Registration is now open for the 80th Annual MPSA Conference! Reduced registration rates are available to MPSA members and to those who reserve a room at one of the official conference hotels.

Attendees have the flexibility to change their registration status from in-person to virtual (or vice versa) if their plans change. In order to minimize any changes to the program, all panels, roundtables, lightning talks and working groups will feature a hybrid format (for in-person or virtual participation) and will be broadcast in real time. Poster sessions are available for in-person participation only.

To ensure you receive the best conference registration rate:

1. Check to see if your membership is active through April 30, 2023 to get member pricing. Login to your account to check your membership status, and join the MPSA/renew your membership before registering for the conference.
2. Book your hotel accommodations in an official MPSA hotel to receive the in-hotel registration rate. If you are planning to participate virtually, you will automatically receive the lower in-hotel rate. Unsure about the length of your stay? Book as many nights as you want in order to secure the reduced rate, and then drop any extra unneeded room nights before the cutoff date. Please be aware if you register for the conference at the lower in-hotel rate but are not a registered guest in an official conference hotel, you will be billed for the difference between the in-hotel and out-of-hotel rates. If more than one person is staying in the room, make sure everyone’s name is on the reservation or your conference registration rate will be adjusted.
3. Register by the deadline of March 29, 2023 to get regular registration rate pricing.

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ACJS 60th Annual Meeting, March 14 – 18, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. ACJS President Denise Paquette Boots is excited to bring you a content rich program focused on “60 Years of ACJS: Critical Connections between Civil Rights, Crime, and Social Justice.” She and the 2023 program committee chairs have worked hard to assemble topic areas within the Criminal Justice Sciences that are timely and relevant. Whether you are in academia or a practitioner, there is something for everyone.

Through this new initiative, the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) and the newly established Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) seek to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics). As NSF seeks to support the development of technologies in such fields, similar support will be needed to foster and grow a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce to contribute to such innovation. Large scale societal challenges like climate change and clean energy also require a STEM workforce that brings varied perspectives and expertise to further accelerate the translation of science and engineering discoveries into large-scale solutions. Moreover, as current and new emerging technologies continue to evolve, unforeseen issues around security, safety and privacy will impact the preparation of the workforce. Emerging technologies are also dynamic and rapidly changing, with career entry and advancement often requiring “learning-by-doing” experience, even for those with some STEM education. Therefore, NSF recognizes that a competitive emerging technology workforce must include individuals from traditional and nontraditional education pathways as well as those individuals who may have “stopped” out of traditional educational pathways.

The ExLENT program will support inclusive experiential learning opportunities designed to provide cohorts of diverse learners with the crucial skills needed to succeed in emerging technology fields and prepare them to enter the workforce ready to solve our Nation’s most pressing scientific and societal challenges. Furthermore, the ExLENT program will directly support NSF’s priority to build a diverse workforce¹ in emerging technologies to assure the Nation’s competitiveness in STEM.

Key goals of the program are to (1) expand access to career-enhancing experiential learning opportunities for a broader, more diverse population, including adult learners interested in re-skilling and/or upskilling (e.g., those who face or who have faced significant barriers to accessing a formal STEM education); (2) promote cross sector partnerships between organizations in emerging technology fields and those with expertise in workforce development; and (3) develop a workforce aligned with regional economies based on emerging technologies across the Nation, in alignment with the mission of the TIP Directorate.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites social, economic, and behavioral scientists to submit proposals to the Analytics for Equity Initiative. The Initiative seeks to leverage existing publicly available federal data, existing restricted-use data from federal statistical agencies, and other relevant existing publicly available data and scientific advances in researching equity-related topics for greater public benefit. It is designed to produce rigorous empirical research that federal agencies and other organizations can use to increase the impact of equity-focused evidence-based strategies.

NSF is issuing this opportunity as a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to provide research opportunities to a broad range of U.S. universities and other institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, and for-profit businesses, and their partners. A parallel BAA provides increased opportunities for proposals that are led by minority serving institutions and small businesses.
NOTE: Proposals led by minority serving institutions and small businesses can be submitted in response to either or both BAAs.

All submissions are due by 5PM EST, March 3, 2023 and shall be submitted via https://baam.nsf.gov/s/. For technical support, offerors can contact the BAAM helpdesk at BAAMSupport@nsf.gov.  For general questions related to this BAA, offerors can contact the Contracting Officer, Destiny Phillip at dphillip@nsf.gov.

This solicitation is a funding opportunity for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).

All proposers must receive an official invitation via the Concept Outline process to submit a full proposal to this solicitation. The Concept Outline gives NSF the ability to review for appropriateness to the program objectives prior to the full proposal submission process, ensuring that proposers do not expend time or resources preparing full proposals that do not have strong potential to be responsive to the program objectives as found in solicitation-specific review criteria. Details regarding this process as well as how to submit a Concept Outline can be found in section V.A of this document.

The ExpandAI program has recurring submission windows. Unlike deadlines, submission windows allow proposers the flexibility to submit a full proposal at any time during the specific dates listed at the top of this document. On each submission window closing date, the proposal submission system will shut down at 5:00 p.m. submitter’s local time. The system will then reopen for new submissions the morning of the next window, with the exception of the final submission window.

Innovating and migrating proposal preparation and submission capabilities from FastLane to Research.gov is part of the ongoing NSF information technology modernization efforts, as described in Important Notice No. 147. In support of these efforts, proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation must be prepared and submitted via Research.gov or via Grants.gov and may not be prepared or submitted via FastLane. Due to the unique nature of this program, full proposal preparation and submission through Research.gov is strongly encouraged.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation should be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is regularly revised and it is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets the requirements specified in this solicitation and the applicable version of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for investigator-initiated research examining how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy interventions at any point during the administration of justice from two categories of researchers:

1. Category 1: W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars – Researchers who are advanced in their careers (awarded a terminal degree at least seven years prior to December 31, 2022) may apply for grants for research, evaluation, and mentoring of less-experienced researchers.
2. Category 2: W.E.B. Du Bois Fellows – Researchers who are early in their careers (awarded a terminal degree within seven years of December 31, 2022) may apply for grants for research and evaluation.

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.

Awards are based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways. The application should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand his or her expertise. The research plan should evolve in conjunction with the development of new expertise, and the mentoring plan should describe how the proposed mentors will support applicants in acquiring that expertise. Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas.