Intramural Funding Opportunities
There are a myriad of opportunities at AU for faculty to obtain intramural support for their research, scholarship, and creative activities. This funding can come from the Office of the Provost as well as in the academic units.
Intramural funding from the Office of the Provost
Dean of Academic Affairs Faculty Support Awards
- Junior Faculty Teaching Release - Semester Sabbatical Deadline March 1, 2012
- International Faculty Travel Awards Deadline: January 2012. Some funding may still be available after January.
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research
- Faculty Research Support Grants
- Doctoral Student Research Awards Deadline: March 2013
Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning
Intramural funding from the academic units
Frequently funding to support faculty research is available in the academic units. Inquire at the units to obtain information about specific opportunities.
Extramural Funding Opportunities
Take a look at this weekly archived listing of funding opportunities from a variety of outside institutions.
External Funding Opportunities
Government Funding Opportunities
These calendars detail the funding cycles of several awards from federal government sources.
EPA: Extramural Research
National Endowment for the Humanities: Grant Applications and Deadlines
National Institutes of Health: Grant Schedule and Submission Schedule
National Science Foundation: Active Funding Opportunities
Specific Funding Opportunities
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA Center for WIC Nutrition Education Innovations:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/menu/DemoProjects/WICResearch/WICResearchGrant.htm
National Science Foundation
High-Risk Research in Anthropology:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5319
Deadline: Rolling
Research in Disabilities Education: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12542
Deadline: June 1, 2012
U.S. Department of Defense
Defense Sciences Research and Technology: http://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Solicitations/DSO_Solicitations.aspx
Deadline: August 9, 2012
U.S. National Institute of Health
Treatment of Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders and Depression/Anxiety Disorders (R21)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-10-252.html
Deadline: June 16, 2012
Weekly Funding Opportunities - March 19, 2012
Science and Social Science
Avon Foundation and Institute of Medicine
Global App Challenge to Help Prevent Domestic Violence Against Women and Children:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=374400026
In honor of International Women's Day 2012, the Avon Foundation for Women and the Institute of Medicine have announced a new app challenge called Ending Violence @ Home.
The global competition invites teams of individuals from the fields of domestic violence prevention and communications technologies to come together to raise awareness about and to help prevent domestic violence against women and children. Teams from both the United States and abroad are encouraged to register.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
National Council for the Social Studies
Social Studies Inquiry Grant Request for Proposals:
http://www.socialstudies.org/fasse
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 1, 2012
Weekly Funding Opportunities - March 26, 2012
Arts and Humanities
British Council and the Social Science Research Council
Our Shared Past:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/our-shared-past/
Our Shared Past grants will promote the development of international scholarly communities committed to analyzing history curriculum and reframing the teaching of world history through the identification of new scholarship and the development of new curricular content that illustrate shared cultural, economic, military, religious, social, and scientific networks and practices as well as shared global norms and values that inform world history and society. The project will encourage both the synthesis of existing scholarship on these topics and the exploration of concrete ways that this reframing can be successfully introduced into teaching curriculum in European, Middle Eastern, North African, or North American contexts.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
Science and Social Science
National Institute of Health
Academic Research Enhancement Award:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-006.html
The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions, otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH research programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, to expose students to meritorious research projects, and to strengthen the research environment of the applicant institution.
Deadline: Open through January, 2015
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
International Collaborative Research Grants:
http://www.wennergren.org/programs/international-collaborative-research-grants
The International Collaborative Research Grant (ICRG) supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, and/or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funded projects (co-applicants, students, as well as other professional colleagues). By encouraging international collaborations, the grant contributes to the development of an international anthropology that values and incorporates different national perspectives and resources. By providing training funds, the grant helps to build capacity in countries were anthropology may be under-resourced.
Deadline: June 1, 2012 and December 1, 2012
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Grants:
http://www.rbf.org/content/program-guidelines
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund's (RBF) grantmaking is organized around three themes: Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development, and three pivotal places: New York City, Southern China, and the Western Balkans.
Deadline: Rolling
U.S. Department of Justice
Research on Domestic Radicalization:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001009.pdf
The National Institute of Justice seeks proposals for funding research to support Federal, State, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies in meeting the challenges posed by domestic radicalization to violence. Proposals should develop and analyze information and data that have clear implications for criminal justice in the following focus areas: (1) Empirical Evaluation of Theories of Domestic Radicalization; (2) Examination of Radicalization Processes for Individuals; (3) Comparative Analysis of Violent Extremists, Organized Criminals, Gangs, Hate Groups and/or Cults; and (4) Influence of Community and Other Policing Strategies on Domestic Radicalization to Violence.
Deadline: May 29, 2012
Funding Opportunities, April 6, 2012
Arts and Humanities
National Archives
Publishing Historical Records:
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/publishing.html
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials.
