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Current Funding Opportunities Especially for Students

Design for America - Deadline: May 17, 2010 (Posted 4/29/10)

Top prizes of $5,000 in each category

Visit the [http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/designforamerica/ Design for America Website] for more information

Call for CI Fellows - Deadline: May 23, 2010 (Posted 4/29/10)

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA) recently announced a second year of their CIFellows (Computing Innovation Fellowship) Project, which offers new Ph.D. graduates in computer science, computer engineering, information science, or a closely related field an exciting opportunity to obtain one- to two-year positions at universities, industrial research laboratories, and other organizations that are pursuing innovation in computing and its positive impact on society. The goals of the CIFellows Project are to retain new Ph.D. scholars in research and teaching during challenging economic times, and to support intellectual renewal and diversity in the computing fields at U.S. organizations.

With anticipated funding from the National Science Foundation, the CIFellows Project expects to offer around 40 new positions starting during the 2010-11 academic year. These positions follow a successful inaugural class of 60 PhD graduates in 2009-10. All of them are completing outstanding research and teaching enrichment experiences, and at least six have already received faculty appointments in part as a result of their CIFellowships.

Graduates awarded the Ph.D. or equivalent from a U.S. institutions between May 1, 2009, and Aug. 31, 2010, have through 5 p.m. EDT on May 23, 2010, to apply to be a 2010-11 CIFellow, and will need commitments from one to three prospective hosts/mentors at U.S. institutions. Each prospective mentor must be with an organization other than the institution of the applicant’s graduate research. The CIFellow is expected to be in residence at the mentor’s organization during the fellowship period. CCC and CRA will announce the awards by July 1, 2010. The positions will begin this fall.

For more information, see the CIFellows Project website at http://cifellows.org. Details on the submission procedures for applicants and mentors as well as the eligibility requirements can be found at http://www.cifellows.org/cifellows-announce.pdf. Again, applications must be received by 5 p.m. on May 23, 2010.

NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using CI -Deadline: June 21, 2010 (Posted 3/25/10)

The overarching goal of the NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using Cyberinfrastructure (CI TRaCS) program is to support outstanding scientists and engineers who have recently completed doctoral studies and are interested in pursuing postdoctoral activities in computational science, and thereby nurturing the future leaders in this emerging and important multidisciplinary field. Computational research and education activities that are cyberinfrastrucure-based and cross disciplinary boundaries are a key focus of this program. Successful Fellows may, for example, use cyberinfrastructure to make revolutionary advances in their disciplines, and/or deploy cyberinfrastructure-based technologies that enable innovative computational practices.

For more information please see NSF Solicitation 10-553

CIC Student Competition (Posted 3/12/10)

The Community Information Corps (CIC) will be sponsoring a student project competition during the winter 2010 semester. This competition is open to all School of Information students competing as individuals or as groups.

First place will win $200, second place $100, third place $50.

The goal of the Competition is to relate what SI students are doing to the overall goals of Community Informatics. In a general sense, we want to know how your research or projects at SI relate to the bigger picture of communities, social justice, access and empowerment.

Applicants are not required to create or develop original projects and/or ideas, although it certainly is not discouraged. For example, a poster display could simply take an exisiting design project, and highlight the bigger picture of how that project benefits a community or group consistent with community informatics ideals.

Projects do not have to be completed, we will also accept ongoing or as yet unfinished projects.

This competition is open to undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students and groups. Team entries must be composed of least 50% SI students. The competition will be judged by a committee comprised of SI students and faculty, to be announced. The criteria for judging will be based on project scope, intention, and overall design quality.

More information can be found at the CIC website: http://cic.si.umich.edu/event/cic-competition

NAS Research Associateship Program 2010 - Next Deadline May 1, 2010 (Posted 1/15/2010

‎Call for Applications

Detailed program information, including instructions on how to submit online applications, a list of participating laboratories and thier locations, and areas of research can be found on the NAS Website

Dell Social Innovation Competition - Closes March 1, 2010

The University of Texas and Dell are looking for college students from around the world who want to improve areas of critical human need through innovation.

