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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Workshop Updates!

Dec. 2nd & 3rd: Research TalkJames Gimpel, Political Scientist, University of Maryland.
○ Dec. 2, Thursday: GIS workshop from 3-4:30 (1645 POT): "New Directions in the Study of Political Geography" Demonstration of GIS software (ArcGIS, GeoDa) for a general audience.
○ Dec. 3, Friday: Research Talk from 2-4 (18th Floor POT, West End Room): "Voter Migration and the Geographic Sorting of the American Electorate"

February 18, Grant Workshop, UK Panel of Grant Experts, NSF, NIH, Other. 2-4 pm, Young Auditorium
○ Reception afterward at the Faculty Club, 4:30.
○ Panel: Tom Janoski (Sociology), Genia Toma (Martin School), Jim Ziliak (Economics), Thomas Kelly (Behavioral Science), Lawrence Gottlob (Psychology, at NSF), Janice Almasi (Education Curriculum and Instruction) Anna Secor (Geography).  Panel members have served recently on reviewer panels for various funding agencies (e.g., NSF, NIH), and will give faculty and grad students advice on what elements of grant proposals add to, or subtract from a successful review of an external grant proposal.  

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