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Funding for Physical Sciences and Engineering
Physical Sciences and Engineering Funding
Updated January 2007
The below listings are a compilation of annual funding opportunities in the physical sciences and engineering fields identified as of January 8, 2006 and distributed monthly by OPD as Current Funding Opportunities & Potential Project Listings at Texas A&M University.
The below URLs were all active at the time this version (above date) was prepared. Program dates, when given, are for the most current past funding cycle, and therefore may change slightly for upcoming opportunities. URLs can change. If a URL link is not active copy and paste the program title into Google or Yahoo to search for a more current URL.
Please direct comments and feedback to mikecronan@tamu.edu, or suggest potential listings for updated versions.
Lawrence Livermore Summer Internship Program
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California invites applicants for its annual national competition for the prestigious Lawrence Livermore Summer Internship Program. Involvement in world-class research provides interns with a set of experiences that support their education and career goals. Typically, students gain hands-on experience and the opportunity to apply learned theory to real life problems.
Deadline: April 1st, annually (applications received by Jan 31st will be given fullest consideration for the summer)
Robert Noyce Scholarship Program
The Robert Noyce Scholarship program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The program provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and programs for students who commit to teaching in high need K-12 schools.
Deadline: Letter of Intent due Feb. 28, 2008; Full proposal due April 9, 2008
Biomass Research and Development Initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly solicit applications for financial assistance addressing research, development, and demonstration of biomass based products, bioenergy, biofuels and related processes.
Deadline: April 3
DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs, possibly enabled by intimately integrating microsystems within insects, during their early stages of metamorphoses. The healing processes from one metamorphic stage to the next stage are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface to insects, as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects. Once these platforms are integrated, various microsystem payloads can be mounted on the platforms with the goal of controlling insect locomotion, sense local environment, and scavenge power. Multidisciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, and biologists are expected to work together to develop new technologies utilizing insect biology, while developing foundations for the new field of insect cyborg engineering. The HI-MEMS may also serve as vehicles to conduct research to answer basic questions in biology.
Deadline: April 17
NSF/DOE Cooperative Activity Programs for Education and Human Resource Development
NSF and the Department of Energy have implemented collaboration between the agencies' programs for the development of human resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). NSF will support students and faculty from participating NSF projects who are accepted as participants in one of four DOE initiatives that provide hands-on research opportunities in DOE national laboratories during the summer: Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships, Faculty and Student Teams, Community College Institutes, and Pre-Service Teacher Internships. Students and faculty with approved DOE applications may request supplemental funding from NSF to support their participation.
Deadline: April 20
The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)
The BAA sets forth basic research areas of interest to the Physical Science and Technology Basic Research Program of the Joint Chemical and Biological Defense Program. Basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding the fundamental aspects of phenomena and has the potential for broad, rather than specific, application.
Deadline: White papers April 22, Proposals June 20
Department of Energy- Process Intensification
Perform a combination of theoretical and experimental research that will provide a scientific basis needed to develop a novel one-box process that combines synthesis gas cleanup, water-gas shift reaction, hydrogen separation and carbon dioxide separation. The selected strategy should have the potential to selectively remove pure hydrogen, carbon dioxide and synthesis gas impurities in a single reactor configuration that can operate simultaneously at high temperature and high conversion, preferably without the requirement for excess steam.
Deadline: LOI April 24, Application June 8
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Fellowship Programme
The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Fellowship Programme enables bright young scientists from all over the world to work on a challenging problem as fellows of leading European research centers. In addition, an ERCIM fellowship helps widen and intensify the network of personal relations and understanding among scientists.
Deadline: April 30
NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2008 (EFRI)
The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation has established the Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) to serve a critical role in focusing on important emerging areas in a timely manner. The EFRI Office is launching a new funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, we will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in the following two specific research areas: (1) Cognitive Optimization and Prediction: From Neural Systems to Neurotechnology (COPN), and (2) Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN). EFRI seeks proposals with transformative ideas that represent an opportunity for a significant shift in fundamental engineering knowledge with a strong potential for long term impact on national needs or a grand challenge. The proposals must also meet the detailed requirements delineated in this solicitation.
