A funding opportunity for those in the library sciences and social sciences. The John Randolph Haynes Foundation supports archival grants to preserve historic Los Angeles materials and fellowships for faculty in the social sciences at any university or four-year college in the five county Southern California region (Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and Riverside).

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Today is the first day that Dr. Ganesh Raman is on the job as the CSU's new Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research.

Since being hired in February, Dr. Raman has traveled to California to interact with and learn from the people he will be supporting. He attending the 2016 COAST Annual meeting, the Spring meeting of the CSU Chief Research Officers, and the CSU Student Research Competition at CSU Bakersfield. During his transition time, he worked with his predecessor, Dr. Zed Mason, so he will 'hit the ground running' today.

Please welcome Gamesh to the CSU system and help him support research in the CSU. You can learn more about him through this press release.

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Come participate with the Maritime Advanced Systems & Technology (MAST) laboratory as it brings together a federated network of leading academic, research, test and evaluation, in-service engineering and operational centers to further expand the region's ability to provide solutions to national challenges with new technology and innovations.

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A funding opportunity for those in the humanities. From the sponsor's web site:

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.

Successful applicants receive a stipend of $6,000.

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On Monday, 6 June, CSU Long Beach is hosting a research grant information workshop with guest speaker Dr. Kellina M. Craig-Henderson, Deputy Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation.

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A funding opportunity for those in the health sciences or education. From the solicitation, the FY16 ARP Idea Development Award seeks applications from all areas of basic and preclinical research and strongly encourages applications that address the critical needs of the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) community in areas that include "[f]actors promoting success in key transitions to independence for individuals living with ASD."

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A funding opportunity for those in fields associated with nursing and health. From the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA):

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks research to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the United States and to develop and test more effective interventions for reducing/eliminating health disparities. Research is encouraged in the following high priority diseases within the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK: diabetes, obesity, nutrition-related disorders, hepatitis C, gallbladder disease, H. Pylori infection, sickle cell disease, kidney diseases, urologic diseases, hematologic diseases, metabolic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV.

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