Office of Sponsored Programs Monthly
VOLUME I, ISSUE 4—
4—AUGUST 2013
AUGUST 2013
OSP
Monthly
News & Updates
Consultant Agreement Template
As previously advised in the June issue of OSP Monthly, the Office of Sponsored
Programs in conjunction with Procurement and Contracts (PCD), has developed a
Professional Services Provider (PSA) Consultant Agreement template to be used to
issue consultant agreements to individuals or entities that will perform consultant services via sponsored awards. The purpose of this template is to improve and
streamline the turnaround time for developing and issuing consultant agreements.
Effective September 1, 2013, PIs (or their designees) will be able to issue Consultant Agreements via the Consultant Agreement template, provided the amount of
the agreement is under $10,000.
The template is a fillable PDF. PIs will simply insert the service provider’s contact
information, the agreement amount, period of performance, and attach a scope of
work. After the PI completes the fillable sections, the PI (or their designees) will submit the agreement to the consultant(s) for review/signature. After review/signature of
the consultant, the PI will submit the agreement for counter signature by their Dean,
Assistant Dean (or designee) or unit-level Director. Thus, those who are currently
authorized to sign PSAs can sign the PSA Consultant Agreement template on behalf
of AU.
IN THIS ISSUE
NEWS & UPDATES
Consultant Agreement Template
Subcontract Request Form
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Routing & PI Assurance Form Update 2
How to Approach Foundation Webinar 2
Upcoming Grant Administration
Roundtable Sessions
OSP AtAt-a-Glance Calendar
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RESEARCH MATTERS
OSP Spotlight
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NOTES
Foreign Contract & Currency Rates 5
REMINDERS
RAC Graduation Ceremony
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
RAC Program: Fall 2013
Funding Search Training Sessions
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Specific guidelines for using the PSA Consultant Agreement are included in the template on pages 8-9. Please note, the PSA Consultant Agreement template must
not be used for issuing subcontracts. All subcontracts are still required to be drafted and issued by OSP. Guidelines for requesting subcontracts can be found on page
2 of this newsletter.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences & Sciences
Education
General
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PIs (or their designee) can obtain the fillable PSA Consultant Agreement template on
the OSP website located on the forms & templates page >>
CONTACT INFO
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Subcontract Request Form
As mentioned in the July issue of OSP Monthly, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) has developed a Subcontract Request form to be used to request issuance of subcontracts.
Using the Subcontract Request form standardizes the subcontract request process, as well as provides additional security to American University and Principal Investigators (PIs) by ensuring subcontracts are drafted in accordance with
the PI’s request. It will also reduce the number of errors and ensure institutional compliance.
The Subcontract Request Form is a two-page PDF fillable form designed for easy use.
Effective immediately, PIs (or their designees) should use the Subcontract Request form when requesting issuance of
subcontracts. Please contact your assigned OSP Post-Award Grant and Contract Manager (Melissa Alves—
malves@american.edu or Nia Pree—npree@american.edu) if you have questions regarding the form.
The Subcontract Request form is accessible via the OSP website here >>
Routing & PI Assurance Form—
Form—Update
OSP recognizes that PIs may propose projects that will require them to work during the academic year and throughout
the summer months. To ensure the proposed level of effort is captured for both the academic year and the summer
months, we have updated the OSP Routing & PI Assurance Form to include an additional space to include proposed
level of effort for both the academic and summer months (when applicable).
The update to this section can be found on question #9 of the Routing & PI Assurance Form. Please contact your assigned OSP Grant and Contract Manager if you have questions about this change or need additional clarification.
The updated Routing & PI Assurance Form can be found via the OSP website here >>
How to Approach a Foundation Webinar
The Foundation Center is providing a free, recorded webinar on how to build relationships with foundation prospects. It provides you insight into the grantseeking and grantmaking process and highlights the following points to help you increase your
chances of winning a grant:
 Initiate contact with potential funders
 Plan calls and meetings, including site visits
 Effectively communicate with funders during the grant process
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Upcoming Grant Administration Roundtable Sessions
The Office of Sponsored Programs and Grants and Contracts Accounting (GCA) would like to invite you to the following Grant Administration Roundtable (GAR) sessions.