Deadline: June 7, 2012
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Humanities Performing Arts Program:
http://www.delmas.org/guidelines/a.html
The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.
Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
Deadline: Rolling
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
The Research Library Program:
http://www.delmas.org/programs/research_lib_d.html
The Research Library Program concentrates primarily in those areas of its founders’ interests and aims to be fully complementary to the Foundation’s other program areas (i.e., humanities scholarship, performing arts, and Venetian history and culture).
The overall objective of the Research Library Program is to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public.
Deadline: Rolling
Northern Illinois University
Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture:
http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/fellowships.cfm
The University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, invite applications for the Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture. Funding is available to scholars who will be using materials from the Libraries’ major holdings in American popular culture. These holdings include the Albert Johannsen and Edward T. LeBlanc Collections of more than 50,000 dime novels, and the nation’s preeminent collections related to Horatio Alger, Jr., and Edward Stratemeyer. Many other authors are represented. Topics which could draw on the collections’ strengths might include the plight of urban children, image of the American West in popular literature, widespread use of pseudonyms, and stereotypical portrayals. Preference will be given to applicants who signify an interest in conducting research related to Horatio Alger, Jr. The Fellowship award consists of a $1500 stipend.
The overall objective of the Research Library Program is to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
Science and Social Science
U.S. Department of Justice
Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001008.pdf
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects to address the knowledge gaps related to trafficking in persons in the United States. NIJ is particularly interested in studies that address the under-reporting of trafficking cases at the Federal, State, and local levels of criminal justice. NIJ is also interested in evaluation studies of counter-trafficking programs and tools.
Deadline: May 29, 2012
U.S. Department of Justice
Violent Victimization Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001013.pdf
This solicitation seeks to fund proposals for research on the violent victimization experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. The National Institute of Justice seeks to advance the body of research on this topic by examining the causes and correlates of differential victimization rates among these diverse populations, including demographic and socioeconomic risk factors. The research should take into account the argument that there is no single cause of violent victimization. Rather, it should consider multiple risk factors that contribute to racial/ethnic minorities’ victimization, including individual, situational, family, school, peer, and community factors.
Deadline: May 29, 2012
National Institute of Health
Toward an Improved Understanding of HDL Function:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-143.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages grant applications that propose to develop, validate, and standardize assays to measure HDL function and biomarkers for HDL function and to identify new pathways and potential HDL targets in the relationship to HDL function. Innovative methods to determine HDL functional properties such as in vivo reverse cholesterol transport (RCT), anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antithrombotic activities, and biomarkers for HDL function are encouraged. Projects that will explore HDL novel functional pathways and therapeutics related to HDL function are also encouraged.
Deadline: September 7, 2012
National Science Foundation
Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=504767&ods_key=nsf12499
The Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) solicitation aims to advance the core scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing, visualizing, and extracting useful information from large, diverse, distributed and heterogeneous data sets so as to: accelerate the progress of scientific discovery and innovation; lead to new fields of inquiry that would not otherwise be possible; encourage the development of new data analytic tools and algorithms; facilitate scalable, accessible, and sustainable data infrastructure; increase understanding of human and social processes and interactions; and promote economic growth and improved health and quality of life. The new knowledge, tools, practices, and infrastructures produced will enable breakthrough discoveries and innovation in science, engineering, medicine, commerce, education, and national security -- laying the foundations for US competitiveness for many decades to come.
Deadline: June 13, 2012 (Mid-scale Projects); July 11, 2012 (Small Projects)
Social Science Research Council
New World History Curriculum Grant Program:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/our-shared-past/
Our Shared Past is designed to promote the development of international scholarly communities that are committed to analyzing history curriculum and reframing the teaching of world history through the identification of new scholarship and the development of new curricular content that illustrate shared cultural, economic, military, religious, social, and scientific networks and practices as well as shared global norms and values that inform world history and society. The project will encourage both the synthesis of existing scholarship on these topics and the exploration of concrete ways that this reframing can be successfully introduced into teaching curriculum in European, Middle Eastern, North African, and North American contexts.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
Weekly Funding Opportunities - April 13, 2012
Arts and Humanities
The American Jewish Historical Society
Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship:
http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/Awards.cfm
The Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship supports one or more researcher(s) wishing to use the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society. Preference is given to researchers interested in 17th and 18th century American Jewish history. At the discretion of the awards committee, the fellowship funds may also be applied to subsidizing publication of a first book in the field of American Jewish history, again with preference given to works in early American Jewish history. The available amount for the award(s) is $6,000 annually.
Deadline: May 27, 2012
General
National Institutes of Health
Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants (R01):
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-153.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages applications using community-engaged research methods to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to the community and to implement an environmental public health action plan based on research findings. The overall goal is to support changes to prevent or reduce exposure to harmful environmental exposures and improve the health of a community.
