Graduate Students and Law Students: Would you like to conserve ocean and coastal resources? Become a Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and use your natural or social science knowledge to work on environmental issues. A placement process will match you with a federal agency or Congressional office in Washington, D.C., where you will work for one year as a paid fellow.
Solicitation of UM Pre-Proposals
for NSF’s EPSCoR Track-2-FEC 2016 Funding Opportunity for Research in Sustainable Food, Energy, and Water Systems or Understanding the Brain
E-mail pre-proposals to Jason Hale (jghale@olemiss.edu) by 5 p.m. December 9th.
NSF MRI seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments.
ORSP will conduct a review process to select up to three pre-proposals for advancement into full proposals to NSF for this limited funding opportunity. Pre-proposals are due to ORSP on November 20, 2015.
ORSP is seeking reviewers for ORSP-IG proposals for 2015-16, starting this summer. 63 pre-proposals were received for Round 1 (due date was May 8). A subset of these will be invited as full proposals. Reviewers are needed for both pre-proposals and full proposals in the 3 anticipated rounds of funding in 2015-16. The estimated time commitment is 10-20 hours per round, depending on the volume of pre-proposals and the number of full proposals invited.
Bruker Senior Application Scientist John Thornton will preset some of the latest advances in AFM microscopy, give hands-on demonstrations, and answer questions. Please see the Flyer for more details. Activites will occur between 9am and 3pm at the Center for Manufacturing Excellence.
The L’Oreal USA For Women in Science fellowship program annually recognizes and rewards five U.S.-based women researchers for their outstanding contributions in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Recipients receive up to $60,000 each for their postdoctoral research.