Funding Opportunities - April 2006
Current Funding Opportunites List
for University Research Council, April 12, 2006
To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: mikecronan@tamu.edu
Office of
Proposal Development Spring Seminar Series
Details at OPD-WEB: http://opd.tamu.edu/events
NIH Presentation and Panel Discussion – April 12
Developing Educational Components Required for Research Grants – April 21
One-Day Craft of Grant Writing Seminar for Faculty and Staff - May 17
ISE FY 2007 Competitions For Grants To Support Education Research
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-2781.pdf
Applications packages (RFA), which will be available at the following Web site: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/programs.html no later than April 7, 2006
In carrying out its mission, the Institute provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need. The National Center for Education Research (NCER) will hold two competitions. Under the first competition, NCER will consider only applications that address one of the following education research or research training topics: Reading and Writing. Mathematics and Science Education. Teacher Quality--Reading and Writing. Teacher Quality--Mathematics and Science Education. Education Leadership. Education Policy, Finance, and Systems. Postdoctoral Research Training.
Migratory Bird Joint Ventures - Sonoran JV
Proposals are accepted year-round and are held for evaluation during the review and ranking period in April of each year. The Sonoran Joint Venture (SJV) is a regional, public/private partnership for advancing the conservation of important bird habitats within the SJV region through biological planning, implementation of habitat conservation actions, focused monitoring and evaluation of the planning and implementation processes, and communication. General oversight and guidance of the partnership is provided by the SJV Management Board. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provides basic administrative funding to the SJV to cover costs associated with coordination; planning; monitoring and evaluation; communications and outreach; and project development and implementation. [Robert Mesta, SJV Coordinator; 520/882-0047, robert_mesta@fws.gov].
Dear Colleague Letter: NSF International Research And Education In Engineering (IREE)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06026/nsf06026.jsp
This DCL concerns opportunities for international research and education for early-career researchers, i.e., undergraduates and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty members.
Dear Colleague Letter – NSF A Submission Window for Unsolicited Proposals to DMR
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06022/nsf06022.jsp
The Division of Materials Research (DMR), in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), will accept unsolicited proposals only during a submission window beginning the third Monday in September and ending the first Friday in November, annually.
http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa06-22.html
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
ESRC-SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/overview.page
The Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are inviting
fellowship applications for U.S.
and Canadian scholars to visit and engage in collaborative activities with
members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain,
or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in
the U.S. or Canada, between
June 2006 and September 2007. Approximately ten research fellowships of up to
$8,500 (approx. £5,000) will be awarded.
This is the third round of a pilot scheme designed to encourage
communication and cooperation between social scientists in Great Britain and the United
States and Canada.
Deadline: April 20
Basic Research Program in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense – 2007
http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8
The U.S. Army
Research Office (ARO) announces the availability of Broad Agency Announcement
(BAA) No. W911NF-06-R-0005 for Basic Research Program in Chemical, Biological,
Radiological and Nuclear Defense of the Joint Science and Technology Office,
Physical Science and Technology Division – 2007. 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. Proposals for basic research are solicited in the following sciences: Atmospheric and
Space Sciences, Biological and Life Sciences, Chemistry, Cognitive and Neural
Sciences, Computing and Information Science, Electronics, Mathematical Science,
Materials Science, Mechanical Science, Physics, Terrestrial and Ocean Sciences,
and Nanoscience.
Deadline: April
22 white paper; full June 20
Application of
Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R21, R21/R33, R33)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/rfa-ca-07-002.html
The National Cancer Institute
(NCI) invites applications for research projects to evaluate the usefulness of
emerging molecular technologies that are ready for initial application to
clinical or biological questions in cancer research. Technology encompasses
methods and tools that enable research, including, but not limited to,
instrumentation, techniques, and devices. Molecular technologies are distinct
from resources such as databases, individual reagents, therapeutic agents, and
tissue repositories, and do not include the development of whole body imaging
technologies. Repositories, agent
development, whole body imaging technologies, and software development are
supported through other initiatives.
Deadline: LOI April 26
Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer (R21, R33)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/rfa-ca-07-001.html
The National Cancer Institute
(NCI) invites applications for research projects proposing the development of
highly innovative cancer relevant molecular technologies. Technology
encompasses methods and tools that enable research, including, but not limited
to, instrumentation, techniques, and devices. Molecular technologies are
distinct from resources such as databases, individual reagents, therapeutic
agents, and tissue repositories, and do not include the development of whole
body imaging technologies. Repositories,
agent development, whole body imaging technologies, and software development
are supported through other initiatives.
