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Funding Opportunities - November 2005
Current Funding Opportunities & Potential Project Listing
for University Research Council, November 9, 2005
To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE from email distribution, or queries: mikecronan@tamu.edu
Program, URL, Synopsis & Due Date
NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
http://ugsp.info.nih.gov/InfoUGSP.htm
This URL contains application information for the 2006-2007 academic year which starts in September 2006. The deadline for receipt of complete applications is February 28, 2006. You may apply online or download forms from http://ugsp.info.nih.gov/applying.htm
By Feb. 28
Notice of Intent to Publish a Request for Applications for Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics
The National Library of Medicine plans to issue a Request for Applications in a single competition for support of pre-doctoral and post-doctoral institutional training in biomedical informatics. This RFA will be released and published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts early in January of 2006. Funding decisions will be made by September or October of 2006 to enable funded sites to begin recruiting trainees for the 2007-2008 academic year. Grants will be awarded July 1, 2007 for the five year project period. It is anticipated that the next competition for NLM training sites will take place in 2011. Deadlines: Jan. 31, 2006 (letters of intent), Mar. 17, 2006 (application).
Notice of Intent
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/e9a0fe97bcd5b6208525708c00673ffd?OpenDocument
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.
Through Sept. 1, 2006
November 2005
Fellowship Support for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science
http://www.epa.gov/oar/grants/05-18.pdf
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.
Nov.
14
Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowships in the Humanities
http://www.rockfound.org/display.asp?Context=3&SectionTypeID=16&Preview=0&ARCurrent=1
In 2006-07, the Rockefeller Foundation will
offer Rockefeller Resident Fellowships in the Humanities at five host
institutions selected for their potential to promote new work in the
humanities. Host institutions encourage interaction between the visiting
fellows and their own scholarly communities, and make libraries, special
collections, and other facilities/resources available in specialized areas of
research.
Various
due dates: Nov. 1; Jan. 1, 15, 31; Feb. 1
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.
Nov. 15
Anthropology Scholar Programs: Research, Writing, Seminar, Prize
The School of American Research is accepting applications to the following Programs for Scholars:
Resident Scholar Program, Summer Scholar Program, Advanced Seminar Program, J.I. Staley Prize – for scholars in anthropology and related disciplines.
Various: Nov. 15, Dec. 15, April 1, Oct. 1
NIJ FY06 Forensic DNA Research and Development
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000717.pdf
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and development to enhance the forensic uses of DNA technology. This solicitation focuses on technologies that result in faster, more robust, more informative, less costly, or less labor-intensive identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of DNA evidence collected from crime scenes.
Nov. 17
NOAA Hydrometerologic, Hydrologic, And Hydraulic Routing Sciences
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOC/NOAA/GMC/NWS-NWSPO-2006-2000360/Attachments.html#upload4658
This program represents a NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective continuum of basic and applied research through collaborative research between the Hydrology Laboratory of the NWS Office of Hydrologic Development and academic communities which have expertise in the hydrometerologic, hydrologic, and hydraulic routing sciences.
Nov. 18
Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-05-005.html
The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award is intended to identify outstanding scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who intend to make a long term career commitment to research in the mission areas of the NIEHS and assist them in launching an innovative research program focusing on problems of environmental exposures and human biology, human pathophysiology and human disease.
LOI Nov. 20; full Dec. 21
NIJ FY06 Communications Technology
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000721.pdf
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking concept papers to research, develop, and demonstrate emerging technology solutions for interoperable voice communications for public safety agencies. Solutions to inadequate and unreliable wireless communications are of particular importance. Technologies that help increase coverage, bandwidth, and functionality by extending current technology or by developing new technology are of interest.
Nov. 23 white paper
NIJ FY06 Forensic Toxicology Research and Development
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000723.pdf
NIJ seeks concept papers for research and development to enhance qualitatively and/or quantitatively the analytical tools, technologies and techniques employed by crime laboratories in forensic toxicological analyses: 1. Advancing research on alternative drug testing matrices and the pharmacokinetical relationship between these alternative matrices and controlled substances; 2. Improving the specificity and sensitivity of analytical tools/technologies used in forensic toxicological analyses; 3. Development of new analytical techniques; 4. Development of non-destructive techniques.
