Grants
Visit the web site for the Office of Research
and Project Administration (ORPA) at http://www.princeton.edu/orpa/grants/list.htm
for information on many sponsors and funding
opportunities. Questions may be directed to Jan
Anderson or Lisa Kulp of ORPA (258-3976/4958).
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
http://www.beckman-foundation.com
(949) 721-2222
October 1. Beckman Young Investigators Award
Program. Promotes research in chemistry and life
sciences, particularly invention of methods,
instruments and materials. Average grants of
$200,000 over three years support tenure-track
faculty members who have completed no more than
three years of tenure-track appointment. Must be
citizens or permanent residents of the US.
Arthritis Foundation
http://www.arthritis.org
(404) 872-7100
September 1. Postdoctoral Fellowship. Provides
two years of support with one-year renewal for
untenured physicians and scientists with less than
four years postdoctoral experience who spend 90
percent time devoted to arthritis-related research.
Stipend is $35,000. Open to US citizens for
training abroad or in US, and to foreign citizens
for training at American institution. September 1.
Arthritis Investigator Award. Provides three years
of support with two-year renewal for untenured
physicians and scientists with minimum of three
years and maximum of seven years of research
experience; requires an 80 percent time commitment
in arthritis-related research. Stipend is $74,000
for salary and research expenses. Eligibility is
limited to US citizens and permanent residents for
research in US. September 1. Arthritis Biomedical
Science Grant. For physicians and scientists at
assistant professor level or higher. Award is
$90,000 per year for one to three years. Applicant
must be US citizen or permanent resident.
Cancer Research Institute
http://www.cancerresearch.org
(800) 992-2623
October 1, April 1. Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Cancer Immunology or General Immunology. Applicants
must have doctoral degree and conduct proposed
research under sponsor who holds formal appointment
at host institution. Stipends are $38,000 to
$41,000 for up to three years, and institutional
allowance of $1,500 per year.
Department of Defense
http://afosr.sciencewise.com/afr/afo/any/menu/any/afrfund.thm
August 17. Defense University Research
Instrumentation Program. Provides funding to US
universities for acquisition of major research
equipment to support research in technical areas of
interest to ARO, ONR, AFOSR or BMDO. Awards range
from $50,000 to $1,000,000.
Department of Energy
http://www.oit.doe.gov/inventions/
(202) 586-5522
August 11. Inventions and Innovation Program.
Awards of up to $200,000 for maximum of three years
for projects that demonstrate both significant
potential energy savings and future commercial
market within buildings, industrial, transportation
and power sectors. Industries of particular
interest are agriculture, aluminum, chemicals,
forest products, glass, metalcasting, mining,
petroleum and steel. Applicants must be US
citizens.
Dreyfus Foundation
http://www.dreyfus.org
(212) 753-1760
November 15. Teacher-Scholar Award. Provides
one-year $60,000 grant to strengthen teaching and
research careers of young faculty. Nominee must
hold full-time tenure-track academic appointment in
department focused on chemical sciences, and be
within first five years of independent academic
career. Application is by institutional nomination
only; contact ORPA for information.
International Research, Exchanges Board
http://info.irex.org/programs/
(202) 628-8188
November 1. Individual Advanced Research
Opportunities. Grants of two to nine months support
research by predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars
at institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and
Eurasia. Limited to US citizens or permanent
residents. Grants support projects in policy
research and development, and humanities.
Cross-disciplinary and cross-country/regional
studies are particularly welcome.
National Endowment for Humanities
http://www.neh.fed.us/
(800) 634-1121
July 1. Preservation and Access Projects. Grants
are made for projects that will create, preserve
and increase availability of resources important
for research, education and public programming in
humanities. Applicants must be US citizens or
permanent residents for at least three years.
Recent grants have ranged from $22,000 to
$999,676.
September 1. Fellowships Programs at Independent
Research Institutions. Grants support postdoctoral
fellowships administered by independent centers for
advanced study, libraries and museums in US that
support research in humanities and by American
overseas research centers and other organizations
that have expertise in promotion of research on
foreign cultures.
September 1. Collaborative Research. Grants of
$10,000 to $200,000 provide up to three years of
support for collaborative research in preparation
for publication of editions, translations and other
works in humanities, and conferences addressing
specific set of research objectives on topic of
major significance to humanities. Applicants must
be US citizens or residents for at least three
years.
October 15. Education Development and
Demonstration. Grants support efforts to engage
students in sustained, thoughtful study of
humanities through projects that promise national
significance by virtue of their content, approach
or reach. Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000 over
one and one-half years for Humanities Focus Grants
and up to $250,000 over three years for National
Education Projects. Applications are accepted from
US institutions only.
National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/
PA-99-004.html
(301) 594-5938
August 1 (for SBIR/STTR awards); October 1 (for
individual research or program project grant
awards). Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences,
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
National Institute of Mental Health and National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke are
encouraging basic research on structures of
membrane proteins at or near atomic resolution.
Collaborations between biochemists and molecular
biologists are particularly encouraged.
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/
(703) 306-1234
All Directorates
July 25, 26, 27. Faculty Early Career
Development Program.
Multiple Directorates
July 12. Digital government. July 15, 16. Child
learning and development.
