East Tennessee STEM HUB Regional Meeting to be Held on Campus
East Tennessee STEM HUB Regional Meeting to be Held on Campus
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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A monthly newsletter from the Office of Community Engagement & Outreach, a unit of the Office of Research and Engagement

Jeneva Clark
Jeneva Clark, senior lecturer in the UT department of mathematics and Tabatha Rainwater, a math teacher from Austin-East Magnet High School, began a hands-on math project called the Chem-E-Car to ignite interest in STEM fields for a broader and more diverse audience.
Learn more about Clark's work
Kelly Ellenburg
Kelly Ellenburg, former director of service learning, joined the staff December 1. Kelly is the program manager for Community Engagement and Outreach’s new Imagine Tennessee initiative. Imagine Tennessee is designed to harness the research and scholarly activity of faculty and students for the benefit of the state’s citizens.
STEM HUB
Under the direction of Lynn Hodge, the East Tennessee STEM Hub is part of the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network (TSIN) in the East TN region. The winter meeting will be held January 31, 2019 from 5:00-7:00 in Greve Hall. Speakers will present a series of 3-minute talks on STEM education, research, and outreach.
Center for Leadership and Service
The Center for Leadership and Service, a campus nexus for educating and engaging students in meaningful leadership and service opportunities, began tracking service hours six years ago, and this fall, students passed the 500,000-hour mark. During the 2017–18 academic year alone, more than 250,000 hours were tracked.

Funding Opportunities

Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas
The Greenwall Foundation is offering grants to support research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy.
Grants for Inequality in Youth Outcomes Research
The William T. Grant Foundation will support work focused on inequality in outcomes for young people ages 5–25 in the United States. Research should increase understanding of programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes as well as strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

NEH Opportunities

Media Projects
The media projects program supports production grants focused on documentary film, television, radio, and podcast projects that engage public audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways.
National Digital Newspaper Program
Designed to create a national digital resource of significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, the National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress.
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program helps organizations such as libraries and museums preserve large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation efforts.

National Engaged Scholarship Awards

Hillman Prize Nominations
Sidney Hillman Foundation is accepting submissions for the 2019 Hillman Prizes which honor investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good.
International Communication Association Applied Research Award
The ICA Applied Research Award honors a scholar or group of scholars who has produced a systematic and outstanding body of research that addresses a significant communication problem of relevance to a public representing one or more groups of stakeholders relevant to a division(s) or interest group(s) of ICA.

Grants for Student Achievement in Public Institutions

The NEA Foundation provides grants to improve the academic achievement of students in U.S. public schools and public higher education institutions in any subject area. Grants of $2,000 and $5,000 may be used for resource materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, technology, or scholars-in-residence. 

Health Disparities Research Summer Immersion Program

The University of Michigan’s Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research offers an introductory level summer research program with a focus on health disparities. The 10 week full-time program introduces students to research while providing hands-on experiences in health disparities research.

2019 Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS) RFP Open

BIG Orange STEM Saturday (B.O.S.S.) is a free event presented annually by UT Libraries for high school, and new undergraduate students interested in pursuing a STEM major. The BOSS call for proposals is now open. 

Contact Us

Office of Community Engagement & Outreach
1534 White Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: 865-974-8363
Email: engagement@utk.edu
Website: engagement.utk.edu
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