Deadline: April 30, 2008
Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program: senior posts in educational institutions abroad
These awards, viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Program, enable senior scholars to assume posts in educational institutions abroad. This year’s program includes opportunities in a variety of fields, most within the humanities and social sciences but some within the biological and physical/mathematical sciences. The posts are located in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden.
Deadline: May 1 for prelim apps
NRC Research Associateship Programs-Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards
The National Academies administers Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards through its Associateship Programs, part of the Policy and Global Affairs Division. The Research Associateship Programs are sponsored by federal laboratories at over one hundred locations in the United States and overseas.
Deadline: May 1
Advanced Computing Architecture Technologies & Applications--Request for White Papers
The Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome Research Site, seeks white papers for Advanced Computing Architectures Technologies and Applications. The overall objective of this BAA is to develop, integrate, and demonstrate advanced computing architecture technologies and applications.
Deadline: May 1
Science On a Sphere Installation Cooperative Agreement
The NOAA Office of Education (OEd) is issuing a request for applications from informal education institutions with interest in displaying NOAA's Science on a Sphere. Awards will be made as one-year cooperative agreements and will be issued in fiscal year 2006 (FY06). Funded projects will support informal education institutions in incorporating this data visualization technology and compatible environmental data products into public exhibits.
Deadline: May 1
This letter is to call your attention to a new opportunity to broaden participation of underrepresented students in Ph.D. programs in electrical engineering and biomedical/biochemical/environmental engineering through supplements to current research grants funded by the Electrical and Communications Systems Division (ECS) or the Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division (BES) in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Deadline: May 1
Advanced Learning Technologies
Through the ALT program, the CISE and EHR Directorates of NSF support research that (1) enables radical improvements in learning through innovative computer and information technologies, and (2) advances research in computer science, information technology, learning, and cognitive science through the unique challenges posed by learning environments and learning technology platforms. Integrative research approaches that build across disciplines and establish tight linkages among theory, experiment, and design are strongly encouraged.
Deadline: May 4
BAA 2007 Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research Engineering (NEM R E)
This is a "Notice of Interest" for the Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research & Engineering (NEM R&E) program -- Broad Agency Annoucement (BAA) for awards to be made in FY2007 -- the Solicitation # will be DESC52-06NA27305 when issued on or about March 9, 2006 with proposal due dates around May 2006
Deadline: May 11
Advanced E-Team Grant Guidelines (Texas A&M is a member)
Lemelson Foundation, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). Advanced E-Team Grants. Advanced E-Team grants provide E-Teams with the support they need to bring an innovative product or technology from idea to prototype, and eventually to market. Successful E-Team grant proposals demonstrate an idea's technical feasibility, social value, and potential for commercialization, Upper Amount: $20,000.; Course and Program grants are awarded to institutions for the purpose of strengthening existing curricular programs or building new programs in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Upper Amount: $150,000.
Deadline: May 12
Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE)
This solicitation aims at introducing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate education. The focus is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to devices and systems and/or on the social, economic, and ethical issues that surround nanotechnology.
Deadline: May 16
Collaborative Science And Technology Network For Sustainability
Through the Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) is seeking applications proposing innovative regional projects that apply science to decision-making to address a stated problem or opportunity relating to sustainability. To encourage innovative thinking about practical applications of science (including social science) and engineering for sustainability, ORD is funding the Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS). CNS projects will bring together diverse sets of partners to explore and learn about new approaches for environmental protection that are systems-oriented, forward-looking, and preventive and also link to economic and social dimensions.
Deadline: May 17
Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences
The goal of the Undergraduate Biology and Mathematics (UBM) activity is to enhance undergraduate education and training at the intersection of the biological and mathematical sciences and to better prepare undergraduate biology or mathematics students to pursue graduate study and careers in fields that integrate the mathematical and biological sciences. The core of the activity is long-term research experiences for interdisciplinarily balanced teams of at least four undergraduates. Projects should focus on research at the intersection of the mathematical and biological sciences.
