Department of Health and Human Services Graduate Student Grant Funding Opportunities

OPRE Grant Announcement

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently published a discretionary research funding announcement titled “Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants,” which is summarized below.   If you have questions regarding this grant announcement, please email the OPRE grant review team atHSGraduateResearchReviews@icfi.com or call 1-877-350-5913.

Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant

The full announcement for “Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants” is available online at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2013-ACF-OPRE-YR-0573. These grants are meant to facilitate high quality research that directly addresses the needs of low-income children, families, and their early childhood educators, to inform and improve Head Start policies and practice, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high quality doctoral students.

Who is eligible to apply? Funds for Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants are available to accredited public, State-controlled, and private institutions of higher education acting on behalf of a doctoral-level graduate student. 

To be eligible to administer the grant on behalf of the student, the institution must be fully accredited by one of the regional accrediting commissions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.  Eligible U.S. institutions may apply on behalf of their own university faculty who will serve as Principal Investigator for an international non-U.S. citizen who is an advanced graduate student enrolled in their program. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards under this announcement.  Additionally, eligible applicants must have a faculty mentor, who has a Ph.D. or equivalent in the respective field, and conducts research as a primary professional responsibility in their university/institution.

What is the funding award limit and project period?  Applicants may apply for project periods up to 24 months with two 12-month budget periods. Up to $25,000 may be awarded for each budget period. For information about previous Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant, seehttps://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/research/project/head-start-graduate-student-research-program-0.

What types of research are supported? Proposed projects must address applied research questions that will inform and improve Head Start and Early Head Start policies and practice on topics of current interest. Topics of current interest for this announcement include, but are not limited to (please see announcement for further details):

·         Research that will improve understanding of the needs of families from diverse backgrounds, or improve Head Start and Early Head Start programs and policies for various subpopulations;

·         Family engagement and family outcomes;

·         Issues related to children who are dual language learners, including children from language-minority families, and children in native language revitalization programs;

·         Professional development, especially of staff working with families;

·         Community engagement and collaboration;

·         Health services and family health literacy;

·         Transition from Head Start to Kindergarten or from Early Head Start to Head Start;

·         Teacher and classroom characteristics and practices that influence children’s academic readiness;

·         Leadership and management in Head Start and Early Head Start programs; and

·         Efforts of federal agencies, states, territories, tribes, and localities to coordinate Head Start and Early Head Start programs with other child/family programs and how such coordination affects the services received by eligible families and children.

When is the application deadline?  Letters of intent are due May 29, 2013 and applications are dueJune 28, 2013.

If you have questions regarding this grant announcement, please email the OPRE grant review team at HSGraduateResearchReviews@icfi.com or call 1-877-350-5913.

Multiple opportunities of interest to CHASS researchers

Colleagues, the following list was provided by Carol Ashcroft. There are opportunities for CHASS across all these areas. Please share with me your plans to pursue these opportunities.

Following are 10 opportunities related to Internet freedom, open society, infrastructure for access, 3D storage of cultural data and big data.  All were identified by a Pivot funding search.

1.  Open Society Foundation  

Arab Regional Office

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/arab-regional-office

2.  U.S. Department of State

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

Request for Statements of Interest: Internet Freedom Programs

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=9zLcR2TGQQ0J6xtFxG2gcfkCsfZ5hFKJ11KT9gJh7bfc1NFHhnQ2!774167503?oppId=229196&mode=VIEW

3.  The Internet Society

http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-awards

4.  National Science Foundation

Civil Infrastructure Systems

engineering of infrastructure systems for resilience and sustainability....  Areas of interest include intra- and inter-physical, information and behavioral dependencies of infrastructure systems, infrastructure management, construction engineering, and transportation systems.  Special emphasis is on the design, construction, operation, and improvement of infrastructure networks with a focus on systems engineering and design, performance management, risk analysis, life-cycle analysis, modeling and simulation, behavioral and social considerations not excluding other methodological areas or the integration of methods.

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13352  [Note: I served as program officer in the division that manages this program, and have greater than usual familiarity with it. If you'd like to know more, let me know.]