Deadline: June 5, 2012
Funding Opportunities - April 23, 2012
Arts and Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
Bridging Cultures Through Film
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=161913
The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship. The Division of Public Programs encourages the exploration of innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple points of view in creative formats. The proposed film should range in length from a standard broadcast length of thirty minutes to a feature-length documentary.
Deadline: June 27, 2012
Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=161914
The Preservation and Access Education and Training program is central to NEH’s efforts to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage collections. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections, electronic records, and digital objects. The challenge of preserving and making accessible such large and diverse holdings is enormous and the need for knowledgeable staff is significant and ongoing. Preservation and Access Education and Training grants support national or regional (multistate) education and training programs. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Deadline: June 28, 2012
National Women's Studies Association
NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize:
http://082511c.membershipsoftware.org/content.asp?pl=16&sl=35&contentid=35
The National Women's Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women's and gender studies. Applicants must be National Women's Studies Association members. If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with the University of Illinois Press. Runners up may also be considered for publication with the University of Illinois Press. Submitted dissertations must have been completed and defended after June 1, 2008.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Film Festival Grant Program:
http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/filmfestival/index.html
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Festival Grant program is accepting applications for festivals in the United States occurring during the 2013 calendar year. Grant requests must target one or more concrete elements within the festival. Grants are not awarded to proposals that seek support for programming centered on the screening of an individual new film; competitions or awards programs; the screening of works produced specifically for television or any other event or program that primarily involves work produced for television; parties, hospitality suites, luncheons, tribute dinners, or any other similar event within a festival; the development, production, or completion of motion pictures; programs that take place outside the film festival; capital expenses; or general festival overhead.
Deadline: June 27, 2012
Fromm Music Foundation
Commission Program:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&
The Fromm Music Foundation aims to strengthen composition, the vital source of musical culture, and to bring contemporary concert music closer to the public. Specifically, it seeks to influence the contemporary musical scene by: Commissioning young and less known composers as well as established composers; Sponsoring the annual Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard Concert Series; Co-sponsoring, together with new music ensembles, premiere performances of Fromm Foundation commissioned works.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
General
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Research on Statistical and Research Methodology in Education:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=149633
The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) announces the Institute’s FY 2013 competitions for grants to support education research and special education research. The Director takes this action under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. The Institute’s purpose in awarding these grants is to provide national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for disability, and of education outcomes for all students from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education.
Deadline: June 21, 2012
Science and Social Science
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA Robotics Challenge:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=162973
The primary goal of the DARPA Robotics Challenge program is to develop ground robotic capabilities to execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments. The program will focus on robots that can utilize available human tools, ranging from hand tools to vehicles. The program aims to advance the key robotic technologies of supervised autonomy, mounted mobility, dismounted mobility, dexterity, strength, and platform endurance. Supervised autonomy will be developed to allow robot control by non-expert operators, to lower operator workload, and to allow effective operation despite low fidelity (low bandwidth, high latency, intermittent) communications.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Childhood Obesity Prevention:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=162713
This Challenge Area Focuses on the societal challenge to end obesity among children, the number one nutrition-related problem in the US. Food is an integral part of the process that leads to obesity and USDA has a unique responsibility for the food system in the United States. This program is designed to achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents 2-19 years. The Childhood Obesity Program supports Multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants.
Deadline: June 5, 2012
National Institutes of Health
Educational Programs for Demography and Population Science, Family Planning and Contraception, and Reproductive Research (R25)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-292.html
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the NICHD, National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Education Project (R25) grant applications for educational activities related to Demography and Population Science, Family Planning and Contraception, and Reproductive Research. NICHD encourages applications for educational programs for interdisciplinary training; methodological training; and training in the use and dissemination and use of existing datasets.
The purpose of this FOA is to support educational programs that focus on interdisciplinary approaches; methodology; and the dissemination and use of existing datasets in order to advance research in Demography and Population Science, Family Planning and Contraception, and Reproductive Research.
Deadline: May 25, 2012
Short Courses on Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Tools for Studying Biological Systems:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-351.html
This FOA encourages applications for Research Education Grants (R25) from institutions and organizations to conduct workshops and short courses to improve integration of mathematical, statistical, and computational approaches into biological and/or behavioral research. Support will be limited to activities that reach a wide audience of researchers. The FOA is not intended for university courses or curriculum development.
Deadline: May 25, 2012
Weekly Funding Opportunities - April 27, 2012
Arts and Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=163473
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
Deadline: July 19, 2012
The Spencer Foundation
Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy and Practice:
http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/philosophy-in-educational-policy--practice-rfp
As part of a new institutional initiative, the Spencer Foundation will make several awards of up to $40,000 for research projects in Philosophy as it relates to educational policy and practice. They encourage applicants to understand educational policy and practice in broad terms, including issues that directly relate to K-12 schools and higher education institutions, but also concerning policies that influence children’s growth and development in the family and in other areas of social life including children’s upbringing, educational issues in family life and in the workplace, the educational effects of welfare policy. They also encourage diverse kinds of philosophical research ranging from the highly abstract to the highly applied.