Nov. 23
NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes Program
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5526&org=NSF&from=fund
The purpose of this program is to provide undergraduate and early-stage graduate students majoring in the biological sciences, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, and physical sciences with well-planned, interdisciplinary bioengineering or bioinformatics research and education experiences in active 'Summer Institutes', thereby increasing the number of individuals pursuing careers in bioengineering and bioinformatics at the graduate level and beyond.
Nov. 29
USDA/CSREES Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Animal Reproduction (41.0), Animal Growth and Nutrient Utilization (42.0), Agricultural Plants and Environmental Adaptation (22.1), Genetic Processes and Mechanisms of Agricultural Plants (52.2), Developmental Processes of Agricultural Plants (53.0), Agricultural Plant Biochemistry (54.3), Agricultural Markets and Trade (61.0), Improving Food Quality and Value (71.1), and Biobased Products and Bioenergy Production Research (71.2). Deadline: Varies by program (November 30, 2005-May 17, 2006).
Nov. 30
December 2005
American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships for 2006-2007
http://www.ams.org/employment/centflyer.html
The fellowships are intended to help outstanding mathematicians to further their research careers. The primary selection criterion will be research excellence. Preference will be given to candidates who have not had extensive fellowship support in the past. Work in all areas of mathematics, including interdisciplinary work, is eligible. Selected fellows will receive a stipend of approximately $64,000, with an additional expense allowance of about $3,250.
Dec. 1
Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/cyfar_scp.html
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service requests applications for the Children, Youth, and Families at-Risk Sustainable Communities Projects for Fiscal Year 2006 to improve the quality and quantity of comprehensive community-based programs for at-risk children, youth, and families supported by Cooperative Extension System.
Dec. 1
Valuation for Environmental Policy in Environmentally-Related Human Health Risks
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2005/2005_vep.html
EPA is seeking applications proposing research in three areas of interest concerning the Valuation for Environmental Policy in Environmentally-Related Human Health Risks. The areas of interest are: 1) studies developing values, functions, and models for estimating the economic value of changes in morbidity risks, 2).studies developing or improving benefit transfer methods for morbidity valuation and, 3) studies improving primary methods for morbidity valuation.
Dec. 1
Hispanic Community Health Study - Field Centers
http://www2.eps.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NHLBI/NHLBI-HC-06-02/SynopsisP.html
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is interested in soliciting proposals from all interested organizations for a multicenter epidemiologic study to identify, recruit, examine, and follow up to four community-based cohorts of adults, all of Hispanic origin, of size 4,000 each, ages 18-74. The four cohorts will be majority Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican American, and Central American.
Dec. 1
Opportunity to Use Women's Health Initiative Resources
http://www.whi.org on or about December 1, 2005
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute will publish a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), on or about January 9, 2006, to solicit proposals for the Opportunity to Use Women's Health Initiative Resources. The BAA will seek proposals to maximize the scientific yield from the biologic resource and associated participant exposure and outcome data generated by the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) since 1993. In general the BAA will seek the application of technologies that enable comprehensive yet efficient investigation of sets of markers associated with disease outcomes, or of modulators and mediators that might substantively explain the pathway of exposure or treatment effects on disease outcomes. The primary disease outcomes will be cardiovascular diseases, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and fractures.
Dec. 1
American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing sponsors Awards & Scholarships
http://www.asprs.org/membership/scholar.html
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.
Dec. 1
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. For the Latin American and Caribbean competition: completed applications must be submitted by the candidates themselves no later than December 1, 2005. Final selection of Latin American and Caribbean Fellows for 2006 will be announced in June 2006.
Dec. 1
HHS Healthy Behaviors in Women
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-06-063/Grant.html
The goal of this program is to develop and demonstrate creative and innovative approaches that are effective in reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity in women by increasing the number of women who adopt positive, healthy, lifestyles. Proposals must include women who are members of racial ethnic minority populations who are disproportionately affected by overweight/obesity.
Dec. 2
Lemelson Foundation Inventors and Innovators (A&M is member)
http://www.nciia.org/grants_eteam.html; http://www.nciia.org/grants_cp.html
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.
Dec. 2
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation
http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/smeefhtml.pl?/foundation/grants/fgmepg.htm&&&SME&
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.
Dec. 5
Nurse Education, Practice and Retention
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-06-038/Grant.html
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions for projects to strengthen and enhance the capacity for nurse education, practice and retention to address the nursing shortage.
USDA/CSREES Nutrition, Obesity, Food Safety and Quality Program Cluster
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Bioactive Food Components for Optimal Health (31.0), Human Nutrition and Obesity (31.5), Food Safety (32.0), Epidemiological Approaches for Food Safety (32.1), Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems (75.0). Deadline: Varies by program (December 06, 2005-June 15, 2006).
