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Funding Source: NSF
Title: Education and Interdisciplinary Research
Program: Supports activities in conjunction with NSF-wide programs such as Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), and programs aimed at women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Further information about all of these programs and activities is available in the Crosscutting Investment Strategies section of the NSF Guide to Programs. The program also supports activities that seek to improve the education and training of physics students (both undergraduate and graduate), such as curriculum development or physics education research directed towards upper-level or graduate physics courses, and activities that are not included in specific programs elsewhere within NSF. The program supports research at the interface between physics and other disciplines and extending to emerging areas. Broadening activities related to research at the interface with other fields, possibly not normally associated with physics, also may be considered.
Deadline: September 18, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5610
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Sleep and Social Environment: Basic Biopsychosocial Processes (R21)
Program: This funding opportunity announcement issued by the Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Opportunity Network, NIH, solicits Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to investigate the reciprocal interactions of the processes of sleep and circadian regulation and function with behavioral and social environment processes. Sleep is a complex biological phenomenon that is essential to normal behavioral and social functioning, as well as optimal health. In spite of its vital nature, the mechanisms by which social environment factors affect sleep behavior patterns have not been studied systematically, especially within the context of individual vulnerabilities and resilience. There is a need for greater understanding of the dynamic relationships between behavioral and social environment factors on the one hand and the basic mechanisms of sleep-wake and circadian regulation and function on the other. This FOA is not intended to support research on or development of treatments or interventions for disorders of sleep or circadian rhythms.
Deadline: September 30, 2011
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-12-204.html
Funding Source: NEH
Title: Digital Humanities Start Up Grants
Program: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims to encourage the development of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities.
Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve
- research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities;
- planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries’ and museums’ digital assets;
- scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines;
- innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
- new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels.
Deadline: September 27, 2011
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
Funding Source: Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: Administration of a National Clean Energy Business
Program: This Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks applications that propose to administer annual U.S. regional business creation competitions for university-based student entrepreneurs with business ideas and models that fall within the U.S. DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) mission and technology portfolio, as defined: The EERE works to strengthen the United States energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality in public-private partnerships. It supports this goal through (1) enhancing energy efficiency and productivity; and (2) bringing clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace. (http://www.eere.energy.gov) DOE anticipates that it will provide 3 years of funding for up to 6 individual regional competitions (one per region) that will be administered on an annual basis. Thus, each award under this program is expected to have a nominal duration of 36 months. Awards will include a go/no-go evaluation conducted after one year based on a set of objective measures of the performance and effectiveness of each awardee’s program. In each of the 3 years of funding, the winners from the funded regional business creation competitions will advance to a National Grand Prize competition, to be administered directly by DOE. DOE expects applicants to include a significant amount of University Student involvement in the creation, administration and judging of the competition.
Deadline: August 22, 2011
Link: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/PublicPages/PublicSearch/Public_Opportunities.aspx
Funding Source: The Fledging Fund
Title: Creative Media Initiative
Program: The primary focus of The Fledgling Fund's creative media initiative is outreach and audience engagement. We are interested in supporting film and other media projects that engage key audiences in efforts to affect positive social change. In recent application cycles, the average grant size for The Fledgling Fund has been approximately $30,000. Our grants typically fall into three broad categories:
- Outreach and Audience Engagement: These grants support the development and/or implementation of strategic audience engagement initiatives for feature and short form films. Films should be at least at a rough cut stage to be considered for this type of funding. To read more about how we define outreach and audience engagement, please read our paper "From Distribution to Audience Engagement".
- Grants for Films: Generally these grants support late-stage post production costs. Films should be timely, have strong outreach potential, have completed production, and have a rough cut to be considered.
- Innovative Creative Media: These grants support the use of emerging technology to engage new audiences around important social issues, not necessarily tied to a film.
Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 30, 2011
Link: http://www.thefledglingfund.org/media/application-process.html
Funding Source: Armstrong McDonald Foundation
Title: Grants
Program: The foundation supports institutions of higher learning (universities and colleges, both private and public) and special projects related to education. Although a limited number of grants have been made to high schools in the past, the trustees have focused their grant awards on universities and colleges of late. Examples of projects fitting this category are renovation of classrooms, digital language labs, educational equipment such as computers, desks and books, complying with requirements for the handicapped on older buildings, purchase of specialized equipment for teaching hospitals and software for libraries. Additionally, the foundation supports nontraditional providers of education for at-risk kids and after school mentoring programs. The Foundation will not fund tuition, room and board, books, etc. at any level.
Deadline: September 15, 2011
Link: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/fo2/getRec?id=114851
