Research

Featured Opportunities for August 9, 2017

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  • The Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley's collections document the interaction between business and the cultural, social, and political dimensions of our society from the late 18th century to the present. This institution offers two grants for extended stay and use of their collections. Exploratory Research Grants offer support for one week, but can be extended if justified. Henry Belin DuPont Fellowships offer up to eight weeks of support.
  • The American Philosophical Society’s (APS) Franklin Research Grants provide support for travel to libraries and archives for research purposes as well as for costs (e.g. copies, microfilm) associated with that research. This support can also be used for field and laboratory expenses. APS makes about 90 awards averaging around $5,000.
  • The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Typical and Atypical Patterns of Language and Literacy in Dual Language Learners (R01& R21) program seeks applications that will inform our understanding of the typical and atypical patterns of language and literacy development of dual language learners (DLLs) in the United States. Applicants are encouraged to take advantage of advances in the language sciences and related fields to identify and clarify specific cognitive, linguistic, neurobiological, and sociocultural factors associated with normal and impaired language and literacy acquisition in young DLL populations.
  • The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program released the RFA’s for its two small grant programs—Seed Research Initiation Grants and Partnership Development Grants. If you plan to submit to one of these programs, you must make an appointment, in the next few weeks, to meet with Beth Montelone and Mary Lou Marino because both programs have cost match requirements. Proposals are due October 3.
  • NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering ( NIBIB) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21) supports exploratory/developmental research programs of interest to the NIBIB. These studies should lead to breakthroughs in developing innovative techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or their applications. These studies may involve considerable risk that should be balanced by the potential high impact on human-health and related research. Applicants are expected to propose novel biomedical research approaches for which there is no preliminary data to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed project. A project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven.
  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Human Research Program (HRP) has released solicited research response area NRA 80JSC017N0001-OMNIBUS “NASA Human Research Program Omnibus Opportunity” that seeks applied research in support of HRP goals and objectives. NASA is soliciting investigations lasting no more than one year that provide innovative approaches to any of the risks and gaps contained in the Integrated Research Plan of the Human Research Program. NASA is also soliciting novel research ideas from new investigators whose ideas may not be directly aligned with HRP’s identified risks and who have not received funding from NASA or the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in the last 10 years.
  • NIH’s K-INBRE Developmental Research Project Awards 2018-2020 purpose is to strengthen the ability of Kansas researchers to compete effectively for NIH funds by building a “critical mass” of junior and senior investigators. This program will award four grants in the scientific research theme of Cell and Developmental Biology with focus areas of reproductive and embryonic development, organogenesis, developmental neuroscience, and cellular and develpmental pathologies.
  • The Wilson Center, chartered by Congress as the official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, is the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community. The Center invites scholars, practitioners journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship International Fellowship Program and to take advantage of the opportunity to engage actively in the Center’s national mission. It awards 15-20 residential fellowships each year.
  • The National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its annual program of support for advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, urbanism, and photographic media. Each of its nine fellowships has specific requirements and intents, including support for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation, and for residency and travel during the period of dissertation research.