Summer 2015 Post-Doc Series – Myer Briggs Type Indicator and Conflict Styles
Upcoming research grant opportunities
Grant Writing Academy
Upcoming Classes in the Research Administration Training Series (RATS)
NSF 2015 Data Science Workshop and Community Building
Research news and publicizing research
1. Summer 2015 Post-Doc Series – Myer Briggs Type Indicator and Conflict Styles
The Summer 2015 Post-Doc Series program is intended to assist post doctorates in fulfilling the professionalism competency component in the professional development plan recommended by The National Postdoctoral Association. All workshops will take place in the Training Room, HR Building, 420 Wakara Way (next to the Marriott) in Research Park. Lunch will be available. Please contact Mary Anne Berzins with any additional questions. The information below is the description on the next following workshop.
Myer Briggs Type Indicator and Conflict Styles
June 19
11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.
420 Wakara Way
MBTI is a leadership development tool, which provides feedback in the four main areas:
Where you primarily direct your energy
How you prefer to process information
How you prefer to make decisions
How you prefer to organize your life
This workshop will provide insight that influences our interactions and participation in collaborative-based environments. Prior to this class, participants will complete the MBTI online. Participants must attend class to receive their MBTI results. For registration, please visit the Division of Human Resources website.
Conflict Styles
June 26
11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.
420 Wakara Way
This workshop will explore the nature of conflict. Topics will include identifying ways to address conflict and the skills to help you detach as a listener to manage the conflict. The workshop will also discuss how the “need to be right” can undermine effective performance and ways to avoid it. Participants will complete the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument to gain an understanding of conflict-handling styles. Participants must attend class to receive TKI results. For registration, please visit the Division of Human Resources website.
2. Upcoming Research Grant Opportunities
Limited Submission Opportunities
Searle Scholars Program
Internal deadline: July 1
The Searle Scholars Program has created grants for selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding early-career scientists who have recently been appointed as assistant professors on a tenure-track appointment. Grants are $300,000 for a three-year term with $100,000 payable each year of the grant, subject to the receipt of acceptable progress reports. For additional information, please visit the Searle Scholars Program.
HHMI Inclusive Excellence
Internal submission deadline: July 1
The objective of this initiative is to increase institutional capacity for inclusion of students from all backgrounds in science. HHMI will support colleges and universities that commit to measurably increasing their infrastructure, resources, and expertise to involve undergraduate students in science, resulting in expanded access to excellence for all students and especially those who belong to the “new majority” in American higher education.
An eligible institution is limited to one pre-proposal in one of two categories:
Building Capacity Within the Institution is for colleges and universities that will use and evaluate strategies to build their own institutional capacities.
Helping Others Build Capacity is for those institutions that have already implemented sustainable strategies that have led to measurably expanded inclusion and success of all students in science and now wish to assist other institutions that meet the eligibility requirements for this competition to achieve similar outcomes.
For additional information, please visit Inclusive Excellence: 2017 Undergraduate Science Education Grants.
IUSE: GEOPATHS
Internal submission deadline: July 10, 2015
The primary goal of the IUSE: GEOPATHS funding opportunity is to increase the number of undergraduate students interested in pursuing undergraduate degrees and/or post-graduate degrees in geoscience through the design and testing of novel approaches for engaging students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience.
For additional information, please visit Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience.
2015 MRSEC iSuperSEED Supplements
Internal submission deadline: July 1
Please email your submission to Alice Bishop.
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program of the Division of Materials Research are funding iSuperSEEDs. To apply for the program, the iSuperSEED topics of interest must be part of the DMR research portfolio interests listed below:
Topological Insulators: Theory leading experiment efforts focusing on but not limited to dichalcogenides, Majorana fermions, Weyl semi metals are welcome topics.
Quantum Information Science: Topics may include (but not limited to) developing materials, techniques and classical simulation methods for controlled evolution of quantum mechanical states of multiple to many qubit systems utilizing existing qubit technologies, such as quantum dots, superconducting qubits (e.g.transmons and fluxonium), nitrogen vacancy centers, optically-active defects (color centers), quantum cavities, nanomechanical qubits and hybrid qubits
BRAIN-related studies (see Alivisatos et al., Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brain, VOL. 7, # 3, 1850–1866 (2013)for definitions and appropriate research topics)
Sustainable Materials (see DMR DCL NSF14-077)
The iSuperSEEDs will be provided as a one-time $250,000 supplement to an existing MRSEC award. No more than one iSuperSEED per topic will be awarded.
