National Science Foundation Funding and Career Opportunities for Early and Mid-Career Faculty Liam Frink, professor of anthropology, will present a webinar on NSF funding opportunities for early and mid-career faculty on Monday, May 1, 2023, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. via Webex.
Topics covered are:
1) Career impacts of investing in the research enterprise;
2) Navigating NSF processes tips;
3) Funding opportunities and strategies;
4) Why and how to communicate with and maintain relationships with NSF Program Directors;
5) Overview of the essential NSF 1-page concept paper;
6) Tips for becoming an effective and sought-after NSF ad hoc and panelist reviewer.
This webinar is tailored for STEM, Education, Health and Policy Science early and mid-career faculty. It is co-sponsored by the office of faculty affairs and the office of research.
Frink, who is currently on sabbatical from UNLV, is a National Science Foundation IPA program director in the Geosciences Directorate, Arctic Sciences Section of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). Since 1995, he has focused on interdisciplinary community-based participatory social science and humanities work with Alaska Native communities. For NSF Frink is lead on development of the OPP Arctic Community Engagement Initiative (ACE), co-lead of the Participatory and Indigenous Led Research (PILR) Priority Area for the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), and member of the cross-directorate Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) one of NSF’s 10 Big Ideas.
Frink has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he began his career-impacting relationship with NSF, receiving a Dissertation Improvement Grant followed by several NSF standard grants (among other external awards). He is co-creator and co-facilitator of the Get that Grant Program, a comprehensive and interactive grants training for early and mid-career faculty and graduate students.
For more information:
Dr. Liam Frink
liam.frink@unlv.edu or lfrink@nsf.gov
702-895-1114 or 702-937-6421