The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.
If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the grant recipients of this year’s Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund (AFDF) application cycle:
| Faculty Member | Department | Title of Project |
| Barry Marshall | Visual and Media Arts | Dany Silva “The Long Road” aka “Caminho Longi” |
| Caitlin McGill | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | YOU REALLY DON’T BELIEVE ME? |
| Cindy Vincent | Visual and Media Arts | NCA Presentation |
| Claire Barliant | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | AWP Conference 2023 |
| Daniel DiPaolo | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | Boston Street Art and Artists: Curating the Heart |
| Erin Trahan | Visual and Media Arts | Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference |
| Livia Meneghin | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | Dodge Poetry Festival: Conference Travel, Registration, & Accommodation for Writing and Teaching WLP Professional Development |
| Marie-Emmanuelle Thomas Hartness | Visual and Media Arts | Attending Story Expo 2023 |
| Mark Brodie | Communication Studies | Southern of Our Border: Civic Diplomacy in Action |
| Michael Lueger | Performing Arts | The Theatre History Podcast |
| Mina Cho | Performing Arts | Pan’tata Project II <Samulnori Fantasy: Seasons> |
| Nerissa Williams Scott | Marketing Communication | Women of Color should go to Film Festivals to Network |
| Patrick Marshall | Visual and Media Arts | A Letter to Eric Anthamatten from the Rothko Chapel |
| Paul Haney | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | A View from the Rails: Mass Transportation, Masculinity, and the American Dream |
| Paulina MacNeil | Visual and Media Arts | Autofictional Short Film on Cape Breton Island |
| Rani Neutill | Writing, Literature, and Publishing | BTS : The Third Global Interdisciplinary Conference in Seoul |
| Sarah Ploskina | Performing Arts | SXSW.EDU Annual Conference |
About the AFDF: The Affiliated Faculty Professional Development Fund supports the scholarly and creative activities of the affiliated faculty members of Emerson College. The Office of Academic Affairs administers the fund.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award: Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Ruth Grossman and Visual and Media Arts assistant professor Julia Halperin.
A professor and former Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Dr. Ruth Grossman‘s research is focused on various aspects of face-to-face communication in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She is specifically interested in how children with ASD integrate and produce verbal and nonverbal information, such as facial expressions and prosody. She will use the Mann Stearns Award to establish an international network of autism research labs to lay the foundation for multi lingual/multi-cultural research, which will include the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Julia Halperin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts, and a filmmaker who works in multiple formats. Her cinematic interests include twisting and elevating genre, using landscape to externalize character, and disrupting narrative expectations. Her feature films have been premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and the Film Festival Rotterdman, have been nominated for several awards, and included in several critics’ best-of lists. With the Mann Stearns Award, she will submit her newest feature, Crookedfinger, for screening at a premier-class film festival and work to secure broader distribution.
About the Mann Stearns Award: Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Emerson alumna Irma Mann Stearns ’67 established a distinguished faculty award to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to at least one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.
As we head into the summer season, it’s a good time to start thinking ahead to the fall, when a lot of fellowship applications are due. Fellowships have deadlines all year, but a large majority are due in the fall (September through December) for the following academic year.
This post provides examples of some fellowships of interest to Emerson faculty that are due this fall.
For more information about fellowships, how they can supplement a pre-tenure or sabbatical leave, or when to apply for one, please contact us at orcs@emerson.edu.
Fellowship Name
Discipline/Topic
Deadline
Arts, humanities, sciences & social sciences
September 8, 2022
Humanities, theme-based. Check back for 2023 theme
September 20, 2022
residential fellowship at Stanford Humanities Center
October 1, 2022
Historical studies, social sciences, sciences, math; residential fellowship
October 15, 2022
minority faculty; commitment to racial justice
mid-October 2022
junior faculty; funds projects that will make field/campus more inclusive
December 1, 2022
American history; theme-based. Check back for 2023 theme
December 2022
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.
If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.
If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.
In June 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that clarifies and revises how a non-profit organization may account for “contributions of cash and other assets received” from an external entity. It is meant to reduce “diversity in practice” and improve guidance as to whether a transfer of assets is a contribution or an exchange transaction.
Based on this guidance, the Office of the Controller at Emerson College has determined that certain awards that were previously classified as “grants” or “agreements” may now be classified as contributions, and accounted for as “conditional (or restricted) gifts”. The basis for this is the FASB’s contention that, unlike an exchange transaction (e.g. a fixed-price service contract), contributions are not contingent on a specified level of service, identified number of units of output, or a specific outcome. They nonetheless may still contain stipulations previously associated with grants, including:
In contrast, an “unrestricted gift” does not include any such requirements.
