Grants Opportunities Newsletter
Fall 2007
If you have any questions about this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact any of Colby’s Corporate,
Foundation, and Government Relations (CFGR) staff members: Marci Bernard, Director (mbernard, x4342),
Bets Brown, Assoc. Director (bbrown, x4341), and Julia Gagne, Secretary (jgagne, x4340). The CFGR website
(http://www.colby.edu/administration_cs/cfgr/index.cfm) provides information on obtaining grants, Colby’s
grants administration process, and periodic updates on grant resources.
Looking for ideas for grants beyond this quarterly newsletter? You can search the IRIS database, which is now
available at the Colby libraries website (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/index.html). CFGR Office staff are also
willing to work with you to conduct searches of this and the Foundation Center’s database.
Multidisciplinary Projects
supports youth and scientific education
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 310-781-4090
WEB:
corporate.honda.com/america/philanthropy.aspx?id=ahf
DOS: International Education Administrators
Program operates seminars to introduce participants to
the society, culture and higher education systems of
these countries through campus visits, meetings with
foreign colleagues and government officials, attendance
at cultural events and briefings on education. Current
programs are with Japan and Korea
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (Korea & Japan)
PHONE: 202-686-4000
WEB: www.cies.org/IEA/
Japan Foundation: Fellowships, Institutional and
Library Support programs funds research fellowships,
visiting professorships, staff expansion, library holdings,
and research/professional conferences in Japanese
studies and Japanese language instruction; projects must
focus on the humanities, social sciences, or arts
(including comparative studies)
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 212-489-0299
WEB: www.jfny.org/
ED\OPE: Undergraduate International Studies &
Foreign Language Program provides grants to
strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in
international studies and foreign languages
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (tentative)
PHONE: (202) 502-7629
WEB:
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html
American Council on Education (ACE): ACE
Fellows Program each fellow spends a year acquiring
administrative leadership skills by working for an ACE
college or university; prospective host institutions may
contact ACE at any time
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 202-939-9420
WEB: www.ACENET.edu/programs/fellows/
ED\OPE: Business and International Education
provides grants to enhance international business
education programs and to enable the American business
community to prosper in an international economy
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (tentative)
PHONE: 202-502-7626
WEB:
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html
ED\OPE: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad
helps educational institutions improve their programs in
modern foreign languages and area studies
DEADLINE: 11/02/2007 (tentative)
American Honda Foundation
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PHONE: 202-502-7624
WEB: www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html
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Kellogg (Helen) Institute for International Studies:
Kellogg Institute Residential Fellowships
support research at the University of Notre Dame in
comparative international studies with an emphasis on
Latin America; themes include: democratization and the
quality of democracy; paths to development; religion
and the Catholic Church; social movements and
organized civil society; public policies for social justice
DEADLINE: 11/05/2007
PHONE: 219-631-6580
WEB: www.nd.edu/~kellogg/
ED\OPE: Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad
Program provides grants to institutions of higher
education to fund faculty to maintain and improve their
area studies and language skills by conducting research
abroad for periods of 3 to 12 months
DEADLINE: 11/05/2007 (tentative)
PHONE: 202-502-7633
WEB: www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsfra/index.html
Institute of Museum and Library Services: Museums
for America supports projects and activities, designed
by the institution, that strengthen museums as active
resources for lifelong learning and key players in the
establishment of livable communities
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 202-606-8687
WEB: www.imls.gov/applicants/after.shtm
International Research and Exchanges Board
(IREX): Individual Advanced Research
Opportunities provides opportunity for the exchange of
scholars for short- or long-term research in Central and
Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Mongolia
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 202-628-8188
WEB: www.irex.org/
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
supports cooperative research projects of mutual interest
to the U.S. and Israel; supports research in Health
Sciences, Life Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and
Social and Developmental Psychology
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 703-306-1707
WEB: www.bsf.org.il
Social Science Research Council (SSRC): Eurasia
Programs supports research and summer language
institutes on the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and
the New Independent States
DEADLINE: 11/13/2007
PHONE: 212-377-2700
WEB: www.ssrc.org/fellowships/overview.page
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS):
Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development
enables young Chinese scholars in social sciences and
humanities who have an M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent and
have spent less than 5 months in the U.S. to conduct one
semester of individual or collaborative research at the
invitation of a U.S. host scholar; candidates must be
nominated by the U.S. host
DEADLINE: 11/14/2007
PHONE: 212-697-1505
WEB: www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm
Institute for Advanced Study: School of Social
Science: residential fellowships in Princeton, NJ
support multidisciplinary, comparative studies of
historical and contemporary problems in such fields as
history, philosophy, law, literature, science studies,
anthropology, politics, sociology, and economics
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 609-734-8250
WEB: www.sss.ias.edu
Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships
are designed to increase the diversity of the nation’s
college and university faculties by increasing their
ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational
benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of
professors who can and will use diversity as resource for
enriching the education of all students.