Deadline: LOI April 26
Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM), Fiscal 2006
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/InvasiveSpecies/preism.htm
Competitive Award Program—PREISM
awards grants and cooperative agreements between $50,000 and $250,000. The
program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer
review panels. Proposals should focus on economic research, evaluation,
modeling, and/or decision support system development with direct implications
for USDA policies and programs that protect, control, manage, or regulate
invasive species, or trade policy relating to invasive species. Anticipated
funding in fiscal year 2006 for competitive awards will be approximately $1
million.
Deadline: April 28
Food & Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate & Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/06_national_needs.pdf
Applications may be submitted by:
(1) land-grant institutions, (2) colleges and universities having significant
minority enrollments and a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of
food and agricultural sciences, and (3) other colleges and universities having
a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural
sciences. An institution eligible to receive an award under this program
includes a research foundation maintained by an eligible college or university.
Deadline: April 28
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Supports Transatlantic Research
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/transcoop.htm
The Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation supports transatlantic research cooperation among German, American
and/or Canadian scholars (Ph.D. required) in the humanities, social sciences,
economics, and law by means of the TransCoop Programme. Joint research
initiatives can receive up to EUR 45.000 (currently about US$ 59,000) each over
a three-year period. Prerequisite is that the amount granted by TransCoop is
matched by funds from US and/or Canadian sources. Funds can be used to finance
short-term research visits, special conferences and workshops, material and
equipment, printing costs, and research assistance.
Deadline: April 30 & Oct. 30
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Fellowship Programme
http://www.ercim.org/activity/fellows/fellowship.html
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
Science On a Sphere Installation Cooperative Agreement
http://www.grants.gov/search/announce.do
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
Social Science Research
On Japan:
New Fellowship Program
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships-japan.html
The National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Japan-US Friendship Commission are inviting applicants to
their Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan. Program
fellowships will support research on the modern Japanese political economy,
international relations and society, and United State-Japan relations. Also
encouraged is innovative research that puts these subjects in wider regional
and global contexts, and is comparative and contemporary in nature. Eligible
disciplines include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international
relations, linguistics, political science, psychology, public administration,
and sociology.
Deadline: May 1
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
Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-104.html
The National Institutes of Health
are interested in promoting innovative research for Improving Diet and Physical
Activity Assessment. Applications may include development of novel assessment
approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for
culturally diverse populations; across various age-groups including older
adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; or
statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases.
Deadline: LOI May 1; full June 1
Nursing Research
Grants (ANF)
http://www.nursingworld.org/anf/nrggrant.htm
The American Nurses Foundation
(ANF) Nursing Research Grants Program is to encourage the research career
development of all nurses. To effectively achieve this goal, the program
supports research of beginning and experienced nurse researchers. The majority
of the grants have subject restrictions required by the funding
organization. Several special awards are
given in addition to the ANF awards. These awards are administered by ANF and
vary in funding levels that are determined by the sponsoring organization.
Please refer to the website for more
information.
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: By
May 1
Microbiology
Fellowships for Minorities
http://www.asm.org/Education/index.asp?bid=6278
The American Society for
Microbiology welcomes applications for the Robert D. Watkins Minority Graduate
Fellowship. The goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities
completing doctoral degrees in the microbiological sciences. Candidates should
provide evidence of a successful research plan developed in collaboration with
a research advisor or mentor. The total stipend is for three years at $57,000.
Deadline: May
1
Graduate Research Supplements to Current ECS and BES Awards to Broaden Participation of Underrepresented Students
http://nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06532/nsf06532.jsp
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
NEH Challenge Grants
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/challenge.html
NEH challenge grants help
institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for
their humanities programs and resources. Awards are made to museums, public
libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic
sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly
associations, state humanities councils, and other nonprofit entities.
Deadline: May
2 tentative
Advanced Learning Technologies
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06535/nsf06535.htm
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
NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows In K-12 Education (GK-12)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06556/nsf06556.htm
Expected outcomes include improved
communication, teaching and team building skills for the fellows; professional
development opportunities for K-12 teachers; enriched learning for K-12
students; and strengthened partnerships between institutions of higher
education and local school districts.
Deadline: May
5 and full June 19
Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06) Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
http://www.usamraa.army.mil/pages/baa_paa/baa_announcements.cfm
The PRMRP expects to fund 33
Investigator –Initiated Research Awards at $625,000 direct costs, 2 New Program
Project Awards at $1.25M direct costs , 2 Existing program Project Awards at
$1,25M, 3 Advanced Technology: Product/Technology Down Selection or
Optimization at $940,000 direct costs, 2 Advanced Technology: Clinical Testing/Trials
at $2.5M direct costs.