Dec. 6
DARPA Junior Faculty Computer Science Study Group
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOD/DARPA/CMO/RA06-05/Grant.html
Soliciting applications from U.S. institutions nominating junior university faculty to participate in the “Computer Science Study Panel.” The study panel will focus on computer science technology and its application to information analysis problems of interest to the DoD.
Dec. 7
USDA/CSREES Agroecosystems Program Cluster
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Soil Processes (25.0), Water and Watersheds (26.0), Air Quality (28.0), Managed Ecosystems (23.1), Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems (51.9), Rural Development (62.0), Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium-Sized Farms (66.0). Deadline: Varies by program (December 08, 2005-June 15, 2006).
Dec. 8
2006 SBIR/STTR Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5527&org=NSF&from=fund
Topics: Biotechnology (BT), Chemical-based Technologies (CT), and Emerging Opportunities (EO). Do not submit proposals prior to November 8, 2005. Proposals submitted prior to November 8, 2005 will be returned without review.
Dec. 8
East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf03608
This program provides U.S. graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, or Taiwan, an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location, and orientation to the culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts in the future.
Dec. 10
Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-168.html
Scientific knowledge achieved through this research program is expected to move the field of environmental health sciences into new directions and approaches for the identification, treatment, and prevention of environmentally-related diseases or disorders.
LOI Dec. 11; full Jan. 11
Research on Learning and Education
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05529/nsf05529.htm
The ROLE program seeks to capitalize on important developments across a wide range of fields related to human learning and to STEM education. It supports research across a continuum that includes: the biological basis of human learning; behavioral, cognitive, affective and social aspects of STEM learning; STEM learning in formal and informal educational settings; STEM Policy research; and the diffusion of STEM innovations.
Dec. 11 LOI
NANO AIR VEHICLE (NAV) PROGRAM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals for the research and development of very small (<7.5cm), very lightweight (<10 grams) UAVs (nano air vehicles). The goal of this program is to prove the feasibility and viability of UAV on this extremely small scale (http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOD/DARPA/CMO/BAA06-06/Attachments.html#upload4897).
Dec. 12
Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Pollutants
http://www.epa.gov/oar/grants/05-21.pdf
The goal of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to support demonstration, training, outreach and/or education projects that are aligned with EPA’s strategic objective to increase the number of people breathing healthier indoor air as well as our indoor air pollutant priority air objectives and the agency’s annual measures and long-term measures detailed in I.C.1.
Dec. 12
Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/greenwall/
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences. Scientific advances in the life sciences have raised public policy, research, and clinical practice dilemmas regarding issues such as human cloning, stem cell research, gene therapy, and new information technologies.
Dec. 12
Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05615/nsf05615.htm
The objective of PREM is to enhance diversity in materials research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, collaborative research and education partnerships between minority-serving colleges and universities and the NSF Division of Materials Research-supported centers and facilities. PREM proposals may be submitted by minority-serving colleges and universities, including HBCUs and HSIs). Each PREM proposal must be submitted in collaboration with (and may include a subaward to) one or more DMR-supported centers and facilities.
Dec. 12
Technology Innovation in the Transportation Sector
http://www.epa.gov/oar/grants/05-19rev1.pdf
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible institutions for study and analysis of innovative strategies for encouraging the development and adoption of new vehicle and fuel technologies for control of emissions including consideration of impact on criteria pollutants, toxic emissions and greenhouse gas emissions. Studies and analyses should consider barriers for technological innovation and opportunities for overcoming these barriers.
Dec. 14
Nuclear Engineering Programs DOE/Industry Matching Grant Program
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/4231A9C1B6812EAF8525709E0056B0F7?OpenDocument
The Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting applications from U.S. universities and colleges with nuclear engineering programs for the Matching Grants Program. The purpose of the Matching Grant Program is to encourage collaborative support for nuclear engineering education between the nation’s nuclear industry and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Dec. 14
Huntington residential research fellowships in history, literature, art, botany, history of science and medicine
http://www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
The Huntington offers short- and long-term fellowships to enable doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and non-tenured faculty to pursue research related to its holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, or the history of science and medicine. The Library collections are especially strong in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the eighteenth century, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, the history of science, British drama, Colonial America, the American Civil War, Western America, and California.
