Dependent Care Travel Grant Program The University recognizes the stresses that balancing the demands of work and family places on faculty, and the importance of helping faculty balance these demands. We appreciate that these stresses are more acute for tenure-track faculty. During the pre-tenure period, participation in conferences and professional meetings to present one's work is an important activity; this visibility helps establish the impact of scholarly and creative work expected for a positive tenure review.
The Dependent Care Travel Grant Program is available to offer some helpful support in the important early stages of your career at Northwestern. This program provides tenure-track (pre-tenure) faculty a taxable grant for qualified short-term dependent care expenses incurred while traveling to attend professional meetings, conferences, workshops and professional development opportunities. The grant is funded at a level intended to provide full compensation for reasonable and approved expenses, up to a maximum of $500 post-tax per academic year.
Please see the Office of the Provost website for further information about this program, including instructions for drawing on the grant funds and the relevant forms. http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/faculty/work_life_famiily.html#DOT Internal Medicine Grand Rounds Available online! The University recognizes that technology can assist in making meetings, seminars and presentations more accessible. The Department of Internal Medicine is using technology to its advantage and offering their Grand Rounds seminars online. This new feature makes attending Grand Rounds presentation more convenient. CME credit can be earned for online participants. For more information, visit http://www.medicine.northwestern.edu/node/257
In March 2010, the AAUW (formerly the American Association of University Women) is releasing its new report Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The AAUW report identifies leading research that documents the measurable impact of stereotypes, bias and the educational environment on the achievement and interest of women and girls in the STEM fields. The report sheds light on this puzzling question and provides new ideas for what each of us can do to more fully open the fields of science and engineering to girls and women. http://www.aauw.org/education/ngcp
The following site lists the calls for proposal for research in women's health. Please check out! http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-10-226.html
Advancing Novel Science in Womens Health Research (ANSWHR) (R21) (PAS-10-226)
Office of Research on Women's Health
John E. Fogarty International Center
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Eye Institute
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Library of Medicine
Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
Office of Dietary Supplements
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): October 16, 2010; October 16, 2011, October 16, 2012
for new applications; November 16, 2010; November 16, 2011; November 16, 2012 for resubmission applications
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