Funding Opportunities - December 2005
Current Funding Opportunities List
for University Research Council, December 14, 2005
To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: mikecronan@tamu.edu
Program, URL, Synopsis & Due Date
2006 Medical Science & Technology Chemical/Biological Defense Transformational Medical
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DTRA/DTRA01/DTRA01-06-BAA-01/Attachments.html
This BAA is focused on developing medical counter-measures to emerging threats, genetically engineered and nontraditional toxins, virulence factors and microorganisms as biological warfare (BW) threat agents. The agent classes that are to be focused on are: intra-cellular bacterial pathogens, hemorrhagic fever viruses and bioregulators.
Open 2006
Materials for Optimally Responsive Fabricated Structures (MORFS)
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLWRS/Reference-Number-RFI-MORFS/listing.html
US Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Air Force (USAF). Materials for Optimally Responsive Fabricated Structures (MORFS). The Air Force is seeking information on structural material composite technologies capable of large changes in shape and/or mechanical properties.
Dec. 22
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
Kleinhans Fellowship
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
The Rainforest Alliance accepts applications for the Kleinhans Fellowship. The fellowship supports research to better understand and improve the impacts of non-timber forest product harvest and marketing on rural livelihoods and tropical forest ecosystems. A successful application will outline the need for research, its potential applications and its likely impact on local communities and forest ecosystems. The Kleinhans Fellowship research area is restricted to Latin America. Applications for projects conducted in the Petén region of Guatamala or Southern Mexico are especially encouraged.
Dec. 31
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).
Jan. 10/or A Notice of Intent
American Educational Research Association Research Grants
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/res_grants/RGFly.html
With support from NSF and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are: (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. Minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Jan. 3, March 1, Sept. 1
American Educational Research Association Dissertation Grants
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html
The program's goals are: (1) to stimulate research on U.S. education policy- and practice-related issues using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. Minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Jan. 3, March 1, Sept. 1
AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/stat_institute/SIFly.html
The Institute's goal is to help develop a critical mass of U.S. educational researchers using NCES and NSF data sets for basic, policy, and applied research. The Institute provides hands-on training for researchers in the use of large-scale national data sets, with special emphasis on using these data sets for policy-related research in education. Minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Jan. 3
Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund
http://www1.talbots.com/about/scholar/scholar.asp
Talbots welcomes applications for the Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund. This program annually awards five $10,000 scholarships and fifty $1,000 scholarships to women seeking a bachelor's or associate's degree later in life.
Jan. 3
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. 5
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens trained in disciplines of science and engineering of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award 200 new three-year graduate fellowships in April 2006.
Jan. 6
Talent Search Program
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/05-22554.pdf
The purpose of the TS Program is to identify qualified youths with potential for education at the postsecondary level and encourage them to complete secondary school and undertake a program of postsecondary education. TS projects also publicize the availability of student financial assistance for persons who seek to pursue postsecondary education and encourage persons who have not completed programs at the secondary or postsecondary level to reenter these programs.
Jan. 6
Programs to Build the Capacity for Societal Institutions that Influence Youth Behavior
http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/DP06-601.htm
CDC’s Procurement and Grants Office has published a new funding opportunity entitled, “National Programs to Build the Capacity of Societal Institutions that Influence Youth Behavior.” $8,000,000 will be available in FY2006 to fund thirty awards to organizations to establish a national program to prevent behaviors and unhealthy environments that place elementary school through college-aged young people at risk for a myriad of health problems.
Jan. 9
Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program - Habitat Restoration
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOI/BOR/UC820/06-SF-40-2454/listing.html
The Middle Rio
Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program expects to fund projects
for the benefit of the endangered Rio
Grande silvery minnow and southwestern willow
flycatcher during Federal fiscal year 2006.
Jan.
9
AAUW Master's and First Professional Awards
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/selected.cfm
Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Jan.
