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Monthly Funding Opportunities List - May 1, 2008
Office of Proposal Development
Texas A&M University
May 1, 2008 Monthly Research Funding Opportunities List
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Brownfields Training,
Research, and Technical Assistance Grants
http://www.epa.gov/oswer/grants-funding.htm#EPA-OSWER-OBLR-08-02
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit organizations to provide training, research, and technical assistance to communities facing brownfields cleanup and revitalization challenges. EPA is particularly interested in funding brownfields training, research and technical assistance projects in the subject areas of protection of human health and the environment, sustainable development, and equitable development.
May 1
The Hyland R. Johns Grant Program
http://www.treefund.org/grants/Grants.aspx#Johns
The TREE Fund announces the 2008 Hyland R. Johns Grant Program. Since 1975, the TREE Fund has awarded small grants to aid, stimulate and encourage scientific studies of trees. The Hyland R. Johns Grant Program is one of two established grant programs that funds appropriate projects that benefit the arboricultural industry and enhance the many contributions of our urban forests.
May 1
King Faisal Foundation - International Prize in Medicine and in Science (Physics)
http://www.kff.com/english/homepage/Index.html
The King Faisal International Prize for 2008 in the field of Medicine seeks to recognize outstanding contributions to the topic of Molecular Targeted Therapy. The foundation established the prize to show appreciation to individuals who have benefited humanity by advancing health care or the science that underlies it. The General Secretariat of the King Faisal International Prize also invites universities, scientific societies, research centers and other learned circles throughout the world to nominate qualified candidates for the year 1429H / 2009G Prize for Science in the following topic: Physics.
May 1
NEH Challenge Grants
NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Awards are made to museums, public libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other nonprofit entities. Because of the matching requirements, these NEH awards also strengthen the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support.
May 1
American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08541
The American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship program is a program to support postdoctoral associates in chemistry. It seeks to (1) build ties between academic and industrial, and/or national laboratory, and/or Chemistry Division-funded center researchers (partners) and (2) involve beginning scientists in efforts to broaden participation in chemistry. Fellows will pursue research with industrial, and/or national laboratory, and/or Chemistry Division-funded center partners that will enrich their in-house research program. In addition, fellows will develop and implement their own plans for broadening participation in the chemical sciences. Successful applicants must propose a well-integrated, synergistic research plan with their chosen affiliate as well as an effective outreach plan that will broaden participation by underrepresented groups in chemistry.
May 1
The Coalition for Western Women’s History
http://www.westernwomenshistory.org/cfp.htm
The $1,000 prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses related to the histories of women and gender in the American West. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program and members of the CWWH. The prize honors the memory of Irene Ledesma whose contributions to Chicana and working-class history were ended by her untimely death in 1997.
May 1
Antarctic Research -- Proposals that make use of IPY datasets
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08535
Scientific research and operational support of that research are the principal activities supported by the United States Government in Antarctica. The goals are to expand fundamental knowledge of the region, to foster research on global and regional problems of current scientific importance, and to use Antarctica as a platform from which to support research. For projects involving fieldwork, the U.S. Antarctic Program supports only research that can be done exclusively in Antarctica or that is best done from Antarctica.
May 2 & June 6
2008 Advanced Fuel Cycle Research and Development
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/1E79369BF204F8F48525742E005F4C24?OpenDocument
The U.S. Department of Energy is seeking applicants from industry, universities, and national laboratories to conduct research and development (R D) in support of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative/Global Nuclear Energy Partnership advanced fuel cycle objectives. Applications are sought in the following program elements: 1. Used Fuel Separations Technology 2. Advanced Nuclear Fuel Development 3. Fast Burner Reactors and Advanced Transmutation Systems 4. Advanced Fuel Cycle Systems Analysis 5. Advanced Computing and Simulation 6. Safeguards 7. Advanced Waste Forms
pre-apps due May 5 and full June 10
Global Change, Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/globalchangeultravioletradiationmonitoring.cfm
The purpose of the GCUVM Program is to support research which: 1. Generates an uninterrupted stream of climatology data; 2. Determines mechanisms and symptoms of plant and animal response; and 3. Develops tightly integrated models to assess regional and national impacts of multiple plant stressors. Climatology data provide a much needed history of dosage, along with seasonal and geographic variability. The GCUVM also seeks to understand how ultraviolet radiation alters plant and animal physiology and development, and disturbs the ecosystems where they reside. This creates a knowledge base of the plant and plant community responses. Finally, based on crop growth models (adapted for UV-B inputs), data on the Earth's climate, radiation data, and satellite data, will enhance understanding of regional climate-crop interactions.
May 5
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education Comprehensive Program
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-5782.pdf
The Comprehensive Program supports innovative grants and cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education. It supports reforms, innovations, and significant improvements of postsecondary education that respond to problems of national significance and serve as national models.
May 5
William T. Grant Scholars Program for Early Career Researchers in Various Disciplines
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early career researchers from diverse disciplines. The award is intended to facilitate the professional development of early career scholars who have some demonstrated success in conducting high quality research and are seeking to further develop their skills and research program. Studies from these Scholars contribute to theory and policy/practice for improving the everyday settings of youth. Candidates are nominated by a supporting institution and must submit five-year research plans that demonstrate creativity, intellectual rigor, and a commitment to continued professional development; are grounded in theory and sound research methods; and provide evidence for appropriate mentoring from senior investigators.
May 5
Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) for Fiscal Year 2008
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rd/nofas/index.html
This Notice announces the availability of $6,255,900 of competitive grant funds for the RCDI program through the Rural Housing Service (RHS), an agency within the USDA Rural Development mission area herein referred to as the Agency. Applicants must provide matching funds in an amount at least equal to the Federal grant. These grants will be made to qualified intermediary organizations that will provide financial and technical assistance to recipients to develop their capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development.
