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Funding Source: NSF
Title: Ecosystem Science Cluster
Program: The Ecosystem Studies Program supports investigations of whole-system ecological processes and relationships across a diversity of spatial and temporal (including paleo) scales in order to advance understanding of: 1) material and energy fluxes and transformations within and among ecosystems, 2) the relationships between structure, including complexity, and functioning of ecosystems, 3) ecosystem dynamics and trajectories of ecosystem development through time, and 4) linkages among ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales.
Deadline: July 9, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12822&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
Program: Computation is accepted as the third pillar supporting innovation and discovery in science and engineering and is central to NSF's vision of a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) as described in http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp).
The SI2 program includes three classes of awards:
- Scientific Software Elements (SSE): SSE awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust software elements for which there is a demonstrated need that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
- Scientific Software Integration (SSI): SSI awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common software infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems. SSI awards will result in a sustainable community software framework serving a diverse community.
- Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2 awards will focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in software infrastructure and technologies, which will serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary breadth.
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11539/nsf11539.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click Funding Source: Spencer Foundation
Title: Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity
Program: The Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities - as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them - and to find ways to more fully realize education's potential to promote more equal opportunity. Expanded opportunity is important not only to a society's economic well being but to the character of its civic, cultural, and social life as well.
Education enriches and expands people's lives in many ways, including through their employment opportunities, their civic and political involvements, and the quality of their personal lives. The foundation's interests therefore extend to studies that examine the ways in which differences in educational experiences (including quality and character of schooling as well as number of years in school) translate into differences in employment, earnings, and civic and social outcomes. Such work can help identify ways to change schooling investments and outcomes in the interests of a more just and prosperous society.
Deadline: July 8, 2011
Link: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/education-and-social-opportunity
Funding Source: Xerox
Title: Grants
Program: From its beginnings, Xerox has helped shape the idea of corporate social responsibility. Our education and social service efforts reflect our belief that a successful corporation must be an active participant in society.
Xerox remains committed to a program of grants to colleges and universities that prepare qualified men and women for careers in business, government and education. Xerox also is committed to furthering the advance of knowledge in science and technology and enhancing learning opportunities for minorities and the disadvantaged.
Deadline: Rolling
Link: http://www.xerox.com/about-xerox/citizenship/xerox-foundation/enus.html
Funding Source: Government of Canada
Title: Conference Grants
Program: The Canada Conference Grant Program supports conferences that address important and timely issues about Canada, its relationship with the United States, or its international affairs. The Conference Grant is designed to assist an institution in holding a conference and publishing the resulting papers and proceedings in a scholarly fashion. We welcome conferences that engage local government representatives, NGOs, the business sector, students and the general public as well as promote linkages with Canadian academics and institutions.
Deadline: June 30, 2011
Link: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/conference.aspx?lang=eng
