Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP):
December 3, 2013
DOD-Minerva Research Institute:
November 18, 2013
Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship:
Internal: September 19, 2013
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Health & Society Scholars Program:
September 20, 2013
Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation:
November 1, 2013
Student
NSF- Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP):
November 7, 2013
Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE)
Internal: September 23, 2013
Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation:
November 1, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
Program: STEP seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.
Deadline: December 3, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11550/nsf11550.htm
Funding Source: DOD
Title: Minerva Research Initiative
Program: The program focuses on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy. It seeks to increase the department's intellectual capital in the social sciences and improve its ability to address future challenges and build bridges between the department and the social science community. Minerva brings together universities, research institutions, and individual scholars and supports multidisciplinary and cross-institutional projects addressing specific topic areas determined by the DOD. The MRI aims to promote research in specific areas of social science and to promote a candid and constructive relationship between DOD and the social science academic community. The Minerva Research Initiative competition is for research related to the 3 topics:
1. Belief Formation and Movements for Change
2. Models of Societal Resilience and Change
3. Theories of Power and Deterrence
Deadline: White paper: November 18, 2013
Link: http://minerva.dtic.mil/baa.html
Foundations
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: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title: Health & Society Scholars Program
Program: The program annually supports up to 12 outstanding postdoctoral scholars to engage in an intensive two-year interdisciplinary program in population health at one of four nationally prominent universities.
Deadline: September 20, 2013
Link: http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/
Funding Source: Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation
Title: Faculty/Post-Doctoral Grant Program
Program: Grants of up to $20,000 are available to help support the research of faculty members or post-doctoral researchers affiliated with non-profit human service organizations in the United States and Canada. Areas of interest to the Fund are: studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or studies that have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about such problems. The research for which funding is requested must focus on the United States or Canada or on a comparison between the United States or Canada and one or more other countries.
Deadline: November 1, 2013
Link: http://www.fahsbeckfund.org/grant_programs.html#contact
Student
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
Program: The purpose of the NSF GRFP is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in fields within NSF's mission. The GRFP provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research.
Deadline: Social Sciences; Psychology; STEM Education and Learning:
November 7, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13584/nsf13584.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
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: Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation
Title: Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program
Program: Grants of up to $5,000 are available to help support dissertation expenses of doctoral students in the United States and Canada whose studies have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about problems in the functioning or well being of children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or about interventions designed to prevent or alleviate such problems. The research for which funding is requested must focus on the United States or Canada or on a comparison between the United States or Canada and one or more other countries.
Deadline: November 1, 2013
Link: http://www.fahsbeckfund.org/grant_programs.html#contact