May 5
Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (GAPP): Translation Programs in Education, Surveillance, and Policy
http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/GD08-801.htm
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Office on Public Health Genomics announces the opportunity for applications in the form of cooperative agreements to conduct and evaluate programs in health education, surveillance, or policy interventions, or a combination of those programs, in large, well-defined populations or clinical practice settings in the United States. The purpose is to help move evidence-based human genomic tests and other genomic interventions into health practice in a manner that maximizes health benefits and minimizes harm to individuals and populations.
LOI due May 7 and full June 6
Request for Applications (RFA): U.S.-Middle East University Partnerships Program: 2008
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/66/itemid/155/USMiddle-East-University-Partnerships-Program.aspx
Applicants from U.S. higher education institutions are needed to work with their counterparts in developing countries on programs such as economic growth, governance, basic education, and health. U.S. institutions of higher education may apply for support for a partnership in one or more of the U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) focus countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Special consideration will be given to partnerships with institutions in priority countries noted under each target area.
May 8
Food/Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate/Postgraduate Fellowship Grants
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/national_needs.html
CSREES announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants Program for fiscal year (FY) 2008 to provide traineeship programs to eligible institutions for meeting the national need to develop scientific and professional expertise in the food and agricultural sciences, through graduate level training programs. In FY 2008, special emphasis will be placed on Forest Resources.
May 8
Department of Defense - Sensors As Robots -- White Papers Accepted
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLRRS/Reference-Number-BAA-07-02-IFKA/SynopsisP.html
The Air Force Research Lab requests white papers for Sensors as Robots. Sensors as Robots represents the next evolutionary step in sensor development. The program proposes an autonomous constellation of autonomous sensors utilizing advanced knowledge-based algorithms that leverage knowledge of the environment, targets and past experiences to provide performance gains of orders of magnitude in interference rejection, target detection, identification and tracking. Unlike existing fielded monolithic systems, Sensors as Robots strives to produce sensors that augment existing capabilities by optimally utilizing all available resources in a pervasive and anticipatory manner.
May 8 white paper
New Faculty Awards Program
http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/new_faculty_awards_program.shtml
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation supports the scholarly activity of new faculty in Ph.D.-granting departments with an award to help initiate their independent research programs. The New Faculty Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000 that is generally approved before the new faculty members formally begin their first tenure-track appointments.
May 8
Early Career Projects: Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_star_gcwq.html
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), in cooperation with the EPA Global Change Research Program, announces a competition for projects supporting research into the consequences of climate change for U.S. water quality to support human and aquatic life uses. EPA is interested in the hydrologic and other watershed processes that affect water resources that may be altered by a changing climate. A better national scale understanding of the range of potential consequences of climate change will be useful both for fully accounting for the impacts of climate change and for developing regional adaptive strategies to reduce the risk of harmful impacts.
May 8
National Technical Assistance, Training, Research: Economic Development Research
Pursuant to its NTA Program, EDA is soliciting applications for three individual economic development research projects addressing the areas of: (i) Regional innovation systems; (ii) Urban economic development policy; and (iii) Global economic development strategy.
May 9
Endeavor Science Teacher Certificate Program (ESTCP)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Education is releasing Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) No. NNH08ZNE003C, entitled " Endeavor Science Teachers Certificate Program (ESTCP)." This CAN will be available on or about April 16, 2008, by opening the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and then linking through the menu listings "Solicitations" to "Open Solicitations." This NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) solicits proposals to develop, pilot, and administer the Endeavor Science Teachers Certificate Program (ESTCP).
NOI due May 9 and full June 17
ASHE Lumina Dissertation Fellowship
http://www.ashe.ws/?page=285; http://www.ashe.ws/?page=236
With support from Lumina Foundation for Education, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) announces the ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellowship Program. The key objective of this initiative is to promote innovative scholarship by creating an intergenerational community of scholars who will examine social, institutional, and policy barriers to opportunity and student success. Our goal is the development of new research questions, methodologies, and frameworks for the study of access and success that go beyond what is already known about critical topics related to, for example, college choice, financial aid, and student retention. The grant will fund eight to ten dissertation fellowships a year for a three-year period.
May 10
NCMHD Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions (P20)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-08-002.html
The NCMHD Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions (RIMI) is a P-20 funding opportunity issued by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, solicits grant applications from minority-serving institutions that propose to build, improve, strengthen and/or enhance the research infrastructure and research training capacity of minority-serving institutions.
LOI due May 10 and full June 10
Cultural Creation in Maritime East Asia (Special Subject) Grants
http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/03entry/e_gd_kjp_easia.html
The Toyota Foundation solicits proposals for cross-disciplinary survey research projects that are firmly oriented toward problem resolution and address the issues of what kinds of culture have been created by cross-border collaboration. Proposals must additionally address how to promote cross-border cultural creation. Research should examine culture created at the private-sector level in the maritime region of East Asia, which is the historical artery of exchange in East Asia. Maritime East Asia is provisionally defined as the area of sea surrounded by coastal areas of China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, and the maritime region of the Russian Far East. Project teams should have an international membership. Project results should take the form of DVDs or other video media.
May 10
Career Opportunities in Research Honors Undergraduate Research Training Grant (T34)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-093.html
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announces its support of the NIMH Career Opportunities in Research (NIMH COR) Honors Undergraduate Research Training Grant (T34) program. The goal of the program is to provide support for pre-baccalaureate research training to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume leadership roles related to the Nation’s biomedical, neuroscience, behavioral and clinical research agenda for mental health.
May 12
English Language Teaching Materials Development Project & Educators Summer Institute
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-5040.htm
For the English Language Educators Summer Institute to take place in 2009, the recipient will design and administer a three-week professional development program for experienced secondary school and university English language teachers drawn from countries served by U.S. Department of State Regional English Language Officers based overseas.
