Grant Opportunities 8.27.12

August 27, 2012

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644


Upcoming Deadlines

Federal
NSF- Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers:         LOI-September 20, 2012
NSF- SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships:                                              October 29, 2012
NSF- Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)-Broadening Participation in STEM Education Research Proposals:                                                       October 19, 2012
NIH- NIMH Short Courses for Mental Health-Related Research Education (R25):
September 25, 2012

Foundations
Open Society Foundation- US Criminal Justice Fund:                                   September 21, 2012
ACLS- Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society:  September 19, 2012

UC
UC Proof of Concept Program: Commercialization Gap Grants:     October 9, 2012

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Program:                     ITEST supports the research and development of innovative models for engaging K-12 students in authentic experiences that build their capacity to participate in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communications technology (ICT) workforce of the future. ITEST projects must include students and may include teachers.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent (required):       September 20, 2012
Full Proposal:              November 13, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12597/nsf12597.htm

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Program:                     The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in two tracks: (i) Broadening Participation (SPRF-BP), and (ii) Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences (SPRF-IBSS). See the full text of the solicitation for detailed description of these tracks.
Deadline:                    October 29, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12591/nsf12591.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)-Broadening Participation in STEM Education Research Proposals
Program:                     The LSAMP program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM discipline: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiian s, and Native Pacific Islanders. The knowledge generation portfolio of LSAMP supported activities contributes to the body of literature on successful practices in student recruitment, retention, persistence, and attainment of STEM undergraduate and graduate degrees, especially for the previously mentioned populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines.
The Broadening Participation Research (BPR) in STEM Education track provides support for knowledge generation research projects that seek to create and study new theory-driven models and innovations related to the participation and success of diverse groups in STEM undergraduate education. BPR projects add new research-based strategies and models to broadening participation in STEM and increase the capacity of scholars to conduct this type of research.
Deadline:                    October 19, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12564/nsf12564.htm

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                            NIMH Short Courses for Mental Health-Related Research Education (R25)
Program:                     This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), encourages Research Education Grant (R25) applications from Institutions/Organizations that propose to develop, implement and evaluate creative, innovative, and state-of-the-art short courses that will facilitate the development of a sophisticated cadre of investigators with the requisite scientific research skills to advance the mission of the NIMH, namely to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through research. Each short course is expected to include both didactic and hands-on experiences.  Participants are limited to graduate/medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and/or early-career faculty. 
Deadline:                    September 25, 2012
Link:                            http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-262.html

Foundations

Funding Source:         Open Society Foundation
Title:                            US Criminal Justice Fund
Program:                     The fund provides support to organizations and projects working to advance its programmatic strategies, including efforts to expose the social and economic costs of incarceration; promote just and effective sentencing policies; foster policies and practices that reduce prison and corrections populations; challenge the criminalization of people with mental disabilities, the homeless, and women; abolish the privatization of prisons, detention centers, and correctional supervision; abolish the death penalty; end the prosecution, sentencing, and incarceration of children as adults; end the criminalization of children in schools; challenge harsh immigration enforcement and detention; eliminate the use of long-term solitary confinement in prison; eliminate collateral consequences of criminal convictions; promote the civic engagement and leadership of people with criminal records; improve indigent defense services and systems; reduce unnecessary pretrial detention; and/or eliminate stop-and-frisk policing policy and practices in New York City. Funding is available to organizations that address one or more of the program's funding priorities through at least one of the following strategies: policy-driven nonpartisan analysis and research; public education; policy advocacy; community organizing and mobilization; coalition-building; and/or impact litigation.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent:            September 21, 2012
Link:                            http://www.soros.org/grants/us-criminal-justice-fund


Funding Source:         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 we are soliciting proposals in the humanities and related social sciences that adopt an explicitly cross-cultural or comparative perspective. We invite 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.
Deadline:                    September 19, 2012
Link:                            http://www.acls.org/programs/chinese-culture/

UC

The University of California Office of Research and Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the release of the FY 12-13 UC Proof of Concept Program: Commercialization Gap Grants.

The goal of the UC Proof of Concept: Commercialization Gap Grant (POC) is to accelerate the commercialization of technology developed at and assigned to UC by providing funding to bridge the gap between research and commercialization in the absence of an industry sponsor or investment partner. Projects appropriate for this opportunity have already demonstrated successful results in the research environment and are poised for commercialization pending a specific, targeted demonstration, test result, or prototype for which no other funding is available. Applicants must demonstrate that successful completion of the project would likely result in either a technology being licensed to an existing company or spur the development of a start-up company, and has potential to benefit California and its economy. Applicants may request up to $125,000 in direct costs (25% indirect cost rate allowable) and up to 1 year of funding.
All applicants must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) including a Project Eligibility and Commercial Assessment Form (prepared by the applicant’s Campus Technology Licensing Office) by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, October 9, 2012.  Full proposals are due 12:00 noon Thursday, December 6, 2012.  LOIs and proposals must be submitted using the online proposal system proposalCENTRAL https://proposalcentral.altum.com/. Please refer to the program website for the most up-to-date information: http://www.ucop.edu/poc/call.html . LOI submission instructions are now available at the program website above and on proposalCENTRAL. Detailed Application Instructions for full proposals will be posted within two weeks. Questions regarding this funding opportunity may be directed to the Research Grants Program Office. E-mail RGPOGrants@ucop.edu  or call 510-987-9386.