NIH - NIDA/NIAAA - Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities (R03)
Deadlines: Letters of Intent - 4 weeks prior to planned submission date; Application - The 9th of each month
This Funding Opportunity Announcement is intended to support mental health and/or substance abuse services research, as well as broader-based alcohol or drug abuse research in rapidly evolving areas where opportunities for empirical study are, by their very natures, only available through expedited award of support.

NIH/NIMH - Rapid Assessment Post-Impact of Disaster (R03 and R21)
Deadline: Applications should be submitted within approximately six weeks of the identified disaster event
The purpose of this FOA is to provide a rapid funding mechanism for research on the post-impact of disasters, in order to permit access to a disaster area in the immediate aftermath of the event.

R21 program announcement
R03 program announcement

NSF's Division of Chemistry Announces Multiple Opportunities
Target Windows: November 1-30, 2009; July 1 - August 2, 2010
The Division of Chemistry has undergone a realignment and offers some new programs for unsolicited proposals. Please see link above to review all the new opps.

NSF - Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Cross-Cutting Programs
Proposal Windows: Large: November 1-28, 2009; Small: December 1-17, 2009
This solicitation seeks proposals in cross-cutting areas that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields. The cross-cutting programs for FY 2010 are: Data-intensive Computing; Network Science and Engineering; and Trustworthy Computing.

NSF - Computer and Network Systems Core Programs
Proposal Windows: Large: November 1-28, 2009; Small: December 1-17, 2009
CISE's Division of Computer and Network Systems supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: The Computer Systems Research program; and The Networking Technology and Systems program.

NSF - Computing and Communication Foundations Core Programs
Proposal Windows: Large: November 1-28, 2009; Small: December 1-17, 2009
CISE's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs: The Algorithmic Foundations program; The Communications and Information Foundations program; and The Software and Hardware Foundations program.

NSF - Information and Intelligent Systems Core Programs
Proposal Windows: Large: November 1-28, 2009; Small: December 1-17, 2009
CISE's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs: The Human-Centered Computing program; The Information Integration and Informatics program; and The Robust Intelligence program.

NIH - The Role of Human-Animal Interaction in Child Health and Development (R03 and R01)
Deadline: Application - November 19, 2009
The purpose of these projects is to build an empirical research base on how children perceive, relate to and think about animals; how pets in the home impact children's social and emotional development and health (e.g. allergies, the immune system, asthma, mitigation of obesity); and whether and under what conditions therapeutic uses of animals is safe and effective.

R01 Program Announcement
R03 Program Announcement

NIH - Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (R01)
Deadline: November 24, 2009
This FOA solicits applications from institutions proposing exceptionally innovative research on novel hypotheses or difficult problems, solutions to which would have an extremely high impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research that is germane to the mission of one or more of the participating NIH Institutes. This FOA is for support of new projects, not continuation of projects that have already been initiated. It does not support pilot projects.

National Italian American Foundation - Culture and Heritage GrantAwards
Deadline: November 27, 2009
Funding for projects to promote, research, educate, or preserve Italian American culture, history, or heritage. Examples include: documentaries, doctoral research, exhibits, conferences, books, media stereotyping/anti-defamation surveys, campaigns, etc., plays, and course syllabi.

NSF - Computational Mathematics
Proposal Window: December 1 - 15, 2009
Supports mathematical research in areas of science where computing plays a central and essential role, emphasizing algorithms design, numerical methods and their analysis, and symbolic methods. The prominence of computation in the research is a hallmark of the program.

NSF - Archaeology and Archaeometry
Target Dates: December 1, 2009; July 1, 2010; October 31, 2010 (Please see full description for details)
The Archaeology Program provides support for anthropologically relevant archaeological research at both a "senior" and doctoral dissertation level. It also funds anthropologically significant archaeometric research.

University of Notre Dame - Science of Generosity Research Program
Deadlines: Letters of Inquiry - December 1, 2009; Full Proposals (invite only) - May 1, 2010
Generosity is an important personal virtue, collective responsibility, and vital element in the building of social capital, community well-being, justice, and peace in the world. The aim of this initiative is to stimulate scientific research on the practice of generosity in human life and society.

