Award/Program

Internal: Early January

External: 1st Friday in March

upper limit $350,000

NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NSEE) Program: Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE)

The NSEE goals are to develop strong partnerships linking science educators with nanoscale science and engineering researchers, and to increase knowledge of advances in nanoscale research and technology and their impact on society. This program has two distinct awards.

NISE Limit: one proposal, as either a lead and or as a partner organization. Only one Letter of Intent can be submitted by an organization.

see guidelines

To provide an opportunity for the top young faculty in the United States (they prefer 40 or younger) to explore key issues in national security, especially those relavent to science and technology.

Limit: 2 nominations

Internal: 1/16/2007

External: 2/14/2007

Award/Program

NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NSEE) Program: Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE)

The NSEE goals are to develop strong partnerships linking science educators with nanoscale science and engineering researchers, and to increase knowledge of advances in nanoscale research and technology and their impact on society. This program has two distinct awards.

NUE Limit: 1 proposal as lead institution (one additional proposal in “societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental implications of nanoscale science and technology” as lead institution).

NSF - Integrated Graduate Education & Research Traineeship (IGERT)

Fellowships for graduate students, interdisciplinary training program.

Limit of 4 pre-proposals per institution.

Final proposals are submitted by NSF invitation only.

$15,500,000 - Up to $3.0M per award over 5 years. Up to $200K total per award for approximately 10 projects that include strongly integrated international research activities in Years 2 - 5. For new awards, up to $200K additional in Year 1 for appropriate purposes. Please see full text for detailed funding information.

Award/Program

$500,000

Supports scholarly activity of new faculty in chemistry, biochemistry or engineering.

Limit: 1 nomination

Internal: 3/30/2007

External: 5/8/2008

$50,000

Award/Program

New deadline not published

Internal: 4/4/2006

External: 6/5/2006

Supports fellowships and associated training for graduate students in NSF- supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines including interaction in k-12 setting.

Limit: 1 new, or continuation proposal

Internal: 4/13/07

External: 5/16/2007 for letter of intent. 7/2/2007 for full proposal by invitation.

New deadline not published

Internal: 4/7/06

External: 6/10/06

NSF Division of Chemistry supports opportunities for expanding the frontiers of knowledge and for education of our technical workforce require access to state-of-the-art instrumentation. The Division leverages its investment by making CRIF:MU awards to groups of chemical scientists in academic departments rather than to individuals.

Limit: 2 proposals

Internal: 4/18/07

External: 6/23/08

Association of Pacific Rim Universities: Junior Faculty Fellowship

7th Annual Research Fellows Program. Dates of meeting:
August 16 - 25, 2006 at Australian National University (Australia)

Designed as an interdisciplinary gathering, the 2-week program will assemble faculty members from humanities and social sciences, international relations, law, political sciences, computing, economics as well as sciences and engineering, who are interested in a new topic announced annually from the perspective of individuals in Pacific Rim countries.

Limit: 2 per institution, (aimed at junior faculty)

New deadline not published

Extended Internal: 4/21/06

External: 5/1/06

Award/Program

Supports the development of outstanding scientists from invited institutions as independent investigators in the cancer field by helping foster their research productivity during the first few years of their first faculty position.

Limit: 1

Award Suspended 2006

The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is based on accomplishments in scholarly research with undergraduates, as well as a compelling commitment to teaching.

Limit: 1

Internal: Mid-May

External: 6/28/2007

Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation:
Post-Doctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry

Supports training and research activity for post docs in the area of environmental chemistry.

No Limit

$120,000 over 2 years

Supports research that improves the lives of young people ages 8-25. Funds research in health, social, and behavioral sciences. Special interests in interdisciplanary, mixed-methods research that advances both theory and practice.

Limit: 1

Internal: 5/18/2007

External: 7/11/2007

Award/Program

The program aims to support centers that foster active collaboration between universities and other sectors, including industry, and the centers constitute a national network of university-based centers in materials research.

Limit: 1 per institution

Internal: 6/6/2007

External: 1/18/2008

NSF STEP: Type I

The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.

Limit: 1 per institution

see guidelines

Internal: 6/18/2007

External: 10/1/2007

Estimated at $19,300
per student

Award/Program

Searle Scholars Program

The program invites applications from selected universities and research institutions. Biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences candidates should be in the first or second year of a tenure track appointment.

Limit: 2 per institution

$80,000 per year for 3 years

Awards support postdoctoral fellow and young investigators in the medical sciences. The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is the result of the reformulation of the Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences (CABS) program.

Limit: 6 nominations per institution; 7 nominations per institution if at least one candidate in reproductive sciences is included. Nominees must have MD, DVM or DDS degree to apply. Each institution nominating at least one African-American, Hispanic, or Native American candidate may also nominate an additional candidate.

Internal: Mid-July

External: 10/1/2007

The program supports scholars from invited institutions whose research extends the boundaries of knowledge about Islam and Muslim communities.

Limit: 2 per institution

Internal: Mid-July

External: 8/27/2007

Award/Program

The ISE program invests in projects that develop and implement informal learning experiences designed to increase interest, engagement, and understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by individuals of all ages and backgrounds, as well as projects that advance knowledge and practice of informal science education.