Dec. 15
USDA/CSREES Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Animal Biosecurity Coordinated Agricultural Projects (CAP) (20.1), Animal Protection (44.0), Plant Biosecurity (20.2), Organismal and Population Biology of Arthropods and Nematodes (51.2), and Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations (51.8). Deadline: Varies by program (December 15, 2005-October 31, 2006).
Dec. 15
Advanced Detector Research Program
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/1E9DB570E663D0528525708200687003?OpenDocument
Applications should be from investigators who are currently involved in experimental high energy physics, and should be submitted through a U.S. academic institution.
Dec. 15
Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04528/nsf04528.htm
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.
Dec. 15
Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Xenopus
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-166.html
Investigator-initiated applications designed to exploit the power of Xenopus as a vertebrate model for biomedical research. Applications are welcome proposing to develop new tools or genetic or genomic resources of high priority to the Xenopus community that will advance the detection and characterization of genes, pathways, and phenotypes of interest in development, organogenesis, and in cell biological processes, such as cell division, signaling and migration.
LOI Dec. 19; full Jan. 18
Short Courses on Application of Genomics and Proteomics to Complex Heart, Lung, Blood
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-05-012.html
The National Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Institute invites applications for education projects to develop, conduct, evaluate, and disseminate short-term courses on application of genomics and proteomics to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. The courses should provide hands-on training to investigators interested in leveraging genomic and proteomic technologies and resources to advance the understanding of disease mechanisms of interest to the institute.
LOI Dec. 19; full Jan. 17
Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface Physical & Computer Sciences & Engin.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05622/nsf05622.htm
This is a revision of document NSF 04-538 which announced competitions of nine activities of the Mathematical Sciences Priority Area (MSPA) in Fiscal 2004-2005.
Dec. 20, Jan. 13, March 1
HHS Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students in Health Professions
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-06-023/Grant.html
This program promotes diversity among health professions students and practitioners by providing scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Eligible health professions and nursing schools apply for funds to make scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds, whom have financial need for scholarships and are enrolled, or accepted for enrollment, as full-time students at the schools.
Dec. 29
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Grants-in-Herpetology
http://www.ssarherps.org/pages/GIH.php
This program is intended to provide financial support for deserving individuals or organizations involved in herpetological research, education, or conservation in the following categories: conservation, field research, laboratory research, herpetological education, travel, and international.
Dec. 31
Journal of the History of Philosophy Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowships
http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp/Kristeller_Travel_Fellowship_Announcement.html
Journal of the History of Philosophy. Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowships. Amount: $2,000.
Dec. 31
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/112
This $1,000 award recognizes a published translation of poetry from any language into English. Founded in 1976, the award was originally biennial. It has been given annually since 1984.
Dec. 31
US Department of Homeland Security Advanced Spectroscopic Program
http://fedbizopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20050923a2
DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office anticipates the award of three combined contracts for engineering services, development, production, and deployment support for the Advanced Spectroscopic Program (ASP). It is the intention of DNDO within the context of this acquisition to develop and acquire a family of medium and high resolution portals.
Jan. 3
HHS Grants for Violence Related Injury Prevention
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/CDC/PGO/CDC-RFA-CE06-004/Grant.html
Grants for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research: Youth Violence, Suicidal Behavior, Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence. For complete program details, please see the full announcement on the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/grantmain.htm
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06502/nsf06502.pdf
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.
Jan. 5 LOI
National Center for Atmospheric Research: residential postdoctoral fellowships
http://www.asp.ucar.edu/asp/pdann.html
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/National Center for Atmospheric Research -- a Colorado-based, NSF-sponsored research institution -- is accepting applications for residential Postdoctoral Fellowships. The fellowships enable recent Ph.D. and Sc.D. scientists to pursue their research interests and develop new expertise in the atmospheric and related sciences. The program also invites postdoctoral physicists, chemists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, and specialists from related disciplines such as biology, geology, science education, economics, and geography to apply their training to research in the atmospheric sciences.
Jan. 15
Infectious Diseases Research: Junior Physician-Scientists Career Development
http://www.promisingminds.com/GrantsProgType.aspx?ProgID=102&ProgTypeID=3
Pfizer Inc is accepting applications for Pfizer Fellowship in Infectious Diseases. The fellowships are intended to support the career development of talented junior physician-scientists, offering a two-year salary award of $130,000 to individuals who are pursuing scientific infectious diseases research with relevance to human health. Pfizer encourages both basic science and clinical research proposals, intending to award one fellowship in each area.