DEADLINE: 11/29/2007
PHONE: 202-334-2872
EMAIL: infofell@nas.edu
http://national-academies@nas.edu
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS):
Southeast European Studies Program
supports research in the social sciences and humanities
related to Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, and the successor states of the former
Yugoslavia
DEADLINE: 11/14/2007
PHONE: 212-697-1505
WEB: www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm
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Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: Fellowship
Program year-long residency in Washington, DC
supports studies on the historiography & documentation
of the Holocaust, ethics and the Holocaust, comparative
genocide studies, and the impact of the Holocaust on
contemporary society and culture
DEADLINE: 11/30/2007
PHONE: 202-314-0378
WEB: www.ushmm.org/research/center/
Council of American Overseas Research Centers:
Fellowships for Advanced Multi-Country Research
supports advanced regional research. The program is
open to U.S. scholars who have already earned their
Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or
allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of
regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships
require scholars to conduct research in more than one
country, at least one of which hosts a participating
American overseas research center. For a complete list
of CAORC member centers to which members may
affiliate, please see the CAORC web site. It is
anticipated that approximately ten awards of up to
$9,000 each will be given to scholars who wish to carry
out research on broad questions of multi-country
significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences,
and related natural sciences.
DEADLINE: 1/11/08
WEB: http://www.caorc.org/fellowships/multi/
E-MAIL: fellowships@caorc.org
PHONE: 202/633-1599
Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty
2008 of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation support minority junior faculty and other
other faculty committed to eradicating racial disparities
in core fields in the arts and sciences.
DEADLINE: 11/30/07
PHONE: 609-452-7007
WEB: www.woodrow.org
American Philosophical Society (APS): Franklin
Research Grants support the cost of scholarly research
in all areas of knowledge except those in which support
by government or corporations is more appropriate
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 220-440-3429
WEB: www.amphilsoc.org/grants/
Whitehall Foundation, Inc. Grant Programs support
research in neurobiology Applications will be judged on
the scientific merit and the innovative aspects of the
proposal as well as the competence of the
applicant. Research grants of up to three years will be
provided. A renewal grant with a maximum
of two years is possible, but it will be awarded on a
competitive basis.
DEADLINE: 1/15/08, 4/15/08, 10/1/08, letter of intent
WEB: http://www.whitehall.org/
E-MAIL: email@whitehall.org
PHONE: 561/655-4474
Bibliographical Society of America: Fellowship
Program short-term fellowships support bibliographical
inquiry as well as research in the history of the book
trades and in publishing history
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 212-452-2710
WEB: www.bibsocamer.org
Association for Institutional Research: Improving
Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational
Institutions provideS professional development
opportunities to institutional researchers, educators and
administrators, and to foster the use of the federal
databases for institutional research in postsecondary
education. The program supports research grants for
practitioners and faculty. Funds of up to $40,000
annually available. Research grants run for one year.
