Deadlines approach for faculty, staff opportunities

The Council on Teaching and the Office of the Vice President for Research invite applications for the President’s Award for Technology Innovation. This award, recognizing the year’s most creative uses of technology for the benefit of our learning community, will be awarded to one recipient. The recipient will receive $3,000 and be recognized formally at the 2002 University of Iowa Convocation.

Faculty or staff who have utilized technology in creative and innovative ways are eligible to apply. Consideration will be given to the breadth and impact on the learning community. Higher value will be given to projects that enhance student-teacher interactions, student-student interactions, interinstitutional applications or ties between course-based learning and workplace applications.

For further information or to obtain a nomination form, contact Amy Kirkey at (33)5-0148 or amy-kirkey@uiowa.edu. Nomination forms also can be accessed from the Council on Teaching web site at www.uiowa.edu/~cot/. The application deadline is March 29.

Carver Scientific Research Initiative Grant

The Office of the Vice President for Research announces the 2002 Carver Scientific Research Initiative Grant program, a cooperative venture with the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, and the University of Iowa Foundation.

Awards ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 have traditionally supported faculty in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Engineering who have ideas with long-range potential, but who need to conduct preliminary studies. This year eligibility has been extended on a trial basis to relevant faculty in the Colleges of Dentistry, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Faculty in the natural, physical, geological, and engineering sciences are eligible. No awards will be made in the social sciences (including psychology) nor in the humanities.

The deadline for submitting applications is March 25. If you have questions about the program, please contact Larry Rettig, 201 GIH, (33)5-2119, lawrence-rettig@uiowa.edu.