scholarly journals Teaching the Art and Science of Getting Research Funding

Eos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisha Wood-Charlson ◽  
Barbara Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Proposal Writing ◽  
National Science

National Science Foundation–funded EDventures program delivers successful training in proposal writing to graduate students and postdocs.

The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas König ◽  
Michael E. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Public research funding agencies today are required to address proactively interdisciplinary research. “The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look Inside Public Research Funding Agencies” looks specifically at two funding agencies—the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the EU European Research Council (ERC)—and how these bodies promote interdisciplinarity, on the one hand, and how they claim to identify it, on the other. Inevitably, this gives the funding agencies some definition power over what interdisciplinary research actually is or should be. At the same time, there are organizational constraints that restrict the funding agencies’ capacity to fully embrace novel ways of interdisciplinary collaboration and investigation.

scholarly journals Project Visual: Facilitating the Connection Between Art and Science

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
L.M. Strzegowski ◽  
T.P. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Science Policy ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
New Era ◽  
National Science ◽  
National Science Policy ◽  
Scientists And Engineers

Nearly five years ago, Representative Vernon Ehlers, in his report to Congress on a House of Representatives study entitled “Unlocking Our Future: Toward a New National Science Policy,” noted that the American public does not understand science and its practice. A major recommendation that emerged trom this study was the need to “make scientists socially responsible.“ This sentiment was echoed in a National Research Council's report, “Materials in a New Era,”, where Neal Lane, former Director of the National Science Foundation, was quoted as saying, “It is necessary to involve material scientists in a new role, undoubtedly an awkward one for many, that might be called the ‘civic scientist’.” Why the concern? The answer is clear. “Our prosperity, security, and health depend directly on the educational achievement of all students, not only those who will become scientists and engineers, but all workers, voters, parents, and consumers.”

Projects

1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Sharon Stenglein
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
New Learning ◽  
National Science ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University ◽  
Technology Resources

Outreach and connections with K–12 education are part of the mission of the Geometry Center, a Science and Technology Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Minnesota. One vehicle for this outreach is an intensive summer course for teachers in which they experience new learning using the center's technology resources. A graduate-level mathematics course, “Technology in the Geometry Classroom,” was created at the Geometry Center by director Richard McGehee with two graduate students, Eduardo Tabacman and Evelyn Sander, and two postdoctoral fellows, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Heidi Burgiel.

A Scale to Measure Science Communication Training Effectiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly Rodgers ◽  
Ze Wang ◽  
Jack C. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Training Effectiveness ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
National Science ◽  
Success Of Science ◽  
Reliable Scale

The research describes efforts toward developing a valid and reliable scale used to assess science communication training effectiveness (SCTE) undertaken in conjunction with a 4-year project funded by the National Science Foundation. Results suggest that the SCTE scale possesses acceptable psychometric properties, specifically reliability and validity, with regard to responses from graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and math fields. While it cannot be concluded that the SCTE scale is the “be-all-end-all” tool, it may assist investigators in gauging success of science communication training efforts and by identifying aspects of the program that are working or that need improving.

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