Funding Opportunities November 2006
Office of Proposal Development
Office of Vice President for Research, Texas A&M University
November 8, 2006 Monthly URC Research Funding Opportunities List
Weekly Postings: http://opd.tamu.edu/funding-opportunities/new-funding-opportunities.html
To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: mikecronan@tamu.edu
Eurasia Teaching Fellowship
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/fellowships/
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - USA; Eurasia Program. At the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), postdoctoral research grants have allowed young faculty members to expand upon their research interests after having completed (and often published) their dissertation work. The SSRC Eurasia Program supports faculty in their classroom activities as well.
Nov. 14
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06606/nsf06606.htm
This program provides awards to enhance the quality of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as a means to broaden participation in the Nation's STEM workforce. Support is available for Implementation Projects, Planning Grants, Education Research Projects, and Targeted Infusion Projects.
Nov. 14 LOI and full Dec. 15
U.S. EPA, Region 6 U.S./Mexico Border Air Quality Program: FY 2006/2007
http://www.epa.gov/region6/air/reg6usmex_10-02-06_.pdf
EPA Region 6 is accepting proposals from eligible applicants to conduct research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects (including health and welfare effects), extent, prevention, and control of air pollution in the U.S./Mexico Border area, and to meeting the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
Nov. 15
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007
http://fr.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20060926a137
The Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary Education is accepting applications to the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program. The program enables higher education faculty members to conduct international research in modern foreign languages and area studies, focusing on one or more of the following areas: Africa; East Asia; Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands; South Asia; the Near East; East Central Europe and Eurasia; and/or the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Nov. 15
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-15758.pdf
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program provides opportunities to graduate students to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.
Nov. 15
Walt Whitman Award
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/110
The Academy of American Poets established the Walt Whitman Award in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book. Contestants should send only one copy of each manuscript, which must consist of original poetry in English. There are no limitations on the style of poetry or subject matter. Translations are not eligible. Amount: $5,000.
Nov. 15
American Council of Learned Societies will Award 65 Early Career Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/ecfguide.htm
The American Council of Learned Societies is launching a significant new fellowship program that will provide support for young scholars to complete their dissertations and, later, to advance their research after being awarded the Ph.D. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program will award fellowships in two categories: 1) Dissertation Completion Fellowships; and 2) Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients. ACLS will award sixty-five fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2007 for the 2007-20 academic year.
Due Nov. 15.
Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06595/nsf06595.htm
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a program on collaborative research and education in the area of active nanostructures, nanosystems, and on the long-term societal change associated with these innovations. Active nanostructures change or evolve their structure, property, or function during their operation. The goal of this program is to support fundamental research and catalyze synergistic science and engineering research and education in several emerging areas of nanoscale science and engineering.
Nov. 15
NSF Discovery Research K-12
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06593/nsf06593.htm
Discovery Research K-12 funds research, development, and evaluation activities through knowledge generation and application to improve K-12 learning and teaching.
Prelims Nov. 15 & Dec. 1
American Council of Learned Societies - Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development
http://www.acls.org/csccguid.htm
Fellowships are available for Chinese scholars in the social sciences and humanities with the M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent from a Chinese institution to carry out one or two semesters of individual or collaborative research at the invitation of a US host scholar. Candidates must be nominated by the US host; Chinese scholars may not apply directly. Nominees must currently reside in China.
Nov. 15
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
NEH invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve: * research that brings new digital approaches to the study of the humanities or that examines the implications of the use of emerging technologies for humanities scholarship.
Nov. 15; April 3
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Southeast European Studies
http://www.acls.org/seguide.htm
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS); Southeast European Studies Program. Postdoctoral Fellowships in Southeast European Studies. Pending confirmation of funding, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will offer support for postdoctoral research and writing in Southeast European studies in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.
Nov. 15
The Joan Heller-Diane Bernard Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/awards.htm#heller
This fellowship supports research by a junior scholar (graduate student, untenured university professor or independent researcher) or senior scholar (tenured university professor or advanced independent scholar) into the impact of lesbians and/or gay men on U.S. society and culture.
Nov. 15
Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Awards for Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-481.html
The primary objective of this funding opportunity announcement is to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, health services, or clinical research agenda. This initiative seeks to improve the diversity of the health-related research workforce by supporting the training of predoctoral students from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented.
Nov. 15
EDMAP - The Educational Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Prog.
http://www.usgs.gov/contracts/EDMAP/2007EDMAPAnn.doc
The primary objective of the EDMAP component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) is to train the next generation of geologic mappers. To do this NCGMP provides funds for graduate and selected undergraduate students in academic research projects that involve geologic mapping as a major component. Through these cooperative agreements NCGMP hopes to expand the research and educational capacity of academic programs that teach earth science students the techniques of geologic mapping and field data analysis.
Nov. 16
The Sea Turtle Grants Program
http://www.helpingseaturtles.org/stgp.htm
The Caribbean Conservation Corporation is inviting applications for projects that benefit the conservation of Florida’s marine turtles. Funds can be requested for projects in one of three categories (conservation, education or research) that clearly add to the preservation of Florida’s marine turtles; that accomplish tasks included in the current recovery plans for marine turtles; and that address the goals of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Marine Turtle Protection Program.
Nov. 17
2007 Nation-wide Environmental Information Exchange Internet Network
http://www.epa.gov/exchangenetwork/grants/FY%202007%20EN%20SN-%209-29-06.pdf
EPA, states, territories, and tribes are working together to develop a nation-wide Environmental Information Exchange Network. The Exchange Network is an Internet- and standards-based, secure information network that facilitates the electronic reporting, sharing, integration, analysis, and use of environmental data from many different sources. The Exchange Network will make it easier to obtain the timely, accurate information needed to make decisions concerning human health and the environment.
Nov. 20
OSWER Innovations Pilot Projects
http://www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/grants/06-08.pdf
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits creative proposals testing innovative and collaborative approaches to: restore contaminated properties to environmental and economic vitality; increase America’s homeland security; promote stewardship and resource conservation consistent with the Agency’s Resource Conservation Challenge.
Nov. 20
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-15009.pdf
Areas of National Need: A project must provide fellowships in one or more of the following areas of national need: Biology; General Chemistry; Computer and Information Sciences; General Engineering; General Mathematics; Nursing; and Physics.
Nov. 20
Materials World Network: Cooperative Activity in Materials Research between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06590/nsf06590.htm
Continued progress in fundamental materials and condensed matter research is increasingly dependent upon collaborative efforts among several different disciplines, as well as closer coordination among funding agencies and effective partnerships involving universities, industry, and national laboratories.
Nov. 20
Nanoscale Architectures for Coherent Hyper-Optic Sources
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA06%2D42/Attachments.html
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA06%2D42/listing.html
The objective of the NACHOS program is to develop novel, ultra small lasers that are sub wavelength in all three dimensions, including the feedback structure integrated with the gain medium. Collaborative efforts/teaming are encouraged. A web site (http://www.davincinetbook.com/teams) has been established to facilitate formation of teaming arrangements between interested parties. Specific content, communications, networking, and team formation are the sole responsibility of the participants.
Nov. 21
Basic Research for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/5F8368232EBF14B3852572050040C146?OpenDocument
The Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its mission to strengthen the Nation apos;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 Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
Pre-app Nov. 22; full March 14
Biological Response Indicators of Environmental Stress Centers (U54)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-06-012.html
These Centers represent one part of a comprehensive program that develops and refines panels of biomarkers and biosensors of biological response to environmental stressors. By measuring the cellular, molecular and physiologic responses to environmental stressors in key physiologic and pathophysiologic pathways, the relationships between genetic and non-genetic factors that contribute to disease will be better defined.
LOI Nov. 22; full Dec. 22
Biological Response Indicators of Environmental Stress (U01)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-06-013.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement represents one part of a comprehensive program to develop and refine panels of biomarkers of biological response to environmental stressors. By measuring the cellular, molecular and physiologic responses to environmental stressors in key physiologic and pathophysiologic pathways, the relationships between genetic and non-genetic factors that contribute to disease will be better defined.
LOI Nov. 22; full Dec. 22
Environmental Sensors for Personal Exposure Assessment (U01)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-06-011.html
This FOA is intended to support research projects focused on the development of field-deployable or wearable sensors for monitoring individual exposures to a broad range of airborne chemical and biological agents. A central element is that the sensors produce quantitative, near real-time measurement of multiple analytes at the point of contact with the body (e.g., nose, mouth, skin).
LOI Nov. 22; full Dec. 22
Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-07-007.html
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications to develop and validate new and innovative engineering approaches to address clinical problems related to energy balance, intake, and expenditure. Novel sensors, devices, imaging, and other technologies, including technologies to detect biochemical markers of energy balance, are expected to be developed and evaluated by collaborating engineers, physical scientists, mathematicians, and scientists from other relevant disciplines with expertise in obesity and nutrition.
LOI Nov. 22
Conservation Program Invites Applications for Future Conservationist Awards
http://conservation.bp.com/applications/fcawards.asp
The BP Conservation Program ( http://conservation.bp.com/ ) is offering Future Conservationist Awards of up to $12,500 each to teams of young conservationists who aim to develop their skills
through practical conservation projects.
Nov. 24
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Graduate Fellowships for MS/PhD Environmental
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2007/2007_star_fellow.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is offering Graduate Fellowships for master’s and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study. The deadline for receipt of pre-applications is November 28, 2006. Subject to availability of funding, the Agency plans to award approximately 65 new fellowships by July 20, 2007. Master's level students may receive support for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students may be supported for a maximum of three years, usable over a period of four years. The fellowship program provides up to $37,000 per year of support per fellowship.
Nov. 28
Graduate Research Fellowship is an NIJ annual program that provides dissertation research
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/SL000747.pdf
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.
Nov. 28
Nursing Workforce Diversity
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11059&mode=VIEW
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.
Nov. 30
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships to Increase Diversity Of Nation's College & University Faculties
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/fordpost.html
Awards will be made for study in the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields: American studies, anthropology, archaeology, art and theater history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, earth sciences, economics, education, engineering, ethnomusicology, geography, history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics, literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, urban planning, and women's studies.
Nov. 30
Cyberinfrastructure Biological Sciences: Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06594
The goal of this program is to create a new type of organization – a cyberinfrastructure collaborative for plant science – that will enable new conceptual advances through integrative, computational thinking. The collaborative will be fluid and dynamic, utilizing new computer, computational science and cyberinfrastructure solutions to address an evolving array of grand challenge questions in plant science.
Nov. 30
Bibliographical Inquiry and Research Fellowships
http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) invites applications for its annual short-term fellowship program, which supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading.
