OSP Dates, Updates and Insights

OSP Dates, Updates and Insights

Funding Opportunities

October 18, 2006

* Please find grant/funding opportunities under respective heading.

Arts & Communication

Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Lucent Technologies Foundation: Designed to increase minority & women representation in science, math, engineering, & technology.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

Academy Foundation - Institutional Grants & Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting: Institutional Grants provide modest funding for film-oriented projects, including college-based internship programs, to college film departments & organizations providing service or info related to motion pictures.

Music Teachers National Association: MTNA Foundation - Teacher Enrichment Grant Program: Provides support to music teachers, including faculty, for private study or special projects in performance, pedagogy, music theory, composition, etc.

National Association of Broadcasters - Grants for Research in Broadcasting: Funds research on economic, business, social, & policy issues important to station managers &

other decision-makers in the U.S. commercial broadcast industry.

Business & Economics

Business and International Education Program – provides grants to enhance international business education programs and to expand the capacity of the business community to engage in international economic activities.

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation - Selected Professions Fellowships: Master's and First Professional Awards provide $5,000 to $12,000 for women pursuing full-time graduate study in Architecture, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Math/Statistics; or for women of color who are working toward an MBA, JD, or MD degree.

NSF - SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Makes awards to doctoral students to improve quality of dissertation research.

NSF – Economics Program: Supports research in several areas of Economics.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

U.S. Department of Education - Business and International Education Program: Enhances international business education programs to expand the capacity of the business community to engage in international economic activities.

Computers & Technology

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation - Selected Professions Fellowships: Master's and First Professional Awards provide $5,000 to $12,000 for women pursuing full-time graduate study in Architecture, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Math/Statistics; or for women of color who are working toward an MBA, JD, or MD degree.

Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Lucent Technologies Foundation: Designed to increase minority & women representation in science, math, engineering, & technology.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

U.S. Department of Education - Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) - Awards grants to academic departments, programs, & other academic units that offer graduate degree courses.

Education

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

Education, Technology, & Distance Learning

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Fellowships

Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Lucent Technologies Foundation: Designed to increase minority & women representation in science, math, engineering, & technology.

Academy Foundation - Institutional Grants & Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting: Institutional Grants provide modest funding for film-oriented projects, including college-based internship programs, to college film departments & organizations providing service or info related to motion pictures.

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation - Selected Professions Fellowships: Master's and First Professional Awards provide $5,000 to $12,000 for women pursuing full-time graduate study in Architecture, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Math/Statistics; or for women of color who are working toward an MBA, JD, or MD degree.

Health

Faculty Development: Integrated Technology into Nursing Education & Practice Initiative - provide support to nursing collaboratives for faculty development in the use of information and other technologies in order to expand the capacity of collegiate schools of nursing to educate students for 21st century health care practice.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Epidemiological Approaches for Food Safety: Supports research on disease-causing bacteria that contaminate food, with the goal of decreasing food-borne illnesses.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Bioactive Food Components for Optimal Health: Supports research to improve understanding of the role of foods and their biologically active components (e.g., phytochemicals) in promoting health.

John A. Hartford Foundation/American Academy of Nursing - Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Awards Program: Foundation seeks to enhance training of physicians, nurses, social workers & other health professionals who care for older adults.

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America - Research Awards: Supports basic biomed & clinical research on the etiology, therapy, pathogenesis, & prevention of Crohn's disease & ulcerative colitis.

Health Resources and Services Administration - Nurse Education Practice and Retention (NEPR): Grants are awarded to eligible institutions for projects to strengthen and enhance the capacity for nurse education, practice and retention to address the nursing shortage.

Health Resources and Services Administration - Advanced Education Nursing Grants: Provides awards to eligible institutions for projects that support the enhancement of advanced nursing education & practice.

Health Resources and Services Administration - Nursing Workforce Diversity Grants: Grants are awarded to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial & ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses) by providing student scholarships or stipends, pre-entry preparation, & retention activities.

National Institutes of Health - Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences: Objective is to foster scientific collaboration between clinical & basic investigators to accelerate application of basic research results into the clinical setting to improve human health in those areas where environmental factors are known or expected to influence the development or progression of human disease.

U.S. Department of Defense - DOD: Breast Cancer Research Program: Provides investigators with the opportunity to pursue observations &/or explore untested ideas relevant to breast cancer.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

NCAA Foundation - Speakers Grant Program (Drug Ed. for NCAA Athletics Departments): Supports speaker fees for athletics department drug-ed &/or wellness programs.

