PUC FUNDING FLASH
Finding Federal Funding Opportunities
Are you searching for a Federal funding opportunity, but not sure where to find one? The Grants.gov website allows individuals to electronically find competitive grant opportunities for all Federal grant-making agencies.
More information: www.grants.gov, www.cos.com (available on campus only)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
a. Title: Political Science Program
Division of Social and Economic Sciences
Due Date: January 15, 2009
Funding Description: 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.
In recent years, program awards have supported research projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice, and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization, political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political economy; party activism; and political psychology and political tolerance. The program also has supported research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations, in the discipline.
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418
b. Title: Applied Mathematics
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
Due Date: November 15, 2008
Funding Description: The program supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. Mathematical merit and novelty, as well as breadth and quality of impact on applications, are important factors. Proposals to develop critical mathematical techniques from individual investigators as well as interdisciplinary teams are encouraged.
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5664&org=DMS
c. Title: Statistics, Division of Mathematical Sciences
Due Date: November 7, 2008
Funding Description: The Statistics Program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering. The Program encourages proposals ranging from single-investigator projects to interdisciplinary team projects.
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5556
d. Title: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL)
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
Due Date: November 21, 2008
Funding Description: The Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports basic and applied research and evaluation that enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and teaching. The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program aims at advancing research at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, and at providing the foundational knowledge necessary to improve STEM teaching and learning at all educational levels and in all settings. This solicitation calls for three types of proposals--Knowledge Diffusion, Empirical Research, and Large Empirical Research. The goals of the REESE program are: (1) to catalyze discovery and innovation at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation; (2) to stimulate the field to produce high quality and robust research results through the progress of theory, method, and human resources; and (3) to help coordinate and transform advances in education, learning research, and evaluation. REESE pursues its mission by developing an interdisciplinary research portfolio focusing on core scientific questions about STEM learning in current and emerging learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, and from before school through to graduate school and beyond into the workforce. REESE places particular importance upon the involvement of young investigators in the projects, at doctoral, postdoctoral, and early career stages, as well as the involvement of STEM disciplinary experts. In addition, research questions related to educational research methodology and evaluation are central to the REESE activity.
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08585
Department of Energy (DOE)
a. Title: Office of Nuclear Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Program
Due Date: December 1, 2008
Funding Description: The Office of Nuclear Physics of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), invites grant applications for support under the Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) Program in nuclear physics. The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers. Applications should be from tenure-track faculty who are currently involved in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics research, the U.S. Nuclear Data Program (USNDP) or accelerator physics research related to nuclear physics projects, and should be submitted through a U.S. academic institution. Applicants must be no more than ten (10) years beyond the Ph.D. at the deadline for the application. Information about submission of applications, eligibility, limitations, evaluation and selection processes and other policies and procedures are specified in 10 CFR Part 605 which can be accessed at: http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/. Additional requirements for applicants to the Office of Nuclear Physics can be found at http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/grants/grants.html.
Link to Full Announcement:https://ecenter.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/66C858EDED97A74E852574C600671EE2?OpenDocument
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
a. Title: Nursing Workforce Diversity
Due Date: November 21, 2008
Funding Description: Grants are awarded to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses) by providing student scholarships or stipends, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities.
Link to Full Announcement: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=AF0E72B0-AF4A-4F01-9113-2E49A508FC35
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
a. Title: Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) – (R01)
Due Date: November 24, 2008
Funding Description: Many major biomedical research problems are best addressed using a multi-disciplinary approach that extends beyond the traditional biological and clinical sciences. Principles and techniques in allied quantitative sciences such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer sciences, and engineering are increasingly being applied to good effect in biomedical research. Bioengineering integrates principles from a diversity of technical and biomedical fields, and the resulting multi-discplinary research is providing new basic understandings, novel products, and innovative technologies that improve basic knowledge, human health, and quality of life. Bioengineering also crosses the boundaries of scientific disciplines that are represented throughout academia, federal laboratories, and industry. Recognizing the importance of bioengineering in public health, the Bioengineering Consortium (BECON; http://www.becon.nih.gov) was established in 1997 as a focus for bioengineering activities at the NIH.
Link to Full Announcement:
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-279.html
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
a. Title: Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
Due Date: November 13, 2008
Funding Description: The purpose of the Enduring Questions grant program is to encourage faculty and students at the undergraduate level to grapple with the most fundamental concerns of the humanities, and to join together in deep, sustained programs of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions are, to an overarching degree, pre-disciplinary. They are questions to which no discipline or field or profession can lay an exclusive claim. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or interesting answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment. What are these enduring questions? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate. What is the good life? What is justice? Mercy? What is freedom? Happiness? What is friendship? What is dignity? Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it? What are the limits of scientific understanding? What is the relationship between humans and the natural world? Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Good and evil? What is good government? What are the origins of the modern world? What is liberal education? The Enduring Questions grant program will support new humanities courses at the undergraduate level: their design and preparation, teaching, and assessment, as well as ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community. Courses may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities (e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), provided humanities sources are central to the course.
