The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) is seeking faculty mentors for the First Year Research Experience (FYRE) Program. These mentors should be interested in developing projects and opportunities for first-year students and committed to student success through high-impact learning practices like undergraduate research.
There is no financial commitment required from the faculty mentor or department. The Office of Undergraduate Research will provide funding for the program.
If you’re interested in serving as a FYRE mentor and having a funded undergraduate researcher on your project in 2019-2020, please submit a job description by May 1: https://research.unl.edu/events/event.php?eventID=3591
FYRE allows eligible full-time, degree-seeking freshmen to use their Federal Work Study award to find a job in a research or creative activities position under the supervision and guidance of a faculty mentor.
Students are employed by the Office of Undergraduate Research and are matched with a position on campus. FYRE participants commit to 5-7 hours per week of participation on a project and will attend a monthly seminar by the Office of Undergraduate Research to prepare them for a successful first year at Nebraska. Optional monthly activities will also be led by current Nebraska graduate students and may include lab tours, field trips, industry visits, and more. Details are here: https://ucare.unl.edu/opportunities/fyre
Please note that there is no guarantee that you’ll have a placement in Fall 2019. Eligible students will be invited to view all the job descriptions and will complete their own application and provide a ranked list of jobs they are interested in. You will receive the application information for all students who have chosen your job and I ask that you provide me with a ranked list of candidates. I will make the final placements, and you will not be given a student who you did not already “approve.”
OUR models this after a similar program at The University of Kansas which is now in its fourth year. You can view their job descriptions here for ideas/examples: https://ugresearch.ku.edu/student/start/emerging-scholars#jobs
Here is the timeline for the summer and fall:
May 1: Job descriptions from faculty are due
May 15: Invitation to students sent by Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid
June 15: Student priority deadline (faculty will receive access to their applicants and may begin developing their shortlist now)
July 15: Student final deadline
July 22: Faculty shortlist deadline
Aug. 1: Student and faculty notification of FYRE placement
Sept. 15: FYRE begins
If you have any questions about the program, contact Justina Clark, director of undergraduate research, at jclark17@unl.edu.
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NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-1 State Proposal: This RFP is seeking researchers who are interested in being involved with the next Nebraska EPSCoR RII Track-1 proposal for the next funding cycle of 2021-2026. The full state proposal will be for $20 million; check the attached RFP for the amount available to the research area(s) of the proposal. The research team must be multi-institutional with an integrated scientific theme. Deadline for proposals is July 8, 2019.
In preparation for this planned RII grant submission, Nebraska EPSCoR seeks pre-proposals for research clusters from faculty groups in Nebraska research institutions that could become one of two possible research components of the next Nebraska RII grant proposal. A proposed research cluster must be congruent with at least one of NSF’s ten big ideas. The following web site will provide more information about these: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/
Contact the EPSCoR office know if you have any questions.
Nebraska EPSCoR
W192 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0557
402-472-8946
epscor@nebraska.edu
http://epscor.nebraska.edu
Please contact Mark Riley, Associate Dean for Research, if you plan to submit one of these pre-proposals.
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The Midwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) invites manuscript submissions for the 2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference, to be held Sept. 15-17, 2019 at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
Please visit our conference website for submission details and important dates: http://www.wichita.edu/asee
The submission website is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amsc19
Important Dates
*Draft paper submission deadline: May 31
*Reviewer comments deadline: June 28
*Final paper submission deadline: July 12
*Early bird registration deadline for all attendees: August 16
For more information or with questions, contact Yanwu Ding, ASEE Midwest Conference Chair and associate professor, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount St., Wichita, KS, 67260