AIRS is seeking to award contracts to students to carry out a survey of digital libraries for music and singing. This can include also non-music sites such as consideration of Talkbank, CHILDES, and ComNET (http://talkbank.org/dreams/comnet.pdf) as well as databases for motion capture, and audiovisual speech collections. AIRS is offering $1000 for a single review to be submitted  in draft state by December 1st and revised by March 1st, assuming feedback were provided by December 20th. Provision of an associated organized web-page of  working examples and explanatory information is welcome for an additional $750, that could be added to or linked to the AIRS web-site. Funding will be provided in two equal installments - upon submission of the draft (review and optional web-page), and upon submission of the final product (s).

Note: Submissions are by faculty Co-investigators and Collaborators on behalf of  their students or students who they wish to see supported and are willing to supervise or co-supervise.

AIRS provides support for students interested in conducting research on singing directed toward achieving milestones associated with one or more of  the three main AIRS research themes:  Development, Education, and Well-being.  Each of the themes is divided further into 3 sub-themes. You will soon find the proposal and review form for the Year 4 student funding competition attached to this page. [Forms from Year 3 have to be updated - you may find the Year 3 forms now on the site, as a guide].

In general,  each of the 9  research sub-theme teams will meet to discuss in advance the best strategy for  one or more proposals from the sub-theme that would fund students and at the same time achieve the scheduled milestone goals for the sub-theme. The milestones are detailed in the Milestone Document - found under the Resources menue of the web-site.  Work related to but somewhat outside the milestones can be funded as long as the milestones are being suitably addressed by the sub-theme.