Faculty Recognition & Funding Opportunities – November 1, 2017
RECOGNITION
Elizabeth H. Bradley, President and Professor of Science, Technology & Society, and of Political Science, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) at its October 2017 meeting. “These newly elected members represent the most exceptional scholars and leaders in science, medicine, and health in the U.S. and around the globe,” said NAM President Victor J. Dzau in a press release. “Their expertise will help our organization address today’s most pressing health challenges and inform the future of health and health care to benefit us all.” Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. New members are elected through a process that recognizes those who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health. The newly elected members bring NAM’s total membership to 2,127 and the number of international members to 172.
Leah Isseroff Bendavid, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was awarded a Visiting Faculty Program Fellowship in the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science, one of the world’s leading basic research institutions. The Institute’s 250 experimental and theoretical research groups across five faculties—Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science and Physics—contribute to our fundamental understanding of the human body and the universe and pursue advances in medicine, technology, and the environment. Professor Bendavid’s fellowship will support a four-month visit to join the research group of Professor Leeor Kronik, during which she will use first principles calculations to investigate the structural, electronic and optical characteristics of molecular solids.
SOME UPCOMING DEADLINES FOR EXTRAMURAL FUNDING
ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
NOVEMBER 15 The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for its initiative supporting research and teaching in Buddhist studies. Working with the foundation, ACLS offers an articulated set of fellowship and grant competitions designed to expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought in scholarship and society, strengthen international networks of Buddhist studies, and increase the visibility of innovative currents in those studies. Available grant opportunities include: the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies: An annual stipend of $55,000 will be awarded for a fellowship period running from July 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019. (In addition, a relocation allowance of $5,000 will be provided, if required.) The fellowship is designed to provide two years of funding to recent PhD recipients in residence at a university for the purpose of revising his/her dissertation into a publishable manuscript, or to help start his/her first project after completion of the PhD. Applications must be received no later than November 15, 2017. Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Grants for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations: One-year grants of up to $80,000 will be awarded to institutions of higher education in support of a broad range of initiatives, from the creation of critical editions (with full scholarly apparatus), to the translation of canonical texts into modern vernaculars, to the translation of scholarly works on Buddhism from one modern language into another. For complete program guidelines and related opportunities, see the ACLS website: http://www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/
DECEMBER 1 The Brady Education Foundation seeks to close the achievement/opportunity gap for children at risk for poor school outcomes due to environmental factors associated with poverty. To advance this mission, the foundation is accepting stage-one applications for projects related to the development and evaluation of programs that are consistent with a strength-based approach and show promise of being feasible, effective, and sustainable. 1) Program Development: One-year grants will be awarded to projects aimed at developing and testing the feasibility of new programs that promote positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities. Past Program Development grants have ranged between $25,000 and $276,000. 2) Existing Program Evaluation: Grants for up to three years will be awarded to evaluate the effectiveness of programs designed to promote positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children (birth through 18 years) from underserved groups and/or low-resourced communities.Past Existing Program Evaluation grants have ranged between $241,000 and $792,000. See the Brady Education Foundation for complete program guidelines and application instructions: http://www.bradyeducationfoundation.org/applicationguidelines.html
DECEMBER 1 The American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants support the cost of research leading to publication in any area of knowledge. In 2016–17 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $470,000 to eighty-nine scholars, and the society expects to make a similar number of awards in this year's competition. Through the competition, grants of up to $6,000 will be awarded to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research and are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. The society does not pay overhead or indirect costs to any institution, and grant funds are not to be used to pay income tax on the award. Grants will not be made to replace salary during a leave of absence or earnings from summer teaching; pay living expenses while working at home; cover the costs of consultants or research assistants; or purchase permanent equipment such as computers, cameras, tape recorders, or laboratory apparatus. Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. For complete program guidelines, an FAQ, and application instructions, see the APS website: https://amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin
DECEMBER 1 The Spencer Foundation is accepting proposals for its Conference Grants program, which provides support to scholars for small research conferences and focused symposia. The program is designed to help bring together researchers whose substantive knowledge, theoretical insight, and methodological expertise can be assembled in ways that build on and advance best practices in education research. The foundation rotates the programs area of focus periodically to generate fresh ideas and perspectives on pressing educational challenges. Currently, it is seeking proposals from scholars whose interests are related to the creation and sustainability of equitable educational spaces. The program will support proposals of up to $50,000. Principal investigators and co-PIs applying for a conference grant must have earned a doctorate degree in an academic discipline or professional field, or demonstrate appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. In addition, the PI must be affiliated with a college, university, school district, nonprofit research facility, or nonprofit cultural institution that is willing to serve as the fiscal agent if the grant is awarded. For complete program guidelines, an FAQ, and proposal submission instructions, see the Spencer Foundation website.