NIH/NIAMS - Ancillary Studies to Large Ongoing Clinical Projects (R01) and (R21)
Deadlines: December 3, 2009; April 1, 2010
Clinical studies often represent a substantial financial commitment from the sponsors and enormous effort from the investigators who establish an infrastructure for patient recruitment, examination, and follow-up. These large clinical projects offer unique experimental windows to human disease that are largely under-exploited. Ancillary studies that go beyond the core activities of the original clinical project can explore the research opportunities offered in the established cohorts and generate new information to enhance the scientific content of the original project.
R01 Request for Applications
R21 Request for Applications

NSF - Interdisciplinary Research (IDR)
Deadline: December 7, 2009
IDR submissions should have a level of interdisciplinary content not covered in the core programs of ENG. To be funded, IDR proposals must ultimately attract funding from at least two programs in at least two divisions of the NSF. The primary funding division must be within ENG.

NIH - Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) (R01)
Deadline: December 9, 2009
The Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) award is intended to support the research and research career development of outstanding scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who plan to make a long term career commitment to research in specific mission areas of the NIMH.

EPA - Greater Research Opportunities Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study
Deadline: December 10, 2009 (4pm)
The EPA is offering Greater Research Opportunities undergraduate fellowships for bachelor level students in environmental fields of study. Eligible students will receive support for their junior and senior years of undergraduate study and for an internship at an EPA facility during the summer between their junior and senior years. The fellowship provides up to $19,250 per year of academic support and up to $8,000 of internship support for a three-month summer period.

Office of Naval Research - Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Deadlines: White Paper - December 11, 2009; Full Proposal - March 2, 2010
Supports basic science and/or engineering research at U.S. institutions of higher education that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts that intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline to address issues of critical concern to the DoD.

American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine - Request for Proposals
Deadlines: Letter of Intent - December 11, 2009; Proposal (Invitation only) - March 19, 2010
The Mission of the ACLAM Foundation is to expand the body of knowledge in the fields of laboratory Animal Science and Medicine through funding research grants.

NSF - Building Engineered Complex Systems
Submission Window: December 14, 2009 - January 19, 2010
The Directorate for Engineering and the Division of Mathematical Sciences are collaborating in this solicitation to provide "seed funding" for small teams of innovative engineers and mathematical scientists (mathematicians or statisticians) to seek and develop a theoretical basis of complex systems, with the aim of developingformal methods for the design of engineered complex systems.

NIH - Dynamics of Host-Associated Microbial Communities (R01)
Deadlines: Letter of Intent - December 15, 2009; Proposal - January 15, 2010
Solicits applications that propose genetic, physiological, and ecological studies designed to reveal the basic principles and mechanisms that govern the symbiotic systems dynamics of microbial communities.

NSF- Mathematical Biology
Proposal Window - December 18, 2009 - January 13, 2010
The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in areas of applied and computational mathematics with relevance to the biological sciences.

NIH - Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards (R21)
Deadlines: December 21, 2009; August 20, 2010
This program is designed to foster highly innovative or conceptually creative research related to drug abuse and addiction and how to prevent and treat them. It supports research that is high-risk and potentially high-impact that is underrepresented or not included in NIDA's current portfolio. The proposed research should: (1) test a highly novel and significant hypothesis for which there is scant precedent or preliminary data and which, if confirmed, would have a substantial impact on current thinking; and/or (2) develop or adapt innovative techniques or methods for addiction research, or that have promising applicability to drug abuse research.

Mental Health Dissertation Research Grant to Increase Diversity (R36)
Deadlines: December 22, 2009
This grant will provide full-time salary support and modest research funds for up to two years for eligible students to facilitate completion of their doctoral research project and dissertation in a research area relevant to the NIMH mission and research priorities.

World Community Grid - Invites proposals to use their grid technology
Deadlines: Quarterly; the next date is December 31, 2009
Invites organizations to apply to use its powerful grid technology at no cost for projects that benefit humanity. Grid technology enables researchers to access tremendous amounts of power, exceeding that of several supercomputers, to run complex computations and to accelerate the pace of their research.

NSF - Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
Deadlines: Type 1: January 4 - February 4, 2010; Type 2: January 5 - February 5, 2010
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. Type 1 awards are limited to three years while Type 2 go up to four years duration.

NSF - Discovery Research K-12
Deadline: January 7, 2010
The Discovery Research K-12 program seeks to enable significant advances in preK-12 student andteacher learning of the STEM disciplines through the development,implementation, and study of resources, models, and technologies for use by students, teachers, and policymakers.

NSF - Discovery Research K-12
Deadline: January 7, 2010
This program seeks to enable significant advances in preK-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through development, study, and implementation of resources, models, and technologies for use by students, teachers, and policymakers.

EPA/National Center for Environmental Research - Approaches to Assessing Potential Food Allergy from Genetically Engineered Plants
Deadline: January 7, 2010
Supports applied research on innovative or improved methods to predict whether or not a pesticide protein is a food allergen. Research to characterize the key factors that influence human immune responses to dietary proteins is needed in order to better assess potential food allergy from genetically engineered plants.

