<div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) OSU OCIO Learning Technology Impact Grant:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> The Office of the Chief Information Officer has announced its next round of </span>Learning Technology Departmental Impact Grants (<a href="http://go.osu.edu/IG" target="_blank">http://go.osu.edu/IG</a>). From an email from Robert Griffiths:<br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">Consider this grant an opportunity to create an exemplar key or large course for your department. Recipients are provided up to 200 hours of Learning Technology expertise ($16,000 value) and $15,000 (minimum 1:2, non-LT:LT, matching) to extend learning technology use that increases student engagement, facilitates greater instructor efficiency, or enables anytime/anyplace learning. <br>
<br>Open Q&A sessions are 11:00am-12:00pm, October 16, and 12:30-1:30pm, October 24, in 060 Science and Engineering Library. </div><br>Applications due November 5.<br></div>
<div><br></div><b>2) OSU OCIO iTunes U Faculty Bootcamp:</b> From an email from the Digital Union's Liv Gjestvang:<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ohio State's Digital First initiative, in the OCIO, is partnering with the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Medicine, and the College of Social Work to offer a second iTunes U Faculty Bootcamp December 12-14, 2012 at Apple's Headquarters in Cupertino, California. <br>
<br>Selected faculty participants from these colleges will work closely with Apple's iTunes U team, as well as instructional design and technical experts from OSU, to adapt an existing or create a new online course to be published in January 2013. Successful applicants will need to provide a collection of their own digital materials (or additional materials for which they have copyright clearance) to organize into an iTunes U course. <br>
<br>If you are interested in applying, please visit the Bootcamp page at <a href="http://digitalfirst.osu.edu">digitalfirst.osu.edu</a>. To learn more about the program, consider attending an information session on October 10th from 1:30pm-2:00pm or October 11th from 12:00pm-12:30pm in Baker Systems Engineering 285.<br>
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<div><br>Applications due October 17.<br><br><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">3) US EPA GRO undergraduate fellowships:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> The EPA has announced the latest competition for Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) undergraduate fellowships (</span><a href="http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2013/2013_gro_undergrad.html" target="_blank">http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2013/2013_gro_undergrad.html</a>)<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">. From the announcement:</span></div>
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering undergraduate
fellowships for bachelor level students in environmental fields of
study. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 5, 2012.
Subject to availability of funding and other applicable considerations,
the Agency plans to award approximately 40 new fellowships in the
summer of 2013. Eligible students will receive support for their junior
and senior years of undergraduate study and for an internship at an EPA
facility during the summer of their junior year.</div>
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The
fellowship provides up to $20,700 per academic year of support and
$8,600 of support for a three-month summer internship. Applications due
December 5.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">4) US EPA STAR graduate fellowships:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span>From the <span class="il">EPA</span> Science To Achieve Results (<span class="il">STAR</span>) <span class="il">Fellowships</span> For Graduate Environmental Study announcement (<a href="http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2013/2013_star_gradfellow.html" target="_blank">http://<span class="il">epa</span>.gov/ncer/rfa/2013/2013_star_gradfellow.html</a>):<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering Graduate Fellowships for master’s and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study. Subject to availability of funding and other applicable considerations, the Agency plans to award approximately 80 new fellowships in the late summer of 2013. Master's level students may receive support for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students may be supported for a maximum of three years, usable over a period of five years. <br>
</div><br>The <span class="il">fellowship</span> provides up to $42,000 per year of support. Applications due November 27.<br></div>-- <br><p>Christopher Andersen<br>Director, STEM Initiatives<br>College of Arts and Sciences<br>
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