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Funding Opportunities Newsletter / December 2, 2014
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Pre-Service STEM Education Webinar
Friday – December 12, 2014
3 pm – 5 pm
/ Recently announced funding opportunities are in these disciplines
Arts and Communication
Business and Economics
Computer Science
Fellowships
Health
Physical Sciences and Math
Psychology
Social Sciences
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Webinar
Webinar focusing on PRE-SERVICE STEM EDUCATION
The NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) is collaborating with the Virtual Faculty Collaborative (VFC), a partnership between AAAS, Louisiana State University, and Higher Education Services, to offer an IUSE webinar focusing on those interested in improving undergraduate education for pre-service STEM Teachers.
Participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions that will be answered by NSF/DUE Program Directors.
The IUSE Webinar focusing on PRE-SERVICE STEM EDUCATION will be held on:
***Friday, December 12, 2014, 3:00pm – 5:00pm (Eastern Time).
Speakers will include NSF Program Directors, Kathleen Bergin & Katherine Denniston.
To register and receive logon instructions for the Webinar, click on https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1613021304229838081
and provide your name, email address and click on “Register.”
Almost immediately you will receive an email from with your unique set of logon instructions. If you experience any problems, contact Roger Seals at or 225-335-5327 (Cell).
Arts and Communications
Media Projects: Development Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for production. Grants should result in a script and should also yield a detailed plan for outreach and public engagement in collaboration with a partner organization or organizations. NEH encourages projects that engage public audiences through multiple formats in the exploration of humanities ideas. Proposed projects might include complementary components to a film, television, or radio project. These components should deepen the audience's understanding of the subject: for example, websites, mobile applications, museum exhibitions, book/film discussion programs, or podcasts.Proposals are due January 14, 2015. For more information, visit neh.gov
Media Projects: Production Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Production grants support the production and distribution of digital projects, films, television programs, radio programs, and related programs that promise to engage the public. The NEH encourages projects that engage public audiences through multiple formats in the exploration of humanities ideas. Proposed projects might include complementary components to a film, television, or radio project. These components should deepen the audience's understanding of the subject: for example, websites, mobile applications, museum exhibitions, book/film discussion programs, or podcasts.Proposals are due January 14, 2015. For more information, visit neh.gov
Business and Economics
Service Enterprise Systems (SES)
National Science Foundation (NSF); Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI); The SES program supports research on decision making related to design, planning, and operation of commercial, nonprofit, and institutional service enterprises with the goal of improving their overall effectiveness and cost reduction.Research is supported that is both grounded in an interesting and relevant application and requires the development of novel analytical and computational methodologies that may be of broader interest. Topics of interest include healthcare operations and medical decision making; policies and incentives in healthcare, energy, and other public service institutions; financial engineering and risk management; transportation and humanitarian logistics; and national security. Of particular interest are methods that incorporate increasingly rich and diverse sources of data and information to support decision making. Proposals are due February 17, 2015 and September 15, 2015. For more information, visit NSF.gov
Science of Organizations (SoO)
National Science Foundation (NSF); Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES); This FOA supports basic research yielding a scientific evidence base for improving the design, development, deployment, management and effectiveness of organizations of all kinds. Research may involve organizational theory, behavior, sociology or economics, business policy and strategy, communication sciences, entrepreneurship, human resource management, information sciences, managerial and organizational cognition, operations management, public administration, social or industrial psychology, and technology and innovation management. Proposals are due February 2, 2015 and September 3, 2015. For more information, visit NSF.gov
Business and Human Rights
US Department of State (DOS); Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL); This notice is seeking proposals for projects that will partner with companies and civil society to promote respect for human rights in two programs: 1) Supply-Chain Monitoring to encourage increased supply chain transparency, monitoring, accountability, and decent working conditions; and 2) International Code of Conduct (ICOC) for Private Security Service Providers, which seeks proposals to improve accountability of the private security industry to ensure compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law. Proposals are due December 29, 2015. For more information, visit Grants.gov
Computer Science
Algorithms in the Field
National Science Foundation (NSF); Algorithms in the Field encourages closer collaboration between two groups of researchers: (I) theoretical computer science researchers, who focus on the design and analysis of provably efficient and provably accurate algorithms for various computational models; and (II) applied researchers including a combination of systems and domain experts (very broadly construed & dash; including but not limited to researchers in computer architecture, programming languages and systems, computer networks, cyber-physical systems, cyber-human systems, machine learning, database and data analytics, etc.) who focus on the particular design constraints of applications and/or computing devices. Each proposal must have at least one co-PI interested in theoretical computer science and one interested in any of the other areas typically supported by CISE. Proposals are expected to address the dissemination of the algorithmic contributions and resulting applications, tools, languages, compilers, libraries, architectures, systems, data, etc. Proposals are due February 9, 2015. For more information, visit Grants.gov
Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)
