Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (GSS): September 5, 2013
NSF-Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC): September 10, 2013
NIH-Social and Behavioral Research on the Elderly in Disasters (R03): October 16, 2013
NEH-Summer Stipends: Internal: September 1, 2013
Foundations
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship: Internal: September 19, 2013
Sloan Research Fellowships: September 16, 2013
Students
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships: October 23, 2013
Fulbright IIE: Internal: September 23, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (GSS)
Program: As specified in the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program strategic plan, the goals of the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) Program are:
*To promote scientific research in geography and the spatial sciences that advances theory and basic understanding and that addresses the challenges facing society.
*To promote the integration of geographers and spatial scientists in interdisciplinary research.
*To promote education and training of geographers and spatial scientists in order to enhance the capabilities of current and future generations of researchers.
*To promote the development and use of scientific methods and tools for geographic research.
The Geography and Spatial Sciences Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged to propose plans for research about the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. GSS encourages projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
Deadline: September 5, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503621&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC)
Program: One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is to ensure an adequate supply and quality of water in light of both burgeoning human needs and increasing climate variability and change. Despite the importance of water to life on Earth, there are major gaps in our basic understanding of water availability, quality and dynamics, and the impact of both human activity and a changing and variable climate on the water system.
The goal of the WSC solicitation is to enhance the understanding and predict the interactions between the water system and land use changes (including agriculture, managed forest and rangeland systems), the built environment, ecosystem function and services and climate change/variability through place-based research and integrative models. Studies of the water system using models and/or observations at specific sites, singly or in combination, that allow for spatial and temporal extrapolation to other regions, as well as integration across the different processes in that system are encouraged, especially to the extent that they advance the development of theoretical frameworks and predictive understanding. Specific topics of interest include:
· Developing theoretical frameworks and models that incorporate the linkages and feedbacks among atmospheric, terrestrial, aquatic, oceanic, biotic and social processes that can be used to predict the potential impact of (1) climate variability and change, (2) land use and (3) human activity (including population change) on water systems on decadal to centennial scales in order to provide a basis for adaptive management of water resources.
· Determining the inputs, outputs, and potential changes in water budgets and water quality in response to (1) climate variability and change, (2) land use and (3) human activity (including population change), and the effect of these changes on biogeochemical cycles, water quality, long-term chemical transport and transformation, terrestrial, aquatic and coastal ecosystems, landscape evolution and human settlements and behavior.
· Determining how our built water systems and our governance systems can be made more reliable, resilient and sustainable to meet diverse and often conflicting needs, such as optimizing consumption of water for energy generation, industrial and agricultural/forest rangeland production and built environment requirements, reuse for both potable and non-potable needs, ecosystem protection, and flood control and storm water management.
Deadline: September 10, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503452&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Social and Behavioral Research on the Elderly in Disasters (R03)
Program: This FOA encourages applications from institutions or organizations that propose to conduct research in the behavioral and social sciences on the consequences of natural and man-made disasters for the health and well-being of the elderly, with an ultimate goal of preventing or mitigating harmful consequences. Disasters include weather-related events, earthquakes, large-scale attacks on civilian populations, technological catastrophes or perceived catastrophes, and pandemics.
Deadline: October 16, 2013
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-264.html
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
Foundation
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
Funding Source: Sloan Foundation
Title: Research Fellowships
Program: The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
Please be aware that the Sloan Fellowship guidelines include these criteria:
*Hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences (including marine biology), physics, or a related field.
*Be members of the regular teaching faculty (i.e., tenure track)
*Normally, be no more than six years from completion of the most recent Ph.D. or equivalent as of the year of their nomination. The Selection Committees may make exceptions for candidates who were awarded their Ph.D. prior to September 2007 if their careers were disrupted due to military service, child-rearing, or a change in field. The Committees may also make exceptions for candidates who are currently serving in their first faculty position and who were appointed to that position on or after September 2011. If any of these circumstances apply, a clear explanation should be included in the candidate's nomination letter.
While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates in all fields are normally below the rank of associate professor and do not hold tenure, but these are not strict requirements. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation welcomes nominations of all candidates who meet the traditional high standards of this program, and strongly encourages the participation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups.
Deadline: September 16, 2013
Link: http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/
Student
Funding Source: Mellon Foundation/ACLS
Title: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Program: ACLS invites applications for the eighth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2015. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. ACLS will award 65 fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2014 for the 2014-2015 academic year. The fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. These fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.
Deadline: October 23, 2013
Link: http://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/#
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
