Funding Opportunities - May 2006

Office of Proposal Development

http://opd.tamu.edu/

Texas A&M University

Current Research Funding Opportunities List

for University Research Council, May 10, 2006

To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: mikecronan@tamu.edu

One -Year Rural Health Research Grant Program

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9099&mode=VIEW

Awards are available for competitive grants for policy-oriented rural health services research. Individual research projects that address rural health services will be funded under this announcement. Policy-oriented rural health services research is useful because it informs policy-makers concerned with rural health issues and it enhances knowledge about rural health and rural health services. These grants are designed to provide support both for entities established in the rural health services research field as well as those entering this field. These grants are also intended to advance specific areas of rural health services research in which a limited amount of research exists. To conduct and disseminate policy-relevant research on issues of national significance in the area of rural health services.
Deadline: May 19

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

CDC Avian Influenza Cooperative Research Centers -Studies at the Human-Animal Interface

http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CI06-009.htm

The need for an integrated human health – animal health approach to research on zoonotic diseases is highlighted by the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Southeast Asia in early 2004 with subsequent and rapid spread to other parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. This solicitation is for cooperative research centers to perform research on avian influenza at the human-animal interface to improve and inform public health detection, prevention and control strategies.
Deadline: LOI due May 25 and proposal June 26

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

Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute

http://www.grants.gov/search/announce.do

The Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) invites applications to establish a Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) Cooperative Institute (CI). This institute will be facilitate a long-term collaborative environment between NOAA and the recipient(s) within which broadbased research, development, education and outreach capabilities focusing on the priorities in the northern Gulf of Mexico that can be developed and sustained. The CI will be regional in scope and should consist of a group of research institutions in the NOGM region (defined by the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, and/or Texas).
Deadline: May 26

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

Methodology And Measurement In The Behavioral And Social Sciences (R21)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-343.html

This FOA encourages applications addressing four general areas of methodology and measurement research in the social and behavioral sciences. These areas, discussed in detail below, include research design, data collection techniques, measurement, and data analysis.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

The Effect Of Racial And Ethnic Discrimination/Bias On Health Care Delivery (R03)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-348.html

The purposes of this FOA are: (1) to improve the measurement of racial /ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection and statistical/analytical techniques; (2) to enhance understanding of the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery and its association with disparities in disease incidence, treatment and outcomes among disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups; and (3) to reduce the prevalence of racial/ethnic health disparities through the development of interventions to reduce the influence of racial/ethnic discrimination on health care delivery systems in the United States.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-356.html

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to encourage the development of collaborative partnerships between scientists who study basic behavioral processes and those who study the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders (including drug abuse and addiction) and the delivery of services to those suffering from those disorders.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R24)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-357.html

NIMH, NIDA, and NIAAA have for many decades been primary sponsors of research in the basic behavioral sciences. This long-term investment in behavioral research has resulted in the development of a large body of knowledge in such areas as emotion, motivation, self-concept, personality, cognition, memory, social cognition and influence, family processes, social networks, and sociocultural variations (see http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/basbehav.cfm). However, the theory, methods, knowledge, and insights from the basic behavioral sciences have not been fully utilized in understanding pressing public health issues in mental health and alcohol and drug use disorders: the etiology and assessment of disorders; the development of innovative preventive and treatment interventions; and the effects of interventions and services for diverse types of people in disparate social, economic, cultural, and environmental contexts.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R21)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-355.html

This FOA will utilize the R21 mechanism, and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope that solicits applications under the NIH Resource-Related Research Project Grant (R24) award mechanism (above).
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics (R21)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-346.html

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to continue to support new studies on the genes, and genetic and epigenetic mechanisms influencing sex determination, fertility, reproductive health and reproductive aging, and other topics in Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

The Science And Ecology Of Early Development (SEED) [R03]

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-345.html

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), jointly issued by the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBSB) and the Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), invites research grant applications that seek to develop a comprehensive program of research focused on the mechanisms through which social, economic, cultural, and community-level factors, and their interactions, impact the early cognitive, neurobiological, socio-emotional, and physical development of children.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1

Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences

http://www.dreyfus.org/sg.shtml

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation invites applications for the Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences. The program is intended to strengthen chemistry teaching and research, with the expectation that awardees will find continuing funding from other sources. However, proposals are invited in any area consistent with the foundation's basic objectives in the chemical sciences and not covered by other foundation programs. Past areas of support include development of curricular and instructional materials, including new media; institutional enhancement of education and research; public understanding of the role of chemistry in society, and encouragement of high school students and teachers.
Deadline: June 1; full August 24

Retirement Economics (R21)

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

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: June 1 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

Feasibility Study of Hydrogen Production at Existing Nuclear Power Plants

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9044

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Idaho Operations Office (ID) is seeking applications for cost shared feasibility studies of nuclear energy based production of hydrogen using available technology. The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is responsible for this feasibility study. The objective of this activity is to select and conduct project(s) that will utilize hydrogen production equipment and nuclear energy as necessary to produce data and analysis on the economics of hydrogen production with nuclear energy.
Deadline: June 5

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: Large-Scale Infrastructure Needs of Research

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

Support Advanced Fossil Resource Conversion & Utilization Research by HBCU/MIs

https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/5FE1980B2B9730A88525715000544603?OpenDocument

The program was designed to raise the overall level of competitiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU/OMIs) with other institutions in the field of fossil energy research; and to tap an under-utilized resource by increasing the number of opportunities in the area of science, engineering, and technical management for HBCU/OMI.
Deadline: June 11

University Coal Research Program - Computer-Aided Design of Advanced Materials

https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/1065E5F8052E908D8525715A0072DF41?OpenDocument

The quest for materials for use at high temperatures and for the separation and storage of hydrogen is one of the dominant themes in materials development for efficient energy systems. Computer simulation to study the structure, properties, and processing of materials on the atomic scale is needed to speed the advancement of innovative strategies that would replace traditional, trial-and-error experimental methods which are costly and time-consuming. A wide range of computer modeling tools, ranging from highly accurate quantum mechanics (electronic structure) methods to simple interatomic potentials, could be brought to bear on addressing critical materials needs.
Deadline: June 14

University Coal Research Program –Dev. of Robust Sensor Networks for Intelligent Control

https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/7C102A656E032D948525715A006A6D9E?OpenDocument

University Coal Research Program - Technical Topic Area 1A - Development of Robust Sensor Networks for Intelligent Control of Advanced Coal Based Power Generation Systems.
Deadline: June 14

Enhanced Assessment Grants (84.368)

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-6528.pdf

These priorities are: a. Collaborate with institutions of higher education, other research institutions, or other organizations to improve the quality, validity, and reliability of State academic assessments beyond the requirements for these assessments described in section 1111(b)(3) of the ESEA; b. Measure student academic achievement using multiple measures of student academic achievement from multiple sources; c. Chart student progress over time; and d. Evaluate student academic achievement through the development of comprehensive academic assessment instruments, such as performance and technology-based academic assessments.
Deadline: June 15

Leakey Foundation General Research Grants

http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/grants/g2.jsp

The Leakey Foundation was formed to foster research into human origins. Recent priorities include research into the environments, archaeology, and human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; into the behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and into the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Upper Amount: $22,000.
Deadline: June 15; Dec. 15

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

Strategic Agricultural Initiative/Food Quality Protection Act Grant Program

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9128&mode=VIEW

EPA Region 6 is soliciting proposals to help implement the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) and to support efforts by the agricultural community to “transition” away from high-risk pesticides to lower risk pesticides and sustainable practices in food production. The program supports grants for education, extension and demonstration projects for FQPA transition and reduced risk practices for pest management in agriculture.
Deadline: June 16

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

NIDDK Short-Term Education Program for Under-represented Persons (STEP-UP) (R25)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-06-008.html

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) is a component of the NIDDK Strategic Plan on Minority Health Disparities. The goals of the Strategic Plan are to reduce and eliminate health disparities, expand research education and training opportunities for underrepresented minority scientists, and to provide information to racial and ethnic minority groups about treatment, prevention, and self-management of disease.
Deadline: June 20; full July 21

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

NIAMS Small Grant Program For New Investigators (R03)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-383.html

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is seeking small grant (R03) applications to stimulate and facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into research on arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases and injuries.
Deadline: June 23

Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Hispanic-serving institutions