Providing a vehicle for taking student innovations from idea to reality, Dell’s Social Innovation Competition is a real-world exercise for perfecting your skills in:

• Project/business plan development
• Pitching ideas to investors
• Building resource networks

Do you have groundbreaking idea in mind? With your fortitude and personality, can you mobilize people and resources to affect wide-ranging, scalable social change?

Dell Social Innovation Competition

SECuR-IT Summer Experience, Colloquium and Research in Information Technology - Application Deadline: February 1, 2010

• PROGRAM DATE: June 8 to August 13, 2010
• LOCATION: Stanford University, San Jose State University and Silicon Valley, California
• CONTACT: Dr. Kristen Gates-(510) 642-3737
• ONLINE APPLICATION

Additional information can be found at our website: http://www.truststc.org/securit/

The Summer Experience, Colloquium and Research in Information Technology(SECuR-IT) is a ten-week residential academic program with paid internship co-located at Stanford University and San Jose State University.

SECuR-IT participation is open to graduate students (M.S. & Ph.D). Participation is limited to 20 people and will be selected from a nationwide pool of applicants, who have demonstrated, outstanding academic talent. Women and historically underrepresented ethnic minority groups will be given strong consideration although everyone is encouraged to apply.

This is an excellent opportunity for students, having an emphasis in computer security, to gain invaluable research experience working with Silicon Valley technology company's. Students will also attend computer security seminars at Stanford University and San Jose State University.

SECuR-IT is made possible by the generous support of the National Science Foundation, and the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies.

Facebook Fellowship - Application Deadline: February 15, 2010

Link to Website

Items Needed:

1. Research Summary (1-2 pages)
   1. must clearly identify area of focus and applicability to Facebook (see topical areas on website above)
2. Your CV
   1. include your contact info (email, phone, mailing address)
   2. include applicable coursework
3. Faculty Sponsor’s CV
4. Two Letters of Recommendation
   1. One of the letters must be from faculty sponsor

Submission Instructions:

The above material should be submitted as 1 PDF to <fellowships@facebook.com> by 5pm on February 15, 2010.

Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program - Application Deadline: March 5, 2010

link to Website

Award Recipients Receive:

1. $5,000 unrestricted research seed funding which can be used for conference fees and travel, lab materials, professional society membership dues, etc.
2. Exclusive access to select Yahoo! datasets
3. The unique opportunity to collaborate with our industry-leading scientists
4. An invitation to this summer's exclusive Key Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit where you'll join the top minds in academia and industry to present your work, discuss research trends and jointly develop revolutionary approaches to fundamental problems

Items Needed:

1. A nomination letter from your academic advisor
2. A clear statement about the Key Scientific Challenge you are addressing
3. A short summary (2-4 pages) describing your research and how it will make an impact in the KSC area you are addressing
4. Resume or CV

Submission Instructions:

Email the above items to <ksc@yahoo-inc.com> by midnight PST, March 5th, 2010.

NSF Graduate Reseach Fellowship Program - Deadline passed for 2009

View 2009 RFP

The 2010 RFP is expected to be announced in late summer of 2010 and have a deadline in the mid-fall. Italic text

Human Subjects

Payments to Subjects

New Human Subject Incentives Program (HSIP)

HSIP Home Page

What is the purpose of HSIP?

• Human Subject Incentives Program (HSIP) has developed a new process and a Web-based support system to accommodate the electronic routing, approval, and submission of subject fee payment requests. It is being developed by U-M to:
• Help eliminate redundant forms and information gathering.
• Facilitate internal routing and electronic approval, simplifying the process of moving the HSIP request from the PI, through the relevant campus units, and on to the Research Incentive Business Office (RIBO).
• Create a secure holding area for retention of subject information. Personal information will be kept in a secure central repository with highly restricted access. This greatly reduces the responsibility on the part of PI’s and unit staff for protecting confidential subject information.
• Give clear guidance for compliance with IRS and other regulatory guidelines.
• Offer several payment options that give flexibility to the researcher without putting them in a non-compliance situation.
• Reduce the need for SLA’s by connecting to eResearch for IRB waiver information.
• Have one central office for processing incentive requests, resolving incentive-related issues and answering questions that may involve a number of Finance areas. Many offices are involved in the incentive payment process, and it can be difficult to know where to go to get questions answered.
• Enhance subject payment coupons with tracking numbers for stronger security and reduction in theft of research funds.