Nov. 30
University Scholar-in-Residence Award, Gender Equity In Education
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/university_scholar.cfm
American Association of University Women (AAUW); Educational Foundation; Fellowships and Grants. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation invites letters of intent from colleges and universities in the United States to fund a female scholar to conduct a research project on issues related to gender equity in education or economic security for women and girls. University Scholar-in-Residence Award funds may be used (1) to bring a qualified scholar to the institution for a fixed period, or (2) to designate a scholar currently at the institution to undertake research activities that would not occur without such support. Proposals must include research activities on gender and equity as well as a plan for dissemination of research findings.
Dec. 1
ONR sponsors the Summer Faculty Research Program
http://www.asee.org/fellowships/summer/index.cfm
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsors the Summer Faculty Research Program and the Sabbatical Leave Program for US citizens and legal permanent residents who hold teaching or research appointments at US colleges and universities. These programs provide an opportunity for faculty members to participate in research of mutual interest to the faculty member and professional peers at U.S. Navy Laboratories.
Bioenergy Research Centers
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/E0680007EC6633FD852571BD005A4502?OpenDocument
The DOE/Genomics: GTL program (GTL) requests that the scientific community submit applications for the establishment of GTL Bioenergy Research Centers that develop novel biological solutions for the production of such fuels as cellulosic ethanol or hydrogen or for other groundbreaking bioenergy research with the potential to revolutionize biology-based energy production. The Centers will involve diverse disciplines that could include genomics, microbial and plant biology genetics, proteomics, physiology, biochemistry, structural and computational biology, bioinformatics, and engineering.
LOI Dec. 1; full Feb. 1
American Society of Health System Pharmacists Fostering Young Investigators
http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/100534?id=100534&if=alert
The American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Research and Education Foundation, also known as the ASHP Foundation, invites applications for the new Fostering Young Investigators: Federal Services Junior Investigator Research Grant Program. This research grant program is custom-designed to meet the needs of junior investigators or practitioners new to research in the federal services sector of health professionals. The ultimate goal of the program is to support research efforts critical to the advancement of care and treatment of patients in federal health care systems.
Dec. 1
Link Foundation Fellowships And Grants In The Energy Field
The Link Foundation supports programs to foster the theoretical basis, practical knowledge, and application of energy, simulation, and ocean engineering and instrumentation research, and to disseminate the results of that research through lectures, seminars and publications. Fellowships are only tenable at U.S. and Canadian Universities. The award consists of $50,000 paid in two installments of $25,000 and allocated as follows: $21,500 for the Fellow's academic year and summer stipend; $2,500 for expenses associated with the Fellow's research (e.g., supplies, equipment, computing charges); $1,000 to support the Fellow's attendance at one or more technical meetings and/or to defray the cost of publishing the Fellow's research results. The applicant must be working toward a Ph.D. in an academic institution.
Dec. 1
American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund Summer Research Fellowships
Summer Research Fellowships (SRF). The Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS), seeks to advance scientific education and fundamental research in the petroleum field by supporting research in chemistry, the earth sciences, chemical engineering, and related fields, such as polymers and materials science. ACS PRF Summer Research Fellowships (SRF) are awarded as supplements to active ACS PRF grants-in-aid, to be used exclusively for the support of a regularly appointed faculty member from an institution other than that of the grantee and from a department that does not offer a doctoral program.
Dec. 1
Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowships
http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp/fellowships.html
Sponsored by the Journal of the History of Philosophy, these fellowships are in recognition of the scholarship and generous support that two of the founding members of the JHP Board of Directors have given to the journal: Paul Oskar Kristeller (renowned Renaissance scholar) and Richard Popkin (first editor of JHP and noted historian of skepticism). Two awards of $2,000 each are offered annually to young scholars in the history of philosophy to defray expenses while travelling to do research.
Dec. 1
Wildlife Without Borders - Latin America and the Caribbean (DOI)
http://www.fws.gov/international/rfps/lachow.htm
The purpose of this competitive grants program is to protect fish, wildlife and plant resources in the Western Hemisphere through: academic and technical training in conservation and management of biological resources; training in management of nature reserves and other protected areas; community-level conservation education for the protection and sustained use of natural resources; technology and information exchange to promote international collaboration; and promotion of networks, partnerships and coalitions that assist in the implementation of conventions, treaties, protocols and other international activities for the conservation of biological resources.
Dec. 1
NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=10043&mode=VIEW
Announcing funding availability for graduate students pursuing masters or doctoral level degrees in oceanography, marine biology, or maritime archaeology. Approximately $160,000 will be available through this announcement for fiscal year 2007.
Opens Dec. 1
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) in Nursing Research
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-091.html
NINR is committed to increasing the number of doctorally-prepared nurses in order to meet the demands for adequately trained behavioral, biological, and biobehavioral scientists. NINR is particularly interested in facilitating the progress of students who are in research training programs for recent nursing graduates and students in BSN to PhD programs.
This grant program will provide predoctoral training support for doctoral students. The applicant must propose a research training program and dissertation research that is consistent with the scientific mission of the NINR. Research topics and skills that will serve as a foundation for an ongoing program of research are of particular interest.
Dec. 5
Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11248&mode=VIEW
Funding Opportunity Description: The Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) announces a limited competition Request for Applications (RFA) to provide four year, university-level scholarship and internship opportunities at select institutions of higher learning in the Middle East for future Arab leaders. RFP attached as Word file. This solicitation is limited to not-for-profit American institutions of higher education operating in the Middle East that are accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Secretary of Education and are not controlled by the government of the country in which they are located.
Dec. 5
Research to Detect Live Viruses and Other Enteric Pathogens In Large Volumes Of Water
http://www.epa.gov/nerl/opportunities/RFA-EPA-ORD-06-26210.pdf
The purpose of the RFA is to stimulate the development of a new or improved method for detecting viruses (or other enteric pathogens) by genus from source and drinking water that is less expensive than the current methods used by health officials.
Dec. 5
GTL Bioenergy Research Centers--Energy-Related Systems And Synthetic Biology
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/E0680007EC6633FD852571BD005A4502?OpenDocument
The GTL program is a systems biology research program with the mission goal of developing the science, technology, and knowledge base to harness microbial and plant systems for cost-effective renewable energy production, carbon sequestration, and environmental remediation.
LOI Dec. 5; full Feb. 1
DARPA Young Faculty Award
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=10908&mode=VIEW
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting research from single-author grant proposals for research and development in the areas of interest to MTO (Microsystems Technology Office). The participation is limited to non-tenured Assistant Professors with tenure-track positions at U.S. institutions of higher learning and a Ph.D. degree obtained in the year 1996 or later. US citizenship or permanent residency is highly preferred. The objective is to encourage new faculty members at institutions of higher education in participating within DARPA/MTO programs. DARPA seeks innovative proposals in the following areas: 1. Electronics 2. Photonics 3. Micro-electro-mechanical systems 4. Architectures 5. Algorithms
Dec. 5
High Energy Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Program
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/72EEB849A87E939A852571E000444C28?OpenDocument
The Office of High Energy Physics of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy, hereby announces its interest in receiving grant applications for support under its Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) Program. Applications should be from tenure-track faculty investigators who are currently involved in experimental or theoretical high energy physics or accelerator physics research, and should be submitted through a U.S. academic institution.
Dec. 5
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.
Dec. 5
DoD Infrastructure Support Program for HBCUs and Minority Institutions
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11122&mode=VIEW
http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=29&Page=29
This is a total set-aside for HBCU/MI. The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the Fiscal Year 2007 competition for the Infrastructure Support Program for Historically Black Colleges and Institutions. Goals of the program include (a) enhancing programs and capabilities at these institutions 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.
Dec. 7
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.
LOI Dec. 11; full Jan. 11
East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06602/nsf06602.htm
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering: 1) first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand or Taiwan; 2) an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and 3) orientation to the society, culture and language.
Dec. 12
Uncertainty Analyses of Models in Integrated Environmental Assessments
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2006/2006_star_uncertainty.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing interdisciplinary research in the formal treatment of uncertainty when models are used to conduct integrated environmental assessments. Integrated assessments use findings, data, and methods across different disciplines to generate information about a particular issue.
Dec. 13
Development of Environmental Health Outcome Indicators
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2006/2006_star_ephi.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research that uses existing databases of environmental (ambient), biological and/or health-related data to develop indicators that reliably signal the impact of changes in environmental conditions, management approaches or policies on human health.
Dec. 14
2007-2008 Fellowships at the Huntington
http://huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Library collections range chronologically from the eleventh century to the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 600,000 photographs, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. Within the general fields listed above there are many areas of special strength, including: Middle Ages • Renaissance • Eighteenth Century • Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature • History of Science • British Drama • Colonial America • American Civil War • Western America • California. The Art Collections contain notable British and American paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library. In the library of the Botanical Gardens is a broad collection of reference works in botany, horticulture, and gardening.
The Huntington will award to scholars over one hundred fellowships for the academic year 2007-2008. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at the Huntington and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.
Dec. 15
Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06607/nsf06607.htm
The Division of Mathematical Sciences in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health plan to support research in mathematics and statistics related to mathematical biology research. Both agencies recognize the need and urgency for additional research at the boundary between the mathematical sciences and the life sciences.
Dec. 15
Leakey Foundation, L.S.B. 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.
Dec. 15
Advanced Detector Research Program
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=11080
The Office of High Energy Physics of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy, hereby announces its interest in receiving grant applications for support under its Advanced Detector Research Program. Applications should be from investigators who are currently involved in experimental high energy physics, and should be submitted through a U.S. academic institution.
Dec. 19
American Association Advancement of Science - Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
http://fellowships.aaas.org/02_Areas/02_index.shtml
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) manages and administers Science and Technology Policy Fellowships in six areas: Congressional; Diplomacy; Energy, Environment, Agriculture, and Natural Resources; Global Stewardship; Health, Education, and Human Services; and National Defense and Global Security.
Dec. 20
Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2007/2007_p3_4thannual.html
The P3 competition will provide grants to teams of college students to research, develop, and design solutions to challenges to sustainability. P3 highlights people, prosperity, and the planet – the three pillars of sustainability – as the next step beyond P2 or pollution prevention.
Dec. 21
Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program - Habitat Restoration
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11343&mode=VIEW
The Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program (PROGRAM) expects to fund projects for the benefit of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow (silvery minnow) and southwestern willow flycatcher (flycatcher) in federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 (October 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007). The Program area is defined as: “the headwaters of the Rio Chama watershed and the Rio Grande, including tributaries, from the New Mexico-Colorado state line downstream to elevation 4,450 ft mean sea level, the elevation of the spillway crest of the Elephant Butte Dam.
