Grants and Exhibitions Workshop

Learn about funding opportunities, traveling exhibitions, 

and other resources provided by:

Humanities Texas

The state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Texas Commission on the Arts

The state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Arts

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Friday, November 8, 2013

The Nacogdoches Railroad Depot

101 Old Tyler Road

Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

The workshop is free and open to the public.

Call or email Humanities Texas to reserve a space 

or for further information about the workshop.

Call 512.440.1991 or email rsvp_workshop@humanitiestexas.org.

For more information, please visit the Humanities Texas website.

Government Shutdown Update

FastLane and Research.gov are unavailable during the shutdown. 

While Grants.gov may be up and running, most agencies will not be receiving the proposals nor will proposals be checked for compliance with NSF/NIH/other sponsor proposal preparation requirements until normal operations are allowed to resume. 

How the Government Shutdown May Affect Your Grant

Government agencies have begun posting their respective lapse of government funding information notices. The majority of non-essential government employees will likely not be working during a shutdown (meaning your program officers won’t be available).  

What does this mean for you?

You should continue work on your current projects as federal funds are already obligated. However, some agencies may provide further direction which could impact expenditures. Please forward any such notices to ORSP.

Agencies will be accepting applications but no new awards will be issued during this lapse.

Program officers will not be available to approve any project changes that require prior approval (addition/removal of a PD or co-PD,  change in scope or approved activities of the project,  the absence of 3 months or more of a PI/co-PI).

Some agencies (such as the Forest Service) will not accept nor approve payment requests during the lapse.

Below are notices from the agencies likely affecting you:

NIH:     http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-126.html

ED:      http://www2.ed.gov/about/furlough2013/index.html

NSF:    http://www.nsf.gov/outage.html

NPS:   http://www.doi.gov/shutdown/fy2014/upload/NPS-contingency-plan.pdf

FS:      http://www.usda.gov/documents/usda-fs-shutdown-plan.pdf

For a Comprehensive list of federal agency contingency plans, visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/contingency-plans

We will continue to post information as it becomes known to us. Please consult with the OSP prior to communicating with your program officers during this lapse as we may be able to answer your questions.

THECB Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (NHARP)

The Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program is a competitive peer-reviewed grant program created in 1987 by the 70th Texas Legislature. The purpose of the program is to encourage and provide support to faculty members and students in Texas institutions of higher education, both public and independent, to conduct basic research.
Program Highlights: 

• Maximum award is $100,000 for the two-year grant period
• Targeted research areas are basic research in:

1. Biomedicine
2. Energy and the Environment

• There are no limits on the number of pre-proposals that institutions may submit. If the statewide number of pre-proposals exceeds 150, then institutions will be asked to select a smaller number of pre-proposals submitted to go forward to review. The smaller number will be based on a proportional share of statewide pre-proposal submissions
• Only “Early Career Investigators” may submit a proposal
• Principal investigators are limited to one submission
• Notice of intent and pre-proposal are required for each proposal
• Budget cannot include faculty summer salaries

An “Early Career Investigator” is defined as a non-tenured, tenure track faculty member or a research professional (not including post-doctoral students, research assistants/associates, or instructors) from an eligible institution who has been employed at the institution in that capacity for not less than two years and not more than five years, as of the pre-proposal submission date.
LAST DAY FOR NOTICE OF INTENT: October 31, 2013, 5:00 PM C.T.
PRE-PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 31, 2013, 5:00 PM C.T.
DEADLINE FOR INSTITUTIONAL SELECTION OF PRE-PROPOSALS: November 21, 2013, 5:00 p.m. C.T.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20, 2014, 5:00 PM C.T.

Read the complete RFA

Delmas Foundation Humanities Program

The foundation awards grants to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects that address the original tenets of the studia humanitatis: a humanistic education is rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: - History - Archaeology - Literature - Languages, both classical and modern - Philosophy - Ethics - Comparative religion - The history, criticism, and theory of the arts - Those aspects of the social sciences that share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines The foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship. The prime criterion remains that of Gladys and Jean Paul Delmas: a commitment to excellence, whether proven or promised, at every level of the humanistic spectrum. 

