Grant Opportunities 11-21-2011

November 21, 2011

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Upcoming Deadlines

Federal
NSF Cultural Anthropology:                                   January 15, 2012
NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences:       January 18, 2012
NSF Sustainable Energy Pathways:                        December 2, 2011 (internal)
USDA- Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program                          January 31, 2012
USDA- Specialty Crop Research:                            January 31, 2012
NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grants:     January 24, 2012

Foundation
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation:                 Rolling
EduCause:                                                           Rolling

Student
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grants:                          January 15-February 15, 2012
NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5)    December 30, 2011 (LOI)

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                         Cultural Anthropology
Program:                   The Cultural Anthropology Program supports basic scientific research about the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Cultural anthropologists analyze human social and cultural behavior holistically. This integrated approach makes anthropology a valuable research tool for understanding the modern world. Because cultural patterns are emergent over time and space, there is no single natural scale for ethnographic and ethnological analysis. In some cases, cultural patterns may emerge from the collective behavior of large ensembles of smaller scale units; in others, they may be imposed by larger scale constraints. The origins of social and cultural variability may be remote from the scale at which they are observed. Therefore, research may target any appropriate scale or scales from local to regional to global. The Program encourages innovative research that contributes to building spatially and temporally specific theory that extends understanding beyond individual case studies.
The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for a variety of project types: Senior Research proposals (that is, research proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degree); proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants; Cultural Anthropology Scholars awards (for research-related, post-PhD training); and CAREER proposals. The Program will also consider proposals for workshops and training programs, as well as supplements to current awards to support Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Graduate Studies (REG). Research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology is eligible. Successful proposals are characterized by clear research questions and propositions that will be put to the test through meticulous attention to research design, data collection, and analysis.
Deadline:                   January 15, 2012
Link:                          http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                          Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Program:                    The DRMS program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical (Rapid Response Research - RAPID) and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature (EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research - EAGER).
Deadline:                    January 18, 2012
Link:                          http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                          Sustainable Energy Pathways (SEP)
Program:                    Sustainable Energy Pathways is part of the NSF-wide initiative on Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES). The Sustainable Energy Pathways solicitation calls for innovative, interdisciplinary basic research in science, engineering, and education by teams of researchers for developing systems approaches to sustainable energy pathways based on a comprehensive understanding of the scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and societal issues. The SEP solicitation considers scalable approaches for sustainable energy conversion to useful forms, as well as its storage, transmission, distribution, and use. The following Topic Areas illustrate the broad scope of sustainable energy interest areas of this solicitation: Energy Harvesting & Conversion from Renewable Resources; Sustainable Energy Storage Solutions; Critical Elements & Materials for Sustainable Energy; Nature-Inspired Processes for Sustainable Energy Solutions; Reducing Carbon Intensity from Energy Conversion & Use; Sustainable Energy Transmission & Distribution; Energy Efficiency & Management.
Internal Process:                     As an institution, we are limited to a total of three proposals.  Preliminary indications are that campus interest might not exceed three teams, and so a formal internal pre-proposal process might not be needed.  Therefore with this note I simply ask that faculty potentially interested in proposing contact me by email and indicate this interest by Friday December 2.  If this preliminary inquiry indicates the need for a downselection process, I'll immediate arrange one. Proposals are due on February 1, 2012.
Link:                          http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11590/nsf11590.htm

Funding Source:         USDA
Title:                          Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program
Program:                    The Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants (SPECA) program seeks to: (a) promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in agriscience and agribusiness in order to help ensure the existence in the United States of a qualified workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences system; and (b) promote complementary and synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences in order to advance excellence in education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agricultural sciences.
Deadline:                    January 20, 2012
Link:                          http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/sec_challenge.html

Funding Source:         USDA
Title:                          Specialty Crop Research (SCRI)
Program:                    The SCRI was established to solve critical industry issues through research and extension activities. SCRI will give priority to projects that are multistate, multi-institutional, or trans-disciplinary; and include explicit mechanisms to communicate results to producers and the public. Projects must address at least one of five focus areas: research in plant breeding, genetics, and genomics to improve crop characteristics; efforts to identify and address threats from pests and diseases, including threats to specialty crop pollinators; efforts to improve production efficiency, productivity, and profitability over the long term; new innovations and technology, including improved mechanization and technologies that delay or inhibit ripening; and methods to prevent, detect, monitor, control, and respond to potential food safety hazards in the production and processing of specialty crops.
Deadline:                    January 31, 2012
Link:                          http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/specialty_crop.html

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                          Digital Humanities Implementation Grants
Program:                    This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The program can support innovative digital-humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public. Applications from recipients of NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are welcome. Unlike NEH start-up grant program, which emphasizes basic research, prototyping, experimentation, and potential impact, the Digital Humanities Implementation Grants program seeks to identify projects that have successfully completed their start-up phase and are well positioned to have a major impact. Proposals are welcome for digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Implementation Grants may involve implementation of computationally-based methods or techniques for humanities research; implementation of new digital tools for use in humanities research, public programming, or educational settings; efforts to ensure the completion and long-term sustainability of existing digital resources (typically in conjunction with a library or archive); studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines; or implementation of new digital modes of scholarly communication that facilitate peer review, collaboration, or the dissemination of humanities scholarship for various audiences. Successful projects must make digital innovations and be significant to the humanities. Successful projects must make digital innovations and be significant to the humanities.
Deadline:                    January 24, 2012
Link:                          http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesimplementation.html

Foundation

Funding Source:         Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Title:                          Grants
Program:                    The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation is interested in programs and projects offering potential for significant impact. The primary focus is on the San Francisco Bay Area (counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo) and Hawaii. The Foundation's interests generally fall under the following categories:
   arts and culture
   environment
   reproductive rights and health
   citizen participation/building communities/inclusiveness
   strength of the philanthropic process and the nonprofit sector
   Foundation-initiated special projects
Deadline:                    Rolling
Link:                          http://www.gerbode.org

Funding Source:         Educause
Title:                          Next Generation Learning Challenges-WaveIII
Program:                    Next Generation Learning Challenges is a collaborative, multi-year initiative created to address the barriers to educational innovation and tap the potential of technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States. NGLC is guided by the belief that providing investment capital to expand the use of proven and emerging learning technologies, collecting and sharing evidence of what works, and fostering a community of innovators and adopters will result in a robust pool of solutions and greater institutional adoption which, in turn, will dramatically improve the quality of learning experiences in the United States. Many potentially breakthrough solutions are being developed and tested by educators, institutions, technologists, and entrepreneurs, but too often they operate with little access to each other or to opportunities to disseminate their innovations. Support is needed to refine and rigorously test their solutions, to connect with other like-minded innovators, and to develop strategies to broaden their reach and impact.
Deadline:                    Rolling
Link:                          http://nextgenlearning.org/the-grants/wave-iii-challenges

Student

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                          SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDIG)
Program:                    The NSF's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
Deadline:
Political Science, Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Law and Social Sciences, Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics:                          January 15, 2012
Economics, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences:                    January 18, 2012
Methodology, Measurement and Statistics:                                        January 30, 2012
Science, Technology and Society:                                                     February 1, 2012
Biological Anthropology:                                                                   February 9, 2012
Geography and Spatial Sciences:                                                     February 15, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                          NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5)
Program:                    The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award Program supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research directly after completion of their terminal doctoral/research degree or clinical residency, thereby foregoing the traditional post-doctoral training period.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent:                        December 30, 2011
Full proposal:              January 30, 2012
Link:                          http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-11-007.html#_Section_III._Eligibility