JANUARY 16, 2018 The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an independent research library in Philadelphia, is inviting applications for short-term fellowships in the history of science, technology, medicine, and industry. The research collections at CHF range chronologically from the fifteenth century to the present and include six thousand rare books, significant archival holdings, thousands of images, and a large artifact and fine arts collection supported by more than a hundred thousand reference volumes and journals. Within the collections are many areas of strength, including alchemy, mining & metallurgy, dyeing and bleaching, balneology, gunpowder and pyrotechnics, gas-lighting, books of secrets, inorganic and organic chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. The center supports roughly twenty fellows a year, creating a vibrant community of scholars whose work is in some way tied to the history of materials and materiality, chemistry, and all related sciences. Applications come from people in a wide range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Short-Term Fellowships include stipends of $3,000 per month in for residence programs of one to four months and are open to all scholars and researchers. Short-term fellowships are specifically designed around access to the center's research collections, while long-term fellows' work must help support the mission of the institution and fit with the collections more generally.For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the CHF website: https://www.chemheritage.org/fellowships
JANUARY 31 The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports creative, innovative projects and programs designed to significantly enhance the development, health, safety, education, and/or quality of life for children from infancy through five years of age. The foundation provides funding in the areas of early childhood welfare, early childhood education and play, and parenting education:
1) Early Childhood Welfare: Children can only reach their full potential when all aspects of their development, including intellectual, emotional and physical, are optimally supported. Providing a safe and nurturing environment for infants and preschoolers is essential, as is imparting to them the skills of social living in a culturally diverse world. To that end, the foundation supports programs that research best child-rearing practices and identify models that provide creative, caring environments to ensure all children thrive.
2) Early Childhood Education and Play: Research shows that children need to be stimulated as well as nurtured early in life if they are to succeed in school, work, and life. That preparation relates to every aspect of a child’s development, from birth to age five, and everywhere a child learns — at home, in childcare settings, and in preschool. To that end, the foundation seeks to improve the quality of early childhood teaching and learning through the development of innovative curricula and research based pedagogical standards, as well as the design of imaginative play materials and learning environments.
3) Parenting Education: To help parents create nurturing environments for their children, the foundation supports programs that teach parents about developmental psychology, cultural child-rearing differences, pedagogy, issues of health, and prenatal care and diet, as well programs that provide both cognitive and emotional support to parents.
Letters of Intent must be received no later than January 31, 2018. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application. See the Caplan Foundation website for complete program guidelines and application procedures: http://earlychildhoodfoundation.org/
Rolling Mellon Slavic Studies Initiative Russian, East European, and Central Asian studies are the focus of this joint publishing initiative supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in offered in partnership with Northwestern, Pittsburgh, and Wisconsin university presses. Northwestern seeks studies of Slavic literature, art, and culture; Pittsburgh is looking for projects in the social, political, environmental, urban, and cultural history of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; Wisconsin is especially interested in cultural and intellectual history, literary and film studies, anthropology, and human rights, with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. For program details, please visit:
http://www.mellonslavicstudies.org/submissions.htm
SOME UPCOMING DEADLINES FOR EXTRAMURAL FUNDING
NATURAL SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATHEMATICS
JANUARY 10, 2018 The National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, not-for-profit museums, science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations. The program provides organizations with opportunities to acquire major instrumentation that supports the research and research training goals of the organization and that may be used by other researchers regionally or nationally. Each MRI proposal may request support for the acquisition (Track 1) or development (Track 2) of a single research instrument for shared inter- and/or intra-organizational use. Development efforts that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument development capacity at MRI submission-eligible organizations are encouraged. The MRI program assists with the acquisition or development of a shared research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. The instrument acquired or developed is expected to be operational for regular research use by the end of the award period. For the purposes of the MRI program, a proposal must be for either acquisition (Track 1) or development (Track 2) of a single, well-integrated instrument. Instrument acquisition or development proposals that request funds from NSF in the range $100,000-$4 million may be accepted from any MRI-eligible organization. For more details, visit NSF online.
Multiple NSF funding opportunities are now open! See the deadlines and funding announcements online here.
