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FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES
Department of AgricultureAgriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/agriculturalandfoodresearchinitiativeafri.cfm
Due September 30, 2009
AFRI is a new competitive grant program to provide funding for fundamental and applied research, extension, and education to address food and agricultural sciences. While AFRI covers an equally broad scope of topics and will support many of the grant types offered by the former National Research Initiative (NRI), the new authority allows greater flexibility in the types of projects funded to include: single function projects in research, education and extension, and integrated research, education and/or extension awards. AFRI is the new core competitive grant program for research, education, and extension.
Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09566/nsf09566.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
LOI Due August 5, 2009; Full Proposal Due September 9, 2009
The objective of the BREAD Program is to support innovative scientific research designed to address key constraints to smallholder agriculture in the developing world. A significant distinction between BREAD and other NSF programs is that proposals to BREAD must make a clear and well-defined connection between the outcomes of the proposed research and its direct relevance and potential application to agriculture in the developing world. The BREAD Program will take the activities of the PGRP to the next level by supporting a broader range of scientific research and by enabling funding to be allocated to international collaborators through subawards.
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/nanoscalescienceandengineeringafri.cfm
September 30, 2010
Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems will not be offered in FY 2009. This program will be offered in alternate years and will be accepting applications for the first time in FY 2010. The goal of this program is to provide knowledge, expertise, and highly qualified research and development in nanotechnology for food and agricultural systems.
Agriculture Risk Management Education Competitive Grants Program
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/ag_risk_mgt.html
Deadline August 10, 2009
CSREES announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the Agriculture Risk Management Education Competitive Grants Program (RME) for fiscal year (FY) 2009 to provide resources for regional risk management education centers for the purpose of developing and delivering agricultural risk management education materials to agricultural producers and their families in the United States and its territories that will assist them to better manage risk. This program will also provide a grant to an electronic support center to provide associated support to the regional centers. The amount available for support of this program in FY 2009 is approximately $4,800,000.
Department of Commerce
See solicitations for NOAA and NIST below.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released an omnibus solicitation announcing the availability of fiscal year 2009 grant funds. The solicitation is available at:
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-15720.htm
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Department of Defense
DARPA Computer Science Study Group
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48147
Deadline June 25, 2010
DARPA seeks junior faculty with research interest in computer science, to serve as Principal Investigators to explore novel ideas that lead to fundamental technological advances that benefit the US Department of Defense. The opportunity is for Phase I of the Computer Science Study Group (CSSG), which is a multi-phase developmental and research program.
DARPA Coal to Liquids (CTL)
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b1c905a0d505832b897799652558c5f1&tab=core&_cview=1
Response date deadline Jan 08, 2010 4:00 pm Eastern
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of coal utilization as an energy resource. In particular DARPA is interested in processes that will ultimately enable the United States to economically extract energy from its coal resources in the form of liquid fuels using coal to liquid conversion technologies that are environmentally friendly and cost competitive with petroleum based fuels.
DARPA Mathematical Challenges http://www.darpa.mil/baa/DARPA-BAA08-65.htmlPosted Sept. 26, 2008; Open to September 25, 2009
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of DARPA Mathematical Challenges, with the goal of dramatically revolutionizing mathematics and thereby strengthening DoD’s scientific and technological capabilities. To do so, the agency has identified twenty-three mathematical challenges, which were announced at DARPA Tech 2007. DARPA seeks innovative proposals addressing these Mathematical Challenges. Proposals should offer high potential for major mathematical breakthroughs associated to one or more of these challenges. Responses to multiple challenges should be addressed in separate proposals. Submissions that merely promise incremental improvements over the existing state of practice will be deemed unresponsive.
DARPA NEOVISION2
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=36a69675c012ce8c6ec4cccbdc36767b&tab=core&_cview=0
Response date deadline May 12, 2010
DARPA is soliciting research proposals to revolutionize the underlying technologies for unmanned sensor systems. This effort seeks to emulate the mammalian visual pathway by implementing advanced models and algorithmic emulations of the entire visual pathway - from retina to the visual cortex.
DARPA Centers In Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPHER)
http://www.darpa.mil/mto/solicitations/ra09-35/index.html
Deadline August 25, 2009
DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals for university research centers in the area of integrated photonics engineering. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.
DARPA Physical Intellegence
http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa09-63.htm
June 14, 2010
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of physical intelligence. The Physical Intelligence Broad Agency Announcement seeks proposals addressing the physical basis of intelligence through the development of theory, demonstrations, and analytic tools. The Physical Intelligence program aspires to address challenges in three areas: (1) theory, (2) implementation/demonstration, and (3) analysis. While each area demands different skills, the whole is intended to create a comprehensive approach to this very challenging problem. The following paragraphs outline the objectives in each of these areas.
Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/docs/09-001.pdf
Open until 30 September 2009
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science and Technology (S&T) Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR’s broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines. Prior to preparing proposals, potential offerors are strongly encouraged to contact the ONR point of contact (POC) whose program best matches the offeror’s field of interest. For information on POCs, refer to the ONR “Science and Technology Departments” as listed in the Science and Technology section of the ONR Home Page accessible through the World Wide Web at http://www.onr.navy.mil/ and for ONR’s International Agent located on the ONR Global Homepage at http://www.onrglobal.navy.mil/.
Low-Cost Lightweight Portable Photovoltaics (PoP)
http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa09-45.htm
Current Response Date: Apr 21, 2010 4:00 pm Eastern
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of photovoltaic power sources that excel in efficiency, portability, flexibility, durability, and ease of manufacture.
National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF)
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=47524
Closing date for proposals Oct 16, 2009
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks outstanding researchers for the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF) program for the purpose of conducting innovative basic research in areas of interest to the Department of Defense (DoD) and fostering long-term relationships between the NSSEFF Fellows and the DoD. As defined by the DoD, “basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind. It includes all scientific study and experimentation directed toward increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding in those fields of the physical, engineering, environmental, and life sciences related to long-term national security needs. It is farsighted high payoff research that provides the basis for technological progress.” (www.defenselink.mil/comptroller/fmr/02b/02b_05.pdf). The DoD’s basic research program invests broadly in many scientific fields to ensure that it has early cognizance of new scientific knowledge. Areas of research that have produced significant improvement in military capabilities include electronics, materials science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, mechanics, biological and life sciences, atmospheric and space sciences, cognitive and neural sciences, terrestrial sciences, and ocean sciences.
Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)http://www.wpafb.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080212-048.pdfOpen until superseded
AFOSR plans, coordinates, and executes the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) basic research program in response to technical guidance from AFRL and requirements of the Air Force; fosters, supports, and conducts research within Air Force, university, and industry laboratories; and ensures transition of research results to support USAF needs. The focus of AFOSR is on research areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to our national warfighting and peacekeeping capabilities. These areas are organized and managed in three scientific directorates: Aerospace, Chemical and Materials Sciences, Physics and Electronics, and Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences.
Department of Education
Special Focus Competition: Graduate Programs at Institutions of Higher Education Serving Hispanic Americans, CFDA 84.116V
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48013
Deadline August 3, 2009
The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) 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. The Special Invitational Priority seeks projects that propose innovative efforts to expand graduate level academic offerings at colleges that enroll a significant number of Hispanic American students.
Department of Energy
Early Career Research Program
http://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/4d9531493f2c51438525759800535a7d/7828cb6f4f50e9a7852575e70060c340?OpenDocument
Deadline September 1, 2009
The Office of Science of the Department of Energy hereby invites grant applications for support under the Early Career Research Program in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); Biological and Environmental Research (BER); Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); High Energy Physics (HEP), and Nuclear Physics (NP). The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by the DOE Office of Science.
Topical Collaborations in Nuclear Theory
http://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/4d9531493f2c51438525759800535a7d/1f029be2cb017864852575e4006a0878?OpenDocument
Deadline September 1, 2009
The Office of Nuclear Physics (NP), Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving proposals for Topical Collaborations in Nuclear Theory. Topical Collaborations are fixed-term, multi-institution collaborations established to investigate a specific topic in nuclear physics of special interest to the community, which is well aligned with programmatic NP goals. They also provide a mechanism for maintaining a robust community, by encouraging the creation of tenured university appointments and permanent laboratory positions in nuclear theory.
Biological Systems Research on the Role of Microbial Communities in Carbon Cycling
http://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/4d9531493f2c51438525759800535a7d/0b1cb154de869b8a852575e600519350?OpenDocument
Deadline November 9, 2009
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research that supports the Genomics: GTL research program (www.genomicsGTL.energy.gov). In this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), applications are solicited for: i.) Systems-level studies on regulatory and metabolic networks of microbes and microbial consortia involved in biogeochemical cycling of carbon, ii.) Development of metatranscriptomic, metaproteomic, and other genome-enabled approaches to understand how shifts in environmental variables impact microbially-mediated carbon cycling processes in terrestrial ecosystems, and iii.) Development of methods and techniques for imaging and analysis of microbially-mediated carbon cycling processes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5602&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Target Date: October 20, 2009
The Directorates for Engineering, Geosciences, and Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science/Office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy are continuing in FY2009 the joint Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering begun in FY1997. The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed.
Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
http://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/4d9531493f2c51438525759800535a7d/1822d414fb0c1064852574d50071644c?OpenDocument
Deadline September 30, 2009
The Office of Science of the Department of Energy hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program areas: Basic Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Advanced Scientific Computing, Fusion Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, and Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists.
Department of Homeland Security
International Research in Homeland Security Science & Technology Mission Areas
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=JHrdQWhTZZ2GRbH69WylMzhcjNYhNcMpbk10S1XwHNN7HdNMl21V!-1513911680?oppId=43220&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW
Deadline: September 29, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is soliciting applications for international research projects aligned with the mission and requirements of DHS S&T. These projects should be designed to augment and complement, through international research and collaboration, the depth and breadth of homeland security science and technology research.
Environmental Protection AgencyExploring Linkages Between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management
http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2009/2009_star_ephi.html
Deadline: August 5, 2009
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications to develop new or improved environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) to build linkages between environmental hazards, human exposures, and public health outcomes. The aim of the research is to develop indicators that can be used for long-term tracking and surveillance of environmental public health, making better informed decisions, and assessing the actual impacts of environmental risk management decisions. Proposed projects should capitalize on existing knowledge bases, data sources, or cohorts to develop EPHIs that reflect a better understanding of the relationships between environmental conditions, human exposure, and/or public health outcomes. Novel application of statistical methods or models may be needed to establish probable relationships between existing datasets or investigate the consequences of environmental actions and policy changes.
Exploring Linkages Between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management
http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2009/2009_star_ephi.html
Deadline August 5, 2009
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications to develop new or improved environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) to build linkages between environmental hazards, human exposures, and public health outcomes. The aim of the research is to develop indicators that can be used for long-term tracking and surveillance of environmental public health, making better informed decisions, and assessing the actual impacts of environmental risk management decisions. Proposed projects should capitalize on existing knowledge bases, data sources, or cohorts to develop EPHIs that reflect a better understanding of the relationships between environmental conditions, human exposure, and/or public health outcomes. Novel application of statistical methods or models may be needed to establish probable relationships between existing datasets or investigate the consequences of environmental actions and policy changes.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES-2009)
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/cmdocumentid=177033/Summary%20of%20Solicitation_Amend3.pdf
Proposals due no later than April 30, 2010
This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement (NRA), entitled Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2009, solicits basic and applied research in support of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This NRA covers all aspects of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data; aircraft, stratospheric balloon, and suborbital rocket investigations; development of experiment techniques suitable for future SMD space missions; development of concepts for future SMD space missions; development of advanced technologies relevant to SMD missions; development of techniques for and the laboratory analysis of both extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, as well as terrestrial samples that support or otherwise help verify observations from SMD Earth system science missions; determination of atomic and composition parameters needed to analyze space data, as well as returned samples from the Earth or space; Earth surface
observations and field campaigns that support SMD science missions; development of integrated Earth system models; development of systems for applying Earth science research data to societal needs; and development of applied information systems applicable to SMD objectives and data.
Design And Usage Of Massively Multiplayer Online Games And Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=47782
Deadline August 10, 2009
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Goddard Space Flight Center's Learning Technologies Project Office (LTPO) is releasing a Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) to conduct research and evaluation on the design and usage of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) and Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments (Virtual Worlds) for NASA Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Training. The LTPO MMOG Research and Evaluation CAN will consider proposals that communicate the required approach and skills to: •Contribute to NASA, other Federal Agencies, private industry and academia’s research initiatives to improve STEM content and delivery approaches that promote the development of our Nation’s future workforce, workforce applications and missions. Provide experiences and activities that are grounded in education research or utilize evidence-supported approaches, techniques, and tools; and stimulate linkages and connections to and from secondary education and higher education and informal education communities using NASA content within a gaming context
National Endowment for the Arts
The Arts on Radio and Television
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/RadioTV/index.html
Deadline: Sept. 3, 2009
Grants are available to support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts. Priority will be given to artistically excellent programs that have the potential to reach a significant national audience, regardless of the size or geographic location of the applicant organization. Only programs of artistic excellence and merit, in both the media production and the subject, will be funded. Projects may include high profile multi-part television and radio series, single documentaries, performance programs, or arts segments for use within an existing series. Programs may deal with any art form (e.g., visual arts, music, dance, literature, design, theater, musical theater, opera, film/video/audio art, folk & traditional arts). Programs targeted to children and youth are welcome.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Enduring Questions Grant Program
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
Deadline September 15, 2009
The Enduring Questions grant program supports a faculty member’s development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduate students and a teacher to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.
NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48020
Deadline September 15, 2009
NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers (FDHC) support collaboration between digital centers and individual scholars. An award provides funding for both a stipend for the fellow and a portion of the center’s costs for hosting a fellow. Awards are for periods of six to twelve months of continuous full-time research.
National Humanities Center Fellowships 2010-1011
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm
Deadline October 15, 2009
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2010 through May 2011. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and new Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States. Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research. These include environmental studies and history; English literature; art history; French history, literature, or culture; Asian Studies; and theology.
Summer Stipends
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
Deadline October 1, 2009
Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5444&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 11, 2009
The Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) program seeks to encourage new approaches to the analysis and dissemination of biological knowledge for the benefit of both the scientific community and the broader public. The ABI program is especially interested in the development of informatics tools and resources that have the potential to advance, or transform, research in biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503285&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: August 5, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 9, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) are partnering to support a new research program to be administered by NSF. The objective of the BREAD Program is to support innovative scientific research designed to address key constraints to smallholder agriculture in the developing world. A significant distinction between BREAD and other NSF programs is that proposals to BREAD must make a clear and well-defined connection between the outcomes of the proposed research and its direct relevance and potential application to agriculture in the developing world. The BREAD Program will take the activities of the PGRP to the next level by supporting a broader range of scientific research and by enabling funding to be allocated to international collaborators through subawards.
Biological Oceanography
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11696&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
The Biological Oceanography Program supports research in marine ecology broadly defined: relationships among aquatic organisms and their interactions with the environments of the oceans or Great Lakes. Projects submitted to the program for consideration are often interdisciplinary efforts that may include participation by other OCE Programs.
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501023&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The mission of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Program is to provide opportunities to develop novel ideas into discovery-level and transformative projects that integrate engineering and life science principles in solving biomedical problems that serve humanity in the long-term, and advance both engineering and life sciences with biomedical engineering projects that are at the interface of engineering and biomedical sciences. The BME program supports fundamental, transformative, and discovery research applied to biological systems.
Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health (BISH)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501025&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The BISH program supports innovative research of biophotonic, imaging, and sensing technologies for applications in human health. Developing molecularly specific sensing (molecular photonics), imaging, and monitoring systems with high sensitivity and resolution would be an enormous accomplishment with powerful applications to both biology and medicine. Low cost diagnostics will require novel integration of photonics, molecular biology, and material science. Complex biosensors capable of detecting and discriminating among large classes of biomolecules could be important not only to biology and medicine, but also to environmental sensing and homeland security.
Biosensing
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503353&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
The Biosensing Program supports innovative, transformative, and insightful investigations of fundamental problems with broad long term impact and applications that require novel use of bio-inspired engineering principles and sophisticated devices to meet the engineering and technology needs of the nation. The program is targeting research in the area of the monitoring, identification, and/or quantification of biological phenomena and will support potential technological breakthroughs that exist at the intersection of engineering, life science, and information technology. Projects submitted to the Program must advance both engineering and life sciences. Projects in the program may range from single investigator to multi-investigator collaborative research efforts.
Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering (BBBE)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024
Deadline September 15, 2009
The Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering (BBBE) program deals with fundamental problems involved in the processing and manufacturing of products of economic importance by effectively utilizing renewable resources of biological origin and bioinformatics originating from genomic and proteomic information. The BBBE program emphasizes basic engineering and biological research that advances the fundamental knowledge base that contributes to a better understanding of cellular and biomolecular processes (in vivo, in vitro, and/or ex vivo) and eventually to the development of generic enabling technology and practical application. Quantitative assessments of bioprocesses and their rates at the levels of gene regulation and expression, signal transduction pathways, posttranslational protein processing, enzymes in reaction systems, metabolic pathways, cells and tissues in cultivation, and biological systems including animal, plant, microbial and insect cells, etc. are considered vital to the successful research projects in the BBBE program. Research projects supported through the BBBE program include, but are not limited to:
· Fermentation technology
· Enzyme technology
· Recombinant DNA technology
· Cell culture technology
· Ex vivo and therapeutic stem cell culture technology
· Metabolic engineering
· Tissue engineering
· Nanobiotechnology
· Quantitative systems biotechnology
· Biosensor development
· Food processing with special focus on the safety of the nation's food supply
Catalysis and Biocatalysis
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13360&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Catalysis and Biocatalysis program primarily supports fundamental and applied research on: Kinetics and mechanisms of important catalyzed chemical reactions as they relate to the production of chemicals, fuels, and specialized materials; Fundamental aspects of reactive deposition and processing for thin film materials; Characterization of chemical and biochemical phenomena occurring at or near solid surfaces and interfaces;
Kinetic modeling and theory of heterogeneous, homogeneous, and biocatalysis; and electrocatalytic processes having engineering significance or commercial potential
Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13635&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: October 21, 2009 for Phase I proposals
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 5, 2010 for Phase I proposals, by invitation only
Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 21, 2009 for Phase II proposals
The Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program supports research centers focused on major, long-term fundamental chemical research challenges. CCIs that address these challenges will produce transformative research, lead to innovation, and attract broad scientific and public interest. CCIs are agile structures that can respond rapidly to emerging opportunities and make full use of cyberinfrastructure to enhance collaborations. CCIs may partner with researchers from industry, government laboratories and international organizations. CCIs integrate research, innovation, education, and public outreach and include a plan to broaden participation of underrepresented groups. The CCI program is a two-phase program. Both phases are described in this solicitation. Phase I CCIs receive significant resources to develop the science and integrative elements of a CCI before requesting Phase II funding. Phase I proposals funded in FY2010 will seek Phase II funding in FY2013. Only organizations receiving Phase I awards in FY2007 are eligible to request Phase II funding in FY2010.
Chemical and Biological Separations (CBS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13363&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Chemical and Biological Separations (CBS) program supports fundamental research on novel methods and materials for separation processes. These processes are central to the chemical, biochemical, materials, energy, and pharmaceutical industries. A fundamental understanding of the interfacial, transport, and thermodynamic behavior of multiphase chemical systems as well as quantitative descriptions of processing characteristics in the process-oriented industries is critical for efficient resource management and effective environmental protection. The program encourages proposals that address emerging research areas and technologies, have a high degree of interdisciplinary thought coupled with knowledge creation, and integrate education and research.