5.  The U.S.-Japan Foundation

http://www.us-jf.org/communication.php

6.  NEH

http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/national-digital-newspaper-program

7.  NIST
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Pilots Cooperative Agreement Proram

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=218434

8.  DOE

Scientific Collaborations at Extreme-Scale

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=156733

9.  NSF

Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767

10.  U.S. Department of the Interior

3D High Definition Digital Cultural Resource Documentation, Interpretation, Website Development and Archival Storage

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=0XZwR2GD5t39b3389prvV2dbmhrNzK08kQGpS1y2ww7P6mpyycF5!-298178550?oppId=231293&mode=VIEW

Internet Freedom Annual Program Statement: Internet Freedom Technology (Limited Submission)

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor has released the Internet Freedom Annual Program Statement for Internet Freedom Technology, which announces the availability of funding under the "Governing Justly and Democratically" Foreign Assistance program objective.  Interested organizations are invited to submit up to two Statements of Interest for projects that will "foster freedom of expression and free flow of information" around the world."  The Department of State will evaluate the Statements of Interest and invite select organizations to submit full proposals.  

Award:  From $500,000  up to $2.5 million over a period of from one to three years

Important dates:

Mandatory notification of interest deadline:  For the Department of State's May 31, 2013 deadline, provide the notification of interest to limited-submission@ncsu.edu by 5 p.m. April 25, 2013.  Include a working title, and identify which theme is the focal point, either "Technology Expanding Open and Uncensored Access to Information and Communications" or Secure Communication Technology," pages 2 and 3 of the announcement (available at http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/04/internet/).  

Internal preproposal submission:  Due by 5 p.m. May 6, 2013 to limited-submission@ncsu.edu .  Internal requirements are available at http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/04/internet/ .  

Estimated internal review completion date:  May 10, 2013

Department of State Statement of Interest submission deadline:  May 31, 2013.

For more information and a link to the Department of State announcement, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/04/internet/ .

EPA Announces University Challenge to Find Innovative Uses for Toxics Data

This is a very interesting opportunity for scholars working in environmental policy. The areas in which I believe CHASS participation would be particularly strong are indicated in bold in the last full paragraph of this announcement. Please visit the first listed link below to learn about how to participate in Webinars on this program. Of course, the Research Office is ready to help you apply for any funding.

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News Release: EPA Announces University Challenge to Find Innovative Uses for Toxics Data
03/19/2013

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today launched the TRI University Challenge, a new initiative designed to use academic partnerships to find innovative uses for Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data. TRI gives all Americans access to information about toxic chemicals in the environment as a tool to better protect health and the environment.

“For more than 20 years, individuals, organizations and communities have relied on TRI as a powerful tool for environmental protection,” said Malcolm D. Jackson, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Environmental Information and Chief Information Officer. “Now, EPA is encouraging students and professors to submit ideas for new projects that will increase the knowledge, use, and understanding of TRI data.

EPA will accept TRI University Challenge applications between March 18 and May 13, 2013 for projects that will begin this fall. Two informational webinars about the challenge are planned for April.

Institutions whose project proposals are selected will become TRI University Challenge partners. Partners gain practical experience collaborating with EPA to understand and solve local environmental challenges and may receive national recognition for their efforts. While no monetary assistance is available as part of this challenge, partners will receive direct support and guidance from EPA TRI experts.

Priority will be given to projects related to one or more of the following four topics: pollution prevention and sustainability, stakeholder engagement, technology and data mashups, and environmental education.

TRI helps industry, government, non-governmental organizations and the public make environmentally responsible decisions .by providing them with information about toxic chemical releases into the air, water and land.

More information on the Challenge, webinars and sample project ideas: www.epa.gov/tri/university

More information about the Challenge: http://challenge.gov/

More information about TRI: www.epa.gov/tri

Nominations for the 2013 International Food Prize

Colleagues, if you have a colleague you'd like to nominate, please see the link below.

The World Food Prize Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2013 international World Food Prize to "recognize the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world."  The late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for 1970, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, was the founder.  

The award is $250,000 formally presented at the Laureate Award Ceremony in mid-October, on or around World Food Day, in conjunction with the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium.

To nominate an individual, see

http://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=25290 .

The World Food Prize program is not a limited submission program.  

Event on "Big Data"

Colleagues, many you have raised an interest in the idea of "big data," which involves the collection, storage, curation, and analysis of very large sets of data. Big data ideas are important to commerce and industry, but also to government, national security, social service provision, and, indeed, any human endeavor (including the humanities).

This announcement is taken direction from The Bulletin, at http://bulletin.ncsu.edu/2013/03/big-data-event/

The text of that announcement is listed below. If you attend this event, or any part of it, please let me know what you learned.

