Grant Opportunities 7.9.12

July 09, 2012

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644


Upcoming Deadlines

Federal
NSF-Geography and Spatial Sciences Program:                              September 15, 2012
NSF-Economics:                                                                                 August 18, 2012
NSF-Political Science:                                                                                   August 15, 2012
NSF_ NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
August 14, 2012
NEH- Enduring Questions:                                                                 September 13, 2012
NEH-Summer Stipends:                                                                      September 1, 2012

Foundations
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity:                                                                          August 9, 2012

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (GSS)
Program:                     As specified in the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program strategic plan, the goals of the NSF GSS Program are:
*To promote scientific research in geography and the spatial sciences that advances theory and basic understanding and that addresses the challenges facing society.
*To promote the integration of geographers and spatial scientists in interdisciplinary research.
*To promote education and training of geographers and spatial scientists in order to enhance the capabilities of current and future generations of researchers.
*To promote the development and use of scientific methods and tools for geographic research.
The Geography and Spatial Sciences Program sponsors’ research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged to propose plans for research about the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. GSS encourages projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
Deadline:                    September 15, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12570/nsf12570.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Economics
Program:                     The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.
The Economics program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, workshops, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates.
Deadline:                    August 18, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Political Science
Program:                     The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.
In recent years, program awards have supported research projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice, and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization, political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political economy; party activism; political psychology and political tolerance. The Program also has supported research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations, in the discipline.
Deadline:                    August 15, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
Program:                     This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.
Deadline:                    August 14, 2012
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            Enduring Questions
Program:                     The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the teaching and development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This question-driven course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental concern of human life addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate. • What is good government? • Can war be just? • What is friendship? • What is evil? • Are there universals in human nature? • What are the origins of the universe?
Deadline:                    September 13, 2012
Link:                            http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions

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:         Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title:                            Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Program:                     Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity supports studies to identify and evaluate policies and environmental approaches at the organizational, community, state, and national levels across the country that have the greatest potential to improve children's diets and energy balance to reverse the nation's levels of childhood obesity. Specifically, the program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.
Deadline:                    LOI:     August 9, 2012
Link:                            http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21393