Deadline: Rolling
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Grant Program:
http://www.nathancummings.org/grant-programs
The Foundation's core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
Several basic themes run through all of these programs and inform the Foundation's approach to grantmaking:
· concern for the poor, disadvantaged, and underserved;
· respect for diversity;
· promotion of understanding across cultures; and
· empowerment of communities in need.
Deadline: Rolling
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums Grants:
http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=20
Grants for Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums will support planning and design activities for spaces that foster experimentation and creativity for middle- and high-school youth in library- and museum-based, out-of-school-time settings. The labs should be grounded in evidence-based research on youth, and should be designed to support youth learning in such 21st century skills as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). These grants will enable grantees to develop comprehensive plans for programs, space, staffing, and budgeting for their Learning Labs.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Science and Social Science
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Applications Invited for Native Plant Conservation Initiative
http://www.nfwf.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Charter_Programs_List&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=24817
The NPCI program funds multi-stakeholder projects that focus on the conservation of native plants and pollinators under any of the following six focal areas: conservation, education, restoration, research, sustainability, and data linkages. There is a strong preference for "on-the-ground" projects that provide plant conservation benefits according to the priorities established by one or more of the funding federal agencies and according to the PCA strategies for plant conservation.
Deadline: May 25th, 2012 (Pre-Proposal)
U.S. Department of State
Building Opportunity Out of Science and Technology
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=14130
The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES), Office of Science and Technology Cooperation at the Department of State announces the Request for Applications (RFA) for the Building Opportunity Out of Science and Technology (BOOST) program. This program aims to advance the Bureau's mission to increase the role that science, technology, and innovation play in societies across the world by building capacity for young scientists to perform innovative research, to connect with the international scientific community, and to apply their technical training in addressing key global challenges and in advancing economic growth. With FY 2011 funding, OES will fund three awards for projects that train young scientists to build science and technology capacity to advance research outcomes, to create market-ready technologies, and/or to inform policymaking through scientific research. Proposed projects should deliver professional development activities for early career scientists (18 to 30 years old). Activities may be implemented in conjunction with technical training but must focus on strengthening soft skills, such as presentation style and partnership building.
Deadline: May 24, 2012
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Childhood Obesity Prevention
http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/12_afri_child_obes_prevent.pdf
This Challenge Area Focuses on the societal challenge to end obesity among children, the number one nutrition related problem in the US. Food is an integral part of the process that leads to obesity and USDA has a unique responsibility for the food system in the United States. This program is designed to achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents 2-19 years. The Childhood Obesity Program supports Multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants. The purpose of Agriculture and Food Research Initiative is to support research, education, and extension work by awarding grants that address key problems of national, regional, and multi-state importance in sustaining all components of agriculture, including farm efficiency and profitability, ranching, renewable energy, forestry (both urban and agroforestry), aquaculture, rural communities and entrepreneurship, human nutrition, food safety, biotechnology, and conventional breeding.
Deadline: June 5, 2012
Funding Opportunities - Week of May 4, 2012
Arts and Humanities
Creative Capital
Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Open for Submissions:
http://artswriters.org/home.html
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program provides grants directly to individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art. The grant program is spearheaded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and is administered by Creative Capital. The grant program was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. The program, which issues awards for articles, blogs, books, new and alternative media, and short-form writing, aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art, from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship.
Deadline: June 6, 2012
University of North Carolina at Asheville - Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Craft Research Fund:
http://www.craftcreativitydesign.org/research/grants.php
The mission of the fund is to advance, expand and support research about craft in the United States. The goals of the fund are to support innovative research on critical issues in craft theory and history; to explore the inter-relationship among craft, art, design and contemporary culture; to foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in the United States; and to advance investigation of neglected questions on craft history and criticism in the United States.
Deadline: July 1, 2012
Copland (Aaron) Fund for Music
Performing Ensembles Program
https://grants.coplandfund.org/performing-ensembles-program
This grant supports performing organizations whose artistic excellence encourages and improves public knowledge and appreciation of serious contemporary American music.
Funds are available for General Operating Support or Project Support for professional performing ensembles with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American music and with plans to continue that commitment.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
* Non-profit tax-exempt status.
* Performance history of at least two years at the time of application.
* Demonstrated commitment to contemporary American music.
Deadline: July 2, 2012
General
William T. Grant Foundation
Scholars Program:
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/fellowships/william_t__grant_scholars
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise.
