[STEM-funding] OSU BETHA; OSU ODEE Departmental Impact Grant; NSF INSPIRE; NSF RED

Mon Aug 25 14:41:09 EDT 2014

*1) OSU Battelle Endowment for Technology & Human Affairs (BETHA):* The
Call for Proposals has been released for 2015 BETHA program (
http://research.osu.edu/researchers/funding/call-for-proposals-2015-betha-grant-competition/
) <http://research.osu.edu/researchers/funding/betha/>:

The Battelle Memorial Institute-Ohio State partnership fosters programs
that examine the complex relationship between science and technology and
broader social and cultural issues. Strong emphasis is placed on
educational and public service projects rather than pure research.
Interdisciplinary collaborations within the university and collaborations
with other institutions are especially encouraged. Projects that address
engineering-related topics or feature collaborations between engineering
and the social sciences or arts/humanities are particularly welcomed.

Awards range from $10,000-$60,000, usually over 2 years. Proposals are due
November 25.

*2) OSU Office of Distance Education and eLearning Departmental Impact
Grant:* ODEE has announced a new round of Department Impact Grants (
http://odee.osu.edu/odee-grants/impact-grant-application)
<https://ocio.osu.edu/blog/grants/apply/impact-grant-application/>. From
the Program Goals:

   - To design a technologically-enhanced course meeting the instructional
   goals of the department which can then serve as an exemplar for other
   courses, both within and outside the department.
   - To increase student engagement.
   - To facilitate greater instructor efficiency.
   - To enable anyplace/anytime learning through purposeful technology use.

Moreover, recipients have the potential to build individual and
departmental knowledge and efficacy around teaching and learning with
technology.

Other goals include:

   - Connect to university personnel with a wide range of technology
   expertise.
   - Explore and implement existing or new learning technology in
   pedagogically sound ways.
   - Collaborate with colleagues to support and learn across disciplines.
   - Contribute to the growing body of knowledge investigating ways
   technology can impact student engagement, faculty efficiency, and
   anytime/anyplace learning.
   - Include GAs in the course revision process.

Question and Answer sessions will be held Wednesday, October 1 from
12:00pm–1:00pm in 186 Hagerty Hall and Thursday, October 16 from
3:00pm–4:00pm in 311 Enarson. Grants may be up to $15,000 for one year and
require a 1:2 (recipient:ODEE) match. Applications are due November 3.

*3) Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and
Education (INSPIRE):* The National Science Foundation's INSPIRE pilot
supports interdisciplinary research that is not appropriate for existing
NSF funding mechanisms (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14106/nsf14106.jsp).
>From the Dear Colleague letter:

INSPIRE supports projects that lie at the intersection of traditional
disciplines, and is intended to 1) attract unusually creative high-risk /
high-reward interdisciplinary proposals; 2) provide substantial funding,
not limited to the exploratory stage of the pursuit of novel ideas (unlike
NSF's EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research, or EAGER); and 3) be
open to all NSF-supported areas of science, mathematics, engineering, and
education research.

Awards can be up to $1 million over a duration up to 5 years. No submission
deadline is stated. However, PIs need NSF approval to submit a proposal:

An INSPIRE award must be substantively co-funded by at least two
intellectually distinct NSF divisions or disciplinary programs. Prospective
PIs must receive approval to submit a proposal from at least two NSF
Program Officers, in intellectually distinct programs, whose expertise is
most germane to the proposal topics. Consultations with POs prior to
submission are required in order to aid in determining the appropriateness
of the work for consideration under the INSPIRE mechanism. Only after
approval is provided by at least two NSF POs in distinctly different
research areas may a proposal be submitted.

*4) NSF IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing
Engineering Departments (RED):* NSF's Engineering Directorate has released
the funding solicitation for its new RED program (
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505105), which is the first
program in its multi-year Professional Formation of Engineers initiative.
>From the solicitation:

Even as demographic and regional socio-economic factors affect departments
in unique ways, there are certain tenets of sustainable change that are
common across institutions.  For instance, the development and engagement
of the entire faculty within a department are paramount to the process, and
they must be incentivized.  Departmental cultural barriers to inclusion of
students *and* faculty from different backgrounds must be identified and
addressed.  Finally, coherent technical and professional threads must be
developed and woven across the four years, especially (1) in the core
technical courses of the middle two years, (2) in internship opportunities
in the private and public sectors, and (3) in research opportunities with
faculty.  These and other threads aim to ensure that students develop deep
knowledge in their discipline more effectively and meaningfully, while at
the same time, aim to build their capacities for 21st Century and
“T-shaped” professional skills, including design, leadership,
communication, understanding historical and contemporary social contexts,
lifelong learning, creativity, entrepreneurship, and teamwork. It is hoped
that, over time, the awardees of this program will create knowledge
concerning sustainable change in engineering and computer science education
that can be scaled and adopted nationally across a wide variety of academic
institutions.

Note: RED is *not primarily* about curricular improvement but does relate
to the IUSE goals of connecting education research to practice, building
institutional capacity for large scale change in engineering and computer
science education, and broadening participation in these fields.

Note that even though the RED program is *philosophically* aligned with the
NSF Improving Undergraduate Education program (and includes the "IUSE"
acronym in the program's name), the RED competition is separate from the
upcoming IUSE competitions (see http://go.osu.edu/iuse for more about the
IUSE program).

Five to ten awards will be made, each in an amount from $1,000,000 to
$2,000,000 total for a duration of up to 60 months. Letters of intent are
due to NSF on October 28, and full proposals are due November 26.

Institutions are limited to two proposals. Applications for Ohio State's
internal competition are due September 15 (
http://rf.osu.edu/fundops/spcfunding-iframe/detail.cfm?strFOID=4023).

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