OPPORTUNITY FUNDING ALERT

Arts & Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences – Visiting Scholars
Biology
NSF - Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
Bridge Loans
Kresge Foundation - Community Relief Fund
Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute – Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention
Children with Disabilities
CVS Caremark – Community Grants Program
Coastal Ecosystems
Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research - Sea Level Rise
Doctoral Dissertation Grants
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Entrepreneur Award
Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation - Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award
HIV Transmission Prevention
NIH - Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection
Magnetic Field Research
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) – Summer Program
Graduate Educational Opportunities at the Magnet Lab
Music
National Endowment for the Arts - American Masterpieces: Chamber Music
Science Education
NSF, Div. of Undergraduate Education – STEP Program Expansion
Social & Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation, Div. of Social & Economic Sciences
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program; Economics
Swedish Study in the US
Swedish-American Foundation – Fellowships and Grants Women
L'Oréal USA Fellowship for Women in Science
Of Interest
Recovery Act – OMB’s Webinar Training Materials

Arts & Sciences

Biology

National Science Foundation - Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in selected areas of biology supported by BIO and with special goals for human resource development in biology. The fellowships encourage independence at an early stage of the research career to permit Fellows to pursue their research and training goals in the most appropriate research locations regardless of the availability of funding for the Fellows at that site. For FY 2010, these BIO programs are (1) Broadening Participation in Biology and (2) Biological Informatics. In future years, these areas will change as new scientific and infrastructure opportunities present themselves; and this solicitation will be changed to reflect the areas being funded. Deadline: Oct. 14, 2009. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09573/nsf09573.htm?govDel=USNSF_25

Bridge Loans

Kresge Foundation - Community Relief Fund
In response to the economic crisis and the impact it is having on front-line human service organizations, The Kresge Foundation has established a 24- to 36-month, interest-free program-related investment fund offering bridge loans of $250,000 to $500,000 to high-performance organizations so that they may be better able to meet the ever-increasing demand for their services. Competitive applicants will meet the following criteria: Provide comprehensive front-line services (homeless and domestic-violence shelters, safety-net providers, affordable housing and supportive services, legal aid services, emergency-assistance providers, and multi-service health and human service organizations); have been in operation for three years; have a solid base of net assets or net worth, or long-term history of recurring revenue; can provide evidence of stable operating performance (net operating surplus over the past three to five years); possess audited financial statements for the past two years. Go to: http://www.kresge.org/index.php/what/community_relief_fund/

Cancer Prevention

National Cancer Institute – Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention
The aim of this funding opportunity announcement (PA-09-234), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to promote clinical and preclinical research to determine how diet and dietary factors, including dietary supplements, impact DNA methylation, histone posttranslational modification, noncoding RNA, and other epigenetic processes involved in cancer prevention and development. Although much evidence exists that dietary components are linked to cancer prevention, the specific nutrients and sites of action remain elusive. Diet, in fact, has been implicated in many of the pathways of cancer, including apoptosis, cell cycle control, differentiation, inflammation, angiogenesis, DNA repair, and carcinogen metabolism. These are also processes that are likely regulated by epigenetic events to impact gene function and chromatin stability. Thus, research supported by this initiative could address one of the following issues: How bioactive food components regulate epigenetic events for cancer prevention, how bioactive food components might alter aberrant epigenetic patterns or events and restore gene function, and how these components might circumvent or compensate for genes and pathways that are altered by epigenetic events. Deadline: Oct. 5, 2009. Go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-234.html

Children with Disabilities

CVS Caremark – Community Grants Program
The Community Grants Programs provides support to community organizations and public schools in states where CVS stores are located for programs serving children with disabilities and the uninsured. The program will award funds to nonprofit organizations working to provide disabled children and youth with health and rehabilitation services and/or programs that enable and encourage physical movement and play. The program will also award grants to public schools that promote a greater level of inclusion in student activities and extracurricular programs for children with disabilities. Proposed programs must be fully inclusive where children with disabilities are full participants in an early childhood, adolescent, or teenage programs alongside their typically developing peers. Additionally, contributions will be made to organizations that provide uninsured individuals with needed care, in particular programs where the care received is of higher quality and delivered by providers who participate in accountable community healthcare programs. There is no age limit on proposed programs that create greater access to health care services. Qualifying organizations are eligible for grants of up to $5,000 each. The online grant application process requires that all applicants answer a number of eligibility questions before gaining access to the application. Visit the CVS Caremark Web site for complete program information and application materials. Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009. Go to: http://info.cvscaremark.com/community/our-impact/community-grants

