Grant Opportunities 9-23-13

September 23, 2013

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

Upcoming Deadlines
 

Thank you for your quick responses to the weekly grant opportunities. Please contact me with any individual research requests. You can access information about helpful research hints for faculty and graduate students at the Government Grants Research Assistance
Website:
http://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/research/grant-opportunities/index.html

Upcoming Deadlines

Federal
NSF-Advanced Technological Education:
October 17, 2013
NSF- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections:
October 18, 2013
NSF- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases:
November 20, 2013
NSF- Research on Education and Learning:
Letter of Intent:                        October 25, 2013


Foundation
RWJF-Scholars in Health Policy Research Program:
October 8, 2013

UC
GloCal Health Fellowship:
December 2, 2013

Student
Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources:
November 15, 2013

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Advanced Technological Education
Program:                     With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions; and other activities. Another goal is articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education. The program also invites proposals focusing on research to advance the knowledge base related to technician education.
Deadline:                    October 17, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11692/nsf11692.htm

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
Program:                     This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic, paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about associated organisms, collector field notes, and tissues and molecular data extracted from the specimens, is a rich resource providing the baseline from which to further biodiversity research and provide critical information about existing gaps in our knowledge of life on earth. The national resource is structured at three levels: a central coordinating organization, a series of thematic networks based on an important research theme, and the physical collections. The national resource builds upon a sizable existing national investment in curation of the physical objects in scientific collections and contributes vitally to scientific research and technology interests in the United States. It will become an invaluable tool in understanding contemporary biological issues and challenges.
Deadline:                    October 18, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13569/nsf13569.htm

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Program:                     The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological principles and processes that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of transmission among humans, non-human animals, and/or plants. This includes, for example, the spread of pathogens; the influence of environmental factors such as climate; the population dynamics and genetics of reservoir species or hosts; or the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of disease transmission. Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne, vector-borne, or enteric diseases of either terrestrial or freshwater systems and organisms, including diseases of animals and plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental systems. Proposals for research on disease systems of public health concern to developing countries are strongly encouraged, as are disease systems of concern in agricultural systems. Investigators are encouraged to involve the public health research community, including for example, epidemiologists, physicians, veterinarians, food scientists, social scientists, entomologists, pathologists, virologists, or parasitologists with the goal of integrating knowledge across disciplines to enhance our ability to predict and control infectious diseases.
Deadline:                    November 20, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13577/nsf13577.htm?org=NSF

Funding Source:         NSF
Title                             Research on Education and Learning  (REAL)
Program:                     The REAL program represents the substantive foci of three previous EHR programs: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE), Research in Disabilities Education (RDE), and Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE). What is distinctive about the new REAL program is the emphasis placed on the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to (a) understand, (b) build theory to explain, and (c) suggest interventions (and innovations) to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning, and participation. The program supports advances in research on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering. The REAL program will fund research on, human learning in STEM; learning in STEM learning environments, and broadening participation research.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent (Optional):      October 25, 2013
Full Proposal:              January 10, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13604/nsf13604.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Foundation

Funding Source:         Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title:                            Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
Program:                     The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program is designed to develop and support a new generation of creative health policy thinkers and researchers within the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology.
Each year the program selects up to nine highly qualified individuals for two-year fellowships at one of three nationally prominent universities (the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Michigan; and Harvard University) with the expectation that they will make important research contributions to future U.S. health policy. All three universities have nationally recognized social science departments and professional schools whose faculty have significant health policy expertise. Scholars in the program have the opportunity to work closely with faculty from the social sciences — as well as from medicine, public health, and public policy — in an environment conducive to disciplinary and multidisciplinary learning and collaborative research. Scholars will have access to the full range of university resources including libraries, computers, databases, and research support, and will be free from teaching, consulting, and administrative responsibilities during their participation in the program.
Deadline:                    October 8, 2013
Link:                            http://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/calls-for-proposals/2013/rwjf-scholars-in-health-policy-research.html

UC

Funding Source:         UC Global Health Institute
Title:                            GloCal Health Fellowship
Program:                     The purpose of the program is to support an 11-month, mentored research fellowship for existing and aspiring investigators who are interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries (please note all trainees must spend 11 consecutive months in-country in order to be eligible for the program). Several training sites are available through the UCGHI / international institution consortium.

The program will provide trainees with outstanding, interdisciplinary education and training in innovative global health research designed to improve health for populations around the world. Trainees will be matched with top-tier global health faculty from one of the four participating UCs and an international site, thus engaging in rich and enduring, mentored research experiences that will foster scientific and career development in global health research.
Deadline:                    December 2, 2013
Link:                            http://glocalfellows.org/about/Pages/program-overview.aspx

Student

Funding Source:         Council on Library and Information Resources
Title:                            Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
Program:                     The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to offer fellowships generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources. The purposes of this fellowship program are to:

help junior scholars in the humanities and related social science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources
enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available
encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad, and
provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.
Deadline:                    November 15, 2013
Link:                            http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html