Dear Colleagues, Happy new year to all! Just wanted to send a quick reminder that the *DEADLINE* for both the *CBI Tomash Fellowship* (including supporting material), and applications for *CBI Norberg Grants* are due midnight (Central Time Zone/Minneapolis) *this Friday 1/15/2021*. As I wrote prior, the Norberg Grant parameters/mechanism is being changed this year to foster/support remote usage (not a travel reimbursement this year given the pandemic and closed reading room at our library). This will mean more grants, and a lesser amount ($400) for remote use of our collections (essentially a scanning reimbursement allowance). This can be a great way to augment an existing research project with one or a number of our 300 plus collections on computing/software/networking and social, cultural, political, institutional contexts, or launch a new project idea (grants must be used in calendar 2021, scanning orders in place by Oct. 31). Along with discussion of your project in your Norberg Grant application, all competitive applications will have clearly identified CBI collections of interest based on reviewing CBI finding aids (database of our finding aids is at Charles Babbage Institute Archives · University of Minnesota Libraries (umn.edu) <https://www.lib.umn.edu/cbia>. On a collection page in the database/Archives Space, clicking the "print" icon yields the full PDF of a finding aid for the collection (finding aids range between several pages for small collections, and well over a hundred pages for our largest collections). ABD students in any discipline doing a historical based study of computing/information technology are eligible to apply for the Tomash Dissertation Fellowship. Norberg grants support interdisciplinary research also. While eligible to all ranks (and to nonacademics), most grants generally are awarded to graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty/equivalent. Information and requirements: Tomash Fellowship CBI Research Program: Tomash Fellowship (umn.edu) <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/tfellowship.html> Norberg Grants CBI Research Program: Norberg Travel Fund (umn.edu) <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/ntravelfund.html> Thank you to those of you who have applied to either or both, we expect to send notifications regarding these two competitions by mid-February. Best, Jeff *"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph Ellison Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax