[Geog-dept] FW: NSF Funding Talk from former Program Director of Biological Anthropology

[Carducci, Diane]

From: Andrew Weiland [mailto:andrewweiland8 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 10:19 PM
Subject: NSF Funding Talk from former Program Director of Biological Anthropology

To whom it may concern,

The Graduate Students of Anthropology Association would appreciate if you would forward this email to your department: faculty, staff, grads, and undergrads.  This should be a really interesting talk for any science-based or social science department.

Thanks so much!

Andrew Weiland, PhD student
Vice President, Graduate Students
of Anthropology Association
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
4005 Smith Laboratory
174 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1106

Is your research reliant upon National Science Foundation Funding?

Are you interested in how congressional oversight and tightening budgets affect research at large?

Come to this talk for an “insider’s” perspective.
The Graduate Students of Anthropology Association (GSAA) welcomes Carolyn L. Ehardt Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio (and recently/formerly, Program Director, Biological Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation).

Mark your calendars for Thursday, 6PM November 13, 2014 in 035 Hitchcock Hall.  Reception with food and beverages to follow at 7pm in Smith Lab 4012.

"In these times of heightened Congressional oversight, budgetary restrictions, emphasized accountability and transparency, and open access, NSF's funding mission has moved to a more dynamic status.  Characteristics of evolving approaches to evaluating research proposals and structuring of funding have potential to impact NSF's support of research across the sciences, and with particular relevance to the social and behavioral sciences.  Building on a recent multi-year appointment as an NSF program director, an 'insider's' insights are offered regarding current events and the agency's responses.  What are the pressures currently impacting NSF, and how will NSF's responses to these structure our engagement in efforts to fund our research with Federal research dollars?”

Additionally, Dr. Ehardt is giving a talk in our department about her research in primatology and conservation.  This will be held on Friday, November 14th at 10:30 am in Smith Lab 4012:

"The relict montane forests of the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania – the major refuge forests of the Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot – are critically important for plant and animal conservation, especially for the endemic primate fauna.  A growing team of researchers is  documenting the biodiversity in these forests and illuminating the ecology of the threatened wildlife, especially the Endangered Sanje mangabey.  The developing understanding of this unique primate is providing scientific contribution to important theoretical aspects of primate ecology and evolution, and will find application in efforts to foster conservation. But the pursuit of field-based science also is not without its 'human' side, and punctuated with serendipitous events leading to surprising discoveries and new understandings.  One such set of events is reviewed, including the important scientific contributions generated through this unexpected  and all-too-human experience.”














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