Grant Opportunities 3.12.12

March 12, 2012

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

Thank you for your quick responses to the weekly grant opportunities. Please contact me with any individual research requests. You can access information about helpful research hints for faculty and graduate students at the Government Grants Research Assistance
Website:
http://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/research/grant-opportunities/index.html

Upcoming Deadlines

Federal
US Department of Education/IES-Research Grant Program:            LOI-April 19, 2012
US Department of Education-Fulbright Hays Group Projects:         April 23, 2012
NIH- NIMHD Social, Behavioral, Health Services, and Policy Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01):                                                        LOI-May 4, 2012
NSF- Partnerships for International Research and Education:           May 15, 2012

UC
UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California:  March 21, 2012
UCHRI Working Groups 2012:                                                          May 10, 2012

Foundation
National Humanities Medals:                                                             April 13, 2012

Student
NIH- Mental Health Research Dissertation Grant to Increase Diversity (R36)
April 21, 2012

Federal

Funding Source:         US Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Title:                            IES Research and Research Training Grant Programs
Program:                     The Institute of Education Sciences' overarching priority is research that contributes to school readiness and improved academic achievement for all students, and particularly for those whose education prospects are hindered by inadequate education services and conditions associated with poverty, race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, disability, and family circumstance.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent:            April 19, 2012
Full Proposal:  June 21, 2012
Link:                            http://ies.ed.gov/funding/futureComp.asp

Funding Source:         US Department of Education
Title:                            Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA): Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Projects
Program:                     The Fulbright-Hays GPA Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Short-term projects may include seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study. Long-term projects support advanced overseas intensive language projects, which give advanced language students the opportunity to study languages overseas.
Deadline:                    April 23, 2012
Link:                            http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-02-23/pdf/2012-4239.pdf

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                            NIMHD Social, Behavioral, Health Services, and Policy Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01)
Program:                     The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to solicit innovative social, behavioral, health services, and policy research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to the elimination of health disparities. Projects may involve primary data collection or secondary analysis of existing datasets. Projects that examine understudied health conditions; examine the effectiveness of interventions, services, or policies for multiple health disparity populations; and/or directly measure the impact of project activities on levels of health disparities are particularly encouraged.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent:                        May 4, 2012
Full Proposal:                                                  June 4, 2012
Link:                            http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-12-003.html

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Program:                     PIRE is an NSF-wide program that supports international activities across all NSF supported disciplines. The primary goal of PIRE is to support high quality projects in which advances in research and education could not occur without international collaboration. PIRE seeks to catalyze a higher level of international engagement in the U.S. science and engineering community. International partnerships are essential to addressing critical science and engineering problems. In the global context, U.S. researchers and educators must be able to operate effectively in teams with partners from different nations and cultural backgrounds. PIRE promotes excellence in science and engineering through international collaboration and facilitates development of a diverse, globally-engaged, U.S. science and engineering workforce.
This PIRE competition will focus exclusively on the NSF-wide investment area of Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES). The SEES effort focuses on interdisciplinary topics that will advance sustainability science, engineering and education as an integrative approach to the challenges of adapting to environmental, social and cultural changes associated with growth and development of human populations, and attaining a sustainable energy future.
Deadline:                    May 15, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11564/nsf11564.htm

UC

Funding Source:         UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC)
Title:                            Planning & Development Grants for Collaborative Research
Program:                     CCREC is now accepting proposals for planning and development grants for projects that use collaborative methodologies to address the interrelated crises affecting the state of California.
Successful applications will:
Have a UC Academic Senate faculty member or eligible UC researcher serve as PI;
Be inter/multi-disciplinary and ethically grounded;
Address at least two of the CCREC focal areas (economy, education, employment, environment, health, housing, and nutrition) in an integrated way, although preference will be given to projects that include attention to economic and employment issues;
Include community-based and policy partners in substantive ways (letters of demonstrated support will be required to release funds);
Provide a clear connection between the proposed research and significant policy and/or community change;
Demonstrate continuous value-added benefits to the community;
Make creative use of new media in research and public learning/deliberative activities, and in dissemination of results; and
Identify potential funders for taking the project to scale.
Deadline:                    March 21, 2012
Link:                            http://ccrec.ucsc.edu/ccrec-newsletter

Funding Source:         UCHRI
Title:                            UCHRI Working Groups 2012
Program:                     The UC Humanities Research Institute is pleased to accept calls for Working Group proposals. Working Groups will provide financial and technological resources for University of California faculty to support research collaboration and communication within the extended range of humanities disciplines.
Working Groups are designed to catalyze collaboration between individuals from different disciplines, locations, and UC campuses around a specific problem, theme, object or topic. A Working Group may consist of 5 to 15 people who will collaborate over one academic year to address a clearly defined timely issue or early stage of research on an emergent topic in the humanities. Members of a Working Group will be expected to be connected virtually for ongoing communication and to meet face-to-face at least one time throughout the year.
Deadline:                    May 10, 2012
Link:                            http://uchri.org

Foundations

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            National Humanities Medals
Program:                     The National Humanities Medal honors individuals and organizations whose work has deepened our nation’s understanding of and engagement with history, literature, languages, philosophy, and other humanities subjects. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) established the award in 1997 as the successor to the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities, which was awarded from 1989 to 1996.
Deadline:                    April 13, 2012
Link:                            http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/medalsnominate.html

Student

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                            Mental Health Research Dissertation Grant to Increase Diversity (R36)
Program:                     The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), is to increase the diversity of the mental health research workforce by providing dissertation awards in all areas of research within the strategic priorities of the NIMH to individuals from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in mental health research to support the completion of the doctoral research project.
Deadline:                    April 21, 2012
Link:                            http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-103.html