We applaud and encourage your efforts to write grants which incorporate distance learning and continuing education components, and would appreciate your conferring with the respective department directors early in the proposal preparation stage. Both Kimberly Blevins, Director of Distance Learning and Ginger Phillips, Director of Continuing Education will be happy to discuss your project to ensure that adequate time, personnel, travel, equipment and other 'hidden' expenditures are calculated into the final budget. This collaborative effort is essential to adequately reflect the commitment of these two important departments and their specialists to various granting agencies. The next deadline for the three grants listed below is Oct. 15. The Conference Support Program provides supplemental funding for the planning and implementation of national and international conferences in order to enhance the research and creative environment at USF and to bring prestige and recognition to the University and the State of Florida.
Public health is listed as one of the potential topic areas.
In the 2000-2001 academic year, students may apply for the COPH Student Research Scholarship during either the Fall or the Spring semester. Students must submit their papers to faculty sponsors or to the person designated at their school by January 26, 2001. Schools should forward their selection for best single discipline paper and best interdisciplinary paper to the appropriate participating professional association by February 6, 2001. The competition not only generates creative strategies for addressing an array of critical health care needs, but also helps students refine their organizational and writing skills and develop a keener sense of their professional and community service responsibilities. Proposals are judged on innovation, technical merit, feasibility and potential impact on a community.