Funding Hot Sheet February 8, 2019: Geospace research awards, teaching an ivy league curriculum at community college, and more

Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE)

Proposals should be focused in the investigation of the connection between eruptive events and magnetic phenomena on the Sun and the corresponding solar wind structures in the inner heliosphere.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Directorate of Geosciences, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, this is a $1,200,000 grant opportunity.

Developing and testing new methodologies for STEM learning research, research syntheses, and evaluation

The development, application, and extension of formal models and methodologies for STEM learning research. Submissions might propose: fundamental research to develop and test new methodologies that support valid inferences in STEM learning, or research on methodological aspects of new or existing procedures for data collection, curation, and inference in STEM learning.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this is a $500,000 to $1,500,000 grant opportunity.

Teaching an ivy league curriculum at a community college

The article discusses how Hostos Community College adapted a version of Columbia University’s core curriculum, including multiple required reading texts from Plato’s dialogues. Faculty members from Hostos explained that their community college is very diverse, where more than 98 percent of the student body is nonwhite, and that every student has been able to relate to the enduring humanistic themes that are discussed in the required texts. It also pushes their students towards academic success.

View the PDF: February 8, 2019 Hot Sheet

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