DHI Network Collaboration Fellowships and
DGI Public Engagement Fellowships
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The UC Davis Humanities Institute is accepting applications for two funding opportunities for faculty members in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences. The awards address key areas of expressed need and will support collaborations with colleagues outside the UC (DHI Network-Collaboration Fellowships); and community-engaged work (DHI Public Engagement Fellowships).
Deadline:
March 20
, 2020
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Whiting Public Engagement Projects
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The Whiting Foundation has invited the Modern Language Association (MLA) to make nominations for Whiting Public Engagement Fellowships for pre-tenure and recently tenured faculty members. Any MLA member who is not tenured or who has earned tenure since the 2014–15 academic year is eligible to apply for a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, which rewards and encourages humanities work that engages a community beyond the university. To apply, please follow the Whiting guidelines for proposals, identify your primary MLA forum affiliation most closely related to the proposal, and submit your proposal to
lneithardt@mla.org.
Deadline:
April 1, 2020
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Sacramento Integrated Multimodal Place-Based Living
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The California Strategic Growth Council released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC) Implementation Grant recipients. This RFP supports the transformation of Sacramento’s River District through the Sacramento Integrated Multimodal Place-based Living project. Technical assistance needs for this project include workforce development strategy, planning, and project monitoring.
Deadline:
April 6, 2020
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Green Together: Northeast San Fernando Valley Project
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The California Strategic Growth Council released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC) Implementation Grant recipients. This RFP supports Pacoima-Sun Valley’s community revitalization through the Green Together: Northeast San Fernando Valley project. Technical assistance needs for this project include project management, administration, monitoring and compliance.
Deadline:
April 6, 2020
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Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program: 2021-2022 Awards Competition
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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers more than 400 different opportunities to teach, research and conduct professional projects in over 135 countries. Opportunities are available for higher education faculty and administrators as well as for professionals outside of academia, artists, journalists, scientists, and independent scholars.
Deadline: September 15, 2020
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Webinar: How Newark Became a Model for
Community-Based Violence Reduction
Join Newark Community Street Team (NCST) director, Aqeela Sherrills, for
Next City's
webinar: “How Newark Became a Model for Community-Based Violence Reduction.” Sherrills will discuss the impact the organization has had on violence in Newark as well as how NCST serves as an alternative to policing using a three-pronged approach.
March 25, 2020 | 11 a.m. — 12 p.m.
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Public Engagement Champions
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Physician Stephany Sanchez knows there are many factors that make her patients at the County of Sacramento Primary Care Clinic vulnerable to barriers limiting them from being healthy. She never assumes they have a stable home to go to, a place to keep their medications, or social support to follow through on their care plans. Instead, she believes in an engaged approach to health care, rooted in humility, active listening, patience, empathy and trust.
Read her story
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Know a Public Engagement Champion?
Public scholarship and engagement is all about people.The relationships they build with each other, the dialogue they participate in, the learning they advance, and the trust they create—together. If this sounds like you or someone you know, we would love to share the story.
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For Maria Martinez, making the transition from teacher to principal at Sci-Tech Academy was only natural. Martinez recently reflected on her teaching career, sharing her advice for aspiring teachers.
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"In describing UC Davis Chancellor's Awardee Huaijun Zhou, one nominator said, 'there is no ivory tower for this Aggie,' as the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science professor's approach ensures grad students engage with communities to solve global challenges."
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Butte-Glenn Medical Society is working with UC Davis School of Medicine to establish psychiatry training locally—aiming for year-long rotations. This dovetails with an overarching residency program UC Davis recently launched for rural communities between Sacramento and Portland.
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Leveraging its proximity to UC Davis Health, the state capital and community activists, this immersive, undergraduate program will address topics of societal concern from multidisciplinary perspectives.
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"The writing I did as a museum volunteer also taught me how to synthesize dense, scholarly arguments and make them accessible to a broad audience."
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About Public Scholarship and Engagement
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Public Scholarship and Engagement is fostering a culture of engagement at UC Davis that increases the university’s impact through mutually-beneficial relationships that have local, regional, statewide, and global reach. We envision UC Davis research, teaching and learning that serves society and makes a positive difference in the world.
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