Topics will include, but are not limited to:
 AU’s New Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) Agreement Rates (indirect cost and fringe benefit rates)
 Updated point of contact list for pre and post award procedures
 New templates
 Revised PI Handbook
Date
Time
Location
October 23, 2013
2:00pm—3:30pm
Butler Board Room, Mary Graydon Center
December 3, 2013
10:00am—11:30am
Butler Board Room, Mary Graydon Center
Please RSVP by October 1, 2013 to OSPEvents@american.edu and include your name, academic/business unit.
OSP AtAt-a-Glance Calendar
OSP has created a calendar on our website that references specific OSP-related information sessions, upcoming
events, and important dates for you to see. The At-a-Glance Calendar will be updated frequently whenever changes or
additions are added.
View the OSP At-a-Glance Calendar here >>
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Research matters
OSP Spotlight
Kim Blankenship
Each month, OSP Monthly highlights a specific American University faculty/staff member for
their contributions in providing cutting-edge research or research related program that serves
to create and advance knowledge, enrich the resources of our educational community while
answering and accelerating challenging issues we face today. This month, we are featuring
Kim Blankenship, Chair, Department of Sociology and Director for the Center on Health, Risk
and Society.
Q&A with Kim Blankenship
Q: Please tell us about your center:
Kim: I’m based in the sociology department and our basic goal of the Center is to provide
support for facilitated development of research projects. They are broadly, on determinants
of health—social, political, and economic factors that affect health and how to address
those issues and promote it. We’re working on creating a cross disciplinary community to discuss these topics. This includes
a weekly seminar series to pull those across campus and bring together collaborative discussions to encourage people to
write proposals, review articles, give feedback and highlight those research proposals that people maybe interested in.
Q: In your own words, what is the main purpose/importance of your research?
Kim: My research is focused on understanding how social inequality affects health and what are some strategies we can
develop for addressing health and those issues.
Q: What type of research is your center primarily focused on?
Kim: Most of my research currently focuses on HIV/AIDS and two distinct related groups:
1. Female sex workers in India and how community mobilization and intervention can address the HIV risk in that
population.
2. Within the US, racial disparity and the extent to which that is as a result from incarceration, re-entry, and the
back and forth cycle of being in a community jail.
These are separate but distinct projects. They’re similar in that they are both looking at social marginalization, impact on risk
and what strategies can be formed. The other focus is more exploratory and basic. How does criminal justice involve risk?
The goal is to suggest findings, policy, issues for addressing strategies and different types of intervention from the research.
Fundamentally they are both similar risks associated with social location.
Q: What are some of the ways to learn and find out about your research?
Kim: I have several publications that highlights my research on India that you can find on my profile page. I’m working on
more publications as well as a separate website called Paravartin that focuses on the India project.
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Foreign Contract & Currency Rates
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NOTES
For proposals with proposed foreign subcontractors, OSP will use the applicable exchange rate at the time the proposal budget is created. Thus, foreign subcontractors assume the risk if changes in foreign currency rates occur after
the proposal is submitted and awarded by a sponsor. Therefore, PIs are encouraged to advise their proposed foreign
subcontractors that American University is not responsible for changes in currency rates that may occur after the proposal is submitted.
reminders
RAC Graduation Ceremony
OSP and GCA would like to personally congratulate everyone who has
successfully completed our Research Administration Certification (RAC)
Program. Congratulations!
We invite all of our graduates to a special graduation ceremony honoring their achievement.
Event Details
Date: August 7, 2013
Time: 10:00—12:00pm
Location: MGC 4 & 5, Mary Graydon Center
Refreshments and food will be served. A reminder email will be sent out a few days before the event to all graduates.
Please join us as we celebrate this achievement with our RAC graduates.
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ANNOUNCEMENTs
Research Administration Certification (RAC) Program
The Office of Sponsored Programs, in collaboration with Grants and Contracts Accounting, is pleased again to announce the Research Administration Certification program at American University.
RAC is a comprehensive training and certification program designed to assist AU departmental and school/college
level staff with research administration and/or grant/contract development and management responsibilities. The
RAC program provides pertinent information to enable participants to effectively manage sponsored awards.
The RAC program consists of eight consecutive sessions that will be offered annually during the academic year
(September—May). Each session lasts approximately 2 hours (depending on content), and will include topics covering proposal preparation, research compliance, financial management and reporting, as well as applicable regulations, policies, and guidelines governing sponsored grant and contract awards.
