ORSP News: New Faculty Grant Opportunity

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) and the Faculty Subcommittee on Sponsored Programs (FSSP) are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for SSU faculty, entitled Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Investigations that Connect the University (IPICU).

This new grant provides funding to help tenure/tenure-track faculty pursue interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative activities.

The program's goal is to incubate innovative, collaborative and interdisciplinary projects among SSU faculty that will have the potential to be supported by external funding in the future.

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) will be available to assist with all aspects of proposal development that will take place as part of this new grant opportunity.

This program is sponsored by the Provost and the President's Professional Development Fund. The proposal deadline for the first round of funding is Fri., April 24. See the ORSP website for more detailed information on this new opportunity.

WORKPLACE

 

Analyzing and Presenting Data Workshop

The Center for Teaching and Professional Development (CTPD) is offering a new workshop aimed at helping faculty create effective poster and oral presentations. The session discusses critical elements of presentation design, explores examples of successful posters and presents a range of technologies and formats available to enhance the success of presentations. Participants are encouraged to bring their own posters for review and discussion, either digital or hard copy. You can bring on a laptop, as hard copy, or on a USB drive.

The workshop is presented by Brett Christie, director of the CTPD, and Caroline Christian, environmental studies and planning (ENSP) and CTPD faculty associate. Register online for this workshop at http://tinyurl.com/2w67uk. For more information, email caroline.christian@sonoma.edu or brett.christie@sonoma.edu.

"Engineering-Day" Motivates High School Students to Pursue Careers in Science and Technology

Shally SarafShally Saraf (left), engineering science professor, is organizing two half-day outreach efforts for local high schools. This “Engineering-Day” is part of a wide ranging Cal-PASS (California Partnership for Achieving Student Success) effort to track and increase K-12 student interest in science and technology, as well as other disciplines.

Two groups of approximately fifty high school students each will arrive in the Engineering Science department on Fri., Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. and on Sat., Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. The students will visit the Engineering Science laboratories, and get hands-on opportunities with specially designed setups in electronics, networks, lasers and optics.

It is hoped that the lab visits and talks by Saraf on the importance and excitement of engineering as a profession, will stoke the interest of these students to pursue a career in science and technology. Undergraduates students will also be sharing their perspectives, concerning their motivation for studying engineering and about their experiences in the SSU engineering science program. The university community is encouraged to stop by and take a look at the laboratories and the setups in Salazar Hall.

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