May 13
Child Care Research Scholars
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YE-0010.html
The specific goals of the Child Care Research Scholar grants are: To directly support graduate students as a way of encouraging the conduct of child care policy research. Along with supporting the students' training and professional development as researchers, these grants contribute to the knowledge base about best approaches to delivering services to diverse, low-income families and their children.
LOI due May 14 and full June 13
Fellowships for Research on Italian Cultural Heritage
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowhips-italy.html
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, the National Research Council) of the Government of Italy are cooperating in the support of scholarly research. NEH invites applications for humanities research focusing on Italy's cultural heritage in relation to that of the United States. Recipients will be awarded fellowships. The CNR will award fellowships to Italian scholars for research on similar topics in the United States. NEH and CNR each anticipate awarding up to three fellowships.
May 15
Gates Foundation - Global Health Explorations Initiative: Grand Challenges
http://www.gcgh.org/explorations/
The first funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations will consider proposals in four topic areas: Creating new ways to protect against infectious diseases: Untried or unproven approaches to protect against infectious diseases, including harnessing natural or synthetic immune responses, or eliminating the need for an effective immune response. Creating drugs or delivery systems that limit the emergence of resistance: Innovative ideas for discovering or delivering drugs that are less likely to lose effectiveness because of resistance developing in the disease-causing agent.
LOI May 15; full May 30
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, arts and cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects.
May 15
TYLENOL Scholarship program--doctors, nurses and other health professionals
http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subptyschol.inc#
We know that dedicating yourself to healthcare is no small commitment. Taking years of hard work and sacrifice. That's why the makers of TYLENOL are once again proud to offer the TYLENOL Scholarship program—now in its 16th year. This year, up to $350,000 in scholarships will be awarded to our future doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Because we think the people who help us feel better, deserve to feel better, too.
May 15
Workforce Program in the Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov:80/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503233
The long-range goal of the DMS Workforce Program is to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who successfully pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other NSF-supported disciplines. Among intermediate goals to this end are improvements in recruitment, retention, education, and placement of trainees in the mathematical sciences. The program's primary interest is in activities centered on education through research involvement for trainees at the undergraduate through postdoctoral educational levels. Activities that broaden participation in the mathematical sciences are of significant interest to the Division of Mathematical Sciences.
May 15
Horses & Humans Foundation 2008 Call for Proposals
http://www.horsesandhumans.org/News.html?CFID=2302979&CFTOKEN=31497182
The purpose of Horses & Humans Foundation (HHF) funded research is to provide evidence for the therapeutic effects of horses on humans. The broad research agenda includes basic research as well as clinical studies that will ultimately impact physical and mental health and the quality of life for people with disabilities who are involved with equine assisted activities (EAA). Interested Applicants: Before completing an application, carefully review the 'Guidelines and Information' document and the 'Application Checklist' documents on the foundation's Web site. You also may be required to submit a Letter of Intent before a full proposal.
May 15
DHS Homeland Security Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics Career Grants
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) invites applications from colleges and universities with established homeland security-related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) curricula in the research areas listed below to establish scientific career development awards to students in priority HS-STEM programs of study. DHS intends to establish an HS-STEM Career Development grants (CDG) program to enable colleges and universities to award scholarships and fellowships to qualified undergraduate and graduate students in HS-STEM disciplines who intend to pursue homeland security professional and scientific careers.
May 16
NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows In K-12 Education
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08556
This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers in the 21st century. Through interactions with teachers and students in K-12 schools and with other graduate fellows and faculty from STEM disciplines, graduate students can improve communication, teaching, collaboration, and team building skills while enriching STEM learning and instruction in K-12 schools. Through this experience, graduate students can gain a deeper understanding of their own STEM research.
GK-12 Proposal Development Resources
Online Evaluation Resource Library
Directory of Funded GK-12’s & PI emails
http://www.igert.org/contacts.asp?sort=13p-GK-12&subsort=++List-by-Institution++
NSF Presentation On DR K-12 and REESE Programs
http://www.nsf.gov:80/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500047
A Guide for Proposal Writing, an NSF booklet prepared by staff in DUE
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9891/nsf9891.htm
LOI due May 16 and full July 3
Feeding Coal/Biomass Mixtures Across a Pressure Gradient
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/A7BE82F4762E024885257416005F2A7F?OpenDocument
Feeding Coal/Biomass Mixtures Across a Pressure Gradient (DE-PS26-08NT00258-01): Coal has advantages of great abundance, relatively low cost and high energy density. Furthermore, the production of synthesis gas from coal is a proven technology at commercial scale. Coal has a low hydrogen to carbon ratio and the production of FT diesel from coal produces approximately twice as much CO2 as does the refining of petroleum into diesel. This disadvantage can be managed by the capture and sequestration or reuse of the CO2 produced when FT diesel is made. When this is done, the CO2 produced with FT diesel is equivalent to that from petroleum-refined diesel.
May 16
National Institute for Climatic Change Research
http://niccr2.bio.nau.edu/niccr/files/NICCR_RFP04_FINAL.pdf
The U.S. Department of announces its request for research proposals (). Proposed research is requested that would answer important questions about potential effects of contemporary climatic change on the structure and functioning of important U.S. terrestrial ecosystems, or that would answer important questions about possible feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to changes in climate or atmospheric composition. Preproposals are REQUIRED. Full proposals will only be accepted from applicants who: (1) submit a compliant preproposal on time and (2) are informed by NICCR that their preproposal was selected to be developed into a full proposal.
May 16 prelim; full August 15
NIBIB Interfaces Initiative for Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Training (T32)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-EB-08-003.html
The NIBIB (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering ) solicits grant applications for recently established interdisciplinary research training programs that integrate the biomedical sciences with the physical sciences and/or engineering. By fostering these interdisciplinary training programs in their critical early years, we expect to develop highly effective interdisciplinary curricula, including coursework and laboratory research. It is anticipated that this will lead to an increase in the number of interdisciplinary researchers working at the intersection of these disciplines and a transformation of institutional programs to support interdisciplinary training.