What changes will I notice as I start to use the HSIP system?

• Completion of the HSIP request will be accomplished through an online worksheet.
  • HSIP questions give options for incentive type, date needed, and delivery method.
  • Several incentive requests can be done at one time, thus reducing the level of effort required to get multiple incentive distributions over an extended period of time.
• Electronic Routing
  • Requests are quickly routed from PI to Approver to Central Administration for processing and request fulfillment.
  • Turnaround time from request to fulfillment is dramatically reduced; can be as quick as same day to no more than 2 business days depending on incentive type.
• HSIP Request Tracking
  • View the progress of your request at any time by checking your home page.
• Communications
  • Receive email notifications from the system when the status changes on your HSIP request or action is required, e.g., make changes to a request, or submit evidence of distribution.
  • Receive email notification when payment is due to be released to you. xs
  • Receive notification when the request has been closed and expensed to the Project/Grant.

More FAQs about the new HSIP

New HSIP Subject Fee Form (Tier 1)

HSIP Requester Reference Card

How to Submit Request Tricks & Tips

Employee Subjects - change in process as of July 1, 2009

• Beginning July 1st, all human subjects will be paid as non-employees of the University of Michigan. This means that the last payments made to employees in the payroll system will be in the June monthly payroll and the first biweekly payroll in July (paydate 7/2/09).

• The Subject Fee Payment Form for Employees will not be accepted for processing in the payroll system after 6/25/09. Forms received in the Payroll Office prior to 8/1/09 will be forwarded to Accounts Payable for processing. Forms received in the Payroll Office after 8/1/09 will be returned to the department.

IRB Info

IRB Applications

Start at Regulatory Management (IRB, IBC, etc.) here

• If this is for a study with a Faculty member as the PI - the PI needs to create the application and add you as part of the project team. You will then have access to fill out the application. Note: the PI must also be the one to submit the application.
• If you have questions regarding the process please contact Elaine Kanka (see contact info below in the IRB on the road section)

IRB Umbrella Application

Purpose:

The purpose of the Umbrella application is when you need IRB approval for a pending proposal or if you have a project where the human subjects part of the project is later in the grant. This application is to approve the basic concept of the research and then give you more time to develop the detailed documents (such as informed consent forms) when you are closer to actually implementing the human subjects piece(s) of the project. Please note this umbrella is just preliminary approval. You must go back to the IRB with the detailed documentation for full approval before you can do any research involving human subjects.

Instructions:

1. Go to eResearch and log in to the Regulatory Management System
2. Create a new study (tab is on the left navigation bar)
3. Fill out the first part of the application as normal
4. When you get to question 1-1.2 which asks about the application type, select "not for immediate use of human subjects"
5. Proceed from there

Items Needed:

• PAF (Proposal Approval Form)
  • You can find this in the eResearch Proposal Management System or contact the research office for an electronic copy.
• Submitted Proposal
• DRDA number
  • This number will be on the PAF, but you can always contact the research office for this number.

Upcoming IRB On-the-Road Dates

Elaine Kanka, our IRB representative, will be visiting SI North on the second Wednesday of each month during the Winter term from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Look for an email reminder one week in advance to sign-up for a meeting time.

• January 13th
• February 10th
• March 10th
• April 14th

You can contact Elaine at any time with IRB related questions:

• mekanka@umich.edu
• Phone: 734 615-8427

PEERS Certification

PEERRS consists of educational modules and short tests covering basic rules, procedures and professional norms for the responsible conduct of research by anyone involved in research and scholarship at the University of Michigan. PEERRS Overview and FAQs

Qualtrics

What is Qualtrics?