Deadline: Rolling
Award amount: varies, typically between $2,000 - $20,000

Read entire solicitation

W.M. Keck Foundation Undergraduate Education Program

Keck Foundation’s Undergraduate Education Program promotes distinctive learning and research experiences in science, engineering and the liberal arts at four year undergraduate colleges. Program priorities include:

• Foster new levels of student engagement and understanding, especially through active learning and collaborative curriculum development
• Expand interdisciplinary activities in balance with needs of each discipline 
• Incorporate research activities into the curriculum and raise the bar of expectations regarding publications and presentations by undergraduates
• Enhance science and technology literacy for students in all disciplines
• Develop new ways to stimulate critical thinking and other core competencies of a liberal arts education

Award amount: $250,000
Deadline: November 1, 2013

Read full solicitation here. 

Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants

American Association of University Women (AAUW) offers summer/short-term research publication grants of $6,000 for an eight-week grant period. These grants provide support to women scholars to prepare research manuscripts for publication, and independent researchers to prepare research for publication. Time must be available for eight consecutive weeks of final manuscript preparation. All applicants must demonstrate that the support will result in a reduction of their ongoing work-related activities. The grants are not for preliminary research. Activities undertaken during the grant period can include drafting, editing, or modifying manuscripts; replicating research components; responding to issues raised through critical review; and other initiatives to increase the likelihood of publication. It must be an original publication and cannot be co-authored. These grants are part of the American Fellowships, which support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave from accredited institutions. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence, the quality and originality of project design, and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research. Preference will be given to applicants whose work supports the vision of AAUW: to break through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance. 
Award amount: $6,000

Deadline: November 15, 2013

Read entire solicitation

National Science Foundation Grants Conference

Hosted By: Colorado State University

Location:
Westin Denver Downtown
1672 Lawrence Street
Denver, Colorado 80202

The first National Science Foundation Grants Conference of fiscal year 2014 will be held in Denver, Colorado, and hosted by Colorado State University on October 21-22, 2013.

Key representatives from the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as your colleagues - faculty, researchers, and grant administrators - representing colleges and universities from around the U.S. will participate.

This two-day conference is a must, especially for new faculty, researchers, educators, and administrators who want to gain key insight into a wide range of current issues at NSF including the state of current funding; new and current policies and procedures; and pertinent administrative issues. NSF program officers representing each NSF directorate will be on hand to provide up-to-date information about specific funding opportunities and answer your questions.

Highlights include: 

• New programs and initiatives; 
• Future directions and strategies for national science policy; 
• Proposal preparation; 
• NSF's merit review process; 
• Cross-disciplinary and special interest programs; 
• Conflict of interest policies; 
• Breakout sessions by discipline. 

Link to more information and registration

Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Gulf Coast CESU

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC), Lafayette, LA is offering a funding opportunity to upgrade existing USGS simulation models for hurricane, sea-level, and ecosystem application.These model upgrades will support a forest damage assessment study of Hurricane Sandy wind and storm surge impact on coastal forested ecosystems of the Atlantic Coast. The model upgrades will be applied to quantify wind, climate, and storm tide behavior of Hurricane Sandy and previous hurricanes, runoff, climate and sea-level change over the past century or more. Executable programs and datasets will be delivered and updated to provide the necessary functional aspects of multiple models developed by USGS scientists for modeling hurricane impact and ecosystem response of coastal wetlands. The models and datasets are outdated, having been originally developed and applied years and decades ago and now require upgrades to supplement project goals and objectives for comparing Hurricane Sandy effects with previous storms and climate history. This project requires mutual cooperation of advanced computing, geographic information systems (GIS), programming advancements, visualization tools, and database design as well as technical and subject matter expertise of both USGS and University staff. Frequent interaction and close collaboration between cooperating institutions will be required to exchange model code and to review computer program performance to enhance proper integration and project efficiency based on programming skills and institutional strengths. CFDA 15.808


Deadline: August 12, 2013
Award Amount: $250,000

Read full solicitation

University Small Grants Broad Agency Announcement

This is a five-year, open-ended Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to solicit research proposals for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy (RD) Directorate. This BAA is a university grant vehicle that can provide small grants of $100k or less to students/professors in a timely manner for the purpose of engaging U.S./U.S. territories’ colleges and universities in directed energy-related basic, applied, and advanced research projects that are of interest to the Department of Defense. 

