Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Biological Anthropology: December 7, 2012
NSF-Coastal SEES: January 17, 2013
NIH- Ethical Issues in Research on HIV/AIDS and its Co-morbidities (R01)
January 7, 2013
Foundation
ACLS- Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants: January 14, 2013
UC
S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy: December 10, 2012
Student
Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study: December 31, 2012
Environmental Resources Management Foundation-Sustainability Fellowship:
November 30, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title Biological Anthropology
Program: The Biological Anthropology Program supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation. The program frequently serves as a bridge within NSF between the social and behavioral sciences and the natural and physical sciences, and proposals are commonly jointly reviewed and funded with other programs.
Deadline December 7, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5407&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Coastal SEES
Program: A sustainable world is one in which human needs are met equitably and without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Meeting this formidable challenge requires a substantial increase in our understanding of the integrated system of society, the natural world, and the alterations humans bring to Earth. NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities aim to address this need through support for interdisciplinary research and education.
Coastal SEES is focused on the sustainability of coastal systems. For this solicitation we define coastal systems as the swath of land closely connected to the sea, including barrier islands, wetlands, mudflats, beaches, estuaries, cities, towns, recreational areas, and maritime facilities; the continental seas and shelves; and the overlying atmosphere. These systems are subject to complex and dynamic interactions among natural and human-driven processes. Coastal systems are crucial to regional and national economies, hosting valued human-built infrastructure and providing ecosystem services that sustain human well-being. More than half of the world's human population lived in coastal areas in 2000, and this proportion is predicted to increase to 75 percent by 2025.
Humans benefit from their use of coastal environments for enjoyment, dwelling, food, industry, and commerce, altering them physically, chemically, and ecologically. These alterations influence and interact with natural variability, extreme events, and long-term change to affect the system as a whole, including human benefits. A major challenge is to understand the dynamics of this coupled human-natural system in order to inform societal decisions about the uses of coastal systems, including for economic, aesthetic, recreational, research, and conservation purposes. Such understanding requires integration of natural, social, economic and behavioral sciences. It includes, for example, an understanding of reciprocal feedbacks between humans and the natural environment; how people and organizations interpret, assess, and act upon scientific and other evidence; and how they weigh these interpretations against other interests to influence governance and decision-making. Thus, coastal sustainability relies on broad and intimately interconnected areas of scholarship about natural and human processes.
Deadline: January 17, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12594/nsf12594.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_179
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Ethical Issues in Research on HIV/AIDS and its Co-morbidities (R01)
Program: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications addressing ethical issues in research relevant to populations with HIV and associated co-morbidities, and populations at high risk of HIV acquisition. The bioethics projects supported through this program announcement will focus on at least one of the following three goals:
1) Development of the empirical knowledge base for human subjects protection and ethics standards in HIV/AIDS research;
2) Development of conceptual bioethics approaches to advance scholarship on difficult ethical challenges in HIV/AIDS research;
3) Supporting the integration of bioethics work with ongoing research in HIV/AIDS.
Deadline: January 7, 2013
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-244.html
Foundation
Funding Source: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Title: Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants
Program: The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies seeks to maintain the vitality of China Studies in the USA through fellowships and grants designed primarily for scholars early in their careers. Studies on and in China have developed over the last 30 years in the United States into a robust field, but current conditions pose daunting problems, especially for scholars just before and just after the dissertation. To address this situation, the program will offer Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants, providing opportunities for scholars of different disciplines to share in-depth investigation of texts that are essential points of entry to Chinese periods, traditions, communities, or events in contemporary or historical times.
These grants provide support for collaborative reading of texts in a workshop format that is interdisciplinary and crosses scholarly generations. A wealth of often complex and challenging texts is a distinctive feature of the Chinese cultural record. The reading and exploration of texts in their historical and cultural context is a core practice of the humanities. Collaborative reading by a group of scholars who can bring to bear their own research and expertise can yield new insights and interpretations.
Deadline: January 14, 2012
Link: http://www.acls.org/programs/china-studies/
UC
Funding Source: UC Berkeley
Title: S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy
Program: The S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy will be awarded for the 2013-2014 academic year to support advanced research at the University of California, Berkeley. For the purposes of this fellowship, natural resources are defined broadly to include environmental resources. The fellowship encourages, but is not limited to, policy-oriented research. Applications are open to scholars from any social science discipline, and related professional fields such as law and planning, who will make significant contributions to research on natural resource economics broadly defined. Preference will be given to proposals whose orientation is broadly institutional and/or historical, and which are conceptually and theoretically innovative. Proposals with a primarily statistical or econometric purpose are not eligible for consideration.
Deadline: December 10, 2012
Link: http://nature.berkeley.edu/site/ciriacy.php
Students
Funding Source: Blakemore Foundation
Title: Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study
Program: 20 Grants are available to individuals pursuing academic, professional or business career involving Asia for which a language study abroad at an advanced level is required. Grants cover a year of advanced language study of modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Southeast Asian languages in advanced-level language programs or private tutorial programs in the given country.
Deadline: December 31, 2012
Link: http://www.blakemorefoundation.org/Language%20Grants/Language.htm
Funding Source: Environmental Resources Management Foundation
Title Sustainability Fellowship
Program One award to support an entrepreneurial master's or doctoral student who wants to implement his/her vision for a more sustainable world. In addition to a monetary stipend, the top five Fellowship finalists will be given an opportunity to interview for a compensated internship position at one of ERM’s global offices (e.g., Annapolis, MD; Houston, TX; London, UK; or Sydney, AU).
Deadline: November 30, 2012
Link http://www.erm.com/Documents/ERM%20Foundation/2013-Sustainability-Fellowship-Application.pdf
