Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF- SEES Fellows: November 26, 2013
NSF- Archaeology and Archaeometry: December 1, 2013
NSF-Cultural Anthropology: January 15, 2014
NSF-Developmental and Learning Sciences: January 15, 2014
NSF- Coastal SEES: January 21, 2014
Foundation
Woodson Postdoctoral Residential Research and Teaching Fellowships: December 1, 2013
Student
Getty Graduate Internships: December 2, 2013
Five College Fellowship Program for Minority Scholars: January 6, 2014
NSF-DIGG: Jan 15-18, 2014
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows)
Program: Through the SEES Fellows Program, NSF seeks to advance science, engineering, and education to inform the societal actions needed for environmental and economic sustainability and human well-being while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. The Program's emphasis is to facilitate investigations that cross-traditional disciplinary boundaries and address issues of sustainability through a systems approach, building bridges between academic inquiry, economic growth, and societal needs. The Fellow's proposed investigation must be interdisciplinary and allow him/her to obtain research experiences beyond his/her current core disciplinary expertise. Fellows are required to develop a research partnership(s) that will advance and broaden the impact/scope of the proposed research, and present a plan for their own professional development in the area of sustainability science and engineering. Proposals with a primary focus on topics covered by the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) are considered "out of scope" for this revised solicitation; however, proposals may include such topics as a secondary (or tertiary) focus.
Deadline: November 26, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504673&WT.mc_id=USNSF_45&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Archaeology and Archaeometry
Program: The Archaeology Program provides support for anthropologically relevant archaeological research at both a "senior" and doctoral dissertation level. It also funds anthropologically significant archaeometric research and high risk exploratory research proposals.
Deadline: Archaeology-Senior Research: December 20, 2013
Archaeometry: December 1, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11690&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Cultural Anthropology
Program: The Cultural Anthropology Program supports basic scientific research about the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Cultural anthropologists analyze human social and cultural behavior holistically. This integrated approach makes anthropology a valuable research tool for understanding the modern world. Because cultural patterns are emergent over time and space, there is no single natural scale for ethnographic and ethnological analysis. In some cases, cultural patterns may emerge from the collective behavior of large ensembles of smaller scale units; in others, they may be imposed by larger scale constraints. The origins of social and cultural variability may be remote from the scale at which they are observed. Therefore, research may target any appropriate scale or scales from local to regional to global. The Program encourages innovative research that contributes to building spatially and temporally specific theory that extends understanding beyond individual case studies.
Deadline: January 15, 2014
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Developmental and Learning Science
Program: DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, social functioning, and productive lives as members of society.
DLS supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development using any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults, and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that impact development change including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying learning and development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., learning, memory, emotion), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales (e.g. infancy, middle childhood, adolescence).
Deadline: January 15, 2014
Link: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Coastal SEES
Program: Coastal SEES is focused on the sustainability of coastal systems. For this solicitation we define coastal systems as the swath of land closely connected to the sea, including barrier islands, wetlands, mudflats, beaches, estuaries, cities, towns, recreational areas, and maritime facilities; the continental seas and shelves; and the overlying atmosphere.
Humans benefit from their use of coastal environments for enjoyment, dwelling, food, industry, and commerce, and benefit from the myriad of ecosystem services that coastal environments provide. However, human activities often result in physical, chemical, and ecological alterations that influence and interact with natural state and variability, over a range of spatial and temporal scales. A major challenge is to understand the dynamics of this coupled human-natural system in order to inform societal decisions about the uses of coastal systems, including for economic, aesthetic, recreational, research, and conservation purposes.
Scientific understanding is foundational and must include an understanding of reciprocal feedbacks between humans and the natural environment; how people and organizations interpret, assess, and act upon scientific and other evidence; and how they weigh these interpretations against other interests to influence governance and decision-making. Thus, coastal sustainability relies on broad and intimately interconnected areas of scholarship about natural and human processes. Coastal SEES projects will be expected to lead to generalizable theoretical advances in natural sciences and engineering while, at the same time, integrating key aspects of human processes required to address issues of coastal sustainability.
Deadline: January 21, 2014
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14502/nsf14502.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Foundations
Funding Source: Carter G. Woodson Institute
Title: Woodson Postdoctoral Residential Research and Teaching Fellowships
Program: Program invites scholars whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora to apply for two-year post-doctoral research and teaching fellowship.
Deadline: December 1, 2013
Link: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/postdoc.html
Students
Funding Source: The Getty Foundation
Title: Getty Graduate Internships
Program: Offers practical training and work experience to graduate students in areas such as curatorial, education, conservation, research, information management, public programs, and grantmaking.
Deadline: December 2, 2013
Link: www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/gradinterns/index.html
Funding Source: Five Colleges Inc.
Title: Five College Fellowship Program for Minority Scholars
Program: Up to four dissertation fellowships are offered. Fellowship is meant for students from underrepresented groups and/or scholars with unique interest and histories, whose engagement in the Academy will enrich scholarship and teaching. Fellows are hosted at an appropriate department or program at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College or Smith College.
Deadline: January 6, 2013
Link: www.fivecolleges.edu/faculty/fellowships
Funding Source: NSF
Title: SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Program: The NSF’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in both BCS and SES, the Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics program within NCSES, and the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program in SMA accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Requirements vary across programs, so proposers are advised to consult the relevant program's webpage for specific information and contact the program director if necessary.
Deadline:
Political Science; Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics; Cultural Anthropology; Law & Social Sciences; Linguistics: January 15, 2014
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics: January 16, 2014
Economics; Decision, Risk and Management Sciences: January 18, 2014
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11547/nsf11547.htm
