Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NEH-Summer Stipends: Internal deadline: September 1, 2013
NSF-Perception, Action & Cognition: August 1, 2013
NSF- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB): August 1, 2013
Foundation
Soros Open Society Fellowships: August 1, 2013
CAL Humanities- Community Stories Grant: August 1, 2013
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship: Internal: September 19, 2013
Student
Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE): Internal: September 23, 2013
NSF- SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: July 15-October 15, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NEH
Title: Summer Stipends
Program: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply. 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, 2013. 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, 2013 and have until September 26, 2013 to complete and submit their NEH applications.
Deadline: Internal: September 1, 2013
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Perception Action and Cognition
Program: Supports research on perception, action and cognition. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Central research topics for consideration by the Perception, Action, and Cognition panel include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, and motor control. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. The PAC program is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs (e.g., Linguistics, Developmental and Learning Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience, etc). Proposals may involve clinical populations, animals, or computational modeling only if the work has direct impact on basic issues of human perception, action, or cognition.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
Program: Through the LTREB program, the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) encourage the submission of proposals that generate extended time series of biological and environmental data to address ecological and evolutionary processes and resolve important issues in organismal and environmental biology. Researchers must have collected at least six years of previous data to qualify for funding, and these data must motivate the proposed research. The proposal also must present a cohesive conceptual rationale or framework for ten years of research. Questions or hypotheses outlined in this conceptual framework must guide an initial 5-year proposal as well as a subsequent, abbreviated renewal. Together, these will constitute a decadal research plan appropriate to begin to address critical and novel long-term questions in organismal and environmental biology. As part of the requirements for funding, projects must show how collected data will be shared broadly with the scientific community and the interested public. All proposals submitted to the LTREB program are co-reviewed by participating Clusters in the two participating Divisions: Ecosystem Science, Population and Community Ecology, and Evolutionary Processes in DEB, and Behavioral Systems and Physiological and Structural Systems in IOS. Proposals must address topics supported by these programs. Researchers who are uncertain about the suitability of their project for the LTREB Program are encouraged to contact the cognizant program director.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13544&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Foundation
Funding Source: Open Society Foundation
Title: Soros Open Society Fellowships
Program: Supports individuals seeking innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Link: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship/grants
Funding Source: CAL Humanities
Title: Community Stories Grant
Program: Community Stories (previously the California Story Fund) is a competitive grants program to support story-based public humanities projects that collect, preserve, interpret, and share the stories of California communities—past and present. Since 2003, we have awarded over $3 million to nearly 400 projects through this grant program that seeks to foster among us greater knowledge, understanding, and empathy. Community Stories funds projects that focus on the collection and sharing of real stories of California’s communities. Projects must involve at least one humanities expert as an advisor, use the methods of analysis that inform the humanities as well as community-based research, and produce work that is publicly accessible. Application eligibility is limited to California-based nonprofit organizations or local/state public agencies or institutions. Grant awards range up to $10,000 and a cash or in-kind match is required.
Deadline: August 1, 2013
Link: http://www.calhum.org/grants/community-stories-grant
Funding Source: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Title: Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Program: The University of California, Santa Cruz has been invited to nominate one candidate for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship. This is an invitation-only submission process. It is a very prestigious award that covers salary for approximately one academic year and two summers of additional support (including release time from teaching, if required). Candidates for this program should be highly qualified scholars pursuing innovative research. New Directions Fellowship assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who received their doctorate between six and twelve years ago and who wish to acquire systematic training outside their own disciplines. The fellowships are looking to assist faculty whose research interests cross-disciplinary boundaries and call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. The nominee will be decided by a committee of Social Science and Humanities faculty members.
Internal deadline: September 19, 2013
Contact: ashleeac@ucsc.edu
Student
Funding Source: Fulbright
Title: Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE)
Program: Established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries", Fulbright is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
Internal Deadline: September 23, 2013, please contact Marlene Robinson for the internal deadline: marobins@ucsc.edu
Link: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/getting-started
Funding Source: NSF
Title: SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Archeology; Linguistics; STS; Cultural Anthropology; Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics; Economics; Decision, Risk and Management Sciences; Science of Science and Innovation Policy; Documenting Endangered Languages; Political Science; Geography & Spatial Sciences; & Sociology
Program: The NSF's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in both BCS and SES, the Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics program within NCSES, and the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program in SMA accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Requirements vary across programs, so proposers are advised to consult the relevant program's webpage for specific information and contact the program director if necessary.
Deadline: July 15-October 15, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