10
Ecology & 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
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
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/index.shtml
The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) is a program funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration. Now entering its 15th year, the DOE CSGF trains scientists to meet the nation’s workforce needs and helps to create a nationwide interdisciplinary community. \
Jan. 11
Nursing Workforce Diversity
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=0009265F-5741-45CB-B4E8-F20E71CB26B0
Grants are awarded to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrpresented among registered nurses) by providing student scholarships or stipends, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities.
Jan. 12
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
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) (DOD)
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/docs/baa_06-002.pdf
Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator Program (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 November 1, 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 to the Department of the Navy's research program, to support their research and to encourage their teaching and research careers.
Jan. 12
Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program
http://www.lucent.com/news/foundation/blgrfp/
The Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program is designed to increase the number of minorities and women in the fields of science, math, engineering and technology.
Jan. 13
Microsoft Digital Inclusion by Mobile & Wireless Technologies Research Funding Initiative
http://www.research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/DigitalInclusion_2005_RFP.aspx
The term 'digital inclusion' is used in this document to describe the goal of expanding the capabilities of computing technology worldwide to better serve social and economic challenges of underserved communities, both rural and urban.
Jan. 13
Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program
http://www.lucent.com/social/blgrfp/appinfo.html
The Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program is designed to increase the number of minorities and women in the fields of science, math, engineering and technology.
Jan. 13
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
http://www.caorc.org/fellowships/multi/#guidelines
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers seeks applications for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. The program is open to US doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in a field in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance.
Jan. 13
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) Awards.
http://www.aafcs.org/programs/awards.html
Various Awards. Awards include 21st Century Community Champion Award; Chalkley/Fenn Public Policy Visiting Scholar Award; Distinguished Service Award (DSA); Excellence in Extension Award; Friend of the Family Award; Leaders Award; New Achievers Award; Teacher of the Year Award; and the Wiley-Berger Award for Volunteer Service.
Jan. 13
Princeton University Library Fellowships
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/fellowships/
The Friends of the Princeton University Library offer up to ten short-term Visiting Fellowships to promote scholarly use of the research collections of the Library. Stipends are up to $2500 and are used to help defray expenses in traveling to and residing in Princeton. The length of the fellowship depends on the applicant's research proposal, but is usually one month. Citizenship: unrestricted. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2006 (annual). INQUIRIES: msrich@princeton.edu;
Jan. 15
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
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. 15
National Women's Studies Association--Annual Scholarships And Awards
http://www.nwsa.org/ssnwsa.html
Various disciplines, including humanities and computer science.
Jan. 15
Microsoft Research External Research and Programs
http://www.research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/Phoenix_SSCLI_RFP.aspx
Microsoft seeks to encourage first-rate cross-cutting and cross-fertilizing research that examines and reconsiders the relationships between development tools, compilers, managed runtime environments, runtime code generation, and underlying operating systems. It is an opportunity for researchers to work with key technologies at the heart of Microsoft's .NET architecture. Upper Amount: $50,000.
Jan. 17
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
Collaborative Research in Aeronautical Science
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLWRS/BAA%2DPKV%2D05%2D10/listing.html
The Computational Sciences Center of AFRL is a research leader in high fidelity computational aerodynamics for Air Force systems. The three main research thrusts in the Center are high speed aero-physics, fine-scale unsteady flow, and computational support for AF analysis needs. With this BAA, the Computational Sciences Center will set up an ongoing partnership by establishing a Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences.
Jan. 20
Consolidated Environmental Professional Intern Program
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/ej/grants/ej-intern-2006.pdf
EPA announces the availability of Federal Assistance to conduct the Environmental Professional Intern Programs to provide-on-the-job training for graduate and undergraduate students from accredited universities and colleges interested in careers in the environmental area. The need for wise stewardship of the Nation’s environmental resources is increasing and with it a need to enlarge the pool of skilled environmental professionals while increasing the diversity of this pool.
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
Association for Women in Science Graduate Student Fellowships
http://www.awis.org/careers/edfoundation.html
Female students enrolled in a behavioral, life, physical, or social science or engineering program leading to a Ph.D. degree may apply.
