A funding opportunity that may be of interest to members of our section. Dr. Gina Neff Department of Communication University of Washington Chair, Communication and Information Technology Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association From: Werum, Regina E. [mailto:rwerum@nsf.gov] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:05 AM To: Gina Neff Cc: Meyer, Katherine; Werum, Regina E. Subject: NSF Funding Opportunity: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Importance: High Dear Gina, Would you please announce this time-sensitive NSF funding opportunity to your ASA section members? The application deadlines are in January 2012; a webinar on the application process for this new solicitation is tomorrow, December 2. Sincerely, Regina Werum and Katherine Meyer Program Directors, Sociology Division of Social and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230 Office: 703-292-8762 FAX: 703-292-9068 From: Muhlberger, Peter Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:07 AM To: SBE Program Officers Subject: NSF Funding Opportunity: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Hi folks: I'm trying to get research community interest in a new, interdisciplinary funding opportunity-Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). We have a fair amount of money and need decent proposals very soon. As a growth area for funding, SaTC may prove quite helpful to researchers in a range of SBE sciences. I'd really appreciate it if you could redistribute the following general announcement to any distribution list / listserv that reach potential PIs in your fields. The announcement mentions a Webinar about SaTC this Friday. Cheers, Peter Hello: The National Science Foundation has announced a new program called Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). The program is open to receiving grant proposals and has a special interest in Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences (SBE) science research. The program is managed by three Directorates at the NSF, the Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences (SBE), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI). Computer science and applied SBE science work should be submitted to CISE. Proposals that facilitate a transition from research to practice should be submitted to OCI. Proposals which both contribute to cybersecurity and advance basic SBE science research should be submitted to SBE. Proposals can also be submitted to multiple Directorates and co-reviewed if appropriate. Successful SBE submissions will involve contributions to rather than applications of the SBE sciences. SBE-submitted SaTC proposals should help develop new knowledge or methods that contribute to the SBE sciences, while helping to develop a secure and trustworthy cyberspace. In addition, SBE / SaTC is interested in proposals for workshops and other intellectual engagements that may advance SBE science efforts in the cybersecurity field. You can learn more about the SaTC program via our solicitation: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12503/nsf12503.htm We are holding a Webinar this Friday, Dec. 2, 1pm EST, to further describe the program and answer questions about it. If you are interested, please register, ideally by end-of-day Dec. 1, at the following URL. Registration is partly manual, so do not expect immediate acceptance. If requests exceed capacity, some requests would be denied. After your registration is accepted, you will get an email with a URL to join the Webinar. https://mmancusa.webex.com/mmancusa/j.php?ED=17189938&RG=1&UID=0&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D We will also be releasing a FAQ about the SBE portion of the program shortly. Finally, we are seeking to hold online and face-to-face events to introduce social scientists and computer scientists to each other and their work, offering an opportunity to network and to identify potential collaborations. These events will take place after proposals are due for the current solicitation, but may be useful for any planned 2013 submissions. If you are interested in being contacted about the SaTC program and any of these future events, please email Matt Pines at mpines@nsf.gov<mailto:mpines@nsf.gov>. Please include your name, the email address at which you would like to be contacted, your academic field, and your professional affiliation. He will add you to our mailing list for SBE / SaTC, and you will receive notice of these future events. Please feel free to share this email with anyone who might be interested in the program. Similarly, please contact me if I can provide any additional information about the program. I look forward to seeing your submissions. Regards, Peter Muhlberger Program Director, SBE / SATC National Science Foundation