Grant Opportunities 1-2-12

January 02, 2012

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Upcoming Deadlines
 

Federal
NSF-Math and Science Partnership:                                                             
March 5, 2012
NSF-Ethics in Education and Science and Engineering:                              
March 1, 2012
NSF- Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program Phase II:     
LOI: January 24, 2012
NSF- Dear Colleague Letter: Interdisciplinary Research across the SBE Sciences
UCOP-UC Mexus Collaborative Research:                                                  
March 5, 2012

Foundation
John Templeton Foundation:                                                                          
April 16, 2012
Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford):                                  
February 1, 2012

Student
Morris K. Udall Foundation Environmental Dissertation:                              
February 24, 2012
SSRC- Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections
Preliminary Proposal: February 13, 2012

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                       Math and Science Partnership (MSP)
Program:                  The MSP program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the STEM performance of diverse student populations. MSP projects contribute to what is known in K-12 STEM education. All STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields supported by NSF may be involved in this work, with special encouragement to areas that are gaining increased traction at the K-12 level, such as computer science and engineering, in addition to mathematics and science. MSP projects also serve as models that have a sufficiently strong evidence/research base to improve STEM education outcomes for all students.
Deadline:                 March 5, 2012
Link:                       http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12518/nsf12518.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                       Ethics in Education in Science and Engineering (EESE)
Program:                  The EESE program aims to deepen the understanding of ethical dilemmas in science and engineering, and provide cutting edge, effective research and educational materials to train the next generation of scientists and engineers. The EESE program accepts proposals for innovative research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, including within interdisciplinary, inter-institutional and international contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields or on developing summer post-baccalaureate ethics-education activities or other activities that transition students from undergraduate to graduate education. The Principal Investigator team should be truly multi-disciplinary, and involve people with different disciplinary backgrounds.

The program will entertain proposals in graduate ethics education in science and engineering generally and will continue to support exploration of new ethical questions in engineering, biology, computer science, and other fields. Priority areas include but are not limited to:
- global/international challenges in science and engineering ethics;
- a general framework for the ethics of emerging technologies;
- issues of privacy and confidentiality in relation to data mining;
- fields for which there are few resources in ethics education or research;
- ethical issues related to robotics;
- intersection of the choices that society makes between natural resource development and utilization (e.g., energy sources) and environmental consequences;
- ethical issues associated with natural hazards, risk management, decision-making and the role of scientists in defining and negotiating the consequences of natural hazards in the face of scientific uncertainties.
Deadline:                 March 1, 2012
Link:                       http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13338

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                       Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program Phase II
Program:                  The CCEP program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to be of a large enough scale that it will have catalytic or transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF program awards. The CCEP program is one facet of a larger NSF collection of awards related to Climate Change Education (CCE) that has two goals: (1) preparing a new generation of climate scientists, engineers, and technicians equipped to provide innovative and creative approaches to understanding global climate change and to mitigate its impact; and, (2) preparing today's U.S. citizens to understand global climate change and its implications in ways that can lead to informed, evidence-based responses and solutions.
Deadline:                 Letter of Intent:            January 24, 2012
Full Proposal:            March 24, 2012
Link:                       http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12523/nsf12523.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                       Dear Colleague Letter: Interdisciplinary Research across the SBE Sciences
Link:                       http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12030/nsf12030.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
           
Funding Source:         UCOP
Title:                       UC Mexus-CONACYT Grants for Collaborative Projects
Program:                  The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) and El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) announce a call for proposals to provide seed funding to teams of UC and Mexican researchers with beginning projects in basic and applied collaborative research, instructional development, and public service and education projects that apply research to public issues. The primary objective of the program is to enable the establishment of new collaborative initiatives with the potential for creating permanent ties between UC campuses and Mexican institutions that will grow and continue with the support of other institutional and extramural funds. Therefore, proposals for expansion or continuation of ongoing projects, as well as dissemination of research results of earlier work through binational conferences and publications, will be considered a lower priority.

