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Funding Source: NSF
Title: Water Sustainability and Climate
Program: One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring an adequate supply and quality of water in light of both burgeoning human needs and climate variability and change. Despite water's importance to life on Earth, there are major gaps in our basic understanding of water availability, quality and dynamics, and the impact of both a changing and variable climate, and human activity, on the water system. The goal of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) solicitation is to understand and predict the interactions between the water system and climate change, land use (including agriculture, managed forest and rangeland systems), the built environment, and ecosystem function and services through place-based research and integrative models. Studies of the water system using models and/or observations at specific sites singly or in combination that allow for spatial and temporal extrapolation to other regions, as well as integration across the different processes in that system are encouraged, especially to the extent that they advance the development of theoretical frameworks and predictive understanding. Specific topics of interest include:
- Developing theoretical frameworks and models that incorporate the linkages and feedbacks among atmospheric, terrestrial, aquatic, oceanic, and social processes that can be used to predict the potential impact of (1) climate variability and change, (2) land use and (3) human activity on water systems on decadal to centennial scales in order to provide a basis for adaptive management of water resources.
- Determining the inputs, outputs, and potential changes in water budgets and water quality in response to (1) climate variability and change, (2) land use and (3) human activity, and the effect of these changes on Biogeochemical cycles, water quality, long-term chemical transport and transformation, terrestrial, aquatic and coastal ecosystems, landscape evolution and human settlements and behavior.
- Determining how our built water systems and our governance systems can be made more reliable, resilient and sustainable to meet diverse and often conflicting needs, such as minimizing consumption of water for energy generation, industrial and agricultural/forest rangeland production and built environment requirements, reuse for both potable and non-potable needs, ecosystem protection, and flood control and storm water management.
Deadline: October 19, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11551/nsf11551.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Research on Gender in Science and Engineering
Program: Diffusion of Research-based Innovation: provide a mechanism for engaging a wider audience of practitioners (e.g., teachers, faculty, guidance counselors, parents, etc.) with research findings and strategies for changing educational practice relative to gender issues. There are three types of Diffusion awards (described below): Pilot, Scale Up and Dissemination.
Extension Services: create a cadre of extension service agents through training and consulting services to inform educators and other practitioners about and enable them to adopt and embed proven gender-inclusive policies and practices in pedagogy, the design of curriculum materials, student support programs, and educator and faculty development. Extension services employ a "train-the-trainer" model and are based on a "comprehensive program of change" that includes research-based and evaluated educational practices.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: September 6, 2011 (Extension Service Required)
Full proposal: October 13, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5475&org=EHR
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Bridges to the Doctorate Program (R25)
Program: This Funding Opportunity Announcement issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), NIH, encourages Research Education Grant (R25) applications from institutions that propose to increase the pool of master’s degree students from underrepresented backgrounds who go on to research careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, and who are trained and available to participate in NIH-funded research. This initiative promotes partnerships/consortia between colleges or universities granting a terminal master’s degree with institutions that offer the doctorate degree. The program expects that the joint efforts of doctorate degree-granting and master’s degree-granting institutions will foster the development of a well-integrated institutional program that will provide students from underrepresented groups with the necessary academic preparation and skills to enable their transition and successful completion of the Ph.D. degree in biomedical and behavioral sciences.
Deadline: September 25, 2011
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-279.html
Funding Source: NIH
Title: 2012 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1)
Program: The NIH Directors Pioneer Award program complements NIHs traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to addressing major biomedical or behavioral challenges that have the potential to produce an unusually high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. To be considered pioneering, the proposed research must reflect substantially different scientific directions from those already being pursued in the investigators laboratory or elsewhere. Awardees must commit the major portion (at least 51%) of their research efforts to the Pioneer Award project.
Deadline: October 7, 2011
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-11-004.html
Funding Source: Robert Bowne Foundation
Title: Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grants (Afterschool Matters Initiative)
Program: National Institute on Out-of-School Time on behalf of the Robert Bowne Foundation is pleased to announce the 2011 National Afterschool Matters Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grants. With generous funding from the Robert Bowne Foundation, it is distributing grants for research in the Out-of-School Time (OST). The grant has the following goals:
1. Generate and disseminate research about organizations serving youth during the out-of-school hours;
2. Build a network of scholars studying organizations serving youth; and
3. Contribute to basic knowledge and the improvement of practice and policy in the area of out-of-school time programs.
This is a national grant competition. The grants will be awarded to support either (1) original empirical research in or about youth programs during the non-school hours; or (2) research syntheses or policy analyses of youth programs.
Grant focus is on the following:
1. Descriptions and analyses of OST advocacy initiatives
2. Papers on Out-of-School Time policy
3. Analyses of youth organizations as institutions that support positive youth development: i.e., civic engagement, social and emotional development, arts development, cognitive development, etc.
4. Exploration of employment-related topics - i.e., youth organizations as spaces for training and employment, youth as workers, community economic development and youth programs, etc.
5. Studies of extended learning time schools or extended day models that incorporate youth development.
Deadline: September 27, 2011
Link: http://www.robertbownefoundation.org/initiatives.php
Funding Source: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Title: Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
Program: Funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, ACLS invites applications for grants to support collaborative work in China studies.
In this cycle of competitions ACLS is soliciting proposals in the humanities and related social sciences that adopt an explicitly cross-cultural or comparative perspective. ACLS invites submission of projects that, for example, compare aspects of Chinese history and culture with those of other nations and civilizations, explore the interaction of these nations and civilizations, or engage in cross-cultural research on the relations among the diverse and shifting populations of China. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit.
The program will support collaborative work of three types:
1. Planning Meetings: Grants will be offered for one-day meetings to plan conferences or workshops, or for less structured explorations, e.g., brainstorming sessions.
2. Workshops: Grants will be offered for workshops designed to promote discussion and the exchange of ideas on newly available or inadequately researched data or texts in a collegial, seminar-like setting. Workshops are not mini-conferences with the presentation of formal papers describing work already done.
3. Conferences: Grants will be offered for formal research conferences intended to produce significant new research that will be published in a conference volume. Proposals for conferences should normally be more elaborate than proposals for planning meetings or workshops.
Deadline: September 28, 2011
Link: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=528