NSF - Electronics, Photonics & Device Technologies
Submission Window: January 7, 2010 - February 7, 2010
The EPDT program seeks to improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components based on the principles of micro and nano electronics, photonics, magnetics, organics, electro-optics, electromechanics, electromagnetics, and related physical phenomena.

NSF - Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks
Submission Window: January 7, 2010 - February 7, 2010
The program invests in the design and analysis of intelligent and adaptive engineering networks, including sensing, imaging, controls, and computational technologies for a variety of application domains.

NSF - Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems
Submission Window: January 7, 2010 - February 7, 2010
IHCS supports innovative research in micro and nano systems, communication systems, and cyber systems that integrate physical devices and components with computational intelligence and networks.

NSF - Ecosystem Science
Target Date: January 9, 2010
The Ecosystem Science Cluster supports projects within two programs: the Ecosystem Studies Program and the Long-Term Ecological Research Program.

NSF - Ecological Biology
Target Date: January 9, 2010
The Ecological Biology Cluster supports researchthat advances the conceptual or theoretical understanding of species interactions and community dynamics in terrestrial, wetland and freshwater habitats.

NSF - Population and Evolutionary Processes
Target Date: January 9, 2010
Supports research on population properties that lead to variation within and among populations and among species.

NSF - Population and Community Ecology
Target Dates: January 9, 2010; July 9, 2010
Supports research that advances the conceptual or theoretical understanding of population ecology, species interactions and community dynamics in terrestrial, wetland and freshwater habitats.

NSF - Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
Target Date: January 9, 2010
Supports proposals aimed at generating extended time series of biological and environmental data that address ecological and evolutionary processes aimed at resolving important issues in environmental biology. Researchers must have collected at least six years of previous data to qualify for funding.

NSF - Opportunities for Promoting Understanding Through Synthesis
Target Dates: January 9, 2010; July 9, 2010
All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology encourage the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by a single individual or a group of investigators over an extended period.

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium - Short Term Fellowships in African-American Studies
Deadline: January 11, 2010 (5pm CST)
The BMRC's Fellowships are awarded to scholars and artists who have exhibited excellence in their discipline(s), have a significant body of work characterized by originality, and have demonstrated a need to conduct research in the archives and collections of BMRC members.

NSF - Research Initiation Grants to Broaden Participation in Biology
Deadline: January 11, 2010
With the goal of broadening participation to all biologists including members from groups under-represented in biology, NSF continues to offer Research Initiation Grants. Currently, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders are under-represented in biology. These grants are intended to increase the diversity of researchers who apply for and receive BIO funding to initiate research programs early in their careers.

NSF- Physiological and Structural Systems
Target Date: January 12, 2010
Supports research aimed at furthering the understanding of organisms as integrated units of biological organization. The Cluster considers proposals focused on interacting physiological and structural systems, their environmental and evolutionary contexts, and how these components are constrained by their integration into thewhole organism.

NSF - Cellular Systems Cluster
Target Date: January 12, 2010
The Cellular Systems Cluster focuses on the structure, function, and regulation of plant, animal and microbial cells, and their interactions with the environment and with one another.

NSF - Behavioral Systems
Target Date: January 12, 2010
Supportsresearch on the development, function, mechanisms, and evolutionary history of behavior, with emphasis on a vertically integrated understanding of the behavioral phenotype in nature.

NSF - Developmental Systems
Target Date: January 12, 2010
Supports research aimed at understanding how interacting developmental processes give rise to the emergent properties of organisms.

NSF - Neural Systems Cluster
Target Date: January 12, 2010
The Cluster encourages a systems biology approach to understand how emergent neural properties such as robustness, adaptability and resilience arise in the context of environmental, genetic and evolutionary influences.

NSF - Physiological and Structural Systems
Target Date: January 12, 2010
Considers proposals focused on interacting physiological and structural systems, their environmental and evolutionary contexts, and how these components are constrained by their integration into the whole organism.

Department of Education - International Research and Studies (IRS)
Deadline: January 12, 2010
The IRS Program provides grants to conduct research and studies to improve and strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, area studies, and other international fields. There are two priority areas: Instructional Materials applications and Research, Surveys and Studies applications.

NSF - Biomolecular Systems Cluster
Target Dates: January 12, 2010; July 12, 2010
The Biomolecular Systems Cluster, one of three thematic areas within the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, supports fundamental research in the areas of molecular biophysics, molecular biochemistry, and metabolic biochemistry.