DEADLINE: 1/16/08
WEB: http://www.airweb.org/?page=818
E-MAIL: slynn@airweb2.org
PHONE: 850/385-4155, ext. 105
Bradley (Lynde and Harry) Foundation, Inc. supports
projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier,
and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the
American people and among peoples of other nations
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007 (final)
PHONE: 414-291-9915
WEB: www.bradleyfdn.org/app.html
American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation supports grants to scientists and scholars
of all nationalities and disciplines to gain in-depth
international research experience in Germany. Allows
for a stay of 6-24 months in Germany.
DEADLINE: program dependents
WEB: www.humboldt-foundation.de
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Arts, Humanities & Education Projects
preparation by a team of at least two editors and staff of
texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or
available in inadequate editions
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
WEB: www.neh.gov/
Spencer Foundation Research Grants fund
investigations that promise to yield new knowledge
about education in the United States or abroad. The
Foundation funds research grants that range in
size from smaller grants that can be completed within a
year, to larger, multi-year endeavors. Whereas in the
past the Foundation had two distinct research grant
programs based on budget size, these have now been
reorganized around the current areas of inquiry: (a) The
Relation between Education and Social Opportunity; (b)
Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems,
and Higher Education Institutions; (c) Teaching,
Learning, and Instructional Resources; and (d) Purposes
and Values of Education.
DEADLINE: anytime
WEB:
http://www.spencer.org/programs/grants/research_grants
.htm
E-MAIL: abrinkman@spencer.org
PHONE: 312/274-6511
Folger Shakespeare Library: Long-Term
Fellowships
support senior scholars who have made substantial
contributions in their fields and who are pursuing
research projects in British and European literary,
cultural, political, religious, and social history
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 202-675-0348
WEB: www.folger.edu/academic/fellows.asp
American Research Institute in Turkey: NEH
Fellowships for Research in Turkey support
humanistic research in Turkish prehistory, history, art,
archaeology, literature, and linguistics
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 215-898-3474
WEB: ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/
NEH: Challenge Grants support institutions that are
interested in developing new sources of long-term
support for educational, scholarly, and public programs
in the humanities
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 202-606-8309
WEB: www.neh.gov/
Archaeological Institute of America awards and
fellowships support travel and study related to classical
Mediterranean history and culture; geographical areas of
interest include Greece, the Aegean Islands, Sicily,
Southern Italy, Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia; special
programs focus on the Aegean Bronze Age and
Aphrodisias material
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 617-353-9361
WEB: www.archaeological.org/
NEH: Collaborative Research supports original
research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars
or research coordinated by an individual scholar that
requires additional staff and/or resources
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 202-606-8210
WEB: www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html
NEH: National Digital Newspaper Program supports
projects that help create a national, digital resource of
historically significant newspapers from all the states
and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 202-606-8210
WEB: www.neh.gov/
Dumbarton Oaks: Project Grants & Fellowships
support scholarly projects and residential fellowships in
Byzantine & pre-Columbian studies and landscape
architecture; support generally for archaeological
research as well as for the recovery, recording, and
analysis of materials which would otherwise be lost
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (Fellowships)
PHONE: 202-339-6414
WEB: www.doaks.org/
NEH: Scholarly Editions Grants support the
American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize
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WEB:
Fellowships: residential fellowships support creative
work and advanced research for professional artists and
scholars (fine arts & classical studies)
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 212-751-7200
WEB: www.aarome.org/prize.htm
www.metmuseum.org/education/er_studyandresearch.asp
NEH: Television Projects: Planning, Scripting, or
Production
supports planning, scripting and production of media
projects that use film to present humanities programs to
public audiences
DEADLINE: 11/05/2007
PHONE: 202-606-8269
WEB: www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html
Getty (J. Paul ) Trust: Research Grants for Scholars
support scholarly work advancing the understanding of
art and its history, especially projects exploring
connections among the humanistic disciplines
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 310-440-7320
WEB: www.getty.edu/grants/index.html
American Library Association: Whitney-Carnegie
Awards supports the preparation of guides to research
resources, specifically those that will make a
contribution to the literature of bibliographic aids
DEADLINE: 11/05/2007
PHONE: 800-545-2433, x5416
WEB: www.ala.org/work/pubs/whitney.html
School of American Research: Resident Scholars &