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hifacultyhsi.html

Humanities Initiatives for Faculty are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at Hispanic-serving institutions. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future. Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes.
Deadline: June 23

Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at HBCU

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hifacultyhbcu.html

Humanities Initiatives for Faculty are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at historically black colleges and universities. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future. Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes.
Deadline: June 23

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

University Coal Research Program-Functional Materials for Hydrogen-Based Energy System

https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/DC85DA90ECBEAE078525715A007433F9?OpenDocument

Research needs to be performed on novel membrane materials and manufacturing techniques that have high flux rates, structural strength, low cost, are defect-free and can operate in conditions after the gas clean-up, or at the gasifier exhaust, pre-clean-up.
Deadline: June 24

Chemistry Research Instrumentation & Facilities: Departmental Multi-User Instrumentation

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05578/nsf05578.htm

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry is committed to increasing access to sophisticated instrumentation. The CRIF:MU program strongly encourages researchers to exploit cyberinfrastructure to facilitate broadened access to instrumentation and the data it provides. In making awards, preference will be given to proposals that are cyber-enabled. NSF will accept a maximum of two CRIF:MU proposals per institution. If an institution submits two proposals, at least one of the two proposals must involve cyberinfrastructure.
Deadline: June 26

DARPA Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers

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

Programs Serving At-Risk Youth (Capelli)

http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10002074/cappelli

The Louis R. Cappelli Foundation is a funding source designed to assist at-risk youth to reach their full potential. Three specific targeted areas where the foundation focuses its attention are education, health and fitness, and arts education.
Deadline: June 30

Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program

http://www.srf.org/grants/domestic.php

The Smith Richardson Foundation invites applications to the Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program. Preference will be given to proposals that address policy issues that have been priority areas for the during the past three years: education and school reform; income support, including research on welfare policy; child and youth development; family environment; public finance, including tax and Social Security policies; urban and criminal justice policy; regulatory policy, including environmental policy; immigration policy; and the political process. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000.
Deadline: June 30

Junior Faculty Research Grant Program--International Security and Foreign Policy Program

http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php

The Smith Richardson Foundation invites applications to the International Security and Foreign Policy Program. The program supports junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000.
Deadline: June 30

Therapeutic Effects of Horses on 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

Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics (R03)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-347.html

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 1

Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research (K26)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-159.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 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

American Water Works Association Research Foundation Solicited Research Proposals

http://www.awwarf.org/research/plansAwardsFunding/RFP.aspx

Various research topics.
Deadline: July 14

Applying Financial Theory to Improve Life-Cycle Investing

http://www.nasdfoundation.org/life_cycle06.asp

The NASD Investor Education Foundation is requesting proposals for projects that research, develop, test, and evaluate products and strategies that apply contemporary financial theory in ways that help individuals make better life-cycle investing decisions. Each project should include: 1) An assessment of current financial theory and studies of financial behavior related to life-cycle investing; 2) A practical and cost-effective solution for helping retail investors meet the challenges of life-cycle investing; 3) A pilot phase to test and refine the proposed solution; 4) A rigorous evaluation of the tested solution, inclusive of a report describing the results; 5) Recommendations for marketing and distributing the solution on a large scale; 6) Partnerships for accomplishing the work in an efficient, quality way.
Deadline: July 14

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

Ficsal Year 2007 Young Investigator Research Program

http://www.afosr.af.mil/YIP%20-%202007%20%20BAA%20-%20f.pdf

The AFOSR’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) is to support scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years (on or after 1 May 2001) and who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. The individual award will be made to a U.S. institution of higher education, industrial laboratory, or non-profit research organization where the principal investigator is employed on a full-time basis and holds a regular position. Researchers working at the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and DoD-Laboratories will not be considered for the YIP competition. The principal investigator must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident who has received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years as indicated above.
Deadline: July 20

Climate Program Office for FY 2007

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9283&mode=VIEW

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Climate Program publishes this notice to announce the availability of funding for proposals that address the NOAA Climate Program's overall goal, which is to better understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond. The NOAA Climate Program represents a contribution to national and international programs designed to improve our ability to observe, understand, predict, and respond to changes in the global environment.
Deadline: July 25

