Funding Opportunities - ORSP @ Ole Miss

Funding for Environmental Research and Development ~ Deadlines in January and March

Linda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:52 -0600

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is seeking to fund environmental research and development proposals. SERDP is DoD’s environmental science and technology program, planned and executed in partnership with DOE and EPA. The Program invests across the broad spectrum of basic and applied research, as well as exploratory development. SERDP pursues solutions to DoD’s most intractable environmental problems.

NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) ~ Deadlines February 4-5

Linda — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:23:44 -0600

Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking. Computational thinking is defined comprehensively to encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools. Applied in challenging science and engineering research and education contexts, computational thinking promises a profound impact on the Nation’s ability to generate and apply new knowledge.

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships ~ Deadline January 4

Linda — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:52:24 -0600

As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award approximately 200 new three-year graduate fellowships in April 2010, subject to the availability of funds. The DoD will offer these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.

NIH Loan Repayment Programs ~ Deadline December 1

Linda — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:34:10 -0500

The application cycle for the NIH extramural Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) is underway and ends on December 1, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Highly-qualified health professionals who are or will be engaged in biomedical or behavioral research and who have started an online application should complete it now; those who have not yet started should visit www.lrp.nih.gov to learn more about the programs and apply.

DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship ~ Deadline November 30

Linda — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:44 -0500

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) program to provide support for outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the U.S.

MS NSF EPSCoR Seed Grant RFP ~ Deadline November 15

Linda — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:17:38 -0500

The 2009-2015 Mississippi EPSCoR award promotes research in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems. The three research focus areas within this grant are computational chemistry (CompChem), computational biology (CompBio) and biosystems simulation (BioSim). The grant provides support for up to six seed grants per year for innovative research in or between the three focus areas. The current research programs within each focus area are:

Transatlantic Cooperation in Research ~ Deadline October 31

Linda — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:32:06 -0500

Funding for Collaborative Research for Scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, and Law

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports transatlantic research cooperation between German, American and/or Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law.

Funds can be used:

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Announcements

Linda — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:34:50 -0600

Federal agencies are posting information on how they plan to allocate funding received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), including in some cases how they will monitor and report their actual spending. Below are links to comprehensive information available via Recovery.gov, Grants.gov, and COS, as well as an alphabetical list of specific agency links and other information. Note that NIH has posted the most details, including special terms and conditions for ARRA awards.

Molecular Sciences Awards for Undergraduates

Linda — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:29:24 -0500

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is accepting applications for the fourth annual Frank and Sara McKnight Awards in Molecular Sciences. Awards are offered in three areas: Chemistry, Biophysics or Computational Biology and Biological Chemistry. These prizes are designed to recognize undergraduate students with a commitment to scientific research and a record of academic achievement. Approximately fifteen finalists will be chosen from the applicants, and they will be invited to attend a scientific retreat hosted by the Department of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends ~ UM Internal Deadline September 10

Linda — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:54:12 -0500

General Information

NEH Summer Stipend grants provide individuals with an opportunity to pursue research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Projects should be completed during the tenure of an award or represent part of a long-term endeavor. Recipients might eventually produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, a database, or other scholarly tools.