Dec. 22
Jefferson Science Fellows (JSF) program at the U.S. Department of State
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/jefferson/
This program, founded in October 2003, establishes a new model for engaging the American academic science, technology and engineering communities in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy. Essentially, it seeks to enlist university faculty as consultants in efforts to reach sound policy conclusions that reflect "good governance." Jefferson Science Fellows will spend one year at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and may periodically travel to U.S. foreign embassies and/or missions.
Dec. 31
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington-- Postdoctoral Fellowships
http://www.gl.ciw.edu/employment/postdoc1.php
The Geophysical Laboratory supports world class staff and research facilities in high-pressure physics and chemistry, organic and biogeochemistry, mineral physics, and petrology. The fellowship committee looks carefully at research proposals for evidence of original thinking and of the ability to formulate and carry out a research project that can be accomplished with the facilities available to the Geophysical Laboratory.
Dec. 31
McGill David Hume Collection Research Grant
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hume/grant-about.htm
The Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the McGill University Library has established the McGill David Hume Collection Research Grant. The McGill David Hume Collection Research Grant, with a value of $5000(Cdn.), is to be offered annually. The Grant is open to established scholars carrying out research on any aspect of the work of David Hume, philosopher, essayist, and historian, and who can spend a minimum of three months utilizing the David Hume Collection and other relevant resources of the Rare Books Division and the McGill libraries.
Dec. 31
National Science Foundation: Cultural Anthropology Scholars Awards
http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=3747
The National Science Foundation announces an opportunity for methodological training by cultural anthropologists who are active researchers. The purpose is to help cultural anthropologists upgrade their methodological skills by learning a specific analytical technique which will improve their research abilities.
Jan. 1
Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07514/nsf07514.htm
ITEST is designed to increase the opportunities for students and teachers to learn about, experience, and use information technologies within the context of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including Information Technology (IT) courses. It is in direct response to the concern about shortages of information technology workers in the United States. Supported projects are intended to provide opportunities for middle and high school children and teachers to build the skills and knowledge needed to advance their study, and to function and to contribute in a technologically rich society.
Prelim due Jan. 5 and full May 10
American Research Center in Egypt
http://www.arce.org/fellowships/funded_fellowships.html
The American Research Center in Egypt is accepting applications for Fellowships in Egypt. The fellowships are intended to support scholarly research that will promote a fresh and more profound knowledge of Egypt and the Near East, and to support training for American specialists in Middle Eastern studies, in academic disciplines that require familiarity with Egypt.
Jan. 5
American Heart Association research award programs
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3004142
The American Heart Association’s National Center and Heartland Affiliate have announced their January 2007 application cycles and forms, inviting applications to a number of grant and fellowship programs. The National Center is accepting applications for Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Awards and Scientist Development Grants. Applications must be submitted electronically by January 8, with paper sets to follow by January 16.
Jan. 8
Literature fellowships: translation projects
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/LitTranslation/
The National Endowment for the Arts is offering fellowships to supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. All proposed projects must be for creative translations of published literary material into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and value. Priority will be given to projects that involve work that has not yet been translated into English.
Jan. 8
Ecosystem Science Cluster
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12822
The Ecosystem Science Cluster supports research on natural, managed, and disturbed ecosystems, including those in terrestrial, freshwater, and wetland (including salt marsh) environments. Descriptive and manipulative approaches in field, mesocosm, and laboratory settings are supported, with the expectation that the bulk of the research is question- or hypothesis-driven. Proposals are encouraged, but not necessarily required to incorporate new or existing quantitative or conceptual models for the purpose of integration or synthesis.
Jan. 9
Ecological Biology Cluster
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12823
The Ecological Biology Cluster supports research on natural and managed ecological systems, primarily in terrestrial, wetland, and freshwater habitats. Research areas include experimental, observational, theoretical, and modeling studies on the structure and function of complex associations that focus on biotic components, and the coupling of small-scale systems to each other and to large-scale systems.
Jan. 9
Instrumentation for Materials Research (IMR)
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5452&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
The NSF's Instrumentation for Materials Research - Major Instrumentation Project (IMR-MIP) program in the Division of Materials Research provides support for the design and construction of major instruments costing more than $2 million at major US facilities. The program also supports the development of detailed conceptual and engineering design for new tools for materials preparation or characterization at major national facilities. Such instruments may include, for example, neutron beam lines, synchrotron beam lines, and high field magnets, as well as development of detectors and preparation environments necessary to support materials research. The program supports two types of awards: Conceptual and Engineering Design (CED) awards and Construction (CNST) awards.
Jan. 11
Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/07_sec_challenge.pdf
The Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants (SPEC) program seeks to: (a) promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in agriscience and agribusiness in order to help ensure the existence in the United States of a qualified workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences system; and (b) promote complementary and synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences in order to advance excellence in education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agricultural sciences.
Jan. 11
Educational Experiences for Research in the Environmental Health Sciences for Undergraduates and High School Students
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-06-009.html
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Research Education Project (R25) grant applications from organizations that propose an organized short term program for high school and undergraduate students of research experiences and informational exchanges designed to impart to participants an appreciation of research on the environmental impacts on human health.