Deadline: May
9
NIJ FY06 Social Science Research on Terrorism
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/SL000744.pdf
NIJ is seeking
proposals to conduct social science research on terrorism that will inform
national criminal justice policy and practice. Proposed research should aim to
improve criminal justice and first responder strategies for prevention of,
preparation for, response to, and mitigation of terrorist incidents at the
Federal, State, and local levels. Proposals may address either domestic or
international terrorism, but research should have direct, immediate, and
obvious implication for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States.
Deadline: May
10
RWJF: Round 6 Dissertation Funding
http://www.activelivingresearch.org/index.php/Round_6_Dissertation_Funding/376
Doctoral candidates may request up
to $25,000 total for up to two years as support for their doctoral
dissertations. Projects must have clear relevance to the overall mission of
Active Living Research but do not have to address the specific topics in this
Call for Proposals. The primary purpose
of this Call for Proposals is to increase understanding of the relationship of
environmental characteristics to physical activity for three priority topics: young people's
use of parks, physical activity in and around buildings, and physical activity
in rural areas.
Deadline: May
10
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Call for Proposals on Childhood Obesity
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19317
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) has issued a Call for Proposals for Round 6 of the Active Living
Research Program on Childhood Obesity. Active Living Research is a $12.5
million national program to stimulate and support research that will identify
environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. The three
priority topics are young people’s use of parks, physical activity in and
around buildings, and physical activity in rural areas. Evaluations of
community interventions that are part of the RWJF Active Living by Design
program also will be supported.
Deadline: May
10
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06536/nsf06536.htm
The Course, Curriculum, and
Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate
students. The program supports efforts to create new learning materials and
teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational
innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on
STEM teaching and learning. The program supports three types of projects
representing three different phases of development, ranging from small,
exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.
Deadline: May
10
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.-Faculty Start-up Awards
http://www.dreyfus.org/su.shtml
The Faculty Start-up Awards Program
is open to all academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories
of the United States of America that do not grant a doctoral degree in chemistry,
biochemistry or chemical engineering. Faculty members who start
their first tenure-track appointment in one of these departments in 2006 are
eligible for nomination in 2006.
Deadline: May
11
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.-New Faculty Awards Program
http://www.dreyfus.org/nf.shtml
The New Faculty Award provides an
unrestricted research grant of $50,000 that is generally made before the new
faculty members formally begin their first tenure-track appointment, and is
based on institutional nomination.
Deadline: May
11
Migrant Education Even Start Family Literacy Program
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-4435.pdf
Purpose of Program: MEES Family
Literacy program grants are intended to help break the cycle of poverty and
illiteracy of migratory agricultural or fishing families by improving the
educational opportunities of these families through the integration of early
childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting
education into a unified family literacy program.
Deadline: May
12
Japan Society for Promotion of Science/International Programs-Fellowships for Research
http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-inv/short_term.html
The JSPS Invitation Fellowship for
Research in Japan allows
researchers employed at designated Japanese research institutions and
laboratories to invite fellow researchers from other countries to Japan to
participate in discussions, attend seminars, give lectures, or perform similar
duties at their institutions. All fields of the humanities, social sciences, and
natural sciences are included under this program.
Deadline: May
12
Advanced E-Team Grant Guidelines (Texas A&M is a member)
http://www.nciia.org/grants_eteam.html
http://www.nciia.org/grants_cp.html
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
Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Research Program
http://www.usamraa.army.mil/pages/index.cfm
The U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command is soliciting research proposals for studies on the
pathophysiology, surrogate markers, mechanisms and treatment of Parkinson's
disease and Parkinson's-related neurodegenerative conditions to include
initiating causes, interaction of environmental and genetic risk factors,
epigenetic modifying factors, with emphasis on exposure factors encountered in
military operations which may be neurotoxic or lead to neurodegenerative
conditions.
Deadline: May
15
American Historical Association—Over 40 Various Prizes and Awards
http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm
The American Historical
Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and
incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the
collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the
dissemination of historical research.
Deadline: May
15
Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06538/nsf06538.htm
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
Broadening Participation in Computing--communities with longstanding underrepresentation in computing
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06540/nsf06540.htm
The Broadening Participation in
Computing (BPC) program aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens
and permanent residents receiving post secondary degrees in the computing
disciplines. Initially, its emphasis will be on students from communities with
longstanding underrepresentation in computing: women, persons with
disabilities, and minorities.