Jan. 6
NEA Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/LitTranslation/index.html
NEA encourages applications for Literature Fellowships for projects that involve the specific translation of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Translations of writers and of work which are insufficiently represented in English translation are encouraged. All proposed projects must be for creative translations of published literary material into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and value.
Jan. 9
Planetary Biodiversity Inventories
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06500/nsf06500.htm
To accelerate the discovery and study of the world’s biodiversity, proposals are invited from teams of investigators to conduct a worldwide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms. Each project should conduct fieldwork necessary to fill gaps in existing collections, produce descriptions, taxonomic revisions, web-searchable databases, and interactive keys (or other automated identification tools) for all new and known species in the targeted group, analyze their phylogenetic relationships, and establish predictive classifications for the group.
Jan. 10
Ecology And Oceanography Of Harmful Algal Blooms
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2005/2005_ecohab.html
This program provides support for research on algal species whose populations may cause or result in deleterious effects on ecosystems and human health. Studies of the causes of such blooms, their detection, effects, mitigation, and control in U.S. coastal waters (including estuaries and Great Lakes) are solicited.
Jan. 10
Research Fellowships for Colonial History of the Americas
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/fr_resfellow2.html
The John Carter Brown Library is accepting applications for approximately twenty-five Research Fellowships for the year June 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. Fellowships are of two types.
Jan. 10
Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women
http://www.newberry.org/research/L3rfellowships.html
This award is designed for a woman at an early stage of her academic career whose work gives clear promise of scholarly productivity and who would benefit significantly from six months of research, writing, and participation in the intellectual life of the library. The applicant's topic should be related to the Newberry's collections; preference will be given to proposals particularly concerned with the study of women. Upper Amount: $15,000.
Jan. 10
2005 - 2006 Fellowships in the Humanities
http://www.newberry.org/research/L3rfellowships.html
Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths.
Jan. 10 and later
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/medfellows.html
The fellowship provides support for one year of full-time research training in fundamental biomedical research. It includes a stipend, a research allowance to meet a fellow's research-related expenses, and a fellow's allowance to be used for health care and tuition and fees. For the 2006 competition, the fellowship will provide: an annual stipend of $25,000, an annual fellow's allowance of $5,500, and an annual research allowance of $5,500.
Jan. 11
Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/sec_challenge.html
The purpose of the program is to promote and strengthen teaching programs in agriscience and agribusiness at secondary and 2-year post secondary institutions, by enhancing curricula, increasing faculty teaching competencies, promoting higher education to prepare students for scientific and professional careers, incorporating agriscience or agribusiness subject matter into other instructional programs, facilitating joint initiatives among other educational institutions and to respond to identified State, regional, national or international educational needs.
Jan. 12
Smithsonian Institution Fellowships
http://www.si.edu/ofg/fellowopp.htm
The Smithsonian Institute offers Senior, Postdoctoral, and Predoctoral Fellowships for research and study in the following fields: Animal behavior, ecology, and environmental science; Anthropology, including archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology; Astrophysics and astronomy; Earth Sciences and paleobiology; Evolutionary and systematic biology; Folklife; History of science and technology; History of art, especially American, contemporary, African, and Asian art, twentieth-century American crafts, and decorative arts; Materials research; Molecular biology; Social and cultural history of the United States.
Jan. 15
Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions
http://www.airweb.org/page.asp?page=40
Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Education Institutions. Research Grant Program. The AIR's Research Grant Program provides grants to principal investigators to conduct research on postsecondary education using the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and the NSF national databases or conduct studies that increase the understanding and knowledge of a specific issue area identified by the NPEC Executive Committee as critically important to the postsecondary education community. This year the NPEC focus is "Improving Information for Student Decisions about Postsecondary Education." Upper Amount: $30,000.
Jan. 15
Camargo Fellowships
http://www.camargofoundation.org/
The Camargo Foundation maintains a study center in Cassis, France, for the benefit of fellows who wish to pursue projects in the humanities and social sciences related to French and Francophone cultures, as well as creative projects by visual artists, photographers, video artists, filmmakers, media artists, composers, and writers.
Jan. 15
Winterthur Research Fellowships in Art, Culture, History
http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp
Awards approximately 24 to 26 fellowships each year to scholars pursing promising research in American art, history, material culture, and design, or related topics in British, Continental, or Asian decorative arts and design. Applications are welcome from college and university teachers, museum and public history professionals, graduate students and independent scholars.
