Grant Opportunities 1-7-13

January 07, 2013

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

Upcoming Deadlines


Federal

NSF- Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program:                         LOI: February 20, 2013
NEH- Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities:       March 7, 2013
NARA- Electronic Records Projects:                                                  April 1, 2013

Foundation
Spencer Foundation- Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity
Preliminary Proposal:                                                                         February 7, 2013

UC
UC MEXUS-CONACYT Grants for Collaborative Projects:               March 4, 2013

Student
EPA- NNEMS Fellowship Program:                                                   February 8, 2013

Federal

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Program:                     The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and post-baccalaureate students holding STEM degrees who earn a teaching credential and commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts. The NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship Track provides funding to support STEM professionals who enroll as NSF Teaching Fellows in master's degree programs leading to teacher certification by providing academic courses, professional development, and salary supplements while they are fulfilling a four-year teaching commitment in a high-need school district. This track also supports the development of NSF Master Teaching Fellows by providing professional development and salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and science teachers to become Master Teachers in high-need school districts. Capacity Building Projects support the development of new programs and activities to increase the capacity for institutions to provide innovative teacher preparation programs that enable increasing numbers of STEM majors and STEM professionals to become effective K-12 mathematics and science teachers and to develop the capacity to prepare Master science and mathematics teachers.
Deadline:                    Letter of Intent (optional): February 20, 2013
Full Proposal:              March 20, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13526/nsf13526.htm


Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Program:                     These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. For example, training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
Deadline:                    March 7, 2013
Link:                            http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/institutes-advanced-topics-in-the-digital-humanities

Funding Source:         NARA
Title:                            Electronic Records Projects
Program:                     The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals that will increase the capacity of archivists and archival repositories to create electronic records archives that preserve records of enduring historical value. The NHPRC supports efforts by archivists and records managers to meet the challenges of electronic records. Projects to increase repository capacity must involve institutions that have already established archives and records management programs.
We seek applications in the following categories:
Start-up projects: Develop the capacity of institutions to prepare to capture and preserve electronic records, through program planning; or
Collaborative projects: Establish and/or improve electronic records archives by engaging in effective and innovative collaborations; or
Electronic Records Professional Development projects: Develop and offer professional education curricula, basic and advanced institutes, or research seminars.
Deadline:                    Draft (optional) deadline:       April 1, 2013
Link:                            http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/electronic.html

Foundation

Funding Source:         Spencer Foundation
Title:                            Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity
Program:                     The Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities - as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them - and to find ways to more fully realize education's potential to promote more equal opportunity. Expanded opportunity is important not only to a society's economic well being but to the character of its civic, cultural, and social life as well. Education enriches and expands people's lives in many ways, including through their employment opportunities, their civic and political involvements, and the quality of their personal lives. The foundation's interests therefore extend to studies that examine the ways in which differences in educational experiences (including quality and character of schooling as well as number of years in school) translate into differences in employment, earnings, and civic and social outcomes. Such work can help identify ways to change schooling investments and outcomes in the interests of a more just and prosperous society. 

Deadline:        February 1, 2013 (preliminary proposal)
Link:                http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/education-and-social-opportunity

UC

Funding Source:         UC MEXUS
Title:                            UC MEXUS-CONACYT Grants for Collaborative Projects
Program:                     Students The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) and El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) are pleased to announce a call for proposals to provide seed funding to teams of UC and Mexican researchers with beginning projects in basic and applied collaborative research, instructional development, and public service and education projects that apply research to public issues. The primary objective of the program is to enable the establishment of new collaborative initiatives with the potential for creating permanent ties between UC campuses and Mexican institutions that will grow and continue with the support of other institutional and extramural funds. Therefore, proposals for expansion or continuation of ongoing projects, as well as dissemination of research results of earlier work through bi-national conferences and publications, will be considered a lower priority.
Deadline:                    March 4, 2013
Link:                            http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/funding/grant_collaborative.html

Student

Funding Source:         EPA
Title:                            NNEMS Fellowship Program
Program:                     The NNEMS program is a comprehensive fellowship program that provides students an opportunity to participate in a fellowship project that is directly related to their field of study. The purpose of the NNEMS program is to
- provide students with practical research opportunities and experiences in EPA's program and regional offices and in its laboratories;
- increase public awareness of and involvement in environmental issues;
- encourage qualified individuals to pursue environmental careers; and
- help defray the costs associated with the pursuit of academic programs related to the field of environmental protection, such as pollution control, science, engineering, technology, social science, and specialty areas. Under the NNEMS program, a range of fellowship activities are offered to help students increase their knowledge of environmental issues while refining their professional skills. The projects are specifically narrow in scope, allowing students to complete the research project while working full-time at the EPA during the summer or part-time during the school year. Typically, the research is conducted at the EPA office, although other arrangements can be made in certain circumstances.

Deadline:                    February 8, 2013
Link:                            http://www.epa.gov/education/NNEMS/index.html