NEH - Interpreting America's Historic Places (Planning and Implementation grants)
Deadline: January 13, 2010
Interpreting America's Historic Places grants support public humanities projects that exploit the evocative power of historic places to explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways.

Planning Grants
Implementation Grants

NEH - America's Media Makers: Production and Development Grants
Deadline: January 13, 2010
Grants for America's Media Makers support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways.

Production Grants
Development Grants

NEH - America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation and Planning Grants
Deadline: January 13, 2010
These grants support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. Grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages.

Planning Grants
Implementation Grants

NSF - Developmental and Learning Sciences
Target Date: January 15, 2010
Supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning.

NSF - Dynamical Systems
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports research on the theory, analysis, modeling, simulation, design, and application of dynamical systems. Examples of application areas include acoustics and vibration analysis, and noise and vibration control technologies.

NSF - Sensors and Sensing Systems
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports research on methods to acquire and use sensor data on civil, mechanical, and manufacturing systems.

NSF - Dynamical Systems
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
This program supports innovative research on the theories of dynamical systems, including new analytical and computational tools, as well as the novel application of dynamical systems to engineered systems.

NSF - Sociology Program
Target Dates: Regular Research - January 15, 2010; Dissertation Research - February 15, 2010
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change.

NSF - Civil Infrastructure Systems
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports research leading to the intelligent engineering of distributed infrastructure systems.

NSF - Structural Materials and Mechanics
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
The SMM program supports fundamental research on the behavior of civil infrastructure materials and the mechanics of structural components in the built environment.

NSF - Materials and Surface Engineering
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports fundamental research leading to a better understanding of the effect of microstructure, surfaces andcoatings on the properties and performance of engineering materials, and the ultimate control of these properties through material design.

NSF - Nano and Bio Mechanics
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
The NBM program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and nanomechanics.

NSF - Control Systems
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports innovative research on control theory and control technology driven by real life applications.

NSF - GeoMechanics and GeoTechnical Systems
Proposal Window: January 15- February 15, 2010
Supports fundamental research on the mechanics and engineering properties of geologic materials including the mechanical properties of soil and rock, mechanically stabilized and biologically modified soil, and on natural processes, such as hydraulic, biological and thermal, that affect the behavior of these materials.

NSF - Service Enterprise System
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports research on strategic decision making, design, planning and operation of commercial, nonprofit, and institutional service enterprises with the goal of improving their overall effectiveness and cost reduction.

NanoManufacturing
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports research and education on manufacturing at the nanoscale, and the transfer of research results in nanoscience and nanotechnology to industrial applications.

Engineering Design and Innovation
Proposal Window: January 15 - February 15, 2010
Supports research leading to design theory and to tools and methods that enable implementation of the principles of design theory in the practice of design across the full spectrum of engineered products.

NSF - Law and Social Sciences Program
Target Dates: January 15, 2010; August 15, 2010
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors.

NSF - Political Science Program
Target Date: January 15, 2010
The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics.

NSF - Linguistics
Target Dates: January 15, 2010; July 15, 2010
Supports scientific research of all types that focus on human language as an object of investigation including research on languages themselves, the use of language, the development of linguistic capacities, the acoustics of speech and the biological basis of of language in the brain.

NSF -Social Psychology Program
Target Date: January 15, 2010
The Social Psychology Program supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span.

NSF - Law and Social Science Program
Target Date: January 15, 2010
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors.

NSF - Geobiology & Low-Temperature Geochemistry
Deadline: January 16, 2010
The Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program provides funding for the conduct of research in most areas of the solid-earth and surface-terrestrial sciences.

NSF - Cultural Anthropology Scholars Awards
Deadlines: January 16, 2010; August 16, 2010
This is an opportunity for methodological training by cultural anthropologists who are active researchers. The purpose is to help cultural anthropologists upgrade their methodological skills by learning a specific analytical technique which will improve their research abilities.

NSF - Methodology, Measurement and Statistics
Target Date: January 16, 2010
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences.

NSF - Economics Program
Target Date: January 18, 2010
The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part.

NSF - Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
Target Dates: January 18, 2010; August 18, 2010
Supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society.

NIH - Bridges to the Doctorate Program (R25)
Deadline: January 20, 2010
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to increase the number of students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral research enterprise of the nation and/or populations disproportionately affected by health disparities who successfully complete the Ph.D. degree in biomedical and behavioral sciences.

