Grant Opportunities 10-31-2011

October 31, 2011

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Upcoming Deadlines

Federal

EPA 9th Annual P3 Awards:                                                        December 22, 2011
NIH Archiving and Dissemination of research Data on Aging:        February 2, 2012
USAID & NSF-Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research:           November 30, 2011
UCSD-Center for Comparative Immigration Studies-Visiting Research Fellowship:                       
January 15, 2012
UC Humanities Research Institute-Digital Media Learning:            November 28, 2011

Foundation

Carnegie Foundation:                                                                Continuous
Smith Richardson Foundation:                                                   Continuous

Student

Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowships:                           January 15, 2012
UCOP-Pac Rim Advanced Graduate Research Fellowships:            December 2, 2011

Federal


Funding Source:         EPA
Title:                         9th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
Program:                   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of the P3-People, Prosperity and the Planet Award Program, is seeking applications proposing to research, develop, and design solutions to real world challenges involving the overall sustainability of human society. The P3 competition highlights the use of scientific principles in creating innovative projects focused on sustainability. The P3 Awards program was developed to foster progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the planet, and improved quality of life for its people-- people, prosperity, and the planet � the three pillars of sustainability. The EPA offers the P3 competition in order to respond to the technical needs of the world while moving towards the goal of sustainability. Please see the P3 website for more details about this program.
Deadline:                   December 22, 2011
Link:                          http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2012/2012_p3.html

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                          Limited Competition: Archiving and Dissemination of research Data on Aging (P30)
Program:                    The purpose of this FOA is to continue the P30 Center Grant to
- maintain the existing collections of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging and develop it further as a user-friendly data archive to support behavioral and social science research on aging;
- advise and assist researchers in documentation and archiving of data and metadata;
- advise and assist researchers on methods of sharing data for secondary analysis while providing adequate protections for confidentiality; and
- facilitate secondary analysis by providing user support, access to data, and training and consultation.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent (not required): January 2, 2012
Full Proposal:              February 2, 2012
Link:                          http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-12-013.html

  • Funding Source:         USAID & NSF
    Title:                            Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER)
    Program:                     he United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is exploring new opportunities to use science and technology to meet the world’s development challenges. As part of its science and technology strategy, USAID is developing mechanisms to leverage the investments that other U.S. government agencies make in scientific research and training. Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between USAID and the National Science Foundation (NSF), the two agencies implemented a pilot program to assess the potential for USAID-funded collaborative research projects. Based on the program’s success, USAID and NSF are now pleased to announce the launching of a new and broader program called Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER). This competitive grants program will allow scientists in developing countries to apply for funds to support research and capacity-building activities in partnership with their NSF-funded collaborators on topics of importance to USAID. Areas in which both NSF and USAID have strong mutual interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
    Food security topics such as agricultural development, fisheries, and plant genomics
  • Global health issues such as ecology of infectious disease, biomedical engineering, and natural/human system interactions
  • Climate change impacts such as water sustainability, hydrology, ocean acidification, climate process and modeling, and environmental engineering
  • Other development topics including disaster mitigation, biodiversity, water, and renewable energy

Deadline:                    November 30, 2011
Link:                            http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/dsc/peer/index.htm

Funding Source:         UCSD-Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Title:                          Visiting Research Fellowships
Program:                    CCIS offers a limited number of Visiting Research Fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels each academic year. These awards are to support advanced research and writing on any aspect of international migration and refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, history, and law. Please note that for 2012-2013, CCIS will be accepting applications only for the predoctoral fellowship program. Predoctoral applicants are expected to finish writing their dissertations during their fellowship tenure. Visiting Research Fellows are provided with shared office space, as well as full access to all UCSD academic, institutional, and recreational resources. They benefit from interaction in a supportive, interdisciplinary community of scholars and have multiple opportunities to present their research at seminars. Scholars whose work deals with Mexican migration to the United States can apply jointly to CCIS and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the USMEX website) by submitting separate applications to each Center.
Deadline:                    January 15, 2012
Link:                          http://ccis.ucsd.edu/programs/fellowship-programs/


Funding Source:         UC Humanities Research Institute
Title:                          Digital Media Learning
Program:                    Online networks, digital resources, and gaming environments provide rich opportunities for learning that is demand-driven and learner-centered. More and more people are turning to networked knowledge communities, online tutorials, and other digital resources for wide ranging learning needs. While learning is migrating to these more informal and non-institutionalized kinds of contexts, we still have little research that examines how people assess, recognize, and display the learning that happens in these settings. What are the emerging techniques and practices for managing reputation and recognizing learning? What are the broad historical and structural understandings of how accreditation operates in our changing social and cultural environment? What systems exist for recognizing learning outside of formal degree and training programs? How do credentials and other displays of achievement operate in the digital and networked world? What kinds of skills and experiences have not been well captured by existing credentialing and recognition systems? How is the landscape of credentialing changing (or not) with the shift to digital and networked society?