Jan. 26
Major Research Instrumentation Program
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05515/nsf05515.htm
The MRI program assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation by organizations that is, in general, too costly for support through other NSF programs. Proposals may be for a single instrument, a large system of instruments, or multiple instruments that share a common or specific research focus.
Jan. 26
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
NCRR Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) [R25]
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-080.html
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) invites applications for the Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) program whose goals are to foster the development of novel programs to improve the understanding of the clinical trial process and NIH-funded health science advances by K-12 students, teachers and the general public.
Jan. 27
FY 06 DoD Infrastructure Support Program for HBCUs and Minority Institutions
http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8
Goals of the program include (a) enhancing programs and capabilities in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the national security functions of DoD and (b) increasing the number of graduates, including underrepresented minorities, in the fields of science, mathematics and/or engineering.
Jan. 27
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
National Security Education Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students in engineering, science, humanities, and social sciences to pursue specialization in area and language study or to add an important international dimension to their education. Boren Fellowships support students pursuing the study of languages, cultures, and world regions which are critical to U.S. national security, but which are less frequently studied by U.S. graduate students, i.e., areas of the world other than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Jan. 29
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
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research-- Research Fellowships Program
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/E5-6724.pdf
The purpose of the Research Fellowships Program is to build research capacity by providing support to enable highly qualified individuals, including those who are individuals with disabilities, to conduct research about the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.
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
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
NRC Research Associateship Programs-Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf
The National Academies administers Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards through its Associateship Programs, part of the Policy and Global Affairs Division. The Research Associateship Programs are sponsored by federal laboratories at over one hundred locations in the United States and overseas.
Feb. 1
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program
http://fellowships.hq.nasa.gov/gsrp/nav/
The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) awards fellowships for graduate study leading to masters or doctoral degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering related to NASA research and development.
Feb. 1
Science and Society
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05588/nsf05588.htm
S&S considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
Feb. 1
Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05535/nsf05535.htm
The purposes of the Collaboration in Mathematical Geoscience activity are: (A) [Interdisciplinary Group Research Projects] to enable collaborative research at the intersection of mathematical sciences and geosciences, and to encourage cross-disciplinary education through (B) [Interdisciplinary Post-graduate Summer Training] summer graduate training activities and (C) [Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Research] opportunities for interdisciplinary post-doctoral research.
Feb. 1
Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-082.html
The ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage the development of empirical research on social work practice, concepts and theory as these relate to the NIH public health goal of improving health outcomes for persons with medical and behavioral disorders and conditions.
Feb. 1 June 1
Dissertation Grants/Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities
http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE06-002.htm
The purpose of this program is to encourage doctoral candidates from a wide spectrum of disciplines including: epidemiology, medicine, biostatistics, health economics, public health, law and criminal justice, and the behavioral and social sciences to perform research in order to prevent and control injuries more effectively.
Feb. 1
Drug Abuse as Cause/Correlate/Consequence of Criminal Justice Related Health Disparities
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-068.html
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to encourage epidemiologic, prevention, treatment, and services research on criminal justice related health disparities among African Americans as it relates to drug abuse and addiction. Health disparities among African Americans are a major public health concern in the United States.
Feb. 1
Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Focus on African Americans (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-069.html
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to encourage drug abuse and mental health research to better understand the disparities in HIV/AIDS in minority populations, particularly among African Americans, who as a group, have experienced exceptionally high rates of new HIV infections and worse survival rates than other ethnic/racial groups in this country.
Feb. 1
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
Special Research Grants Program: Pest Management Alternatives Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pmap.html
The Special Research Grants Program - Pest Management Alternatives Research (PMAP) supports projects that develop and implement integrated pest management practices, tactics and systems for specific pest problems while reducing human and environmental risks.
