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| DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE |
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National
Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP) |
- The goal of the National Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP) is
to improve the quality of our Nation's surface water and groundwater
resources through research, education, and extension activities.
Projects funded through this program will work to solve water resource
problems by advancing and disseminating the knowledge base available to
agricultural, rural, and urbanizing communities. Funded projects should
lead to science-based decision making and management practices that
improve the quality of the Nation's surface water and groundwater
resources in agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds.
- Eligibility: Applications may be submitted by
colleges and universities.
- Funding: CSREES anticipates that support of this
program in FY 2008 is approximately $12.6 million.
- Web: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/water_quality.html
- Deadline: April 29, 2008
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| CAMILLE AND HENRY DREYFUS FOUNDATION |
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Start-up Award Program
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- The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to support the
scholarly activity of new faculty at primarily undergraduate
institutions with a Start-up Award designed to help initiate their
independent research programs. The award provides an unrestricted
research grant of $30,000 that is generally made before the new faculty
members formally begin their first tenure-track appointments.
- Eligibility: The Start-up Award Program is open to
all academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of
the United States of America that DO NOT grant a doctoral degree in
chemistry, biochemistry or chemical engineering. Faculty members who
start their first tenure-track appointment in one of these departments
in 2008 are eligible for nomination in 2008.
- Funding: The Start-up Award Program provides a
$30,000 unrestricted research grant. Funds are normally expended over a
period of five years.
- Web: http://www.dreyfus.org/su.shtml
- Deadline: May 8, 2008
nominations
Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
- The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the
development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental
chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The award is given to
a principal investigator who submits a proposal judged to be
exceptional, both in its potential for leading edge contributions to
environmental science, and in the arrangements for the education of the
Fellow. The Foundation's goal is to create the next generation of
leaders in environmental chemistry. Thus successful applicants are
expected to recruit excellent young Ph.D. graduates from the fields of
physical, organic, inorganic, biological chemistry or associated fields
in chemical engineering, and provide them with the highest caliber of
research experience and broad education in environmental science. The
Fellow need not have previous training in environmental chemistry. The
expectation is that the postdoctoral research accomplishments and
educational broadening under this program should allow the Fellow to
achieve a position where high quality research related to environmental
chemistry and leadership in the field may be anticipated.
- Eligibility: The program is open to Principal
Investigators at all academic and other not-for-profit organizations
that have well-established research efforts in environmental science or
engineering in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United
States of America. These research activities need not be located in
traditional departments in the chemical sciences, and collaboration
across departments and institutions is encouraged.
- Funding: Each two-year award of $120,000 carries an
annual stipend of $45,000 for direct support of the postdoctoral Fellow.
Stipends may be supplemented from institutional or other sources. Annual
fringe benefits of the postdoctoral Fellow taken from this award may not
exceed $9,000.
- Web: http://www.dreyfus.org/ep.shtml
- Deadline: May 22, 2008
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| DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION |
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Arts in Education Model Development and
Dissemination Grant Program |
- The Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant
(AEMDD) program supports the enhancement, expansion, documentation,
evaluation, and dissemination of innovative, cohesive models that are
based on research and have demonstrated that they effectively--(1)
integrate standards-based arts education into the core elementary and
middle school curriculum; (2) strengthen standards-based arts
instruction in these grades; and (3) improve students' academic
performance, including their skills in creating, performing, and
responding to the arts. Projects funded through the AEMDD program are
intended to increase the amount of nationally available information on
effective models for arts education that integrate the arts with
standards-based education programs. This competition includes one
absolute priority, one competitive preference priority, and two
invitational priorities. Please see the program announcement for
details.
- Eligibility: (1) One or more local educational
agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are considered LEAs
under State law and regulations, that may work in partnership with one
or more of the following: a State or local non-profit or governmental
arts organization, a State educational agency (SEA) or regional
educational service agency, an institution of higher education, or a
public or private agency, institution, or organization, such as a
community- or faith-based organization; or (2) One or more State or
local non-profit or governmental arts organizations that must work in
partnership with one or more LEAs and may partner with one or more of
the following: an SEA or regional educational service agency, an
institution of higher education, or a public or private agency,
institution, or organization, such as a community- or faith-based
organization.