Deadline: May 18
Camille, Henry Dreyfus Foundation--Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The award of $120,000 over two years is given to a faculty member who submits a proposal judged to be exceptional, both in its potential for leading edge contributions to environmental science, and in the arrangements for the education of the Fellow.
Deadline: May 25
Electrical Engineer Scholarship
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Foundation offers the Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship. The Foundation offers up to ten scholarships of up to $4,000 for students in electrical or computer engineering, computer science, or a well-defines computer related field of engineering. Candidates must be members of the Institute. Citizenship: unrestricted.
Deadline: May 31
National Science Foundation - Biomaterials (BMAT)
The focus of the Biomaterials Program is the study of biologically related materials and phenomena, including biological pathways to new materials. The materials and systems of interest include biomolecules, biomolecular assemblies (systems of strongly interacting biomolecules), biomolecular systems (vesicles, membranes, and various other assemblies and networks of biomolecules), and biomimetic, bioinspired, or biocompatible materials.
Deadline: September 18, 2006 - November 3, 2006
DARPA Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals to develop mid-wave infrared lasers with wallplug efficiency approaching fundamental limits. The Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers (EMIL) program will culminate in a required objective demonstration of a high-power (≥1W) mid-wave infrared (MWIR) laser operating continuous wave (CW) at room-temperature, with good beam quality, and achieving revolutionary increases in wallplug efficiency.
Deadline: June 26
National Science Foundation - Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences (CSUMS)
The goal of Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences (CSUMS) is to enhance computational aspects of the education and training of undergraduate students in the mathematical sciences -- mathematics and statistics -- and to better prepare these students to pursue careers and graduate study in fields that require integrated strengths in computation and the mathematical sciences. The core of the activity is long-term research experiences for cohorts of at least six undergraduates. Projects must focus on research topics that require interplay between computation and mathematics or statistics.
Deadline: June 27
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) is soliciting proposals for a new program called Integrated Learning. This program will develop computer software, called an Integrated Learner, that learns plans or processes from human users by being shown one example.
Deadline: July 2006
Mars Scout 2006 and Mission Opportunity (NASA)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Doctorate (SMD) this Announcement Opportunity (AO) to solicit proposals for the Mars Exploration Program's (MEP) Mars Scout investigations. Two types of investigations are being solicited. The first is for Mars Scout Mission investigations where the investigator is responsible for all aspects of a stand-alone space flight mission to be launched no later than December 31, 2011. The second is for a Mars Scout Mission Opportunity (MoO) Investigation where the "parent" mission itself may be sponsored by an organization other than NASA MEP. Mars Scout Mission investigation costs to MEP are capped at $475M(FY2006). Cost to MEP of a Mision of opportunity investigation is capped at $35M (FY2006).
Deadline: July 10
Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Ficsal Year 2007 Young Investigator Research Program
The AFOSR's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) is to support scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years (on or after 1 May 2001) and who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. The individual award will be made to a U.S. institution of higher education, industrial laboratory, or non-profit research organization where the principal investigator is employed on a full-time basis and holds a regular position. Researchers working at the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and DoD-Laboratories will not be considered for the YIP competition. The principal investigator must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident who has received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years as indicated above.
Deadline: July 20
S&S considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
Deadline: August 1
Biomass Program. Commercial Demonstration of an Integrated Biorefinery System for Production of Liquid Transportation Biofuels, Biobased Chemicals, Substitutes for Petroleum-based Feedstocks and Products, and Biomass-based Heat/Power.
Deadline: August 10
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
Type 1 Program activities under the Type 1 STEP competition should be efforts aimed at implementing strategies that will lead to an increase in the number of students (United States citizens or permanent residents) obtaining STEM degrees at institutions with baccalaureate degree programs; or completing associate degrees in STEM fields or completing credits toward transfer to a baccalaureate degree program in STEM fields at community colleges.