LOI due May 19 and full June 17
Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YR-0068.html
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has explicitly supported the association between Head Start programs and their local research community through the Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants. These awards attract applications from leading academic researchers and graduate students, specializing in social sciences, education and/or health. In close collaboration with their Head Start program partners, these experts design high-quality projects that directly address the needs of low-income children and families and their early childhood educators; the results inform and improve Head Start policies and practice.
LOI due May 19 and full June 16
Bacterial Population Genetics in a Forensics Context (New Due Date)
http://www.hsarpabaa.com/index.asp
The goal of this research program is to develop algorithms and/or analytical tools that will assist investigators of bioterrorism events by providing precision and statistical power to inferences concerning the degree of relatedness among organisms or samples used in a bioterrorist event. The focus of this effort will be on research in the areas microbial ecology, population dynamics, host-pathogen interaction. genetic stability, statistical inference, and match criteria for the following select agents: Bacillus anthracis, Yersinia pestis, Clostridium botulinum, Francisella tularensis, Brucella sp., Escherichia coli O157:H7, Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei.
White paper May 19; full June 30
DARPA Integrated Photonics
DARPA is soliciting innovative research and development proposals in the area of integrated photonics. The goal of this program is to develop a chip-scale, integrated photonic platform with “fiber-like” losses for optical delay applications. Abstract due May 20 and full July 16
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Fiscal 2008
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/AP/ap027/DBGen.htm
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program is now accepting proposals for grants and cooperative agreements for fiscal 2008. The three priority research areas are (1) Food Choices: Economic Determinants and Consequences, (2) Economic Incentives in Food Assistance Programs, and (3) Food Assistance as an Economic Safety Net. This publication describes the research areas and application requirements. Funding in fiscal 2008 is approximately $2 million.
May 19
Rural Youth Development Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/rural_youthdev.html
CSREES announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the Rural Youth Development Grants (RYD) Program for fiscal year (FY) 2008 to support the expansion of effective, high quality youth development programs for youth in rural areas and small towns. The amount available for support of this program in FY 2008 is approximately $1,647,000.
May 21
Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Existing Data Sets for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-123.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, solicits applications proposing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of phenotypes relevant to the NIAMS mission, to be conducted with existing genetic and phenotypic data, such as may be obtained from the NIH database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP) or other sources of genotype and phenotype data.
LOI due May 21 and full June
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08546/nsf08546.htm
CCLI program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. The program supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. The program supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.
May 21
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) CFDA 84.120A
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-8711.pdf
The MSEIP is designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological careers. These priorities are: Invitational Priority 1. Applications that focus on the development of bridge or articulation programs that target prefreshmen entering into science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields. Invitational Priority 2. Applications that focus directly on student learning and encourage and facilitate implementation of pedagogical approaches that have been proven effective in increasing student retention and achievement in STEM fields. Invitational Priority 3. Applications that focus on mentoring programs designed to increase the number of underrepresented students who graduate with STEM undergraduate degrees.
May 22
Strengthening Institutions Program CFDA 84.031A
The SIP, TCCU, and the ANNH programs authorized by Title III, Part A of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), 20 U.S.C. 1057-1059d, provide grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to help them become self sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen their academic quality, institutional management and fiscal stability.
May 22
Creativity and Aging in America
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/CreativityAging.html
Creativity and Aging in America is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to actively engage older Americans in quality arts programs. Through this initiative, the Arts Endowment will support exemplary projects in the disciplines of literature and music. Projects must be conducted by professional artists and engage older adults as students, artists, and/or teachers. For the purposes of these guidelines, older adults are age 65 and above.
May 23
Nurse Faculty Loan Program
http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/nflp/default.htm
The Nurse Faculty Loan Program provides funds to eligible schools of nursing that offer advanced education nursing programs to prepare graduates to serve as faculty in a school of nursing. The schools use the funds to establish distinct NFLP fund accounts or add to existing NFLP fund accounts. The NFLP fund must provide for loans made to students enrolled (full-time and part-time) in an eligible advanced degree program in nursing (master's or doctoral) at the school.
May 23
Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
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 is given to a principal investigator 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. The foundation's goal is to create the next generation of leaders in environmental chemistry.
May 22
Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology
Considerable progress has been made in recent years in understanding the fundamentals of quantum information science on both experimental and theoretical sides. In spite of this progress, many fundamental issues remain unresolved and many fundamental challenges remain. The objective of the QuEST program is to identify and address the most important outstanding challenges and opportunities, both experimental and theoretical, related to “small” coherent quantum systems, and resolve or exploit them to enable revolutionary advances in the field. In this context, “small” refers to quantum systems with minimal quantum resources (e.g. number of coherent qubits, entanglement, quantum memory, etc.).
May 25
Emergency Management for Higher Education Grants CFDA 84.184T
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-8954.pdf
http://www.ed.gov/programs/emergencyhighed/2008-184t.pdf
Emergency Management for Higher Education (EMHE) Grants support efforts by higher education institutions to develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate, campus-based all-hazards emergency management planning efforts within the framework of the four phases of emergency management [Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery].
May 27
Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology
DARPA is soliciting innovative research and development proposals in the area of Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QuEST). The goal of this program is to investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in the fundamental understanding of quantum information science related to small quantum systems. See atttached Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). We envision a close collaboration between experimentalists and theorists so that novel theoretical concepts related to quantum information science may be developed and validated experimentally.
May 27
National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08554
This program aims to establish a national network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels.
The program has four tracks: Pathways projects are expected to provide stewardship for the content and services needed by major communities of learners. Services projects are expected to develop services that support users and resource collection providers that enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the NSDL network. Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services, and other aspects of the development of the NSDL network.