Biology
June 30. Research coordination networks in
biological sciences. July 4. Living stock
collections. July 10. Long-term research in
environmental biology; animal behavior; animal
developmental mechanisms; behavioral neuroscience;
biochemistry of gene expression; biomolecular
processes; biomolecular structure and function;
cell biology; cellular organization; computational
neuroscience; developmental mechanisms;
developmental neuroscience; ecological and
evolutionary physiology; eukaryotic genetics;
evolution of developmental mechanisms; genetics;
integrative animal biology; integrative plant
biology; metabolic biochemistry; microbial
genetics; molecular bio-chemistry; molecular
biophysics; neuro-endocrinology; neuronal and glial
mechanisms; neuroscience; physiology and ethology;
plant and microbial developmental mechanisms;
sensory systems; signal transduction and cellular
regulation. July 12. Biological Databases and
Informatics Program. August 28. Instrument
development for biological research.
Computer/Information Sciences
July 1. Advanced Computational Research Program.
July 31. Connections to internet. August 15.
Special projects in networking. September 21.
Design automation; operating systems and compilers;
communications; theory of computing; numeric,
symbolic and geometric computation; software
engineering and languages.
Education
July 6. Partnerships for innovation. July 14.
Preliminary proposals for middle grades science
instructional materials initiative. July 17.
Experimental program to stimulate competitive
research. August 2. Preliminary deadline for
informal science education program. August 14.
Preliminary deadline for ASCEND projects and
applied research. August 15. Activities in science,
engineering and mathematics for persons with
disabilities; deadline for instructional materials
development. August 25. Full deadline for teacher
enhancement.
Engineering
October 1. US-Japan cooperative research in
urban earthquake disaster mitigation; design and
integration engineering.
Geosciences
August 15. US WOCE activities. September 1.
Shipboard scientific support equipment.
International Programs
July 1 and September 1. Deadline dates for
receipt of proposals.
Math/Physical Sciences
July 17. Departmental multi-user
instrumentation; grants for vertical integration of
research and education in the mathematical
sciences.
Polar Programs
August 8. Arctic research opportunities.
Social/Behavioral Sciences
August 1. Science and technology studies
program; societal dimensions of engineering,
science and technology: ethics and values studies
research on science and technology. August 15.
Geography and regional science; political
sciences.
Research Corporation
http://www.rescorp.org
(520) 571-1111
September 1. Cottrell Scholars Awards. Support
for tenure-track assistant professors in
PhD-granting departments of astronomy, chemistry or
physics at universities in US or Canada. Applicants
must be in third year of first tenure track
position. Award is $50,000.
Robert Bosch Foundation
http://www.cdsintl.org/rbffprogram.html
(212) 497-3500
October 15. Fellowships. Nine-month program,
September through May, includes internships in
federal government and private sectors in Germany.
Limited to US citizens, age 23 to 34, with graduate
degree and professional experience in business
administration, economics, journalism/mass
communications, law, political science or public
affairs/public policy.
Rockefeller Foundation
Bellagio Study and Conference Center
mailto:bellagio@rockfound.org
September 1, January 10, May 10. Individual,
Collaborative and Parallel Residences. Four-week
visits for individual work and interaction for
scholars, scientists, policymakers, practitioners
or artists from any country and discipline who
expect their work at center to result in
publication, exhibition, performance or other
concrete product. Room and board are provided for
resident and spouse or life partner. Library and
office equipment available.
September 1, January 10, May 10. Team
Residencies. Five to 28 days for international,
often interdisciplinary teams of three to 10
people. Room and board are provided for team
members. Small meeting room and office equipment
available.
September 1, January 10, May 10. International
Conferences. Dates available for meetings involving
scholars or practitioners from any country and
discipline, addressing significant issues which are
innovative in design and promise concrete outcomes
beyond drafting of conference statement or
recommendations. Conferences can accommodate
maximum of 25 participants, for three working days
with additional days for arrival and departure.
Support consists of room and board. Office
equipment available.
United States Institute of Peace
http://www.usip.org/fellows.html
(202) 457-1700
September 15. Jennings Randolph Program for
International Peace Senior Fellowships. Supports
practitioners and scholars working on range of
topics related to understanding, management and
resolution of violent international conflict. For
projects of 10 months beginning in October to be
conducted at Institute in Washington DC. Stipend
based on recipient's earned income during year
preceding fellowship.
November 15. Peace Scholar Dissertation
Fellowships. Support doctoral students in any
discipline in research and writing dissertations
addressing sources and nature of international
conflict and strategies to prevent or end conflict
and sustain peace. Stipend is $14,000 for 12
months.
University of Michigan
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/msfapp.html
(734) 763-1259
October 6. Michigan Society of Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellowships. Fellows are appointed as
assistant professor or postdoctoral scholar for
three year term. Fellow is expected to teach for
equivalent of one academic year during fellowship
tenure and to do independent research and writing.
Term begins in September 2001 with annual stipend
of $40,000. Applicants must have received PhD
between June 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001.
Whitaker Foundation
http://www.whitaker.org
(703) 528-2430
August 1 or December 1. Biomedical Engineering
Research Grants. Supports faculty members at
institutions in US or Canada in projects that
address important medical problems. Initial award
is $240,000 over three years.
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