[QSB-grads] Fwd: NSF AGEP grant: Call for nominations

[Miriam Barlow]

Please let me know if you are/ have a PhD student graduating in 2021 who
would like to be one of the five nominees for this program.




Dear Graduate Group Chairs,



As you may know, Dean Zatz and I were recently awarded an NSF grant
entitled “The AGEP California Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Alliance
to Increase Underrepresented Minority Faculty in STEM”. It is a
collaborative award with UCSB as the lead institution, and ourselves along
with CSU Fresno and CSU Channel Islands. The public abstract is attached,
but in a nutshell, we are developing an administrative model for broadening
participation in the professoriate by better preparing under-represented
PhD students for CSU-like tenure-track jobs. The model is meant to be
applicable to other UCs and CSUs, as well as other analogous state systems
e.g. in Texas.



To develop and pilot the model, the grant will fund 5 Ph.D. students from
UC Merced and 5 from UCSB. The funding will include support to attend a
two-week summer institute at UCSB (June 24 through July 5, 2019),
fellowship support for Fall 2019 to work with a CSU teaching mentor (CSU
Fresno for UC Merced, mentors to be matched with chosen nominees), a
one-semester dissertation fellowship, and additional travel funds for
meetings and various events among the four campuses, and additional
training activities and mentoring here at UC Merced.



I am writing to ask for nominations of students in your programs who may be
interesting in participating. Our criteria are as follows:

   - US citizen PhD students in STEM disciplines broadly defined, i.e. any
   discipline supported by NSF including the social sciences.
   - Students who plan to graduate in Spring or Summer of 2021, and apply
   for academic positions that begin Fall 2021. These are likely to be third
   year PhD students now, given the norm of five years to graduate.
   - Students who are interested in tenure track careers at CSUs and other
   similar institutions, albeit they also may be interested in tenure track
   positions at other types of institutions as well.
   - Students from backgrounds that are under-represented in their
   discipline.



By the end of this semester, we plan to identify five students to
participate in the program. All we ask of you at this point is names of
students who meet the above criteria, who you think might be interested.
Please feel free to circulate this email among your colleagues and
students, and discuss the opportunity with them as needed.



Our target date for nominations is October 1st, although we will consider
nominations as they come in, and may continue to consider nominations after
the target date as needed. We will reach out to each nominee to gather
information and determine if there is a matching CSU faculty mentor.



I will be available tomorrow during our first graduate group chairs meeting
to answer questions, and I’m happy to answer questions over email as well.



Best, Chris



Professor Chris Kello

Cognitive and Information Sciences

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

University of California, Merced




-- 
Miriam Barlow
Founding Faculty and Professor
Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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