Coastal Ecosystems

Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research - Sea Level Rise
NOAA is soliciting research proposals for projects of 3 to 5 years in duration for development of modeling and mapping tools to better understand and predict the impacts of sea level rise on coastal ecosystems, including ecologically and economically valuable natural resources, to support proactive coastal management and mitigation decisions. The area of interest includes the coastal ecosystems in the northern Gulf of Mexico, ranging from the eastern boundary of the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve to the western extent of the Mississippi coast. Projects should be interdisciplinary, multiple investigator, and well integrated studies designed to develop capabilities for understanding, predicting, and mitigating the effects of long term sea level rise. There are cost sharing requirements. CFDA # 11.478. NOAA-NOS-NCCOS-2010-2001818. Deadline: Oct. 14, 2009. Background information. Additional Information

Doctoral Dissertation Grants

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The NSF’s Div. of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Div. of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Div. of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student’s university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Deadlines: Various. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&govDel=USNSF_50.

Entrepreneur Award

Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation – Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award
Postdoctoral scholars who take the entrepreneurial steps to get their research to market bring enormous potential benefits to society and the economy. To recognize and encourage postdoc entrepreneurial excellence, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) have launched the Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award. The award recognizes and celebrates excellence in entrepreneurial performance by a postdoctoral researcher in the scientific community. The winner will receive a $10,000 honorarium. A second award, the Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award, will be given to a promising postdoctoral entrepreneur. This winner will receive a $2,500 honorarium. The inaugural awards will be presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the NPA, slated for March 12-14, 2010, in Philadelphia, Pa. To be eligible for nomination for the Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award, an entrepreneur must: Hold a Ph.D. in a field of science; Have completed postdoctoral training in the United States; Be the founder or co-founder of a private or public company (or companies) that: is commercializing or has commercialized the nominee’s intellectual property AND is incorporated and located in the United States AND has been established for a minimum of three (3) years. Deadline: Nov. 2, 2009. Go to: http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/outstanding-postdoctoral-entrepreneur-award.aspx

HIV Transmission Prevention

National Institutes of Health - Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection
The purpose of this funding opportunity (PA-08-188) is to develop theoretically grounded biobehavioral approaches to prevention of HIV infection and transmission that integrate in-depth knowledge of the norms, beliefs and values of potential research participants in varied contexts. Approaches may focus on sociocultural impacts of biomedical HIV prevention research, or they may focus on behavioral interventions tested with attention to participants’ sociocultural contexts, and also include biological variables (e.g., seroconversion in discordant couples) within the design. Other factors relevant to culture such as social, economic, family, and community considerations as well as, national or ethnic traditions, practices, and history also may need consideration. Both descriptive and intervention studies should lead to the development and testing of different modes for implementing efficacious HIV prevention interventions. Deadline: Oct. 5, 2009. Go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-188.html.

Magnetic Field Research

Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) – Summer Program
Funded by the National Science Foundation, this six-week summer residential program for U.S. citizens gives K-12 teachers from across the country the chance to participate in real-world science and cutting-edge magnetic field research. Through weekly seminars, discussion groups, professional development and technology workshops, teachers develop strategies and resources to translate the experience into material for their classrooms. Each teacher accepted by the program receives a stipend of $3,600, classroom materials and, if necessary, travel support up to $500, and housing. Teachers are expected to return to their jobs as leaders in service education, implementing science research in their classrooms. The application will be available next fall for the following summer program. Participants are required to participate in the entire six weeks of the program. Participants are required to attend all daily and weekly meetings, seminars, field trips and workshops. Go to: http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/ret/

