FOCUS ON FUNDING
News and Notes from the STLCC Office of Institutional Development
September 2008
the central role of the mathematical sciences
in fostering progress in other scientific
disciplines as well as the continuing active
development of the mathematical sciences
themselves. Careful attention to mentoring of
students, thorough evaluation mechanisms,
and plans for sustainability will be essential
to successful projects.
Focus on Funding is a newsletter published
by the St. Louis Community College Office
of Institutional Development (OID). It
features external funding opportunities
available from federal, state, local and
private funding sources, as well as other
news. For more information about the OID
and services provided by our staff, please
contact Castella Henderson, Director, at
314/539-5354, or visit the OID web page at:
http://www.stlcc.edu/odweb/.
Required elements of proposed activities
include:
• Partnerships between the mathematical
sciences and other science or engineering
discipline(s)
• Proactive recruitment
• Early research experiences in the
mathematical sciences and partner
disciplines
• Mentoring and professional development
Please note that the lead Principal Investigator
(PI) must be in the mathematical sciences
Grant Opportunities
New! from the National Science
Foundation—Proactive Recruitment in
Introductory Science and Mathematics
(PRISM)
The goal of the PRISM program is to strengthen
the nation's scientific competitiveness by
increasing the numbers of well-prepared,
successful U.S. undergraduate majors and
minors in science and mathematics. The
program will fund innovative, potentially
transformational partnerships between the
mathematical sciences and other science or
engineering disciplines that widen the cross
section of the mathematical sciences to which
freshman and sophomore students are
exposed and that provide these students
increased opportunities for research experiences
involving the mathematical sciences.
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Welcome
New & Returning
Faculty
The Office of Institutional Development is
here to assist and serve you!
If you would like more information about
the opportunities listed in this publication,
or about the grants process here at STLCC,
please contact our office. We are located
on the 6th floor of the Cosand Center,
phone: 314/539-5354.
Or visit our web page at:
PRISM seeks proposals to improve the lower
undergraduate division (freshman and
sophomore) experience in mathematics and
statistics and so better prepare undergraduates
to major in science, engineering, mathematics,
and statistics. Of particular interest are
activities that help students understand both
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Faculty and Staff
Kudos
(mathematics or statistics) and at least one co-PI
must be from another discipline.
Project duration may be three to five years; the
proposal budget may be $100,000 to $600,000
per year.
SLCC receives external funding for a
variety of projects and programs.
Project directors, sources, grant
amounts, and descriptions for some of
the recent awards are as follows:
Deadline: February 16, 2009
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Summer Stipends (National
Endowment for the Humanities)
Sarah Perkins/Richard Norris, National
Science Foundation, $679,487.
A grant for the STLCC Center for Plant
and Life Sciences and the Florissant Valley
Biotechnology program to relocate to a
post-incubator on the campus of the
Danforth Center for Plant Science, and
provide expanded educational
programming and internships in the life
sciences.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is
currently accepting applications for the
Summer Stipend program. Stipends support
individuals pursuing advanced research that is of
value to scholars and general audiences in the
humanities.
Recipients usually produce articles,
monographs, books, digital materials,
archaeological site reports, translations, editions,
and other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends
support full-time work on a humanities project
for a period of two months.
John Messmer, U.S. Election Assistance
Commission, $21,035.
A grant to implement the "Show-Me New
Poll Workers" project to recruit 500
STLCC students to serve as poll workers in
the November 2008 election. All four
campuses are participating in the effort.
Summer Stipends are awarded to individual
scholars. The program accepts applications from
researchers, teachers, and writers regardless of
their institutional affiliations. Applicants with
college or university affiliations, however, must
be nominated by their institutions
James Monahan, Community Colleges for
International Development/U.S.
Department of State, $360,290.
A grant for the Community Colleges for
International Development to send fourteen
students from Egypt, Pakistan and South
Africa to study at St. Louis Community
College at Forest Park during the 20082009 academic year.
Successful applicants receive an outright award
of $6,000 for two consecutive months of fulltime research and writing. Applications must be
submitted through Grants.gov, the central
federal government portal for all grant
applications.
Deadline: October 1, 2008
Congratulations!
For more information, contact the STLCC
Office of Institutional Development:
341/539-5354.
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