Grant Opportunities 1-1-3

January 01, 2013

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

Upcoming Deadlines


Federal

NSF-Perception, Action & Cognition:                                                            February 1, 2013
NSF- Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources:                   February 27, 2013
NEH- Summer Seminars and Institutes:                                              March 5, 2013
National Institutes for Water Resources- Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants
February 21, 2013

Foundations
Siemens Foundation:                                                                           March 5 2013
American Agricultural Economics Association:                                  February 1, 2013

Students
USDA- AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program:        Letter of Intent:            January 17, 2013
NSEP- David L Boren Graduate Fellowships:                                               January 31, 2013
Dell Social Innovation Challenge:                                                     January 28, 2013

Federal

Funding Source          NSF
Title:                            Perception, Action & Cognition
Program:                     Supports research on perception, action and cognition. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Central research topics for consideration by the Perception, Action, and Cognition panel include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, and motor control. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. The PAC program is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs (e.g., Linguistics, Developmental and Learning Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience, etc). Proposals may involve clinical populations, animals, or computational modeling only if the work has direct impact on basic issues of human perception, action, or cognition.
Deadline:                    February 1, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources
Program:                     As part of NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR areas of research. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes--but is not limited to--the SBE or EHR areas of research.
Deadline:                    February 27, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13519/nsf13519.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            Summer Seminars and Institutes
Program:                     These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as five weeks. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes • extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics and texts; • contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; • build communities of inquiry and provide models of civility and excellent scholarship and teaching; and • effectively link teaching and research in the humanities. An NEH Summer Seminar or Institute may be hosted by a college, university, learned society, center for advanced study, library or other repository, a cultural or professional organization, or a school or school system. The host site must be suitable for the project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. These programs are designed for a national audience of teachers.
Deadline:                    March 5, 2013
Link:                            http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/summer-seminars-and-institutes

Funding Source:         National Institutes for Water Resources
Title:                            Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants
Program:                     The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources requests proposals for matching grants to support research on the topic of improving and enhancing the nation’s water supply, including (but not limited to) enhancement of water supply infrastructure, development and evaluation of warning systems for extreme hydrological events, integrated management of ground and surface waters, and the resilience of public water supplies. Proposals are sought in not only the physical dimensions of supply, but also the role of economics and institutions in water supply and in coping with extreme hydrologic conditions. Any investigator at an accredited institution of higher learning in the United States is eligible to apply for a grant through a Water Research Institute or Center established under the provisions of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984, as amended (http://water.usgs.gov/wrri/institutes.html). Proposals involving substantial collaboration between the USGS and university scientists are encouraged. Proposals may be for projects of 1 to 3 years in duration and may request up to $250,000 in federal funds. Successful applicants must match each dollar of the federal grant with one dollar from non-federal sources.
Deadline:                    February 21, 2013
Link:                            https://niwr.net/public/Migration/niwr.net

Foundations


Funding Source:         Siemens Foundation
Title:                            We Can Change the World Challenge
Program:                     The annual Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge invites teams of students and their adult advisors to tackle local (K-5), regional (6-8), and global (9-12) environmental problems or issues and find replicable green solutions. Now entering its fifth year, the challenge is a collaborative effort of the Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education, the National Science Teachers Association, and the College Board. The program invites entries from students and team advisors (who must be full- or part-time school employees) in the United States. A panel of environmental experts and science educators will judge teams based on their research, analysis, and the potential of their solution to be replicated on a larger scale. High school students are specifically challenged to address energy, biodiversity, land management, water conservation and cleanup, or air and climate. Student and teacher/mentor prizes, which vary according to grade level, include scholarships, savings bonds, school grants, adventure trips, school assemblies, and more. This year's challenge will award prizes totaling more than $300,000.
Deadline:                    March 5, 2013
Link:                            http://www.wecanchange.com

Funding Source:         American Agricultural Economics Association
Title:                            Quality of Research Discovery Award
Program:                     The AAEA Awards Program recognizes excellence in the work of agricultural and applied economics.
The Quality of Research Discovery Award is granted to encourage excellent in publications in fields consistent with the AAEA Vision Statement: "The AAEA will be the leading organization for professional advancement in, and dissemination of, knowledge about agricultural, development, environmental, food and consumer, natural resource, regional, rural, and associated areas of applied economics and business."
Entries must specify that the nomination is to be judged for the Quality of Research Discovery and must have been published in the calendar year preceding the year of recognition. The research must be a significant contribution to the field of knowledge in agricultural and applied economics as defined by the AAEA Vision Statement. The work should demonstrate excellence in research methodology and may deal with conceptualization of researchable problems as well as empirical verification.
Deadline                     February 1, 2013
Link:                            http://www.aaea.org/about-aaea/awards-and-honors/aaea-annual-awards/submit-an-awards-nomination

Students

Funding Source:         USDA
Title:                            AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program
Program:                     The Department of Agriculture established the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) under which the Secretary of Agriculture may make competitive grants for fundamental and applied research, extension, and education to address food and agricultural sciences, as amended, in six priority areas. 
The six priority areas include: 1) plant health and production and plant products; 2) animal health and production and animal products; 3) food safety, nutrition, and health; 4) renewable energy, natural resources, and environment; 5) agriculture systems and technology; and 6) agriculture economics and rural communities.
NIFA Pre- and PostDoctoral Fellowships will support Research, Education, Extension, or Integrated Projects that address one or more of the following issues:
a. Projects aligned with one of the five AFRI Challenge Areas:
1) Agricultural and Natural Resources Science for Climate Variability and Change;
2) Childhood Obesity Prevention;
3) Food Safety;
4) Food Security; and
5) Sustainable Bioenergy.
b. One of the six AFRI Priority Areas.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent: January 17, 2013
Full Proposal:              March 14, 2013
Link:                            http://nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/afri.html

Funding Source:         National Security Education Program
Title:                            David L Boren Graduate Fellowships
Program:                     Fellowships support graduate students who wish to add an international component to their studies. Fellows can pursue the study of languages, cultures, and regions of the world outside of Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Awards provide from 12 weeks up to 24 months of support.
Deadline:                    January 31, 2013
Link:                            http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship

Funding Source:         Dell/University of Texas
Title:                            Dell Social Innovation Challenge
Program:                     The Dell Social Innovation Challenge identifies and supports promising young social innovators who dedicate themselves to solving the world's most pressing problems with their transformative ideas. We provide university students with world-class teaching and training, as well as with start-up capital and access to a network of mentors and advisors.
Deadline:                    January 28, 2013
Link:                            http://www.dellchallenge.org/about/about-dsic