Instructors - Open Education Stipends will be offered in the Spring!

bag of money: public domain image, johnny_automatic, http://openclipart.org 

UNCG instructors, are you concerned about the high price of textbooks and online codes for your classes?

In Spring 2015, apply for an Open Education stipend. You could win $1,000 for adopting open educational resources! See the Campus Weekly story: http://ure.uncg.edu/prod/cweekly/2014/11/04/education-initiative-stipend

As always, feel free to contact your friendly liaison librarian for help identifying course materials.  Open education, online available through our library, or other kinds of materials.

Show Me the Money! Grant searching workshops

Go to UNCG Workshops to register for Show Me the Money and other grant searching workshops!

The Office of Sponsored Programs is offering lots of workshops in August, Sept, and Oct!

Undergraduate (Library) Research Award

The University  Libraries want to recognize your students' library research skills!

We are soliciting submissions for our Undergraduate Research Award.  This $500 prize is given in recognition of an outstanding undergraduate research project that best demonstrates the ability to locate, select, and synthesize information from scholarly resources and uses those resources in the creation of an original research project in any media.  Any paper or project completed by an undergraduate in the Spring, Summer, or Fall semesters of 2013 is eligible. Applicants must be enrolled at UNCG in the Spring 2014 semester.  It is open to all undergraduate students. 

 If your students have turned in excellent research assignments, we urge you to nominate them for this award.  

Applications are due on March 21, 2014 and full details are available at:

http://library.uncg.edu/info/undergraduate_research_award.aspx. 

Grant seeking workshops!

Show me the Money 

Two-hour introduction to grant-seeking databases: PivotCOS,    GrantSelect, and Grant Advisor Plus. 

• Thursday  Feb/21/2013  02:00 PM - 4 pm

• Friday Mar/01/2013 10:00 AM - noon

Easy as P.I.E.: Proposal Development

Learn basic strategies and skills to successfully develop and submit competitive corporate, foundation, state, and federal proposals. 

• Tuesday Feb/26/2013 10:00 AM-noon

• Wednesday Feb/27/2013 02:00 PM -4 pm

More info and registration: http://workshops.uncg.edu/workshops-by-category.jsp?cat_id=77001727