Advanced Seminars support for scholars to continue
their study on the understanding of the human species
through an anthropological perspective
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (Resident Scholars)
WEB: www.sarweb.org
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS):
American Research in the Humanities in China
supports research on China or the Chinese portion of
research
DEADLINE: 11/14/2007
PHONE: 212-697-1505
WEB: www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(ASECS): Travel Grants support research on the 18th
Century; special programs support travel to distant
collections in North America and research on the history
and culture of France
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (Irish-American Travel)
PHONE: 336-727-4694
WEB: asecs.press.jhu.edu/travelgr.html
Academy of American Poets: Walt Whitman Award
provides first-book publication to an American poet who
has not yet published a book of poetry in a standard
edition
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 212-274-0343 ext. 11
WEB: www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/110
Weill (Kurt) Foundation for Music: Grants Program
promotes public understanding and appreciation of the
musical works by Kurt Weill
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 212-505-5240
WEB: www.kwf.org
Center for Judaic Studies: Postdoctoral Fellowships
provides opportunities for scholars at U. Penn. 2008-09
seminar will focus on "Jews, Commerce, and Culture"
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 215-238-1290
WEB: www.cjs.upenn.edu/
Institute for Advanced Study: School of Historical
Studies residential Mellon fellowships in Princeton, NJ
support research on Greek, Roman, European, & Islamic
history, the history of modern international relations,
and art history
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 609-734-8300
WEB: www.hs.ias.edu/mellon.htm
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Residential fellowships
support one month to one year of research and study in
art history or conservation
DEADLINE: 11/02/2007 (art history)
PHONE: 212-570-3710
Institute for Advanced Study: School of Social
Science residential fellowships in Princeton, NJ support
multidisciplinary, comparative studies of historical and
contemporary problems in such fields as history,
philosophy, law, literature, science studies,
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anthropology, politics, sociology, and economics
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 609-734-8250
WEB: www.sss.ias.edu
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those with which they began. For 2007/08, the Center
will focus on the study of Fear
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 609-258-4997
WEB: dav.princeton.edu/
German Studies Association: Berlin Program for
Advanced German & European Studies supports the
comparative and interdisciplinary study of the economic,
political, and social aspects of modern and
contemporary German and European affairs
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 212-377-2700
WEB: userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/
Huntington: Fellowships: residential fellowships in
San Marino, CA support studies in British and American
history, literature, art history, the history of science, and
photography; areas of specialization include the Middle
Ages, the Renaissance, 19th and 20th century literature,
British drama, colonial America, the American Civil
War, Western America, and California
DEADLINE: 12/15/2007
PHONE: 818-405-2194
WEB:
www.huntington.org/ResearchDiv/Fellowships.html
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:
Scholars-In-Residence Program in New York, NY
assists those scholars and professionals whose research
in black history and culture can benefit from extended
access to the Center's resources
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 212-491-2200
WEB: www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Delmas (Gladys Krieble) Foundation: Grants for
Independent Research on Venetian History for travel
and residence to conduct historical research specifically
on Venice and the former Venetian empire or to study
contemporary Venetian society and culture
DEADLINE: 12/15/2007
PHONE: 212-687-0011
WEB: www.delmas.org
Social Science Research Council (SSRC): Japan
Fellowships provides promising researchers in the
social sciences and the humanities with the opportunity
to conduct extended research within leading universities
and research institutions in Japan. Designed for ABD's
and recent PhD's.Fellowship support is available for two
to 24 months in Japan
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 212-377-2700
WEB: www.ssrc.org/fellowships/japan/
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library:
Visiting Fellowships: residential fellowships on a
variety of topics in literature and history
DEADLINE: 12/15/2007
PHONE: 203-432-2977
WEB: www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/
Bynner (Witter) Foundation for Poetry supports the
development of transferable model programs that use
poetry as a vehicle to deal with specific social,
educational, and therapeutic concerns; funds available
for translation
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007 (letter of intent)
PHONE: 505-988-3251
WEB: bynnerfoundation.org
CEC International Partners: ArtsLink Projects
support U.S. artists, curators, presenters and arts
organizations to undertake projects in Central Europe,
Russia and Eurasia. Awards are made in a given
discipline on an alternate-year basis: 2008 Performing
Arts and Literature; 2009 Visual and Media Arts.