Tom

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Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend an informational program on big data analytics next month that kicks off the spring meeting of the Center for Innovation Management Studies. “Big Data for Fun & Profits: Your Guide to Top-Line Growth in the 21st Century” will be held 9–11 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, in the Hunt Library.  Register in advance for the free event.

The program includes:

Postdoctoral Native American Studies Research Fellowship

Colleagues, I received this information from Ray Fornes in Physics, who is NCSU's point of contact with Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities (ORAU). This may be a very good opportunity for CHASS. Please share with any colleagues who may find this interesting.

Tom

Dear Colleagues:

The National Institute of Justice is seeking proposals for the funding of one or more postdoctoral Native American Studies Research Fellowships to applicants who show the greatest potential for future achievement as scholars and researchers, and who can demonstrate experience relevant to the unique demands of working with tribal communities, including experience working in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages. As the principal research agency within the Department, NIJ is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. The program offers scientists an opportunity to participate full-time on research addressing tribal crime, victimization, and justice issues relevant to the work of NIJ and public policy.

For assistance with substantive requirements of this solicitation, contact Christine Crossland, Senior Social Science Analyst, by telephone at 202–616–5166, or by e-mail at 

Christine.Crossland@usdoj.gov.

Download the solicitation.

View all current funding opportunities from NIJ.

Fuqua School of Business Roundtable: Immigration and Visa Policies on US Competitiveness

People who study labor force, competitiveness, and immigration may find this interesting.

This is a reminder that we hope you can join us for a March 28 roundtable discussion at the Fuqua School of Business on the impact of American immigration and visa policies on U.S. competitiveness, hosted by the NFTC Foundation, Duke University, the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and the Partnership for a New American Economy. 

Discussants include Madhu Beriwal, President and CEO, IEM; Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji, Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; Judith Cone, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chris Hare, Founder, The nTeTe Group; Nicole Hedrick, Director, Global Immigration, IBM; Jeremy Robbins, Director of the Partnership for a New American Economy; and Michael Schoenfeld, Vice President, Public Affairs and Government Relations, Duke University.

To RSVP, visit: http://nftc.org/calendar/calendar.asp?Mode=CalendarViewDetails&ID=643 

Regards,

Jake

Jake Colvin

Vice President, Global Trade Issues
National Foreign Trade Council
Tel: (202) 887-0278 x2025 / jcolvin@nftc.org
nftc.org / usaengage.org / globalinnovationforum.com

University of New Hampshire: 1st Annual Seminar in Culture and Sustainability

Colleagues, this is relevant to the humanities, not just social scientists. Indeed, it is aimed and humanists, and many of you will find this interesting.

This July, UNH will offer what we hope will be the first annual seminar in Culture and Sustainability.  

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/summerseminar

(Deadline extended!)

UNH is a nationally recognized leader in sustainability, especially in the areas of climate & energy, biodiversity, and food systems.  We now want to ramp up the participation of humanities scholars in sustainability. For a week, you can join us in Durham to discuss readings and work on a writing or teaching project in the company of like-minded people at our new summer seminar, "Ecology and Ethnicity: Sustainability Studies' Contributions to Place." 

I hope you'll take a look and think creatively about how your work might apply. You do NOT need to be researching and writing about "nature": to us, "sustainability" means attending to "coupled human-natural systems," meaning that it is not solely about ecological issues but also calls for attention to historic preservation, public memory, digital cultures, as well as to the questions around gender, ethnicity and power that are the mainstay of much of the best humanities scholarship.  So, for instance, we have invited one seminar leader (Angel Nieves, Hamilton College) who's an architectural historian working with black diasporic public memory projects, and another (Darren Ranco, University of Maine) who's a cultural anthropologist working with Maine Indian basket makers and cultural revitalization.

Send a 1-page c.v. and 1-page statement describing your current scholarship to our our faculty fellow Siobhan Senior atssenier@unh.edu.

Please spread the word, and consider joining us.  And if you have an idea you'd like to run past us, please don't hesitate to be in touch with Siobhan.

Siobhan Senier
Associate Professor, English
Faculty Fellow, Sustainability Institute
James H. and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities
University of New Hampshire
95 Main St.
Durham NH 03824-3574

Research Funding Workshop for Early-Career Faculty

Colleagues, please share this announcement with your junior colleagues--this is an excellent opportunity to learn how to use COS Pivot to find research funding opportunities, including those in the humanities and social sciences. This is the same tool we use in the Research Office to find opportunities for research funding. It's a very powerful tool, and well worth learning.