Deadlines: LOI August 15, Full Sept. 26
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program areas: Basic Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Advanced Scientific Computing, Fusion Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, and Energy Research Analyses. Additional information is available on the DOE web site: http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN06-01.html.
Deadline: Through Sept. 1, 2006
Department of Energy - Research and Development for On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is soliciting applications with the objective of supporting the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative in developing a pathway to a hydrogen economy
Deadline: September 8
Interfacial, Transport, and Thermodynamics
The Interfacial, Transport, and Thermodynamics Program (ITTP) supports research in engineering science areas related to interfacial phenomena, mass transport phenomena, separation science, and phase equilibrium solution thermodynamics. Recently, emphasis is placed on molecular engineering approaches as applied to processing of soft materials, especially thin films and porous media. New theories and simulation approaches determining the thermodynamic, interfacial, and mass transport phenomena properties of fluids and fluid mixtures in biological and other fluids with complex molecules are supported.
Deadline: Extended to Sept. 15, 2006
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.-Senior Scientist Mentor Program
Faculty with emeritus status on or before July 1, 2005, and who maintain active research programs in the chemical sciences may apply for one of a limited number of awards that will allow undergraduates to do research under their guidance. Successful applicants, who are expected to be closely engaged in a mentoring relationship with the students, will receive grants of $10,000 annually for two years ($20,000 total) for undergraduate stipends and modest research support.
Deadline: Oct. 5
Fellowship Support for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science
EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) is soliciting applications for a cooperative agreement to provide up to four fellowships to graduate students in the fields of engineering and science, as related to mobile source air pollution. The goal of these fellowships is to support increased diversity at the graduate student level in the fields of engineering and science.
Deadline: Nov. 14
Graduate fellowships in the physical sciences: study, research, training
The National Physical Science Consortium awards Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences to increase the number of Ph.D.s in the physical sciences and related fields of engineering. The programs generally comprise the fields of Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Materials Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, and their subdisciplines, as well as the related fields of Chemical, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering.
Deadline: Nov. 15
American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing sponsors Awards & Scholarships
Awards and Scholarships to facilitate undergraduate and graduate-level studies and career goals adjudged to address new and innovative uses of remote sensing data/techniques that relate to the natural, cultural, and agricultural resources of the Earth.
Deadline: Dec. 1
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation
The Manufacturing Education Plan (MEP) seeks to establish a process that will stimulate the academic community to help improve the competency of the manufacturing workforce over the next five years. It consists of three phases and focuses on identifying and then closing competency gaps between industry's manufacturing workforce needs and what is provided currently by educational programs. Upper Amount: $500,000.
Deadline: Dec. 5
Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics
The Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics program focuses on advancing the state of the art in the application of advanced information technology to science and engineering problems in specific domains, such as astronomy, biology, the geosciences, public health and health care delivery.
Deadline: Dec. 15
Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund
Talbots welcomes applications for the Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund. This program annually awards five $10,000 scholarships and fifty $1,000 scholarships to women seeking a bachelor's or associate's degree later in life.
Deadline: Jan. 3
NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
The focus of the initiative continues to be fundamental issues of plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed.
Deadline: First Friday in January
Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Instrument Development
The Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program is structured to enable the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry to respond to a variety of needs for infrastructure--instrumentation and facilities--that promotes basic research and education in areas traditionally supported by the Division.
Deadline: Fourth Tuesday of January
Major Research Instrumentation Program
The MRI program assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation by organizations that is, in general, too costly for support through other NSF programs. Proposals may be for a single instrument, a large system of instruments, or multiple instruments that share a common or specific research focus.
Deadline: Fourth Tuesday of January
Program for Research and Education with Small Telescopes
Provides funding and modest operational support for modern, instrumented telescopes in the range of 0.5 to 2.5 meters aperture to organizations or consortia presenting an integrated program of research, student training, and educational programming.
