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Funding Source: USDA
Title: AFRI – Foundational Program
Program: The AFRI Foundational Program is offered to support research grants in the six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge critical for solving current and future societal challenges. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Single-function Research Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants are expected to address one of the Program Area Priorities (see Foundational Program RFA for details).
Deadline: LOI’s due mid February to mid March. Full proposal due June 8, 2011
Link: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/afri_rfa.html
Funding Source: USDA
Title: Special Research Grants: Pest Management Alternatives
Program: The purpose of Pest Management Alternatives Program (PMAP) is to provide support for the development and implementation of integrated pest management (IPM) practices, tactics, and systems for specific pest problems while reducing human and environmental risks. This purpose addresses the broad goals outlined in the "National Roadmap for Integrated Pest Management," developed by federal and non-federal IPM experts, practitioners, and stakeholders in 2004. The successful management of pest problems in commercial production is facing severe challenges due to regulatory changes, emergence of new pest problems, and the development of pest resistance to present management technologies. The greatest impact on current management technologies is in the production of specialty crops; however, other crops, including grain, forage and fiber, as well as animal health, are also being impacted by these changes.
Deadline: March 3, 2011
Link: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pmap.html
Funding Source: NIJ
Title: W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Program FY 2011
Program: With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Program FY 2011. The W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Program seeks to advance knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts. The Fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and administration of justice in diverse cultural contexts within the United States.
Deadline: March 22, 2011
Link: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding/current.htm
Funding Source: California Environmental Protection Agency-Air Resources Board
Title: Research Concept Solicitation
Program: ARB is soliciting research suggestions in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address the research gaps described in this announcement and support the Board's ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. Established by the State Legislature in 1971, the Air Resources Board’s (ARB’s) program of research probes causes, effects, and solutions to California’s air pollution problems. This research provides a scientific basis for development of regulations, voluntary programs, and outreach efforts; for Board decision-making; and for implementation of initiatives to protect the health of California’s people and environment from the effects of air pollution.
For an overview of the Board's research program, please see ARB’s Research Activities website. Information regarding the Board’s program areas is also available online.
Contributions should address the policy-relevant knowledge gaps that are critical to ARB’s mission, as described at the web pages below. To the extent that they support the Board’s responsibilities, research ideas outside of indicated research interests will also be considered. The general areas of research interest are:
Health and Exposure
Emissions, Transport, and Transformation
Climate Change and Energy Conservation
Economic Impacts and Analysis
Deadline: February 28, 2011
Link: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/apr/plan/concepts/concepts11-12.htm
Funding Source: American Psychological Association
Title: Wayne F. Placek Grants
Program: The grants support scientific research to increase the general public's understanding of homosexuality and to alleviate the stress that gay men and lesbians experience in this and future civilizations. The grants support empirical research from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences on any topic related to lesbian, gay, or bisexual issues. Proposals are especially encouraged for empirical studies that address the following topics: heterosexuals' attitudes and behaviors toward lesbians and gay men, including prejudice, discrimination, and violence; family and workplace issues relevant to lesbians and gay men; and special concerns of sectors of the LGBT population that have historically been underrepresented in scientific research.
Deadline: March 1, 2011
Link: http://www.apa.org/apf/funding/placek.aspx
Funding Source: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Title: Dissertation Fellowship
Program: At least 10 fellowships are awarded to scholars in their final year of Ph.D. work with doctoral dissertations that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Fellowship supports one year.
Deadline: February 1, 2011
Link: http://www.hfg.org
Funding Source: International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)
Title: Short Term Travel Grants
Program: 10-15 fellowships offered for up to 60 days that support research that will make a substantive contribution to knowledge of the contemporary political, economic, historical, or cultural developments in Europe or Eurasia and how such knowledge is relevant to US foreign policy.
Deadline: February 2, 2011
Link: www.irex.org/application/short-term-travel-grants-stg-application