Jan. 11
ONR's Young Investigator Program
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11246&mode=VIEW
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/
ONR'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 01 November 2001 for this FY07 competition) and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. Proposals may request up to $100,000 per year for three (3) years. These funds may be budgeted against any reasonable costs related to the conduct of the proposed research, for example, salary for the Young Investigator, graduate student support, supplies, and operating expenses. Additional funds (beyond the basic $100,000 yearly amount) for capital equipment which enhances the Young Investigator's proposed research may be requested for the first budget period, based on the needs of the research.
Jan. 12
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/cgc.html
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) announces the continuation of the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. UCAR manages this NOAA-sponsored program, which pairs recently graduated postdoctorates with host scientists at U.S. institutions to work in an area of mutual interest. The objective of this program is to help create the next generation of researchers needed for climate studies. It endeavors to attract recent PhD's in sciences that address studies of relevance to the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program (refer to NOAA's Web site at: http://www.climate.noaa.gov
Jan. 12
Gates Millenium Scholar Program
https://www.gmsp.org/gmsp_app/default.aspx
Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda; Grants; Education Program. The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian or Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education, in all discipline areas and a graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education, or library science.
Jan. 12
Council of American Overseas Research Centers - Fellowship Program Research 2006-2007
http://www.caorc.org/fellowships/multi/
The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center.
Jan. 12
Council American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
http://www.caorc.org/fellowships/multi/
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) announces a fellowship program that supports advanced regional research. Application forms for the 2006-2007 application cycle will be available in early September 2006. The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center.
Jan. 12
Cellular Systems Cluster
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=10440&mode=VIEW
The Cellular Systems Cluster focuses on the structure, function, and regulation of plant, animal and microbial cells, and their interactions with the environment and with one another. Areas supported include studies of the structure, function, and assembly of cellular elements, such as the cytoskeleton, membranes, organelles, intracellular compartments, intranuclear structures, and extracellular matrix, including eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell walls and envelopes. In addition, support is provided for the study of intracellular and transmembrane signal transduction mechanisms and cell-cell signaling processes, including those that occur in biofilms.
Jan. 12
Biomolecular Systems Cluster
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=10441&mode=VIEW
This cluster emphasizes the importance of multi-disciplinary research carried out at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and engineering.
Jan. 12
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy - Grants and Special Awards
http://www.horowitz-foundation.org/grant.htm
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy makes targeted Grants for work in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such as evaluation research. Preference will be given to projects that deal the contemporary issues in the social sciences and issues of policy relevance, and to scholars in the initial stages of research. Awards are allocated solely on the basis of merit.
Jan. 15
Smithsonian Institution Fellowships for Students, Scholars
The Smithsonian Institution offers a variety of in-residence fellowships at its museums, research institutes, and offices, enabling students and scholars to conduct research and study using Smithsonian resources. The fellowships will support research in the following areas: Animal behavior, ecology, and environmental science, including an emphasis on the tropics. Anthropology, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, 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
Eloise Gerry Fellowships
http://www.gwis.org/grants/default.htm#ap
Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science, Inc.; National Headquarters. Eloise Gerry Fellowships. Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science (SDE/GWS) awards will be made to women holding a degree from a recognized institution of higher learning, of outstanding ability and promise in research, who are performing research at any institution in the United States or abroad. Postdoctoral fellows can expect to be evaluated more rigorously than student applicants. For the Eloise Gerry Fellowships, awards are for research in all the natural sciences, including: physical, environmental, mathematical, computer, life sciences, anthropology, psychology, and statistics. Amount: $4,000.
Jan. 15
RAND Postdoctoral Research Program in Population Studies and the Study of the Aging
http://www.rand.org/labor/fellows/
The Postdoctoral Research Program in Population Studies and the Study of the Aging, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, enables outstanding junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and develop a future research agenda. The program blends formal and informal training and extensive collaboration with distinguished researchers in a variety of disciplines.
Jan. 15
Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women in Science Fellowships
http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=1936
Various fellowships.
January 15, 2007
NIJ FY07 Social Science Research on Terrorism
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11240&mode=VIEW
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to enhance the administration of justice and public safety. NIJ solicits proposals to inform its search for the knowledge and tools to guide policy and practice. NIJ is seeking proposals to conduct social science research on terrorism that will inform national criminal justice policy and practice.
Jan. 16
Association for Institutional Research - Research Grants/Dissertation Fellowships
http://www.airweb.org/?page=818
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), sponsors a grant program: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of the program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators and administrators, and to foster the use of the federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education.
Jan. 16
Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Education Institutions
http://www.airweb.org/page.asp?page=40
Association for Institutional Research (AIR); AIR/NCES/NSF/NPEC Grant Program - Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Education Institutions. Research Grant Program. The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), sponsors a grant program titled: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions.
Jan. 16
NSF Developmental and Learning Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07508/nsf07508.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. Additional priorities are to support developmental research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods and theories; examines transfer of knowledge from one domain to another and from one situation to another; assesses peer relations, family interactions, social identities, and motivation; examines the impact of family, school, and community resources; assesses adolescents' preparation for entry into the workforce; and investigates the role of demographic characteristics and cultural influences on children's development.
Jan. 19
Gulf Oyster Industry Program
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9992
The goal of the Gulf Oyster Industry Program is to encourage multi-disciplinary research and extension projects that contribute directly to the recovery, efficiency, and profitability of oyster-related businesses and to the safety of oyster products. Oyster businesses seek innovative solutions at all producing and processing levels, including: habitat restoration, planting and production (landings), oyster disease diagnostics, harvesting, post-harvest treatment, processing, distribution, marketing, consumer education, and food safety.