- Funding: It is estimated that $3.5 million will be
available for about 14 awards ranging from $225,000-$275,000 for the
first year of the project. Funding for the second, third, and fourth
years is subject to the availability of funds and the approval of
continuation awards.
- Web: http://www.ed.gov/programs/artsedmodel/
- Deadline: February 13, 2008 optional letter
of intent; March 14, 2008 applications
Professional Development
for Arts Educators
- This program supports the implementation of high-quality
professional development model programs in music, dance, drama, media
arts, or visual arts, including folk arts, for arts educators and other
instructional staff of kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) students in
high-poverty schools. Grants are intended to strengthen the capacity of
teachers and schools to deliver standards- based arts education programs
and to raise student academic achievement in the arts and ensure that
all students meet challenging State academic content standards.
Absolute Priority: To support professional development
programs for K-12 arts educators and other instructional staff that use
innovative instructional methods and current knowledge from education
research and focus on-- (1) The development, enhancement, or expansion
of standards-based arts education programs; or (2) The integration of
standards-based arts instruction with other core academic area content.
In order to meet this priority, an applicant must demonstrate that the
project for which it seeks funding is linked to State and national
standards intended to enable all students to meet challenging
expectations, and to improve student and school performance.
- Eligibility: An LEA, which may be a charter school
that is considered an LEA under State law and regulations, that is
acting on behalf of an individual school or schools that meets the
poverty criterion with respect to children from low-income families that
is specified in the application requirement section elsewhere in this
notice, and that must work in partnership with one or more of the
following-- (a) A State or local non-profit or governmental arts
organization; (b) A State educational agency (SEA) or regional
educational service agency; (c) An institution of higher education; or
(d) A public or private agency, institution, or organization, including
a museum, an arts education association, a library, a theater, or a
community- or faith-based organization.
- Funding: It is estimated that $6.2 million will be
available for about 30 awards ranging from $100,000-$350,000 for the
first year of the project. Funding for the second and third years is
subject to the availability of funds and the approval of continuation
awards.
- Web: http://www.ed.gov/programs/artsedprofdev/
- Deadline: February 11, 2008 optional intent
to apply; February 29, 2008 applications
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| NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES |
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Summer Seminars and Institutes |
- These grants support national faculty development programs in the
humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers.
Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six
weeks. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough
treatment of the topic. Summer seminars and institutes: extend and
deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on
significant topics, texts, and issues; enhance the intellectual vitality
and professional development of participants; build a community of
inquiry and provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching; and
promote effective links between teaching and research in the humanities.
Seminars and institutes may be hosted by colleges, universities, school
systems, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or
other repositories, and cultural or professional organizations. The host
site must be appropriate for the project, providing facilities for
scholarship and collegial interaction.
- Eligibility: Any U.S. nonprofit organization with
501(c)(3) tax exempt status is eligible, as are state and local
governmental agencies and tribal governments. Grants are not awarded to
individuals.
- Funding: NEH anticipates that awards for seminars
will range between $45,000 and $120,000 in outright funds for a grant
period of twelve months. Awards for institutes range from $80,000 to
$200,000 in outright funds for a grant period of fifteen months. Cost
sharing is not required.
- Web: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
- Deadline: March 3, 2008
Preservation Assistance Grants
for Smaller Institutions
- Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized
institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival
repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges, improve
their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections.
These may include special collections of books and journals, archives
and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound
recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine
arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture,
and historical objects.
- Eligibility: Any U.S. nonprofit organization with
501(c)3 tax exempt status is eligible, as are state and local
governmental agencies and tribal governments. Grants are not awarded to
individuals. NEH will give priority to smaller institutions, and to
institutions that have not previously received an NEH grant.
- Funding: Outright grants of up to $5,000 will be
awarded. All grants are awarded for a period of eighteen months;
however, a grantee may complete a project in a shorter period of time.
Cost sharing is not required.
