October 2005 BETWEEN ISSUES: Funding Opportunities
- Carolina Internal Funding Opportunities
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Multidisciplinary
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Health and Medical Sciences
- Life and Physical Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Previous Funding Opportunities
Special News
Carolina Internal Funding Opportunities and Limited Awards
Center for the Study of the American South
Summer
Research Grants
Deadline: March 24, 2006
Office of Economic and Business Development
Economic Development Opportunities Fund
Deadline: November 1, 2005
University Center for International Studies
Fulbright-Hays
Faculty Research Abroad Fellows
Deadlines: November 4, 2005 (internal); November 10, 2005 (agency)
Want to find more internal funding opps and limited awards? Try Carolina Internal Funding Database.
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National Science Foundation
Recently Announced Active Funding Opportunities
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National Institutes of Health
Grants:
Week of October 21, 2005
Week
of October 14, 2005
Week
of October 7, 2005
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Contracts:
National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Centers
of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance
Deadline: February 28, 2006
Want to find more contracts? Try FedBizOpps
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Multidisciplinary
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Distinguished
Researcher Awards
Standard Research Grants
Young Investigator Grants
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (click on "Research" then "Grants")
Deadline: December 15, 2005
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Pilot Grants (click
on "Research" then "Grants")
Deadlines: December 15, 2005; April 15, 2006; August 15, 2006
American Research Institute in Turkey
Humanities
and Social Science Research in Turkey
Deadline: November 1, 2005
Camargo Foundation
Fellowships (humanities
and social sciences projects in French and Francophone cultures)
Deadline: January 15, 2006
Corporation for National and Community Service
Challenge
Grant (engage volunteers in disaster relief and recovery for the
population affected by the recent hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region)
Deadline: November 8, 2005
Department of Education
Graduate
Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) (biology, chemistry,
computer and information science, engineering, geological and related
sciences, mathematics, nursing and physics) (pdf)
Deadline: November 14, 2005
Department of Justice
Forensic
Science Research Targeting Forensic Engineering, Forensic Pathology,
Odontology, Trace Evidence, Controlled Substances, and Questioned Documents
Deadline: November 9, 2005
International Foundation for Music Education
Sounds
of Learning: the Impact of Music Education (pdf)
Deadline: November 1, 2005
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Grants
Deadlines: December 2, 2005; May 12, 2006
Want to find more funding opps? Try COS
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
Agency for International Development
Afghanistan
Higher Education Project
Deadline: open until December 20, 2005
Department of Education
Centers
for International Business Education Program
Business
and International Education Program
Deadline: November 15, 2005
Department of Justice
Census
of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs
Deadline: November 11, 2005
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dr.
H.P. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
Deadline: nominations may be submitted until January 1, 2006
SANS 2005
Sony
Virtuoso Language Lab Grant Program
Deadline: December 31, 2005
Want to find more funding opps? Try COS
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Health and Medical Sciences
Agency for International Development
Advancing
Surveillance (policies, prevention, treatment, care and support to
fight-HIV/AIDS in Nepal)
Deadline: November 22, 2005
American Heart Association
Fellow-to-Faculty
Transition Award Program Description
Deadline: January 9, 2006
National
Scientist Development Grant
Deadline: January 9, 2006
American Joint Committee on Cancer
Developing
and Validating New Algorithms for Cancer Prognosis, Staging, and Predicting
Response to Therapy
Deadline: December 15, 2005 (letter of intent); January 16, 2006 (application)
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Postdoctoral
Laboratory Research Fellowship
Deadline: February 17, 2006
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Translating
Proven Interventions for Underserved and Emergent High Risk Populations
Deadline: December 5, 2005
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Evaluation
of the Relative Effectiveness of Four Public Health Strategies for Providing
HIV Testing to High-Risk African American Women with Undiagnosed HIV
Infection
Deadline: December 5, 2005
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public
Health Conference Support Program
Deadlines: November 10, 2005 (letter of intent, cycle A); December 9,
2005 (application, cycle A); February 3, 2006 (letter of intent, cycle
B); March 6, 2006 (application, cycle B)
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Mentored
Research Training Grants
Research
Education Grant
Research Starter
Grants
Research Fellowship
Grants
Deadline: February 15, 2006
Health Resources and Services Administration
Healthy
Behaviors in Women
December 2, 2005
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
