Grant Opportunities 09-05-2011

September 05, 2011

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Funding Source:       Department of Commerce
Title:                       National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Research Fellowship Program for Fiscal Year 2012
Program:                 The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) consists of estuarine areas of the United States and its territories which are designated and managed for research and educational purposes. Each Reserve within the system is chosen to reflect regional differences and to include a variety of ecosystem types in accordance with the classification scheme of the national program as presented in 15 CFR Part 921. Each Reserve supports a wide range of beneficial uses of ecological, economic, recreational, and aesthetic values, which are dependent upon the maintenance of a healthy ecosystem. The sites provide habitats for a wide range of ecologically and commercially important species of fish, shellfish, birds, and other aquatic and terrestrial wildlife. Each Reserve has been designed to ensure its effectiveness as a conservation unit and as a site for long-term research and monitoring. As part of a national system, the Reserves collectively provide an excellent opportunity to address research questions and estuarine management issues of national significance.
Deadline:                 November 1, 2011
Link:                        http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=116653

Funding Source:       NIH
Title:                        Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R21)
Program:                  This FOA, issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) with participation from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), is to encourage Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18).  Positive health behaviors may include: developing healthy sleep patterns, developing effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in risk situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced and nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity and/or participating in healthy relationships. Applications to promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass media. Topics  to be addressed in this announcement include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations, identification of barriers to healthy behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors. Given the many factors involved in developing sustainable health behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to promote research that identifies and enhances processes that promote sustainable positive behavior or changes social and cultural norms that influence health and future health behaviors.    
Deadline:                  October 16, 2011
Link:                         http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-329.html

Funding Source:        Ford Foundation
Title:                        Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships
Program:                  Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. The postdoctoral fellowships provide one year of support for individuals engaged in postdoctoral study after the attainment of the Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree.

Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Awards will be made for study in the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields: American studies, anthropology, archaeology, art and theater history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, cultural studies, earth sciences, economics, education, engineering, ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, geography, history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics, literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, urban planning, and women's studies. Also eligible are interdisciplinary ethnic studies programs, such as African American studies and Native American studies, and other interdisciplinary programs, such as area studies, peace studies, and social justice.
Deadline:                  November 8, 2011
Link:                         http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/fordpost.html
Funding Source:        ACLS
Title:                        ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
Program:                  ACLS invites applications for the seventh annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, thanks to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may:

  • Address a consequential scholarly question through new research methods, new ways of representing the knowledge produced by research, or both;
  • Create new digital research resources;
  • Increase the scholarly utility of existing digital resources by developing new means of aggregating, navigating, searching, or analyzing those resources;
  • Propose to analyze and reflect upon the new forms of knowledge creation and representation made possible by the digital transformation of scholarship.

Deadline:                  September 28, 2011
Link:                         http://acls.org/programs/digital/

Funding Source:        Foundation for Child Development
Title:                        Young Scholars Program
Program:                  The goal of the program is to stimulate both basic and policy-relevant research about the early education, health and well-being of children living in immigrant families from birth to age ten, particularly those who are living in low-income families. The program will support young investigators, from the behavioral and social sciences or in an allied professional field, who are untenured but in tenure-track positions or who have received tenure in the last four years from a college or university in the United States.
Research areas of interest are limited to the following:
1. Factors (e.g., individual, familial, cultural, neighborhood) contributing to both positive and negative outcomes for young immigrant children in their communities and schools.
2. Individual and group identity formation among young children from a variety of groups living in different environments.
3. The experiences of newcomer children in early education, kindergarten, and elementary school programs.
4. Language development among immigrant children.
5. Evaluation of the impact of public policies in health and in education that affect the life prospects of newcomer children.
Deadline:                  November 3, 2011
Link:                         http://www.fcd-us.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=447982

Funding Source:        UCOP
Title:                        President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Program:                  The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, faculty mentoring, and eligibility for a hiring incentive to qualified scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California.

The goal of the program is to provide research opportunity and career development for scholars whose work will enhance the diversity of the academic community at the University of California. President's Postdoctoral Fellows are expected to
- establish residence at the campus of their postdoctoral appointment,
- focus full-time on research and avoid other commitments such as teaching,
- meet regularly with their faculty mentor, and
- attend the annual the Annual Fall Meeting and the Academic Spring Retreat.

These contributions may include public service addressing the needs of the increasingly diverse society, efforts to advance equitable access to higher education for women and minorities, or research focusing on underserved populations or understanding issues of racial or gender inequalities. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic careers the critical perspective that comes from their non-traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.
Deadline:                  November 1, 2011
Link:                         http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ppfp/how-to-apply.html