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Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Robert Noyce Teaching Scholarships:
Letter of Intent February 27, 2012
NIH- Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Improve Health-Related Behaviors (R01):
February 5, 2012
CDC- Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury:
March 16, 2012
UCOP
Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC):
March 24, 2012
Center for New Racial Studies:
February 15, 2012
Foundation
Spencer-Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity:
February 10, 2012
Student
SSCR- Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship:
February 1, 2012
Willis W. Ethel M. Clark Foundation:
January 31, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Robert Noyce Teaching Scholarships
Program: The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and post-baccalaureate students holding STEM degrees who earn a teaching credential and commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts. The NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship Track provides funding to support STEM professionals who enroll as NSF Teaching Fellows in master's degree programs leading to teacher certification by providing academic courses, professional development, and salary supplements while they are fulfilling a four-year teaching commitment in a high-need school district. This track also supports the development of NSF Master Teaching Fellows by providing professional development and salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and science teachers to become Master Teachers in high-need school districts. Each track supports Capacity Building Projects to develop the capacity for institutions to provide innovative teacher preparation programs to enable increasing numbers of STEM majors and STEM professionals to become effective K-12 mathematics and science teachers and to develop the capacity to prepare Master science and mathematics teachers.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: February 27, 2012
Full Proposal: March 26, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12525/nsf12525.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Improve Health-Related Behaviors (R01)
Program: This FOA seeks highly innovative Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to translate findings from basic research on human behavior into effective clinical, community, or population-based behavioral interventions to improve health. Specifically, this FOA will support interdisciplinary teams of basic and applied biological, behavioral and/or social science researchers in developing and refining novel behavioral interventions with high potential impact to improve health-promoting behaviors (e.g., healthy dietary intake, sun safety, physical activity, or adherence to medical regimens), and/or reduce problem health behaviors (e.g., smoking, tanning or physical activity or alcohol or substance use, abuse or dependence).
Deadline: February 5, 2012
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-063.html
Funding Source: Health and Human Services –CDC
Title: Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury
Program: The purposes of the NCIPC extramural violence prevention research program are to: •Build the scientific base for the prevention of violence by helping to expand and advance our understanding of the primary prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence. •Encourage professionals from a wide spectrum of disciplines of epidemiology, behavioral and social sciences, medicine, biostatistics, public health, health economics, law, and criminal justice to perform research in order to prevent violence more effectively. •Encourage investigators to propose research that involves the development and testing of primary prevention strategies as well as research on methods to enhance the adoption and maintenance of effective strategies among individuals, organizations, or communities. NCIPC is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will expand and advance the understanding of how best to disseminate and implement evidence-based strategies, programs, and policies. NCIPC is also soliciting research in areas where less is known about what works to prevent violence such as teen dating violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and suicidal behavior.
Deadline: March 16, 2012
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=134733
UCOP
Funding Source: Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC)
Title: Planning and Development Grants
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.
We especially encourage:
Projects that include more that one UC campus;
Projects with a regional focus; and
Projects that include a graduate student training component.
Deadline: March 24, 2012
Link: http://ccrec.ucsc.edu/projects/rfps
Funding Source: UCOP-Center for New Racial Studies
Title: Race-Making, Race Neutrality, and Race-Consciousness
Program: For the 2012-2013 grant-making cycle, the UCCNRS invites proposals that address the theme of Race-Making, Race-Neutrality and Race-Consciousness. While the claim is often made that race is less salient today than it was in the past, for example in determining "life-chances" and (in)equality, that argument remains in dispute. Racial conditions continue to apply across the entire social sphere: in respect to (in)equality and mobility both geographic and socioeconomic, in cultural terms, in political and legal practices, and in understandings and treatments of the human body (for example, in the arts, in medical and public health practices, and in patterns of crime and punishment). Race continues to operate in the allocation of resources and the deployment of political power, as well as the organization of communities, of interpersonal relationships, and of personal identity. The 2012-2013 research theme has been designed to address these and related areas of inquiry.
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Link: http://www.uccnrs.ucsb.edu/uccnrs-research-program-2012-2013-race-making-race-neutrality-and-race-consciousness
Foundation
Funding Source: Spencer Foundation
Title: Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity
Program: The Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities - as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them - and to find ways to more fully realize education's potential to promote more equal opportunity. Expanded opportunity is important not only to a society's economic well being but to the character of its civic, cultural, and social life as well.
Deadline: February 10, 2012
Link: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/education-and-social-opportunity
Student
Funding Source: Social Science Research Council
Title: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
Program: The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is organized to help early-stage graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate effective doctoral dissertation proposals. Each year, the program offers dissertation proposal development under the leadership of pairs of tenured senior faculty in the US and abroad who define emerging or reinvigorated multidisciplinary research fields. These research field directors lead groups of 12 graduate students through two workshops during the fellowship cycle. The spring workshop prepares students to undertake summer preliminary research that will inform the design of more robust dissertation research in the future. The fall workshop helps students apply their summer research experiences to writing both dissertation and funding proposals. Students may apply for up to $5,000 to cover summer research costs. Travel and accommodations to attend both workshops are covered by the DPDF Program.
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Link: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/
Funding Source: Willis W. Ethel M. Clark Foundation
Title: Investment in Community Graduate Fellowship
Program: The Investment in Community Fellowship is awarded each year to a deserving graduate student who was born, raised or lived on the Monterey Peninsula and who intends to return to the area and be of service to the local community after completing his/her graduate degree. The award can be used to cover the ordinary costs of graduate school including tuition, books, room and board.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Link: www.theclarkfoundation.org
