2-9 NIDCD Research Core Centers (P30) (NIH)
The NICDC P30 Core Center grant contains one or more research-serving cores, providing centralized resources and facilities for funded R01 research projects. Although no funds are provided for direct support of research projects, a P30 helps to integrate and promote research in existing funded projects, and may include multi-disciplinary and regional collaborations. A Core Center must be an indentifiable organizational unit either within a single grantee institution or representing a consortium of cooperating institutions (e.g., geographic or web-based). The Center may serve as an intellectual hub to stimulate cooperative research, to increase the effectiveness, capabilities or productivity of current research, and/or to promote new research directions through collaborations. Only one P30 award is allowed per institution; exceptions may be made with documented prior NIDCD approval for different user groups working in different NIDCD mission areas within the same institution, but no R01 grants may be counted as qualifying for more than one P30. PAR-10-077 (NIHG 1/8/10)
Deadline: Internal 1/28/2010, 3/1/10; Letters of Intent 2/8/2010, 5/1/2010; Applications 3/8/2010, 6/1/2010
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1-3 Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) (NSF)
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research and education, with the interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills to become, in their own careers, leaders and creative agents for change. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education, for students, faculty, and institutions, by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate diversity in student participation and preparation, and to contribute to a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and engineering workforce. There is a limit of four (4) preliminary proposals that may be submitted by an institution either as a single institution or as a lead institution in a multi-institution preliminary proposals. NSF 10-523
Deadline: Internal 2/15/2009; Preliminary Proposals 3/29/2010; Proposals 9/30/2010
1-4 Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE) (NSF)
The Research on Gender in Science and Engineering program supports efforts to understand and address gender-based differences in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce participation through research, the diffusion of research-based innovations, and extension services in education that will lead to a larger and more diverse domestic science and engineering workforce. Typical projects will contribute to the knowledge base addressing gender-related differences in learning and in the education experiences that affect student interest, performance, and choice of careers; how pedagogical approaches and teaching styles, curriculum, student services, and institutional culture contribute to causing or closing gender gaps that persist in certain fields. NSF 10-516 (GG12/14/09)
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/10/2010, 9/6/2010; Proposals 3/23/2010, 10/14/2010
4-2 Major Research Instrumentation Program: Instrument Acquisition or Development (NSF)
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, museums, science centers, and not-for-profit organizations. This program especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments. Development and acquisition of research instrumentation for shared inter-and/or intra-organizational use are encouraged, as are development efforts that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument development capacity at academic institutions. The limit on number of proposals per organization is 3. If three proposals are submitted, at least one of the proposals must be for instrument development (i.e., no more than two proposals may be for instrument acquisition). NSF 10-529
Deadline: Internal 2/21/2010; Proposals 4/21/2010
4-12 Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) (NSF)
The goal of the Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) program is to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing graduate studies in all areas of biological research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Support will be provided to academic institutions to establish innovative programs to engage undergraduates in a year-round research and mentoring activity. Particular emphasis will be placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering: African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities. Only 1 proposal per organization is allowed. NSF 10-531
Deadline: Internal 2/26/2010; Proposals 4/26/2010, 3/1/2011
6-2 Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM) (NSF)
The CI-TEAM program supports projects that position the national science and engineering community to engage in integrated research and education activities promoting, leveraging and utilizing cyberinfrastructure systems, tools and services. This solicitation seeks three types of project proposals. One type of proposal, the Demonstration Project, is exploratory in nature and may be somewhat limited in scope and scale. Demonstration Projects have the potential to serve as exemplars to effective larger-scale implementation and diffusion activities in the future. The second project type, the Implementation Project, is generally large in scope or scale and draws on prior experience with the activities or the teams proposed. The third project type, the Diffusion Project, is expected to engage broad national audiences with research results, resources, models, and/or technologies. An organization may submit only one proposal as the lead organization in response to this solicitation. NSF 10-532
Deadline: Internal 2/27/2010; Proposals 4/27/2010
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5-7 NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) (NSF)
This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to bring their leading research practice and findings into K-12 learning settings. Through collaborations with other graduate fellows and faculty from STEM disciplines, teachers and students in K-12 environments, and community partners, graduate students can gain a deeper understanding of their own research and place it within a societal and global context. The GK-12 program provides an opportunity for graduate students to acquire value-added skills, such as communicating STEM subjects to technical and nontechnical audiences, leadership, team building, and teaching while enriching STEM learning and instruction in K-12 settings. An institution may submit only one proposal as lead from either a single-institution or from a multi-institutional proposal. NSF 09-549