Chemical Oceanography
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11698&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within the ocean and at its interfaces with the solid earth and the atmosphere. Major emphases include: studies of material inputs to and outputs from marine waters; orthochemical and biological production and transformation of chemical compounds and phases within the marine system; and the determination of reaction rates and study of equilibria. The Program encourages research into the chemistry, distribution, and fate of inorganic and organic substances introduced into or produced within marine environments including those from estuarine waters to the deep sea.
CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: FY 2010
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13451&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 1, 2009 - August 30, 2009 Medium Projects
Full Proposal Window: November 1, 2009 - November 28, 2009 Large Projects
Full Proposal Window: December 1, 2009 - December 17, 2009 Small Projects
This solicitation seeks proposals in cross-cutting areas that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields. The cross-cutting programs for FY 2010 are: Data-intensive Computing; Network Science and Engineering; and Trustworthy Computing.
Climate Process and Modeling Teams (CPT)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5753&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Deadline September 24, 2009
The key aim of the Climate Process Modeling Team (CPT) concept is to speed development of global coupled climate models and reduce uncertainties in climate models by bringing together theoreticians, field observationalists, process modelers and the large modeling centers to concentrate on the scientific problems facing climate models today.
Cognitive Neuroscience
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09563/nsf09563.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Full Proposal Target Date: August 27, 2009
The Cognitive Neuroscience Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.
Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12765&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 1, 2009 - August 30, 2009 Medium Projects
Full Proposal Window: November 1, 2009 - November 28, 2009 Large Projects
Full Proposal Window: December 1, 2009 - December 17, 2009 Small Projects
CISE’s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs:
· The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and
· The Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program.
Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13366&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems program supports fundamental research and education relevant to these subjects. Among the broader societal impacts of the program are cleaner global and local environments, enhanced public safety, improved energy and homeland security, useful new materials, and more efficient manufacturing. This program is not an applied research program, but rather it provides broad, basic knowledge that can be used by others in development of systems for combustion and plasma applications and for mitigating the effects of fire. Broad-based tools - - computational, experimental, or diagnostic - - that can be applied to a variety of problems in combustion, fires, and/or plasmas are major products of this endeavor. Note that the plasma science is generally in support of plasma processing; atmospheric-science or fusion-energy plasmas are funded elsewhere.
Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503220&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 1, 2009 - August 30, 2009 Medium Projects
Full Proposal Window: November 1, 2009 - November 28, 2009 Large Projects
Full Proposal Window: December 1, 2009 - December 17, 2009 Small Projects
CISE’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:
· The Algorithmic Foundations program;
· The Communications and Information Foundations program; and
· The Software and Hardware Foundations program.
Conferences, Workshops, and Special Meetings in the Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11701&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Deadline Date: August 27, 2009
Special meetings ONLY; see section I. Submit regular proposals according to cognizant program dates.
For conferences, workshops, and special meetings, the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) invites proposals of two types: (1) regular conference, symposia, and workshop proposals, and (2) proposals for special meetings, which comprise longer-term or larger-scale activities that more widely engage and connect the mathematical sciences community, such as special research years or semesters, multi-institutional regional meetings, and "summer schools." Regular proposals are submitted to the cognizant DMS programs according to those programs' usual deadlines or target dates. These proposals normally request funding in the range of $5,000 to $25,000, although awards of up to $50,000 have occasionally been made.
CreativeIT
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501096&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Deadline October 13, 2009
The CreativeIT Program solicits proposals for projects that explore synergistic cross disciplinary research in creativity and computer science and information technology. Information technology is playing an increasing role in extending the capability of human creative thinking and problem solving. The study of creativity and computing as a way to advance computer science and information technology, cognitive science, engineering, education, or science can lead to new models of creativity and creative computational processes, innovative approaches to education that encourage creativity, innovative modes of research that include creative professionals, and new technology to support human creativity.
Cultural Anthropology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 200
The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for a variety of project types: Senior Research proposals (that is, research proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degree); proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants; Cultural Anthropology Scholars awards (for research-related, post-PhD training); and CAREER proposals. The Program will also consider proposals for workshops and training programs, as well as supplements to current awards to support Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Graduate Studies (REG). Research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology is eligible. Successful proposals are characterized by clear research questions and propositions that will be put to the test through meticulous attention to research design, data collection, and analysis.
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 18, 2009
Proposal Target Date: January 18, 2010
The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design
Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Deadline Date: September 15, 2009
This multi-year funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000 currently used human languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology. Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve months. At least half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork.
Economics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 18, 2009
Proposal Target Date: January 18, 2010
The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.
Energy for Sustainability
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501026&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Energy for Sustainability program supports fundamental research and education in energy production, conversion, and storage and is focused on energy sources that are environmentally friendly and renewable. Most world energy needs are currently met through the combustion of fossil fuels. With projected increases in global energy needs, more sustainable methods for energy production will need to be developed, and production of greenhouse gases will need to be reduced. Sources of sustainable energy include: Sunlight; Wind/Wave; Biomass; and Geothermal.
Environmental Engineering
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501029&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Environmental Engineering program supports fundamental research and educational activities across the broad field it serves. The goal of this program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific principles to minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, inland and coastal waters, and air that result from human activity, and to evaluate adverse impacts of these discharges on human health and environmental quality. The program fosters cutting-edge scientific research based on fundamental science for identifying, evaluating, and developing new methods and technologies for assessing the waste assimilative capacity of the natural environment and for removing or reducing conventional and emerging contaminants from polluted air, water and soils. The program is based on four types of engineering tools - - measurement, analysis, synthesis, and design.
Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501030&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies program provides support to develop and test the environmental effects of new technologies. Fundamental and basic research is sought to establish and understand outcomes as a result of the implementation of new technologies such as nanotechnology and biotechnology. The program also supports research on the development and refinement of sensors and sensor network technologies that can be used to measure a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological properties of interest in characterizing, monitoring, and understanding environmental impacts.
Environmental Sustainability
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501027&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Environmental Sustainability program supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide ecological services vital for human survival. The long-term viability of natural capital is critical for many areas of human endeavor. Research in Environmental Sustainability typically considers long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics. This program supports engineering research that seeks to balance society's need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. There are four principal general research areas which are supported, but others can be proposed: Industrial Ecology; Green Engineering; Ecological Engineering; and Earth Systems Engineering.
Expeditions in Computing
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503169&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: September 10, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 10, 2010
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has created the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. In planning Expeditions, investigators are encouraged to come together within or across departments or institutions to combine their creative talents in the identification of compelling, transformative research agendas that promise disruptive innovations in computing and information for many years to come. Funded at levels up to $2,000,000 per year for five years, Expeditions represent some of the largest single investments currently made by the directorate.
