Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-TUES: January 14, 2013
NSF-Division of Environmental Biology: LOI: January 23, 2013
NIH- Initiative to Maximize Research Education in Genomics: Courses (R25)
LOI: December 26, 2012
Foundations
McCormick Foundation: January 23, 2013
UC
UC Open Access Fund Pilot: Rolling
Students
Point Foundation-LGBTQ Scholarships: January 14, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES)
Program: The TUES program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. This solicitation especially encourages projects that have the potential to transform undergraduate STEM education, for example, by bringing about widespread adoption of classroom practices that embody understanding of how students learn most effectively. Thus transferability and dissemination are critical aspects for projects developing instructional materials and methods and should be considered throughout the project's lifetime. More advanced projects should involve efforts to facilitate adaptation at other sites. The program supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies to reflect advances both in STEM disciplines and in what is known about teaching and learning. It funds projects that develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, prepare K-12 teachers, or conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. It also supports projects that further the work of the program itself, for example, synthesis and dissemination of findings across the program. The program supports projects representing different stages of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.
Deadline: January 14, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source NSF
Title: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Program: The DEB supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patterns and processes at all spatial and temporal scales. Areas of research include biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics, molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem structure, function and services, conservation biology, global change, and biogeochemical cycles. Research on organismal origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and evolutionary history may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative experiments; synthesis activities; as well as theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling.
Deadline Letter of Intent: January 23, 2013
Full Proposal: August 2, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13508/nsf13508.htm
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Initiative to Maximize Research Education in Genomics: Courses (R25)
Program: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) invites R25 applications to support short-term, advanced courses that are intended to disseminate, to a larger scientific audience, new techniques, methods, or analyses related to the mission of the NHGRI. Genomics has stimulated and continues to stimulate the development of powerful new techniques, methods and analyses, and biomedical research would benefit from the rapid, widespread dissemination of these methods to the larger biomedical research community. Short (a few days to two week) courses have been a very effective means of achieving dissemination.
NHGRI has also addressed the many ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) that have been raised by genomics research. Discussion and dissemination of new and emerging ELSI issues would keep the community updated and alerted to issues that should be anticipated in genomics research involving human participants.
Applications are encouraged for courses designed to address either of these needs. Courses designed to cross-train genomic researchers and ELSI scholars are particularly encouraged. Course offerings should be targeted to individuals in careers at the doctoral level and beyond; are expected to be hosted by academic or research institutions where the staff and faculty are experienced in training; should include as faculty established investigators or scholars actively working in the area of instruction; and should typically be two weeks or less in length and offered annually, although other terms may be acceptable. Applicants may request up to three years of support.
This initiative is not intended to support the development of an institution's course curriculum. Participation in these courses must be open to students and investigators nation-wide.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: December 26, 2012
Full Proposal January 25, 2013
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-012.html
Foundations
Funding Source: McCormick Foundation
Title: New Media Women Entrepreneurs
Program: J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund four women-led media projects that show promise in creativity and sustainability. We will fund U.S.-based individuals who have original ideas to create new websites, mobile news services or other entrepreneurial initiatives that offer interactive opportunities to engage, inspire and improve news and information in a geographic community or a community of interest.
Deadline: January 23, 2013
Link: http://www.newmediawomen.org/site/proposal_guidelines/
UC
Funding Source: UCSC
Title: UC Open Access Fund Pilot
Program: This new pilot fund, sponsored by the California Digital Library and the UCSC University Librarian, supports UCSC faculty members, lecturers, post-docs, and graduate students who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. The goals of the fund are to advance the impact of, and increase access to, UCSC research and scholarship; to support innovative models of scholarly publishing; and to aid UCSC faculty, students, and staff who want to publish in open-access journals but who do not have other sources of funding to cover article-processing fees.
The fund provides UCSC authors reimbursement:
- up to $3000/article for open access fees for those publishing in full open access journals. Some examples include PLOS journals in the sciences (particularly biology and medicine) and SAGE Open in social sciences and humanities.
up to $1500/article for paid access fees in hybrid journals (a hybrid journal is a traditional subscription-based journal that offers authors an option to pay an additional fee to make the article available to the public.)
Deadline: Rolling
Link: http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/openaccessfunds
Students
Funding Source: Point Foundation
Title LGBTQ Scholarships
Program Point Scholarships are designed to help promising LGBTQ students achieve their full academic and leadership potential despite obstacles. Scholars must demonstrate academic excellence, leadership skills, community involvement, and financial need. Attention also will be paid to students who have lost the financial and social support of their families and/or communities as a result of revealing their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Deadline: January 14, 2012
Link: http://www.pointfoundation.org/apply.html