Applicants must work with an artist or organization in
that region and projects should be designed to benefit
participants and audiences in both the US and the host
country.
DEADLINE: 1/15/08
WEB: http://tinyurl.com/8y6no
E-MAIL: al@cecartslink.org
PHONE: 212/643-1985, ext. 22
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowships
residential fellowships in Provincetown, MA support
writers and visual artists beginning their careers
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007 (writers)
PHONE: 508-487-9960
WEB: www.fawc.org
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
supports residencies at Princeton for one or two
semesters that focus on the processes by which
individuals or groups come to accept beliefs, ideas,
rituals, or practices that are radically different from
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have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for more
than seven years as of the application deadline.
DEADLINE: 1/15/08
WEB: http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fofg
PHONE: 202/275-0655
Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral and Senior
Fellowships provide scholars with opportunities
to pursue independent research projects in association
with members of the Smithsonian professional research
staff. Postdoctoral Fellowships of three to twelve
months are available for scholars who have held the
doctoral degree or equivalent for fewer than seven years
as of the application deadline. Senior Fellowships of
three to twelve months are available for scholars who
Science, Engineering and Mathematics Projects
National Research Council: Senior and Postdoctoral
Research Associateships provide opportunities for
scientists and engineers to perform research in
participating laboratories within Federal agencies and
organizations
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007
PHONE: 202-334-2760
WEB: www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/
DOE: Outstanding Junior Investigator Program
enables tenure-track faculty investigators to conduct
research in experimental or theoretical nuclear physics
and high energy physics
DEADLINE: 11/08/2007 (Nuclear Physics)
12/04/2007 (High Energy Physics)
WEB: www.science.doe.gov/grants/
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Academic Excellent Grant
Program provides Sun equipment to institutions of
higher education who have developed creative projects
that address Sun's investment priorities and create
partnerships for success
DEADLINE: 11/05/2007
WEB: www.sun.com/products-nsolutions/edu/promotions/grants/
NSF: Arctic Research Opportunities supports
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research which
emphasizes the special character of the Arctic for
scientific study; research may be conducted in the Arctic
or at U.S. institutions
DEADLINE: 11/10/2007
PHONE: 703-306-1029
WEB: www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OPP
NSF: Expeditions in Computing Program provides
computer and information
science and engineering (CISE) research and education
community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious,
fundamental research agendas that promise to define the
future of computing and information. PIs are encouraged
to come together within or across departments or
institutions to combine their creative talents in the
identification of compelling, transformative research
agendas that promise disruptive innovations in
computing and information for many years to come.
DEADLINE: 11/5/07 & 7/10/08, letter of intent
WEB:
NSF: Materials World Network: Cooperative
Activity
supports collaboration in materials research between
investigators in the US and their counterparts abroad.
