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CAS Announces Program of Excellence Competition
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The College is pleased to announce that it has secured funding to name a new Program of Excellence (POE) this spring.  The winning program of this highly competitive award will receive up to $25,000 in funding. The new Program of Excellence will join four existing POEs in the College: The Scholar-Educator Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Neuroscience and Behavior; Biomathematics: MS Sequence and Cross-Disciplinary Research at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics; The Mind Project Learning and Research Center; and Nanotechnology Education and Research. “I am excited about the opportunity to add another truly innovative and cutting-edge Program of Excellence that will bring great distinction to the College and Illinois State University,"said Dean Olson. “Our four existing programs, named last year, have already begun to raise our profile; in fact, one program is in the final stages of securing a major research grant that we hope to announce this spring.”

 The guidelines for the Program of Excellence specify that the program should be clearly interdisciplinary, drawing substantially on the disciplinary expertise of two or more academic departments. Unique and innovative disciplinary collaborations are highly encouraged, even those across collegial borders. The program itself should be clearly distinctive, unlike any other program in the state of Illinois. As such, the program should attract considerable national attention. The proposed program should draw on existing personnel and resources as much as possible and demonstrate the potential for the program to secure external funding. The program may be an undergraduate or graduate certificate program, a new minor, a new sequence in an existing major, or a program devoted exclusively to primary research.

For more information visit http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/faculty/programofexcellence.htm. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 10.

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