Feb. 1
National Foundation Arts and the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/wtpchallenge.html
We the People Challenge Grants in United States History, Institutions, and Culture. These challenge grants are designed to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for humanities activities focused on exploring significant themes and events in American history. NEH is particularly interested in projects that advance knowledge of the founding principles of the United States in their full historical and institutional context. Upper Amount: $1,000,000.
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
Teaching American History Grant Program
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/E5-6912.pdf
Grant awards assist local educational agencies (LEAs), in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative, cohesive models of professional development.
Feb. 3
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
AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars
http://www.aauw.org/fga/awards/raes.cfm
The AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars honors an untenured woman scholar who has a record of exceptional early professional accomplishments and demonstrates promise of future distinction. The award is open to women in all disciplines.
Feb. 10
Integrated Research, Education, and Extension-Integrated Pest Management
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/ipm_integrated.html
The IPM Section 406 Program seeks to solve critical agricultural issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research, education, and extension activities. The Program is designed to fund the development of new integrated pest management (IPM) approaches or the improvement of existing IPM systems.
Feb. 13
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
Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2006
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11678&org=NSF&from=fund
The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. HSD aims to increase our collective ability to (1) anticipate the complex consequences of change; (2) understand the dynamics of human and social behavior at all levels, including that of the human mind; (3) understand the cognitive and social structures that create, define, and result from change; and (4) manage profound or rapid change, and make decisions in the face of changing risks and uncertainty. Accomplishing these goals requires multidisciplinary research teams and comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches across the sciences, engineering, education, and humanities, as appropriate.
Feb. 14 & 21
Semiconductor Research Corporation Fellowship Program
http://www.src.org/member/students/fellowships.asp
Graduate fellowship program (http://www.src.org/member/about/aboutgfp.asp). The Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP) addresses the issues of improving educational opportunities at the doctoral level and supplying a relevantly educated work force for the semiconductor industry. The SRC Master's Scholarship Program was created in 1997 for the purpose of attracting qualified students who are also in underrepresented minority categories to graduate study in areas of interest to the semiconductor industry. In 1999, the program was opened to women as a category.
Feb. 15
2006 Pathogen And Toxin Concentration Systems For Water Monitoring
http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8
The purpose of this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is to solicit proposals for pathogen and toxin concentration systems. Proposals are being sought in basic and applied research in the following research areas: Pathogen/toxin systems technologies that capture, concentrate and recover trace quantities. Full and partial solutions will be considered and evaluated.
Feb. 15
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
Developmental and Learning Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06511/nsf06511.htm
This program supports studies that increase our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning.
Feb. 17
Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy: A Joint Research Solicitation- USDA, DOE
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/3656985C1F5E7E89852570C8006FB10A?OpenDocument
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), National Research Initiative (NRI) hereby announce their interest in receiving applications for genomics-based research that will lead to the improved use of biomass and plant feedstocks for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks.
Feb. 23
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
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
March 2006
Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Resident Research Scholar Programs
http://www.sil.si.edu/researchintern/index.htm
Application is open to historians, librarians, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scholars.
March 1
Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Cyberinfrastructure/Research Facilities
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12769&org=NSF&from=fund
The Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Cyberinfrastructure and Research Facilities (CRIF:CRF) Program provides funding to build a foundation for research facilities with unique capabilities in the chemical sciences. This is structured to enable NSF, through its Division of Chemistry, to respond to a variety of needs for infrastructure to support basic research and education in chemistry.
March 1
Engineering Sciences Modeling, Simulation-Based Life-Cycle Engineering & 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
Microbial Genome Sequencing Program FY 2006
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5688&org=NSF&from=fund
As a collaborative, interagency effort, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture invite research proposals (i) to support high-throughput sequencing of the genomes of microorganisms (including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, oomycetes, protists and agriculturally important nematodes) and (ii) to develop and implement strategies, tools and technologies to make currently available genome sequences more valuable to the user community.