The scope of the research will include the entire spectrum of directed energy technology that is applicable to the Air Force, including all tangentially-related directed energy research. The research shall include, but not be limited to: lasers; optics and beam control; high power microwaves, and directed energy effects, modeling and simulation.

Multiple awards of grants up to $100k are anticipated with a period of performance ranging from one to two years. Subject to the availability of funding, AFRL/RD plans to award a minimum of one grant per fiscal year. However, AFRL/RD does reserve the right to make multiple awards or no awards pursuant to this solicitation.

PROPOSAL DUE DATE AND TIME: This BAA will remain open for a period of five years from the date of publication. Proposals may be submitted at any time during that period. However, prospective offerors/applicants must call the technology points of contacts (POCs) listed in Paragraph C of the full text announcement to confirm funding is available for the technology area of consideration before submitting a proposal. Proposals are reviewed and evaluated as they are received. Closing Date: Apr. 1, 2017

The official announcement and description of this opportunity may be found on the funding agency's website:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=161214


Award limit: $100,000Deadline: 4/1/2017

Mid-Career Grant in Historic Preservation

Fitch Mid-Career grants of up to $15,000 are awarded annually to one or two mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields. 

Deadline: September 15, 2013
Award amount: $15,000

Read entire solicitation

Documentary Film Proposals

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films that address important contemporary topics and are intended for a broad audience, particularly in the United States.

For the current round, initial online proposals will be accepted between July 15 and July 31, 2013. If a project is selected as a semi-finalist, the applicant will be notified by September 1 and asked to submit a full proposal and detailed budget. Funding decisions are expected in November.

Applicants may request any funding amount, but the typical grant range is between $50,000 and $200,000.

Link to full proposal

Various Climate Funding Opportunities

NOAA has compiled a list of Climate Funding Opportunities.  This document provides a snapshot of currently available, climate-related funding opportunities from NSF, NOAA, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, USGS, FEMA and various private foundations (as of June 3, 2013). 

Climate Funding Opportunities

Enhancing Developmental Biology Research at Undergraduate Institutions Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) encourages grant applications to strengthen the developmental biology research environment at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. In addition, this FOA attempts to foster the development of novel or underutilized experimental model systems, and to motivate students through exposure to and participation in research projects designed to study fundamental processes underlying normal development.

Deadline: September 10, 2014

Award amount: Applicants may request a maximum of $300,000 total direct costs plus applicable Facilities & Administrative (F&A)/indirect costs for the entire project period of up to three years.  

Read full solicitation

Procter & Gamble Higher Education Grant Program

The Procter & Gamble Fund Higher Education Grant Program has been established to provide support for efforts of regionally accredited U.S. colleges and universities that will better prepare students for success in business. Grants will be provided for specific projects or programs, not for operating support. Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to, improving curriculum to be at the cutting edge in relevance and effectiveness; fostering and enabling leadership opportunities and learning; creating a learning environment that encourages and enhances innovation and creativity; and strengthening diversity in thought, participation and ongoing interaction. 

Award amount: $5,000 to $10,000

Submission Date: July 1 - September 30 

Read full solicitation

NSF Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC)

Research proposals under the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Water Sustainability and Climate program are now being accepted. 

Water Sustainability and Climate Program (WSC): One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is to ensure an adequate supply and quality of water in light of both burgeoning human needs and increasing climate variability and change. Despite the importance of water to life on Earth, there are major gaps in our basic understanding of water availability, quality and dynamics, and the impact of both human activity and a changing and variable climate on the water system. The goal of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) solicitation is to enhance the understanding and predict the interactions between the water system and land use changes (including agriculture, managed forest and rangeland systems), the built environment, ecosystem function and services and climate change/variability through place-based research and integrative models. 