Deadline: Jan. 20
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
National Security Education Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students in engineering, science, humanities, and social sciences to pursue specialization in area and language study or to add an important international dimension to their education. Boren Fellowships support students pursuing the study of languages, cultures, and world regions which are critical to U.S. national security, but which are less frequently studied by U.S. graduate students, i.e., areas of the world other than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Deadline: Jan. 29
FY 06 DoD Infrastructure Support Program for HBCUs and Minority Institutions
Goals of the program include (a) enhancing programs and capabilities in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the national security functions of DoD and (b) increasing the number of graduates, including underrepresented minorities, in the fields of science, mathematics and/or engineering.
Deadline: 2006
Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)
The NeTS program solicitation invites research proposals in the field of networking and covers all aspects of networking research. It includes research on future end-to-end Internet architectures; sub-network architectures enabled by disruptive technologies such as programmable wireless, mobile wireless, wireless sensors, and optical networks; and strategic research on current Internet including measurement, modeling, and understanding of complex networks. The NeTS program also seeks to develop innovative curricular and educational materials that will help prepare the next generation of networking professionals.
Deadline: Second Wednesday in January 2007
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program
The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) awards fellowships for graduate study leading to masters or doctoral degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering related to NASA research and development.
Deadline: Feb. 1
Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES)
MUSES is aimed at soliciting new multidisciplinary activities that encourage researchers in engineering, physical and life sciences, social and behavioral sciences, economics, mathematics, and education to reach beyond their disciplinary boundaries in order to address complex issues related to materials use in the environment. There are two challenges: (a) to propose exploratory research issues that are viable and (b) to create new teams of researchers with the necessary expertise who can work together.
Deadline: February 7, 2007
AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars
The AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars honors an untenured woman scholar who has a record of exceptional early professional accomplishments and demonstrates promise of future distinction. The award is open to women in all disciplines.
Deadline: Feb. 10
FY 2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) – Gaithersburg
The SURF Gaithersburg program is soliciting applications in the areas of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Chemical Science and Technology, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Building and Fire Research, and Information Technology. The SURF program will provide an opportunity for the NIST laboratories and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to join in a partnership to encourage outstanding undergraduate students to pursue careers in science and engineering. The program will provide research opportunities for students to work with internationally known NIST scientists, to expose them to cutting-edge research and promote the pursuit of graduate degrees in science and engineering.
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2006
FY 2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) – Boulder
The SURF NIST Boulder Program is open to colleges and universities in the United States and its territories with degree granting programs in materials science, chemistry, engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics. Participating students must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents.
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2006
Semiconductor Research Corporation Fellowship Program
Graduate fellowship program (http://www.src.org/member/about/aboutgfp.asp). The Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP) addresses the issues of improving educational opportunities at the doctoral level and supplying a relevantly educated work force for the semiconductor industry. The SRC Master's Scholarship Program was created in 1997 for the purpose of attracting qualified students who are also in underrepresented minority categories to graduate study in areas of interest to the semiconductor industry. In 1999, the program was opened to women as a category.
Deadlines: Feb. 15, 2006; New Competition Applications Begin November 2006
Research and Development of Fuel Cell Technology for the Hydrogen Economy
LOI Feb. 28, 2006; full April 5, 2006
Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES)
MUSES is aimed at soliciting new multidisciplinary activities that encourage researchers in engineering, physical and life sciences, social and behavioral sciences, economics, mathematics, and education to reach beyond their disciplinary boundaries in order to address complex issues related to materials use in the environment. There are two challenges: (a) to propose exploratory research issues that are viable and (b) to create new teams of researchers with the necessary expertise who can work together.
Deadline: February 7, 2007
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
New Materials, Materials Concepts, Materials Processing and Devices Advanced Mathematics: Application and development of advanced mathematics for applications of interest to the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction: Technologies to render biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiation attacks against the U.S. military harmless
Applications of Biology to Defense Applications Novel Technologies to Improve the Human Consequences of Transformation.
