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Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NIJ-Research and Evaluation in Justice Systems:
April 23, 2012
NSF- Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants:
April 18, 2012
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs:
March 27, 2012
UC
UC California Studies Consortium-Statewide Workshops:
March 8, 2012
Foundations
American Water Works Company, Inc.:
March 10, 2012
Student
The Objectivist Center-Graduate Scholarships:
March 1, 2012
California Council on Science and Technology:
February 29, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NIJ
Title: Research and Evaluation in Justice Systems
Program: NIJ seeks applications for funding for research to examine issues related to the criminal justice system, specifically the function and process of the system from detection and arrest through offender reentry. Specific focus areas under this solicitation include: Research on District Attorneys’ pretrial diversion programs. A pilot study on the impact of incarceration on families. Research on the impact of video visitation on offender outcomes. Application titles should clearly indicate the focus area selected.
Deadline: April 23, 2012
Link: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000981.pdf
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants (IPG)
Program: The Biological Anthropology and Archaeology Programs are pleased to invite investigators to apply for an "Integrative Paleoanthropology Grant." In 2012, contingent on availability of funds, the Programs plan to make a single award for a maximum of $1,000,000 to support a multi-year project of up to five years in duration.
The goal of the competition is to further innovative, integrative research to elucidate the principles which underlie hominin biological and behavioral evolution over deep time. While the intellectual scope of the competition is thus constrained, the potential methodologies and disciplines are not. It is understood, for example, that fields such as cognitive science, genetics or mathematical modeling may be directly relevant to such an endeavor. The competition is intended to stimulate integrative research which crosses normal disciplinary and intellectual boundaries in original ways and this aspect is a central criterion and requirement of the competition. Competition organizers recognize the difficulty in defining concepts such as "innovative integrative research" since much paleoanthropological research is currently interdisciplinary and integrative in nature. "Integration", for example, need not only be cross-disciplinary but might encompass broader perspectives on regional and large scale comparative issues. Proposals are required to address this issue directly in the project description by using up to two pages of the 15 to specifically speak to how the proposed research is both integrative and innovative beyond norms currently in practice and how the proposed research could not be accomplished otherwise. Reviewers and Program Officials will place significant weight on this criterion.
Deadline: April 18, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503614
Funding Source: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Title: Professional Fellows Program
Program: The Professional Fellows Division in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; Office of Citizen Exchanges announces an open competition for grants to conduct the Professional Fellows Program in Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Near East and North Africa, South Central Asia and the Western Hemisphere. The Professional Fellows Program is a global exchange program designed to strengthen leadership capacity and professional skills for mid-level professionals. U.S. public and non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue code section 26 U.S.C. 501(c) (3) may submit proposals that focus on one of the following three themes: 1) Economic Empowerment, 2) Media, and 3) Legislative Process and Governance.
Deadline: March 27, 2012
Link: http://exchanges.state.gov/grants/open2.html
UC
Funding Source: UC California Studies Consortium
Title: Statewide workshops
Program: The UCCSC invites proposals for a series of system-wide faculty workshops throughout the coming academic year. Submissions should be based on a clear theme relating to California Studies in a global context and open to different disciplinary approaches. Proposals that focus on interactions and flows within, across, and through California are particularly encouraged. Major contemporary issues affecting California, such as a focus on social movements that foreground more complex examinations of "resistance" within various California discourses might provide other open and opportune directions in thought. The California Studies Consortium stresses collaboration between scholars from different campuses and multiple disciplinary locations.
These workshops should be made up of diverse faculty, graduate students and archivists, and are open to postdoctoral fellows within three years of degree conferral. Workshops should strive to integrate emerging scholars and senior specialists into these new terrains of California Studies. Possible engagements including faculty, students, community, K-12 practitioners, and artists offer another form of interdisciplinary and cross-textual dialogue. Incorporating and possibly centering non-California based scholars to address "California" as a polemic may also provoke stimulating discussions.
Deadline: March 8, 2012
Link: http://californiastudies.org/Funding/uccsc-systemwide-workshops.php
Foundations
Funding Source: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Title: 2012 Environmental Grant Program
Program: American Water Works Company, Inc., a water and wastewater utility company, has announced that applications are being accepted by its participating state subsidiaries for the company's 2012 Environmental Grant Program awards. Grants will be available in American Water service areas in ten states — California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The program provides funds for innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore, or protect the watersheds, surface water, and/or groundwater supplies through partnerships.
To be eligible for funding, proposed projects must address a source water or watershed protection need in the community; be completed between May 1, 2012, and November 30, 2012; be a new or innovative program for the community, or serve as a significant expansion to an existing program; be carried out by a formal or informal partnership between two or more organizations; provide evidence of sustainability (continued existence after the American Water grant monies are utilized); and be located within an American Water service areas in one of the eligible states.
Deadline: March 10, 2012
Link: http://www.amwater.com/corporate-responsibility/environmental-sustainability/environmental-stewardship-and-innovation/environmental-grant-program.html
Student
Funding Source: The Objectivist Center
Title: Graduate Scholarships
Program: One or more scholarships are awarded annually to support qualified graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in philosophy and closely related fields such as psychology and cognitive science. The goal of this program is to aid students with long-term scholarly interests in Ayn Rand and Objectivism to complete their degree programs and begin taking part in teaching, researching, and writing on a professional basis.
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Link: www.atlassociety.org/
Funding Source: California Council on Science and Technology
Title: California Science & Technology & Policy Fellowships
Program: Offered by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), the California Science and Technology Policy Fellowships place professional scientists and engineers in the California State Legislature for one-year appointments. These professional development opportunities will enable fellows to work hands on with policy-makers to develop solutions to complex scientific and technical issues facing California through their interaction with the legislative process. The fellowships are ideal for qualified applicants who are interested in improving the interface between science and legislative decision-making and who want to learn the public policy decision-making process. Fellows will be placed, for one year, in various offices of the California State Legislature.
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Link: http://www.fellows.ccst.us/what.php