We seek empirical and theoretical research focusing on these questions. Studies should focus on areas such as:

  • Ranking, badging, and achievement systems in games, clubs, competitions, and other forms of interest-driven activities.
  • Accreditation and certificates outside of formal degree programs, including areas such as work skills training, language, writing, and critical thinking capabilities, arts, crafts, and other trades.
  • The role of credentials, badges, and other recognitions of achievement in career and reputation development.
  • Empirical, theoretical, and critical studies of how companies, groups, institutions, and individuals produce, utilize, and exploit various credentialing and reputation systems.

Deadline:                    November 28, 2011
Link:                           http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/research-competition-announcement.php

Funding Source:         UCOP
Title:                          Faculty Initiative Grants & Faculty Research/Planning Grants
Program:                    Supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions. The PRRP promotes the study of the Pacific Rim as a distinctive region. For the purposes of this Program, the term “Pacific Rim” encompasses all areas and nations that border the Pacific Ocean, including Southeast Asia and East Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and Pacific Latin America. The Program places priority on research that is new, specific to the region, and collaborative — reaching across national boundaries and bridging academic disciplines. Proposals may come from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, public health, or some combination thereof. Research may focus on humans in relationship to the built or natural environment, transcultural and historical constructions of the human, human-nonhuman interactions, cultural geography, transnational migrations, economic expansion, regional agricultural development, environmental health and human disease, or other themes. Proposals should address questions that contribute to an
understanding of the Pacific Rim region as a whole.
Deadline:                    Internal UCSC:            December 2, 2011
Link:                          http://pacrim.ucsc.edu/

Foundation

Funding Source:         Carnegie Foundation
Title:                          Grants
Program:                    Carnegie Corporation of New York makes grants to promote international peace and to advance education and knowledge - primary concerns to which founder Andrew Carnegie devoted the foundation.  Its grantmaking staff is organized in two programs: national and international, and in short-term initiatives. Current program:

1.International Peace and Security

2. Islam Initiative

3. Higher Education and Libraries in Africa

4. Higher Education in Eurasia

5. Urban and Higher Education

6. Democracy and Civic Integration

7.Carnegie Scholars

8.Future of Journalism Education

9. Dissemination
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent: continuous
Link:                          http://carnegie.org/programs/


Funding Source:         Smith Richardson Foundation
Title:                          Grant
Program:                    The Domestic Public Policy Program supports projects that will help the public and policy makers understand and address critical challenges facing the United States. An overarching goal of the Foundation's grant making is to support projects that help stimulate and inform important public policy debates. To that end, the Foundation supports research on and evaluation of existing public policies and programs, as well as projects that inject new ideas into public debates. 
The Foundation is interested in a wide range of topics. Education and school reform have been central to the Foundation’s grant making in recent years, including efforts to assess the effectiveness of various school reform initiatives, such as charter schools.
The Foundation has expanded on its interest in public finance issues by beginning to explore the future of the Medicare program and the larger challenge of coping with expected increases in the costs of federal entitlement programs.
The Foundation also provides support for projects that assess the impact of immigration on American society, examine the effectiveness of our regulatory policies, and explore the interaction between the policy making process and the political process through support for projects on congressional redistricting and the conduct and financing of political campaigns. The Foundation continues to support projects that inform the debate over policies designed to assist disadvantaged families.
Deadline:                   Continuous
Link:                          http://www.srf.org/grants/domestic.php

Student


Funding Source:         Switzer Foundation
Title:                         Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowships
Program:                   Up to 20 fellowships offered for graduate study in environmental sciences: 10 in California, 10 in New England. Fellowships are not renewable.
Deadline:                   January 15, 2012
Link:                          www.switzernetwork.org

Funding Source:         UCOP
Title:                          Advanced Graduate Research Fellowships
Program;                    Program:                     Supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions. The PRRP promotes the study of the Pacific Rim as a distinctive region. For the purposes of this Program, the term “Pacific Rim” encompasses all areas and nations that border the Pacific Ocean, including Southeast Asia and East Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and Pacific Latin America. The Program places priority on research that is new, specific to the region, and collaborative — reaching across national boundaries and bridging academic disciplines. Proposals may come from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, public health, or some combination thereof. Research may focus on humans in relationship to the built or natural environment, transcultural and historical constructions of the human, human-nonhuman interactions, cultural geography, transnational migrations, economic expansion, regional agricultural development, environmental health and human disease, or other themes. Proposals should address questions that contribute to an understanding of the Pacific Rim region as a whole.
Deadline:                    Internal UCSC:            December 2, 2011
Link:                          http://pacrim.ucsc.edu/