{"id":2295,"date":"2010-07-23t14:57:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-23t14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2010-07-29t18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29t18:04:02","slug":"call-for-proposals-nsf-stem-talent-expansion-program-centers-step-centers-due-august-4-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/07\/call-for-proposals-nsf-stem-talent-expansion-program-centers-step-centers-due-august-4-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"call for proposals \u2013 nsf stem talent expansion program centers (step centers) \u2013 due august 4, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"national science foundation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coe.drexel.edu\/ret\/personalsites\/2006\/finkel\/logonsf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"223\" \/>from the national science foundation, a call for proposals for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/pubs\/2010\/nsf10569\/nsf10569.htm?wt.mc_id=usnsf_25&amp;wt.mc_ev=click\" target=\"_blank\">science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talent expansion program centers (step centers)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the step centers competition allows a group of faculty representing a cross section of institutions of higher education to identify a national challenge or opportunity in undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) and to propose a comprehensive and coordinated set of activities that will be carried out to address that challenge or opportunity within a national context.\u00a0 in the current competition, efforts must be related to the biological sciences, engineering, or the geological sciences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the nsf is expecting to fund three centers, one in each of biological sciences, engineering, and earth sciences, with $6 million in funding for fiscal year 2011.\u00a0 vanderbilt faculty members from those disciplines are welcome to talk with cft staff about possible proposals.\u00a0 more broadly, it&#8217;s worth noting that the nsf provides significant funding for undergraduate education initiatives at the national level.\u00a0 vanderbilt is already a member of one such initiative, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirtl.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">the cirtl network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the national science foundation, a call for proposals for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talent expansion program centers (step centers): the step centers competition allows a group of faculty representing a cross section of institutions of higher education to identify a national challenge or opportunity in undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[69],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}