Deadline: May
17
Collaborative Science And Technology Network For Sustainability
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2006/2006_star_cns.html
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
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06541/nsf06541.htm
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
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=8374
The purpose of the HBCU program is
to expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development
needs in theri localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing and
economic development, principally for persons- of low and moderate income,
consistent with the purpose of the Title I Hosing and Community.
Deadline: May
19
Food And Nutrition Assistance Programs: FANRP Research Funding Opportunities
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodNutritionAssistance/Funding/
FANRP 2006 Request for Research
Proposals–The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program is inviting
proposals for its 2006 Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program.
Proposals are due (postmarked) May
22, 2006. ERS anticipates funding about $1.5 million for
competitive grants and cooperative agreements this fiscal year.
Deadline: May
22
International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-TW-06-004.html
Support is provided to train
environmental and occupational health scientists from developing countries for
careers in research and public health in their home countries.
Deadline: LOI
May 22; full
Hispanic Serving Insitutions Assisting Communities (HUD)
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=8375
The purpose of the HSIAC program
is to assist Hispanic Serving Insitutions (HSI) of higher education expand
their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their
localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic
development, principally for persons of low and moderate income consistent with
the purpose of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
amended.
Deadline: May
22
Camille, Henry Dreyfus Foundation--Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
http://www.dreyfus.org/ep.shtml
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)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06560/nsf06560.htm
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
http://www.computer.org/students/schlrshp.htm#merwin
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
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-236.html
The National Institute on Aging
(NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Retirement Economics
(R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-235.html
The National Institute on Aging
(NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. The research
objectives of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include, but are not
limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in
work patterns in later life, (3) the evolution of health and economic
circumstances of individuals through retirement and into later life, (4) time
use and life satisfaction before and during retirement, (5) the implications of
retirement trends, (6) retirement expectations, (7) international comparisons
of retirement and (8) the development of innovative retirement modeling
techniques.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Identification of All
Functional Elements in Selected Model Organism Genomes (U01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-06-006.html
The RFA solicits applications to
identify all of the sequence-based functional elements in the Caenorhabditis
elegans and/or Drosophila melanogaster genomes.
Deadline: LOI
June 1; full June 22
Mentored
Patient-Oriented Research Award to Promote Diversity (K23)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-222.html
The Comprehensive Minority
Biomedical Branch (CMBB), Office of Centers, Training and Resources (OCTR),
National Cancer Institute (NCI), announces the availability of the
"Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to Promote Diversity" for
career development of individuals with a health professional doctoral degree
(e.g., M.D., D.D.S., D.O., O.D., D.V.M., D.N.Sc., N.D. [Doctor of Naturopathy],
Pharm.D.), from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in
health-related science. This award provides specialized study for those who are
committed to a career in patient-oriented cancer research.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Information Technologies & Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-225.html
Study of the use of technology to
disseminate health-related information.
How does information technology impact the packaging, transmission, and
reception of information? This may
include how IT influences the access, comprehension, and use of health
information.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Information Technologies & Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-226.html
Study of the use of technology to
disseminate health-related information. How does information technology impact the
packaging, transmission, and reception of information? This may include how IT influences the
access, comprehension, and use of health information. Study of the use of
technology as a medium through which effective treatment and preventive
interventions can be delivered. (e.g. telemedicine) How does the use of technology impact the
intervention? Are adaptations to the
intervention required? Does use of
technology fundamentally change the way interventions are conceptualized?
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Information Technologies & Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-224.html
This funding opportunity
encourages investigators to submit applications studying the impact of health
information technology on health interventions and services. Studies related to
the impact of technology on the delivery of health-related information as well
as health-related clinical interventions are encouraged.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
NCI Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-220.html
The Comprehensive Minority
Biomedical Branch (CMBB), Office of Centers, Training, and Resources (OCTR),
National Cancer Institute (NCI), invites career development award applications
(K01) from individuals representative of groups that have been shown to be
underrepresented in health-related
science who have been recipients of an NIH Research Supplement to
Promote Diversity Award, any Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service
Award (individual F31/F32 or institutional T32), or can demonstrate that they
have been supported in a mentored capacity within any research grant equivalent
to an NIH peer-reviewed research grant (e.g., American Cancer Society [ACS]
research grant).