Deadline: Internal 3/1/2010; Letters of Intent 4/20/2010
8-8 Climate Change Education (CCE): Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase I (CCEP-I) (NSF)
The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to be of a large enough scale that they will have catalytic or transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF program awards. Each CCEP must include representation from at least each of the following communities: climate scientists, experts in the learning sciences, and practitioners from within formal or informal education venues. The CCEP program is a two-phase program. This solicitation seeks proposals for development of Phase I Partnerships (CCEP-I). CCEP-I grantees will receive up to 2 years of funding to support synthesis, network-building, and strategic planning activities leading toward potential Phase II Partnerships (CCEP-II). An institution may submit only one CCEP-I proposal as Lead institution. Institutions may be a non-Lead partner on more than one proposal. NSF 10-542
Deadline: Internal 3/5/2010; Letters of Intent 4/23/2010; Proposals 5/24/2010
6-1 Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering (NSF)
This solicitation aims at introducing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate engineering education. The focus of this year's competition is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to devices and systems and/or on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology. An individual may serve as the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) on no more than one proposal. Only one (1) proposal may be submitted by a US academic institution, College/Department of Engineering or College/Department of Engineering Technology as the lead institution with the following exception: A US academic institution may submit a second proposal as the lead institution, only if it is focused on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology. NSF 10-536
Deadline: Internal 3/7/2010; Proposals 5/7/2010
8-2 NEI Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) for Statistical Genetics and Genome Informatics (NIH)
The NEI Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) for Statistical Genetics and Genome Informatics is a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award program that is intended to support predoctoral and postdoctoral training at institutions having the potential to develop meritorious training programs in genomic medicine, computational genomics, and statistical genetics. The goal of this program is to initiate a training program to develop opthalmic statistical genetics and bioinformatics research skills critical for investigators seeking to identify genes and genetic variations underlying ocular diseases. Applicants may submit only a single application in response to this FOA. RFA-EY-10-001 (NIHG 1/29/10)
Deadline: Internal 3/18/2010; Applications 5/18/2010
9-3 Climate Change Education (CCE): Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase I (NSF)
The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally--or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to be of a large enough scale that they will have catalytic or transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF program awards. Each CCEP must include representation from at least each of the following communities: climate scientists, experts in the learning sciences, and practitioners from within formal or informal education venues. The CCEP program is a two-phase program. This solicitation seeks proposals for development of Phase I Partnerships (CCEP-I). An institution may submit only one CCEP-I proposal as Lead institution. Institutions may be a non-Lead partner on more than one proposal. NSF 10-542 (GG 2/24/10)
Deadline: Internal 3/23/2010; Letters of Intent 4/23/2010; Proposals 5/24/2010; Supplement Proposals 3/15/2011
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11-13 Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, solicits grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to establish core centers that are part of an integrated program of nutrition and/or obesity research. The purpose of this Centers program is to bring together, on a cooperative basis, basic science and clinical investigators to enhance the effectiveness of their research related to nutrition and/or obesity. Applicants may submit only one application. RFA-DK-10-003 (NIHG 1/29/10)
Deadline: Internal 4/15/10; Letters of Intent 5/25/2010; Applications 6/22/2010
12-4 Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) (NIH)
This FOA, issued by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the Eunice K. Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), encourages applications from institutions that propose to establish new or to enhance existing team-based design courses in undergraduate Biomedical Engineering departments or programs. This FOA targets undergraduate students at the senior level but may also include junior undergraduates and first-year graduate students. Courses that address innovative and/or ground-breaking development, multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary training, and diversity recruitment are especially encouraged. Applicant institutions may submit only one application per receipt date to this FOA. PAR-10-140 (GG 3/18/10)
Deadline: Internal 4/1/2010; Letters of Intent 4/19/2010; Applications 5/18/2010
12-9 Instrumentation for Material Research--Major Instrumentation Projects (IMR-MIP) (NSF)
The Instrumentation for Materials Research--Major Instrumentation Projects (IMR-MIP) program in the Division of Materials Research provides support for the design and construction of major instruments costing more than $4 million but less than $20 million. While all types of instrumentation are encouraged, in FY2010, there will be an emphasis on coherent light sources for R&D proposals. The program supports three types of awards: Research and Development (R&D), Conceptual and Engineering Design (CED) awards, and Construction (CNST) awards. An institution may submit at most one IMR-MIP proposal in a given year. NSF 10-552
