the research opportunities database, starts at 10 a.m., Dec. 18. Instructions on how to participate are online (PDF).
The university is asking researchers to evaluate SciVal, which provides information on research opportunities and other related information. The system will remain open to the university free of charge through April 30, 2010.
OSP SETS DEADLINES FOR BUSY JANUARY
The Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) is expecting very high volumes during the month of January. If your completed proposal is not received by OSP by the internal deadline, OSP cannot guarantee that your proposal will be reviewed and submitted. Proposals submitted after the internal deadlines will be reviewed and submitted in the order in which they are received. Find updates on the Office of Sponsored Projects Web site.
OSP internal deadlines are as follows:
- Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program, Jan. 5, 2010
- ARPA-E concept paper, Jan. 6, 2010
- Welch Foundation Research Grant, Jan. 13, 2010
- American Heart Association, Jan. 19, 2010
- NIH, Jan. 29, 2010
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.]
The New Yorker
Dec. 14, 2009
HEADLINE: Testing, Testing;
The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?
This transformation [in agriculture], though critical to America’s rise as a superpower, involved some painful dislocations: farms were consolidated; unproductive farmers were winnowed out. As the historian Sally Clarke, of the University of Texas at Austin, has pointed out, it’s astonishing that the revolution took place without vast numbers of farm foreclosures and social unrest. We cushioned the impact of the transformation–with, for instance, price supports that smoothed out the price decline and avoided wholesale bankruptcies. There were compromises and concessions and wrong turns. But the strategy worked, because United States agencies were allowed to proceed by trial and error, continually adjusting their policies over time in response not to ideology but to hard measurement of the results against societal goals. Could something like this happen with health care?
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.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY/AGRICULTURE
Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy
Deadline: Feb. 18, 2010
EDUCATION
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program–Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training
Deadline: Feb. 9, 2010
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors and Weight Outcomes
Deadline: Feb. 16, 2010
Support Opportunity for Addiction Research (SOAR) for New Investigators
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, March 16, 2010; Application, April 16, 2010
Gut-Liver-Brain Interactions in Alcohol-Induced Pathogenesis
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, March 20, 2010; Application, April 20, 2010
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Research on Gender in Science and Engineering
Deadline: Feb. 10, 2010
Biomedical Engineering
Deadline: March 3, 2010
Fluid Dynamics
Deadline: March 3, 2010
Catalysis and Biocatalysis
Deadline: March 3, 2010
Cyber-Physical Systems
Deadline: March 11, 2010
Assembling the Tree of Life
Deadline: March 22, 2010
ARTS, HUMANITIES AND CULTURE
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Challenge Grants in Unites States History and Culture
Deadline: February 3, 2010
[This is a limited submission. For more information, contact limitedsub@austin.utexas.edu.]
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship Program for Graduate, Predoctoral and Postdoctoral levels
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2010
Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
Fellowship opportunities in American Art
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2010
The National Archives
Strategies and Tools for Archives and Historical Publishing Projects
Deadlines: Optional Draft, April 1, 2010; Final Deadline, June 3, 2010
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Harry E. and Bernice M. Moore Fellowship (for UT-Austin dissertation projects)
Deadline: Feb. 2, 2010
Research Project
[Let the Research Alert know about your research projects.]
Check back in January for a new research project description.
