Grant Opportunities 07-11-2011

July 11, 2011

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Funding Source:       NSF
Title:                       Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
Program:                 The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.
Deadline:
                 September 27, 2011
Link:                        http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11550/nsf11550.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click


Funding Source:       NIH
Title:                       NICHD Continuing Education Training Programs (T15)
Program:                 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites applications for grants to develop and conduct short-term continuing education programs to improve the knowledge and skills of a broad-based community of biomedical and behavioral researchers conducting research on reproductive, developmental, behavioral, social, and rehabilitative processes that determine the health and well-being of newborns, infants, children, adults, families, and populations, and to disseminate course materials and instructional experience to the scientific community. The program should include both didactic and hands-on experiences.  Programs focusing on uses of model organisms are also encouraged.
Deadline:                 September 25, 2011
Link:                        http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-233.html

Funding Source:       Department of Commerce
Title:                        FY 2011 Promoting Sustainable Working Waterfronts: A Toolkit for Community and Economic Development Practioners
Program:       
          To promote the long-term economic prosperity of coastal communities, EDA solicits applications from qualified researchers to identify strategies, practical methods, and finance mechanisms to address current economic challenges and maintain the economic resilience and diversity of such coastal communities. Some critical factors that need to be considered are the desire to preserve water-dependent uses, opportunities to leverage the skills and abilities of the existing labor force, and preservation of community cultural norms.
Deadline:                  August 15, 2011
Link:                         http://www.eda.gov/PDF/Waterfronts.pdf

Funding Source:         Department of Commerce
Title:                        
Climate Program Office for FY 2012
Program:                   Changing climate confronts society with significant economic, health, safety, and national security challenges. NOAA advances scientific and technical programs to help society cope with, and adapt to, today's variations in climate and to prepare for tomorrow's. Toward this end, the agency conducts and supports climate research, observations, modeling, information management, assessments, interdisciplinary decision support research, outreach, education, and stakeholder partnership development. These investments are key to NOAA's mission of "Science, Service, and Stewardship" and are guided by the agency's vision to create and sustain enhanced resilience in ecosystems, communities, and economies, as described in NOAA's Next Generation Strategic Plan (NGSP) . Fostering climate adaptation and mitigation, and, specifically, the development of an informed society anticipating and responding to climate and its impacts - is one of the primary pathways through which NOAA plans to advance its mission. The NGSP outlines NOAA's five-year climate objectives: 1) Improved scientific understanding of the changing climate system and its impacts; 2) Assessments of current and future states of the climate system that identify potential impacts and inform science, service, and stewardship decisions; 3) Mitigation and adaptation choices supported by sustained, reliable, and timely climate services; and 4) A climate-literate public that understands its vulnerabilities to a changing climate and makes informed decisions. NOAA works in partnership with Federal, academic, private, and international research entities, and places a substantial emphasis on productive partnerships and interactions with decision makers and other stakeholders. Within this context, NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO) manages competitive research programs conducted in regions across the United States, at national and international scales, and globally. The CPO also provides strategic guidance and oversight for the agency's climate science and services programs and helps to integrate capabilities from across the agency to provide enhanced services to its constituents. Achieving the first of the NGSP climate objectives, an improved scientific understanding of the changing climate system and its impacts, requires a number of core capabilities be supported. These core capabilities can be broadly categorized to include: (a) understanding and modeling, (b) observing systems, data stewardship, and climate monitoring, (c) predictions and projections, and (d) integrated service development and decision support. These core capabilities, in turn, will focus initially on the following societal challenges identified in the NGSP as early evidence of progress to be made by NOAA in providing sustained, reliable, and timely climate services:* Climate Impacts on Water Resources* Coasts and Climate Resilience* Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems* Changes in Extremes of Weather and Climate* Information for Mitigating Climate Change Each of the Competitions announced in this Federal Funding Opportunity addresses one or more of these core capabilities or societal challenges.
Deadline:                   Letters of Intent: July 26, 2011
Full proposal:             October 3, 2011
Link:                         http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=103313

Funding Source:        American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Title:                        Research Grants Program
Program:                  With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants competition. The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF, or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance. AERA invites education-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal data bases. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.

The Governing Board for the AERA Grants Program has established the following four strands of emphasis for proposals. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that
- develop or benefit from new quantitative measures or methodological approaches for addressing education issues;
- include interdisciplinary teams with subject matter expertise, especially when studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning;
- analyze TIMSS, PISA, or other international data resources; and
- include the integration and analysis of more than one data set.

Research projects related to at least one of the strands above and to science and/or mathematics education are especially encouraged. Other topics of interest include policies and practices related to student achievement in STEM, contextual factors in education, educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through graduate school), early childhood education, and postsecondary education. The research project must include the analysis of data from at least one of the large-scale, nationally or internationally representative data sets supported by NCES, NSF, or other federal agency, such as the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health. Additional data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory federal data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.
Deadline:
                  September 1, 2011
Link:                         http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/res_grants/RGFly.html