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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Greetings! (pardon the cross-posting)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Announcement: research grant opportunity from the IMLS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">Washington, DC</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">-IMLS is inviting proposals
for special grants for research on informal educational approaches that leverage Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) expertise within communities in the broadest sense. The
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<span style="color:#336666">STEM Expert Facilitation of Family Learning in Libraries and Museums</span></a>, or STEMeX, initiative will provide grants up to $1,000,000 for projects of up to two years.
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The deadline for applications is May 1, 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Complete details are below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Darci<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> IMLS News Release [mailto:imlsnews@imls.gov]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 01, 2016 12:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Darci Hanning <DarciHanning@oslmail.osl.state.or.us><br>
<b>Subject:</b> New Research Grant Opportunity: Announcing the STEM Expert Facilitation of Family Learning in Libraries and Museums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Giuliana Bullard, </span><a href="mailto:gbullard@imls.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">gbullard@imls.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">New Research Grant Opportunity Available from IMLS<br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Announcing the STEM Expert Facilitation of Family Learning in Libraries and Museums</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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for research on informal educational approaches that leverage Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) expertise within communities in the broadest sense. The
</span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tS2iIgiaOtoyHr8IUMZjkEVew_OEKyV9NZZERDqwGGTy950skIOCSPrKqSeFsve3gKy-Vn7UsC9-qmZ1-vsHjA0J6seplIs6YrcFOMTYHSnuLQ1HM989pDQTUmqgBio35OjM0KrIA8B1ONq5ZUfiocU2SrqOBF7uA1pDKbLsV4BRRhCB2749XIJVxD5P8yDlvmyEEaZ2F9bBKM0u7UhUI2iYWsIqDTmUuq8M_N1MYrWyZq2QzXEXtuWUCegwyKCD52WK3FP6TZCxps7HcBpMNtTPnBFCLJyw&c=YCMY572x6u0IZcqNDH4hGFeFT7loVQlwCInZ7YlahhRtbZDQCWTuyg==&ch=527Fjfzpw4cVq3HRqk6MSdi0HG8QeSa0db7WGARgW0tOQ2n6bKGaVg==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">STEM
Expert Facilitation of Family Learning in Libraries and Museums</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">, or STEMeX, initiative will provide grants up to $1,000,000 for projects of up to two years.
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The deadline for applications is May 1, 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">Through STEMeX, IMLS seeks design-based research projects that develop and explore models for inquiry-based STEM programs delivered by scientists, engineers, and
related technical practitioners (STEM experts) to children ages 6-10 and their families. In particular, proposals should address the role of experts' oral narratives (e.g., storytelling, personal histories, and analogies) as part of object-based science inquiry.
Proposals should include information about how findings from this research will be applicable in both museum and library settings. Funded research projects will create a foundation for reaching children and families from diverse geographic, economic, social,
and cultural backgrounds, who have different levels of knowledge about STEM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">This special initiative falls jointly under the National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-Libraries) and National Leadership Grants for Museums (NLG-Museums)
programs. National Leadership grants support projects that address challenges faced by the library and museum fields and that have the potential to advance practice in those fields with new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances
that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">"There is an opportunity to further define best practice models about how scientific and technical experts--whether medical researchers and road engineers or art
conservators and dental hygienists--can successfully engage young children and their families in STEM activities and inspire interest in STEM-based careers. Every community has those experts to draw upon to enhance their informal educational STEM efforts.
That is why I am particularly excited to announce this special funding initiative," said IMLS Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew. "There has already been fruitful and substantive work in this area, enabled by IMLS and others, and this effort will build on those
prior investments. The research from this initiative will focus on maximizing the stories and narratives provided by STEM experts as part of programs offered by museums and libraries."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Eligibility:</span></strong> Museums; libraries; public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, or
associations that engage in activities designed to advance libraries and museums may apply. In addition, institutions of higher education, including public and non-profit universities, are eligible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for FY 2016</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452"> for full details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dr. Sandra Toro, Senior Program Officer, </span><a href="mailto:storo@imls.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">storo@imls.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">,
202-653-4662<br>
Dr. Trevor Owens, Senior Program Officer, </span><a href="mailto:towens@imls.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">towens@imls.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">,
202-653-4654<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Helen Wechsler, Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, </span><a href="mailto:hwechsler@imls.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">hwechsler@imls.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">,
202-653-4779<br>
Sandra Narva, Senior Program Officer, </span><a href="mailto:snarva@imls.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336666">snarva@imls.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4F5452">,
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