LOI due May 27 and full June 27
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08545/nsf08545.htm
The goal of the AGEP program is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing advanced study, obtaining doctoral degrees, and entering the professorate in STEM disciplines (including social sciences). Alliances participating in this program are expected to engage in comprehensive institutional cultural changes that will lead to sustained increases in the conferral of STEM doctoral degrees, significantly exceeding historic levels of performance.
Specific objectives of AGEP are: (1) to develop and implement innovative models for recruiting, mentoring, and advancing minority students in STEM doctoral programs, and (2) to develop effective strategies for identifying and supporting underrepresented minorities who want to pursue academic careers.
AGEP Proposal Development Resources
AGEP: Collecting, Analyzing, and Displaying Data
http://www.nsfagep.org/CollectingAnalyzingDisplayingData.pdf
About AGEP: NSF Role/AAAS Role
http://www.nsfagep.org/about_agep_history.php
AGEP Resource Links/Directory of AGEPs
LOI May 30; full June 27
Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
The Early Career Fellowship program was established to facilitate the integration of new planetary science researchers into the established research funding programs and to provide tools and experience useful when searching for a more advanced (i.e., tenure-track, civil servant, or equivalent) position. Two proposal opportunities are offered under the Early Career Fellowship program in ROSES-2008. The first is an opportunity for researchers to be selected as Early Career Fellows (Section 4.2). Early career researchers are encouraged to apply for the Fellowship through any participating Planetary Science Research Program element of this ROSES NRA (see Section 2, below). The second is an opportunity for current Fellows (selected in a prior solicitation) to apply for start-up funds (Section 4.3).
May 30
Junior Faculty Development Program
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/maio30rfgp.htm
The Office of Academic Exchange Programs/European Programs Branch of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA/A/E) announces an open competition for the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP). Public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501 (c) (3) may submit proposals to place visiting faculty in the early stages of their careers from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan at U.S. universities for a one academic semester (five months) program.
May 30
Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp?id=challenge
NSF and Science created the Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge to celebrate the grand tradition of using visualization of research to communicate science and to encourage this tradition's continued growth. In a world where science literacy is dismayingly rare, illustrations provide the most immediate and influential connection between scientists and other citizens, and the best hope for nurturing popular interest. Indeed, they are now a necessity for public understanding of research developments: In an increasingly graphics-oriented culture, where people acquire the majority of their news from TV and the World Wide Web, a story without a vivid and intriguing image is often no story at all.
May 31
National Academies - Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/policyfellows/
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Research Council (NRC) offer the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis and creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. During the program, interns work on studies and activities throughout the National Academies.
June 1; Nov. 1
Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. - Hilla Rebay International Fellowship
http://www.guggenheim.org/education/get_involved.shtml
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum accepts applications for the Hilla Rebay International Fellowship. This nine-month fellowship offers an opportunity for a graduate student (doctoral candidates preferred) to train in Curatorial and/or Education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.
June 1
Administrative Supplements for Making Knockout Mice
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HG-08-002.html
Several NIH Institutes and the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) re-announce the opportunity for investigators to apply for administrative supplements to have mouse knockouts made from existing mutant ES cell resources. The goal of this program is to support use of existing resources and to ensure that ES cell lines are converted into frozen embryos that are available from a repository.
June 1
University Research in Biomass Technologies: Applied Research in Conversion of Biomass to Advance Fuels
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/financing/solicitations_detail.html?sol_id=159
This announcement is intended to solicit innovative and unique approaches to biochemical and thermochemical processing of biomass as implemented in integrated biorefinery operations. Eligibility is restricted to institutions of higher education.
June 2
Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08550
A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically, but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise they offer for discovery and learning.
June 2
University-Industry Cooperative Research Programs in the Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05504/nsf05504.htm
Technical innovations flourish through a symbiotic relationship between academia and industry. The mathematical sciences provide the foundation for the scientific progress that generates technical innovations. It is in the national interest to provide more opportunities for mathematical scientists to have the experience of conducting research in an industrial environment and for industrial scientists to return periodically to academia, to acquire new knowledge, and to move it efficiently into technology.
June 2
Research Opportunities at Rare Isotope Beam Facilities
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/5B4C32846AA60FF1852573EF00590B33?OpenDocument
The Office of Nuclear Physics, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, hereby announces its interest in receiving preapplications for developing outstanding scientific opportunities in nuclear structure and dynamics, nuclear astro-physics, and tests of fundamental interactions and symmetries at leading rare isotope beam (RIB) facilities around the world.
June 2 pre-app; full Nov. 10
Communicating Hurricane Information--NOAA and NSF call for proposals
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08551/nsf08551.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
In a joint announcement, NOAA and NSF call for proposals focusing on advancing fundamental understanding of the communication of hurricane outlooks, forecasts, watches, and warnings both to decision makers (i.e., emergency managers, elected officials) and to the general public.
June 3
FY08 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP)--Investigator-Initiated Research
http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prmrp.htm
The Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) Defense Appropriations Act provides $50 million to the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) to support research that will make significant contributions in the following research areas: Alcoholism Research, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Blood Cancer, Drug Abuse, Epilepsy Research, Eye and Vision Research, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Integrated Tissue Hypoxia Research, Interstitial Cystitis, Kidney Cancer, Leishmaniasis, Lupus, Mesothelioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Paget's Disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Pulmonary Hypertension, Scleroderma, Social Work Research, and Tinnitus.
LOI due June 4 and full July 2
National Security Language Initiative - Youth Program (NSLI-Y)
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/junho5rfgp.htm
The Office of Citizen Exchange Programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for projects in support of the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) to provide short, medium, and/or long-term foreign language instruction and cultural immersion programs overseas for American high school students and those who have just graduated. Public and private non-profit organizations, or consortia of such organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3), may submit proposals to implement these programs in countries where the following target languages are widely spoken: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Indic, and Farsi. Programs will be designed for U.S. citizens aged 15 to 18 at the start of the program who are either currently enrolled in high school or have just graduated.
