Grant Opportunities 8.13.12

August 13, 2012

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644


Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections:                             October 19, 2012
NSF- Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity:     LOI:     September 26, 2012
NIH- Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition-Drug Abuse and Addiction
October 16, 2012
NARA- Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing:                            October 4, 2012
NEH-Summer Stipends:                                                                                  September 1, 2012

Foundations
Google- Google Research Awards:                                                               October 15, 2012
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation- Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation
September 15, 2012

UC
UC Mexus Small Grants:                                                                                October 1, 2012

Students
NSF- Sociology-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant:                     October 15, 2012

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
Program:                     This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic, paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about associated organisms, collector field notes, and tissues and molecular data extracted from the specimens, is a rich resource providing the baseline from which to further biodiversity research and provide critical information about existing gaps in our knowledge of life on earth. The national resource is structured at three levels: a central coordinating organization, a series of thematic networks based on an important research theme, and the physical collections. The national resource builds upon a sizable existing national investment in curation of the physical objects in scientific collections and contributes vitally to scientific research and technology interests in the United States. It will become an invaluable tool in understanding contemporary biological issues and challenges.
Deadline:                    October 19, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12565

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity
Program:                     National prosperity today has become more dependent upon research and technology. Thus, NSF's role of supporting discovery research across all fields of science and engineering has become increasingly more relevant to economic development. By establishing and expanding partnerships, existing research discovery findings from institutions of higher education can be translated to innovations. This program solicitation, Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) starts with an existing sound scientific and/or engineering-based research discovery that can be translated to market-valued solutions through a partnership between academe and small technology-based businesses. The funds will provide support to an academic institution to partner with at least two small technology-based businesses that are not in direct competition with each other to carry out early translational-research activities The primary aims of the activities of this partnership are three-fold: (1) to build the innovation capacity of the individual participants from academe and from business; (2) to increase the viability of the small business concerns; and (3) to develop the next-generation workforce by providing opportunities for students at different levels to effectively learn from, participate in, and be profoundly changed by exposure to the process of building innovation capacity that occurs in BIC projects. The active collaboration between academe and business could result in solutions with potential for an impact on more than one market.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent:            September 26, 2012
Full Proposal:  December 12, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12578

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                            Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition-Drug Abuse and Addiction
Program:                     This FOA will use the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and seeks to facilitate the entry of beginning investigators into the field of behavioral science research related to drug abuse. To be appropriate for a B/START award, research must be primarily focused on behavioral processes and research questions.
Deadline:                    October 16, 2012
Link:                            http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-251.html

Funding Source:         National Archives and Records Administration
Title:                            Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing
Program:                     The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that are exploring innovative methods to improve the preservation, public discovery, or use of historical records. Projects may also focus on techniques and tools that will improve the professional performance and effectiveness of those who work with such records, such as archivists, documentary editors, and records managers. Projects must anticipate results that will affect more than a single institution or a single state. Projects may focus on methods of working with records in any format, including born-digital records. Projects designed to publish historical records must focus on innovative methods of presenting archival records as primary sources.
Deadline:                    October 4, 2012
Link:                            http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/innovation.html

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            NEH Summer Stipends
Program:                     The Summer Stipends program welcomes projects that respond to NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally or within the United States. International projects might seek to enlarge Americans’ understanding of other places and times, as well as other perspectives and intellectual traditions. American projects might explore the great variety of cultural influences on, and myriad subcultures within, American society. These projects might also investigate how Americans have approached and attempted to surmount seemingly unbridgeable cultural divides, or examine the ideals of civility and civic discourse that have informed this quest.
Internal Deadline:       September 1, 2012
Internal Guidelines:    The campus may submit up to two nominations.  Interested applicants should prepare a project description (no longer than 3 pages) and email it as .pdf to ihr@ucsc.edu by September 1, 2012. A committee composed of three members of the participating divisions (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) will select the top two projects and send their recommendations to the Humanities Dean, the campus nominating official.  The nominees will be notified by September 10, 2012 and have until September 27, 2012 to complete and submit their NEH applications.
Link:                 http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends

Foundations

Funding Source:         Google
Title:                            Google Research Awards
Program:                     One-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world.  Faculty members can apply by submitting a proposal to one of our two annual funding rounds.  Faculty members can apply for up to 150,000 USD in eligible expenses, but actual award amounts are frequently less; most awards are funded at the amount needed to support basic expenses for one graduate student for one year.  The intent of the Google Research Awards is to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields (such as Education innovation; Geo/maps; Human-computer interaction; Information retrieval, extraction, and organization; Machine learning and data mining; Social networks; Software engineering).
Deadline:                    October 15, 2012
Link:                            http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html

Funding Source:         Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Title:                            Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation
Program:                     The foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. The foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Deadline:                    September 15, 2012
Link:                            http://www.gf.org/

UC

Funding Source:         UC Mexus
Title:                            UC Mexus Small Grants
Program:                     Seed funds are available to support beginning projects in the areas listed above; travel to develop collaborations or to present the results of UC MEXUS-supported research projects; visiting scholars from Mexican institutions; lectures and performances; public service programs; and other short-term needs for the initial development of projects. Requests are encouraged for funds to match awards from campus sources.
Deadline:                    October 1, 2012
Link:                            http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/funding/grant_small.html

Students

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Sociology-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
Program:                     The Sociology Program dissertation improvement grants are awarded to support high quality doctoral dissertation research in sociology. The suitability of a research idea is based on the extent to which the research contributes to sociological theory and knowledge, not on specific topics. Grants are for direct research costs associated with either original data collection or the analysis of existing datasets. Direct research costs may include such things as dataset acquisition, additional statistical or methodological training through ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) meeting with scholars associated with the original data set, and fieldwork away from the student's home campus.
Deadline:                    October 15, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/soc/socckl1.jsp