Research Funding Workshop:

A hands-on opportunity for

early career faculty, co-presented 

by Chris Horn of Refworks' Pivot 

and Carol Ashcraft of NC State 

March 22, 2013 

9:30 a.m., repeat session at 1:30 p.m.

Room 3412 College of Textiles

Centennial Campus

Early career faculty are invited to a workshop by Customer Education and Training Manager Chris Horn of RefWorks, developer of COS Pivot, and NC State’s Research Development Office, with Carol Ashcraft co-presenting.  

The workshop is intended to equip participants with the knowledge and skills they need to:

·       Create, refine and save customized funding alerts

·       Track specific opportunities to receive immediate, automated alerts for any changes in those programs

·       Share opportunities with colleagues

·       Create, claim and effectively update a research profile

·       Identify prospective collaborators inside and outside NC State

·       Use help and support resources

Individual assistance will also be provided.

The workshop is free, but reservations are required because space is limited.  Please RSVP to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu and specify which session you prefer to attend.   Detailed directions to Room 3412 will be provided.

Presentation on Fulbright Programs for Faculty

Interesting in Teaching or 
Doing Research Abroad?


Consider

Presentation on Fulbright Programs for Faculty
Panel Discussion with Recent Fulbright Scholars
Light lunch will be provided

Friday, March 22
11:30 am-1:00 pm
126 Witherspoon
(Cates Ave and Dan Allen Drive)
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Sponsored by:


NC State Office of Faculty Development
NC Fulbright Association
Information: 919-513-3636 or contact jcaustin@ncsu.edu
Directions: 126 Witherspoon Student Center (click on link for map.  See Bldg. # 81)

Available Parking (for a small fee):
Reynolds Coliseum Deck     (Click on link. See Bldg. #99)

Dan Allen Drive Deck
Note: Dan Allen Drive is closed to thru traffic from 9 a.m. -5 p.m.  Approach must be from Hillsborough St. only.
Click on link.  See Bldg. # 60

Please RSVP by opening the link below.

Follow this link to the Survey:
Take the Survey

Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
http://ncsu.qualtrics.com//WRQualtricsSurveyEngine/?Q_SS=3qkKI5aohkUCNy5_d7rnxO3byMKkuCF&_=1

If this link doesn't work, please direct your inquiries to the number and email listed above.

North Carolina Sea Grant Request for Preproposals

North Carolina Sea Grant Opens New Funding Cycle
Preproposals Due April 5, 2013

North Carolina Sea Grant invites preproposals for coastal and marine research projects for the 2014-2016 core funding cycle.  Completed preproposals are due April 5, 2013.

"Preproposals identify coastal research priorities and describe the relevance of the research to North Carolina," explains Susan White, executive director.  "We expect a wide range of topics for projects seeking improved understanding, utilization and management of marine and coastal resources, particularly relating to coastal North Carolina and adjacent regions."

Full proposals will be requested later this year only from investigators who have submitted preproposals.  Maximum Sea Grant funding for the two-year funding period will be $100,000 per project.  Sea Grant requires nonfederal matching funds for at least one-third of the project's total costs.

Joint EPA & NCSU Poster Session for EPA and NCSU Researchers on Thursday, March 28

Research Collaboration Event

Between EPA-RTP and NCSU

You are invited to attend

The Second Joint EPA & NCSU Poster Session for EPA and NCSU Researchers on Thursday, March 28 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the US EPA-RTP Auditorium –Main Building C Room 111, Research Triangle Park (flyer is attached)

This event is a major collaboration effort between EPA-RTP and NCSU. It is a follow up to the poster session hosted by NC State on Centennial Campus in Spring 2012 attended by 84 NCSU and EPA researchers presenting 57 posters.

EPA-RTP will host this next event with the continuing effort to accomplish the following objectives:

Trends in Arts & Humanities Funding 2004-2012

Many of you will find this research report on global trends in arts and humanities funding. I am not sure that the data square with everything we know about these trends in the United States, but this does inform an interesting discussion and points to opportunities to increase funding in the humanities.

American Community Survey Data Users: Request for Input on New ACS Data Users Group Activities and Topics

ATTENTION: AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA USERS

REQUEST FOR INPUT ON NEW ACS DATA USERS GROUP ACTIVITIES AND TOPICS

With funding from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and Sabre Systems are forming a new American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Group. The purpose of the ACS Data Users Group is to improve understanding of the value and utility of ACS data. Membership in the group is free and open to all interested ACS data users. The ACS Data Users Group will not play a role in advising the Census Bureau or advocating to the Census Bureau on behalf of ACS data users. The group is led by a Steering Committee comprised of selected external stakeholders representing a broad spectrum of data users with different interests. 

