Thank you for your quick responses to the weekly grant opportunities. Please contact me with any individual research requests. You can access information about helpful research hints for faculty and graduate students at the Government Grants Research Assistance
Website:
http://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/research/grant-opportunities/index.html
Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Advancing Informal STEM Learning: August 14, 2012
DOI- WaterSMART Applied Science Grants for the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative
June 28, 2012
IMLS- Learning Labs in Libraries and Museum Grants: June 15, 2012
Foundations
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowships: July 16, 2012
Guggenheim Foundation-Post Doc Fellowships: August 1, 2012
Students
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program
Internal deadline: June 8, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) *
Program: The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) solicitation invites investigators to propose ideas, concepts, models, and other opportunities for learning and learning environments that will capture the creative and innovative potential of informal STEM learning for the future, and potentially forge new connections across all STEM learning communities. Leveraging new and emerging technologies, STEM learning can now be located and situated wherever the learner is and customized to meet the learner's educational needs. New interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships for informal learning among academia, industry, and government can greatly advance our nation's goals to produce a scientifically and technologically literate population and workforce.
Deadline: Preliminary Proposal: August 14, 2012
Full Proposal: January 14, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12560/nsf12560.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
*The name of the program has changed from ISE (Informal Science Education) to AISL
Funding Source: Department of the Interior
Title: WaterSMART Applied Science Grants for the Desert Landscape Conservation Copperative
Program: Resource managers concerned with conservation of natural and cultural resources are faced with increasing challenges. Such challenges may include changing water availability, changing land use, preserving traditional or historical sites, areas, landscapes, and/or resources, sensitive species protection and recovery, invasive species, and a range of other complex issues—all of which are further complicated as the impacts of climate change are realized. In response, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is participating in the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC). This effort represents a broader vision of conservation that includes working with partners across landscapes to ensure that science capacity is in place to enable resource managers to successfully address these 21st century conservation challenges. LCCs are management-science partnerships that inform integrated resource management actions addressing climate change and other stressors within and across landscapes. LCCs bring together science and resource conservation to support and complement adaptation strategies addressing climate change and water conservation.
Deadline: June 28, 2012
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/synopsis.do;jsessionid=89fbP9XLp4hWKhMSBNQ7THxGrDZnb0VqLRfHTy9pTPh3vSkTBbGp!-1021879135
Funding Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Title: Learning Labs in Libraries and Museum Grants
Program: These grants will support the planning and designing of up to 30 Learning Labs in libraries and museums throughout the country. The Labs are intended to engage middle- and high-school youth in mentor-led, interest-based, youth-centered, collaborative learning using digital and traditional media. Grantees will be required to participate, in-person and online, in a community of practice that will provide technical assistance, networking, and cross-project learning. Projects are expected to provide prototypes for the field and be based on current research about digital media and youth learning.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Link: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=20
Foundations
Funding Source: United States Educational Foundation in India
Title: Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowships
Program: These research fellowships are designed for scholars who are registered for a Ph.D. at an Indian institution and also for professionals with significant work experience and accomplishments.
Applications from all disciplines will be considered. Priority fields are: Agricultural Sciences; Economics; Education; Energy, Sustainable Development and Climate Change; Environment; International Relations; Management and Leadership Development; Media and Communications with focus on Public Service Broadcasting; Public Administration; Public Health; Science and Technology; Study of India with focus on contemporary issues; and Study of the United States. For Study of India or the Study of the United States (American Studies) the areas could include: language and literature, history, government, economics, society and culture, religion, and film studies.
Deadline: July 16, 2012
Link: http://www.usief.org.in/Fellowships/FIC-Faculty-and-Professional-Research-Awards.aspx
Funding Source: Guggenheim Foundation
Title: Post Doctoral Fellowships
Program: Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Research with no relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
Deadline: August 1, 2012
Link: http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
Students
Funding Source: US Department of Education
Title: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program
Program: The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship Program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.
Internal Deadline: June 8, 2012
External Deadline: June 14, 2012
Link: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html
*You must contact Suzanne Ziegler and Meg Kaminski in the Office of Sponsored Projects, sziegler@ucsc.edu, and mkaminsk@ucsc.edu if you plan to apply.
