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UC Davis Faculty Launch Web Site to Show Support for UC Students

Naomi Janowitz, Professor of Religious Studies, Julie Sze, Associate Professor of American Studies, and David Wittman, Associate Professor of Physics, have united to show their students that they and other UC Davis faculty care deeply about students’ plight and will fight mightily to keep public education in California accessible and affordable. Janowitz, Sze, and Wittman have launched the web site http://ucfacultysupportingstudents.org to provide a place for faculty to post their opinions on the current crisis in public education and to demonstrate that they are as passionate as UC students in fighting for change.

Starting today, the web site will post daily blogs from students and faculty. [more]

Mellon Research Initiative in Early Modern Studies Sponsors Research Contest

The Mellon Research Initiative in Early Modern Studies is pleased to announce three research awards for projects using the Early English Books Online Text Creation Project (EEBO-TCP) research database. For one month, UC Davis has access to this collection, which offers full-text searches of works published between c.1475-1700 in an array of subject areas. The research awards are in the following areas: best undergraduate essay ($300), best graduate essay ($500) and best course assignment ($200). Essays and course assignments must rely extensively on sources from EEBO-TCP database. [more]

Humanities Institute Calls for Proposals for 2012-2013 Research Group Seed Funding

Deadline: Monday, January 30, 2012, 5:00 PST. The UC Davis Humanities Institute announces a call for proposals for funds to support interdisciplinary research groups in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at UC Davis in 2012-2013. Intended to build the capacity of existing research collaborations, the awards are aimed at allowing groups to mount more ambitious activities, such as seminars and conferences, or conduct planning/proposal workshops with an eye towards securing external funding. In other words, the awards should be viewed as seed funding to encourage groups to plan and develop concrete proposals worthy of extramural funding, such as a UC Multicampus Research Group, a UCHRI Working Group, or Mellon-funded Research Initiative. [more]

Call for Proposals for UC Multicampus Research Groups (MRGs) in the Humanities

Deadline: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012. The University of California Humanities Network announces a call for proposals for UC Multicampus Research Groups (MRGs) in the Humanities. MRGs may be interdisciplinary or focused on a traditional discipline, but should engage significant research questions and push the frontiers of knowledge production in the humanities or between the humanities and other fields or modes of inquiry. MRGs should set and explore innovative research agendas in ways that contribute to the advancement of the MRG topic specifically and the humanities as a whole. [more]