SUNY Center for Professional Development, in partnership with The SUNY Research Foundation, invites you to start your summer off right with this professional development opportunity!

Dates:  Begins June 4th and Ends June 22^nd  (Online format) 

Based on the book, Writing Successful Science Proposals* this virtual workshop outlines the components of a successful proposal and the steps to get there. Learn how to improve your chances of getting funded through fund sourcing, proper planning and organization, concise writing, collaboration, and proposal submission. Participate in interactive and relevant discussions and activities with faculty from the comfort of your home or office.

* Although the course is based on a book about scientific proposals the learning and activities are applicable to all types of grant proposals

At completion of this workshop, all students should be able to:

• Define the types of grants available
• Find grant opportunities
• Find and work with collaborators
• Develop concise proposal sections
• Submit a proposal electronically

Required Text: Participants should purchase Writing Successful Science Proposals, 2nd edition by Andrew J. Friedland and Carol L. Folt available at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com

Format:

Meets Online Via Elluminate on:  June 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 22 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm;  

Participants are expected to participate in each of the 1.5 hour sessions. Anticipate no more than 1 hour of work between each of the sessions.  

What is the cost?

• $200  –  CPD Members – Use your CPD Training Points to pay for this event!
  Scholarships available for this course through The Research Foundation for SUNY. Click here for details.
• $230 –  SUNY Non-CPD Members
• $260 – Non-SUNY

Details and Registration

For complete details, including agenda, syllabus, instructor’s bio, and Registration go to:  http://www.cvent.com/d/0cq1dr

Class Size is LIMITED.  REGISTER Soon! 

Or visit the SUNY CPD Website at: www.cpd.suny.edu

Questions?

Email Lisa M. Raposo at lisa.raposo@suny.edu

SUNY Center for Professional Development

6333 State Route 293

Suite 102

East Syracuse, NY 13057

http://cpd.suny.edu

315.214.2440

Aaron S. Williams, the 18th director of the Peace Corps, joins President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. on Friday, April 27 for a public discussion of the Corps, its relationship with the University, and its global role in the 21st Century. The event will take place at 10 am in Humanities 1006. For more information, visit http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/peacecorps

The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce a featured lecture by John P. Donoghue,Ph.D., as part of the 16th Annual Swartz Foundation Mind Brain Lecture. Professor Donoghue is the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, and Director of the Institute for Brain Science, at Brown University. He is also a Senior Research Scientist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In this lecture, Donoghue will discuss his research on how the cerebral cortex computes commands for voluntary movements. His laboratory is translating advances from this fundamental research into a human neural interface system, called BrainGate, which is designed to restore useful functions for people with paralysis. BrainGate physically reconnects the brain to the outside world through a baby aspirin-sized sensor that is implanted into the motor cortex. In the BrainGate pilot clinical trial, persons with long-standing paralysis have used their own neural signals to operate external assistive devices, including computers and robotic limbs.  

The Mind Brain Lecture will be presented on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. on the Staller Center Main Stage. Please save the date, and pass along this information to any students or community members you feel may be interested in this special event. Seating is limited and on a first-come basis. For more information on this lecture, please visit http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/mind/index.shtml.

Plutonium: “Burn” or Bury – Nuclear vs. Geologic Solutions

Rod Ewing is the Edward H. Kraus Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a Professor in the Departments of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, and Materials Science & Engineering.

Date and Location: April 26, 3:00 PM, Wang Center Theater

An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the SBU Humanities Institute 

The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University is hosting “Memory, Emotion and the Disciplines,” an interdisciplinary conference on the subject of memory and emotion. The event is focused on bringing together scholars from various disciplines that have studied memory and emotion separately, but have just begun to see the inevitable interaction between these two aspects of human biology and culture. The conference takes place on March 22 and 23, from 9 am to 6 pm in the Humanities Building, beginning in Room 1009. Please click here for conference schedule times and locations.

“Memory, Emotion and the Disciplines” is part of the “Memory in the Disciplines” initiative – a wider project that is positioning Stony Brook University at the forefront of the emerging interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies. “The goal of the conference is to change disciplinary habits by bringing scholars together from different fields to work jointly on memory and emotions,” said E. Ann Kaplan, Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook and event co-organizer. “It will help us recognize the differences in methodology, expectations for scholarship, desired results and the implementation of interdisciplinary research.” Some of the various disciplines include experimental and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, literary and media studies, sociology, history, philosophy and the arts.

“The arts and humanities are experiencing a cognitive turn, as scholars and students are looking to the sciences for models and approaches to cognition to understand creativity and the nature of human relations,” said John Lutterbie of the Center of Cognitive Science and Performance at Stony Brook University, and event co-organizer. “This conference explores these ideas on an individual as well as a social level.”

Keynote speakers include Dr. Jeffery Olick of the University of Virginia and Dr. Lisa B. Thompson of SUNY Albany. On Thursday, March 22 at 4:15 pm, Dr. Olick will speak on “What is Memory Studies? Intellectual and Institutional Conditions for Interdisciplinarity,” a discussion co-sponsored by the Stony Brook University Office of the Provost. On March 23 at 11:45 am, Dr. Thompson will speak on the subject of black cultural trauma in contemporary African-American theater. Both addresses will be held in Room 1006 of the Humanities Building.

The conference also features a theatrical performance of Vanya on March 22 at 6:30 pm in Room 1008 of the Humanities Institute. Vanya is a new play written and directed by Mallory Catlett that explores the characters of the Russian masterpiece Uncle Vanya 20 years after Anton Chekhov’s play ends. The characters reunite only to find that they are dealing with aging and memory failure.  The actors will present scenes from the play and invite conference participants to engage with the issues raised in this exciting new work.

Sponsors of the event include the SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines program, the Center for Cognitive Science and Performance, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Memory in the Disciplines initiative, the Department of Theatre Arts, the Office of the Provost, and the Faculty in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) program at Stony Brook University.