McKnight
Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards
Deadline: December 1, 2005
National Alliance for Autism Research
Research
on Language and Communication in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (pdf)
Interdisciplinary
Translational Research Program in Autism Spectrum Disorders (pdf)
Deadline: November 1, 2005 (letter of intent), January 31, 2005 (application)
National Hemophilia Foundation
Career
Development Awards
Deadline: November 1, 2005 (letter of intent); February 1, 2006 (application)
National Hemophilia Foundation
Judith
Graham Pool Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Deadline: December 1, 2005
Pfizer
Pfizer
Fellowships in Infectious Diseases
Scholars
Grants in Clinical Epidemiology
Fellowship
in Health Literacy and Clear Health Communication
Deadline: January 6, 2006
Sleep Research Institute
Pickwick
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Deadline: December 1, 2005
Want to find more funding opps? Try COS
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Life and Physical Sciences
Air Force Materiel Command
Armament
Technology Research
Deadline: December 31, 2005
Air Force Research Laboratory
Grants
to Advance the State-of-the-Art and Scientific Knowledge in Space and
Missile Technology
Deadline: November 30, 2005
Air Force Research Laboratory
Modeling
and Simulation for Information Systems Research
Deadlines: November 1, 2005; June 1, 2006; June 1, 2007; June 1, 2008;
June 1, 2009; white papers accepted until September 30, 2010
Air Force Research Laboratory
Information
Institute Research Program
Deadlines: March 1, 2006; March 1, 2007; March 1, 2008; open until December
31, 2008
American Chemical Society
Arthur
C. Cope Award
Deadline: February 1, 2006
Department of Energy
University
Reactor Instrumentation
Deadline: December 7, 2005
Department of Energy
Grants (basic
energy sciences, high energy physics, nuclear physics, advanced scientific
computing, fusion energy sciences, biological and environmental research,
and energy research analyses)
Deadline: September 1, 2006
Environmental Protection Agency
Implications
of Tropospheric Air Pollution for Surface UV Exposures
Deadline: January 18, 2006
Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticide
Misuse Initiative Grant Program
Deadline: November 30, 2005
Environmental Protection Agency
Fellowship
Support for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science (pdf)
Deadline: November 14, 2005
Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence
Lawrence Fellowship
Deadline: November 1, 2005
Want to find more funding opps? Try COS
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Arts and Humanities
Center for Cultural Judaism
Posen
Project for the Study of Secular Judaism
Deadline: November 28, 2005
Department of Education
Undergraduate
International Studies and Foreign Language Program
Deadline: November 17, 2005
Getty Research Institute
Grants for Residential Scholars
Grants for Nonresidential Scholars
Deadline: November 1, 2005
Meet the Composer and National Endowment for the Arts
Commissioning
Music/USA (for dance, installation, opera, performance art, and theater)
Deadline: January 27, 2006
National Endowment for the Arts
Literature
Fellowships: Translation Projects
Deadline: January 9, 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities
Collaborative
Research Grants
Scholarly
Editions Grants
Deadline: November 1, 2005
Tanner Humanities Center
Visiting
Research Fellowships (pdf)
Deadline: December 1, 2005
Theatre Communications Group
Travel Grants
Observership Program
Deadline: November 1, 2005
Want to find more funding opps? Try COS.
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Special News
SBIR/STTR R&D Funding Conference
Date: November 7 (5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.) and November 8 (7:30 a.m. – 1:00
p.m.)
Place: NC Biotechnology Center , Research Triangle Park , NC
The UNC Small Business and Technology Development Center is hosting a two-day workshop on research and development funding from the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Representatives from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of Agriculture will introduce the SBIR/STTR programs at their agencies and answer questions. The workshop will cover topics such as:
- agency overviews;
- follow-on federal funding opportunities;
- Angel networks as early stage funders;
- phase I proposal development;
- selling to the government as a customer;
- avoiding accounting pitfalls;
- NIH electronic submission;
- Case study: Effective university/small business collaboration; and
- Legal transactional issues in Phases II and III.
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NASA to Hold Briefings in Chapel Hill
Date: October 24, 2005
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Place: UNC Office of the President, 910 Raleigh Road , Chapel Hill , NC
Representatives from the National Aeronautics Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center will hold briefings for university representatives, state government staff, and key business leaders. The purpose of the briefings is to increase awareness of NASA programs and business opportunities and to foster potential new partnerships in the state of North Carolina .
NASA program managers will discuss the Vision for Space Exploration, aeronautics and science programs, procurement and small business opportunities, and university programs. A complete agenda is available online. Although there is no charge, seating is restricted to 50 participants and registration is required.