A free workshop on how to apply for $6,000-$20,000 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG) by the first deadline (15 July 2010) will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, 3 June 2010 in Room L107 of the Marston Science Library on the UF campus. 

The workshop is free and open to the public. No registration is required. 

The presenter is Eric Potsdam, PhD, NSF Linguistics Program Director and UF Linguistics Associate Professor. 

The sponsors are the UF George A. Smathers Libraries Grants Management Program (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/funding/), the UF Innovation through Institutional  Integration Program (http://i3.institutes.ufl.edu/) and the UF Office of Minority Programs (http://gradschool.ufl.edu/diversity/introduction.html). 

The target audience for this workshop are graduate students in Anthropology; Archeology; Decision, Risk & Management Science; Economics; Geography & Spatial Sciences; Law & Social Sciences; Linguistics; Science & Technology; Sociology; and Statistics.