Our next installment of the Future Knowledge Speaker series is next week. Meredith McGill and Andrew Parker will be here on campus to speak to us about "The Future of the Literary Past" on Thursday, September 30th at 4 pm in Lumpkin Auditorium at the Moore School of Business. Our digital flyer is attached here and printed copies are available by dropping me an email off-list at jenguiliano@gmail.com. As always, there will be a short reception afterwards where you can mix and mingle.
Before turning to general announcements, we should take a moment to applaud the work of Bill Hogue, CDH Campus Advisory Board member and Vice President for Information Technology. Bill was an integral member of the team that just secured $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation for high-speed, high-capacity connections and enhanced classrooms at Benedict College, Claflin University, the Clemson University Edisto Research Extension Center, Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College, South Carolina State University, the University of South Carolina, and USC Beaufort. The full announcement is available at: http://www.midlandsbiz.com/articles/6190/. Please congratulate Bill when you next see him.
Grant/Fellowship Opportunities:
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies invites application for the sixth annual competition of the Digital Innovation Fellowships.
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works.
ACLS will award up to six ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships in this competition year, including one project on which two scholars are collaborating.
Stipends up to $60,000
Project costs up to $25,000
Deadline: September 29, 2010.
For more information visit: http://www.acls.org/programs/digital/
During the 2009-10 cycle, ACLS awarded over $15 million to more than 380 scholars based in the US and abroad working in the humanities and related social sciences. Visit the Fellows & Research section to view recent awardee listings and profiles.
American Council of Learned Societies
633 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
fellowships@acls.org
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The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2011 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources.
The purposes of this fellowship program are to:
- help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources;
- enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available;
- encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad; and
- provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.
The program will be offering about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships for 2011. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for 9–12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000.
Fellowship stipends will support research beginning between June 1 and September 1, 2011, and ending within 12 months of commencing. Fellowships will not be renewed or extended. Fellows are expected to devote full time to their dissertation research without holding teaching or research assistantships or undertaking other paid work. Applicants may apply simultaneously for other fellowships, including Mellon awards, but fellows may not hold other fellowships simultaneously with CLIR's. Fellows may use stipends to meet living expenses, travel costs, and other expenses that enable dissertation research to be carried out, but not to defray tuition.
Applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, but must be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school in the United States.
For further information on eligibility, requirements, and deadlines, please visit CLIR’s website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html.
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Magellan Scholar grant proposals due: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by 5pm
This program is open to ALL USC campuses and all disciplines.
Do you have a project that an undergraduate could help with?
Are you already working with a student on a project?
Each Magellan Scholar receives up to $3,000 to help fund a research project, competing for this award with the submission of a research, scholarship, or creative project proposal developed in collaboration with his or her faculty mentor. Selection is based on the project’s educational and intellectual merit, the potential impact of the project, and the student’s previous academic success. More information at http://www.sc.edu/our/magellan.shtml.
DEADLINE: 5:00 pm on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 for projects that begin Spring 2011.
All students and faculty applying for Magellan Scholar funding are REQUIRED to attend one 30-min application workshop (no registration needed) followed by optional “tips & hints.” Student and mentor do not have to attend the same session.
USC Aiken:
Thurs, Sept 16, 4:30 Business & Education Bldg Rm 140
USC Columbia:
Tues, Sept 14, 4pm Russell House 303
Wed, Sept 15, 4pm Russell House 304
Thurs, Sept 23, 4pm Russell House 303
Fri, Oct 1, Noon Russell House 303
Mon, Oct 4, 4pm Russell House 303
Mon, Oct 11, 5pm Russell House 303
USC Upstate:
Fri, Sept 24, 12:30 Dining Hall “Quiet Room”
Students and faculty unable to attend a workshop should contact the office for alternatives.
If you attended a workshop previously, you do not need to attend a second - however, please review the Magellan guidebook at http://www.sc.edu/our/doc/MagellanGuidebook_2010%20Fall.pdf for revisions. Applications will not be accepted from students who have not attended a workshop.
More information can be found at http://www.sc.edu/our/magellan.shtml. Questions should be directed to Office of Undergraduate Research at 777-1141 or OUR@sc.edu.
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The Office of Research and Graduate Education is pleased to announce the availability of institutional grant funds under the Promising Investigator Research Award (PIRA) for 2011. PIRA funding is provided by the Office of Research and Graduate Education to encourage tenure-track faculty to develop individual research projects leading to the pursuit of external funding and or the promotion of scholarly activities. This year, the PIRA program is offering two distinct tracks.
- Track I funds will be considered "seed" monies and will be awarded to faculty with the stated objective of enhancing the competitiveness of a subsequent submission of a new proposal for external funding.
- Track II funds will be awarded to faculty who have had positive reviews on recent extramural applications. The application should be for a specific plan to strengthen the application for re-submission.
For more information on PIRA, please visit the following website: http://www.sc.edu/researchdev/pira.shtml or contact Gayle Haddock at haddockg@mailbox.sc.edu.
Question and Answer Sessions:
To enhance individual success rate, faculty planning to submit proposals to the 2011 PIRA program are strongly encouraged to attend a Question & Answer Session. To register for a Question & Answer Session, please contact Gayle Haddock at haddockg@mailbox.sc.edu.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
1:00-2:00 PM
Wardlaw 126
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
3:00-4:00 PM
Sumwalt 305
DEADLINE:
Proposals must be submitted before 5:00 pm on November 15, 2010 through USCERA (https://sam.research.sc.edu/uscera/) and approved by your chair, dean and/or chancellor.
Enjoy the rest of your week and we will see you next week for McGill and Parker's Future of the Literary Past talk.
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