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. Every year, four to six William T. Grant Scholars are selected and each receives $350,000 distributed over a five-year period.
Deadline: July 3, 2012
U.S. Department of State
Ngwang Choephel Fellows Program:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=164453
The Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs invites proposal submissions for the Ngwang Choephel Fellows Program. The Ngwang Choephel Program promotes activities that preserve cultural traditions, enhance sustainable development, expand economic opportunities, and support environmental conservation within Tibetan communities in China.
Deadline: May 25, 2012
National Level Curriculum Development and Educational Policy Support for English Teaching in Afghanistan Higher Education:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=162473&mode=VIEW
This is an open competition for assistance awards through this Request for Proposals (RFP) for a cooperative agreement to manage a national level curriculum development and educational policy support project for the Ministry of Higher Education in Afghanistan from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2014. English Departments exist in as many as fourteen public universities in Afghanistan, the oldest of which is Kabul University, the flagship national institution of higher learning, but no national, ministry-level coordination of English language curriculum development or educational policy exists. A successful proposal will include a project solution that provides technical support to the Ministry of Higher Education to implement an English language unit within the Ministry to design national standards for English teaching in higher education including but not limited to in-service training for Ministry officials, establishing benchmarks of English proficiency to measure progress, establishing a coordinating body in English teaching for students and staff and establishing policies and procedures for the publicizing of, recruitment and selection of candidates for international donor-provided scholarships for graduate and undergraduate study. It will also include curriculum support for the drafting of Student Objectives and Performance Indicators for Integrated English Language Skills classes for all four years of university study (1-4) that will facilitate students meeting the proficiency expected of each level. It will also provide for the alignment of the English Language Skills required upon completion of each level with the English Language Proficiency expected for each level of certification.
Deadline: June 6, 2012
Science and Social Science
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
Globalization and Environmental Change:
http://www.sesync.org/new-globalization-and-environmental-change
SESYNC seeks proposals for activities that will illuminate linkages between globalization and natural resources and environmental change at any scale. Globalization here refers to increased economic and social interaction among peoples via trade, migration and employment, or via new forms of communication. A SESYNC Pursuit is designed to facilitate face-to-face engagement of researchers at the center in Annapolis. Synthesis originating from these interactions should address the goals of this particular pursuit: Globalization and Environmental Change.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
Informing Sustainability and Adaptation Decisions through Assessment and Modeling of Ecosystem Services:
http://www.sesync.org/new-informing-sustainability-and-adaptation-decisions-through-assessment-and-modeling-ecosystem
SESYNC seeks proposals for activities related to data, modeling and methods that will improve our capacity to observe ecosystem services. This includes measures of social processes and outcomes, and biophysical outcomes. A SESYNC Pursuit is designed to facilitate face-to-face engagement of researchers at the center in Annapolis. Synthesis originating from these interactions should address the goals of this particular pursuit: Informing Sustainability and Adaptation Decisions through Assessment and Modeling of Ecosystem Services.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities: Planning Phase (R24):
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-12-006.html
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites applications for this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to plan the development of effective interventions using community based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. Support will be provided to develop and strengthen partnerships between researchers and health disparity communities to plan and pilot interventions for a disease or condition to reduce health disparities.
Deadline: June 27, 2012
U.S. Agency for International Development
Democracy Grant and Fellowships Program:
http://www.usaid.gov/careers/fellows/fp_wldem.html
The purpose of this project is to provide technical assistance to USAID’s Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance to help develop a pool of committed democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance professionals at the junior, mid- and senior-levels; to strengthen relations between USAID and academic, think-tank and research organizations; and to promote research and innovative solutions to democracy, human rights and governance programs.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Embassy Kabul Women’s Economic Participation Research Project:
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=166173
This grant will fund one comprehensive study of Afghan women's economic activity throughout the country. The purpose of the study is to create as complete as possible a picture of the totality of Afghan women's work, in the form of: 1. a map identifying key areas of women’s participation throughout the country, 2. a detailed report, and 3. a directory of businesses either owned by Afghan women or employing large numbers of them. Proposals should clearly demonstrate that the grantee has the organizational capacity to conduct research throughout the country and include a description of the proposed methodology. A combination of original research and analysis of existing studies and statistics is desired. Samples of the organization's previous work, particularly in economics or market research, are highly encouraged, in addition to resumes/CVs of key research and administrative personnel.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
National Science Foundation
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12555/nsf12555.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills. The program is intended to establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate diversity in student participation and preparation, and to contribute to a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and engineering workforce.