Projects funded are expected to lead to development of major, long-term collaborations; significant advancement of scholarship in the natural sciences, physical sciences, engineering, computer sciences, social sciences, or humanities; strengthening of academic and research capabilities of the participating UC and Mexican institutions, especially in Mexican regional universities and institutions outside of the traditional Mexican research centers; the development of innovative binational instruction or new courses or degree programs; and/or public service and education programs addressing critical issues in Mexico or in the United States. The program also favors projects that enhance institutional collaboration in terms of student training and researcher exchange. Grant recipients are expected to use the seed funds to undertake the preliminary research necessary to develop proposals for extramural funding.
Deadline:                 March 5, 2012
Link:                       http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/funding/grant_collaborative.html

Foundation

Funding Source:         John Templeton Foundation
Title:                       Core Funding Grants
Program:                  Life Sciences: The Foundation supports projects investigating the evolution and fundamental nature of life, human life, and mind, especially as they relate to issues of meaning and purpose. Projects are welcome from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including the biological sciences, neuroscience, archeology, and paleontology.
Human Sciences: The Foundation supports projects that apply the tools of anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology to the various moral and spiritual concepts identified by Sir John Templeton. These include altruism, creativity, free will, generosity, gratitude, intellect, love, prayer, and purpose.
Philosophy & Theology: The Foundation supports projects that attempt to develop new philosophical and theological insights, especially (but not only) in relation to advances in scientific understanding.
Science in Dialogue: The Foundation has a strong interest in projects that bring one or more scientific disciplines into a mutually enriching discussion with theology and/or philosophy, whether for a scholarly audience or the public at large. The Foundation supports a broad range of programs, publications, and studies focused on the universal truths of character development, from childhood through young adulthood and beyond. The Foundation honors this profound vision by supporting a range of programs intended to liberate the initiative of individuals and nations and to establish the necessary conditions for the success of profitmaking enterprise. The Foundation has sponsored academic training and competitions for students who show extraordinary potential but whose talents might not otherwise be developed, especially because of their economic circumstances or insufficient educational support. The Foundation’s engagement with this Core Funding Area is still in its early stages, and we are not currently accepting unsolicited proposals on genetics. The only current opportunity for support in this area is through our Funding Priority, “Can Genetically Modified Crops Help to Feed the World?”
Deadline:                 April 16, 2012
Link:                       http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/core-funding-areas

Funding Source:         Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford)
Title:                       International Security Fellowships
Program:                  CISAC's International Security Fellowship Program offers pre and postdoctoral students and professionals in the social sciences opportunities for concentrated study in a multidisciplinary environment. Fellows are expected to produce a research product (e.g., dissertation chapters, draft articles, a book manuscript) by the end of their fellowship year. The Center considers applicants working within a broad range of topics related to peace and international security.
Deadline:                 February 1, 2012
Link:                       http://cisac.stanford.edu/fellowships/international_security_fellowships/


Student

Funding Source:         Morris K. Udall Foundation
Title:                       Environmental Public Policy & conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowship
Program:                  The Udall Foundation is dedicated to protecting America's heritage by supporting programs focused on environmental and Native American issues. The foundation awards two one-year fellowships to doctoral candidates whose research is on U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution.
Deadline:                 February 24, 2012
Link:                       http://www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/ECRFellowship/ECRFellowship.aspx

Funding Source:         Social Science Research Council
Title:                       Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections
Program:                  The SSRC is pleased to announce a pilot postdoctoral fellowship program that will support transregional research under the rubric "Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections." Its purpose is to strengthen the understanding of issues and geographies that don't fit neatly into existing divisions of academia or the world and to develop new approaches, practices, and opportunities in international, regional, and area studies in the United States. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these fellowships will help junior scholars complete first books and/or undertake second projects. In addition to funding research, the program will create networks and shared resources that will support Fellows well beyond the grant period.
The Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research will thus provide promising scholars important support at critical junctures in their careers. As stressed by SSRC president Craig Calhoun, "Recent Ph.D.s have written brilliant dissertations bringing new excitement to the social sciences and humanities by taking on the intellectual challenges of innovative transregional work. We want to help them complete, consolidate, and expand the work they've undertaken."
The intellectual thrust of the pilot project will be the re-conceptualization of Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia. Proposals submitted for the fellowship competition should bear upon processes that connect places and peoples (such as migration, media, and resource flows) as well as those that reconfigure local and trans-local contexts (such as shifting borders, urbanization, and social movements). The broad focus of the program is intended to advance transregional research as well as to establish structures for linking scholars across disciplines in the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Deadline:                 Preliminary Proposal: February 13, 2012
Full Proposal:            May 1, 2012
Link:                       http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/transregional-research-fellowship/