While the College is modifying how it classifies and records the revenue from contributions, the change in classification does not negate whatever requirements a sponsor may include in an award’s terms and conditions. Accordingly, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs has stipulated that restricted gifts shall continue to be managed by the College with the same oversight and accounting standards that were applied when they were deemed grants or contracts. Specifically, this means the following:
For more information on this guidance, please contact ORCS at orcs@emerson.edu. Details on the FASB’s updated guidance may be found here.
In accordance with Important Notice No. 147, many National Science Foundation (NSF) program solicitations now require the use of Research.gov for the preparation and submission of proposals. Please be advised that NSF will now start requiring the use of Research.gov for the preparation and submission of proposals in response to program descriptions. As a reminder, FastLane is targeted to be removed as a submission option from all funding opportunities when the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) goes into effect in January 2023. Grants.gov will remain a submission option for most NSF proposals.
Program Descriptions in Research.gov
To assist the research community, NSF developed a dynamic listing of program descriptions that require submission in Research.gov. Follow these steps to determine if your proposal for a specific program description must be prepared and submitted in Research.gov
The document will identify program descriptions requiring Research.gov preparation and submission and the associated effective date. This document will be updated on an ongoing basis as FastLane will be removed from all program descriptions as a proposal preparation and submission option when the PAPPG goes into effect in January 2023.
Since many program solicitations also require submission in Research.gov, proposers should pay close attention to the requirements identified in those specific funding opportunities.
Research.gov Proposal Capabilities and Transition from FastLane Proposal Preparation
Nearly all FastLane proposal preparation and submission capabilities are now available in Research.gov. For details about the remaining proposal features that will soon be added to Research.gov, please see the Proposal Submission Capabilities table on the Research.govAbout Proposal Preparation and Submission page. To stay informed about Research.gov and FastLane changes, we invite you to join our System Updates listserv. Sign up by sending a blank email to: system_updates-subscribe-request@listserv.nsf.gov.
NSF strongly encourages proposers to prepare and submit all supported proposals in Research.gov now, to facilitate a smooth transition from FastLane proposal preparation to Research.gov over the next several months. In addition, NSF relies on your vital feedback to help ensure the system is working as intended and to identify areas of improvement. Feedback may be submitted at https://www.research.gov/research-web/feedback.
Research.gov Proposal Preparation and Submission Training Resources
Questions? If you have IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-381-1532 (7:00 AM – 9:00 PM ET; Monday – Friday except federal holidays) or via rgov@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.
Several years ago, the late Dr. Norman Stearns and Irma Mann Stearns ’67 established a distinguished faculty award in their name to honor a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in recognition of outstanding scholarly or creative achievement. A $3,000 award is presented annually to one applicant. This funding may be used to enhance an ongoing project or for the development of a new scholarly or creative endeavor. Travel is strongly encouraged to be a part of the project activity.
The Mann Stearns Award must be utilized between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. The application and selection period is as follows:
Please submit your Internal Funding Proposal – Pre-Approval Form to the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship by March 21, 2022 For information and instructions on ORCS’s K2-based pre-approval form, please click here.
Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members are eligible to apply for the Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award.
In evaluating proposals, the committee will consider:
All applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Development and Research Council (FDRC), and with input from department Chairs, school Deans, and Academic Affairs. The FDRC will make the final recommendations to the Provost for funding. The Provost’s selections are final.
This year, we have migrated the application packet to Google Forms. The advantages to this format include:
After you have submitted your pre-approval, you will be sent the link for the Mann Stearns application form. After you submit your proposal, you will receive a copy of your responses via email, and will have until April 4, 2022, to make any changes.
Applicants may include supplemental materials (publications, PDFs, media) that support their proposals with their submissions.
In addition to the application form and supplemental materials, a two-page curriculum vita should be included with each submission.
| DATE | EVENT |
|---|---|
| March 7, 2022 | Norman & Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award is announced. |
| March 21, 2022 | Internal Pre-Approval Form due to ORCS. |
| April 4, 2022 | Applications due via Google Forms (link emailed after receipt of internal pre-approval form). |
| By April 21, 2022 | The FDRC will evaluate all proposals and make recommendations to the Provost for funding. |
| By May 3, 2022 | The Provost, in consideration of the recommendations provided by the FDRC, along with feedback from Department Chairs and School Deans, will make final selections |
| By May 6, 2022 | Recipient(s) are notified that they are receiving the award. |
| July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 | Grant Period |
| June 15, 2023 | Receipts for expenditures needing reimbursement must be submitted via Workday by this date. |
A final written report is not required, but the successful applicant is expected to meet with members of the Mann Stearns family and other members of Emerson College to discuss the final outcome and deliverables.
The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship has been spotlighting faculty on Twitter. Follow @Emerson_ORCS to see our posts tagged with #EC_FacultySpotlight.
If you have new creative or scholarly work that you would like to share and would like to be spotlighted, or know of a faculty colleague who we should recognize, you may email us at orcs@emerson.edu.
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