NSF - Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum and Infrastructure
Deadlines: Area 1 - January 20, 2010; Area 2 - March 31, 2010
Supports research which addresses three aspects of engineering education: (1) how students best learn the ideas, principles, and practices to become creative and innovative engineers, and how this learning is measured (2) how to more effectively translate successes in engineering education research into widespread practice with consideration of curriculum, student learning, innovation models, and cyber-learning technology, and (3) implementation of programs for students supported by the GI Bill.

NIH - Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (R25)
Deadlines: January 20, 2010
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to increase the number of students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral research enterpriseof the nation and/or populations disproportionately affected by health disparities (hereafter referred to as targeted groups/populations) who successfully complete the baccalaureate degree in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This initiative promotes inter-institutional partnerships between community colleges or other two-year post-secondary educational institutions granting the associate degree and colleges or universities that offer the baccalaureate degree with the goal of developing well-integrated developmental activities that will increase students preparation and skills as they advance academically in the pursuit of the baccalaureate and subsequently more advanced degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences.
Note: This is a limited submission opportunity. If you are interested in applying, please see the instructions on this page.

NIH - Continued Development and Maintenance of Software (R01)
Deadline: January 22, 2010
Biomedical research laboratories increasingly undertake a software development project to solve aproblem of interest specifically related to that laboratory. These software packages sometimes become useful to a much broader community of users that can include translational and clinical researchers. The goal of this program announcement is tosupport the continued development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of existing software. The proposed work should apply best practices and proven methods for software design, construction, and implementation to extend the applicability of existing biomedical informatics/computational biology software to a broader biomedical research community.

NIH - Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (R25)
Deadline: January 25, 2010
The goalof the IMSD Program is to increase the number of students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences that complete the Ph.D. degree in these fields at institutions with research intensive environments.

NSF - Plant Genome Research Program
Target Date: January 26, 2010
There are four areas of opportunity: Genome-Enabled Plant Research; Transferring Resaerch from Model Systems; Tools and Resources for Plant Genome Research; and Comparative Plant Genome Sequencing.

Air Force Materiel Command - Motion Imagery and Conventional Imagery Exploitation
Deadline: White Papers - Accepted Through January 31, 2010
The goal of this research and development activity is to produce better tools and procedures to support exploitation operations in deriving more accurate and timely information from motion imagery and conventional imagery sources. Specific areas include: Ability to ingest, visualize, process, exploit and output imagery products in standard and planned data formats for motion imagery and conventional imagery sources.

NSF - Perception, Action & Cognition
Target Date: February 1, 2010
Supports research on perception, action and cognition including thedevelopment of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory.

NSF - Science, Technology and Society
Deadlines: February 1, 2010; August 1, 2010
Supports research and associated activities that examine the relationships among science, technology, engineering, and society. It considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, social, cultural, policy, and ethical questions that arise in connection with science and technology, and their respective interactions with society.

NSF - Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems - Multiple Opportunities
Proposal Window: February 1-March 3, 2010
The CBET Division of NSF offers a number of program areas for unsolicited proposals. Please see their main website for a description of their subdivisions and opportunities for research.

Harry Ransom Center - Fellowships in the Humanities
Deadline: February 1, 2010
The Ransom Center annually awards 50 fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of substantial on-site use of the Center's collections.

NSF - Science of Learning Centers
Target Date: February 1, 2010
Supports research that harnesses and integrates knowledge across multiple disciplines to create a common groundwork of conceptualization, experimentation and explanation that anchor new lines of thinking and inquiry towards a deeper understanding of learning.

Law School Admission Council - Research Grant Program
Deadline: February 1, 2010
The Research Grant Program funds empirical research on legal training and legal practice broadly viewed. This includes the study of precursors to legal training, all varieties of legal training itself, and the work that lawyers, judges, law teachers, and other legal professionals do after they complete their training.

NSF - Innovation and Organizational Sciences
Target date: February 2, 2010
Supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) organization theory, organizational behavior, organizational sociology, social and industrial psychology, public administration, computer and information sciences, complexitysciences, decision and management sciences.

NEH - Challenge Grants in United States History and Culture
Deadline: February 3, 2010
This grant opportunity is designed to help institutions and organizations strengthen their ability to explore significant themes and events in American history, so as to advance our understanding of how -- since the nation’s founding -- these events have shaped and been shaped by American identity and culture. Successful applicants will be offered a matching grant. Recipients must raise three times the amount of federal funds offered.

NIH - Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages grant applications for health services research to improve the quality of drug abuse and alcohol treatment and prevention services.

Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
This FOA encourages multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research to elucidate the mechanistic links between psychosocial stress and health in aging, as well as how the aging process and age-related diseases affect the responses to psychosocial stressors.

NIH - NIDA - Epidemiologyof Drug Abuse (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
This funding opportunity announcement encourages R01 proposals to expand the application of drug abuse epidemiologic research focused on understanding the nature, extent, consequences, and etiology of drug abuse across individuals, families, age groups, gender, communities, and population groups.

NIH - Basic and Translational Research In Emotion (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
Supports basic or translational research on the processes involved in or mechanisms underlying the experience, expression, and/or regulation of emotion.

NIH - Collaborative R01s for Clinical and Services Studies of Mental Disorders, AIDS and Alcohol Use Disorders
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
Supports collaborative intervention trials in the treatment, prevention or rehabilitation of those with mental disorders and alcohol use disorders and comorbid mental disorders.

NIH/NIA - Development and Characterization of Animal Models for Aging Research (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
This FOA encourages applications that propose to: characterize aging at the physiological, biochemical and functional levels in existing animal models, including but not limited to animal models currently used in other scientific fields that have potential to benefit aging research; develop new animal models for aging research; develop unique cell lines for aging research; use comparative biology to identify models of highest priority for aging research; or develop informatics that enhance the utilization of animals for aging research.

NIH - Dissemination, Implementationand Operational Research for HIV Prevention Interventions (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
Invites research to enhance the science of technology transfer, dissemination, implementation, and operational research for evidence-based HIV-prevention interventions in the United States.

NIH - Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
This funding opportunity announcement is intended to promote research studies employing transdisciplinary approaches that could lead to increased understanding of mechanisms contributing to, assessment of, or potential interventions for, increased fatigue or fatigability in older persons. Both animal models and humans are appropriate for study.

NIH - Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
Solicits grant applications to develop research and methods to enhance the rate of membrane protein structure determination and to determine specific membrane protein structures.

NIH - Research on Psychopathology in Intellectual Disabilities (Mental Retardation) (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
Invites applications for research designed to elucidate the epidemiology, etiology, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders, including emotional and behavioral problems, inpersons of any age with intellectual disabilities (mental retardation).

NIH - Research on Interventions for Child Abuse and Neglect (R01)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 5, 2010
Solicits research project grant applications focused on conducting efficacy and effectiveness trials of child abuse and neglect interventions. Specifically, this FOA solicits grant applications that include various levels of interventions.

NIH - Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors (R01 and R21)
Deadlines: Standard Deadline Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
Encourages the submission of grant applications that propose hypothesis-driven projects exploring associations between the built environment, other contextual features of where people of all ages live and work and health behaviors related to energy balance.

R01 Program Announcement
R21 Program Announcement

NIH - Impact of Health Communication Stategies on Dietary Behaviors (R01 and R21)
Deadlines: Standard Deadline Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
Applications submitted in response to this FOA must be focused on the development of communication strategies to change dietary behaviors. In addition, these strategies must incorporate interdisciplinary approaches to exact the desired change through multiple levels.

R01 Program Announcement
R21 Program Announcement

NIH - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (R01 and R21)
Deadlines: Standard Deadline Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This FOA is aimed at enhancing nanoscience and nanotechnology research focused on problems in biology and medicine. Nanoscience and nanotechnology refer to research and development on the understanding and control of matter at a length scale of approximately 1-100 nanometers, where novel properties and functions occur because of the size.

R01 Program Announcement
R21 Program Announcement

NIH - Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01, R21 and R03)
Deadlines: Standard Deadline Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21, R03)
The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage research that will improve the quality and scientific power of data collected in the behavioral and social sciences, relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.

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NIH/NIAAA - Secondary Analysis ofExisting Alcohol Epidemiology Data (R01, R21 and R03)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This funding opportunity announcement solicits Research Project applications for organizations/institutions that propose to conduct secondary analysis of existing data sets. NIAAA seeks to enhancethe understanding of the patterns of alcohol consumption and the epidemiology of alcohol-related problems.

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NIH - Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This funding opportunityannouncement solicits applications from institutions/organizations that propose to foster biobehavioral research and develop innovative research designs, methods of measurement, and data analysis techniques.

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NIH - Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
The NIH is interested in promoting research and developments in computational science and technology that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. As defined here, biomedical computing or biomedical information science and technology includes database design, graphical interfaces, querying approaches, data retrieval, data visualization andmanipulation, data integration through the development of integrated analyticaltools, and tools for electronic collaboration, as well as computational and mathematical research including the development of structural, functional, integrative, and analytical models and simulations.