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
Foundation Support
a. Title: Advancing Literacy
Sponsor: Carnegie Corporation of New York Education
Due Date: Continuous
Funding Description: Advancing Literacy, a relatively new subprogram of the corporation's education division, was developed after an extensive review that included consultations with the nation's leading practitioners and researchers. It was learned that the teaching of reading in kindergarten through the third grade is well supported with research, practice and policy, but that the knowledge base for how to teach reading for grades beyond this point is very thin. The educational community faces a difficult challenge since what is expected in academic achievement for middle and high school students has significantly increased, yet the way in which students are taught to read, comprehend and write about subject matter has not kept pace with the demands of schooling. American 15-year-olds barely attain the standards of international literacy for youngsters their age, and during the past decade the average reading score of fourth graders has changed little. Readers who struggle during the intermediate elementary years face increasing difficulty throughout middle school and beyond.
Carnegie Corporation's first response to these findings was to create the Advancing Literacy subprogram and charge it with the daunting task of advancing literacy by affecting policy, practice and research. Grants will be awarded to support this task.
Link to Full Announcement: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/fo2/getRec?id=92044
b. Title: Research in Information Technology
Sponsor: Mellon Foundation, Andrew W.
Due Date: Continuous
Funding Description: This program is dedicated to supporting the thoughtful application of information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes. The foundation is interested in promoting the study of uses of digital technologies that can be applied to research and online and distance learning and teaching. The foundation also supports investigations of new technical approaches to the archiving of textual and multimedia materials that require improved search and storage techniques and improvements in user-interfaces. The impact of information technology (and especially digitization) on scholarship, scholarly communication, and libraries is indisputable.
The foundation's work with JSTOR, ARTstor, and Ithaka has helped to define the following set of guidelines:
1. Technology that benefits one or more of the constituencies traditionally served by the foundation
2. Technology that benefits multiple institutions
3. Technology that can realistically be developed by the grantee within the proposed timeframe and budget
4. Technology that provides a significant cost savings or provides a cost-effective way of meeting the specific needs of the foundation's constituencies
5. Compelling, demonstrable technology for which funding is required to create fully shareable versions, expanded features, or improved reliability
6. Technology for which intellectual property rights are available
7. Technology for which there is a credible support and self-sufficiency plan
8. Technology whose value can be objectively assessed
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/rit
b. Title: Cooperative Research Grants
Sponsor: United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation
Due Date: November 17, 2008
AMOUNT NOTE: Grant requests can be made for a period of up to four years. In 2008, 109 new projects in the health sciences, life sciences, and psychology were approved and 331 ongoing projects received funding for second, third, and fourth years.
FUNDING DESCRIPTION: The United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) supports cooperative research projects of mutual interest to the United States and Israel, concerned with science and technology for peaceful purposes. Basic and applied research projects are considered. The BSF supports research projects in health sciences, life sciences, exact sciences, natural (physical) sciences, and social sciences.
The Board of Governors determines the research areas eligible for support. In even calendar years (2006, 2008, 2010, etc.) the following areas of research will be eligible for submission:
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Mathematical Sciences
4. Atmospheric and Earth Sciences
5. Oceanography and Limnology
6. Materials Research
7. Environmental Research and Ecology (Systematic Biology)
8. Energy Research
9. Economics
10. Sociology
In odd calendar years (2007, 2009, 2011, etc.), the following areas of research will be eligible for submission:
1. Health Sciences
2. Life Sciences (excluding Ecology and Systematic Biology)
3. Biomedical Engineering
4. Social and Developmental Psychology
Cooperative research is a fundamental requirement for the BSF and is viewed by the foundation as active collaboration between Israeli and American scientists. A joint research program must be presented in the form of a single, coordinated proposal, in which the roles and tasks of the respective partners are clearly defined. Each proposal should have at least two principal investigators (but not more than six), one from an Israeli institution and one from a U.S. institution.
Cooperation should involve joint planning of research and evaluation of results and may take the form of
- joint research activities where interdependent projects of a single program are conducted in different laboratories and may involve shared funding or different sources of funding;
- provision of research facilities, materials, equipment, and/or services to cooperating scientists; and
- exchange of personnel.
The BSF expects that the collaboration between the American and Israeli scientists will result in joint authorship of scientific papers. Under normal circumstances, lack of joint publications is viewed by the BSF as an indication of unsatisfactory cooperation and is taken into consideration in subsequent applications. The BSF also expects that the PIs from both countries will be involved in preparing the application, particularly the research proposal. When it is apparent that this was not the case, it is considered to indicate a lack of cooperation and it hinders the chances of the application to be funded.
Link to Full Announcement: http://www.bsf.org.il/Public/guidlines/cooperativeResearch.asp?option=4%2E3
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