Deadline: September 10, 2013

Link to full solicitation

Grants for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

The Graham Foundation makes project-based grants to individuals and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Architecture and related spatial practices engage a wide range of cultural, social, political, technological, environmental, and aesthetic issues. The foundation is interested in projects that investigate the contemporary condition, expand historical perspectives, or explore the future of architecture and the designed environment. The foundation supports innovative, thought-provoking investigations in architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry. The foundation's interest also extends to work being done in the fine arts, humanities, and sciences that expands the boundaries of thinking about architecture and space. 

Award limit: $20,000
Deadline: September 15, 2013

Read full solicitation.

Education Research Grants

Education Research Grants from the National Center for Education Research (NCER) will consider only applications that address one of the following topics: cognition and student learning; early learning programs and policies; education technology; effective teachers and effective teaching; English learners; improving education systems: policies, organization, management, and leadership; mathematics and science education; postsecondary and adult education; reading and writing; social and behavioral context for academic learning. 

Deadline: September 4, 2013
Award limit: $100,000

Read full solicitation here.

Not Safe For Funding: The NSF and the Economics of Science

Last month, Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, introduced a divisive new bill, the High Quality Research Act, that would change the criteria by which the National Science Foundation evaluates research projects and awards funding. (The N.S.F., with a budget of seven billion dollars, funds roughly twenty per cent of federally supported basic research in American universities.) Currently, proposals are evaluated through a traditional peer-review process, in which scientists and experts with knowledge of the relevant fields evaluate the projects’ “intellectual merits” and “broader impacts.” Peer review is a central tenet of modern academic science, and, according to critics, the new bill threatens to supersede it with politics.

John Holdren, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said last week that “adding Congress as reviewers is a mistake.” Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson warned more forcefully that Representative Smith was “sending a chilling message to the entire scientific community that peer review may always be trumped by political review.” But in a statement, Representative Smith said the draft bill “improves on [the peer-review process] by adding a layer of accountability.” The bill’s new three-point criteria for funding require that a project be “in the interests of the United States to advance the national health, prosperity, or welfare, and to secure the national defense”; solve “problems that are of the utmost importance to society at large”; and not be “duplicative of other research projects being funded by the Foundation or other Federal science agencies.”

Read the full The New Yorker article

Grants from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) seeks to create an environment nourished by open discourse and to empower the next generation of scholars with the necessary support to accelerate and advance new and important thinking on economic issues. INET plans to provide award grants ranging in value from $25,000 - $250,000. Grants will be awarded primarily to individuals or teams affiliated with academic institutions, think tanks, and other centers of vital research worldwide.

Scholars in economics as well as in related fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science and the physical sciences are encouraged to submit grant proposals. Submissions on any topic are welcome, however INET particularly encourages exploration on the topics listed below.

• Fundamentals of Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Management
• Behavior and the Economy
• Financial Stability
• Political Economy of Income and Wealth Distribution and Inequality Dynamics
• Innovation

 

Deadline: June 13, 2013

Award range: $25,000 - $250,000

Read full solicitation

NIJ FY 13 Research on Firearms and Violence

This solicitation by the National Institute of Justice seeks applications for research on firearms and violence such as, but not limited to, the effects of criminal justice interventions on reducing gun violence, improving data systems for studying gun violence, illicit gun markets, and the effects of firearm policies and legislation on public safety. 

Funding: 
Number of awards: 50
Total funding: $1,500,000
Award ceiling: $500,000

Deadline: May 2, 2013

Read full solicitation

William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program

The Scholars Program supports the professional development of early-career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. The goal is to help Scholars tackle important questions that will advance theory, policy, and practice for youth and to do so with an expanded array of expertise that includes different methods, disciplinary perspectives, and content knowledge. Potential Scholars should have a promising track record of conducting high-quality research, but want to pursue a qualitative shift in their trajectory as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers often have few supports and incentives to take measured risks. So, applicants are asked to identify areas in which they want to develop their capabilities and propose five-year research and mentoring plans to facilitate that expansion. The Foundation supports research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. The Foundation funds studies that enhance our understanding of: 

1. how settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and 
2. when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved. 