June 5
Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-8588.pdf
The purpose of the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program is to carry out a coordinated program of scientifically based research, demonstration projects, innovative strategies, and similar activities designed to build and enhance the ability of elementary and secondary schools nationwide to meet the special educational needs of gifted and talented students.
June 5
EPA Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_baa.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering and/or conducting of conferences, workshops, and/or meetings (hereinafter referred to as “conferences”) that focus on research to protect human health and safeguard the environment. Specifically, EPA is interested in supporting scientific and technical research conferences that address the following research program areas: (1) human health; (2) ecosystems; water and security; (3) economics and sustainability; (4) air and global climate change; and (5) technology.
Cycle 2 due June 5 and Cycle 3 Dec. 9
Animal Genome (B): Tools and Resources; Agricultural Genomics Program Cluster
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/animalgenometoolsresourcesnri.cfm
The Tools and Resources program element will emphasize the development of basic tools and resources to accelerate research in agricultural animal genomics. The goal is to develop state-of-the-art tools and resources that will advance the understanding of animal genomes in terms of organization and function.
June 5
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-083.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, encourages the submission of research project grant applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to: (1) 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 (U.S.).
June 5; Oct. 5
The Science and Ecology of Early Development (SEED) [R01]
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-069.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages submission of investigator-initiated 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.
June 5; Oct. 5
Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_baa.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering and/or conducting of conferences, workshops, and/or meetings (hereinafter referred to as “conferences”) that focus on research to protect human health and safeguard the environment. Specifically, EPA is interested in supporting scientific and technical research conferences that address the following research program areas: (1) human health; (2) ecosystems; water and security; (3) economics and sustainability; (4) air and global climate change; and (5) technology.
June 5; Dec. 9
Multiphase Flow Research--Area 1- Computational Energy Sciences
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/A53F18995037F035852574240053F03F?OpenDocument
Gas-solids flow is prevalent in fossil fuel processes, appearing in processes such as coal gasifiers. The volume fraction of solids can vary from low to high within a short length scale. The flows invariably span multiple time and length scales and pose enormous computational and experimental challenges. For example, the granular flow in a fluidized bed may range from incompressible to hypersonic, while the granular media may undergo a phase change similar to a gas-to-solid transition, all within the same reactor. The volume fraction, stress, and energy typically fluctuate spatially and temporally with amplitudes comparable to the mean. The interaction of the phases with boundaries is often complex and poorly understood.
June 10
Computer-Aided Development of Materials
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/0B452F5193CB8BD08525742400568C9B?OpenDocument
Novel materials that can withstand high temperatures and extreme environments are dominant themes in materials development for efficient energy systems. Basic requirements are elevated melting temperatures, high oxidation and corrosion resistance, the ability to resist creep, and high toughness, and encompass some of the most challenging problems in materials science. An effective way to accelerate research in this field is to use advances in materials simulations and high performance computing and communications to guide experiments.
June 10
Novel New Materials for Energy Conversion from Coal
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/6B1265A854EF612C85257424005593B1?OpenDocument
New materials ideas and concepts that stretch beyond the current state of the art are required to maximize energy extraction from the Nation’s domestic resources of coal with minimal environmental impact, and to ensure the Nation’s long-term energy security. Grant applications are sought for new material concepts in the following five specific areas related to fossil energy systems: (1) novel coating systems for thermal and/or environmental protection in advanced combustion systems; (2) new structural materials for high-temperature applications that stretch beyond the capabilities of current-generation superalloys; (3) new high-performance electrode and electrolyte materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells operating at temperatures between 600° and 850°C; (4) new materials that improve system efficiencies through waste heat recovery; and (5) novel membrane systems for oxygen, hydrogen, or carbon monoxide separations.
June 10
Novel Materials For Sensing Monitoring In Extreme Environments Of Fossil Energy Systems
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/62B4F32A4DBBAA808525742400574FD1?OpenDocument
NETL’s Advanced Research Program in Sensors and Controls targets the development of novel sensors for FE Systems with a focus on innovations for sensing in high temperature harsh environments. As energy conversion processes (e.g. gasification, oxygen fired combustion, hydrogen rich combustion turbines) strive for higher efficiencies and lower emissions, the conditions in which fuel is consumed to produce electricity trend towards high temperatures, high pressures, and high levels of corrosiveness. Under these conditions, traditional instrumentation and sensors fail to perform adequately. Novel advances are needed in sensor materials and other analytical approaches to monitor process conditions (e.g. temperature, pressure, flow, gas constituents, etc) and ensure that the processes perform efficiently and reliably.
June 10
National Institutes of Health - Academic Career Award (K07)
http://grants2.nih.gov:80/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-070.html
The Academic Career Award (K07) is used by the NIH Institutes and Centers to support individuals interested in introducing or improving curricula in a particular scientific field as a means of enhancing the educational or research capacity at the grantee institution.
Jun. 12, Oct. 12, Feb. 12.
English Language Fellow Program for Academic Year (AY) 2009-2010
http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/junho13rfgp.htm
The Office of English Language Programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for proposals to advance the Bureau's objectives through support of academic exchanges that will result in the improvement of English teaching capacity around the world and the enhancement of mutual understanding between the people of the United States and those of other countries through exchanges of U.S. English language educators to all regions of the world.
June 13
Humanities High Performance Computing
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hhpc.html
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Office of Science in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) are working together to provide humanities scholars with access to DOE supercomputers. Any scholar whose humanities research is computationally intensive may apply. Supported activities may include: mining of large textual datasets, morphological analysis, manipulations, and transformations; analysis of geographical information systems data, maps, etc.; and computationally demanding visualization, modeling, and pattern recognition and analysis.
