DER Weekly Newsletter, May 29th, 2020


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May 29th, 2020

		DER Funding Database

		Weekly In Progress Report

DER Director News

		Engineering Research Reactivation Update
		The College of Engineering is continuing to work with OVPRI on research reactivation. Please join John Verboncoeur and the ERC for a Zoom seminar on Wednesday, June 3rd from 12-1 PM for more details. Seminar details here.

		New Resources for Faculty and Administrators
		A number of new Sponsored Program resources have been developed for faculty and administrators to help answer questions and to provide guidance on the associated topics. Click here to view all the incredible resources.

		Yadu Pokhrel to enhance teaching and learning as an MSU Lilly Fellow
		Yadu Pokhrel, of the MSU College of Engineering, has been named a 2020-21 Lilly Fellow at MSU. The program focuses on developing educators who see teaching and learning as core to their path toward leadership. Click here to read more.

		Patrick Kwon honored by American Society of Mechanical Engineers
		Patrick Kwon, of the Michigan State University College of Engineering, has received the designation of Fellow from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is one of a select number of 3,425 Fellows who have attained the grade of Fellow among 83,034 ASME members. Only 3 percent of members achieve the Fellow grade. Click here to read more.

		Mi Zhang wins Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award
		Mi Zhang of Michigan State University has been recognized with the Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award (MLRA) for his work on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML). This is MSU’s first AWS Machine Learning Research Award. Click here to read more.

		NSF Biosketch and Current and Pending Support Format Change Pushed to October 1, 2020
		The new NSF biographical sketch and current and pending support format requirements are now delayed until October 1, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to allow for adequate implementation and training. Click here to learn more.

		Case Study in Review Integrity: Embellished Credentials in a Grant Application
		Have you ever been tempted to embellish your credentials in a grant application? What about fabricating credentials? Would this be a case of research misconduct or a violation of review integrity? This series is to raise awareness, encourage dialog, and inspire creative problem solving of the challenges in maintaining integrity in peer review. Click here.

		Faculty Scholarly Awards
		Kyle Sweitzer has worked with Academic Analytics data to develop a report of faculty scholarly awards by department. These files provide another view of faculty scholarly award recognition. This displays each faculty member’s percentile rank in their field nationally, and then also shows the number of honorific awards the given faculty member has won. It’s a way to get a quick view of which faculty may be under-recognized, and likewise who your award committees should proactively nominate for an award.

DER's Proposal Volume

The chart above shows DER's Proposal Volume as of 5/29/2020.

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DER Seminars

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Miss the Last Seminar? Watch it Here!

This seminar by Dr. Miles McNall is designed to help researchers submit more competitive grant proposals by understanding NSF’s expectations for the broader impacts of your research, major areas of broader impacts, how to evaluate the impacts of your research and BI activities, and how to write a compelling BI section for your grant proposal.