The following instructor-led sessions will be offered during the Fall 2013 semester:
Date/Time
Location
Title
September 12th, 10-12pm
Butler Board Room
Session 1: Overview of Research
Administration (Pre-Award)
October 10th, 10-12pm
Butler Board Room
Session 2: Proposal Related Issues
(Pre-Award)
November 14th, 10-12pm
McDowell Formal Lounge
Session 3: Grants Management I
(Pre-Award)
December 12th, 10-12pm
Abramson Family Founders Room, Session 4: Grants Management II
SIS Building
(Pre-Award)
In addition to the above, online sessions will be offered as an alternative to the instructor-led sessions. The online
sessions are ideal for those who need to make up RAC sessions that were missed during FY ‘12-13. The online sessions are also ideal for individuals who want a “refresh” on a particular RAC session. In addition, the online component is ideal for individuals who cannot attend the scheduled instructor –led sessions.
*Sessions 5-8 will be held during the Spring 2014 semester and will cover specific post-award (financial management) and research compliance topics/issues.
A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of all eight RAC sessions and required quizzes.
Interested participants will be able to RSVP beginning August 26, 2013 through ASuccessfulU. Details on
how to register will be forthcoming.
For any questions you may have regarding RAC, please send an email to OSPEvents@american.edu.
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Funding Search Information Sessions—Schedule
OSP has scheduled a series of information sessions this Fall for faculty and staff interested in independently searching for funding opportunities. The information sessions will provide training on how to use our current funding opportunity databases, and will assist faculty and staff in developing user profiles to receive direct funding opportunities
related to their research interests.
General Overview Sessions: Designed to cover the fundamentals of OSP’s most commonly used funding search databases, and includes a brief overview of those databases, how to set up accounts for each database, how to perform searches and more.
Date
Time
Location
September 17, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
October 3, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
November 7, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
December 5, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
February 6, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
March 6, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
April 9, 2013
10:30am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
Unit/School Oriented Sessions: Designed specifically for each individual unit/school. These sessions will follow a workshop format and will take a deeper dive into each of our funding search databases by helping you find opportunities tailored
to criteria related to your research. We encourage you to bring a laptop, tablet or web-enabled device to search for funding.
Date
School/Unit
Time
Location
September 25, 2013
College of Arts & Sciences
10:00am—12:00pm
MGC 200
October 29, 2013
School of Professional & Extended
Studies
10:00am—12:00pm
4200 Wisconsin Avenue, 3rd Floor
Conference Room
November 12, 2013
School of Communication
10:00am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
December 19, 2013
WAMU/Library/Kogod
10:00am—12:00pm
MGC 200
February 18, 2013
CLALS/SIS
10:00am—12:00pm
Abramson Family Founders Room,
SIS
March 27, 2013
School of Public Affairs
10:00am—12:00pm
Butler Board Room
April 23, 2013
Washington College of Law
10:00am—12:00pm
TBD
To RSVP, please send an email to OSPEvents@american.edu with the sessions you wish to attend. Also
include your name and academic/business unit.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Arts & Humanities
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts—Grants
The foundation’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them.
Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing; and efforts to promote the health, welfare, and first amendment
rights of artists.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
J.M. Kaplan Fund—Furthermore Grants in Publishing
The Furthermore program is concerned with nonfiction book publishing about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day. Our grants apply to writing, research, editing,
design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding. We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience; gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production; promises a reasonable shelf life; might not otherwise
achieve top quality or even come into being; and represents a contribution without which we would be the poorer. Book proposals
to which a university press or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually
preferred.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
French Embassy—Publishing Grants & Prizes
The Book Department of the Cultural Services works to promote French and Francophone literature and to encourage English
translations of French fiction and non-fiction. The Book Department provides a range of grants to help publishers with rights, translation, and to promote paper and digital editions of translated French work.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
The American Academy in Berlin—Fellowships to Study in Berlin, Germany
The Academy welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent
study in Berlin. Past Berlin Prize recipients have included historians, economists, poets, art historians, journalists, legal scholars,
anthropologists, musicologists, public policy experts, and writers, among others. In addition to placing a high priority on the independent work of its fellows, the Academy is in a unique position to aid fellows in establishing professional and general networks
both in Berlin and beyond.
Deadline: September 2, 2013
National Endowment for the Humanities—Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects
that promise to benefit the humanities.
Deadline: September 12, 2013
National Endowment for the Humanities—Enduring Questions
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the teaching and development of a new course that will
foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This question-driven course will encourage undergraduates
and teachers to grapple with a fundamental concern of human life addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and
sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.