Award amount: $350,000 distributed over a 5-year period
Deadline: July 8, 2013

Read full solicitation

Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences

The Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation provides funding for innovative projects in any area consistent with the Foundation's broad objective to advance the chemical sciences. The Foundation encourages proposals that are judged likely to significantly advance the chemical sciences. Examples of areas of interest include (but are not limited to): the increase in public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the chemical sciences; innovative approaches to chemistry education at all levels (K-12, undergraduate, and graduate); and efforts to make chemistry careers more attractive. Research proposals are not customarily considered.

Aspects of proposals that are important are:

• broad applicability beyond the submitting institution
• specific and detailed descriptions of the chemistry associated with the proposal
• uniqueness of the project

Letter of Inquiry deadline: June 5, 2013 
Application deadline: August 21, 2013


Read full solicitation

Research & Program Evaluation Grant in Early Education

The Brady Education Foundation seeks to close the achievement gap by increasing the school readiness of children at risk for poor school outcomes due to environmental factors associated with living in poverty. The foundation pursues its mission by promoting collaboration between researchers and educators via the funding of research and program evaluations in early education. The Brady Education Foundation funds two types of projects: 1. Evaluations of existing model programs 2. Innovative research on model development, including both efficacy and effectiveness studies The foundation favors projects that bring researchers and service providers together to prove and improve the effectiveness of early care and education environments for at-risk children, projects that leverage other funds, projects with the potential to inform or guide policy or funding decisions, and projects that structure time for researchers/evaluators and program providers to collaborate. 

Funding Range: Generally, grants of $25,000 - $400,000 are awarded for one, two or three years. Indirect costs or overhead costs may not exceed 10 percent of the total project cost.

Deadlines: 
April 22, 2013
August 15, 2013
December 15, 2013


Read full grant announcment here

History of Art Grant Program

The History of Art program by the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies.

Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.

Typical range of funding $10,000 - $100,000.

Deadline: April 1, 2013 and October 1, 2013.

Read full solicitation here. 

RGK Foundation

The RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine and Health. The foundation's primary interests within the Education area include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education. Within the funding area of Community, the foundation supports a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs. Human service programs of particular interest to the foundation include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. The foundation supports a variety of community improvement programs including those that enhance nonprofit management and promote philanthropy and voluntarism. Youth development programs supported by the foundation typically include after-school educational enrichment programs that supplement and enhance formal education systems to increase the chances for successful outcomes in school and life. The foundation is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology. The foundation's current interests in the area of Medicine and Health include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and foundation-initiated programs focusing on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). 

RGK Foundation no longer accepts unsolicited grant proposals.All applicants must complete an electronic Letter of Inquiry from the Web site as the first step. RGK Foundation will entertain one electronic LOI per organization in a 12-month period.

The average grant amount is $25,000. 

Read full announcement here.

FWS Fiscal Year 2013 Recovery Implementation Fund

The FWS Endangered Species Program provides Federal financial assistance on a competitive basis to States, other Federal agencies, landowners, educators, non-profit organizations, researchers, and other partners to secure information about endangered, threatened or candidate species, to aid in the recovery of these species, to avert listing of species pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, and to help conserve the ecosystems upon which these species depend. The FWS and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which is part of the Department of Commerce¿s NOAA Fisheries office, share Endangered Species Act responsibilities for several species such as sea turtles. We have responsibility for sea turtles when they are on land, and NMFS has responsibility for sea turtles when they are in the water. Projects for NMFS-managed species are not included in this funding opportunity.This Recovery Implementation funding opportunity is intended for projects that will contribute to the recovery of FWS-managed endangered and threatened species in the United States, and is limited to projects carrying out actions described in a species¿ approved recovery plan, in the implementation schedule of a species approved recovery plan, actions recommended in a completed 5-year status review of the species or in a spotlight species action plan, or projects documenting species response to climate change. For example: securing scientific information about endangered or threatened species, implementing restoration actions that will lead to delisting of a species, help prevent extinction of a species, or aid in the recovery of a species. Projects that address species response to climate change will receive additional consideration. 