Deadline: June 4, 2012 (Letter of Intent); August 6, 2012 (Full Proposal)
U.S. Department of the Interior
Wildlife Without Borders Latin America and the Caribbean:
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=137854
The Wildlife Without Borders-Latin America and the Caribbean Program (WWB LAC) funds projects designed to strengthen the ability of Latin American and Caribbean institutions to manage and conserve species, habitats, and ecological processes for the benefit of the people of the Americas and the world.Of particular interest are projects that build the human and institutional capacity to effectively conserve and manage biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean through a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach with a primary emphasis on the social context.In November 2009, the WWB-LAC Program held a workshop in Nicaragua to lay the foundation for a new initiative to develop a model program to train highly effective future conservation professionals through an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to resource management and conservation adapted to the complexities of modern society and the interconnectedness of the landscapes upon which society depends.
Deadline: May 21, 2012
Save America's Treasures
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/index.htm
Save America’s Treasures grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and collections and on nationally significant historic properties. Grants are awarded by a competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash, donated services, or use of equipment. The grant and the non-Federal match must be expended during the grant period, generally 2 to 3 years, to execute the project.
Deadline: May 21, 2012
Funding Opportunities - May 11, 2012
Arts and Humanities
Library of Congress
Kluge Center Fellowships for Residential Research in Humanities and Social Sciences:
http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge.html
The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library of Congress collections and resources for a period of up to eleven months. Established in 2000 through an endowment of $60 million from John W. Kluge, the Center is located in the splendid Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The Kluge Center furnishes attractive work and discussion space for Kluge Chair holders, for distinguished visiting scholars, and for post-doctoral Fellows supported by other private foundation gifts. Residents have easy access to the Library's specialized staff and to the intellectual community of Washington.
Deadline: July 15, 2012
Foundation for Jewish Culture
Fund for Jewish Documentary Film Grants:
http://www.ams-net.org/grants/levy.php
Since 1996, the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film has supported the completion of over 80 original documentaries that explore the Jewish experience in all its complexity. The fund was created with a lead grant from Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation and sustained over 10 years with major support from the Charles H. Revson Foundation. The priority of the fund is to support projects that address significant subjects; offer fresh, challenging perspectives; engage diverse audiences; and expand the understanding of Jewish experiences.
Deadline: July 16, 2012
U.S. Department of State
Empower Programs:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=167573
The Professional Fellows Division in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs‘ Office of Citizen Exchanges invites proposal submissions for one of three separate ¯Empower programs: the Empower Community Program, the Empower Access Program, and the Empower Partnership Program. The three ¯Empower Programs described in this RFGP support professional exchanges between the people of the United States and their counterparts in other countries who work to provide services and support to persons with disabilities and the communities in which they live. Utilizing fellowship models and institutional linkages, the Empower Programs will provide professional development opportunities for individuals and organizations aimed at strengthening institutional knowledge and organizational capacity, enhancing outreach capabilities, and increasing the resource base of the communities in which participants live and serve.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
U.S. Department of State
US –Tunisian University collaboration in the field of Journalism:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=167373
The United States Embassy/Tunis is planning to support the implementation of a one-year long master’s degree program on Investigative Journalism at the Tunis Journalism and Press Sciences Institute (IPSI). This program will focus on teaching the basic skills of investigative journalism to both entry-level journalists and mid-career professionals, with an emphasis on information sourcing, investigative techniques, and law. The program must include designing a curriculum, developing materials, virtual exchanges, faculty training and mentoring. The program should lead to the creation of a Center for Investigative Reporting in Tunisia.
Deadline: May 25, 2012
The Elsevier Foundation
New Scholars:
http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/new-scholars/how-to-apply/
The New Scholars Program supports projects to help early- to mid-career women scientists balance family responsibilities with demanding academic careers. New Scholars seeks to actively address the attrition rate of talented women scientists caused by work-life balance issues. The Foundation provides one, two and three year grants to STEM institutions and organizations actively working towards a more equitable academia by:
* Encouraging networking and collaborations among institutions and/or across STEM disciplines in ways that support the challenges of faculty and staff with family responsibilities.
* Developing and implement strategies for advocacy and policy development to advance knowledge, awareness, and application of programs to retain, recruit and develop women in science.
* Enabling scientists to attend conferences, meetings, workshops and symposia that are critical to the development of a career in science by helping them with childcare and other family responsibilities when attending scientific gatherings.
Deadline: June 24, 2012
General
Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services
Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust:
http://www.apa.org/about/awards/beckman.aspx
The Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Advisory Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 2012 Beckman award. The award is given to professors who inspired their former students to achieve greatness. Each recipient will receive a one-time cash award of $25,000.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Research Grants on Understanding Violence, Aggression, and Dominance:
http://www.hfg.org/index.html
The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.
Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Research with no relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
Deadline: August 1, 2012
Higher Education for Development
Paraguay: Women's Leadership Program:
http://www.hedprogram.org/funding/rfa/WLP-Paraguay2012.cfm
Higher Education for Development (HED) xpects to make one (1) award of up to $812,000 USD for three (3) years for a higher education partnership between one or more higher education institution(s) in the United States and the National University of Asuncion in Paraguay. The partnership will center on strengthening institutional capacity to advance women’s leadership and prepare graduates in the agricultural sector who can contribute to promoting gender equality in Paraguay’s workforce.
