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Welcome back, everyone, and on this first day of fall! In our first newsletter of this academic year, we’re excited to highlight new grants and funding for scholarship at Vassar. We're also pleased to be able to guide you to the new Grants in Action website, which celebrates Vassar’s grants and those who lead them. As always, feel free to reach out to us with any similar updates for next month or if you'd like to talk about grant and fellowship resources and opportunities. It's never too early to connect, and we’re always available to assist! |
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ECMC Foundation Awards Vassar Funding for Exploring Transfer Together Initiative
The goals of the this exciting new grant are to study the effect of Vassar’s long-standing Exploring Transfer (ET) program on community college students' subsequent completion of four-year degrees, improve the ET program as needed, and work with other liberal arts colleges to catalyze ET-like programs that promote community college student transfer to four-year colleges. Read more...
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Vassar Receives Teagle Foundation/NEH Cornerstone: Learning for Living Planning Grant.
Vassar is an awardee of the Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) joint grant program Cornerstone: Learning for Living, which seeks to revitalize the role of humanities in general education. This grant award will support conversation and planning focused on how we might use the First Year Writing Seminar (FYWS) to deepen faculty and student’s shared experience of transformative engagements with texts, the focus of the Cornerstone initiative. Read more...
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VEC Receives Two New Grants from City of Poughkeepsie and United Way
John Bradley, Executive Director of the Vassar Education Collaboration (VEC), received a Youth Activities & Opportunities Grant from the City of Poughkeepsie to support VEC and a Community Fund Grant from United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region to support the Vassar English Language Learner Outreach Program (VELLOP). Read more...
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The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center received funds from The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation to support a 2024 exhibition of photographs by Rosalie “Rollie” McKenna, a 1940 graduate of Vassar who retained close ties to her alma mater throughout her lifetime, situated within a broader history of twentieth-century American photography. Read more...
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Vassar’s Ecological Preserve Receives ZBGA Grant for Education and Management
This grant award will support the maintenance, operation, and securing of permanent collections of natural specimens, alongside the Preserve’s educational programs that interpret the collection. Students of all ages regularly visit each year to learn more about the Preserve’s rich diversity of plants, birds, amphibians, mammals, and reptiles.
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An article by Professor Emeritus of Art, Nick Adams , published in the Indiana Magazine of History, received the James H. Madison Prize for the best article to appear in 2021. This award is given in honor of James H. Madison, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History Emeritus, at the Indiana University Bloomington. Entitled, “The Early Years of Nathaniel A. Owings: A Portrait of the Architect as a Storyteller,” it tells the early history of the architect Nathaniel Owings (1903–1984), co-founder of the architectural firm of Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Read more...
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Jan Cameron, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has been selected to participate in the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment (IPA) program and will serve in the coming year as a Program Director for the Analysis Program within the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). “The IPA program fosters the interchange of information between NSF and universities throughout the country and benefits both NSF and the home institution by infusing new talent into NSF and providing the IPA scientists, engineers and educators with valuable information and knowledge to bring back to their home institution." Read more...
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Debra Elmegreen, Professor Emerita of Astronomy, is an awardee of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), operated by AURA. This grant will support the program "JWST probes Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers: JWST-FEAST," which will utilize MIRI and NIRCam infrared imaging via the James Webb Space Telescope.
JWST-FEAST has multiple science goals related to star clusters in nearby galaxies through MIRI and NIRCam imaging. The program will focus on Science Goal: Clustering of embedded cores vs. clustering of exposed regions. Read more...
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Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Vassar, and her collaborators from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Duke University are recipients of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award that will fund the two-year project Collaborative Research: Advancing Bayesian Thinking in STEM as part of NSF’s “Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE): Education and Human Resources program." The complexity of uncertainty in science has often been simplified with a single measure: the p-value. Read more...
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Charles Steinhorn, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has secured a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York in continued support of the STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program site in New York City. The New York site was developed in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Barnard College. The TEU program has operated out of Vassar since 2013 and seeks to address the national shortage of high-quality STEM teachers, particularly in underserved communities... Read more
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS
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October 6
John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellowship
The National Humanities Center is a free standing national resource devoted to advancing significant humanistic study and reflection and to making those insights available both inside and outside the academic world. Each year, the Center welcomes up to forty scholars from across the humanities and all over the world, targeting its support specifically to Mid-career and senior scholars. With an interest in strengthening the representation of faculty from liberal arts colleges, the Center and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have dedicated to this effort the John G. Medlin, Jr. Fellowship. Residential Fellowships are awarded to established scholars, meaning that successful candidates have typically published at least one single-author book or a significant body of peer-reviewed scholarship. (Please consult Eligibility requirements for further information.) Learn more...
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November 1
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in their fields. (Please consult Eligibility requirements for further information.) Artists and scholars supported by the Howard Foundation are expected to devote a substantial portion of time during the fellowship year to advancing new work. It is an unrestricted, non-residency fellowship for the sole purpose of aiding the intellectual and artistic development of the recipients. Fellowship funds may be used in combination with sabbatical leaves or other sources of support, but this is not a requirement.
A total of nine fellowships of $40,000 will be awarded in April 2023 for 2023-24 in the fields of:
Music for Performance and Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Sound Studies
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November 2
Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education
NEH’s new Spotlight program supports the exploration and development of small projects, beginning in Summer 2023, that would benefit students from underserved communities through the teaching and study of the humanities at small to mid-sized institutions of higher education. Two- and four-year institutions of higher education and regional/national nonprofit organizations whose work advances the humanities at these institutions and among their faculty and students are eligible to apply. Learn more...
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Big News from NSF for 2023 Applicants
NSF PAPPG Changes Coming January 2023
“The National Science Foundation (NSF) has posted a draft of the 2023 Proposal and Award Policies and Procedure Guide (PAPPG). View the webinar and slides regarding changes here. Major change highlights:
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SciENcv will now be MANDATORY for Biosketches and Current and Pending support documents effective January 1, 2023. The UMass Libraries will be holding several SciENcv workshops starting in September. Further communications will be forthcoming with dates and registration info.
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New supplementary document effective January 1, 2023: Plan for Safe and Inclusive Field/Vessel/Aircraft Research (PSI-FVAR). Each proposal that proposes to conduct research in the field, including on vessels and aircraft, must upload this document under “PSI-FVAR” in the supplementary documentation section of Research.gov. There is a two-page limit.
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NSF FastLane will be retired and Research.gov submission will be required effective January 1, 2023.
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NSF Current and Pending Support will need to be resubmitted prior to issuing new awards.”
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NSF Programs Seek Volunteer Reviewers
"Are you interested in helping NSF review proposals? Many NSF programs are searching for volunteer reviewers. Some, like Build and Broaden and Perception, Action and Cognition invite you to fill out a survey to express your interest in volunteering. For other programs, consult the program web page and email a program officer to see if they are recruiting reviewers."
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Take a look at NSF’s Presentation on Funding for Anthropologists to learn about funded projects, how to know whether your research is a good fit, and even how to sign up to be a reviewer or panelist at NSF!
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Syracuse University has a number of helpful presentations that are available on-line and may be of interest:
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DON'T FORGET
Check out the fellowship calendar to see a full list of upcoming opportunities and programs to apply for!
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