North American Wetlands Conservation Act (Act) Grants Program

http://www.fws.gov/birdhabitat/Grants/NAWCA/Standard/US/Overview.shtm

The purpose of the 1989 North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA), as amended is to promote long-term conservation of North American wetland ecosystems, and the waterfowl and other migratory birds, fish and wildlife that depend upons such habitat. Principal conservation actions supported by NAWCA are acquisition, establishment, enhancement and restoration of wetlands and wetland-associated uplands. The U.S. Standard Grants Program is a competitive, matching grants program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in the United States that further the goals of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act.
Deadline: July 28

Distinguished Dissertation Awards: Social Sciences; Math, Physical Sciences, Engineering

http://www.cgsnet.org/portals/0/pdf/2006phySci.pdf

Sponsored jointly by CGS and UMI Dissertations Publishing, a Division of ProQuest Information and Learning, and first presented in 1981, these awards are made annual to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Two awards are given annual in two different broad areas (biological sciences; social sciences; mathematics, physical sciences and engineering; and humanities and fine arts). Individuals must be nominated for these awards by a member institution.
Deadline: July 29

Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression and Dominance

http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. Particular questions that interest HFG concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence.
Deadline: August 1

Tools to Mitigate and Understand the Mental Health Effects of National Disasters: SBIR

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-335.html

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) for support of research and development of novel, or the enhancement of existing, commercializable products to mitigate (e.g., tools to be used in assessment, preventive or treatment interventions, and information dissemination) or understand (e.g., research tools) the mental health effects brought on or exacerbated by the aftermath of national disasters, such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, including victims and those who responded to their needs. These tools might be used by researchers, mental health professionals, other health care providers, as well as by those in the broader community, including educators, day care providers, family members of victims, etc. These tools must take into account the cultural context of the target population to assure their effectiveness and validity.
Deadline: August 1

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

Rehabilitation Research Career Development Programs (K12)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-06-010.html

This RFA invites applications to coordinate the mentoring and career development of rehabilitation researchers in one of the following domains: allied health professionals, clinicians involved in neurological rehabilitation, or engineers. The program will be responsible for identifying qualified candidates (scholars) and supporting them in appropriate research environments throughout the country.
Deadline: LOI August 22 and full Sept. 22

High-Accuracy Protein Structure Modeling (R01)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-07-003.html

Near-Crystal Structure Quality for Close Homologs of Known Structures; and High-Accuracy Models for Remote Homologs of Known Structures
Deadline: LOI Sept. 25 and full Oct. 23

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

Developmental Infrastructure For Population Research (R21)

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-362.html

Applicants may request funds under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to support infrastructure development designed to: (1) enhance the quality and quantity of population research conducted at an institution; and (2) develop new research capabilities to advance population research through innovative approaches. A central goal of this program is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in population research while providing essential and cost-effective core services in support of the development, conduct, and translation of population research based in centers or comparable administrative units.
Deadline: LOI Oct. 22; full Nov. 22

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

Graduate Research Fellowship is an NIJ annual program that provides dissertation research

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/SL000747.pdf

The Graduate Research Fellowship is an NIJ annual program that provides dissertation research support to outstanding doctoral students undertaking independent research on issues related to crime and justice. Students from any academic discipline are encouraged to apply and propose original research that has direct implications for criminal justice. NIJ encourages diversity in approaches and perspectives in its research programs. NIJ awards these fellowships in an effort to encourage doctoral students to contribute critical and innovative thinking to pressing criminal justice problems.
Deadline: Nov. 28

Basic Research for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative

https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/408EC0BC10F58B0885257156005129FE?OpenDocument

The Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its mission to assist in strengthening the Nation's scientific research enterprise through the support of fundamental science and the experimental tools to perform basic research, announces its interest in receiving grant applications for basic research for the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI). Areas of focus include: Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage; Functional Membranes; and Nanoscale Catalysts. We seek to support outstanding research programs that will lead to key discoveries to make hydrogen a feasible fuel for the future. Research funded under this initiative will pursue breakthroughs in materials, chemical and physical understandings, and interdisciplinary theory-modeling-simulation-experimentation approaches in order to surpass the existing scientific and technical barriers.
Deadline: Dec. 5

Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5260&org=NSF&from=fund

The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in our Nation's organizations of higher education, research museums and non-profit research organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 2007

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

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