Deadline: July 31, 2013

Cost Sharing or Matching: Not required, but encouraged.

FWS Regional contacts can provide specific information on the amount of funding available, as well as Regional recovery priorities.  

Read full solicitation

Nutrition Research Grants

The Allen Foundation offers Nutritional Research Grants to projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research. The policies and priorities of the foundation are 

• to make grants to fund relevant nutritional research;
• to support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age;
• to assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices;
• to encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits; and 
• in limited situations, to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems.

The connections between diet and health remain a basic and primary priority, and consideration has always been given to projects that benefit nutritional programs in the areas of education, training, and research. Low priority has traditionally been given to proposals that help solve immediate or emergency hunger and malnutrition problems. The foundation does not under any circumstances sponsor professional conferences, seminar tables, discussion panels, or similar events. One specific hope of the board of trustees in the future is to encourage the inclusion of mandatory courses in nutrition in medical schools. Another desire is to bring the promise of nutrigenomics or nutritional genomics to realization, thus creating the possibility for empowering individuals to make informed choices based on genetic information for their diet in order to influence the balance between health and disease. 

Deadline: December 31, 2013
Read full solicitation

Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access has offered Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions for more than a decade. These grants help small and mid-sized cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections.  Awards of up to $6,000 support preservation-related collection assessments, consultations, training and workshops, and institutional and collaborative disaster and emergency planning.  Preservation Assistance Grants also support assessments of digital collections, as well as education and training in standards and best practices for digital preservation and the care and handling of collections during digitization.  NEH does not fund digitization or the development of digital programs in this grant category. 

The 2013 guidelines for Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html.  You will also find sample project descriptions, sample narratives, and a list of frequently asked questions.  The deadline for applications is May 1, 2013.

AERA Research Grants

AERA Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.

The Governing Board for the AERA Grants Program has established the following four strands of emphasis for proposals. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that:

• develop or benefit from new quantitative measures or methodological approaches for addressing education issues
• include interdisciplinary teams with subject matter expertise, especially when studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning
• analyze TIMSS, PISA, or other international data resources
• include the integration and analysis of more than one data set

Research projects related to at least one of the strands above and to science and/or mathematics education are especially encouraged. Other topics of interest include policies and practices related to student achievement in STEM, contextual factors in education, educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through graduate school), early childhood education, and postsecondary education. The research project must include the analysis of data from at least one of the large-scale, nationally or internationally representative data sets supported by NCES, NSF, or other federal agency, such as the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health. Additional data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory federal data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.

Deadline: Late summer 2013; exact deadline TBA

Award amount: $20,000 for 1-year projects; $35,000 for 2-year projects

Read entire solicitation here.

NIH Alcohol Marketing and Youth Drinking (R01) Grant

NIH Alcohol Marketing and Youth Drinking (R01) Grant - PA-11-015

Reports suggest that exposure to alcohol marketing on websites, through online videos and social networking sites, in video games and via mobile phone applications, is increasing (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2006), yet very little is known about the impact of these marketing strategies on alcohol-related attitudes and behaviors in young people.

The nature of the relationship between exposure to alcohol marketing, including traditional and Internet-based advertisements and promotions, and youth alcohol consumption remains unclear. While the existing research suggests that exposure to alcohol advertising might be associated with the initiation of alcohol consumption and the frequency/amount of alcohol consumed, direct evidence of a link between exposure to marketing and alcohol consumption among youth is generally lacking. In one of the few studies to assess whether exposure to alcohol in commercials and movies is directly related to actual drinking behavior, researchers in the Netherlands (Engels et al., 2009) divided 40 male college students (aged 18-29) into groups and exposed them to various combinations of movie clips and commercials involving high levels of alcohol or low levels of alcohol. Subjects were then allowed to self administer alcohol. Subjects shown movie clips depicting high levels of drinking and commercial advertisements for alcohol drank more alcohol than other participants. While intriguing, more research is needed to investigate the relationship between exposure to alcohol marketing and youth drinking and to examine factors that might mediate (explain) and moderate (influence the strength of) the relationship between exposure to various forms alcohol marketing and youth drinking.