U.S. Department of Education - Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) - Awards grants to academic departments, programs, & other academic units that offer graduate degree courses.

Humanities & Languages

Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program – provides grants to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

NSF - SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Makes awards to doctoral students to improve quality of dissertation research.

NSF – Linguistics Program: Supports scientific research on human language.

NSF – Political Science Program: Supports scientific research that advances

knowledge & understanding of citizenship, government, & politics.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Division of Public Programs - Interpreting America's Historic Places: Implementation Grants: Notice seeking proposals to install new or enhanced interpretive programs at places of significance in American history or culture.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

International Studies

Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program – provides grants to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

Life, Environmental Science, & Geography

NSF - Environmental Genomics (En-Gen): Proposals may address any of a wide range of

questions about organisms & their environments in a variety of sub-fields, including ecology, evolutionary biology, physiological ecology, microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, & biogeology.

NSF - SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Makes awards to doctoral students to improve quality of dissertation research.

U.S. Department of Commerce – Coastal Management Fellowship Program: Any student completing a master's, doctoral, or professional degree program in natural resource management or environmental-related studies at a US university is eligible.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Organismal and Population Biology of Arthropods and Nematodes: Supports improvement of future pest management options to reduce pesticide dependence that is harmful to the environment.

U.S. Department of Agriculture – NRI: Plant Biology/Environmental Stress: Supports research which develops strategies to decrease the impacts of environmental stress on

agricultural and forest productivity and sustainability, especially fundamental plant research to optimize biological yield & quality while improving tolerance to environmental stress in agriculturally important plants.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations: Supports (1) high priority fundamental & mission-linked res of importance in the bio'l, environ'l,

physical, & social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, & the environ't & (2) competitively awarded research, extension, & education grants addressing key issues of national & regional importance to agriculture, forestry, & related topics.

Pierce Cedar Creek Institute for Ecological Education - Undergraduate Research Grants for the Environment (URGE): Provides funding for students & faculty advisors to conduct research at the Institute each summer.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

U.S. Department of Education - Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) - Awards grants to academic departments, programs, & other academic units that offer graduate degree courses.

Mental Health

Alzheimer's Association - Research and Conference Grant Programs: Supports projects covering full range of dementia research.

American Psychiatric Foundation - Grants Program: Supports educational, informational, and outreach initiatives that promote the early recognition and treatment of mental illness.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Minorities and Women

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation - Selected Professions Fellowships: Master's and First Professional Awards provide $5,000 to $12,000 for women pursuing full-time graduate study in Architecture, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Math/Statistics; or for women of color who are working toward an MBA, JD, or MD degree.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

Physical Science & Mathematics

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation - Selected Professions Fellowships: Master's and First Professional Awards provide $5,000 to $12,000 for women pursuing full-time graduate study in Architecture, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Math/Statistics; or for women of color who are working toward an MBA, JD, or MD degree.

Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Lucent Technologies Foundation: Designed to increase minority & women representation in science, math, engineering, & technology.

National Science Foundation - Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS): Supports proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by an individual or, in cases where multiple scientists already have worked collaboratively, groups of investigators over an extended period.

National Science Foundation - Population and Evolutionary Processes: Supports empirical and theoretical studies of microevolution, organismal adaptation, geographical

differentiation, natural hybridization and speciation, as well as processes that lead to

macroevolutionary patterns of trait evolution.

NSF - Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories: Supports projects on systematics to: discover, describe, and inventory global species diversity; analyze and synthesize derived information into predictive classification systems; and organize derived information in efficiently retrievable forms.

NSF - Environmental Genomics (En-Gen): Proposals may address any of a wide range of

questions about organisms & their environments in a variety of sub-fields, including ecology, evolutionary biology, physiological ecology, microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, & biogeology.

National Science Foundation - Division of Chemistry (CHE): Supports research in all traditional areas of chemistry & mutidisciplinary fields that draw upon the chemical sciences & enable basic research & education.

NSF - DMS Programs: Mathematical Sciences: Supports research on properties & applications of mathematical structures.

NSF - SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Makes awards to doctoral students to improve quality of dissertation research.

NSF - Developmental and Learning Sciences: Supports studies of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, & biological processes related to children's & adolescents' learning in formal & informal settings.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Epidemiological Approaches for Food Safety: Supports research on disease-causing bacteria that contaminate food, with the goal of decreasing food-borne illnesses.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Organismal and Population Biology of Arthropods and Nematodes: Supports improvement of future pest management options to reduce pesticide dependence that is harmful to the environment.