Jan. 19
Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (P42)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-06-003.html
These mandates include the development of 1) methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment; (2) advanced techniques for the detection, assessment, and evaluation of the effect on human health of hazardous substances; (3) methods to assess the risks to human health presented by hazardous substances; and (4) basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances.
LOI Jan. 21; full March 21
CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06608
Successful CPATH projects will be systemic in nature, address a broad range of issues, and have significant potential to contribute to the transformation and revitalization of undergraduate computing education on a national scale.
Jan. 23
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.
Jan. 25
Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing: Climate Change Prediction Program
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/D0793A0892724C0B8525720D0042D18A?OpenDocument
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research grants in the Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP), which is a component of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). Applications should describe research projects supporting the development and application of climate models for climate change projections on time scales of decades to centuries. Proposals should clearly describe how that research will contribute to a measurably improved ability to use high-end computing for climatic change projections.
Jan. 25
Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07502/nsf07502.htm
These grants are intended to support research projects of high quality that require access to advanced computing resources. Requests for routine upgrades of standard desk-environment workstations or laptop computers are not appropriate for this program. Awards are made to provide support for specific research projects rather than to provide general computing capacity. 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
Proposal Solicitation for Construction and Operation of an Alaska Region Research Vessel
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11347&mode=VIEW
To qualify for an award, an organization must be a U.S. based college, university, non-profit research institution, or association of colleges and universities that have a substantial in-house ocean science research and education programs and can demonstrate the ability to manage a large facility construction project and subsequently operate the facility effectively and economically. The vessel must be able to economically and efficiently carry out science mission operations, the majority of which will be conducted in the ocean and coastal environments of the Alaska region.
Jan. 29
2010 Project -- The Directorate for Biological Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06612/nsf06612.htm
The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces its intention to continue support of research to determine the functions of all genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010. Individual investigators or groups of investigators will be supported to conduct creative and innovative, genome-wide or systems-level research designed to determine, using all available means, the functions of Arabidopsis genes.
Jan. 29
Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06609/nsf06609.htm
The Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication (REC) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports basic and applied research and evaluation that enhances science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning and teaching. This solicitation calls for two types of proposals—synthesis and empirical.
Jan. 29
Environmental Genomics
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06611/nsf06611.htm
Genomics-enabled methods are beginning to be used to increase our understanding of how organisms of all types—plants, animals, and microbes--interact with their environments. The Environmental Genomics Program is intended to enhance the development of fundamental knowledge and strengthen the capacity to apply these methods in research on organisms in their natural environments. Research foci should be appropriate to the themes of interest or purviews of the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO) and Geosciences (GEO).
Jan. 29
Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07512/nsf07512.htm
$57 million for 13 awards. 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. Scholarship recipients shall pursue academic programs in information assurance for the final two years of undergraduate study, or for two years of master's-level study, or for the final two years of Ph.D.-level study.
Jan. 29
Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust - Graduate Fellowships
http://www.dekarman.org/PriorRecipients
The Josephine De Kármán Fellowship Trust was established in 1954 by the late Dr. Theodore von Kármán, world renowned aeronautics expert and teacher and first director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, in memory of his sister, Josephine, who passed away in 1951. The purpose of this Fellowship program is to recognize and assist students whose scholastic achievements reflect Professor von Kármán's high standards. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007. Students in any discipline entering Senior Undergraduate year or a candidate for a PhD who will defend his/her dissertation by June, 2008. Post-doctoral students are not eligible for consideration. Applicants should have manifested exceptional ability and serious purpose. Special consideration will be given to applicants in the Humanities. A minimum of ten (10) fellowships, $16,000 for graduate students or $8,000 for undergraduate students.
Jan. 31
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Mentoring Travel Grants for Women (NSF-AWM Mentoring Travel Grants)
http://www.awm-math.org/travelgrants.html
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) offers the Mentoring Travel Grants for Women to help junior women to develop a long-term working and mentoring relationship with a senior mathematician in research in any field that is funded by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF). This mentoring relationship should help the junior mathematician to establish her research program and eventually receive tenure. Each grant would fund travel, accommodations, and other required expenses for an untenured woman mathematician to travel to an institute or a department to do research with a specified individual for one month. Awardees may request to use any unexpended funds for further travel to work with the same individual during the following year. These grants are also known as the NSF-AWM Mentoring Travel Grants.
Feb. 1
Crime, justice, and culture in societal contexts
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/SL000753.pdf
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. Researchers from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Feb. 1
NIDDK Education Program Grants (R25)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-554.html
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Research Education (R25) grant applications from applicant organizations that propose to create educational opportunities to attract undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to careers in areas of biomedical or behavioral research of particular interest to the NIDDK while fostering the career development of these students and fellows.
Feb. 1
NIJ FY06 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program 2007
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/SL000753.pdf
National Institute of Justice is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to enhance the administration of justice and public safety. NIJ solicits proposals to inform its search for the knowledge and tools to guide policy and practice. The W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship seeks to advance knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts. The Fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and the administration of justice in diverse cultural contexts.
Feb. 1
Strategic Technologies For Cyberinfrastructure
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500066&org=OCI&from=home
The primary purpose of the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program (STCI) is to support work leading to the development and/or demonstration of innovative cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research and education that fill gaps left by more targeted funding opportunities. In addition, it will consider highly innovative cyberinfrastructure education, outreach and training proposals that lie outside the scope of targeted solicitations.