To facilitate communication among ACS data users, PRB and Sabre Systems will create and maintain an online forum, organize webinars and special sessions at professional meetings, and hold an annual ACS Data Users Conference. The online forum is the centerpiece of this project and will provide a discussion site where people can share messages, materials, and announcements related to ACS data and methods. Specific activities and topics will be determined based on input from ACS Data Users Group members, Steering Committee members, and Census Bureau staff.

CHASS Junior Faculty Development Award (JFDA) Announcement

CHASS Junior Faculty Development Award (JFDA)
Announcement
Due dates for submission: April 1, 2013

The CHASS research office is pleased to announce that it will offer up to five Junior Faculty Development Awards, to support tenure-track faculty in their scholarly endeavors. This is a one-time program, but may be announced next year if funds are available.

Eligbility: Any junior faculty member  in any discipline in CHASS may apply. Only tenure-track faculty are eligible. Faculty who will apply for promotion and tenure in AY 2013-2014, or whose promotion to tenure will take effect any time during the 2013-14 academic year are not eligible for this award.

Faculty who have been funded under the SRA mechanism during the 2012 cycle are not eligible for this funding. Faculty may apply for these funds if they are being offered summer research salary for May or June 2013, or any portion of these months.

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Human Subjects Office Hours

Colleagues, Sam Snyder, my counterpart in the College of Education, shared this with his colleagues in  his college. I know that this will be very helpful to our college as well. Please feel free to visit Deb Paxton during her office hours in Poe to ask anything at all about human subjects research. Of course, you can contact the IRB at any time, and if you have general questions please ask me as well (Sam and I are co-chairs of the IRB).

Once again NC State Regulatory Compliance Administrator Deb Paxton will be holding "IRB office hours" in Poe Hall.  Deb is available for walk-in traffic or by appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays from about 4:20 until about 5:20 in room 530.

This is a real opportunity for residents of Poe Hall and nearby buildings to talk through those IRB issues that can slow the review of your proposal, so I encourage you to take good advantage.

US DOJ/NIJ call for applications for research on firearms and violence

In the aftermath of Sandy Hook, the Obama Administration has taken executive action to make federal funding available for studying violence related to firearms. This is an excellent opportunity to pursue some high-quality research in a field that lacks rigorous analysis. 

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of
Justice (NIJ) is seeking applications for research on firearms and violence. This program furthers the Department’s mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels.

More details are at https://ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001048.pdf and at this link

New York Public Library: Short Term Research Fellowships

Short-Term Research Fellowships

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer Short-Term Research Fellowships to support visiting scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research.  Fellowship stipends are $1,000 per week for up to four weeks and researchers must be in residence at the Library for a minimum of two weeks between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.  Scholars needing to conduct on-site research in the Library’s special collections to support projects in the humanities including but not limited to art history, cultural studies, history, literature, performing arts and photography are welcome to apply. Applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents with the legal right to work in the U.S.

In 2013-2014, the Library will offer additional fellowships to support the study of food and society focusing on manuscript cookbooks and related archival collections held by the Library. With support from the Pine Tree Foundation, the Food Studies Fellowships are intended to support multidisciplinary research and expose individuals working in the area of food studies to manuscript recipe books and archival collections held at the Library. Applicants for this fellowship should follow the same guidelines as the Short-Term Research Fellowship program.

[More information after the jump]

Google Faculty Research Awards

Colleagues,

Google has announced its deadlines for its Faculty Research Awards. They are April 15 and October 15 of this year. While these awards tend to focus on technical fields, the breadth of their interests is considerable, and I believe that there are faculty in CHASS who could find this opportunity exciting. The funds tend to support graduate students, but the research project must be directed by a faculty PI.

The announcement is at http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html

Their FAQ page is http://research.google.com/university/relations/FAQ.html

Please visit these pages for more details. Please also note that Google funds research as unrestricted gifts, not grants, to the University. For now, this distinction is not important--your time is better spent considering how you might apply for this funding! But since this is unusual in the research world, you will want to work with the CHASS research office carefully to ensure that we follow both Google's and our University's processes for handling unrestricted gifts.