Fluid Dynamics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13365&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Fluid Dynamics program supports fundamental research and education on mechanisms and phenomena governing fluid flow. Topics include: hydrodynamic stability; transitional flows and turbulence; Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; sediment transport; waves and coastal engineering; hydraulics; multi-scale, multi-phenomena models and computations; micro- and nano-scale flow phenomena; and biofluid mechanics. Proposed research should contribute to basic understanding, thus enabling the better design, predictability, efficiency, and control of systems that involve fluids. Proposals addressing innovative uses of fluids in materials development, manufacturing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, clinical diagnostics and drug delivery, sensors development and integration, energy and the environment, are encouraged.
Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (FRG)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5671&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: August 21, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 18, 2009
The purpose of the FRG activity is to allow groups of researchers to respond to recognized scientific needs of pressing importance, to take advantage of current scientific opportunities, or to prepare the ground for anticipated significant scientific developments in the mathematical sciences. Groups may include, in addition to mathematical scientists, researchers from other science and engineering disciplines appropriate to the proposed research. The activity supports projects for which the collective effort by a group of researchers is necessary to reach the scientific goals. Projects should be scientifically focused and well-delineated. It is not the intent of this activity to provide general support for infrastructure. Projects should also be timely, limited in duration to up to three years, and substantial in their scope and impact.
Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13689&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 16, 2010
The Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program supports research on 1) the interactions between biological and geological systems at all scales of space and time; 2) geomicrobiology and biomineralization processes; 3) the role of life in the transformation and evolution of the Earth's geochemical cycles; 4) inorganic and organic geochemical processes occurring at or near the Earth's surface now and in the past, and at the broad spectrum of interfaces ranging in scale from planetary and regional to mineral-surface and supramolecular; 5) mineralogy and chemistry of soils and sediments; 6) surficial chemical and biogeochemical systems and cycles and their modification through natural and anthropogenic change; and 7) development of tools, methods, and models for low-temperature geochemistry and geobiological research - such as those emerging from molecular biology - in the study of the terrestrial environment.
Geography and Spatial Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5410&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
The Geography and Spatial Sciences Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged into the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. GSS encourages projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13707&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 1, 2009 - August 30, 2009 Medium Projects
Full Proposal Window: November 1, 2009 - November 28, 2009 Large Projects
Full Proposal Window: December 1, 2009 - December 17, 2009 Small Projects
CISE’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:
· The Human-Centered Computing program;
· The Information Integration and Informatics program; and
· The Robust Intelligence program.
IIS is also responsible for managing the review process for proposals in computer graphics and visualization; these proposals may be submitted to any of the three core programs described above.
Innovation and Organizational Sciences (IOS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5378&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: September 3, 2009
Proposal Target Date: February 2, 2010
The Innovation and Organizational Sciences (IOS) program supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) organization theory, organizational behavior, organizational sociology, social and industrial psychology, public administration, computer and information sciences, complexity sciences, decision and management sciences. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to) archival analyses, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements.
Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=9187&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 28, 2009
The Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) Program supports the development of novel instrumentation or instrumentation that has been significantly improved by at least an order of magnitude or more in fundamental aspects. Supported instruments are expected to have a significant impact on the study of biological systems at any level. The development of new instrumentation must be firmly based in biological research need. The IDBR Program supports the development or major improvement of software for the operation of instruments only as associated with the development of the instrument. Data analysis and acquisition software are only supported to the extent that the availability of the software, in connection with new instrumentation, will clearly advance biological research.
Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13362&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics program supports fundamental research in engineering areas related to: Interfacial phenomena; Mass transport phenomena; Solution phase equilibrium thermodynamics. Research is supported in the three fundamental areas that could lead to more economical and environmentally benign processing, improved water quality, and novel functional materials for sensors, both in industrial and biomedical settings.
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12815&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime for Planning Visits
Full Proposal Target Date: September 20, 2009
Full Proposal Target Date: February 20, 2010
Full Proposal Target Date: May 20, 2010
This solicitation describes International Planning Visit/Workshop awards to support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education activity with a foreign partner(s).
International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5179&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: September 8, 2009
The objective of the International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP) is to introduce scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers to international collaborative research opportunities, thereby furthering their research capacity and global perspective and forging long-term relationships with scientists, technologists and engineers abroad. These awards are available in any field of science and engineering research and education supported by NSF.
International Research Network Connections (IRNC)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503382&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 21, 2009
NSF expects to make a set of awards to: provide network connections linking U.S. research networks with peer networks in other parts of the world; leverage existing international network connectivity; improve the quality of end-to-end networking on international paths; explore experimental networking; stimulate the deployment and operational understanding of emerging technologies such as IPv6 in an international context. Links funded by this program are intended to support science and engineering research and education applications, and preference will be given to solutions which provide the best economy of scale and demonstrate the ability to support the largest communities of interest with the broadest services. This program supports international research network connections across three areas: Production network environments (IRNC:ProNet); Experimental networking activities in support of cyber-science applications (IRNC:Exp); and special projects including advanced network development, deployment, security, monitoring, and other approaches (IRNC:SP).
Law and Social Science
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5422&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions
Marine Geology and Geophysics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11726&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
Proposal Target Date: February 15, 2010
The Marine Geology and Geophysics program supports research on all aspects of geology and geophysics of the ocean basins and margins, as well as the Great Lakes. The Program includes: Structure, tectonic evolution and volcanic activity of the ocean basins, the continental margins, the mid-ocean ridges, and island arc systems; Processes controlling exchange of heat and chemical species between seawater and ocean rocks; Genesis, chemistry, and mineralogic evolution of marine sediments; Processes controlling deposition, erosion and transport of marine sediments; Past ocean circulation patterns and climates; and Interactions of continental and marine geologic processes.
Math and Science Partnership (MSP)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5756&govDel=USNSF_39
Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 25, 2009
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations.
Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants (MPRF)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503424&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Deadline October 19, 2009
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Research Starter Grants in an effort to increase the diversity of researchers who participate in NSF programs in the social, behavioral and economic sciences and thereby increase the participation of scientists from underrepresented groups in selected areas of science in the United States. These activities (postdoctoral fellowships and follow-up research starter grants) support training and research in the areas of social, behavioral and economic sciences within the purview of NSF.
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5421&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 16, 2009
Proposal Target Date: January 16, 2010
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences.
