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LMI is a not-for-profit strategic consulting firm serving the federal government.  Through the LMI Academic Partnerships program, LMI seeks to conduct sponsored research with university partners that supports LMI’s mission of providing independent analysis and practical solutions to the challenges facing government managers.

The objective of this FY2014 University Proposal Solicitation is to receive research proposals that investigate

• item serialization,
• building cyber response teams,
• renewable energy cyber security,
• scheduling algorithms for service organizations,
• quantitative methods for emergency management,
• geospatial healthcare models,
• live data agent-based models,
• machine learning in agent-based models, and
• visualization of high-dimensional data.

RIT may submit up to a maximum of three (3) proposals. If you are interested in applying, request the LMI solicitation from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and communicate your interest with the Intent to Submit form on the Forms and Agreements page.  Return forms to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by June 21, 2013.

Selected proposals from RIT must be submitted together by July 15, 2013.

Sponsors of all types are increasingly limiting the number of submissions an organization may make to many programs.  This helps the sponsor manage workflow, but places an additional responsibility on the submitting organization.  The articles below describe processes for the internal review and approval of certain limited submission programs in which RIT participates.  For programs not described below, please use the Intent to Submit Form on the Forms and Agreements page.

The chief goal of WIDER is to transform institutions of higher education into supportive environments for STEM faculty members to substantially increase their use of evidence-based teaching and learning practices. These practices should serve to increase persistence in STEM and contribute to the goal of producing 1 million additional STEM graduates. In particular, WIDER seeks this this transformation for high enrollment, lower division courses required for many STEM majors and taken by many other students to fulfill general education distribution requirements.

Broadly defined, effective STEM teaching and learning are not only instructional practices in traditional learning environments, but also modern laboratory methods and field research, proven distance education methods (or hybrid designs incorporating both face-to-face and distance methods), and improved approaches to motivating student interest in STEM. In all cases, the primary goal of wider is to increase substantially the scale of these improvements within and across the higher education sector in order to accomplish the following:

1. Improved student learning;
2. Increased numbers of students choosing STEM majors, particularly from demographic groups underrepresented in STEM;
3. Improved retention in the first two years of undergraduate study and to graduation of all STEM majors.

WIDER grants may be used to 1) begin institutional planning efforts; 2) support implementation efforts for evidence-based teaching and learning practices and; 3) for research on how to increase the importance placed on evidence-based practices in institutional strategic planning and faculty rewards.

An estimated 30-50 awards will be made for standard or continuing grants in 4 tracks:

1. Planning grants (up to 20 awards)
2. Institutional implementation grants (up to 12 awards)
3. Community implementation grants (up to 12 awards)
4. Research grants (up to 10 awards)

Limitations on Proposals per Organization: An organization may submit only one Planning or one Institutional Implementation proposal for a given deadline. There are no restrictions on the number of Community Implementation or Research proposals that an individual or organization may submit.

Faculty interested in submitting a Planning or Institutional Implementation proposal should submit a 1 page project summary, including the project’s intellectual merit and broader impacts, to David Bond at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by May 10, 2013.

Would you like support for your humanities research in summer 2014?  The National Endowment for the Humanities supports summer projects.  NEH Summer stipend recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools.  Projects may be at any stage of development. 

The program pays a total of $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing on projects of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities.  Colleges and universities may nominate two faculty members to compete for the award. 

If you are interested, then read on to see how to become one of RIT’s nominees. 

Eligible disciplines:  History; Philosophy; Languages (both modern and classical); Linguistics; Literature; Jurisprudence; Archaeology; comparative religion; Ethics; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study of application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.

Consult the program announcement for additional details on the program: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html

Nomination procedure:

Applicants must submit a project abstract for internal review by Friday, July 12, 2013.  If more than two abstracts are received, then a peer review committee will evaluate the proposals and submit recommendations to the Vice President for Research, who will select the nominees.  Results will be announced by Friday, August 16, 2013.  The abstract should contain the following information:

Cover Sheet

Name

Department

Rank

Highest Humanities Degree: [discipline, see list above]

Dates for proposed research

Narrative (one page max. in 11 point or higher font, one inch margins):

Objectives, methods, and significance of the project.

Bibliography (one page max. in 11 point or higher font)

Please email your abstracts by 5:00 pm on Friday, July 12, 2013 to Charlie Bush in Sponsored Research Services at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .   Contact Charlie if you have any questions (475-5542). 

Applications are due to NEH on September 26, 2013.