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards (CEBRA) (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-209.html
The NIDA Cutting-Edge Basic
Research Award (CEBRA) is designed to foster highly innovative or conceptually
creative research related to drug abuse and addiction and how to prevent and
treat them, and to support research that is high-risk and potentially
high-impact that is underrepresented or not included in NIDA's current
portfolio.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
NCI Mentored Clinical
Scientist Award to Promote Diversity (K08)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-221.html
The Comprehensive Minority
Biomedical Branch (CMBB), Office of Centers, Training and Resources (OCTR),
National Cancer Institute (NCI), announces the availability of Mentored
Clinical Scientist Awards to Promote Diversity for career development of
individuals from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related
science who have obtained health professional doctoral degrees (e.g., M.D.,
D.D.S., D.O., O.D., D.V.M., D.N.Sc., N.D., Pharm.D.). This award provides specialized study for
those who are committed to a career in laboratory or field-based cancer research
(not patient-oriented research).
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
NIDCR Small Research Grants for Data Analysis and Statistical Methodology (R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-211.html
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
Nutrition and Diet in the Causation, Prevention, and Management of Heart Failure (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-136.html
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage submission of
investigator-initiated research applications on the role of nutrition and diet
in the causation, prevention, and treatment of cardiomyopathies and heart
failure.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Sociobehavioral Data Analysis and Archiving in Aging (R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-102.html
This Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) is seeking
small grant (R03) applications to: 1) stimulate and facilitate data archiving
and secondary analyses of data related to caregiving, cognition, demography,
economics, epidemiology, behavioral genetics and other behavioral research on
aging; 2) provide support for preliminary projects using secondary analysis
that could lead to subsequent applications for other research project grant
award mechanisms; 3) provide support for rapid analyses of new databases and
experimental modules for purposes such as informing the design and content of
future study waves; 4) provide support for the development, enhancement and
assembly of new databases from existing data; and 5) provide support for pilot
research on under-utilized databases.
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Novel Approaches To Study Polymicrobial Diseases (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-210.html
The NIH Institutes listed above
invite research grant applications to conduct studies designed to develop
innovative approaches that would contribute to our understanding of the
mechanisms that impact on the virulence of infections involving two or more
microorganisms or strains of microorganisms (with the exception of HIV).
Deadline: June
1; Oct. 1
Hydrologic Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06545/nsf06545.htm
Hydrologic Sciences focuses on the
flow of water and transport processes within streams, soils, and aquifers.
Particular attention is given to spatial and temporal heterogeneity of fluxes
and storages of water and chemicals over a wide range of scales, to
geolimnology and to interfaces with the landscape, microbial communities, and
coastal areas. Studies may also deal with processes in aqueous geochemistry and
with the physical, chemical, and biological processes within water bodies.
Study of these processes requires expertise from many basic sciences and
mathematics, and proposals often require joint review with related programs.
Deadline: June
1
NIH Small Research
Grant Program (Parent R03)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-180.html
The National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Investigator-Initiated Small Grant (R03) funding opportunity supports
small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with
limited resources. Investigator-initiated research, also known as unsolicited
research, is research funded as a result of an investigator submitting a
research grant application to NIH in an investigator’s area of interest and
competency.
Deadline: June
1, Oct. 1
NIH
Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-181.html
The Exploratory/Developmental
Grant (R21) mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental
research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of
these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a
breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques,
agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact
on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.
Deadline: June
1, Oct. 1
NIH Retirement Economics
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-036.html
The National Institute on Aging
invites applications for research on Retirement Economics.
Deadline: June
1
Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program - Special Experiential Learning Grants
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/multicultural_selg.html
The purpose of SEL grants is to
further the development of student scientific and professional competencies
through experiential learning programs that provide students with opportunities
to solve complex problems in the context of real-world situations.
Deadline: June
1
Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-104.html
This funding opportunity is aimed at advancing the quality
of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity pertinent to cancer
and/or other pathologies through support of research on improved instruments,
technologies, and/or statistical/analytical techniques. Studies proposed in the
grant applications should be aimed at optimizing the combined use of objective
and self-report measures of physical activity and/or dietary intake for testing
in both general and diverse populations.
Deadline: LOI
May 1
NIH Career Development Awards (K Awards)
http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides several Career Development Awards (K awards) that individuals with a research doctorate should consider. Most of these awards support individuals that have accepted or are ready for a faculty position.
PA-06-001: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
PA-00-020: Independent Scientist Award (K02)
PA-00-021: Senior Scientist Award (K05)
PA-00-070: Academic Career Award (K07)
PAR-02-069: Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (K18)
PA-00-019: Career Transition Award (K22)
PA-06-087: Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25)
PAR-99-065: Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research Award (K26)
PAR-04-058: International Research Scientist Development
Award (K01). Deadline: Feb. 16
Deadline: June
1, Oct. 1.
