History of Medicine Grants

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Residency Research Grant Call for Applications

Terms of the Grant: Scholars at all ranks may apply for a residency research grant for one semester or for the full academic year. These grants are supplementary and presume scholars have sabbatical or other means of support. For those within driving distance of Ann Arbor, grants may be combined with a regular teaching position and can be used to defray the costs of travel to and from Ann Arbor for Institute events. These awards carry a travel and research allowance of $5,000 per semester for a maximum of $10,000 for the academic year.* The grant also includes library privileges, work space, and the expectation of regular participation in bi-weekly Institute seminars and colloquia. Applicants for the Residency Research Grants should explain briefly how their work might fit with our theme (description below). For further information on the Institute, please visit our website: www.lsa.umich.edu/eihs.

Theme for 2010-2011: Paucity & Plenty, Enactments & Expectations.

As the global collapse of financial markets draws our attention to the stark contrasts between paucity and plenty across the world, it also renders visible the extent to which human actions, perceptions, and expectations shape these conditions. With this theme we aim to historicize scarcity and abundance, and to problematize their diverse historical expressions: economic, environmental, spatial, temporal, legal, social, cultural, and spiritual. We reconsider the tensions of poverty, deprivation, wealth, and excess—the preoccupations of an older economic and social history—aided by the questions, methods, and insights of the cultural and transnational historiographic turns. This theme presents an opportunity to explore new approaches to familiar historical questions, widening the terms of abundance and scarcity to encompass an examination of changing forms of material and immaterial production, environmental scarcity and engagement, disasters of famine and drought, and crises of bodies, health and medicine, along with the forms of social inequality and social movements they have produced. The study of paucity and plenty can be pursued at different scales: within intimate domains, inside states or nations, or across larger geographically dispersed networks, including new forms of empire—each with its own unequal relations and distributions of resources, goods, value, and practices. This theme also offers occasion to contemplate the role of the imaginary and the performative: displays of difference in wealth and status, the enactment of sumptuary laws, the meanings of decadence and indulgence, consumption and waste, specters of futures and pasts, and the enforcement of regimes of paucity within cultures of plenty.

Applications for 2010-11 must be submitted electronically by 8 March 2010 to eisenberginstitute@umich.edu. Selected recipients will be notified by 1 April 2010.

Applications should include:
• a letter explaining your interest in the Residency Research Grant. Please indicate clearly the period for which you are applying for residency – fall semester, winter semester or the full academic year.
• a research statement of 500-750 words.
• a short CV.

Questions may be directed to Ron Suny, Director or Shannon Rolston, Program Coordinator.

*Please note that this income is taxable.

Contact Info:
Electronic applications accepted only on or before 8 March 2010 at:

eisenberginstitute@umich.edu
Further Information:

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eihs

Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation Scientific Essay Contest

The Scientific Essay Contest recognizes the authors of essays that address timely and important plastic surgery topics. To encourage general understanding of issues impacting the practice of plastic surgery, the essays submitted to the Scientific Essay Contest are written to communicate to a broad audience. The Contest is comprised of four categories which include: basic science research, clinical research, investigator and the theory, history, ethics or socioeconomic issues in the art and science of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Essays must be submitted in .pdf format to research@plasticsurgery.org no later than 11:59 pm (Eastern) on March 15, 2010.

2010 Essay Categories
BASIC SCIENCE ESSAYS $3,000
This category encompasses the spectrum of basic science research as it relates to cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, e.g., anatomy, biology and physiology. Junior and Senior award winners in the Basic Science Category will each receive a cash award of $3,000.

The Annual Bernard G. Sarnat, MD
Basic Science Award – JUNIOR
The applicant is a plastic surgery resident now, or a plastic surgeon who has completed an accredited residency in plastic surgery less than five years prior to the submission of the essay.

The Annual Bernard G. Sarnat, MD
Basic Science Award – SENIOR
The applicant is a plastic surgeon who has completed an accredited plastic surgery residency more than five years prior to the submission of the essay.

ART AND SCIENCE ESSAY
One prize will be awarded in the Art and Science Category. The author is a plastic surgery resident or a junior or senior level plastic surgeon at the time of submission of the essay. Essays submitted in the Art and Science
Category will focus on theory, history, ethics, socio-economic issues related to the art and science of plastic and reconstructive surgery. A single prize will be awarded in the Art and Science Category and the recipient will receive a plaque.

CLINICAL RESEARCH ESSAYS
This category pertains to the study of patient-related conditions relative to plastic surgery practice, e.g., new techniques, treatment algorithm or surgical outcomes. Junior and Senior award winners in the
Clinical Research Category will receive a plaque.

Clinical Research – JUNIOR
The author is a plastic surgery resident or a plastic surgeon who will have completed an accredited plastic surgery residency less than five years prior to the submission of the essay.