Deadline: Open to Feb. 9, 2007
Engineering Sciences Modeling, Simulation-Based Life-Cycle Engineering & Manufacturing
This is a continuation of a collaborative research program between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) that was started in 1997. The objective of this collaborative program is to fund research projects focused on science-based experimental, computational and theoretical capabilities that enhance our understanding and confidence of the behavior of engineered systems at unprecedented multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Deadline: March 1
Fiscal Year 2006 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
ONR's YIP seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees within the last five years (on or after 01 November 2000 for this FY06 competition) and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of Institutions of Higher Education (hereafter also called "universities") to the Department of the Navy's research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers.
Deadline: Varies
Summer faculty fellowships: architectural planning/preservation and related fields
Good Clancy, a firm specializing in architecture, planning, preservation and urban design, is now accepting proposals for its 2006 Summer Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship is open to faculty members in architecture, planning or preservation (or related fields, i.e. engineering, social sciences, fine arts) to pursue an independent research or collaborative project of their choice while in residence at the firm’s Boston office.
Deadline: March 15
NSF/FDA Scholar-in-Residence at FDA--Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
NSF’s Directorate for Engineering's Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems and the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) are establishing the NSF/FDA Scholar-in-Residence Program at FDA. This program comprises an interagency partnership for the investigation of scientific and engineering issues concerning emerging trends in medical device technology. This partnership is designed to enable investigators in science, engineering, and mathematics to develop research collaborations within the intramural research environment at the FDA. This solicitation features four flexible mechanisms for support of research at the FDA: 1) Faculty at FDA; 2) Graduate Student Fellowships; 3) Postdoctoral Fellowships; and, 4) Undergraduate Student Research Experiences.
Deadline: March 15
NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate level degree in science and engineering disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.
Deadline: March 15 LOI; full April 12
Basic Research for Chemical Imaging
Of particular interest are applications that combine molecular-scale spatial resolution and ultrafast temporal resolution to explore energy flow, molecular dynamics, breakage or formation of chemical bonds, or conformational changes in nanoscale systems.
Deadline: March 15
The WateReuse Foundation is seeking preproposals for funding consideration under its 2006 Unsolicited Research Program. As a result of the success of this program in 2005, the WateReuse Foundation will allocate approximately 15% of its annual research funds for its 2006 Unsolicited Research Program. The total amount of funds approved for the Foundation's 2006 Unsolicited Research Program projects is approximately $500,000. The Foundation anticipates funding between three and six projects with a maximum funding level for any single project of $175,000.
Deadline: March 17 pre-proposals
Human Frontier Science Program Organization Research Grants - Young Investigators
The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
Deadline: March 20
This special competition makes available to the U.S. astronomical community a 3.67-meter telescope with state-of-the-art passive adaptive optics for imaging through atmospheric turbulence. Seven fixed Coude rooms are available for astronomical observations with user-provided instrumentation. Alternatively, scientific observations can be made using the cameras and instruments provided on-site by the Air Force.
Deadline: March 20
Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) solicits applications for the Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) program. The SIG program accepts applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade commercially available instruments that cost at least $100,000. The maximum award is $500,000. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell sorters, X-ray diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers among others. Awards are for one year and for direct costs only.
Deadline: March 22
NSF IGERT (major revisions to the previous program solicitation)
It is limited submit: 4 preliminary (due March 27; previously there were no restrictions on the number of preliminary proposals submitted by an institution) and 3 invited full (Sept. 29).
Deadline: March 27 prelim
NSF announces its intention to continue support of multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics.
Deadline: March 27
Camille, Henry Dreyfus Foundation--Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The award of $120,000 over two years is given to a faculty member who submits a proposal judged to be exceptional, both in its potential for leading edge contributions to environmental science, and in the arrangements for the education of the Fellow.
Deadline: May 25
NSF Academies for Young Scientists (NSFAYS)
NSF seeks to support NSFAYS Projects that will create, implement, evaluate, and disseminate effective models to attract K-8 students to, prepare them for, and retain them in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, leading to an increase in the pool of students continuing in STEM coursework in high school and considering careers in STEM fields. Models must be built on sustainable partnerships of formal and informal education providers, business/industry, and Colleges of Education.