Structural Biology of
Membrane Proteins (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-119.html
This PA solicits applications to
develop research and methods to enhance the rate of membrane protein structure
determination and to determine specific membrane protein structures. Innovative
methods for expression, oligomerization, solubilization, stabilization,
purification, characterization, crystallization, isotopic labeling, and
structure determination of unique and biologically significant membrane
proteins by x-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron
microscopic, mass spectrometry, and other biophysical techniques are
encouraged. Projects that will lead in the near term to determining the structures
of biologically important membrane proteins are also encouraged.
Deadline: June
1, Oct. 1.
Oral Health Research Education Grants (R25)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-160.html
The goals of the NIDCR Oral Health
Research Education (OHRE) Grants program are to infuse an appreciation of
science and the results of scientific research into the dental school
curriculum and to develop a pipeline of students interested in pursuing a
career in oral health research.
Deadline: June 1
Italian Culture and
Heritage Grants
http://www.niaf.org/grants/index.asp
The National Italian American
Foundation’s (NIAF) is accepting applications for Culture and Heritage Grant
Awards which are available to individuals or organizations pursuing projects to
promote, research, educate or preserve Italian American culture, history or
heritage. Examples include: documentaries, doctoral research, exhibits,
conferences, books, media stereotyping/anti-defamation surveys, campaigns,
etc., plays, and course syllabi. Grants
range from $2,000 to $15,000.
Deadline: June 2, 2006 and December
1, 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring of Workforce
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06548/nsf06548.htm
The FY06 CI-TEAM program will fund
two types of projects: Demonstration Projects at levels up to $250,000 total
with durations of 1 to 2 years; and Implementation Projects funded at levels up
to $1,000,000 total with durations of 2 to 3 years. Both types of projects consist of
collaborations with expertise in multiple disciplines and partnerships between
academic institutions of higher learning, secondary schools, government,
industry, professional societies, other not-for-profit organizations, and
international partners, as appropriate.
Deadline: June 5
Technological Challenges in Hybrid Communications Systems
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06547/nsf06547.htm
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
Computing Community Consortium (CCC): Defining the Large-Scale Infrastructure Needs of the Computing Research Community
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06551/nsf06551.htm
One of the first responsibilities
of the CCC will be guiding the design of the Global Environment for Networking
Innovations (GENI). GENI is a facility concept already being explored by the
research community, including investigators from the disciplines supported by
CISE. GENI will complement ongoing CISE research investments in networking,
distributed systems and other areas. The GENI facility is expected to increase
the quality and quantity of experimental research outcomes supported by CISE,
and to accelerate the transition of these outcomes into products and services
to enhance economic competitiveness and secure the Nation's future.
Deadline: June 10
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06552/nsf06552.htm
This solicitation combines the
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program and its
Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) activity with the Alliances for Graduate Education
and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. For clarity, the name Alliances for
Broadening Participation in STEM is used to represent all three programs
encompassed by this combined solicitation. This document replaces NSF 03-520, NSF
04-575 and NSF 05-585.
Deadline: LOI due June 15; full June
30
Human Nutrition and Obesity, United States Department of Agriculture
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
This crosscutting program
addresses the complex problem of obesity prevention. Projects funded by this
program are intended to lead to a better understanding of the behavioral and
environmental factors that influence obesity and to the development and evaluation
of effective interventions to prevent obesity. Goals for this program are: the
behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity will be
sufficiently well understood to develop effective obesity prevention
strategies; valid behavioral and environmental instruments for measuring
progress in obesity prevention will be available; and effective strategies for
preventing overweight and obesity will be available.
Deadline: June 15
Air Quality, United States Department of Agriculture
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Agriculture, forest, and range
production practices have increasingly become subject to state and federal
regulations that are meant to protect air resources. In many instances, data do
not exist or are not representative of agricultural industries for the purpose
of estimating emissions to the atmosphere of regulated pollutants or of public
nuisances such as odors and fugitive dust. Goals of this program are: a)
develop emission data for agriculture, forest, and range production practices
that will lead to emission reduction targets, based on sound science, that will
significantly improve air quality and protect human and environmental health;
b) develop mitigation strategies that will increase adoption of best management
practices to reduce agricultural emissions; c) and improve understanding of
odor, gases, and particulate matter (PM) measurement, production, flux, fate
and transport that will lead to a better understanding of the environmental
fate of agricultural atmospheric emissions.