Jan. 16
Research in Disabilities Education
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482&org=NSF&from=fund
RDE supports efforts to increase the participation and achievement of persons with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Meritorious projects from a diversity of institutions are supported via the RDE Demonstration, Enrichment, and Information Dissemination (RDE-DEI) program track.
Jan. 16
NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05619/nsf05619.htm
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.
Jan. 16
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/
The year-long seminar will explore the space between word and image, where fields of critical inquiry are being reconfigured. We seek a visiting fellow with an interest in the visual arts, visual culture, literature and textuality both broadly and specifically conceived, along with a willingness to interrogate basic methodological and disciplinary assumptions.
Jan. 18
Program for Research and Education with Small Telescopes
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04557/nsf04557.htm
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.
Jan. 20
National Oceanographic Partnership Program
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/
On behalf of the National Oceanceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) solicits research proposals meeting the goal and purpose of the Partnership Program outlined in Title II, subtitle E, of Public Law 104-201.
Jan. 24
2010 Project To determine the function of all genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05624/nsf05624.htm
This year, the Program will focus on: (1) projects that include genome-wide analyses for benchmarking the function of all genes in the genome; (2) projects that will develop experimental and computational methods, tools, and resources for enabling a broad community of scientists to conduct functional genomics research on Arabidopsis; and (3) research on exemplary networks that use high throughput methods and integrate modeling with experimental data to understand the gene circuitry underlying basic plant processes.
Jan. 23
Fiscal Year 2006 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/
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.
Jan. 24
Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Instrument Development
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04534/nsf04534.htm
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.
Jan. 24
Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototype Systems to Address Cross-Cutting Needs
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06505/nsf06505.pdf
Spatially extensive observing systems for environmental research, together with the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research on the dynamics of complex environmental systems, create the need for a sophisticated information infrastructure to support these observing systems and to facilitate the integrated use of data from them. There are a number of questions about how to best construct such a cyberinfrastructure.
Jan. 25
Innovative Energy Systems Challenge
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/3E21C5CB3CA26ACD852570A00054E1AC?OpenDocument
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is seeking applications for cost–shared research, development, and demonstration of Innovative Energy Systems that can be widely applied throughout the U.S. Chemical Industry.
Jan. 25
Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05627
Support for the purchase of computing equipment and limited support for professional systems administrators or programmer personnel for research computing needs. Proposers are encouraged to include projects involving symbolic and algebraic computations, numerical computations and simulations, and graphical representations (visualization) in aid of the research.
Jan. 26
Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Archival & Theoretical Research
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/proposing/docs/cycle15announce
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Space Telescope Science Institute have released a Call for Proposals to participate in Cycle 15 of the Hubble Space Telescope Observations and Archival Research and Theoretical Research programs. The agencies expect to allocate about 3,000 orbits in Cycle 15, including up to 1,000 orbits for Large and Treasury proposals, with the remainder allocated to regular GO Programs. An additional 500-1,000 SNAPSHOT targets may also be allocated.
Jan. 27
National Security Education Program: David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
The fellowships enable U.S. graduate students to pursue studies of the languages and cultures of countries considered critical to U.S. national security, selecting from a listing of more than 85 countries and 45 languages. The program encompasses diverse fields of study, including business, political science, international affairs, science, engineering, health, law, economics, history, and other social sciences.
Jan. 30
Whitaker Foundation International Fellowship Scholarship Program
http://whitakerawards.org/home.html
The goal of the program, which the grant will fund for 15 years, is to give biomedical engineers an international outlook. Whitaker Fellows will have a bachelor's or master's degree (but not a doctorate) in biomedical engineering or bioengineering when they begin their fellowship.
Jan. 30
Greater Research Opportunities: Environmentally Benign Manufacturing and Processing
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2006/2006_gro_solicitation.html
EPA is soliciting research that proposes fundamental and applied research in the physical sciences and engineering that will lead to the discovery, development, and evaluation of advanced and novel environmentally benign methods for chemical processing and manufacturing. The competition addresses technological environmental issues of design, synthesis, processing, and the production, use, and ultimate disposition of products in continuous and discrete chemical industries. Projects must employ fundamental new approaches, and address or result in outcomes which are aligned with current national concerns for pollution avoidance/prevention (at the source). Research may involve nanotechnology that provides outcomes of improved industrial processes and starting material requirements, development of new chemical and industrial procedures, and materials to replace current hazardous constituents and processes, resulting in reductions in energy, materials, and waste generation.