Requirements: Any of the iSuperSEED must include a minimum of three faculty participants of complementary expertise.
Format: Submit a three-page white paper describing the proposed work and the expertise and role of the participants. Describe your vision regarding the iSuperSEED ultimate scientific goals and if (a) it is complementary to an existing IRG (and how) and may be eventually nucleated or (b) a new effort that may lead to a future IRG.
Deadline: The internal submission deadline is July 1. Please email your submission to Alice Bishop. The three-page iSuperSEED white paper must be submitted no later than July 13 to the foundation.
Budget: Total amount not to exceed $250,000; allowed costs as in a regular award.
Awards: Awards will be communicated on July 20. Awardees will be asked to submit the iSuperSEED as a Supplement to their MRSEC award via fastlane no later than July 27.
If you have any additional questions, please email Ajay Nahata.
3. Grant Writing Academy
Oct. 23-25
The Lodges at Deer Valley Resort
Park City
Open to all university faculty members from the Health Sciences and main campus.
The Research Education Grant Writing Academy is an intensive, two and a half day program designed to support U faculty members in strengthening their grant proposals and increasing their likelihood of funding.
The GWA applies proven strategies and techniques to:
Develop successful proposals for a variety of funding agencies
Write clear and concise aims that are specific, measurable
and realistic
Communicate research priorities to enhance significance and impact
Build strategies for career development and research plan sections
Interpret program announcements and understand review criteria
GWA offers a valuable and unique opportunity to focus on one’s writing, to receive educated and constructive critique, to rewrite and re-craft, and to repeat the evaluation and editing process toward a final draft.
Specific GWA features and benefits include:
Individual mentoring sessions with an experienced and diverse team of senior faculty members, key subject matter experts, and funding agency representatives (as available).
Practical writing skills, tools and resources; group training activities; specialized interactive presentations; and online instructional exercises.
Networking and collaboration with peers across the university gaining broad perspective and essential knowledge for effective scientific and technical writing in higher education.
The GWA provides a high faculty-to-participant ratio to facilitate the development of productive and independent research scientists. Attendance is highly limited. Registration fees for the October 2015 program include all curriculum materials, two nights lodging at Deer Valley Resort, use of recreational facilities, evening socials and most meals. A spouse/partner and up to two children are welcome to accompany the participant (supplemental charges apply for additional guests). If seed or personal funding is not available for the registration fee, the participant and his/her department chair or research dean is encouraged to contact Research Education to discuss other potential options.
For complete information and to register for the October 2015 program, please email or contact Tony Onofrietti, director, Research Education, at 801-585-3492.
The Grant Writing Academy is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, and the Associate Vice President for Research Integrity.
Next sessions: May 2016 and October 2016
4. Upcoming classes in the Research Administration Training Series (RATS)
For questions concerning RATS, please contact Tony Onofrietti (801-585-3492) or visit the RATS website.
Introduction to the Office of Sponsored Projects
Thursday, July 16
2-4 p.m.
Warnock Engineering Building, (WEB), Room 1230
5. NSF 2015 Graduate Data Science Workshop and Community Building
NSF 2015 Data Science Workshop and Community Building
August 5-7
University of Washington, Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA
This NSF sponsored two and a half day workshop will bring together 100 graduate students from diverse domain sciences and engineering with data scientists from industry and academia to discuss and collaborate on big data/data science challenges. In addition to keynote presentations from high profile speakers, the participants will present posters covering their own research and work collaboratively to begin to solve some of the grand challenge problems facing data enabled science and engineering disciplines. After the workshop, the output from the collaborative teams will be published in an open access environment. Through the shared work at the workshop and beyond, the participants will form lasting, collaborative relationships with their peers and the senior academia partners and industry participants including those from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
For additional information, please visit Data Science Workshops, 2015.
6. Research news and publicizing research
Interested in the cool research going on at the U? For the latest news on research, go to news. If you are interested in publicizing your research, guidelines and information on how-to, along with contact information, may be found at Publicizing Research and Working with the Media.