Deadline: June 15
Plant Genome Comparative Sequencing Program (PGCSP)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06555/nsf06555.htm
The goal of this program is to
support the development of genome sequence resources that would contribute to a
conceptual framework for the interpretation of the structure, function and
evolution of genomes of economically important plants. Projects are solicited
that focus on a biological question that is enabled by the proposed sequence
resources and was unanswerable with existing resources. Proposers must provide
clear justification for the plant or plants selected and the type of resource
to be generated. Projects should also advance the goals of the Plant Genome
Research Program (PGRP).
Deadline: June 16
A Data Coordination Center for the Model Organism ENCODE Project
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-06-007.html
The purpose of this RFA is to
solicit applications for a Biotechnology Resource Cooperative Agreement (U41)
award to develop and implement a Data Coordination Center (DCC) as part of the
ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Project for model organisms (modENCODE).
The modENCODE Project will establish a Research Consortium that will conduct
experiments to identify all of the sequence-based functional elements in the
Caenorhabditis elegans and/or Drosophila melanogaster genomes. Both computational and experimental
approaches will be critical components of these efforts and a separate RFA,
HG-06-006, “Identification of all functional elements in selected model organism
genomes” is being issued to support the modENCODE Project.
Deadline: LOI June 21 & app.
July 21
Consequences of Global Change For Air Quality
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2006/2006_star_gcaq.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
seeking applications proposing research to better understand the effect of
global change on U.S.
air quality.
Deadline: June 20
ILSI North America Future Leader Award, Given to Promising Nutrition & Food Scientists
http://www.ilsina.org/award_programs/index.cfm?pubentityid=123
The ILSI North America Future
Leader Award, given to promising nutrition and food scientists, allows new
investigators the opportunity to add to an existing project or to conduct
exploratory research that might not receive funding from other sources. Consideration will be given to individuals
proposing research in the areas of experimental nutrition, nutrition and food
safety, and nutrition and food science.
Deadline: Nominate June 23
DARPA Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers
http://www.grants.gov/search/announce.do
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
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06559/nsf06559.htm
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
Partnerships for
Innovation (PFI)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06550/nsf06550.htm
The goals of the Partnerships for
Innovation Program are to: 1) stimulate the transformation of knowledge created
by the research and education enterprise into innovations that create new
wealth, build strong local, regional and national economies and improve the
national well-being; 2) broaden the participation of all types of academic
institutions and all citizens in NSF activities to meet the broad workforce
needs of the national innovation enterprise; and 3) catalyze or enhance
enabling infrastructure necessary to foster and sustain innovation in the
long-term.
Deadline: June 28
Therapeutic Effects
of Horses on h\Humans
http://www.horsesandhumans.org/
The Horses and Humans Foundation
has announced its first call for proposals for funding in 2006. The foundation
invites applicants to submit proposals to fund research that provides evidence
of the therapeutic effects of horses on humans.
Deadline: June 30
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.
Deadline: July 2006
Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research (K26)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-159.htmlThe 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 needs. The Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research seeks to support established pathobiologists to allow them to devote protected time to mouse pathobiology research and mentor beginning investigators.
Eligible
candidates must hold a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, M.D., Ph.D. or equivalent
degree and are within 15 years of their specialty training. Candidates must
have a demonstrated record of meritorious mouse pathobiology research,
experience in mentoring, conduct up to 5 years of enhanced mouse pathobiology
research, and serve as mentors for beginning pathobiologist investigators.
Deadline: July 1
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5503&org=NSF&from=fund
CEDAR is a broad-based,
community-initiated, upper atmospheric research program. The goal is to
understand the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere
upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere in terms of
coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales.
These processes are related to the sources of perturbations that propagate
upward from the lower atmosphere as well as to solar radiation and particle
inputs from above. The activities within this program combine observations,
theory and modeling.
Deadline: July 10
Genes and Genome
Systems Cluster
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12780
The Genes and Genome Systems
Cluster supports studies on genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms,
whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus. Proposals on the structure,
maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA,
RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated are appropriate. Areas
of interest include genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution,
replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of
heritable information. Of equal interest are the processes that mediate and
regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena,
transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation. The
use of innovative in vivo and/or in vitro approaches, including biochemical,
physiological, genetic, genomic, and/or computational methods, is encouraged,
as is research
at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer
science, and engineering.