Jan. 31
Josephine de Karman Fellowships
http://www.dekarman.org/qualify.htm
Students in any discipline, entering their senior undergraduate year and graduate students entering their terminal year of a Ph.D. program are eligible. Special consideration given to applicants in the humanities and to those who have completed their qualifying examinations for the doctoral degree.
Jan. 31
February 2005 & Later
Ransom Center Announces Application Process for Research Fellowships, UT-Austin
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/about/fellowships/
The application process has begun for 2006-2007 research fellowships sponsored by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. About 40 fellowships are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities. Priority is given to proposals that concentrate on the center's collections and that require substantial on-site use of them. Each year the fellowship program has a special topic. This year's topic is "The Post-War Cultures of 20th-Century America," a theme that corresponds with the Ransom Center's fall 2006 exhibition on Norman Mailer and American culture from 1945 to 1980, and its spring 2007 exhibition on America in the 1920s.
Feb. 1
Collaborative Research Molecular and Genomic Studies of Basic Behavior in Animal Models
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-038.html
The purpose of the initiative is to facilitate collaborative research, involving behavioral scientists and investigators with expertise in molecular biology and/or genomics, which addresses questions about basic mechanisms of behavior in animal models.
Feb. 1, June 1, Oct. 1.
Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-03-057.html
NIH research grant applications on the Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the US. Demographic and social aspects of race and ethnicity include issues related to understanding how the changing composition and conceptualization of race and ethnicity are affecting the US socially, economically, and demographically, including how increasing racial and ethnic diversity are affecting population health and health disparities; issues related to the development of racial and ethnic identity and to interactions between racial/ethnic identification and demographic, health, and other outcomes; and issues related to the measurement of race and ethnicity, including racial and ethnic self-identification.
Feb. 1, June 1, Oct. 1.
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-001.html
The goals of NIH-supported career development programs are to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists are available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to address the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.
Feb. 1
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/hispanic.html
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service requests applications for the Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program for fiscal year 2006 to promote and strengthen the ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions to carry out higher education programs that attract, retain, and graduate outstanding students capable of enhancing the nation's food and agricultural scientific and professional work force.
Feb. 1
NIJ W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program (2006)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/sl000706.pdf
The W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program seeks to advance the field of knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts. DuBois Fellows will be asked to focus on policy-relevant questions in a manner that truly reflects their saliency as an integral part of the American past, present, and, increasingly, its future. The Fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and the administration of justice in diverse cultural contexts.
Feb. 1
Crime, Justice, and Culture in Societal Contexts
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOJ/HQ/OJP/DOJ-GRANTS-070705-001/Grant.html
The Department of Justice/National Institute of Justice is accepting applications to its W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program. The program enables researchers to investigate the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts, focusing on policy-relevant questions as an integral part of the American past, present, and future. The fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and the administration of justice in diverse cultural contexts.
Feb. 1
NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-132.html
Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) program seeks to facilitate and promote, at research institutions with significant number of mentors with NIH or other extramural research support, the entry into biomedical or behavioral research fields of undergraduate and graduate students from groups underrepresented in these fields.
Feb. 1
Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06507/nsf06507.htm
The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program seeks to increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of information assurance and computer security and to increase the capacity of the United States higher education enterprise to continue to produce professionals in these fields to meet the needs of our increasingly technological society. The SFS program is composed of two tracks: The Scholarship Track provides funding to colleges and universities to award scholarships to students in the information assurance and computer security fields; and Capacity Building Track provides funds to colleges and universities to improve the quality and increase the production of information assurance and computer security professionals.
Feb. 2
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/hep_challenge.html
Enable colleges and universities to provide the quality of education necessary to produce baccalaureate or higher degree level graduates capable of strengthening the Nation's food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce.
Feb. 2
Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05626/nsf05626.htm
Advances the fundamental capabilities of computer and information sciences and engineering by capitalizing on advances and insights from areas such as biological systems, quantum phenomena, nanoscale science and engineering, and other novel computing concepts. To bring fundamental changes to software, hardware and architectural design aspects of future computing models, collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, biologists and other disciplinary scientists are imperative.
Feb. 7
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05587/nsf05587.htm
ONLY be submitted for: Support of National or Regional Multi-User Facilities; Support Research Technicians; and Development of Cyberinfrastructure for Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics).