JANUARY 12 The American Gastroenterological Association is accepting applications for its AGA-Elsevier Gut Microbiome Pilot Research Award. The objectives of the program are to help early-career investigators establish their research careers and support research projects that represent new directions for established investigators. Projects must focus on the relationship of gut microbiota to digestive health and disease. To that end, a single grant of $25,000 will be awarded to a researcher at any career stage in support of research on the relationship of gut microbiota to digestive health and disease. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the AGA website.
JANUARY 15 (letters of intent) The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences through its research grants and grants-in-aid programs. It is the foundation's policy to support those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by federal agencies or other foundations with a specialized mission. The foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest. 1) Research: Research grants of up to $225,000 over three years will be awarded to established scientists of all ages working at an accredited institution in the United States. Grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose. 2) Grants-in-Aid: One-year grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists. Letters of Intent must be received no later than January 15, 2018. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit to a full application by June 1, 2018. For complete program guidelines, information about previous grant recipients, and application procedures, see the Whitehall Foundation website.
JANUARY 15 The American Chemical Society (ACS) is seeking applications to its Local Section Innovative Projects Grants program. The biannual program encourages local ACS sections to conceive of and implement innovative projects designed to strengthen the functioning of the local section. Projects must be new to the applying local section, stimulate local section member involvement, and pilot a continuing section activity or take advantage of a unique upcoming opportunity for the section. Projects that support interaction with other ACS local sections, ACS divisions, ACS committees, other professional associations or community groups are especially encouraged, as are programs that foster inclusiveness and participation of diverse section membership or segments of the general public. Awards will be up to $3,500 per project. See the ACS website for complete program guidelines and application instructions: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/grants/acscommunity/lsinnovativegrant.html
JANUARY 16 The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an independent research library in Philadelphia, is inviting applications for short-term fellowships in the history of science, technology, medicine, and industry. The research collections at CHF range chronologically from the fifteenth century to the present and include six thousand rare books, significant archival holdings, thousands of images, and a large artifact and fine arts collection supported by more than a hundred thousand reference volumes and journals. Within the collections are many areas of strength, including alchemy, mining & metallurgy, dyeing and bleaching, balneology, gunpowder and pyrotechnics, gas-lighting, books of secrets, inorganic and organic chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. The center supports roughly twenty fellows a year, creating a vibrant community of scholars whose work is in some way tied to the history of materials and materiality, chemistry, and all related sciences. Applications come from people in a wide range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Short-Term Fellowships include stipends of $3,000 per month in for residence programs of one to four months and are open to all scholars and researchers. Short-term fellowships are specifically designed around access to the center's research collections, while long-term fellows' work must help support the mission of the institution and fit with the collections more generally.For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the CHF website: https://www.chemheritage.org/fellowships
FEBRUARY 15 AMBRF/Foundation for Alcohol Research invites applications from research projects focused on the effects of alcohol consumption on human health and behavior. The Foundation encourages basic and clinical research, including epidemiology. Examples of valid topics include factors influencing underage drinking, the mechanisms of alcohol-related organ injury, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and the effects of alcohol on general health. Areas of particular interest include studies on how particular patterns of consumption (quantity of alcohol consumed, types of alcoholic beverages consumed, frequency of consumption, and context) are related to health and behavioral outcomes; and interdisciplinary, bioinformatics, and other approaches to genetic and environmental factors that influence the patterns of consumption of alcoholic beverages and related consequences. Priority is given to projects led by young investigators. Grants of up to $75,000 a year will be awarded for either one or two years. See the AMBRF/Foundation for Alcohol Research website for complete program guidelines and application instructions: http://www.abmrf.org/appyling_grant
FEBRUARY 16 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Research Grant Program supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Visit NIH online for more: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/r03.htm
FEBRUARY 25 NIH Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees in sciences but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH research programs to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, to expose undergraduate and/or graduate students to meritorious research projects, and to strengthen the research environment of the applicant’s home institution. Visit NIH online for details: https://area.nih.gov/
Are you a human subjects researcher? NIH has produced a video overview as policies regarding human subjects in NIH-funded research has changed.
New to NIH’s grantmaking? Read all about it here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/about_grants.htm
Questions about funding for research and scholarship? Contact us:
Judith Dollenmayer (5376, judollenmayer), Associate Director, Corporate, Foundation & Government Relations
Katherine Hite (7661, kahite), Professor and Chair of Political Science & Faculty Director of Research Development
Gary Hohenberger (7092, gahohenberger), Associate Vice President, Corporate, Foundation & Government Relations
Lori Buckey (5490, lbuckey), Grants Office Specialist
Patricia Pritchard (5893, papritchard), Director, Grants Accounting
Amanda Thornton (5309, amthornton), Director, Grants Administration
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