Projects must have clear relevance to fundamental
materials phenomena, synthesis, characterization,
properties and/or processing
DEADLINE: 11/13/2007
PHONE: 703-292-4939
WEB: www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DMR
NSF: Scholarships in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics for academically
talented, financially needy students, enabling them to
enter the high-technology workforce following
completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduatelevel degree in computer science, computer technology,
engineering, engineering technology, or mathematics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503169
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0
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E-MAIL: tpinksto@nsf.gov
PHONE: 703/292-8900
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DEADLINE: 11/13/2007 (full)
PHONE: 702-292-4630
WEB: www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DUE
Dreyfus (Camille and Henry) Foundation: Special
Grants Program in the Chemical Sciences supports
projects in chemistry education; proposals are invited in
areas consistent with the Foundation's objectives but not
covered by other Foundation programs
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007 (final)
PHONE: 212-753-1760
WEB: www.dreyfus.org/
USDA: National Research Initiative- Competitive
Grants Program supports research in a variety of field
related to agriculture; topic covered by November
deadlines is: Animal Reproduction
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 202-401-4336
WEB:
www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1112
Dreyfus (Camille and Henry) Foundation Senior
Scientist Mentors awards grants to emeritus faculty who
maintain active research programs in the chemical
sciences; research programs must provide opportunities
for undergraduates
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 212-753-1760
WEB: www.dreyfus.org
NSF: Geoscience Education support proposals to
initiate or pilot innovative geoscience education
activities that may target any educational level
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 703-292-8500
WEB: www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=ATM
Research Corporation: Cottrell College Science
Awards support faculty research in chemistry, physics &
astronomy at predominantly undergraduate colleges
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007 (target)
PHONE: 520-571-1111
WEB: www.rescorp.org/
NSF: Applied Mathematics supports research in any
area of mathematics except probability or statistics;
research is expected to be motivated by or have effect on
problems arising in science or engineering, though
intrinsic mathematical merit is the major decision factor
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: (703) 292-8882
WEB: www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DMS
NASA: Living with a Star Space Environmental
Testbeds solicits proposals leading to a physics-based
understanding of the integral system linking the Sun to
the Earth both directly and via the heliosphere,
magnetosphere, and ionosphere
DEADLINE: 11/16/2007 (final)
PHONE: 202-358-1992
WEB: nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/
NSF: Astronomy & Astrophysics Research supports
research in the following areas: Extragalactic Astronomy
and Cosmology; Galactic Astronomy; Planetary
Astronomy; Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 703-292-4905
WEB: www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=AST
National Radio Astronomy Observatory: Jansky
Research Associates supports research in the following
areas: cosmology; theoretical and observational studies
of radio sources; the interstellar and intergalactic
medium; structure and dynamics of galactic and
extragalactic sources; physics of HII regions, stars, solar
system objects, & astrometry
DEADLINE: 11/16/2007
PHONE: 804-296-0221
WEB: www.nrao.edu/
DOE: Advanced Detector Research supports the
development of the new detector technologies needed to
perform future high energy physics experiments.
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007 (preapplications)
12/12/2007 (full)
PHONE: 301-903-9817
WEB: www.science.doe.gov/grants/
American Museum of Natural History: Research
Fellowships Program supports advanced study of
zoology, paleontology, anthropology, and earth and
planetary sciences
DEADLINE: 11/15/2007
PHONE: 212-769-5467
WEB: research.amnh.org
American Astronomical Society: Research Grants
support international observational astronomy with the
emphasis upon long-term, international visits. Also
funds small research grants for astronomers from
smaller, less endowed institutions and from individuals
not associated with an institution
DEADLINE: 11/27/2007 (Small Research Grants)
PHONE: 202-328-2010
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WEB: www.aas.org/grants/
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DOI\Fish and Wildlife Service: North American
Wetlands Conservation Act- Small Grants
supports projects costing up to $50,000 in wetland
conservation; priority placed on new grant applicants
with new partners and projects that ensure long-term
conservation benefits
DEADLINE: 11/30/2007
PHONE: 703-358-1784
WEB:
www.fws.gov/birdhabitat/Grants/NAWCA/index.shtm
NSF: Computational Mathematics supports research
from interdisciplinary teams of mathematical, computer,
and general scientists in an effort to develop critical
computational techniques
DEADLINE: 12/06/2007 (target)
PHONE: (703) 292-8870
WEB: www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DMS
NSF: ADVANCE supports programs that increase the