Following is a blurb from the Google announcement. I think this is very exciting, and I urge you to read this announcement!

What are Google Research Awards?

Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world. Faculty members can apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal to one of our two 2013 funding rounds. Our 2013 deadlines are April 15 and October 15. Recipients are selected through a comprehensive internal review process and notified of their awards within 4 months of the initial submission. Faculty members can apply for up to 150,000 USD in eligible expenses, but actual award amounts are frequently less than the full amount requested. Most awards are funded at the amount needed to support basic expenses for one graduate student for one year. Please see our FAQs for more details on eligibility and budgets.

More details on applying for the FRPD awards

Colleagues, in my earlier announcement about the Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) awards, I failed to provide you with details of the college process and application guidelines. You can find that information at

http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/FRPD/index.php


Please share this information broadly with your CHASS colleagues.

FRPD application period is now open

The Individual Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD)  -  http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/funding/internal-funding/frpd/

We are pleased to announce the release of the proposal guidelines for the 2013-14 Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund (FRPD).  Do not hesitate to contact Missy Seate in the CHASS research office if you have any questions about this award.  

Update: Additional information on this process is at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/FRPD/index.php

PINS Proposal must be routed to the CHASS Research Office by April 12, 2013.

Seed Grants for Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development 2013

The Office of Outreach and Engagement is pleased to announce that funds are available to be awarded for selected proposals related to extension, engagement, and economic development activities for the 2013-14 fiscal year.  The maximum award will be $10,000 per proposal request. 2013 Proposal Guidelines are attached for your convenience.  They are also posted on http://www.ncsu.edu/extension/awards/seedgrants.html

The number of awards granted will be contingent upon the total amount of available funds and the incremental amounts of each request.  The timeline for the 2013-14 competition is as follows

January 16, 2013                      

Request for Proposals announcements go out/Post to Office of Outreach and Engagement website

February 25, 2013

Proposals due by COB to Office of Outreach & Engagement (electronic with electronic signatures) and             PINS; Send to kaitlin_depersia@ncsu.edu

March 25, 2013

Judging by USCOEEED members concludes

April 2, 2013
Awardees notified 

April 22, 2013

"Celebrating the Engaged University" award ceremony                      

July 1, 2013

Funding cycle begins

June 30, 2014

Funding cycle ends

September 13, 2014

Final report due to Office of Outreach and Engagement

 

Thank you.

Kaitlin DePersiafor Dr. Lisa Grable, 2012-13 Chair, USCOEE&ED 

& Dr. Teresa Helmlinger Ratcliff, Interim Vice Provost for Outreach & Engagement

NSF: Ethics Education in Science and Engineering

Colleagues, I am sharing this because some of you may have an interest in ethics education in STEM fields, and may have been, or currently are, collaborating with colleagues in STEM on these issues. If you are not, but are interested, let me know. Since this is a limited submission program, NCSU can only submit one proposal, so I suspect that any initiative NCSU undertakes will be interdisciplinary.

The National Science Foundation has announced the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program.  The limit is one lead proposal per institution.  Non-lead proposals are unlimited.  The program is designed to "deepen the understanding of ethical dilemmas in science and engineering, and provide cutting edge, effective research and educational materials to train the next generation of scientists and engineers." 

 

Award:  Up to $300,000 over up to three years

 

Important dates

 

Mandatory notification of interest in applying: Due by 5 p.m. January 24, 2013 to limited-submission@ncsu.edu .  Only a simple email notice of interest is required, along with the name and contact information of the principal investigator and and a working title for the proposal.

 

Internal preproposal submission: Due by 5 p.m. February 11, 2013 to limited-submission@ncsu.edu .  Internal requirements are available at http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/01/eese/ . 

 

Estimated internal review completion:  February 14, 2013

 

NSF proposal deadline:  March 1, 2013

 

For more information and a link to the program solicitation, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/01/eese/ . 

U.S. State Dept.: Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Independent States of Eurasia

The U.S. State Department has announced the program, "Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of Eurasia."  The limit is one application per organization.  The purpose of the program is to support organizations with substantial and wide-reaching experience in administering research and training programs to conduct nationwide competitive programs supporting U.S. scholars, students and institutions in advanced research and language training.  Proposal projects must be national in scope.

Award: Pending availability of funds.  Cost-sharing is strongly encouraged.

Important dates:

Mandatory notification of interest in applying:  Due by 5 p.m. January 23, 2013 to limited-submisson@ncsu.edu .  Only a simple email message of interest is needed, along with a working title and the names of the principal NC State investigators.