July 15
Advanced Water Power Projects
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/7CA0728BFF68198E8525742C005FEFBC?OpenDocument
The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 authorized $50 million for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a robust program of research, development, demonstration and commercial application activities to expand marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy production. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) specifically addresses these EISA provisions. However, this FOA does not fully fund EISA-authorized activities because only $10 million was appropriated to the Water Power budget in FY 2008.
June 16
Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO)
This announcement is an initial solicitation for proposals to the Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization(CAMEO) Program. The purpose of CAMEO is to strengthen the scientific basis for an ecosystem approach to stewardship of ocean and coastal resources and ecosystems. To fulfill this purpose, CAMEO will assist policy makers and resource managers to make ecosystem-science based decisions that fulfill policy goals and management objectives of society. The program will support research to understand complex dynamics controlling productivity, behavior, population connectivity, climate variability and anthropogenic pressures.
June 17
Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08539).
The Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program is structured to enable the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry to respond to a variety of needs for infrastructure that promotes research and education in areas traditionally supported by the Division (NSF Chemistry Homepage). The Departmental Multi-User Instrumentation component of CRIF (CRIF:MU) provides funds to universities, colleges, and consortia thereof for the purchase of multi-user instruments. The maximum request is $500,000 for instrumentation.
June 23
Low Dose Radiation Research Program - Basic Biology and Modeling
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/388EFBBA86810A28852574200052E935?OpenDocument
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Human Research Program (HRP), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), hereby announce their interest in receiving grant applications for new research to develop a better scientific basis for understanding risks to humans from exposures to low doses or low fluences of ionizing radiation. Research applications must primarily support the needs of the DOE/BER Low Dose Radiation Research Program; applications may also include complementary research of direct interest to the NASA/HRP Space Radiation Project of sufficient scientific merit to qualify for partial NASA support.
June 25
Low Dose Radiation Research Program - Integrated Program Projects
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/661B89AB2B8FA033852574200053EC9C?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 Integrated Program Project grant applications for new research to develop a better scientific basis for understanding risks to humans from exposures to low doses of ionizing radiation. This funding opportunity is designed to provide long-term support for stable, multi-investigator teams whose research projects are integrated to work synergistically on a focused problem in low dose research. The intent is to accelerate the discovery of critical molecular mechanisms and pathways involved in normal radiobiological responses to low dose exposure.
June 25
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20301&c=EMC-FA135
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing is a scholarship program to help alleviate the nursing shortage and increase the diversity of nursing professionals. Through grants to schools of nursing, the program will provide scholarships to college graduates without nursing degrees who are enrolled in accelerated baccalaureate and master's nursing programs.
June 26
Grants to Support the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Health Services Research
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ResearchDemoGrantsOpt/
This announcement seeks competitive applications for small applied research projects that relate to identifying and evaluating solutions for eliminating health disparities among the African American population.
June 26
Grants to Support the Hispanic Health Sciences Research Grant Program
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ResearchDemoGrantsOpt/
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is announcing the availability of funds under its Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program to inform researchers of funding opportunities to conduct health services research affecting Hispanic American communities for 2008. This announcement seeks competitive applications for small applied research projects that relate to identifying and evaluating solutions for eliminating health disparities among Hispanic Americans.
June 26
Education Research - DoEd National Center for Educational Research NCER
http://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/2009_84305A.pdf
The Institute invites applications for research projects that will contribute to its special education research programs in: Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education; Reading, Writing, and Language Development; Mathematics and Science Education; Social and Behavioral Outcomes to Support Learning; Transition Outcomes for Special Education Secondary Students
Cognition and Student Learning in Special Education; Teacher Quality; Related Services
Systemic Interventions and Policies for Special Education; and Autism Spectrum Disorders
June 26; Oct. 2
Smith Richardson Foundation
Junior Faculty Research Grants / International Security and Foreign Policy Program
http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php
The Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community. These grants are intended to buy-out up to one year of teaching time and to underwrite research costs (including research assistance and travel).
June 29
The Smith Richardson Foundation, Domestic Public Policy Program
http://www.srf.org/grants/Domestic_Public_Policy_Fellowship.php
The Smith Richardson Foundation’s Domestic Public Policy Program seeks to support the work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts. In 2007, the Foundation will award at least three research grants in the amount of $60,000 each to individuals who are interested in conducting research and writing on domestic public policy issues. Grantees are expected to produce a book or an article suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The grant can be used to cover the salary costs of the researcher and to underwrite research costs, such as travel, research assistance, and data acquisition.
June 29
ILSI North America Future Leader Award
Future Leader Award: 2009 SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 20 JUNE 2008
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. The grants will extend for a period of 2 years at a funding level of $15,000US per year. Funds may not be used for overhead or to support the investigator's salary. The 2009 award recipients will be selected in late 2008, with funding to begin by mid-2009.
June 30
Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program
http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php
The Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community. These grants are intended to buy-out up to one year of teaching time and to underwrite research costs (including research assistance and travel).
June 30
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/grants/ej-smgrants.html
The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG) is designed to provide funding for eligible applicants working on, or planning to work on, a project that addresses a local environmental and public health issue within an affected community. The EJSG Program is a multi-statute program designed to help communities understand and address their exposure to multiple environmental harms and risks.
June 30
NASA Group 4 University Research Centers (URC), Six centers will be funded.
Eligible Applicants: All proposals must originate from a U. S. college or university designated and listed by the Department of Education as a Postsecondary Minority Institution, Historically Black College or University, Hispanic Serving Institution or Tribal College or University. The NASA Office of Education, Integration Division, Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) anticipates the release of a solicitation for proposals for the NASA Group 4 University Research Centers (URC). This solicitation is in cooperation with NASA’s four Mission Directorates – Aeronautics Research, Exploration Systems, Science, and Space Operations and NASA’s ten Field Centers.
