Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF- Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research – Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT): Letter of Intent: October 7, 2013
NSF-Discovery Research K-12: December 6, 2013
NSF- Smart and Connected Health (SCH): October 10 & December 10, 2013
Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship: Internal: September 19, 2013
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowships: October 1, 2013
Students
Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship: November 20,2013
Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE): Internal: September 23, 2013
Spencer- Dissertation Fellowship Program: October 4, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research – Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT)
Program: The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). In the final analysis, both programs are concerned with the movement of academic research discoveries into the marketplace although each focuses on different stages along the innovation spectrum. The subject of this solicitation is PFI: AIR Technology Translation (TT) only. The PFI: AIR-TT solicitation is intended to help bridge the funding gap between existing research discoveries that validate relevant science and engineering fundamentals and their translation through proof-of-concept, prototype, or scale-up along a path toward commercialization and engage faculty and students in entrepreneurial/innovative thinking.
Deadline Letter of Intent (Required): October 7, 2013
Full Proposal: November 13, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13575/nsf13575.htm
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Discovery Research K-12
Program: The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. Teachers and students who participate in DRK-12 studies are expected to enhance their understanding and use of STEM content, practices and skills.
DRK-12 invites proposals that address immediate challenges that are facing preK-12 STEM education as well as those that anticipate radically different structures and functions of pre-K 12 teaching and learning. The DRK-12 program has four major research and development strands: (1) Assessment; (2) Learning; (3) Teaching; and (4) Implementation Research. The program recognizes that there is some overlap among the strands. Proposals may address more than one strand. For example, projects in the Learning Strand may also include assessments of student learning, and/or support for teachers and plans for larger dissemination and use. Likewise, the Teaching Strand has a specific focus on RMTs for teacher education and professional development, but these are often based on a particular curriculum or set of instructional materials or tools. The Implementation Research strand that replaces the Scale-up strand in the previous solicitation might potentially address any or a combination of the other three strands. The program supports three types of projects: (1) Exploratory, (2) Full Design and Development, and (3) Conferences, Workshops, and Syntheses. All three types of projects apply to each of the four DRK-12 strands.
Deadline: December 6, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13601/nsf13601.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Smart and Connected Health (SCH)
Program: The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program is to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on well-being rather than disease. Approaches that partner technology-based solutions with biobehavioral health research are supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The purpose of this program is to develop next generation health care solutions and encourage existing and new research communities to focus on breakthrough ideas in a variety of areas of value to health, such as sensor technology, networking, information and machine learning technology, decision support systems, modeling of behavioral and cognitive processes, as well as system and process modeling. Effective solutions must satisfy a multitude of constraints arising from clinical/medical needs, social interactions, cognitive limitations, barriers to behavioral change, heterogeneity of data, semantic mismatch and limitations of current cyberphysical systems. Such solutions demand multidisciplinary teams ready to address technical, behavioral and clinical issues ranging from fundamental science to clinical practice.
Deadline: October 10, 2013 (Exploratory Proposals & December 10, 2013 Integrative Proposals
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13543/nsf13543.htm
Foundation
Funding Source: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Title: Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Program: The University of California, Santa Cruz has been invited to nominate one candidate for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship. This is an invitation-only submission process. It is a very prestigious award that covers salary for approximately one academic year and two summers of additional support (including release time from teaching, if required). Candidates for this program should be highly qualified scholars pursuing innovative research. New Directions Fellowship assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who received their doctorate between six and twelve years ago and who wish to acquire systematic training outside their own disciplines. The fellowships are looking to assist faculty whose research interests cross-disciplinary boundaries and call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. The nominee will be decided by a committee of Social Science and Humanities faculty members.
Internal deadline: September 19, 2013
Contact: ashleeac@ucsc.edu
Funding Source: Wilson Center
Title: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowships
Program: Through an international competition, the Center offers 9-month residential fellowships. The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship international Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world.
Deadline: October 1, 2013
Link: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowship-application-guidelines?utm_source=Campus+Alert+September+2013&utm_campaign=Campus+Alerts&utm_medium=email
Students
Funding Source: Ford Foundation
Title: Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship
Program: Sixty predoctoral fellowships for students in fields supported by this program who provide evidence that they can fully utilize a three-year fellowship award and who are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. Through its program of Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties.
Deadline: November 20, 2013
Link: http://www.national-academies.org/ford
Funding Source: Fulbright
Title: Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE)
Program: Established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries", Fulbright is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
Internal Deadline: September 23, 2013, please contact Marlene Robinson for the internal deadline: marobins@ucsc.edu
Link: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/getting-started
Funding Source: Spencer Foundation
Title: Dissertation Fellowship Program
Program: The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
Deadline: October 4, 2013
Link: http://naeducation.org/NAED_080200.html?utm_source=Campus+Alert+September+2013&utm_campaign=Campus+Alerts&utm_medium=email