Internal preproposal submission:  Due by 5 p.m. February 4, 2013 to limited-submission@ncsu.edu .  Internal requirements are available at http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/01/rtee/ .

Estimated internal review completion:  February 8, 2013

State Department proposal submission deadline:  February 28, 2013

For more information and a link to the program solicitation, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2013/01/rtee/ 

Please note that this is a limited submission program and that applications will be initially reviewed at NCSU.

William T. Grant Foundation: Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice

I received this recently from the W.T. Grant Foundation.

The William T. Grant Foundation has a longstanding interest in supporting research that can inform policy and practice that affect youth and we recognize that divides still exist between the research, policy, and practice communities. Thus, we fund studies that explore the acquisition, interpretation, and use of research evidence in policy and practice.


Relatively little research attention has been devoted to understanding the user side--that is, studying what affects policymakers' and practitioners' acquisition, interpretation, and use of research evidence. The foundation believes studies of this topic will increase the understanding of how to improve the production and subsequent use of research for and in policy and practice.

Areas of focus could include
- education,
- justice,
- child welfare,
- health,
- family support,
- employment, and
- youth programs.

The foundation will consider applications for newly initiated studies and add-on studies to existing projects. Add-on studies must address research questions not covered by prior funding from us or other funders, but can cover secondary analyses of existing data or collection and analyses of new data. Through this RFP, the foundation will support empirical, theory-building studies of what affects policymakers' and practitioners' acquisition, interpretation, and use of research evidence.

Additional details are available at http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/research_grants/use-of-research-evidence

Visiting Scholars Meet & Greet Lunch

Visiting Scholars Meet & Greet Lunch Thursday, January 24, 2013 @ 11:30-1:00 PM Caldwell Hall Lounge   The Office of International Affairs would like to invite you to a Meet & Greet in honor of our Visiting Scholars at NC State.  Come get to know our current visiting scholars and find out how they are contributing to our campus life and academic community! Those interested in hosting a visiting scholar are also encouraged to attend.  Staff from the Office of International Services will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about an upcoming training for hosting scholars. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Friday, January 18th @ 5:00 pm.   RSVP Here If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Cowles at the Office of International Affairs at919.515.1574 or sarah_cowles@ncsu.edu.   http://oia.ncsu.edu

NEH "Grants for Arts" and "Art Works" Programs: Limited Submission

If you are interested in applying for this, please contact me at tabirkla@ncsu.edu or at 919-513-1834. This is a limited submission program, so if there is more than one proposal being prepared across the university, we need to know. Thanks!

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced "Grants for Arts" and the "Art Works" program.  The limit is one application per institution per calendar year.  Some arts categories under Art Works have two deadlines, March 7th and August 8th.  Regardless of which category is involved, the limit is still only one application per institution, NOT one application per deadline.

Award:  Up to $100,000 has occasionally been awarded.  Most awards are smaller.
Cost-matching:  One-to-one cost matching in non-federal funding is required.  The matching funds may be from private, nonprofit, state or municipal government sources, or any combination, as long as they are non-federal.

Mandatory notification of interest in applying:  Due by 5 p.m. January 23, 2013 to limited-submission@ncsu.edu .  Only a simple email statement of interest is needed, not a formal LoI.  Provide a descriptive working title for the proposed project, and identify the project director and co-directors, as well as any partners external to NC State.  Also specify the arts category according to those listed athttp://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/index.html .   If the arts category has two deadlines, specify which one will be the planned application submission date.
 

Internal preproposal submission:  Due by 5 p.m. February 4, 2013 to limited-submission@ncsu.edu.  For internal requirements, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2012/01/art-works/ . 

Estimated internal review completion:  February 6, 2013

For more information anda link to the program guidelines, seehttp://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/2012/01/art-works/ .

Rachel Carson Post Doctoral and Senior Fellows

Call for Applications 2013-14

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society invites applications for its 2013-2014 class of postdoctoral and senior fellows. The fellowship program, directed by Christof Mauch (LMU Munich/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) and Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum) is designed to bring to Munich a cohort of excellent scholars who are working in the environmental humanities and related disciplines.

