Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF- Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL): Prelim: August 14, 2012
NSF- International Research Experiences for Students (IRES): August 21, 2012
SBA-Advocacy Request for Quotations: July 18, 2012
NEH-Summer Stipends: Internal: September 1, 2012
Foundations
W.M. Keck Foundation- Undergraduate Education Program
Pre-Counseling deadline: August 15, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Program: The AISL program invests in research and development of innovative and field-advancing out-of-school STEM learning and emerging STEM learning environments. The name of the program has changed from Informal Science Education (ISE) to Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL). AISL better emphasizes the priorities of the solicitation and the changes at NSF:
a. Advancing - This emphasizes that AISL seeks innovative projects that advance the field and that requests need to go beyond just proposing a new exhibit, program or film.
b. Informal - This continues to emphasize that the program is interested in out-of-school learning that makes learning Lifelong, Life Wide (occurring across multiple venues) and Life Deep (occurring at different levels of complexity).
c. STEM - This recognizes that the program is not just focused on science, but all of STEM.
d. Learning - This term is more appropriate than "education" based on what we know on how people learn. Also, "learning" is more connected with what people do for themselves, compared to "education" which is perceived as something that is done to them.
Deadline: Preliminary Proposal (Optional) 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
Funding Source: NSF
Title: International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
Program: The IRES program supports development of globally-engaged U.S. science and engineering students capable of performing in an international research environment at the forefront of science and engineering. The IRES program supports active research participation by students enrolled as undergraduates or graduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. IRES projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the IRES program.
Deadline: August 21, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12551
Funding Source: SBA
Title: Advocacy Request for Quotations
Program: The Office of Advocacy seeks researchers to perform economic research via a request for quotations (RFQ's). These RFQ’s are for competitive contracts and are not research grants.
Research Veteran Business
Research Internet Sales Taxation’s Impact on Small Business
Research what factors lead businesses without employees to hire their first employee
Research what are the respective roles in job creation from next, main street and fast growing businesses
Research retail price impacts of DOE appliances and equipment standards for residential products
Research on small business tax expenditures
Research on impact credit scoring on small firms
Deadline: July 18, 2012
Link: http://www.sba.gov/content/advocacy-request-quotations-rfqs
Funding Source: NEH
Title: NEH Summer Stipends
Program: The Summer Stipends program welcomes projects that respond to NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally or within the United States. International projects might seek to enlarge Americans’ understanding of other places and times, as well as other perspectives and intellectual traditions. American projects might explore the great variety of cultural influences on, and myriad subcultures within, American society. These projects might also investigate how Americans have approached and attempted to surmount seemingly unbridgeable cultural divides, or examine the ideals of civility and civic discourse that have informed this quest.
Internal Deadline: September 1, 2012
Internal Guidelines: The campus may submit up to two nominations. Interested applicants should prepare a project description (no longer than 3 pages) and email it as .pdf to ihr@ucsc.edu by September 1, 2012. A committee composed of three members of the participating divisions (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) will select the top two projects and send their recommendations to the Humanities Dean, the campus nominating official. The nominees will be notified by September 10, 2012 and have until September 27, 2012 to complete and submit their NEH applications.
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
Foundations
Funding Source: W.M. Keck Foundation
Title: Undergraduate Education Program
Program: Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been and continues to be our mandate. In the area of education we support undergraduate programs that promote inventive approaches to instruction and effective involvement of students in research. Public research universities must supply a compelling or unique resource to be competitive. They encourage projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact. "High-risk" comprises a number of factors, including questions that push the edge of the field, present unconventional approaches to intractable problems, or challenge the prevailing paradigm. In all our programs, "transformative" may mean creation of a new field of research, development of new instrumentation enabling observations not previously possible, or discovery of knowledge that challenges prevailing perspectives.
Deadline: Pre-Application Counseling: July 1, 2012 to August 15, 2012
Link: http://www.wmkeck.org/grant-programs/grant-programs.html