U.S. Department of Agriculture – NRI: Plant Biology/Environmental Stress: Supports research which develops strategies to decrease the impacts of environmental stress on

agricultural and forest productivity and sustainability, especially fundamental plant research to optimize biological yield & quality while improving tolerance to environmental stress in agriculturally important plants.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations: Supports (1) high priority fundamental & mission-linked res of importance in the bio'l, environ'l,

physical, & social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, & the environ't & (2) competitively awarded research, extension, & education grants addressing key issues of national & regional importance to agriculture, forestry, & related topics.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Bioactive Food Components for Optimal Health: Supports research to improve understanding of the role of foods and their biologically active components (e.g., phytochemicals) in promoting health.

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America - Research Awards: Supports basic biomed & clinical research on the etiology, therapy, pathogenesis, & prevention of Crohn's disease & ulcerative colitis.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International - Regular Research Grants, Innovation Grants, and Training Awards: Supports research to restore & maintain normal blood glucose in people with Type 1 diabetes; prevent, treat, & reverse complications of diabetes; & develop & test strategies to prevent Type 1 diabetes.

U.S. Department of Defense - DOD: Breast Cancer Research Program: Provides investigators with the opportunity to pursue observations &/or explore untested ideas relevant to breast cancer.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

U.S. Department of Education - Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) - Awards grants to academic departments, programs, & other academic units that offer graduate degree courses.

Social Science

NSF - SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Makes awards to doctoral students to improve quality of dissertation research.

NSF - Developmental and Learning Sciences: Supports studies of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, & biological processes related to children's & adolescents' learning in formal & informal settings.

NSF - Perception, Action, and Cognition: Supports research on perception, action, &

cognition, with emphasis on research strongly grounded in theory.

NSF – Social Psychology: Supports basic research on human social behavior,

including cultural differences & development over the life span.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRI: Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations: Supports (1) high priority fundamental & mission-linked res of importance in the bio'l, environ'l,

physical, & social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, & the environ't & (2) competitively awarded research, extension, & education grants addressing key issues of national & regional importance to agriculture, forestry, & related topics.

NSF – Sociology Program: Supports basic research on human social organization & processes of individual & institutional change.

NSF – Political Science Program: Supports scientific research that advances

knowledge & understanding of citizenship, government, & politics.

NSF – Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS): Supports development of innovative methods & models for the social & behavioral sciences & interacts with other programs in SBE, as well as other programs in NSF, most notably the Statistics & Probability Program in MPS.

NSF – Decision, Risk and Management Sciences: Supports scientific research to increase

understanding/effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, & society.

John A. Hartford Foundation/American Academy of Nursing - Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Awards Program: Foundation seeks to enhance training of physicians, nurses, social workers & other health professionals who care for older adults.

American Psychological Foundation - Evelyn Hooker Awards Programs (Gay & Lesbian issues): Supports 3 awards for empirical research in all fields of behavioral & social science to increase the general public's understanding of homosexuality & to alleviate the stress that gay men & lesbians experience.

National Institutes of Health - Men's Heterosexual Behavior and HIV Infection: Supports basic social & behavioral science studies (R03, R21) on the determinants of sexual behavior of adult heterosexual men.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Multidisciplinary

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation - Selected Professions Fellowships: Master's and First Professional Awards provide $5,000 to $12,000 for women pursuing full-time graduate study in Architecture, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Math/Statistics; or for women of color who are working toward an MBA, JD, or MD degree.

Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Lucent Technologies Foundation: Designed to increase minority & women representation in science, math, engineering, & technology.

National Science Foundation - Division of Chemistry (CHE): Supports research in all traditional areas of chemistry & mutidisciplinary fields that draw upon the chemical sciences & enable basic research & education.

NSF - SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Makes awards to doctoral students to improve quality of dissertation research.

NSF - Developmental and Learning Sciences: Supports studies of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, & biological processes related to children's & adolescents' learning in formal & informal settings.

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities - HACU National Internship Program: Supports graduate & undergraduate students to participate in fall, spring, or summer 10- & 15 - week internship programs at federal agencies & private corporations across the country.

Talbots Charitable Foundation - Women's Scholarship Fund Program: Awards scholarships to outstanding women seeking a B.A. or A.A. later in life.

U.S. Department of Education - Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) - Awards grants to academic departments, programs, & other academic units that offer graduate degree courses.

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NCAA Foundation - Speakers Grant Program (Drug Ed. for NCAA Athletics Departments): Supports speaker fees for athletics department drug-ed &/or wellness programs.

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