Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences  (RTG)

Deadline: June 6, 2017

The RTG program supports efforts to improve research training by involving undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty members in structured research groups centered on a common research theme.  Research groups supported by RTG must include vertically-integrated activities that span the entire spectrum of educational levels from undergraduates through postdoctoral associates.

Geophysics  (PH)

Deadline: June 9, 2017

The Geophysics Program supports basic research in the physics of the solid earth to explore its composition, structure, and processes from the Earth’s surface to its’ deepest interior. Laboratory, field, theoretical, and computational studies are supported.

Perception, Action & Cognition  (PAC)

Deadline: June 15 for workshop proposals; August 1 for research proposals

The PAC program funds theoretically motivated research on a wide-range of topic areas focused on typical human behavior. The aim is to enhance the fundamental understanding of perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. Central research topics for consideration by the program include (but are not limited to) vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken language, motor control, categorization, and spatial cognition.

Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants  (PS DDRIG)

Deadline: June 15, 2017

The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented.

Ideas Lab: Practical Fully-Connected Quantum Computer Challenge (PFCQC)

Deadline: Preliminary proposal due June 19, 2017; Full proposal due November 30, 2017

Quantum computing is a revolutionary approach to information processing based on the quantum physics of coherent superposition and entanglement.  Advantages of quantum computing include efficient algorithms for computationally difficult tasks, efficient use of resources such as memory and energy needed for computations, and new platforms for the simulation of quantum mechanical systems that are currently intractable using conventional computers.

For more grants check out NSF’s Website!

As part of the Ohio Federal Research Network’s (OFRN – www.ohiofrn.org) mission, we are engaging Ohio-based businesses throughout the State in order to identify sponsored research opportunities. One such opportunity is available in conjunction with Advanced Energy Technologies. If researchers are interested in more information on the opportunity please contact the Office of Research Administration at rschsrvsga8@uakron.edu

The deadline to return intent paperwork is 4/27/2017

Faces of Tuberculosis: Stories from the Edwin Shaw TB Sanatorium, A Documentary

Monday, April 24, 2017 from 12-1 pm

Kolbe Hall, room 103

Faces of Tuberculosis seeks to tell the story of the Springfield Lake/Edwin Shaw TB Sanatorium in documentary form. The presentation will provide a preview of the content of the upcoming documentary material.

Live Webinar- Tuesday, May 16, 2017- 1-2 pm ET

Cost $197 per webinar site

Penn State University’s Innovation Gateway — a new online platform that help researchers and industry research sponsors find each other — is being hailed as a major advance by faculty, corporate partners, and university administrators. The new platform provides a standardized way for faculty to present research approaches and possible solutions to industry challenges — and it gives industry a way to pose those challenges to university labs.

For more information and registration click here!

Monday, April 17th from 12-1 pm 

College of Arts and Sciences, room 124

Summary of Research:

Older adults are less accurate at identifying facial expressions of emotion than young adults. A typical emotion perception task requires participants to identify the emotion presented on a series of standardized photographs of faces expressing anger, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, surprise, or neutral (no emotion). Research shows that older adults’ deficit in emotion identification can have serious consequences such as rendering them less accurate at identifying someone as lying, which may make older adults more vulnerable to falling prey to fraud or scams. However, expertise in a domain can sometimes reduce or eliminate age deficits. To test whether expertise at identifying facial expressions of emotion can buffer against the age-related declines seen in emotion perception, the present study proposes to compare age differences in emotion perception accuracy among deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL) to hearing individuals unfamiliar with ASL.

Researcher Bio:

Dr. Stanley earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, with a focus in Cognitive Aging, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. After postdoctoral work at Brandeis University and the Behavioral Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Stanley joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at UA, where she directs the Emotions and Aging Lab. Dr. Stanley studies socioemotional functioning across the lifespan, focusing on two broad areas of aging and emotional life: emotion recognition and emotion regulation. Her publications have appeared in Developmental Psychology, Psychology and Aging, and The Journal of Gerontology.