The Center will award fellowships to scholars from around the globe and from a variety of disciplines. Research and writing of applicants should preferably pertain to one (or more) of the topics that will be at the core of the Center’s 2013-2014 research agenda:

• Ecological Imperialism
• Environmental Ethics, Politics, and Movements
• Natural Disasters and Cultures of Risk
• Environmental Knowledge and Knowledge Societies

Applications that deal with past topics of the Center will also be considered. These include:

• Transformation of Landscapes
• Resource Use and Conservation

The program is a writing fellowship program; the Carson Center does not sponsor field trips or archival research. Fellowships will usually be granted for periods of 6, 9, or 12 months but they can also be granted for 3 months or be broken up into individual 3 month periods. Fellows are expected to spend their fellowship in residence, to work on a major research project, to attend the weekly lunchtime colloquium, and to present their research at the Center. 

The Carson Center will pay for a replacement of the successful candidate at his or her home institution; alternatively it will pay a fellowship that is commensurate with experience and current employment.

The deadline for applications is 31 January 2013.  Applications should include a cover letter, an abridged curriculum vitae (5 pages maximum), project description (3,000 words maximum), research schedule for the fellowship period, and the names of three scholars who might serve as references. While applicants may write in either English or German, we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. They will be notified about the outcome of their application within approximately two months of the deadline given above. Please send applications (electronically only) in PDF or Word format via e-mail to carsoncenter@lmu.de

--
Dr. Arielle Helmick
Communications Director
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Leopoldstr. 11a
80802 München
+49 (0) 89 2180 - 72364

New publishing outlet: Journal on Policy and Complex Systems

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems

The Policy Studies Organization is pleased to announce a new journa lhttp://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/policy-and-complex-systems to be published twice a year, starting October 1, 2013. The peer-reviewed journal provides a platform whereby researchers, policy makers, experts in relevant disciplines, and modelers can join together to offer scientifically valid and societally appropriate solutions to challenging problems facing the world today, from the perspective of systems and complexity science.

 

Opportunity for junior faculty interested in climate change

DISCCRS VIII Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium
http://disccrs.org/disccrsposter.pdf
October 12-19, 2013
La Foret Conference and Retreat Center (Colorado)

Application Deadline: February 28, 2013
Participation limited to 30 early-career Ph.D. scholars
Airfare and on-site expenses are supported through grants from NSF and NASAhttp://disccrs.org

The DISsertations initiative for the advancement of Climate Change ReSearch (DISCCRS, pronounced discourse) hosts symposia for early-career climate change researchers. Our goal is to catalyze international, interdisciplinary collegial networks and foster collaborative interdisciplinary research and dynamic interactions between science and society to enable us to better understand and respond to the myriad challenges posed by climate change.

MacArthur Foundation Housing Research Proposals

Today, The MacArthur Foundation issued a request for housing research proposals as part of its How Housing Matters to Families and Communitiesprogram, a five-year, $25 million research initiative to deepen the literature on the effect that investments in housing have on social and economic outcomes, beyond shelter. In the 2012-2013 phase of this initiative, the Foundation seeks to expand the body of empirical evidence on the difference that living in decent, stable, and affordable housing makes in the lives of children, families, and communities.  Research abstracts are due by Friday, January 11, 2013. 

For More Information:                                                             
How housing matters to families & communities call for proposals
How housing matters to families & communities research initiative
MacArthur’s housing grantmaking

NEH Requests Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Guidelines

This is reproduced directly from the National Humanities Alliance Newsletter, at http://www.nhalliance.org/news/neh-requests-comments-on-digital-projects-for-the-.shtml

NEH Requests Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Guidelines

November 29, 2012 - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will launch a new Digital Projects for the Public grant program in fiscal year 2014 and seeks public comment on its proposed guidelines.  According to the agency’s announcement, the new program will fund humanities projects using digital formats such as websites, mobile applications, games, social media, and virtual environments to reach the public and foster lifelong learning.  The comment period will end on December 10, 2012.

The new grant category is designed to provide an opportunity for NEH to encourage the integration of new digital technologies in traditional humanities spaces (such as museums and historic sites) as well as to foster the development of innovative, stand-alone digital projects with rich humanities content.

NEH seeks comments to help the agency assess how well these guidelines for a new funding opportunity accomplish the following goals:

• encourage the integration of new digital technologies in traditional humanities spaces;
• foster the development of innovative digital projects with rich humanities content;
• demonstrate that digital tools can be creatively employed to deepen and enhance learning in the humanities;
• support educators and humanities organizations that are increasingly employing digital platforms to bring the humanities to life for the American public.

Additional information is available on the NEH website.