National Science Foundation (NSF); The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in which the science and engineering of sustainability are enabled by new advances in computing, and where computational innovation is grounded in the context of sustainability problems. The CyberSEES program is one component of the National Science Foundation's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, a Foundation-wide effort aimed at addressing the challenge of sustainability through support for interdisciplinary research and education. In the SEES context, a sustainable world is one where human needs are met equitably without harm to the environment or sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Proposals are due February 3, 2015. For more information, visit NSF.gov
Fellowships
National Research Council Associateship Programs
The National Research Council of the National Academies is pleased to announce the Graduate, Postdoctoral and Senior Research Associateship Programs to be conducted on behalf of federal research laboratories and affiliated institutions in over 100 locations throughout the US. These programs provide opportunities for Ph.D., Sc.D. or M.D. scientists to engineers of unusual promise and ability to perform research on problems largely of their own choosing, yet compatible with the research interests of the sponsoring laboratory. Full-time Associateships will be awarded on a competitive basis in 2015 for research in the fields of chemistry; earth, atmospheric and space sciences; engineering, applied sciences and computer science; life and medical sciences; mathematics; and physics. Many of the laboratories are open to both U.S. citizen and foreign nationals. Application deadlines are February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1 annually. For detailed information, visit nationalacademies.org
Health
Environmental Exposure and Health: Exploration of Non-traditional Settings
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); National Institute of Health (NIH); The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to encourage interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting health, limiting symptoms and disease, and reducing health disparities in children and older adults living or spending time in non-traditional settings. These settings result in exposure to environmental pollutants and toxins that result in health risks, symptoms, and other health conditions/diseases including lower respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular diseases. Risk identification and symptom management include prevention and behavior changes and actions to maintain health and prevent disease with an emphasis on the individual, family, and community which will advance nursing science. For purposes of this FOA, non-traditional settings, for children and older adults, include, but are not limited to places such as community centers, pre-school and non-traditional school environments child and older adult foster care facilities, older adult day care facilities, half-way homes, assisted living and long-term care facilities.Proposals are due February 5, 2015. For more information, visit Grants.nih.gov
Health Promotion among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); National Institute of Health (NIH); This initiative seeks applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., socio-demographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.Proposals are due February 5, 2015. For more information, visit Grants.nih.gov
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); National Institute of Health (NIH); This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, evaluate and refine effective and efficient methods, systems, infrastructures, and strategies to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions, evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and management, and quality of life improvement services, and data monitoring and surveillance reporting tools into public health and clinical practice settings that focus on patient outcomes.Proposals are due January 7, 2015. For more information, visit Grants.nih.gov
Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); National Institute of Health (NIH); This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages innovative, hypothesis-driven R01 research grant applications that can expand understanding of the role and impact of families and interpersonal relationships on health and well-being in midlife and older age. Proposals are due February 5, June 5, and October 5 annually. For more information, visit Grants.gov
Physical Sciences and Math
Sensors, Dynamics, and Control (SDC)
National Science Foundation (NSF); Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI); The Sensors, Dynamics, and Control (SDC) program supports fundamental research on the analysis, measurement, monitoring and control of complex dynamical and structural systems, including development of new analytical, computational and experimental tools, and novel applications to engineered and natural systems. Program objectives are the discovery of new phenomena and the investigation of innovative methods and applications for dynamics, measurement, and control. Transformative research on complex networks, linear and nonlinear discrete or infinite dimensional systems spanning a multitude of time and length scales and physical domains are of interest, as are highly interdisciplinary projects and projects addressing security, resilience and sustainability. Basic research strongly motivated by industry needs or other real-life applications is welcome. Proposals are due February 17, 2015 and September 15, 2015. For more information, visit NSF.gov
Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)
National Science Foundation (NSF); The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in which the science and engineering of sustainability are enabled by new advances in computing, and where computational innovation is grounded in the context of sustainability problems. The CyberSEES program is one component of the National Science Foundation's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, a Foundation-wide effort aimed at addressing the challenge of sustainability through support for interdisciplinary research and education. In the SEES context, a sustainable world is one where human needs are met equitably without harm to the environment or sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Proposals are due February 3, 2015. For more information, visit NSF.gov
Operations Research (OR)
National Science Foundation (NSF); Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI); The OR program supports fundamental research leading to the creation of innovative mathematical models, analysis, and algorithms for optimal or near optimal decision-making, applicable to the design and operation of manufacturing, service, and other complex systems. In addition to the traditional areas of Operations Research which includes discrete and continuous optimization as well as stochastic modeling and analysis, new research thrusts include simulation optimization and self-optimizing systems that can observe, learn, and adapt to changing environments. Proposals are due February 17, 2015 and September 15, 2015. For more information, visit NSF.gov