If one uses https://webmail.csulb.edu (rather than http), it seems as if the mail server is alive. It’s possible the redirect to the https URL is broken.

Starting around 10:30 this Saturday morning it appears that the campus email server (webmail.csulb.edu) is down (or at least the service is not up and functional.)  Frustratingly, there is no notice about this on the Academic Computing Services site nor is there a way of contacting them on the weekend (since on the weekend they only way of contact Campus tech support is email… Doh!).

 So if anyone else is wondering, it *is* down.

 Would anyone else like to be able to get these kinds of things fixed on the weekends — when most of us might find time to communicate with colleagues via email? Would you like to have Campus Tech Services provide a status report for outages on the web page? Or a call-in number?

Kevin Crowe just send these programs around to CLA-Faculty. For referral’s sake, here they are:

The National Science Foundation’s Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. There are multiple deadlines.  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369 

The National Science Foundation’s Economics Program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. There are multiple deadlines. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437

The National Science Foundation’s Social Psychology Program supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span. Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior. There are multiple deadlines.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712 

The National Science Foundation’s Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. There is also information about the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. There are multiple deadlines.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418 

The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. There are multiple deadlines.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5422