June 30
MARGINS Program
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07546/nsf07546.htm
The MARGINS program was initiated by the scientific community and the National Science Foundation and has been designed to elevate our present largely descriptive and qualitative knowledge of continental margins to a level where theory, modeling and simulation, together with field observation and experiment, can yield a clearer understanding of the processes that control margin genesis and evolution. Although continental margins have been traditionally assigned to three distinct tectonic settings, i.e., convergent, divergent and translational, the approach used by the MARGINS program recognizes that a range of fundamental physical and chemical processes that form and deform the surface of the Earth operate at all margins.
July 1
Energy Frontier Research Centers
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/933104E42D0185E58525742100694C78?OpenDocument
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences announces the initiation of Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced energy technologies for the 21st century. The EFRCs will pursue the fundamental understanding necessary to meet the global need for abundant, clean, and economical energy. The Office of Basic Energy Sciences is seeking applications for the establishment of EFRCs that will bring together the skills and talents of multiple investigators to enable fundamental research of a scope and complexity that would not be possible with the standard individual investigator or small group research project. As such, the EFRCs will strengthen and complement the existing portfolio of the single Principal Investigator and small group research projects currently supported within BES core research areas.
LOI due July 1; full October 10
Cryopreservation of Germplasm for Effective Management Animal Genetic Resources (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-08-005.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, invites Exploratory/Developmental (R21) applications leading to the development of innovative methods and tools in order to establish reliable and standardized animal germplasm cryopreservation protocols to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy in the collection, handling, preservation, long term storage, re-derivation and production of live and healthy offspring.
July 1
Cryopreservation of Germplasm for Effective Management Animal Genetic Resources (R01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-08-006.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, invites Research Project Grant (R01) applications leading to the development of innovative methods and tools in order to establish reliable and standardized animal germplasm cryopreservation protocols to increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy in the collection, handling, preservation, long term storage, re-derivation and production of live and healthy offspring
July 1
American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship Competition
The American Institute of Indian Studies invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree. Some senior fellows in the humanities will receive fellowships funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Performing and Creative Arts fellowships are available for accomplished practitioners of the performing arts of India and creative artists. For applications, please contact us at American Institute of Indian Studies, 1130 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, (773) 702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu .
July 1
Biological Databases and Informatics
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05577/nsf05577.htm
The Biological Databases and Informatics (BD&I) program seeks to encourage new approaches to the management, analysis, and dissemination of biological knowledge for the benefit of both the scientific community and the broader public. The BD&I program is especially interested in the development of informatics tools and resources that have the potential to advance all fields of biology under the purview of the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
July 14
International Materials Institutes
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08558/nsf08558.pdf
The objective of the International Materials Institutes is to advance materials research by coordinating international projects involving condensed matter and materials physics; solid state and materials chemistry; and the design, synthesis, and characterization of materials to meet global and regional needs. A critically important aspect of an IMI is its potential impact on advancing materials research on an international scale and developing an internationally competitive generation of materials researchers, and this distinguishes an IMI from other materials research centers that NSF supports. The Institutes must be university-based (single or multi-campus), and provide a research environment that will attract leading scientists and engineers.
July 15
SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06605/nsf06605.htm
The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible.
DDRIG Proposal Development Resources
OPD DDRIG Seminar
Writing Successful NSF [DDRIG]: Perspectives on Proposals & the Review Process from Two Former Panelists
http://www.indiana.edu/~halllab/GradRes/Hall&Moyle_DDIG_advice.PDF
July 15, August, October due dates by discipline
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation - Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
http://www.hhwf.org/HTMLSrc/ResearchFellowships.html
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation supports early postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical sciences. To attain its ultimate goal of increasing the number of imaginative, well-trained and dedicated medical scientists, the Foundation grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women engaged in biological or medical research. Candidates who hold, or are in the final stages of obtaining a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree and are seeking beginning postdoctoral training in basic biomedical research are eligible to apply for a fellowship.
July 15
Leakey Foundation - General Research Grants( to support research into human origins)
http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/?option=com_content&view=article&id=11223&Itemid=1
The Leakey Foundation provides General Research Grants to support 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. 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.
July 15
Association for Library and Information Science Education
http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=55548
An award of one or more grants totaling $5,000 may be made to support research broadly related to education for library and information science. The Research Grant Award cannot be used to support a doctoral dissertation.
July 15
Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08559/nsf08559.htm
Three clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (the Ecological Biology, Ecosystem Science, and the Population and Evolutionary Processes clusters) encourage the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by a single individual or group of investigators over an extended period.
July 16
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (R21)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-084.html
This funding opportunity announcement encourages Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications from applicant organizations that propose to: (1) improve the measurement of racial/ethnic discrimination in health care delivery systems through improved instrumentation, data collection, and statistical and 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.
July 16
Cluster Exploratory (CluE)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08560/nsf08560.htm
In the last five years, the private sector has launched a number of highly effective internet-scale applications powered by massively scaled, highly distributed computing resources. Academic researchers have expressed a need for access to similar computing resources that will allow them to engage and explore this emerging and pervasive model of computing. Through the Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program, NSF-funded researchers will use software and services running on a Google-IBM cluster to explore innovative research ideas in data-intensive computing.
July 17
Software Development Tools for Improved Ease-of-Use of Petascale Systems
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/6A311C73E53E6A7B8525742800490A9E?OpenDocument
The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research grants in software development tools for improved ease-of-use of petascale systems. Petascale computing systems soon will be available to the DOE science community. Such systems will exhibit increased architectural complexity and tens to hundreds of thousands of processor cores. Increased architectural complexity includes multicore/heterogeneous CPUs, novel memory systems and intelligent interconnects.
July 17
AFOSR’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)
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 2003) 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. Proposals addressing the research areas of interest for the Air Force Research Laboratory will be considered. The basic research areas of current interest are available on-line at the AFOSR web site: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/AFRL/afosr/ .
July 22
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08557/nsf08557.htm
New Guidelines & Various July Due Dates: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, a