Feb. 8
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.
Open to Feb. 9
AAUW Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award
http://www.aauw.org/fga/awards/fdss.cfm
The AAUW Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award honors a woman scholar at the pinnacle of her academic career for a lifetime of outstanding research, teaching, publications, and impact on women in her profession and in the community. The award is open to women in all disciplines.
Feb. 10
Women of Color Caucus-Scott Powell Memorial Student Essay Award
http://www.nwsa.org/communities/WOC/essay.php
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). Women of Color Caucus-Scott Powell Memorial Student Essay Award - Category Two. The NWSA Women of Color Caucus and Catherine Powell are pleased to offer a writing award that is open to students of any race, ethnicity or gender who meet both general and category-specific eligibility and submission requirements. The scholarly essays must provide critical theoretical discussions or analyses of issues or experiences of women and girls of African, Latina, Latino, Asian, Asian-American, Pacific-Islander, Native American, American Indian, Alaskan Native descent.
Feb. 15
American Society of Naval Engineers: ASNE Scholarship Program
http://grantsnet.org/search/pgm_info.cfm?pgm_id=3074
The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) sponsors a scholarship program to encourage college students to enter the field of naval engineering. The program also provides support to naval engineers seeking advanced education in the field. The programs of study which apply to the diverse field of naval engineering are naval architecture, marine, mechanical, civil, aeronautical, ocean, electrical, and electronic engineering, and the physical sciences.
Feb. 15
Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD)(R25)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-553.html
The Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program was created in response to a legislative mandate to “increase the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty, investigators and students engaged in biomedical and behavioral research, and to broaden the opportunities for underrepresented minority faculty and students for participation in biomedical and behavioral research.” To accomplish this goal, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) program provides, at research institutions, institutional grants for students from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research with well integrated developmental activities that will increase their preparation and skills as they advance academically in the pursuit and successful completion of the Ph.D. degree.
Feb. 21
NSF Biotechnology
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=11324
Research projects supported through the BTEC program include, but are not limited to, fermentation technology, enzyme technology, recombinant DNA technology, cell culture technology, ex vivo and therapeutic stem cell culture technology, metabolic pathway engineering, biosensor development, bioreactor design and bioprocess optimization, bioseparation and purification processes, bioprocess optimization and integration, monitoring and control of bioprocesses, food processing with special focus on the safety of the nation's food supply, tissue engineering, information technology relevant to biotechnology including bioinformatics, nanobiotechnology and biomimetics, and quantitative systems biotechnology
Feb. 28
Energy for Sustainability
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=11349&mode=VIEW
The Energy for Sustainability program supports fundamental research and education in energy production, conversion, and storage and is focused on energy sources that are environmentally friendly and renewable. Most world energy needs are currently met through the combustion of fossil fuels. With projected increases in global energy needs, more sustainable methods for energy production will need to be developed, and production of greenhouse gases will need to be reduced.
Sources of sustainable energy include sunlight, wind, and biomass. Hydrogen and alcohols are potential energy carriers that can be derived from renewable sources. Research to produce and store hydrogen for use in direct combustion or in fuel cells is supported by the program. Potential sources of hydrogen include conversion from biomass and from electrolysis, photolysis or thermolysis of water.
Feb. 28
Raney Fund Award
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) solicits applications for grants to be awarded from the Edward C. and Charlotte F. Raney Fund for Ichthyology. Raney Fund Awards provide support for young ichthyologists for museums or laboratory study, travel, fieldwork, or any other activity that will effectively enhance their professional careers and their contributions to the science of ichthyology. Awards will be given on the basis of both merit and need.
March 1
Knauss 2008
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9981&mode=VIEW
Selected applications from the sponsoring Sea Grant program are to be received in the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) no later than 5 p.m. eastern standard time (EST) on April 5, 2007 through http://www.grants.gov. Any student, regardless of citizenship, who, on April 5, 2007, 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 or U.S. Territories may apply.
April 5
United Engineering Foundation (UEF) Grants
http://www.uefoundation.org/grants.html
The United Engineering Foundation (UEF) advances the engineering arts and sciences for the welfare of humanity. It supports engineering and education by, among other means, making grants. Grants should be consistent with advancing engineering. The UEF Board of Trustees evaluates and judges proposals in view of the UEF mission, the perceived ability of the proposal and proposer(s) to further that mission, and the available funding. While all proposals meeting established deadlines and page requirements will be considered, certain UEF preferences should be understood by proposers: - Broad-based, interdisciplinary proposals that further the engineering profession as a whole are preferred. - Multiple-year proposals are welcome, but funding is awarded for a single year only.
June 1
Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks for Young Investigators
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9535
The objective of the Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (ITMANET) program is to generate and exploit superior theoretical insights concerning the design, deployment, and operation of a new generation of wireless mobile networks. To achieve this objective, a central challenge problem has been devised: to close a longstanding open problem concerning the capacity limits of Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs).
Open to May 7, 2007
BAA for the Mitigation and Prevention of Corrosion in Army Material (DoD)
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=9249
The Department of Defense (DoD) U.S. Army TACOM-Picatinny, Picatinny Center for Contracting and Commerce, is soliciting applications via a Broad Agency Announcement for Research, Development, and Engineering Command-Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM-ARDEC), Army Corrosion Office, for programs in new materials, coatings technologies and corrosion detection for mitigation and prevention of corrosion.
To 2009