Limit: up to 3 proposals (project grants)

Internal: 8/1/2006

External: 9/14/2006

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Summer Stipend

Summer Stipend for Humanities and Social Science Researchers

Limit: 2 proposals

$5,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing

Burroughs Wellcome Foundation: Investigators on Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

The agency is particularly interested in work focused on the host, as well as host-pathogen studies originating in viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasite systems. Candidates must hold a tenure-track assistant professor position and must have established a record of independent research.

Limit: 1 per institution

$400,000 over a period of five years ($80,000 per year)

NSF Materials Research: Major Instrumentation Projects (IMR-MIP)

The program supports design and construction of major instruments in materials science that cost more than $2 million per instrument. The program also supports the development of detailed conceptual and engineering design for new tools for materials preparation or characterization at major national facilities. Priority will be given to proposals that involve students.

Limit: 1 per institution per year

Up to $2 million

Award/Program

Supports the teaching and research careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences.

Limit: 1

Internal: 9/22/06

External: 11/09/2006

For individuals in chemistry, biology or the “medical sciences.” Restricted to individuals who have tenure-track appointments in academic and non-profit institutions that conduct fundamental research in the chemical and life sciences at the time of the submission date AND has not completed more than three full years in his or her tenure-track or other comparable independent research appointment on or before the BYI application submission due date.

Limit: 2

Internal: 9/4/06

External: 9/29/06

The goal of this program is to support fundamental research and catalyze synergistic science and engineering research and education in several emerging areas of nanoscale science and technology, including: fundamental nanoscale phenomena and processes in active nanostructures; nanosystems with improved functionality and new architectures; hierarchical nanomanufacturing; and long-term societal and educational implications of scientific and technological advances on the nanoscale.

NIRT Limit: 3 proposals as lead organization.

Internal: Late September

External: 11/29/2005

The goal of this program is to support fundamental research and catalyze synergistic science and engineering research and education in several emerging areas of nanoscale science and technology, including: fundamental nanoscale phenomena and processes in active nanostructures; nanosystems with improved functionality and new architectures; hierarchical nanomanufacturing; and long-term societal and educational implications of scientific and technological advances on the nanoscale.

NER Limit: Two proposals as lead institution, (a third is allowed in "societal and educational issues associated with long-term research science and engineering advances.")

Internal: Late September

External: 11/29/2005

Award/Program

NSF: GeoScience Education Program

The GeoEd program will consider proposals submitted under one of two tracks. Track 1 Pilot Projects: Proposals should describe a plan to initiate or pilot highly innovative geoscience education activities. Track 2 Integrative Collaborations: Proposals should describe a plan to develop an integrative collaboration with one or more existing Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professorate (AGEP), or Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) projects. Documentation of collaboration with an ongoing LSAMP, AGEP, or CREST project must be included with Track 2 proposals.

Limit: No limit on pilot projects, one lead institution per institution for track two proposals

Track 1: up to $150,000
total for up to 2 years.

Track 2: up to $500,000
total for up to 4 years

The MRI Program assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation by U.S. institutions that is, in general, too costly for support through other NSF programs.

Limit: An organization may submit or be included as a partner or subawardee in no more than three proposals. If an organization submits or is included as a partner or subawardee in three proposals, at least one of the three proposals must be for instrument development.

Internal: 10/27/2006

External: 1/25/2007,
4th Thursday of January

Enables outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences. Disciplines may include medicine, law, philosophy, religion, other fields in the humanities, and the social sciences. Applicants must be junior faculty members holding at least a 60% appointment. Priority will be given to applicants who are below the rank of Associate Professor, who have not received a comparable career development award.  

Limit: 1 per institution

Internal: Mid-October

External: 12/1/2006

Internal: 10/31/06

External:
11/8/2006

Award/Program

NIH Global Research Training in Population Health

The Fogarty International Center, in collaboration with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health, invites applications from non-profit public or private institutions in the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries to support advanced international research training in population health sciences.

Limit: 2 per institution, (one in reproductive biology, reproductive medicine or reproductive epidemiology and one for training in demography related population studies).

Up to $185,000 per year for up to 5 years for re-competing applications and up to $139,000 per year for new applications

The Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program makes resources available to increase the participation and acheivement of people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education careers.

Limit: 1 per institution

Internal: 11/17/2006

External: 2/12/2007

Award/Program

Fellowship program for research on children's developmental disabilities. Applicants must be able to articulate how their basic research will improve the lives of mentally disabled children with emotional disturbances.

Limit: 2 per institution, (Assistant Professors only, one each from fields of neurobiology and cognitive sciences).

Internal: 12/1/2006

External: 1/17/2007

NSF - Integrated Graduate Education & Research Traineeship (IGERT)

Fellowships for graduate students, interdisciplinary training program.

No limit on preproposals due in early February.

Limited to 2 single institution full proposals, full proposals are submitted by NSF invitation only.

$15,500,000 - Up to $3.0M per award over 5 years. Up to $200K total per award for approximately 10 projects that include strongly integrated international research activities in Years 2 - 5. For new awards, up to $200K additional in Year 1 for appropriate purposes. Please see full text for detailed funding information.

Designed as an interdisciplinary gathering, the 2-week program will assemble faculty members from humanities and social sciences, international relations, law, political sciences, computing, economics as well as sciences and engineering, who are interested in a new topic announced annually from the perspective of individuals in Pacific Rim countries.

Limit: 2 per institution, (aimed at junior faculty)

Internal: Mid-December

External: 1st Tuesday in March, annually

$10,000