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NIH - Alcohol, Decision-Making, and Adolescent Brain Development (R01 or R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This FOA issued by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, encourages R01 and R21 applications that propose to study decision-making processes in adolescents as they relate to drinking behavior, and the role of neural circuitry development in adolescent decision-making and alcohol abuse and dependence.

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NIH - Research on Teen Dating Violence (R01 or R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This FOA encourages investigator-initiated research grant applications from institutions that propose to conduct behavioral and/or biomedical research aimed at better understanding the etiologies and precursors for, reducing risk for, and incidence of, teen dating violence.

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NIH - Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to study women's mental health and sex/gender differences in mental health.

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NIH - Women's Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages research related to perinatal mood and other mental disorders in four areas: (1) clinical course, epidemiology, and risk factors; (2) basic and clinical neuroscience; (3) interventions; and (4) services. Research is encouraged on perinatal non-psychotic mood disorders and on psychotic disorders.

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NIH - HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Vulnerable Populations in the US (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard due dates apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
Encourages applications to identify the role(s) that drug abuse plays in fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in vulnerable groups (racial/ethnic minorities, men who have sex with men, youth) in the United States and to develop effective interventions toprevent new infections and to improve the health and well-being of those living with HIV/AIDS.

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NIH - Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men.

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NIH - Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
Applications may include development of: novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases, methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmentalcontext of such behaviors.

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NIH - Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01 and R21)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunities to Submit: February 5, 2010 (R01) and February 16, 2010 (R21)
Promotes research and developments in biomedical informatics and computational biology that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research; includes database design, graphical interfaces, querying approaches, data retrieval, data visualization and manipulation, data integration through the development of integrated analytical tools, and tools for electronic collaboration, as well as computational and mathematical research including the development of structural, functional, integrative, and analytical computational models and simulations.

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NSF - Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure
Target Date: February 11, 2010
The primary purpose is to support work leading to the development and/or demonstration of innovative cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research and education that fill gaps left by more targeted funding opportunities.

NSF - Developing Global Scientists and Engineers: International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) and Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP)
Target dates: For IRES - February 15, 2010. For DDEP - Continuous.
The U.S. needs to educate a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of performing in an international research environment in order to remain at the forefront of world science and technology. To support this aim, this program provides highest quality international research experiences for U.S. students.

NIH - Exploratory Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing (R21)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
This funding opportunity announcement is for projects from individual-investigators or small groups to collaborate with the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs). The intention of the collaborating projects is to engage researchers across the nation in building an excellent biomedical computing environment, using the computational tools and biological and behavioral application drivers of the funded NCBCs as foundation stones.

NIH - Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform Policy (R21 and R03)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
The purpose is to enhance childhood obesity research by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders in order to identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant research, and translate the research into evidence relevant to potential policy efforts in this area.

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NIH - Collaborative R34s for Pilot Studies of Innovative Treatments in Mental Disorders
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
This funding opportunity announcement seeks to support collaborative preliminary intervention studies to evaluate the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability and safety of novel mechanism drug candidates, promising investigational new drugs, or novel psychosocial strategies for the treatment of mental disorders.

NIH - Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (R03)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
This FOA seeks to facilitate the entry of beginning investigators into the field of behavioral science research related to drug abuse.

NIH/NIDCR - Small Research Grants for Data Analysis and Statistical Methodology (R03)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has issued this FOA to provide investigators with the support necessary to conduct such secondary data analysesor develop statistical methods for analyzing oral health data utilizing existing database resources. Applications may be related to, but must be distinct from, the specific aims of the original data collection.

NIH - Economics of Treatment and Prevention Services for Drug & Alcohol Abuse (R21)
Deadline: Standard Due Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
Supports Research Project Grant (R21) applications on the economics of prevention and treatment services for drug and alcohol abuse.

NIH - Harmonization of Longitudinal Cross-National Surveys of Aging (R21)
Deadline: Standard Due Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
Solicits Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications from applicant organizations that propose ex ante or ex post harmonization of nationally representative panel surveys on aging with the Health and Retirement Study or international studies that utilize a survey instrument that is harmonized with the Health and Retirement Study.

NIH - Prevention Research with HIV Positive Individuals (R03)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
This Funding Opportunity Announcement calls for research to advance the scientific understanding of secondary HIV prevention, which includes behavioral risk reduction to prevent the further transmission of HIV and prevention of the potentially serious negative psychological consequences of receiving a diagnosis of HIV and living with HIV disease.