Feb. 8
NMFS - Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOC/NOAA/GMC/OAR-SG-2006-2000357/listing.html
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) - Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics (Population Dynamics Graduate Fellowship Program) is accepting applications from institutions of higher education on behalf of PhD students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status.
Feb. 10
NMFS-SG Fellowship in Marine Resource Economics
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOC/NOAA/GMC/OAR-SG-2006-2000358/Grant.html
Graduate Fellowship Program awards at least two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.
Feb. 10, 2006
Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOC/NOAA/GMC/NOS-MB-2006-000367/Attachments.html#upload4684
Provides support for independent graduate-level studies in oceanography, marine biology, or maritime archaeology, particularly by women and members of minority groups. A maximum of $64,000 may be provided to masters students (up to 2 years of support) and up to $128,000 may be provided to doctoral students (up to 4 years of support).
Feb. 13, 2006
USDA/CSREES Agricultural Genomics Program Cluster
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Microbial Genome Sequencing (23.2), Microbial Observations (23.3), Animal Genome (43.0), Functional Genomics of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (45.0), Suborganismal Biology and Genomics of Arthropods and Nematodes (51.3), and Plant Genome (52.1). Deadline: Varies by program (February 15, 2006-June 15, 2006).
Feb. 15
Research Institute for the Study of Man Landes Awards for Supervised Field Training
For the 2005-2006 award year, priority will be given to proposals for supervised fieldwork that include student projects related to race and ethnic relations and/or issues in political economy. A full scholarly report (in the style of the discipline) by the grant recipient is due three months after the end of the award period. The RISM Landes Awards are for field research on subjects that were of interest to her as an anthropologist. These subjects include race or ethnic relations, gender issues, education in a comparative perspective, and problems of aging. The awards seek to encourage outstanding scholarship advancing interdisciplinary understanding of the topics specified above.
Feb. 15
Public Service Award
http://www.nationalgridus.com/commitment/d4-1_award.asp
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award program is inviting applications from a graduating college senior to pursue public service anywhere in the world. Provides for an annual stipend of $10,000. Allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career. Proposals may be developed for public service in this country or abroad. The proposal may encompass any activity that furthers the public good.
Feb. 15
Instrumentation for Materials Research
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05522/nsf05522.htm
The IMR Program supports the acquisition and/or development of research instruments that will provide new capability and/or advance current capability to: (1) discover fundamental phenomena in materials; (2) synthesize, process, and/or characterize the composition, structure, properties, and performance of materials; and (3) improve the quality, expand the scope, and foster and enable the integration of research and education in research-intensive environments.
Feb. 16
Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-042.html
The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. These AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. This program is targeted at institutions that have under $3 million in NIH funding annually.
Feb. 25
Engineering Sciences for Modeling and Simulation-Based Life-Cycle Engineering and Manufacturing
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05616/nsf05616.htm
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.
March 1
Fellowships (Knauss 2007) Marine Or Aquatic-Related Field
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOC/NOAA/GMC/OAR-SG-2007-2000354/Attachments.html#upload4682
Any student, regardless of citizenship, who, on April 6, 2006, is in a graduate or professional program in a marine or aquatic-related field at a United States accredited institution of higher education in the United States may apply.
March 1
James Madison Graduate Fellowships
The maximum amount of each award is $24,000, prorated over the individual period of study, thus making the James Madison Fellowship the leading award for secondary level teachers undertaking study of the Constitution. Fellowship payments cover the actual costs of tuition, required fees, books, and room and board but cannot exceed $12,000 per academic year.
March 1, 2006
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
Applications are invited for Visiting Research Fellowships of between two and six months, tenable in the period: June 2006 - September 2008. No limitation is placed on the area of research within the Humanities and Social Sciences but priority will be given to those whose work falls within the scope of one of the Institute current Research Themes: Life Writing, Testimony and Self-Construction; Diasporas, Migrations and Identities; Institutions and Oppositions of Enlightenment; The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century University. An application form can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/vrf.application.form.html.
March 3
Basic Research for Chemical Imaging
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/37351BEDA7214F4385257088004694E2?OpenDocument
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.
March 15
NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13/U13)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-041.html
This funding opportunity provides updated guidelines for National Institutes of Health (NIH) support of conferences and scientific meetings. Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to conduct the proposed conference or scientific meeting is invited to work with that individual’s institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
April 15
DARPA Integrated Learning
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOD/DARPA/CMO/BAA05-43/Grant.html
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.
July 2006
