We congratulate this year's winners of the President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching. They are:

Full-time Faculty:
Peter Conolly-Smith, History
Yin Mei Critchell , Drama, Theatre & Dance
Jeff Maskovsky, Urban Studies

Adjunct Faculty:
Peter Novick, Biology
Doreen Schmitt, Anthropology
Jennifer Stengel-Mohr, Linguistics & Communication Disorders

Continuing Education Faculty (new award)
Brian H. Lowy, Paralegal Studies

Many congratulations also to this year's recipient of a President's Grant for Innovative Teaching Projects:
Carol S. Rhodes, Secondary Education & Youth Services, for a project titled: "Beyond the College Walls: A Technology Enhanced Collaborative Professional Learning Community"

For a list of previous recipients of these teaching awards:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/resources/awards.html

Proposals for student technology-fee funded projects are currently being solicited. Guidelines for projects are available at:

https://myqc.qc.cuny.edu/AdminServices/OCT/Tech%20Fee/default.aspx

(The page requires login with an Active Directory account.)

The deadline for proposals is December 16, 2009.

The 2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge is an essay competition for undergraduate students at CUNY. Students are invited to submit essays (1000 to 1500 words) describing this year's Nobel science awards: physiology/medicine; physics; chemistry; economics. Prizes (three in each category): Apple iMac, Dell Mini 10 Netbook, Amazon Kindle.

For more details on the contest:
http://cuny.edu/research/CUNY-Nobel-Science-Challenge.html

To read about the 2009 Nobel Prize winners:
http://nobelprize.org/

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning are pleased to announce an initiative to promote Undergraduate Research and Mentoring at Queens College during the Spring 2010 semester. The initiative will fund outstanding activities in which undergraduates and faculty collaborate in research or other scholarly or creative work. Faculty from all academic disciplines are invited to apply.

Details on the initiative, the application form, and online submission page are available at:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/urmi.

The Making Connections National Resource Center has announced a call for participation in Year 3 of its highly successful ePortfolio mini-grant and seminar program.

The focus this year is on ePortfolios in professional programs, such as Fine Arts & Design, New Media Studies, Journalism, Engineering, Environmental Science. ePortfolios created by students in such programs could be presented to potential employers. Applications focused on General Education are also encouraged.

The deadline to apply for the program is Thursday, November 19, 2009.

For more information, and application materials: http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/connections/cohort3.htm

The CUNY Pipeline Program has just released a call for proposals for students to participate in the 2010 Annual CUNY Pipeline Program Conference, scheduled for February 19, 2010.

Honors students from all CUNY campuses are invited to contribute to the conference, in one of three presentation formats: individual podium presentation, poster presentation, creative performance. See full details in the call for proposals. The deadline to submit an abstract---and a faculty approval form---is December 21, 2009.

This program, from the Hunter College Gender Equity Project, is for women in the natural or social sciences, mathematics and statistics, or engineering, looking to submit a grant application to a federal funding agency by July 2010. Participants get:

* A course release to allow sufficient proposal preparation time
* An intensive 4-hour grant writing seminar at Hunter (Date: 15 December 2009)
* Feedback on grant proposal drafts from experts
* Regular advice and encouragement from the GEP

The program is limited to six participants. Selection will be competitive.

Application Deadline: 2 November 2009

Details and application procedures: http://web.cuny.edu/research/gep/gep-grant.html

Contact: gender.equity@hunter.cuny.edu

The Hostos Center for Teaching and Learning and Office of Academic Affairs are calling for participants in a one-year interdisciplinary multi-campus initiative supported by an NEH grant. The activity will bring together faculty participants from across CUNY, to:

* promote the teaching of the humanities;

* help faculty develop syllabi and curricula that unify students' academic experience;

* generate ideas for first-year inquiry and capstone courses.

Participants will receive stipends to attend a workshop (Friday-Saturday October 23-24, 2009), 5 lectures/seminars during the 2009-2010 academic year, and a culminating workshop in May 2010. All events will be held at Hostos.

Application deadline: October 9, 2009.

For more information, and to complete the brief application: http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/oaa/neh/
or contact the project co-directors:
Andrea Fabrizio, Assistant Professor, English, Hostos CC., (718) 518-6697
Gregory Marks, Assistant Professor, English, Hostos CC. (718) 319-7958

The Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography encourages CUNY faculty working on biographies to apply for writing fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011. Four fellowships are offered each year, one of which is earmarked for a member of the CUNY faculty. Resident fellows receive a stipend of $60,000 and writing space, and are able to participate in the Biography Seminar. Applications are solicited from biographers including novelists, poets, journalists, graphic novelists and those working in other innovative formats.


For more information, and the application and guidelines, visit http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org.


The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch is offering a Communication Fellowship for qualified applicants who have substantial research and grant writing experience. This fellowship will pay approximately $23,000/yr and include full family health, dental and prescription benefits for qualified applicants (on a modified college assistant line).

If interested, please forward a CV and a cover letter via email to Dr. Mikhail Gershovich, Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute. Mikhail.Gershovich@baruch.cuny.edu (646 312 2062).

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