Funding Picks of the Week
For the week of May 5, 2008
Arts & Humanities |Engineering |Life Sciences | Physical Sciences
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Arts & Humanities
Levenson Prizes for Books in Chinese Studies
Scope: The sponsor offers two $1,000 Joseph Levenson Prizes for non-fiction scholarly books on China published in 2007.
Deadline: June 30, 2008
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Assessment of Student learning in the arts (NEA)
Scope: The National Endowment for the Arts seeks proposals to collect and analyze information on current practices and trends in the assessment of K-12 student learning in the arts to identify models that might be most effective in various learning environments.
Deadline: May 30, 2008
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Engineering
Communicating Hurricane Information
Scope: In a joint announcement, NOAA and NSF call for proposals focusing on advancing fundamental understanding of the communication of hurricane outlooks, forecasts, watches, and warnings both to decision makers (i.e., emergency managers, elected officials) and to the general public.
Deadline: June 3, 2008
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Integrated photonic delay (DoD)
Scope: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency invites proposals to develop integrated photonic delay technologies that will lead to the ability to fabricate high-performance and cost-effective optical delay processors.
Deadline: May 20 for abstracts
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Life Sciences
Understanding thought synthesis
Scope: The National Science Foundation’s Biological Sciences Directorate seeks applications for proposals to help investigators synthesize the body of their work.
Deadline: July 16, 2008
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Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing (DoJ)
Scope: The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice solicits applications to enhance efforts to use DNA analysis to identify missing persons and human remains.
Deadline: May 23, 2008
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Physical Sciences
International materials institute
Scope: The National Science Foundation invites proposals to enhance international collaboration between U.S. researchers and educators and their counterparts worldwide in advancing fundamental materials research.
Deadline: July 15, 2008
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Cluster Exploratory
Scope: The National Science Foundation invites applications under a program designed to provide academic researchers with access to massively-scaled, highly distributed computing resources to stimulate research advances in computer and simultaneous advances in other fields.
Deadline: July 17, 2008
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Social Sciences
Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program
Scope: The sponsor supports work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts. Three or more grants of $60,000 each will be awarded to support postdoctoral faculty members to conduct research and writing on domestic public policy issues.
Deadline: June 30 , 2008
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Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R21)
Scope: The sponsor offers support to encourage the development of empirical research on social work practice, concepts and theory as these relate to the NIH public health goal of improving health outcomes for persons with medical and behavioral disorders and conditions. This PA will use the NIH R21 award mechanism.
Deadline: June 16, 2008
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International
Indo-US Program on Maternal and Child Health and Human Development Research
Scope: The sponsor offers support for collaborative research projects involving U.S. and Indian investigators to enhance maternal and child health, disease prevention, product development and/or technology transfer. The MCHDR program places specific emphasis on the need for more “translational” types of research intended to move beyond basic science and discovery to product development and delivery. An emphasis will also be placed on studies addressing social and behavioral factors affecting prevention, care, and treatment of disease/poor health in women, infants, and children. This program will use the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism.
Deadline: June 30, 2008
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JSPS Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
Scope: The sponsor provides support to assist promising and highly-qualified young researchers wishing to conduct research in Japan. Eligible applicants must hold a doctoral degree earned within six years of April 2, 2007. Fellowships are awarded for twelve to twenty-four months.
Deadline: June 30, 2008
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