Deadline: Internal 4/21/2010; Proposals 6/21/2010
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15-8 NSF/DOE Partnership on Thermoelectric Devices for Vehicle Applications (NSF)
The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation has established a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program in order to address critical fundamental and applied research challenges associated with harvesting waste heat in vehicle applications. The goal of the partnership is to leverage the complementary mission of deployment and commercialization (DOE) and fundamental research and education (NSF) to address issues of national importance that impact our reliance on foreign sources of oil. The Directorate for Engineering seeks proposals with transformative ideas that will impact national needs and priorities in energy conservation and climate change, specifically as pertains to novel thermoelectric devices and systems for harvesting waste heat in vehicle applications. The principal investigator and co-principal investigator may participate in only one proposal submitted to this solicitation. It is the responsibility of the submitting institution to insure that the PI and all co-PIs are participating in only one proposal submitted to this solicitation. NSF 10-549 (GG 3/23/10)
Deadline: Internal 5/1/2010; Letters of Intent 5/21/2010; Applications 6/22/2010
15-3 Math and Science Partnership (NSF)
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. Through this solicitation, NSF seeks to support five types of awards: 1) Targeted Partnerships focus on studying and solving teaching and learning issues within a specific grade range or at a critical juncture in education, and/or within a specific disciplinary focus in mathematics or the sciences; 2) Institute Partnerships Teacher Institutes for the 21st Century focus on meeting national needs for teacher leaders/master teachers who have deep knowledge of disciplinary content for teaching and are fully prepared to be school or district-based intellectual leaders in mathematics or the sciences; 3) MSP-Start Partnerships are for awardees new to the MSP program, especially from minority-serving institutions, community colleges and primarily undergraduate institutions, to support the necessary data analysis, project design, evaluation and team building activities needed to develop a full MSP Targeted or Institute Partnership; 4) Phase II Partnerships are for prior NSF MSP Partnership awardees; and 5) Research, Evaluation and Technical Assistance (RETA) projects. An organization can be the lead on only one proposal among all categories. NSF 10-556 (GG 4/8/10)
Deadline: Internal 5/8/2010; Proposals 7/8/2010
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16-11 Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) (NSF)
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. Activities supported through the program are in all sub-fields of physics within the purview of the Division of Physics: atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, elementary particle, nuclear, astro-, gravitational, and biological physics. Interdisciplinary projects at the interface between these physics areas and other disciplines and physics sub-fields, e.g. biology, quantum information science, mathematical physics, condensed matter physics, and emerging areas of physics are also included. No more than two preliminary proposals may be submitted by any one institution. The same limitation applies to full proposals. Any one individual may be the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) for only one preliminary proposal. The same limitation applies to full proposals. NSF 10-560
Deadline: Internal 6/11/2010; Preliminary Proposals 8/11/2010; Proposals 1/25/2011
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November
41-11 Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) (NSF)
This program seeks to create a national resource of digital data documenting existing biological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about associated organisms, collector field notes, tissues and molecular data extracted from the specimens, etc. is a rich resource for providing the baseline from which to further biodiversity research and provide critical information about existing gaps in our knowledge of life on earth. The national resource will be structured at three levels: a national hub, thematic networks based on collaborative groups of collections, and the physical collections. It will be an invaluable tool in understanding the biodiversity and societal consequences of climate change, species invasions, natural disasters, the spread of disease vectors and agricultural pests, and other biological issues. Only one proposal may be submitted by any one organization as the lead organization in this competition for the HUB or for a TCN. NSF 10-603
Deadline: Internal 11/10/10; Proposals 12/10/2010
40-1 NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) solicits applications for the NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5) from institutions/organizations that propose to appoint and support exceptional, early career scientists directly following the completion of their Ph.D. (or equivalent) or M.D. (or equivalent) training into an independent academic research position, thereby omitting the traditional postdoctoral training period from their career path. Applicant organizations may submit up to two applications in response to this FOA. RFA-RM-10-019 (NIHG 10/8/10)
Deadline: Internal 11/21/2010; Letters of Intent 12/21/2010; Applications 1/21/2011
42-9 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program (Dreyfus)
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained within the last five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuation outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. The program is open to academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that grant a bachelor's or higher degree in the chemical sciences, including biochemistry, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering. Institutions may make only one nomination annually.