Deadline: June 5, 2012
Science and Social Science
National Science Foundation
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12555/nsf12555.htm
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills. The program is intended to establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate diversity in student participation and preparation, and to contribute to a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and engineering workforce.
Deadline: June 4, 2012
US Agency for International Development
Support to Political Processes (SPP) in Djibouti:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=166653
USAID/Djibouti intends to implement the new Support to Political Processes (SPP) Program to provide support for the 2013 Parliamentary elections and conduct a democracy and governance (DG) assessment in Djibouti through the following objectives:
• Increase the skills, knowledge, efficiency, and transparency of those that oversee and manage the election process;
• Enhance civic education to ensure that the citizenry is more informed and active in elections;
• Conduct a comprehensive democracy and governance assessment in Djibouti before the end of the SPP project.
Deadline: May 25, 2012
U.S. Department of State
Nexus Dialogue on Water Infrastructure:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=167093
The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs (OES) at the U.S. Department of State (DOS) requests applications from non-profits, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, and public international organizations for grants to support the management of a workshop series on multi-purpose infrastructure. DOS is interested in efforts to catalyze a global dialogue on multi-purpose infrastructure and surrounding natural infrastructure at the nexus of water, food and energy, for the purpose of supporting developing countries. DOS is seeking to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with one, or a consortium of several non-profits, non-governmental organizations, or international organizations to establish and implement the Nexus Dialogue on Dams and Water Infrastructure Optimization.
Deadline: June 4, 2012
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
2012 DHS S&T LRBAA: Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS) Research and Development:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=160453
This notice highlights the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate efforts of the Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS) Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Program as referenced in the Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (LRBAA). The DHS S&T is looking for research in the below areas. o Public Response: Research to better understand how the public will respond to alert and warning messages on mobile devices o Diverse Populations: Research to better understand how to ensure the same timely and effective access to alerts and warnings for diverse populations including persons with functional and access needs, transients/tourists, elderly/older, isolated/rural populations, institutional populations and non-English speaking peopleo Geo-Targeting: Research to better determine when more granular geo-targeting is appropriate and how broadly targeting should be extended from the point of incident as well as Identification, testing, and evaluation of technologies that provide the capability of more granular geo-targeting
Deadline: May 24, 2012
U.S. Department of Education
Model Demonstration Projects on Reentry of Students with Disabilities from Juvenile Justice Facilities into Education, Employment, and Community Programs:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-03/pdf/2012-10692.pdf
The purpose of this priority is to support the establishment and operation of three model demonstration projects that will develop, adapt, refine, and evaluate models for facilitating the successful reentry of youth with disabilities from juvenile justice facilities into education, employment, and community programs.
Deadline: June 18, 2012
Funding Opportunities - May 18, 2012
Arts and Humanities
American Musicological Society
Janet Levy Fund for Independent Scholars:
http://www.ams-net.org/grants/levy.php
The Janet Levy Fund supports professional travel and research expenses for independent scholars who are members of the American Musicological Society. The award is open to those who hold the Ph.D. or demonstrate equivalency in scholarly record and are not employed as a full-time faculty member in an institution of higher learning. Recent Ph.D.'s actively seeking employment, present recipients of full-time fellowships, and retirees are not eligible for this grant. No individual may receive a Levy Award more than once in a three-year period.
Deadline: July 25, 2012
American Journalism Historians Association
AJHA National Award for Excellence in Teaching:
http://ajhaonline.org/awards.html
The annual AJHA National Award for Excellence in Teaching honors a college or university teacher who excels at teaching in the areas of journalism and mass communication history, makes a positive impact on student learning, and serves as an outstanding example for other educators.
Deadline: July 25, 2012
Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services
Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust:
http://www.apa.org/about/awards/beckman.aspx
The Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Advisory Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 2012 Beckman award. The award is given to professors who inspired their former students to achieve greatness. Each recipient will receive a one-time cash award of $25,000.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
General
Mazda Foundation
http://www.mazdafoundation.org/grantguidelines.html
The Mazda Foundation awards grants to programs promoting:
* Education and literacy
* Environmental conservation
* Cross-cultural understanding
* Social welfare
* Scientific research
Deadline: July 1, 2012
Higher Education for Development
Armenia: Women's Leadership Program:
http://www.hedprogram.org/funding/rfa/WLP-Armenia2012.cfm
Higher Education for Development (HED) expects to make one (1) award of up to $1,305,000 for three (3) years for a higher education partnership between one or more higher education institution(s) in the United States and Yerevan State University in Yerevan, Armenia. The purpose of the partnership will be to support national and local development goals that promote gender equality and female empowerment.