- Web: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html
- Deadline: May 15, 2008
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| NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) |
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American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship
(ACC-F) |
- The American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship program is a
program to support postdoctoral associates in chemistry. It seeks to (1)
build ties between academic and industrial, and/or national laboratory,
and/or Chemistry Division-funded center researchers (partners) and (2)
involve beginning scientists in efforts to broaden participation in
chemistry. Fellows will pursue research with industrial, and/or national
laboratory, and/or Chemistry Division-funded center partners that will
enrich their in-house research program. In addition, fellows will
develop and implement their own plans for broadening participation in
the chemical sciences. Successful applicants must propose a
well-integrated, synergistic research plan with their chosen affiliate
as well as an effective outreach plan that will broaden participation by
underrepresented groups in chemistry. The research must be in a thematic
area that is supported by the NSF Division of Chemistry.
- Funding: $1 million for about 5 awards. The program
will support fellows for two years of postgraduate study.
- Web: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503237
- Deadline: May 1, 2008
Ethics Education in Science and
Engineering (EESE)
- The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program
accepts proposals for research and educational projects to improve
ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that
NSF supports, especially in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional
contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for
graduate students in those fields, although the proposed programs may
benefit advanced undergraduates in addition to graduate students.
- Eligibility: Only colleges and universities located
and accredited in the U.S. or U.S.-based professional associations are
eligible to apply to this program. Other types of organizations can be
included only as non-lead collaborators or sub-awardees. In addition,
accredited U.S. colleges and universities and U.S. professional
associations can be non-lead collaborators or sub-awardees.
- Funding: $2.4 million for 6-12 awards.
- Web:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
- Deadline: April 3, 2008
Robert Noyce Scholarship
Program
- The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program seeks to encourage
talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and
professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The
program provides funds to institutions of higher education to support
scholarships, stipends, and programs for students who commit to teaching
in high-need K-12 school districts. Innovation through Institutional
Integration (I3) projects enable institutions to think and act
strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards, with
particular emphasis on awards managed through programs in the
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), but not limited to
those awards. For Fiscal Year 2008, proposals are being solicited in six
EHR programs that advance I3 goals: CREST, ITEST, MSP, Noyce, RDE, and
TCUP.
- Eligibility: Universities and two or four-year
colleges (including community colleges) located and accredited in the
US, or consortia of such institutions, or US nonprofit entities that
have established consortia among such institutions of higher education
may submit Noyce proposals. Eligibility for Innovation through
Institutional Integration (I3) is limited to institutions of higher
education (including two- and four-year colleges) located and accredited
in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members.
- Funding: $9 million for 13-18 Noyce Scholarship
Awards. $10 million over 5 years for up to 10 continuing awards under
the Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) competition.
- Web:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
- Deadline: February 28, 2008 optional intent
to apply; April 9, 2008 and April 10, 2008 full proposals
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| ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON
FOUNDATION |
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Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health
Policy Research program supports researchers whose cross-cutting and
innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving health
and health policy in America. The program seeks a diverse mix of
investigators to undertake studies that: (a) explore underlying values,
historical evolution and interplay among the social, economic and
political forces that shape health, health care and health policy in the
United States; (b) apply new perspectives from a variety of disciplines
to analyze the organization, delivery and financing of health care
services, workforce issues and public health challenges; (c) develop
innovative ideas that hold promise for contributing to better
policy-making; and (d) synthesize existing work in ways that expose its
policy significance and advance the understanding of key issues.
- Eligibility: Applications are welcomed from
investigators in fields such as anthropology, business, demography,
economics, engineering, ethics, genetics, health and social policy,
health services research, history, journalism, law, medicine, nursing,
political science, psychology, public health, science policy, social
work, sociology and others. The program seeks a diverse group of
applicants including minorities, researchers early in their careers, and
individuals in nonacademic settings such as research firms and policy
organizations. Applicants must be affiliated either with educational
institutions or with 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in the
United States.
- Funding: Each year, the program awards 24 to
36-month grants of up to $335,000 to highly qualified individuals to
fund approximately 10 research projects that have national policy
relevance.
- Web: http://www.investigatorawards.org/applications/
- Deadline: March 26, 2008 letter of intent
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