participation and advancement of women in academic
science and engineering careers
DEADLINE: 12/06/2007 (Institutional Transformation)
PHONE: 703-292-7238
WEB:
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383
Institute for Advanced Study: School of Natural
Sciences residential fellowships in Princeton, NJ support
research in high energy physics, astrophysics, condensed
matter physics, mathematical physics
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 609-734-8119
WEB: www.sns.ias.edu
Grass Foundation: Grass Fellowships in
Neuroscience
support summer research by young investigators at the
Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA
DEADLINE: 12/15/2007 (tentative)
PHONE: 781-843-0219
WEB: www.grassfoundation.org
American Society for Engineering Education
(ASEE): Navy-ASEE Summer Faculty Research &
Sabbatical Leave Program provides science and
engineering faculty members the opportunity to
participate in research at Navy laboratories for a ten
week period during summer break
DEADLINE: 12/04/2007
PHONE: 202-331-3509
WEB: www.asee.org/summer/
Social & Behavioral Science Projects
Wenner-Gren Foundation: Post PhD. Research
Grants
support basic research in anthropology, particularly
comparative perspectives or integrating two or more
subfields of anthropology
DEADLINE: 11/01/2007 (letter of inquiry)
PHONE: 212-683-5000
WEB: www.wennergren.org
NSF: Archeology & Archaeometry supports
anthropologically relevant archaeological research and
anthropologically significant archaeometric research
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007 (target)
PHONE: 703-292-8759
WEB: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=BCS
German Studies Association: Berlin Program for
Advanced German & European Studies supports the
comparative and interdisciplinary study of the economic,
political, and social aspects of modern and contemporary
German and European affairs
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 212-377-2700
WEB: userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies: Du
Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship Program
residential fellowships at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor support scholarship on the Afro-American,
African, and Caribbean experiences of men & women of
color
DEADLINE: 11/30/2007
PHONE: 734-764-5513
WEB: www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas
American Political Science Association:
Congressional Fellowship Program fellows work as
legislative aides for nine months and receive a stipend
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and travel allowance; a seminar series supplements the
congressional office experience
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 202-483-2512
WEB: www.apsanet.org/about/cfp/
in early childhood care and education, family support,
and children and youth's moral education and social
responsibility
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007 (letter of inquiry)
PHONE: 914-681-4448
WEB: www.mailman.org
Cattell (James McKeen) Fund: Sabbatical Awards
provides supplemental sabbatical fellowships enabling
faculty members in psychology to take a full year's leave
from their institutions
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
WEB: www.cattell.duke.edu/
NSF: Physical Anthropology supports basic research in
areas related to human evolution and contemporary
human biological variation
DEADLINE: 12/03/2007 (target)
PHONE: 703-292-7321
WEB: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=BCS
Social Science Research Council (SSRC): Japan
Fellowships provides promising researchers in the social
sciences and the humanities with the opportunity to
conduct extended research within leading universities
and research institutions in Japan. Designed for ABD's
and recent PhD's.Fellowship support is available for two
to 24 months in Japan
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 212-377-2700
WEB: www.ssrc.org/fellowships/japan/
Radcliffe Institute: Fellowships support over 50
fellowships each year at Radcliffe's four Centers for
learning and scholarship: the Bunting Fellowship
Program, the Schlesinger Library, the Murray Research
Center, and the Radcliffe Public Policy Center
DEADLINE: 12/03/2007 (Scientists and
Mathematicians)
PHONE: 617-495-8140
WEB: www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
supports residencies at Princeton for one or two
semesters that focus on the processes by which
individuals or groups come to accept beliefs, ideas,
rituals, or practices that are radically different from
those with which they began. For 2007/08, the Center
will focus on the study of Fear
DEADLINE: 12/01/2007
PHONE: 609-258-4997
WEB: dav.princeton.edu/
American Sociological Association: Fund for the
Advancement of the Discipline small grants provide
seed money for innovative research that may challenge
the discipline, stimulate new lines of research, and create
new networks of scientific collaboration
DEADLINE: 12/15/2007
PHONE: 202-383-9005
WEB: www.asanet.org/
Mailman (A.L.) Family Foundation supports projects
Health & Medicine Projects
NIH: Conference Grants (R13)
provide partial support for conferences to coordinate,
exchange and disseminate information related to NIH
interests
DEADLINE: 12/12/2007
PHONE: 301-435-0714
WEB:
www.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
supports research related to suicide prevention; areas of
interest include assisted suicide, the effects of medical
illness, palliative care, the effects of gun control, and
manic-depressive disorder
DEADLINE: 12/15/2007
PHONE: 212-363-3500
WEB: www.afsp.org/
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