Deadline: Internal 11/26/2010; Nominations 2/10/2011
42-4 Major Research Instrumentation Program (NSF)
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, museums, science centers, and not-for-profit organizations. This program especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments. Development and acquisition of research instrumentation for shared inter-and/or intra-organizational use are encouraged, as are development efforts that leverage the strengths of private sectors partners to build instrument development capacity at academic institutions. Cost-sharing at the level of 30% of the total project cost is required for Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education and for non-degree-granting organizations. Non-Ph.D.-grant institutions of higher education are exempt from the cost-sharing requirement. The limit on number of proposals per organization is three. If three proposals are submitted, at least one of the proposals must be for instrument development (i.e., no more than two proposals may be for instrument acquisition. NSF 11-503
Deadline: Internal 11/27/2010; Proposals 1/27/2011
44-4 International Science and Education (ISE) Grants Program (USDA)
NIFA requests applications for the International Science and Education Competitive Grants Program (ISE) for fiscal year (FY) 2011 to support research, extension, and teaching activities that will enhance the capabilities of American colleges and universities to conduct international collaborative research, extension and teaching. U.S. success in the global arena will increasingly require U.S. colleges and universities to product graduates who can operate competently in domestic and international settings. Through their outreach efforts, universities and colleges also play a critical role in helping U.S. producers successfully operate in foreign markets. In response to these national needs, ISE is designed to foster innovative campus-based programs. Internationalization of U.S. campus-based programs is the primary focus of the ISE program. i NIFA priority areas include adaption/mitigation to climate change, sustainable bioenergy, reduction in childhood obesity, increased food security and increased food safety. Each institution may submit no more than two proposals as the lead institution. USDA-NIFA-CIP-003379 (GG 11/17/10)
Deadline: Internal 11/30/2010; Applications 1/19/11
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December
44-10 Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (NSF)
The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program seeks to increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of information assurance and computer security and to increase the capacity of the United States higher education enterprise to continue to produce professionals in these fields to meet the needs of our increasingly technological society. The SFS program is composed of two tracks: 1) The Scholarship Track provides funding to colleges and universities to award scholarships to students in the information assurance and computer security fields. 2) The Capacity Building Track provides funds to colleges and universities to improve the quality and increase the production of information assurance and computer security professionals. Professional development of information assurance faculty and development of academic programs can be funded under this track, as well as projects to increase interest in information assurance and accelerate the integration of information assurance, computer security or cyber security knowledge across the STEM disciplines. For the Scholarship Track, the proposing organization must be an accredited U.S. university or college that either 1) has been designated by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE or CAE-R) or 2) has an information assurance program that meets criteria similar to those necessary for CAE/IAE designation. For the Capacity Building Track, the proposing organization may be either an accredited U.S. university or college or a consortium. Proposing organizations must demonstrate expertise in information assurance or cyber security curriculum development and/or research. An institution can submit only one proposal to each of the two tracks. NSF 11-506 (GG 11/15/10)
Deadline: Internal 12/15/2010; Proposals 2/15/2011
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