National Endowment for the Humanities chairman to speak at Tri-C on May 5

William Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will visit Cuyahoga Community College on Thursday, May 5, to lead the first community forum hosted by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center.

Adams “will discuss how to connect the humanities with civic engagement,” a key mission at the new Mandel Humanities Center, Tri-C said in a news release. He’ll be interviewed by Lauren Onkey, chair and dean of the center.

The conversation will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on May 5 in the Simon and Rose Mandel Theatre at Tri-C’s Eastern Campus, 4250 Richmond Road in Highland Hills.

The event is free, but registration is required. You can go here to reserve a seat.

2016 Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Recipients

Dr. Shanon Donnelly, Geosciences

Mapping Topography and Vegetation Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Dr. Kathleen Endres, Communications

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

Dr. Stefan Forcey, Mathematics

Combinatorial Geometry of Phylogenetic Trees

Dr. David Giffels, English

Swing Season: Writing the Heart of Ohio in a Presidential Election Year

Dr. Lesley Gordon, History

Battlefield Cowardice, Violence, and Memory in the American Civil War

Dr. Michael Levin, History

Our Man in Genoa: Gomez Suarez de Figueroa and the Forging of an Alliance

Dr. Gina Martino, History

Among the Vanguard: Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast

Dr. Zhenmeng Peng, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Renewable Hydrogen Production via Photocatalytic Water Splitting

Dr. Anthony Samangy, Graphic Design

The Eucalyptus Tree- A Short Stop Motion Animation

Dr. Martha Santos, History

Mothering Slaves, Labor, and Enslaved Reproduction in Nineteenth Century Brazil, 1813-1884

Dr. Michael Sheng, History

Charisma and Politics: Mao Zedong and China in the 1950’s

Dr. Jennifer Stanley, Adult Development and Aging Psychology

The Malleability of Age Deficits in Emotion Perception

Dr. Junliang Tao, Civil Engineering

Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation as Erosion and Bridge Scour Countermeasure

Dr. Amanda Weinstein, Economics

The Economic Well-Being of Veterans

NSF INCLUDES Solicitation

The overarching goal of NSF INCLUDES is to create a sustainable collaborative process for the inclusion in STEM of women, members of racial and ethnic groups that have been underrepresented in STEM, persons with low socio-economic status and people with disabilities. NSF INCLUDES will improve the preparation, increase the participation, and ensure the contributions of individuals from groups that traditionally have been underrepresented in the STEM enterprise.

Deadlines: April 15, 2016 (preliminary); June 24, 2016 (full proposal)

The NSF INCLUDES Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 16-048) is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf16048

The NSF INCLUDES Solicitation (NSF 16-544) is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16544/nsf16544.htm

I-Corps@Ohio Registration Deadline February 7, 2016

Faculty, staff and students have until 11:59 pm, February 7th to register for this year’s I-Corps@Ohio summer cohorts. Individuals interested in advancing fundamental research to innovative products, services and business models will want to visit the webpage below, and take part in this fantastic resource from the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

https://icorpsohio.org/apply/

I-Corps@Ohio Program Solicitation (2)

 

Health/Biomedical Research

Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R01)

Deadline: November 17, 2015

National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for basic, mechanistic research into the biological/genetic causes of cancer health disparities. These research project grants (R01) will support innovative studies designed to investigate biological/genetic bases of cancer disparities, such as (1) mechanistic studies of biological factors associated with cancer disparities, including those related to basic research in cancer biology or cancer prevention intervention strategies, (2) the development and testing of new methodologies and models, and (3) secondary data analyses.

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Image-guided Drug Delivery in Cancer (R01)

Deadline: November 19, 2015

National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) invite applications innovative research projects that are focused on image-guided drug delivery (IGDD), including real-time image guidance, monitoring, quantitative in vivo characterizations and validation of delivery and response. It will support research in development of integrated imaging-based platforms for multifunctional and multiplexed drug delivery systems in cancer and other diseases, quantitative imaging assays of drug delivery, and early intervention. This FOA will use the NIH Research Project (R01) award mechanism.

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