Graduate Educational Opportunities at the Magnet Lab
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who want research experience at the cutting edge of magnetic field, pressure and temperature need look no further than the Magnet Lab. Research at the lab covers many disciplines – physics, biology, chemistry, engineering – and all the combinations of each you can imagine. The state-of-the-art research facilities give students access to tools that exist no where else in the world, because lab engineers design and build our magnets, many of which hold world records for strength of field. The three-campus Magnet Lab is operated by Florida State University in Tallahassee, the University of Florida in Gainesville and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, with each site specializing in a different area of high-field research. The relationship between the campuses presents graduate students and postdocs with myriad opportunities. Go to: http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/gradstudents/

Music

National Endowment for the Arts – American Masterpieces: Chamber Music
American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius is a major initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. (CFDA No. 45.024; No. 2010NEA01AMCM 7314800). Potential applicants are strongly advised to consult with the Music staff before preparing an application.

Grants generally will range from $5,000 to $75,000 and require a nonfederal match of at least one to one. The Arts Endowment’s support of a project may start on or after May 1, 2010. The performances and educational activities should take place by Sept. 30, 2011. Proposal deadline: Oct. 8, 2009. Go to: http://arts.endow.gov/grants/apply/AMChamber.html

Science Education

NSF, Div. of Undergraduate Education – STEP Program Expansion
This is a major program (NSF 08-569) that seeks to increase the number of students receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) offers major funding to enhance existing programs and encourage new efforts. Deadlines: Letter of Intent (recommended): Aug. 18, 2009; Proposal: Sept. 30, 2090. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5488&govDel=USNSF_39

Social & Economic Sciences

National Science Foundation, Div. of Social & Economic Sciences
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program - This program (PD 98-1321) supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature. Deadlines: Aug. 18, 2009; Jan. 18, 2010. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&govDel=USNSF_39

Economics - The Economics program (PD-1320) supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance. The program also funds conferences and interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics. Deadlines: Aug. 18, 2009; Jan. 18, 2010. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&govDel=USNSF_39

Swedish Study in the US

Sweden-American Foundation – Fellowships and Grants for Advanced Study or Research in the USA Every year, the Sweden-America Foundation awards approximately 40 fellowships for graduate, postgraduate, and postdoc studies in the United States and Canada. Additionally, the American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) offers funding to Scandinavians to undertake study or research programs (usually at the graduate level) in the United States for up to one year. May be in any of the following areas: Agriculture and Food Sciences; Area Studies; Arts and Humanities; Business, Management and Commerce; Education; Energy Sciences; Engineering; Health and Medicine; Law; Natural and Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Technology; and Social Sciences. Go to: http://www.sweamfo.se/stip.html

Women

L'Oréal USA Fellowship for Women in Science
This organization rewards exceptional young female talent with a $60,000 grant for independent postdoctoral research to further her scientific agenda and enhance future job prospects. The program aims to annually recognize, reward and support five women postdoctoral researchers in the U.S. who are pursuing careers in the life and physical/material sciences, as well as mathematics, engineering and computer science. As part of its commitment to further help women scientists achieve their goals, L’Oréal USA awards each recipient $40,000 to apply toward their postdoctoral research. Look for the Request for Proposals in June-Aug. The deadline is at the end of Oct. 2009. Go to: http://www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/FWIS2007/downloads/2008_FWIS_applications.pdf

Of Interest

Recovery Act – OMB’s Webinar Training Materials
To ensure that the public receives as much information as possible on the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Federal Agencies and recipients of ARRA funding are required to report dozens of data elements. Because such a wide variety of information is required – and since some elements are being reported for the first time – the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) prepared a series of webinars to train Federal Agencies and recipients of ARRA funding on how to comply with their reporting responsibilities.

This series – "Implementing Guidance for the Reports on Use of Funds Pursuant to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009" – is divided into 7 parts. “General Overview” - The first webinar in the series summarizes the reporting requirements and sets the stage for the rest of the series. Presentation was held on July 20, 2009. For more information, go to: http://www.whitehouse.gov/recovery/webinartrainingmaterials/

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July 2009