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How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal

Led by Center for Research on Families (CRF) Director Maureen Perry-Jenkins and Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Director Laurel Smith-Doerr, prospective applicants for the faculty Scholars Programs at CRF and ISSR will receive guidance on the application process, which program to apply to, and what reviewers will be looking for in competitive applications for the spring application deadline {TBA January 2018}. Free and open to UMass and Five Colleges Social Science faculty. Lunch will be provided.

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How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal

Led by Center for Research on Families (CRF) Affiliate Lisa Harvey and Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Director Laurel Smith-Doerr, prospective applicants for the faculty Scholars Programs at CRF and ISSR will receive guidance on the application process, which program to apply to, and what reviewers will be looking for in competitive applications for the spring 2016 application deadline.

 

 

The Development of Multisensory Communication Skills in Infancy

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Our everyday world is specified by multiple, concurrent, and often highly redundant multisensory inputs. Infants must be able to process, integrate, and understand such inputs if they are to respond appropriately to communicative signals. In this talk, I will discuss two main lines of research in my laboratory that shed light on when and how this ability develops: (a) the development of sequence learning, and (b) the development of multi-sensory selective attention.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Developmental Science Program in the Department of Psychological &...

How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal

scholars

Led by Center for Research on Families (CRF) Director Maureen Perry-Jenkins and Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Director Laurel Smith-Doerr, prospective applicants for the faculty Scholars Programs at CRF and ISSR will receive guidance on the application process, which program to apply to, and what reviewers will be looking for in competitive applications for the spring 2015 application deadline.

A light lunch will be provided.   *This seminar is meant for faculty only.

How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal

CRF IISR scholar shot

Led by Center for Research on Families (CRF) Director Maureen Perry-Jenkins and Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Director Laurel Smith-Doerr, prospective applicants for the faculty Scholars Programs at CRF and ISSR will receive guidance on the application process, which program to apply to, and what reviewers will be looking for in competitive applications for the spring 2015 application deadline.

*This seminar is meant for faculty only. A light lunch will be provided.

Will I Ever Publish Again?...And Other Challenges for PIs.

One of the greatest challenges to running a grant is remembering that it is really "all about the research".  It is very easy to get caught up in the every day administration and personnel issues and put off the analyses and writing that are necessary to be successful.

If you currently are a Principal Investigator of a grant and you have found yourself asking....Am I ever going to be able to write again?What do I do when I have no accomplishments to list in my first year continuation report? ...