Deadline: September 12, 2013
Sundance Institute—Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant
Established in 2005 to support the development of screenplays with science or technology themes, Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provides two different opportunities for screenwriters through a Commissioning Grant or a Fellowship. Both provide a cash award to support further development of a screenplay and to retain science advisors, along with overall
creative and strategic feedback throughout development.
Deadline: September 13, 2013
National Geographic Society—Genographic Legacy Fund Grants
The Genographic Legacy Fund awards grants on an annual basis for community-driven projects directly preserving or revitalizing
indigenous or traditional culture. Funded projects have included documenting a traditional language, oral history, or ceremony creating culturally specific educational materials and programs; establishing a local museum or archive; intergenerational knowledge
sharing; and preserving significant sites and artifacts.
Deadline: September 15, 2013
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Social sciences & sciences
Social Science Research Council
Abe Fellowship (for International Multidisciplinary Research on Global Concerns)
The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range
importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives
especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving. The objectives of the program are to foster high quality research in the social sciences and related disciplines, to build new collaborative networks of researchers around the
three thematic foci of the program, to bring new data and new data resources to the attention of those researchers, and to obtain
from them a commitment to a comparative or transnational line of inquiry.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Glaucoma Foundation—Research Grant
The Glaucoma Foundation offers grants to doctors and scientists striving to improve the lives of glaucoma patients through research.
TGF's three areas of particular focus for grant-in-aid funding are Optic Nerve Rescue and Restoration, Molecular Genetics, and Nanotechnology.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Ittleson Foundation—Small Grants for AIDS, the Environment, and Mental Health
Since 1932, The Ittleson Foundation has been serving the needs of the underprivileged and providing resources for organizations.
The Foundation recognizes not-for-profit organizations, dedicated to bettering the United States, and as such, we provide funds for
new initiatives and model projects that have the potential to greatly enhance public policy and the lives of fellow citizens. The Foundation's areas of particular interest are: mental health, AIDS, and the environment.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience—Research Grants
The Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience is to contribute to the welfare of mankind through promotion of basic studies on glycoconjugates mainly by distributing research grants to qualified scientists regardless of their nationalities or ethnic origins.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Social Science Research Council—Grants for Collaborative Research on Environment and Health in China
The collaborative grants program was started in 2008 to stimulate new research on environment and health in China that is directly
linked to policy and practice, to encourage collaboration across disciplines, and to help develop a network of scholars working in this
field. Each project must address an environmental health problem that affects a substantial number of people and it must be clearly
useful in generating or disseminating knowledge that will inform policy or the work of government or civil society actors.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
MacArthur Foundation—International Peace & Security Grants: Nuclear Security Policy Research
In this element of our work the Foundation focuses on preventing nuclear terrorism by denying terrorist access to the fissile materials
(highly enriched uranium and plutonium) that are the key ingredients for nuclear weapons. As nuclear power becomes an important
means of diversifying energy portfolios and reducing carbon emissions, fissile material stockpiles are set to grow, raising the risk of
theft or diversion. We view nuclear power as a potentially valuable element of the response to climate change, so we seek to incorporate approaches into U.S. nuclear policy and the global nuclear fuel cycle that prevent access to fissile materials. Ultimately, we seek
technical and political solutions to end the world’s reliance on weapon-usable material.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Food and Farm Communications Fund—Call for Letters of Inquiry
The fund—a collaboration between the Grace Communications Foundation, the 11th Hour Project, and the McKnight Foundation—
has announced a call for Letters of Inquiry for a second round of funding to expand the communication capacity of sustainable food
and agriculture education and public policy organizations. Grants will be awarded for projects that advance a specific targeted innovative media/communications effort, assist in removing the “roadblocks” to better communications efforts aimed at affecting consumers and public opinion, and/or that focus on media and communications campaigns that address specific public policy issues.
Deadline for Letters of Inquiry: September 1, 2013
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation—Quality of Life Grants Program
This program awards grants to nonprofit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis—specifically those services
that help improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on but not limited to paralysis caused by spinal cord
injuries. Funding Is awarded to those that provide critical life-enhancing and life-changing programs and services that improve physical and emotional health. Funded projects offer a diversity of services and approaches: improving access; providing education and
job training; sponsoring organized sporting opportunities; and more to individuals living with paralysis and their communities.