March 2
Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06516/nsf06516.htm
The NeTS program solicitation invites research proposals in the field of networking and covers all aspects of networking research. It includes research on future end-to-end Internet architectures; sub-network architectures enabled by disruptive technologies such as programmable wireless, mobile wireless, wireless sensors, and optical networks; and strategic research on current Internet including measurement, modeling, and understanding of complex networks. The NeTS program also seeks to develop innovative curricular and educational materials that will help prepare the next generation of networking professionals.
March 2
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
Cyber Trust (CT)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06517/nsf06517.htm
To improve national cyber security and to achieve the Cyber Trust vision, NSF will support a collection of projects that together: advance the relevant knowledge base; creatively integrate research and education for the benefit of technical specialists and the general populace; and effectively integrate the study of technology with the policy, economic, institutional and usability factors that often determine its deployment and use.
March 6
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06515
Facilitates reform in geoscience education by funding programs that connect the work of scientists to the practice of teaching and learning science in the classroom. To achieve this goal, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking to establish new partnerships between GLOBE program participants and scientists associated with Integrated Earth Systems Science Programs (IESSP), defined as major NSF- or NASA-funded research programs related to Earth system science. This solicitation seeks proposals from IESSP teams for projects that can be used to facilitate inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth systems via the GLOBE program.
March 8
Codes and Standards for the Hydrogen Economy
http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOE/PAM/HQ/DE-PS36-06GO96011/Grant.html
The Department of Energy (DOE) is developing hydrogen and fuel cell technologies to allow the Nation to aggressively achieve the vision of a diverse, secure, and emissions-free energy future. Through widespread commercialization of hydrogen-powered vehicles, national security interests will be supported by reducing and ultimately eliminating our reliance on foreign oil. To support a 2015 industry commercialization decision on hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles, the DOE’s Golden Field Office invites applicants to partner with the DOE in facilitating the development of codes and standards for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and infrastructure.
March 10
Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13654&org=NSF&from=fund
MUSES is aimed at soliciting new multidisciplinary activities that encourage researchers in engineering, physical and life sciences, social and behavioral sciences, economics, mathematics, and education to reach beyond their disciplinary boundaries in order to address complex issues related to materials use in the environment. There are two challenges: (a) to propose exploratory research issues that are viable and (b) to create new teams of researchers with the necessary expertise who can work together.
March 13
Carbon and Water in the Earth System
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06514/nsf06514.htm
This solicitation invites proposals aimed at closing significant gaps in our understanding of the complex relationships between and within the global water and carbon cycles. In particular, we seek proposals that cross the interfaces of land, atmosphere and oceans. Proposals should span traditional interdisciplinary boundaries and should not duplicate efforts currently supported in NSF core programs as determined by discussion with one or more of the cognizant NSF Program Officers. Studies of related biologically or geochemically reactive substances will be considered only if they pertain directly to the carbon or water cycles.
March 15
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm
The American Philosophical Society welcomes applications to the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research. The fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, astrobiology and space science, biology, ecology, geography, geology, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.
March 15
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
Assembling the Tree of Life
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05523/nsf05523.htm
NSF announces its intention to continue support of multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics.
March 27
April 2006 & Later
Biomass Research and Development Initiative
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/C2D6EAD8316FFEE5852570AD0077A88F?OpenDocument
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly solicit applications for financial assistance addressing research, development, and demonstration of biomass based products, bioenergy, biofuels and related processes.
April 3
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
FIPSE Special Focus Competition: North American Mobility in Higher Education
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/E5-7009.pdf
This priority is designed to support the formation of educational consortia of American, Canadian, and Mexican institutions to encourage cooperation in the coordination of curricula, the exchange of students, and the opening of educational opportunities among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The invitational priority is issued in cooperation with Canada and Mexico.
April 17
FIPSE Special Focus Competition: US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/E5-7010.pdf
This priority encourages proposals designed to support the formation of educational consortia of American and Brazilian institutions to support cooperation in the coordination of curricula, the exchange of students, and the opening of educational opportunities between the United States and Brazil. The invitational priority is issued in cooperation with Brazil.
April 17
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
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.
July 15
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