Clinical Research – SENIOR
The author is a plastic surgeon who has completed an accredited plastic surgery residency more than five years prior to the submission of the essay.

INVESTIGATOR ESSAYS
$1,500, $1,000 and $500
First, second and third prizes will be offered in the Investigator Category. This category is open to medical students, nurses, therapists, and PhDs, as well as non-plastic surgery physicians doing medical research that has cross-over applicability to plastic surgery.

Essays in this category can focus on any basic science or clinical research work related to cosmetic and  econstructive surgery. The first, second and third prize winners will each receive a cash award. These awards are
underwritten by the D. Ralph Millard Plastic Surgical Society.

If you need additional information, please contact the ASPS/PSEF Research and Grants Associate at the ASPS Executive Office at 847-228-9900 or email research@plasticsurgery.org.

American Society of Plastic Surgeons Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation
847-228-9900
444 E. Algonquin Rd.
Arlington Heights, IL 60005

Call for 2010-11 Mellon Sawyer Fellowship - Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects

Receipt deadline: March 1, 2010

The Sawyer Seminar and the Institute of Advanced Study at Indiana University will award one Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowships for a one-year appointment beginning July 1, 2010. The Fellow will receive a stipend of $40,000 per year, as well as health insurance and an allowance for relocation. This Sawyer Seminar is based in science and technology studies and focuses specifically on how facts and technologies circulate among diverse communities of producers and consumers, acquiring or losing credibility and utility as they move. We will explore questions including: How has the treatment of failure and errors changed the practice of science across disciplines and over time? How and why do cultural, social and material forces interrupt or thwart the circulation of technoscientific knowledge and objects, and with what consequences for what kinds of communities? How do social, cultural, political, and legal barriers influence technological change historically and geographically? How is the increasing use of lay-produced science shifting what is acknowledged and implemented in scientific practice and policy? Applicants for this postdoctoral fellowship must have research projects that speak to the concerns raised by the circulation of technoscientific knowledge and objects, and the possibilities and consequences of interrupting, reorienting, or preventing this circulation. Besides pursuing his or her own research, the fellowship recipient will play an active role in the intellectual life of the Sawyer Seminar by helping to organize an ongoing seminar series and four workshops. There will be no teaching responsibilities.

Selection Process
Each proposal will be evaluated by the conveners of the Sawyer Seminar, an interdisciplinary group of IU faculty. The primary evaluation criteria will be intellectual fit with the core ideas of the Seminar, and the promise of the proposed research project, including prospects for publication and significant advances in tangible research. We strongly recommend applicants read the full proposal, available at http://sawyer.indiana.edu before beginning their application. Applicants will be notified of fellowship decisions in May 2010.

Requirements
Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. in STS, Sociology, Informatics, Geography, History, English, Anthropology, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, or other related fields no earlier than June 30, 2005 and no later than August 1, 2010. We require proof that the fellow has received a Ph.D. degree before taking up residence. Applicants are welcome to send paper copies by mail or delivery to -

Ivona Hedin, Institute for Advanced Study,
Poplars 335, 400 E. 7th Street , Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

The application should include:

* 1000-word research project proposal and one-page bibliography, in language appropriate for a multi- disciplinary panel. Please double-space and use 12-point type.
* 250-word statement of the project's potential contribution to Indiana University's Sawyer seminar
* Curriculum vitae
* Three letters of recommendation

Fellowship recipients cannot currently hold a tenure-track position.

Notes and Records of the Royal Society Essay Award

This is open to young researchers in the history of science who have completed a postgraduate degree within the last five years. The unpublished essay, based on original research, should relate to aspects of the history of science covered by the journal.

The winning entry will be chosen by the Notes and Records Editorial Board using the journal's standard criteria for selection (i.e. excellence and interest to a wide audience) and will be published in the journal.

The award is to consist of:

* A cash prize of £500
* Publication of the winning entry in Notes and Records
* A year's subscription to Notes and Records

Timetable
Deadline for submission of essay is 31st March 2010

Terms and conditions
The essay should be no more than 8000 words in length, including references, and should reflect the style guidelines of the journal.

It should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. It must be written in English.

The essay must be submitted electronically to notes@royalsociety.org

The submission must be accompanied by a covering message confirming the postgraduate degree title and where and when it was awarded.

Entries will be subject to the normal standards of refereeing and editorial review.

There will be a single prize-winner and no runners-up. However, authors other than the winner may be invited to publish their work in Notes and Records, if the judges of the essay award and the editorial board consider such work to be of sufficient quality.

If no essay is deemed of a suitable standard, no award will be made. The judges' decision will be final.

Further details including how to enter are available from the Notes and Records website rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org