Deadline: LOI May 31; full June
Electrical Engineer Scholarship
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Foundation offers the Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship. The Foundation offers up to ten scholarships of up to $4,000 for students in electrical or computer engineering, computer science, or a well-defines computer related field of engineering. Candidates must be members of the Institute. Citizenship: unrestricted.
Deadline: May 31
Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation invites applications for the Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences. The program is intended to strengthen chemistry teaching and research, with the expectation that awardees will find continuing funding from other sources. However, proposals are invited in any area consistent with the foundation's basic objectives in the chemical sciences and not covered by other foundation programs. Past areas of support include development of curricular and instructional materials, including new media; institutional enhancement of education and research; public understanding of the role of chemistry in society, and encouragement of high school students and teachers.
Deadline: June 1; full August 24
NIDCR Small Research Grants for Data Analysis and Statistical Methodology (R03)
The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support meritorious research projects that involve secondary data analyses or statistical methodology using existing dental or craniofacial database resources.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Technological Challenges in Hybrid Communications Systems
This topic, with broad disciplinary research and educational activities, integrates wireless optical, and RF/microwave communications systems, for domain specific applications. The solicitation seeks proposals on novel concepts in hybrid communications systems including advanced photonic and wireless integrated circuits; new approaches and methodologies to develop architectures for hybrid networks; and new mathematical models to simulate the performance of components, interfaces, sub-systems, systems and interfaces to advance seamless integration of wireless optical and RF/microwave communications.
Deadline: June 6
Phase I Solicitation FY-2007 (SBIR/STTR)
NSF has formulated broad solicitation topics for SBIR/STTR that conform to the high-technology investment sector's interests:
Advanced Materials (http://www.nsf.gov/eng/sbir/am.jsp)
Emerging Opportunities (http://www.nsf.gov/eng/sbir/eo.jsp)
Information Technology (http://www.nsf.gov/eng/sbir/it.jsp)
Manufacturing Innovation (http://www.nsf.gov/eng/sbir/MI.jsp)
Deadline: June 13
Support Advanced Fossil Resource Conversion & Utilization Research by HBCU/MIs
The program was designed to raise the overall level of competitiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU/OMIs) with other institutions in the field of fossil energy research; and to tap an under-utilized resource by increasing the number of opportunities in the area of science, engineering, and technical management for HBCU/OMI.
Deadline: June 11
Chemistry Research Instrumentation & Facilities: Departmental Multi-User Instrumentation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry is committed to increasing access to sophisticated instrumentation. The CRIF:MU program strongly encourages researchers to exploit cyberinfrastructure to facilitate broadened access to instrumentation and the data it provides. In making awards, preference will be given to proposals that are cyber-enabled. NSF will accept a maximum of two CRIF:MU proposals per institution. If an institution submits two proposals, at least one of the two proposals must involve cyberinfrastructure.
Deadline: June 26
DARPA Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals to develop mid-wave infrared lasers with wallplug efficiency approaching fundamental limits. The Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers (EMIL) program will culminate in a required objective demonstration of a high-power (≥1W) mid-wave infrared (MWIR) laser operating continuous wave (CW) at room-temperature, with good beam quality, and achieving revolutionary increases in wallplug efficiency.
Deadline: June 26
Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
The goal of Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences (CSUMS) is to enhance computational aspects of the education and training of undergraduate students in the mathematical sciences -- mathematics and statistics -- and to better prepare these students to pursue careers and graduate study in fields that require integrated strengths in computation and the mathematical sciences. The core of the activity is long-term research experiences for cohorts of at least six undergraduates. Projects must focus on research topics that require interplay between computation and mathematics or statistics.
