12/8/10

Grant Writing Workshop at UM-Flint

The Office of Research is once again bringing Christine Black to our campus for a half-day Grant Writing Workshop, Friday, January 28, 2011 from 12:30 – 4 pm. This will be held in 4103 WSW. An experienced grant writer, Christine serves as the Assistant Director of Research Services for the University of Michigan Medical School. She has developed a wonderful workshop, and authored the Grant Writing Tutorial on the Office of Research Blackboard site.

To register for this or any other workshops we offer, please visit our Workshop Schedule website:

12/8/10

Workshop for NEH Funding Opportunities

On March 28, 2011, the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) will host Elizabeth Arndt, senior program officer in the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ms. Arndt will conduct a morning, half-day workshop on NEH funding opportunities. Ms. Arndt will also be available during the afternoon and the following morning for one-on-one meetings to discuss individual projects.

To register for this workshop or for more information, please visit the UDM website.

12/8/10

Faculty and staff awards

Congratulations to the following UM-Flint faculty and staff for receiving awards:

Jonathan Jarosz, Interim Director of University Outreach, who recently received a $ 65,000 grant from the C. S. Mott Foundation for the following project: College Entrepreneurship Program Year Three; and

Huey-Ming Tzeng, Associate Director of Nursing, who recently received a $ 89,862 grant from the National Institute of Health for the following project: Advancing Patient Call Light Systems to Achieve Better Outcomes

11/29/10

Bryer Award Recipient

The Office of Development and Alumni Relations, the Office of Research and the Research & Creative Activities Committee congratulates Dr. Huey-Ming Tzeng, Associate Director of Nursing, SHPS for being this year’s Bryer Award recpient for the following project: “Exploring meaningful individual patient and hospital structural characteristics in predicting injurious fall occurrences among cancer patients and the differences between cancer and non-cancer patients”

The Bryer Fund was established by the family of Ben F. Bryer to encourage and support the medical research endeavors of University of Michigan-Flint faculty. This research fund honors the accomplishments of Ben Bryer, surgeon, scientist, educator, author, and humanist, in his pursuit of medical knowledge. Funding is available, on an application basis, to full-time faculty of the University of Michigan-Flint to provide support for medical and biomedical research, with a priority given to research related to cancer.

11/23/10

Research & Creative Activity Fund Recipients- Fall, 2010

The Research & Creative Activity Committee and the Office of Research are pleased to announce the results of the fall 2010 Request for Proposals. Nine proposals were received, requesting more than $122,000 in funding. In total, 4 awards were made for the following proposals:

– Min-Hui Huang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, SHPS: A Task-Specific Rehabilitation Program to Improve Limb-Posture Control in Older Adults

– Nicholas Kingsley, Ph.D., Chemistry & BioChemistry Department, CAS: New Ligand Design for the Development of Hydroamination Catalysts

– Murali Mani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering & Physics, CAS: Enabling On-Time Response through Efficient Event Stream Processing

– Greg Rybarczyk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Earth & Resource Science, CAS: An Areal Analysis of Crime Risk in Flint, Michigan

Congratulations to all of our recipients!

11/19/10

US House of Representatives Declare Undergraduate Research Week April 11, 2011

From the desk of Nancy Hensel, Executive Office of the Council on Undergraduate Research:

On November 16, 2010 the United States House of Representatives voted to declare the week of April 11, 2011 as Undergraduate Research Week. We and Washington Partners drafted a resolution and it was carried forward by Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey. Representatives Glen Thompson of Pennsylvania and Representative Mazie Hirono of Hawaii spoke in favor of the bill. Below are links to the C-Span recordings of their remarks and I have attached a copy of the resolution that was passed and the press release we have sent out.

We are hoping to schedule Posters on the Hill on April 12th or 13th and are waiting for confirmation of space from our contact in Congress. Because of Congressional transition, it is taking a little longer than it normally does. Regardless of when we are able to schedule Posters on the Hill, we would like to have many events across the country to celebrate the week. Some members have asked their mayor and their state legislature to declare a particular day or week as Undergraduate Day. It would be exciting if we had college towns all across the country celebrating undergraduate research by recognizing the week, having students speak at local service organizations, and local newspapers do feature articles on undergraduate research at your institution. It would also be very exciting if we had 50 governors declare April 11th as undergraduate research week. Would you work with your president, vice president for academic affairs and public relations office to see how your campus might celebrate this special week?

We are also very pleased to note that we had nearly 700 abstracts submitted for Posters on the Hill this year. This is a record number and about a 75% increase over last year. Undergraduate research is becoming a major learning strategy on campuses across the United States and CUR is truly becoming the national voice and resource for undergraduate research.

So see some of the videos from the event, please visit the following links:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599158917 – Rep. Mazie Hirono
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599158921 – Rep. Glenn Thompson
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599158925 – Rep. Rush Holt

11/15/10

Research Spotlight: Sharman Siebenthal-Adams, School of Education and Human Services

Join us next Wednesday, November 17 at 10:30 am for our third Research Spotlight! For this month’s spotlight, we focus on School of Education ad Human Services professor Sharman Siebenthal-Adams and her research focusing on using educational technology to raise global awareness. Specifically, Dr. Siebenthal-Adams’ work focuses on the sustainability of the ecological habitat of the Punta Sur preserve and National marine and wildlife parks.

The talk will take place in the Office of Research Seminar Room, Room 530 French Hall. Come hear about is research endeavors, network with other researchers on campus. This event is free and open to all interested faculty, staff and students, and refreshments will be served.

10/26/10

Changes in NSF Proposal and Award Policies & Procedures

NSF has instituted significant changes to the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, including a requirement for Special Information and Supplementary Documentation. NSF 11-1 January 2011 is effective for proposals submitted on or after January 18, 2011. Some of these changes are listed below in Item # 15. Proposals due before this date should follow the guidelines in NSF 10-1 http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf101

10/26/10

Promoting Innovation in the Social Sciences

The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Rackham School of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce a request for proposals for a new program, the Social Sciences Annual Institute: A Five-Year Experiment in Promoting Innovation in the Social Sciences.

The program is intended to support innovative proposals for new directions in the social sciences. The RFP can be viewed and downloaded from http://research.umich.edu/social-sciences-initiative/

Two-page pre-proposals are due November 12. Those who are invited to submit full proposals should plan to do so by December 10. Questions can be directed to Toni C. Antonucci at [email protected] or Marvin Parnes at [email protected]

10/26/10

Faculty Awards

Congratulations to the following UM-Flint faculty:

– Vahid Lotfi, Associate Provost, who recently received a $32,327 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint for the project “Peace Garden”

– John Sonnega, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences & Administration, SHPS, who recently received a $ 11,589 sub-award in a grant from the Department of Health & Human Services, CDC, for the project “Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center”

– Mary Jo Finney, Dean of the School of Education and Human Services, who recently received a $100,000
grant from Michigan Future, Inc. for the project “Small High School Network Teacher Preparation Partner”

– Marge Andrews, Director of Nursing, SHPS, who recently received a $3,500 grant from State of Michigan, Department of Community Health, for the project “State of Michigan Bureau of Health Professions Nursing Scholarships – Additional Funding”

– Connie Creech, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director Academic Programs, SHPS, who recently received a major $ 1,425,600 grant from the Department of Health & Human Services, for the project: “Increasing the Supply of Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioners: An accelerated two year inline Masters of Science in Nursing program at the University of Michigan- Flint”