Deadline: September 3, 2013
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
National Multiple Sclerosis Society—Collaborate MS Research Centers
The National MS Society offers special funding for Collaborative MS Research Centers to help stimulate collaboration and interaction
in MS research among independent investigators, strengthen the ties between basic and clinical research, and stimulate recruitment
of researchers from other fields into MS research. This will serve to leverage already available research support. To be considered
for funding, all projects must show relevance to the Society's research mission of stopping MS progression, restoring function and
improving quality of life, and preventing MS.
Deadline: September 4, 2013
National Science Foundation—Water Sustainability and Climate
The goal of the Water Sustainability and Climate 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. Studies of the
water system using models and/or observations at specific sites, singly or in combination, that allow for spatial and temporal extrapolation to other regions, as well as integration across the different processes in that system are encouraged, especially to the extent
that they advance the development of theoretical frameworks and predictive understanding.
Deadline: September 10, 2013
University of Southern California—Tyler Prize
The sponsor awards a prize for environmental science, environmental health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind.
Living individuals or public or private institutions of any nation may be nominated. They are awarded for any one of the following: the
protection, maintenance, improvement or understanding of an ecological or an environmental condition anywhere in the world; the
discovery, further development, improvement, or understanding of known or new sources of energy; and medical discoveries or
achievements with such worldwide implications that they significantly benefit environmental aspects of human health.
Deadline: September 13, 2013
National Science Foundation—Documenting Endangered Languages
This program supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the
imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development if the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.
Deadline: September 15, 2013
Sloan Research Fellowships—Fellowships in Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Economics
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance
and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
Deadline: September 16, 2013
Tshikululu Social Investments—Anglo American Chairman’s Fund
The Anglo American Chairman’s Fund is committed to supporting development initiatives that are directed towards the alleviation of
poverty and the development of communities in South Africa. The diversity of the projects and sectors that the Fund supports is in
recognition of the diverse and varied socio-economic as well as educational needs of South African communities.
Deadline: September 20, 2013
National Science Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (DDIG)
The National Science Foundation awards Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in selected areas of the biological sciences. Proposals must fall within the scope of any of the clusters in the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) or the Behavioral Systems Cluster in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS). These grants provide partial support of
doctoral dissertation research for improvement beyond the already existing project. Allowed are costs for doctoral candidates
to participate in scientific meetings, to conduct research in specialized facilities or field settings, and to expand an existing
body of dissertation research.
Deadline: October 10, 2013
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities—Grants & Funding Page
(Search by keywords to narrow down your search to locate funding opportunities)
Education
Henry M. Jackson Foundation—International Affairs Education Grants
The Foundation seeks to promote dialogue and build consensus between the academic and policy worlds, between the public and
private sectors, and between citizens and their government. Through the Foundation's grantmaking and strategic initiatives, the Foundation seeks to make a lasting impact on the region, the nation and the world and focuses its efforts on four critical issue areas: international affairs education, environmental and natural resources management, public service and human rights.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Institute of Education Sciences/Department of Education—Education Research and Special Education Research Grants
The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) announces the Institute’s FY 2014 competitions for grants to support
education research and special education research. The Institute’s purpose in awarding these grants is to provide national leadership
in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers
with or at risk for disability, and of education outcomes for all students from early childhood education through postsecondary and
adult education.
Deadline: September 4, 2013
Institute of Education Sciences—Researcher/Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research
Under the Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research (Research Partnership), the Institute supports partnerships
composed of research institutions and State or local education agencies. These partnerships are to identify an education policy/
practice issue with important implications for improving student achievement that is of high priority for the education agency, carry out
initial research regarding the education issue, and develop a plan for further research on the issue. The ultimate goal of the partnerships is to conduct research that has direct implications for improving programs, processes, practices, or policies that will result in
improved student outcomes.
Deadline: September 4, 2013
General & Other
Law School Admission Council—Research Grant Program
Specifically included in the program's scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal
education, and the legal profession. To be eligible for funding, a research project must inform either the process of selecting law students or legal education itself in a demonstrable way. The program welcomes proposals for research proceeding from any of a variety
of methodologies, a potentially broad range of topics, and varying time frames. Proposals will be judged on the importance of the
questions addressed, their relevance to the mission of LSAC, the quality of the research designs, and the capacity of the researchers
to carry out the project.
Deadline: September 1, 2013
Federal Contracts
Federal Business Funding Opportunities
(Search by keywords to narrow down your search to locate funding opportunities)
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Highlights and photos from our RAC 2012-2013 graduation ceremony
OSP Spotlight with Phil Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Summary of NIH funding opportunity mechanisms
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