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The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

Due Oct. 3.  The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is a strategic fellowship program designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in fellowship competitions.  

Tinker Foundation, Inc. - Institutional Grants (Latin America)

http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/tinker/institu.html

Due Sept. 1.  The Tinker Foundation awards Institutional Grants to organizations and institutions that promote the interchange and exchange of information within the community of those concerned with the affairs of Spain, Portugal, Ibero-America, and Antarctica. (For the foundation's purposes, Ibero-America is defined as the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere.). Programmatically, the foundation funds projects addressing environmental policy, economic policy, or governance issues. Projects should have a strong public policy component, offer innovative solutions to problems facing these regions, and incorporate new mechanisms for addressing these programmatic areas. Activities may include, but are not limited to, research projects and conferences related to the foundation's areas of interest. The foundation encourages collaboration between organizations in the United States and Iberia or Latin America and among institutions in those regions.

Sloan Research Fellowships for Early-Career Scientists and Scholars

http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowship_brochure.shtml

Due Sept. 15.  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will accept applications for the Sloan Research Fellowships. Sloan Research Fellowships is by far the oldest program of the Sloan Foundation, although those who receive the grants are among the youngest researchers the Foundation assists. The Fellowship program has grown in size and cost over the years and now includes several disciplines not covered in the beginning; but its purpose - to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise - remains the same. Over the first 17 years of the program, Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Additional fields were added in subsequent years: neuroscience in 1972, economics in 1980, computer science in 1993, and computational and evolutionary molecular biology in 2002. Sloan funds can be applied to a wide variety of uses for which other, more restricted funds such as research project grants cannot usually be employed. Candidates are nominated by department heads or other senior researchers.  The Program Committee reviews more than 600 nominations each year to arrive at a final selection of 118 Fellows.

Canadian Embassy - Canadian Studies Grant Program - Research Grants

Due Sept. 15.  The Research Grant Program promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The grant is designed to assist individual scholars, or a team of scholars, in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality and reporting their findings in a scholarly publication and at scholarly conferences, thus contributing to the development of Canadian Studies in the United States. Grant proposals are welcome from all fields in the social sciences and humanities. 

American Council of Learned Societies - Digital Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Humanities Scholars

http://www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm

Due Oct. 3.  The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the second annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works.  ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may involve development of new digital tools that further humanistic research (such as digital research archives or innovative databases), research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, the representation of research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, or some combination of these features.

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The following were posted the week of April 28 to May 2

HSARPABAA
Immunological Assays (ELISA) for the Detection of Ricin, Abrin, and Botulinum Toxins

Deadline: White papers May 7; Full June 16

The Fund for the Advancement of Social Studies Education (FASSE)
Social Studies Inquiry Grant Request for Proposals

The Fund for the Advancement of Social Studies Education (FASSE) and the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) have established a grant to support inquiry in citizenship education. Grant proposals should affirm social, cultural, and racial diversity and address issues of equality, equity, and social justice. Proposals that address aims for citizen action are preferred. Proposals should be relevant to school, university or community-based educational settings. FASSE and CUFA will award a $10,000 grant to the successful applicant who presents a proposal for a research project that demonstrates potential to inform the educational field about justice oriented, citizenship education.
Deadline: June 30

NIH

NIH has announced two funding opportunities as part of the NIH-wide Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (GEI).  All NIH Institutes and Centers participate in NIH-wide initiatives.  This FOA will be administered by NIDA.

The NIDA on behalf of the NIH Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative encourages functional characterization of genetic variants that have been statistically nominated to be associated with a particular outcome through common, complex disease gene discovery approaches, such as genome-wide association studies (GWAS), candidate gene approaches, or sequencing studies. This FOA supports research relating genetic variation to biological mechanism, or disease causality.

• Functional Characterization of Genetic Variants and Interactions: The Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (R21)
  
• Functional Characterization of Genetic Variants and Interactions: The Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (R03)

Letter of Intent due Sep. 17, 2008
Full Proposal due Oct. 17, 2008

Rural Housing and Economic Development

The purpose of the RHED program is to provide support for innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas. The funds made available under this program will be awarded competitively through a selection process conducted by HUD in accordance with the HUD Reform Act. Individuals are NOT eligible to apply for this funding opportunity.

NEH Summer Stipends -- Understanding of the Humanities

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

Open August 1 to October 2

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends may not be used for:

• research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program;
• specific policy studies or educational or technical impact assessments;
• the preparation or publication of textbooks;
• studies of teaching methods or theories, surveys of courses and programs, or curriculum development;
• inventories of collections;
• works in the creative or performing arts (e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.);
• projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; or
• projects that advocate a particular program of social action.

Desalination and Water Purification Research and Development (DWPR)

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=LWvTKdGGBMhTtvrCDKr0HrrNG6Kyp3QQClqvdfxqwyZFPZ4GGWdh!303245650?oppId=41444&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW

Due June 20

The program has three major goals:  (1) augment the supply of usable water in the United States, (2) understand the environmental impacts of desalination and develop approaches to minimize these impacts relative to other water supply alternatives, and (3) develop approaches to lower the financial costs of desalination so that it is an attractive option relative to other alternatives in locations where traditional sources of water are inadequate.