Deadline: July 12
Cognitive Neuroscience
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06557/nsf06557.htm
The Cognitive Neuroscience program
seeks highly innovative proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding
of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social
processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior. Topics may bear on core
functions such as sensory, learning, language, reasoning, emotion, and
executive processes, or more specialized processes such as empathy, creativity,
representation of self and other, or intentionality, among many other
possibilities. Topics may also include how such processes develop and change in
the brain. The program is particularly interested in
supporting the development of new techniques and technologies for recording,
analyzing, and modeling complex brain activity.
Deadline: July 14
International Neuroscience Fellowship (F05)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-227.html
The goal of this International
Neuroscience Fellowship Program is to provide a unique opportunity to qualified
foreign neuroscientists, at junior or mid-career level, to receive one to two
years of research training in the United States.
Deadline: LOI July 14 & app. August 14
William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Student
http://www.nonprofitresearch.org/newsletter1530/newsletter_show.htm?doc_id=16318
The Nonprofit Sector Research
Fund, a grantmaking program of the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC,
offers the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship three times annually. The
fellowship, which is based on academic excellence and need, is open to both
undergraduate and graduate students who are members of minority groups.
Deadline: July 15
Leakey Foundation
General Research Grants
http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/grants/g2.jsp
The Leakey Foundation provides
General Research Grants to support research into human origins. Recent
priorities include research into the environments, archeology, and human
paleontology; into the behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and
other primate species; and into the behavioral ecology of contemporary
hunter-gatherers. Advanced doctoral students are eligible. The stipend amount
ranges from $3,000 to $13,500 for doctoral students. Larger grants of up to
$22,000 are occasionally awarded, most often to postdoctoral students or senior
scientists.
Deadline: July 15
Nanostructured Dental
Composite Restorative Materials (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DE-07-005.html
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
Bellagio Study and Conference Center
http://www.rockfound.org/AboutUs/SpecialPrograms/Bellagio
The Rockefeller Foundation is
accepting applications for the use of the Bellagio Study and Conference Center.
The Center is located in the small town of Bellagio,
Italy situated on a hilly
peninsula adjacent to Lake Como, two hours northeast of Milan. Two programs are offered —the
individual residency program and the conference and team program—that encourage
critical thinking and creative responses to some of the most pressing issues of our time. The
Foundation provides room and board without charge for all residents and
conference/team participants. Personal expenses (phone and fax, for example)
are the individual’s responsibility. Next deadline is August 1,
2006 for the following year's date range of August–mid-December
2007. Decisions will be made by January
20, 2007. See website FAQ or
E-mail: bellagio_online@rockfound.org
Deadline: August 1
Production of Liquid Transportation Biofuels, Biobased Chemicals, Substitutes for Petroleum-based Feedstocks and Products
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/6EF8A6AD174A69B08525711D007E834C?OpenDocument
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
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.
Deadline: Through Sept. 1, 2006
Research and Development for On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/53A7A27BA6C302DB8525713E007E32A3?OpenDocument
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
Biomaterials (BMAT)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13699&org=NSF&from=fund
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: Sept. 18-Nov. 3
Flat Tailed Horned Lizard Study
http://www.grants.gov/search/announce.do
The Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, Yuma Area Office is requesting proposals
to fund projects for activities in support of their Endangered Species program
in federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 (October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006).
The Yuma Area Office periodically makes funding available for conducting
activities for Threatened and Endangered (T&E) species and their habitats
under Section 7.(a).(1). of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The objective is
to fund opportunities for collecting field data of the Flat-Tailed Horned
Lizard (Phrynosoma mcalli) in accordance with the Flat Tailed Horned Lizard
(FTHL) Range-wide Management Strategy (2003 revision).
Deadline: Sept. 30
DOE Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP)
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/8CB1060444F7907A852571260063ECD1?OpenDocument
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
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.-Senior Scientist Mentor Program
http://www.dreyfus.org/si.shtml
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
Plant Biosecurity, United States Department of Agriculture
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
This program supports integrated
projects aimed at ensuring a continued supply of safe, high-quality, affordable
food and fiber for consumers in the U.S. and international trade
partners. The goal of the program is to harness our NationÆs scientific and
technological resources to help agricultural producers and professionals
implement strategies to safeguard agriculture in the U.S. from high-consequence plant
diseases. To accomplish this, the program will focus on integrated research,
education and extension projects that counter threats to the agriculture system
in the U.S.,
both by stepwise improvements to current responses and by development of
innovative new capabilities.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-179.html
This initiative is intended to
support collaborations between scientists with basic and clinical expertise to
advance understanding of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of
environmentally-induced human diseases.
Deadline: LOI Dec. 11; full Jan. 11
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
http://www.grants.gov/search/announce.do
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