Particulate and Multiphase Processes
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13364&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: August 15, 2009 - September 17, 2009
Full Proposal Window: February 1, 2010 - March 3, 2010
The Particulate and Multiphase Processes program supports fundamental and applied research on mechanisms and phenomena governing particulate and multiphase processes, including granular and granular-fluid flows, particle/bubble/droplet interactions, aerosol science and technology, suspensions, micro- and nano-structured fluids, self- and directed-assembly of nanostructures involving particulates, and related instrumentation and diagnostics. Innovative research is sought that contributes to improving the basic understanding, design, predictability, efficiency, and control of particulate and multiphase processes with particular emphasis on: new frontiers in nanotechnology, novel manufacturing techniques, nano-metrology, multiphase transport in biological systems, environmental sustainability, critical infrastructure systems, and complex engineering systems. Collaborative and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged; proposals that include a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches are more likely to receive funding than solely theoretically or experimentally oriented work.
Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501046&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Deadline Date: August 3, 2009
The objective of PAARE is to enhance diversity in astronomy and astrophysics research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, collaborative research and education partnerships among minority-serving institutions and partners at research institutions, including academic institutions, private observatories and NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) supported facilities.
Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5602&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Target Date: October 20, 2009
The Directorates for Engineering, Geosciences, and Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science/Office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy are continuing in FY2009 the joint Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering begun in FY1997. The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed.
Petrology and Geochemistry
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13683&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: December 6, 2009 - January 6, 201
The Petrology and Geochemistry Program supports basic research that address the formation and evolution of our planet using petrological and geochemical characteristics of Earth materials in the crust, mantle, and core. Proposals in this program generally address the petrology and high-temperature geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks (including mantle samples), mineral physics, economic geology, and volcanology. Proposals that bridge disciplinary boundaries or that include development of analytical tools for potential use by the broad community are also encouraged.
Physical Anthropology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5407&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 20, 2009
Proposal Target Date: January 20, 2010
The Physical Anthropology Program supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation. The program frequently serves as a bridge within NSF between the social and behavioral sciences and the natural and physical sciences, and proposals are commonly jointly reviewed and funded with other programs.
Political Science
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2010
The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12720&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Deadline October 14, 2009
The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in selected areas of biology supported by BIO and with special goals for human resource development in biology. The fellowships encourage independence at an early stage of the research career to permit Fellows to pursue their research and training goals in the most appropriate research locations regardless of the availability of funding for the Fellows at that site. For FY 2010, these BIO programs are (1) Broadening Participation in Biology and (2) Biological Informatics.
Physical Anthropology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5407&govDel=USNSF_39
Full Proposal Target Date: August 20, 2009
The Physical Anthropology Program supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology.
Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Deadline Date: August 25, 2009; Innovation through Institutional Integration
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 3, 2010; Alliances for Students with Disabilities in STEM
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 10, 2010; Demonstration, Enrichment or Dissemination
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 17, 2010; Research
The Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program seeks to broaden the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and associated professional careers. The RDE program has been funding this objective since 1994 under the prior name "Program for Persons with Disabilities." Particular emphasis is placed on contributing to the knowledge base by addressing disability related differences in secondary and post-secondary STEM learning and in the educational, social and pre-professional experiences that influence student interest, academic performance, retention in STEM degree programs, STEM degree completion, and career choices. Projects also investigate effective practices for transitioning students with disabilities across critical academic junctures, retaining students in undergraduate and graduate STEM degree programs, and graduating students with STEM associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 22, 2009; Deadline for REU Site proposals except for those requiring access to Antarctica.
Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 4, 2010; Deadline for REU Site proposals requiring access to Antarctica.
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. Proposals with an international dimension are welcome. A partnership with the Department of Defense supports REU Sites in DoD-relevant research areas. (2) REU Supplements may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects or may be included as a component of proposals for new or renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements.
Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5475&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Deadline Date: August 25, 2009; Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3)
The Research on Gender in Science and Engineering program supports efforts to understand and address gender-based differences in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce participation through research, the diffusion of research-based innovations, and extension services in education that will lead to a larger and more diverse domestic science and engineering workforce. Typical projects will contribute to the knowledge base addressing gender-related differences in learning and in the educational experiences that affect student interest, performance, and choice of careers; how pedagogical approaches and teaching styles, curriculum, student services, and institutional culture contribute to causing or closing gender gaps that persist in certain fields. Projects will communicate and apply findings, evaluation results, and proven good practices and products to a wider community.
SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&govDel=USNSF_39
Various Due Dates, by discipline
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.
Science of Learning Centers
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5567&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 3, 2009
Proposal Target Date: February 1, 2010
The Science of Learning Centers program (SLC) offers awards for large-scale, long-term Centers that create the intellectual, organizational and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of Science of Learning research. It supports research that harnesses and integrates knowledge across multiple disciplines to create a common groundwork of conceptualization, experimentation and explanation that anchor new lines of thinking and inquiry towards a deeper understanding of learning.
Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084&govDel=USNSF_25
Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 9, 2009
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations.
Science, Technology and Society (STS)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 1, 2009
STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society. STS has four components:
Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS),
History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS),
Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS),
Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area. STS encourages the submission of hybrid proposals that strive to integrate research involving two or more of these core areas. STS provides the following modes of support:
Scholars Awards,
Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research,
Postdoctoral Fellowships,
Professional Development Fellowships,
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants,
Small Grants for Training and Research,
Conference and Workshop Awards,
Other Funding Opportunities.
Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13691&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 7, 2009
Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology supports studies of: (1) the changing aspects of life, ecology, environments, and biogeography in past geologic time based on fossil plants, animals, and microbes; (2) all aspects of the Earth’s sedimentary carapace — insights into geological processes recorded in its historical records and rich organic and inorganic resources locked in rock sequences; (3) the science of dating and measuring the time sequence of events and rates of geological processes of the Earth’s past sedimentary and biological (fossil) record; (4) the geologic record of the production, transportation, and deposition of physical and chemical sediments; and (5) understanding the complexities of Earth's deep time (pre-Holocene) climate systems. The Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program especially encourages integrative studies at the national and international levels that seek to link subdisciplines, such as geochronology, paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleoenvironments and paleoecology.
Social-Computational Systems (SoCS)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09559/nsf09559.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Full Proposal Deadline: September 21, 2009
The Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) program seeks to reveal new understanding about the properties that systems of people and computers together possess, and to develop a practical understanding of the purposeful design of systems to facilitate socially intelligent computing. By better characterizing, understanding, and eventually designing for desired behaviors arising from computationally mediated groups of people at all scales, new forms of knowledge creation, new models of computation, new forms of culture, and new types of interaction will result. Further, the investigation of such systems and their emergent behaviors and desired properties will inform the design of future systems.
Sociology
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2009
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes.
Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5749&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Deadline Date: August 19, 2009
The solar and heliospheric research communities are dedicated to promoting enhanced understanding of, and predictive capabilities for, solar disturbances that propagate to the Earth. Broad-based, grass-roots associations such as SHINE have developed to focus community effort on these scientific questions. Proposals are solicited for research directly related to topics under consideration and discussion at community workshops organized by SHINE.
NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Letter of Intent Deadline August 11, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline September 14, 2009
This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate; baccalaureate; or graduate-level degree in science and engineering disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.
Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program (STCI)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500066&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Proposal Target Date: August 13, 2009
The primary purpose of the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program (STCI) is to support work leading to the development and/or demonstration of innovative cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research and education that fill gaps left by more targeted funding opportunities. In addition, it will consider highly innovative cyberinfrastructure education, outreach and training proposals that lie outside the scope of targeted solicitations.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5488&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: August 18, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 29, 2009
The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.
Tectonics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13673&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Full Proposal Window: December 6, 2009 - January 6, 2010
The Tectonics Program supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the formation, evolution, and deformation of continental lithosphere through time. Proposals to elucidate the processes that act on the lithosphere at various time-scales and length-scales, either at depth or the surface, are encouraged. Because understanding such large-scale phenomena commonly requires a variety of expertise and methods, the Tectonics Program supports integrated research involving the disciplines of structural geology, petrology, geochronology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, rock mechanics, paleomagnetics, geodesy, and other geophysical techniques.
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500036&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: September 15, 2009
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 2, 2010
The goal of the Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) program is to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing graduate studies in all areas of biological research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Support will be provided to academic institutions to establish innovative programs to engage undergraduates in a year-round research and mentoring activity. Particular emphasis will be placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering: African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities.
FOUNDATION GRANTS
Abe Fellowship--International Multidisciplinary Research on Topics of Pressing Global Concern
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/
Deadline September 1st 2009
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announce the annual Abe Fellowship Program competition. The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving. Research support to individuals is at the core of the Abe Fellowship Program. Applications are welcome from scholars and non-academic research professionals. The objectives of the program are to foster high quality research in the social sciences and related disciplines, to build new collaborative networks of researchers around the three thematic foci of the program, to bring new data and new data resources to the attention of those researchers, and to obtain from them a commitment to a comparative or transnational line of inquiry.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/programs/comps
Various Deadlines
ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. The specifics of the competitions vary. Program descriptions, eligibility requirements, and application procedures for each program can be found on the Competitions and Deadlines page.
ACLS Fellowships including ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/programs/acls/
Deadline September 30, 2009
The ACLS Fellowship Program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences (1). The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. An ACLS Fellowship may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay, up to an amount equal to the candidate's current academic year salary. Tenure of the grant may begin no earlier than July 1, 2010 and no later than February 1, 2011.
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/programs/digital/
Deadline September 30, 2009
ACLS invites applications for the fifth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, thanks to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences (1). It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works.
American Research in the Humanities in China
http://www.acls.org/programs/arhc/
Deadline September 15, 2009
This program is open to scholars in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences who have received a Ph.D. or its equivalent by the time of application. Fellowship tenure is from four months to one year of continuous research in China. The fellowship period must fall between July 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011.
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/programs/ryskamp/
September 30, 2009
ACLS invites applications for the ninth annual competition for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in honor of Charles A. Ryskamp, literary scholar, distinguished library and museum director, and long-serving trustee of the Foundation. These fellowships support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences (1) whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. The fellowships are intended to provide time and resources to enable these faculty members to conduct their research under optimal conditions. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. ACLS will award up to 12 Ryskamp Fellowships in the 2009-2010 competition. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $64,000, a fund of $2,500 for research and travel, and an additional 2/9 of the stipend ($14,222) for one summer's support, if justified by a persuasive case.
ALCS East European Studies Program
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=530&linkidentifier=id&itemid=530
Various Deadlines
Dissertation Fellowships
Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellowships
Conference Grants
Travel Grants
Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study
Language Grants to Institutions for Summer Courses
Request for Proposals for Research on Heritage Speakers of East European Languages
The funding of the East European Studies Program is appropriated by the U.S. Congress and administered by the U.S. Department of State under the Research and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Act of 1983 as amended (Title VIII), whose purpose is the development of expertise in the United States needed for broad knowledge and analysis of developments in this critical world area. Every application for these fellowships and grants should, therefore, state clearly how the proposed research will contribute to a better understanding of the region and policy-making related to it.
Support is once again available from Title VIII for language study and research related to all East European Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
http://www.acls.org/programs/burkhardt/
Deadline September 30, 2009
ACLS invites applications for the eleventh annual competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars. The fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences (1). The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
http://www.acls.org/programs/american-art/
Deadline November 11, 2009
ACLS invites applications for the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art designated for graduate students in any stage of Ph.D. dissertation research or writing. Ten fellowships are available for a non-renewable, one-year term beginning between June and September 2010 for the 2010-2011 academic year. The grants may be carried out in residence at the Fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. The fellowships, however, may not be used to defray tuition costs or be held concurrently with any other major fellowship or grant.
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=518&linkidentifier=id&itemid=518
Deadline November 13, 2009
The American Council of Learned Societies’ fourth annual competition for grants to individuals in the archaeology and early history of East and Southeast Asia, undertaken in cooperation with the Henry Luce Foundation. Research fellowships and training grants will be awarded for study of the peoples and cultures of early East Asia. Comparative projects and those that build scholarly networks are especially encouraged. Proposals may cover prehistoric or historical periods, but must focus on research or training that involves excavations and/or excavated materials. For the purposes of this program, "East and Southeast Asia" refers to Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. ACLS grants to individuals are part of the comprehensive Luce Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History, which also includes a competition for invited institutions—universities and museums—administered by the Luce Foundation’s Asia Program.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512
Due November 11, 2009
ACLS invites applications for the fourth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. These fellowships are to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2011. ACLS will award 65 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2010 for the 2010-2011 academic year. The total award of up to $33,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. These Fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.
Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=514
Deadline December 9, 2009
ACLS invites applications for the third annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships. These Fellowships are to assist young scholars in the humanities and related social sciences in the first or second year following completion of the Ph.D. This program aims to assist recent doctoral recipients to position themselves for further scholarly advancement. Eligibility for these Fellowships will be limited to scholars awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships in the prior year’s competition, the Alternates selected in that competition, and those awarded other dissertation fellowships of national stature that require applicants to complete their dissertations within a specified period. ACLS will award 25 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2010 for the 2010-2011 academic year, or between June and September 2011 for the 2011-2012 academic year. The Mellon/ACLS awards are designed for research and writing; accordingly, Fellows may not teach during the tenure of the Fellowship. The Fellowships provide a stipend of $35,000 to allow the Fellow to devote an academic year to research.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
http://www.cckf.org.tw/e-dornation.htm
Various Deadlines
The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Taipei, the capital of the Republic of China on Taiwan. It also maintains a regional office in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. in the United States. In 1987, a group of professors of Chinese descent at major American universities wrote a joint letter to President Chiang Ching-kuo expressing their concern about the gradual decline of programs of Chinese Studies in overseas academic institutions. They suggested that, given the increased prosperity of the country, a foundation for international scholarly exchange should be established to support and promote the understanding of Chinese culture and society overseas. Today the Foundation awards Research Grants, Fellowship Grants, Conference/Workshop Grants, Publication Subsidies, and Doctoral Fellowships. The Foundation's grants provide support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences providing differing amounts of funding depending on the grant.
New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
http://www.acls.org/programs/chinese-culture/
Deadline September 15, 2009
This program supports projects in the humanities and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new sources, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The program especially encourages proposals concerning pre-modern China. The program will support collaborative work of three types: Planning Meetings: Grants up to $6,000 will be offered for one-day meetings to plan conferences or workshops, or for less structured explorations (e.g., brainstorming sessions) on issues of Chinese culture and society. Workshops: Grants up to $15,000 will be offered for workshops designed to facilitate ongoing research on newly available or inadequately researched data or texts. Workshops are understood to last three to four days and provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and analyze new approaches and/or new sources in a seminar-like setting. Conferences: Grants up to $25,000 will be offered for formal research conferences intended to produce significant new research that will be published in a conference volume.
Dumbarton Oaks Project Grants
http://www.doaks.org/research/info_project_grants.html
Contact Program Officer before Oct. 1, 2009
Dumbarton Oaks makes a limited number of grants to assist with scholarly projects in Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies. The normal range of awards is $3,000–$10,000. Support is generally for archeological research, as well as for the recovery, recording, and analysis of materials that would otherwise be lost.
FINRA Investor Education Foundation Announces 2009 Grant Program
Deadline: Open
http://www.finrafoundation.org/guidelines.asp
The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, formerly known as the NASD Investor Education Foundation, supports innovative research and educational projects that give investors the tools and information they need to better understand the markets and the basic principles of saving and investing.
Gilder Lehrman Institute Research Fellowships, Dissertation Fellowships in American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fellowship1.htmlVarious deadlines.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites applications for short-term fellowships in several categories: Research Fellowships for post-doctoral scholars at every faculty rank, Dissertation Fellowships for doctoral candidates who have completed exams and begun dissertation reading and writing, and Research Fellowships for journalists and independent scholars. The Gilder Lehrman Fellowships support work in one of five archives:
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)
www.nypl.org/research/sc/index.html
One of the premier archives of African-American history, art, and culture, the Center's archives contain extensive materials on the history of slavery and abolition, the African diaspora, religion, African- American culture, and the Civil Rights Movement.
The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society
The Gilder Lehrman Collection consists of letters and diaries, maps, pamphlets, sketchbooks, printed books, photographs, and other materials. The Collection's holdings range from Columbus to recent times but concentrate in the period from 1760 to 1876. For further information, as well as a searchable database of the Collection, click here.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant
http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
Deadline August 1, 2009
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.
Kresge Foundation Challenge Grant Program
http://www.kresge.org/content/displaycontent.aspx?CID=89
Various due dates
The Kresge Foundation is broadening the reach of its Challenge Grant Program to better support nonprofit organizations that are working to address society’s pressing issues in six fields of interest: health, the environment, arts and culture, education, human services, and community development.
National Council for Eurasian and East European Researchhttp://www.nceeer.org/Programs/programs.phpVarious due dates Various opportunities for social science and humanities research in Eurasia and Eastern Europe.
Russell Sage Foundation Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics
http://www.russellsage.org/programs/other/behavioral/Continuous submission
The Russell Sage Behavioral Economics Roundtable supports a small grants research program to support high quality research in behavioral economics and to encourage young investigators to enter this developing field. There are no limitations on the disciplinary background of the principal investigator, and the proposed research may address any economic topic. Interdisciplinary efforts are welcome. Appropriate projects will demonstrate explicit use of psychological concepts in the motivation of the design and the preparation of the results. This program will be administered under the auspices of the Behavioral Economics Roundtable, a group of researchers in behavioral economics formed by the Russell Sage Foundation to encourage inter-disciplinary research in behavioral economics.
SSRC/DPDF Faculty Field Competition
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-faculty-fields-competition/
Deadline October 2, 2009
The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is designed to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate more effective doctoral dissertation proposals. Senior tenured faculty serve as research directors who identify research fields for groups of 12 graduate students. The faculty research directors design two workshops: one to prepare students to undertake summer research that will inform the design of their dissertation proposal, held in spring; the other to help students apply their summer research experiences to writing dissertation and funding proposals, held in the fall. Working together, research directors and graduate students help shape emerging fields in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, the DPDF’s Faculty Field Selection and Advisory Committee selects five research fields, each proposed by two tenured senior faculty with different institutional affiliations and, as relevant, different disciplinary specializations. Selected faculty serve as research directors for their proposed research fields, design the two workshops for their research field, and lead 12 selected fellows in those workshops. The DPDF program is open to tenured faculty teaching in different doctoral-degree-granting programs at U.S. universities. Faculty must apply as teams and must be tenured at the time of application. Research directors are required to be present and participate in both workshops. Each research director receives a stipend of $10,000 for preparing and running the workshops that bracket the student summer research fellowships, as well as for sustained mentorship of the graduate student cohort throughout the summer.
Smithsonian Institution
Senior and Postdoctoral Fellowshipshttp://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm
Deadline: Various
Provide scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff.
Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships
http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/external_fac.htm#ApplicationProcess
Deadline October 15, 2009
Since its inception in 1980, the Humanities Center has offered fellowships to more than 550 faculty from nearly 100 universities in the United States and other countries. External fellows come from all ranks of the professoriate and from a wide variety of disciplinary fields, colleges and universities. The Center typically offers six to eight external fellowships each year.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.welcome See due dates specific to program
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars supports research in the social sciences and humanities. Men and women from a wide variety of backgrounds, including government, the non-profit sector, the corporate world, and the professions, as well as academia, are eligible for appointment. Through an international competition, it offers 9-month residential fellowships to academics, public officials, journalists, and business professionals. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff. The Center also hosts Public Policy Scholars and Senior Scholars who conduct research and write in a variety of disciplines. In addition to the Wilson Center Fellowships Program, several of our regional programs have their own grant competitions (Africa, Asia, Canada, East Europe, Southeast Europe, Russia). Read more about these programs.
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