Deadline: June 27
Nanostructured Dental Composite Restorative Materials (R21)
The purpose of this initiative is to encourage nanotechnology and nanoscience approaches in the design and development of new dental composite materials. The expected outcomes are new formulations for dental composites with improved adhesive bonding to dentin and enamel surfaces, durability, esthetics, and biocompatibility.
Deadline: July 17
Ficsal Year 2007 Young Investigator Research Program
The AFOSR’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) is to support scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years (on or after 1 May 2001) and who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. The individual award will be made to a U.S. institution of higher education, industrial laboratory, or non-profit research organization where the principal investigator is employed on a full-time basis and holds a regular position. Researchers working at the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and DoD-Laboratories will not be considered for the YIP competition. The principal investigator must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident who has received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years as indicated above.
Deadline: July 20
Distinguished Dissertation Awards: Social Sciences; Math, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Sponsored jointly by CGS and UMI Dissertations Publishing, a Division of ProQuest Information and Learning, and first presented in 1981, these awards are made annual to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Two awards are given annual in two different broad areas (biological sciences; social sciences; mathematics, physical sciences and engineering; and humanities and fine arts). Individuals must be nominated for these awards by a member institution.
Deadline: July 29
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program areas: Basic Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Advanced Scientific Computing, Fusion Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, and Energy Research Analyses. Additional information is available on the DOE web site: http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN06-01.html.
Deadline: Through Sept. 1, 2006
Research and Development for On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage
The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is soliciting applications with the objective of supporting the President’s Hydrogen Fuel Initiative in developing a pathway to a hydrogen economy. To support this initiative, this DOE Hydrogen Program Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks to fund the research and development of viable hydrogen storage technologies for on-board vehicular applications. Applications are requested in the following two categories: Category 1: Applications are sought for projects that are supportive of and complementary to the activities of any of the existing Hydrogen Storage Centers of Excellence in Metal Hydrides, Chemical Hydrogen Storage, and Carbon-Based Materials. Such projects must help establish important new technical approaches or capabilities not presently available at the Centers. A funded project may become a Center partner, provided that the applicant signs an existing non-disclosure agreement that has been signed by each of the existing Center partners. Category 2: Applications are sought for independent research and development projects that address one of three technical topics: 1) Materials Discovery; 2) Engineering Science; or 3) Systems, Safety and Environmental Analyses.
Deadline: Sept. 8
DOE Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP)
The remainder of this NOPI describes preliminary concepts and considerations for industry’s role in the first area identified above (R&D on PV component and system designs). As industry’s role in the program expands, so too will the roles for the National Laboratories and universities that have been primary contributors throughout the history of the SETP.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Basic Research for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
The Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its mission to assist in strengthening the Nation's scientific research enterprise through the support of fundamental science and the experimental tools to perform basic research, announces its interest in receiving grant applications for basic research for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI). Areas of focus include: Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage; Functional Membranes; and Nanoscale Catalysts. We seek to support outstanding research programs that will lead to key discoveries to make hydrogen a feasible fuel for the future. Research funded under this initiative will pursue breakthroughs in materials, chemical and physical understandings, and interdisciplinary theory-modeling-simulation-experimentation approaches in order to surpass the existing scientific and technical barriers.
Deadline: Dec. 5
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in our Nation's organizations of higher education, research museums and non-profit research organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 25
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in our Nation's organizations of higher education, research museums and non-profit research organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 2007
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
New Materials, Materials Concepts, Materials Processing and Devices Advanced Mathematics: Application and development of advanced mathematics for applications of interest to the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction: Technologies to render biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiation attacks against the U.S. military harmless
Applications of Biology to Defense Applications Novel Technologies to Improve the Human Consequences of Transformation
Deadline: Open to Feb. 9, 2007
United States Department of Defense - Surface and Interfacial Science
The objective of the Surface and Interfacial Science program is to improve the fundamental understanding of the structure and reactivity of surfaces and how they interact with their environment at the interface. This work will lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in surface processes, and it will provide the foundation for the development of advanced surface structures and interfaces for future Air Force applications.
Deadline: Continuous