Qualtrics is a generalized survey service permitting the creation of survey instruments, distribution of the surveys, data storage and analysis.

SI Qualtrics Policies

SI Policy Document coming soon.

These accounts are for School of Information business only. If you leave SI, your SI account will be terminated. If you join another unit at UM, you may be able to create an account under that unit’s brand. To find out who you should contact at your new unit, go to the UM Qualtrics webpage.

Types of accounts

Trial Account

• Self-created
• Ability to access all of the features to create surveys, but NOT to activate (and thus distribute) any survey. The trial account would need to be upgraded to one of the account types below by brand administrator (Becky O’Brien/Todd Raeker) in order to activate.

Masters Student Account (for Class Project Use Only)

• Upgraded from Trial Account
• Instructor for class needs to email list of students in class to be upgraded to this account to the brand administrator (Becky O'Brien/Todd Raeker).
• Account automatically expires at the end of the academic year (May 1st)

Doctoral Student Account

• Upgraded from Trial Account
• Email brand administrator (Becky O’Brien/Todd Raeker) to request upgrade
• Account will be terminated once the student graduates (or otherwise leaves SI).

Faculty Account

• Upgraded from Trial Account
• Email brand administrator (Becky O’Brien/Todd Raeker) to request upgrade
• Account will be terminated if/when the faculty member is no longer with the School of Information

Staff Account

• Upgraded from Trial Account
• Email brand administrator (Becky O’Brien/Todd Raeker) to request upgrade
• Account will be terminated if/when the staff member is no longer with the School of Information

Creating a Qualtrics Account

1. Go to SI Qualtrics Brand Site
2. Click on “Please click here to create an account”
3. Create a user name and password (Use your Umich email address as your user name)
4. Follow the instructions on getting started

Note: This will create a “Trail Account” for you. To upgrade, please look above under types of accounts. Then follow the directions on how to request an upgrade to the appropriate type.

Creating/Editing a Survey

Qualtrics Quick Start Guide

The Quick Start Guide includes:

• Creating a Survey
• Editing a Survey
• Distributing a Survey
• Viewing Survey Results
• Tasks Toolbar
• Survey Editor

Additional Resources

• Advance Qualtrics Topics
• Qualtrics Video Tutorials
• Join the Qualtrics users ListServ – qualtricsusers@umich.edu
• Qualtrics support
  • Email: support@qualtrics.com
  • Phone: 1-800-340-9194

Concur System and New Travel Policy

The new Travel and Expense policy becomes effective on October 15th. This completes work that University administrators had started last year to update the policy in a manner that would increase consistency and compliance across the University.

Central Finance is also implementing Concur, a new software application that will facilitate the Travel & Expense policy changes, and automate the expense reporting and travel booking processes. SI will be participating in the pilot, which also goes live October 15th.

Overview of Changes:

1. Expense reports must be submitted within 45 calendar days from the end of the trip or the hosted event, or within 45 calendar days from the transaction date for purchase of supplies or other out of pocket expenses. Expenses submitted in excess of 45 calendar days will not be reimbursed. Expenses will be submitted by the traveler in the Concur system.
2. The implementation of per diem rates for travel meals and incidentals. Travelers are limited to federal per diem amounts, currently ranging between $64 for high cost cities and $39 for other cities (www.gsa.gov).
3. Only Hosted meal limits will remain at $25 Breakfast, $25 Lunch, and $55 Dinner.
4. Flights must be booked at least 14 days in advance unless an acceptable business purpose justification for the booking delay is provided.
5. Travelers should select the least expensive lodging option available taking into consideration proximity to the business destination and safety. They (or their designee) must inquire about the government rate, Big 10 consortium rate or the conference lodging rate and select the lowest.
6. The University generally does not reimburse local in-town mileage (i.e., travel between university buildings on the same campus for meetings), parking/tolls or commuting costs (i.e., the costs associated with driving a car between home and the normal place of work or business)

Travel and Expense Policy FAQs

Concur Travel and Expense System FAQs

UM Procurement Travel and Expense Website

Simulation: How to Create an Expense Report in Concur