Internal announcements
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of the InfoEd system. SPIN is a database of federal, state, and private funding
opportunities. Faculty and staff who create an advanced research profile and set up keyword
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closely match their areas of research. Initial setup takes only a few minutes to complete.
If you would like to set up a SPIN profile, please email Clarissa Williams for instructions.
Clarissa is also available for individual consultations with faculty or staff who would like
assistance with setup. You can reach Clarissa at clarisw@clemson.edu, or 864-656-1440.
Research Innovation Month Begins
Have you heard? Research Innovation Month kicks off tomorrow! RIM is open to anyone who is associated
with Clemson University and will highlight the accomplishments of CU staff, faculty, and students. All
faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to participate in RIM by entering events at www.clemson.edu/rim
and submitting Research Innovation Month work to TigerPrints
Internal funding opportunities
Richard Pennel Center Request for Proposal - Deadline 4/6/15
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The Spencer Foundation has announced a call for proposals for the "Lyle Spencer Research
Awards: Advancing Understanding of Education Practice and Its Improvement,”
Internal Due
Date
April 27, 2015
Letter of Intent
Due Date
July 9, 2015
Agency Due Date January 13, 2016
Estimated Total
Funding
Limit on Number
Check proposal guidelines for number of submissions allowed
of Proposals
Program URL
http://www.spencer.org/resources/content/4/0/7/documents/LylesProgramStatement.pdf
Internal Proposal
http://www.clemson.edu/cuosp/detail/index.php?ppoID=590
URL
The Spencer Foundation will be awarding research grants of up to $1,000,000 each to a small
number of intellectually rigorous education research proposals. The overarching goal of this
opportunity is to “create much-needed space for creative and ambitious research projects that
promise to advance our understanding of educational practice and its improvement.”
The proposal review process begins with a Letter of Intent (LOI) Applicants will be asked to
provide a statement of roughly 1,500 to 2,000 words about their plans, along with an estimate of
their budgetary needs and background information about the research team’s past work.
This limited submission competition will utilize the fillable pre-proposal template. Faculty must
respond using the new template. If you have questions about the format or evaluation process,
please email pdc@clemson.edu.
Instructions for using the web site to submit your documents are available at
http://media.clemson.edu/research/sponsored-programs/Limited-Submission-Instructions.pdf.
A list of all pre-proposal opportunities can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/cuosp/.
External funding opportunities
Association of Print Scholars <info@printscholars.org>
The Schulman and Bullard Article Prize
The Schulman and Bullard Article Prize
The Association of Print Scholars invites applications for the first annual Schulman and Bullard
Article Prize. The Prize is given annually to an article published by an early-career scholar that
features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking. The award, which carries a
$2,000 prize, is generously sponsored by Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard. Following the
mission of the Association of Print Scholars, articles can feature aspects of printmaking across
any geographic region and all chronological periods. Articles will be evaluated by a panel of
advanced scholars for the author's commitment to the use of original research and the article's
overall contribution to the field of print scholarship. The Association of Print Scholars invites
nominations and self-nominations for the 2015 Schulman/Bullard Article Prize meeting the
criteria outlined below:
Nomination Criteria:
Authors must have graduated with an MA, MFA, or PhD fewer than 10
years prior to article publication.
Authors must be current members of APS.
Articles must have been published in a journal, exhibition catalogue,
or anthology between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014. Online publications will be
considered on a case-by-case basis.
Articles must be between 3,000 and 10,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and references.
Entries for consideration must be in English, though the text of the original article may be in any
language.
To submit an article for consideration, please send the completed nomination form along with an
electronic or hard copy of the article to Angela Campbell, the APS Grants Coordinator:
angela@printscholars.org
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2015
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National Endowment for the Arts
http://www.neafoundation.org/pages/learning-leadership-grants/
The NEA Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Education Association, supports student
success by helping public school educator’s work with key partners to build strong systems of
shared responsibility and advance student achievement.
Through its Learning & Leadership program, the foundation awards grants of up to $2,000 to
support public school teachers, public education support professionals, and/or faculty and staff at
public institutions of higher education for participation in high-quality professional development
experiences, such as summer institutes or action research. The foundation also awards grants of
up to $5,000 to support group projects related to collegial study, including study groups, action
research, lesson study, and/or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment.
To be eligible, applicants must be public school educators in grades pre-K-12, public school
education support professionals, or faculty and staff at a public institution of higher education.
The foundation encourages applications from education support professionals. Preference will be
given to members of the National Education Association.
Deadline: June 1
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National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an
essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands
of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important
collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological
and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program
strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely
accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference
resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to
tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
Deadline: July 21, 2015
View all upcoming NEH grant opportunities
http://www.neh.gov/grants
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The Open Society Foundations
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/open-society-fellowship
The Open Society Foundations has announced a fellowship for individuals interested in pursuing
innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. Themes for
projects should fit within two areas of interest to the Open Society Foundations. Among these are
human rights, government transparency, access to information and justice, and the promotion of
civil society and social inclusion. The deadline for proposals is August 3, 2015. Letters of
inquiry are due July 1, 2015.
Faculty interested in this opportunity are encouraged to contact Devon Stein, Director of
Foundation Relations, at 656-2165 or dastein@clemson.edu
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Rockefeller Foundation
Title: Bellagio Center Residency Programs -- Arts & Literary Arts Residency
E-mail: bellagio_res@iie.org
Web Site: http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org
Program URL: http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center/residency-program/artsliterary-arts-residency
SYNOPSIS: The Bellagio Residency program offers academics, artists, thought leaders,
policymakers, and practitioners a serene setting conducive to focused, goal-oriented work, and
the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with fellow residents from a
stimulating array of disciplines and geographies. The Bellagio Center community generates new
knowledge to solve some of the most complex issues facing our world and creates art that
inspires reflection, understanding, and imagination.
Deadline(s): 05/01/2015
DEADLINE NOTE
The competition opens on March 1, 2015 with the deadline of May 1,
2015 for a possible residency between February 8 to August 8, 2016.
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The Wilson Center
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/urban-poverty-graduate-student-paper-competition2015?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuqnKde%2FhmjTEU5z17uwkULHr08Yy0EZ5VunJEU
Wy2YcEScF0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEKS7nYUbZ1t6MJWA%3D%3D
CALL FOR PAPERS for the REDUCING URBAN POVERTY 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition
To encourage a new generation of urban policy makers and promote early career research,
USAID, International Housing Coalition (IHC), World Bank, the Wilson Center, and Cities
Alliance are co-sponsoring the sixth annual paper competition for graduate students and
seeking abstracts on urban poverty in the developing world.
Deadline: May 15, 2015