Of particular interest are the following questions:

1. Is there a direct causal relationship between exposure to various forms of alcohol marketing and alcohol-related attitudes/behaviors among youth?
2. What social and psychological processes or mechanisms might underlie the effects of alcohol advertising and other promotions on youth drinking (e.g., extensive exposure, repetition of ads, discussion of advertisements among peers, etc.)?
3. What variables appear to mediate or moderate these effects (e.g., alcohol expectancies, family history, peer influence)? For instance, do advertisements and promotions have different effects among persons who have already initiated drinking relative to those who have not yet begun to drink, or on those who drink and reach criteria for abuse or dependence relative to those who do not meet such criteria?
4. How do alcohol advertisements influence brain activity, what mediates the responses, and how do such changes in brain function relate to the impact of alcohol advertisements on drinking?
5. Do baseline differences in existing brain and psychological functioning influence the impact of alcohol advertisements and other promotions on attitudes and beliefs regarding alcohol and alcohol consumption?
6. Are there differences in the influence of specific forms of alcohol advertisements and promotions (e.g., traditional versus Internet-based) on brain and psychological functioning and, if so, how might these differences influence the impact of advertising on youth drinking?

Studies examining simple correlations between exposure to alcohol advertisements and other promotions and rates of drinking are of less interest than those examining cause and effect relationships and exploring the specific mechanisms by which advertisements and promotions might affect drinking and related outcomes.

Deadlines: June 5, 2013 and October 5, 2013

Award limit: no cap

Read entire solicitation here.

National Science Foundation: Sociology Program Grant

The NSF Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.

Deadline: August 15, 2013

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Templeton Foundation

The Foundation is currently accepting Online Funding Inquiries for its Core Funding Areas.

In the charter establishing his Foundation, the late Sir John Templeton set out his philanthropic intentions under several broad headings. These Core Funding Areas continue to guide the Foundation's grantmaking as it works to find world-class researchers and project leaders to share in its pursuit of Sir John's dynamic, contrarian, forward-looking vision.

A number of topics - including creativity, freedom, gratitude, love, and purpose - can be found under more than one Core Funding Area. The Foundation welcomes proposals that bring together these overlapping elements, especially by combining the tools and approaches of different disciplines.

1. Science & the Big Questions

a. Mathematical & Physical Sciences; b. Life Sciences; c. Human Sciences; d. Philosophy & Theology; e. Science in Dialogue
2. Character Development
3. Freedom & Free Enterprise
4. Exceptional Cognitive Talent & Genius

Submission deadline: April 1, 2013
Individual grants range greatly in amount, from several thousand dollars to several million.

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Cognition and Student Learning Grant

The Institute of Educational Sciences offers the Cognition and Student Learning (Cognition) grant that supports research that applies recent advances in cognitive science to education practice. The long-term outcome of this research will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., instructional approaches, computer tutors) that are based on principles of learning and information processing gained from cognitive science and that have been documented to be efficacious for improving learning in education delivery settings from prekindergarten through high school and for vocational or adult basic education or developmental (remedial)/bridge programs for under-prepared college students.

Award period: 2 to 5 years
Award amount: no cap
Deadline: June, 21, 2013
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Summer Research Opportunities for Undergraduates at NIST

“The SURF program encourages the pursuit of graduate degrees in science and engineering by exposing undergraduate students to cutting-edge research and providing them the opportunity to work with internationally known NIST scientists. Applications are submitted on behalf of qualified students by their schools. Colleges and universities in the United States and its territories with degree-granting programs in nanoscale science, engineering, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, biology, materials science, neutron research, and/or physics are eligible to nominate students.”

“Applications are due Feb. 15, 2013 (by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time for electronic applications; 5 p.m. Eastern Time for paper Gaithersburg applications, and 5 p.m. Mountain Time for paper Boulder applications), and must be submitted by eligible colleges and universities, not by individual students.”

For more information: http://www.nist.gov/director/surf-010813.cfm