Deadline: June 25, 2012
Higher Education for Development
South America: The Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon II (ICAA II) Higher Education Partnership Program:
http://www.hedprogram.org/funding/rfa/ICAAII-HEPP2012.cfm
Higher Education for Development (HED)expects to make four (4) awards (one award per host country) of up to $750,000 each for three (3) years for higher education partnerships between U.S. higher education institutions and higher education institutions in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The purpose of the partnerships will be to support national and local development goals that promote the conservation of biodiversity and maintenance of the Andean Amazon Biome.
Deadline: June 28, 2012
Higher Education for Development
Rwanda: Women's Leadership Program in Education:
http://www.hedprogram.org/funding/rfa/WLP-RwandaEd2012.cfm
Higher Education for Development (HED) xpects to make one (1) award of up to $1,080,000 for the period from October 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015 for a higher education partnership between one or more higher education institution(s) in the United States and the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) in Kigali, Rwanda. The partnership’s goal is to support the Government of Rwanda and USAID/Rwanda’s education development goals that promote gender equality and female empowerment.
Deadline: July 9, 2012
National Institute of Mental Health
Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster (R21):
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-181.html
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide an expedited funding mechanism for research in the aftermath of disasters and mass casualty events. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact NIMH Program Staff before submitting a RAPID application to determine whether or not the proposed work meets the guidelines of this program, whether requested RAPID funding is likely to be available, and whether the idea should be considered for initial submission as a fully developed, non-expedited application via a regular/parent FOA. RAPID grants descried in this FOA may be used to facilitate initial research for investigators who intend to follow up with a full research application, using the preliminary time sensitive data from a RAPID grant as the basis for their subsequent application.
Deadline: Applications should be submitted within approximately six weeks of the identified disaster event.
Science and Social Science
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21392&cid=XEM_A5937
The Robert Wood John Foundation has released a Call for Proposals for the Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization program. Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) supports research, policy analysis and evaluation projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy, financing and organization issues. Supported projects include:
* examining significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and
* exploring or testing major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.
Deadline: Rolling
National Science Foundation
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12555/nsf12555.htm
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills. The program is intended to establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate diversity in student participation and preparation, and to contribute to a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and engineering workforce.
Deadline: June 4, 2012
National Science Foundation
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12554/nsf12554.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click#elig
The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program will support three types of projects described in this solicitation: 1) AGEP-Transformation; 2) AGEP-Knowledge Adoption and Translation; and 3) AGEP-Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education. AGEP is interested in proposals that include any or all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields supported by the NSF, including the social, behavioral and economic sciences, and multi-, cross-, or inter- disciplinary fields. A pilot project with the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) is included in this solicitation, but AGEP is not limited to or focused only on the mathematical and physical sciences.
Deadline: September 28, 2012 (AGEP-Transformation); October 30, 2012 (AGEP-KAT and AGEP-BPR)
U.S. Department of State
Advancing Careers of Women in Science:
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=14361
The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) Office of Science and Technology Cooperation at the Department of State announces the Request for Applications (RFA) for Advancing Careers of Women in Science. With FY 2012 funding, OES is seeking to fund one grant that delivers professional development activities for a mostly female participant group to advance women who are early career scientists. Activities may be implemented in conjunction with technical training, but must focus on strengthening "soft" skills, such as oral presentations, leadership, and networking. Proposals should emphasize institution-level capacity building that enables local organizations to sustain the outlined training and focus on women's participation in the fields of science, technology, and innovation. Applications should focus on participants in at least one of the following countries: Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Tunisia, Turkey or Vietnam.
Deadline: June 25, 2012
U.S. Department of State
Community and Economic Development to Combat Crime:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=168734
US Embassy Belmopan invites organizations to submit proposals outlining program concepts and capacity to advance the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) goal of strengthening citizen security. In addition to the US Embassy Belmopan, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prioritizes the focus on at-risk youth. The proposal will confront the root causes of violence and crime in a creative and effective way and seek to create positive cultural and social conditions, which are the foundations of a peaceful and orderly society. Root causes in Belize include, but are not limited to, the lack of economic development, the lack of skills and/or tradecraft, the lack of conflict resolution skills, and/or the lack of opportunity for youth.
Deadline: June 3, 2012
U.S. Department of Education
Model Demonstration Projects on Reentry of Students with Disabilities from Juvenile Justice Facilities into Education, Employment, and Community Programs:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-03/pdf/2012-10692.pdf
The purpose of this priority is to support the establishment and operation of three model demonstration projects that will develop, adapt, refine, and evaluate models for facilitating the successful reentry of youth with disabilities from juvenile justice facilities into education, employment, and community programs.
Deadline: June 18, 2012
