Searle Scholars Internal Competition We are pleased to announce that the Searle Scholars Program has again invited Loyola University Chicago to participate in its annual competition, which is focused on supporting independent research for “exceptional young scientists” who have been recently appointed as assistant professor in a tenure-track.
NEH Summer Stipend Internal Competition The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends program (http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html) has a deadline this year of September 26, 2013. Even though proposals are submitted directly by applicants to NEH (through grants.gov), each proposal needs a university endorsement and there can only be at most two endorsements per institution. Thus ORS is running an internal pre-proposal process in order to select the two candidates most likely to be successful in securing the funding.
A new policy, along with procedures, for ordering, handling, and disposing of controlled substances at the lakeside campuses has been approved by Provost Pelissero and is now posted on the ORS website at