Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF- Documenting Endangered Languages: September 15, 2012
NSF- ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers: LOI: October 5, 2012
NIH- Macroeconomic Aspects of Population Aging (R01): October 3, 2012
USDA- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Food Safety: LOI: August 20, 2012
Foundations
Foundation for Child Development-Young Scholars Program: November 2, 2012
ACLS- ACLS Fellowships: September 28, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)
Program: This funding partnership between the NSF and the NEH supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
Deadline: September 15, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
Program: For many decades, an increasing number of women have obtained STEM doctoral degrees, however, women, particularly women of color, continue to be significantly underrepresented in almost all STEM academic positions. While the degree of underrepresentation varies among STEM disciplines, women's advancement to senior professorial ranks and leadership roles is an issue in all fields. The underrepresentation of women is also a critical issue for the nation, at large, as its need to develop a globally competitive and diverse workforce increases.
Research has shown that women's representation and advancement in academic STEM positions are affected by many external factors that are unrelated to their ability, interest and technical skills (Spencer, et al, 1999; Halpern and Tan, 2001; Hyde, 2005; National Academy of Sciences, 2007). Such factors include, but are not limited to: stereotype threat, societal impacts, organizational constraints of academic institutions; differential effect of work and family demands; implicit and explicit bias; and lack of women in academic leadership and decision-making positions. The cumulative effect of such diverse factors has been to create infrastructural barriers that impact the number of women entering, persisting and advancing in STEM careers.
Thus, the goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE also has as its goal to seminally contribute to and inform the general knowledge base on gender equity in the academic STEM disciplines.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: October 5, 2012
Full: November 8, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12584/nsf12584.htm
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Macroeconomic Aspects of Population Aging (R01)
Program: This Funding Opportunity Announcement invites research on the macroeconomics of aging - the impact of population aging on the macroeconomy and in turn how macroeconomic factors impact health and well-being.
Deadline: October 3, 2012
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-186.html
Funding Source: USDA
Title: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Food Safety
Program: This AFRI Challenge Area promotes and enhances the scientific discipline of food safety, with an overall aim of protecting consumers from microbial and chemical contaminants that may occur during all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption. This requires an understanding of the interdependencies of human, animal, and ecosystem health as it pertains to foodborne pathogens. The long-term outcome for this program is to reduce foodborne illnesses and deaths by improving the safety of the food supply, which will result in reduced impacts on public health and on our economy.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: August 20, 2012
Full Proposal: November 14, 2012
Link: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/foodsafetyafri.cfm
Foundations
Funding Source: Foundation for Child Development (FCD)
Title: Young Scholars Program (YSP)
Program: The YSP focuses on understanding the changing faces of the nation's children as reflected in the current demography of the United States. YSP seeks to support a new generation of scholars conducting research on the development of children in immigrant families from birth to age ten, particularly those who are living in low-income families. Given the limited research on young immigrant children, proposals focused on children from birth to age eight are highly encouraged. Immigrant children are defined as those having at least one parent who was not born in the United States. These children can be either foreign-born or born in the United States and are citizens. The newcomer experiences of children from Puerto Rico and the territories of the United States are of interest, but the primary focus of the proposed research should be on immigrant children.
The goals of this competitive award program are to:
1. Stimulate both basic and policy-relevant research in this area.
2. Support the career development of young investigators - from the behavioral and social sciences or in an allied professional field - to attain tenure or who have received tenure in the last four years from a college or university in the United States. Fellowship recipients are expected to produce a book or article(s) suitable for publication, and to articulate how their research may potentially inform public policies regarding young newcomer children.
Deadline: November 2, 2012
Link: http://www.fcd-us.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=447982
Funding Source: ACLS
Title: ACLS Fellowships
Program: The program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. Appropriate fields of specialization include, but are not limited to, American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
Deadline: September 28, 2012
Link: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=380