NIH - Community-Based Partnerships for ChildhoodObesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform Policy (R03)
Deadline: Standard DatesApply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
The purpose of this FOA is to enhance childhood obesity research by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders in order to identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement research, and translate research into evidence relevant to policy efforts.

NIH - Biosocial Approaches to Infertility Research (R21)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
Research supported through this funding opportunity announcement should aim either to develop methods or theories incorporating biomedical aspects of infertility into socialand behavioral science research projects or to generate methods or theories that allow biomedical researchers to address the broader social and behavioral concerns that they have about their patient populations.

NIH - Pilot and Feasibility Studies in Preparation for Drug Abuse Prevention Trials (R34)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
Supports: (a) pilot and/or feasibility testing of new, revised, or adapted preventive intervention approaches targeting the initiation of drug use, the progressionto abuse or dependence, and the acquisition or transmission of HIV infection among diverse populations and settings; and (b) pre-trial feasibility testing for prevention services and systems research.

NIH - Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (R21 and R03)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 16, 2010
The ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage empirical research on health literacy concepts, theory and interventions as these relate to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ public health priorities that are outlined in its HealthierUS and Healthy People 2010 initiatives.

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NEH - Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Deadline: February 17, 2010
These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

NIH- Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) (R15)
Deadline: Standard Dates Apply
Next Opportunity to Submit: February 25, 2009
The purpose of the AREA program is to stimulate research in educational institutions thatprovide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.

NSF - Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Deadline: March 1, 2010
The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program accepts proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, especially in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts.

US Department of Education - Investing in Innovation Fund
Deadline: Anticipated to be in early Spring of 2010
The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants that expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative and evidence-based practices, programs and strategies that significantly: 1) improve K-12 achievement and close achievement gaps; 2)decrease dropout rates; 3)increase high school graduation rates; and 4)improve teacher and school leader effectiveness. Overall, the purpose is to accelerate the creation of an education sector that supports the rapid development and adoption of effective solutions.
If you are interested in applying for this program, please contact your grant officer for coordination through Fordham's Government Relations office.

NASA - Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2009
Deadline: Varies with program, open until April 30, 2010. Please see full announcement.
ROSES-2009 is an omnibus NASA Research Announcement. It contains over 50 different proposal opportunities.

NASA - Research Opportuntunities in Aeronautics 2009
Deadline: Varies with program, open until April 30, 2010. Please see full announcement.
The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has four programs: the Fundamental Aeronautics Program, the Aviation Safety Program, the Airspace Systems Program and the Aeronautics Test Program.

NSF - Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education
Deadlines: LOI (required) - April 20, 2010; Proposal - June 3, 2010
This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to bring their leading research practice and findings into K-12 learning settings. Through collaborations with other graduate fellows and faculty from STEM disciplines, teachers and students in K-12 environments, and community partners, graduate students can gain a deeper understanding of their own research and place it within a societal and global context.

Department of Defense - Basic Research for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction BAA (Multiple Strategic Areas)
White Papers Submissions: May 12, 2010
This BAA is focused on soliciting basic research projects that support the DTRA mission to safeguard America and its allies from WMD (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat and mitigate its effects.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters - The Cultural Exchange Fund
Deadlines: May 14, 2010; November 15, 2010
The Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel subsidy program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist U.S. based presenters in building partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies and their collaborators and in seeing the work of artists from around the world in its cultural context.

NSF - Workforce Program in the Mathematical Sciences
Proposal Window: May 15 - June 15, 2010
The program's primary interest is in activities centered on education through research involvement for trainees at the undergraduate through postdoctoral educational levels. Activities that broaden participation in the mathematical sciences are of significant interest to the Division of Mathematical Sciences.

Office of Naval Research - 2010 Broad Agency Announcement (multiple topics)
Deadline: Continuous through September 30, 2010
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science and Technology Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR's broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines.

Naval Research Laboratory - Broad Agency Announcement
Deadlines: White Papers accepted continuously; Full Proposals by request only
Proposals may range from theoretical studies to proof-of-concept to include fabrication and delivery of a prototype. BAA topics include all NRL sites located in the Washington, DC area, the Stennis Space Center, MS, and Monterey, CA.

Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Foundation) - Funding for Historical Humanities
Deadline: PhD Scholarships/Small Grants - Continuous
Funding is for foreign academics, particularly Germans, in the following fields: History, Pre/Early History, Archaeology, Art History, History of Islam and Legal History.

Urban Institute - Opportunities for Visiting Fellows
Deadline:Open
The Urban Institute invites distinguished scholars,journalists, and senior policy practitioners to join us as a Visiting Fellow for a semester or more.

National Institute of Justice - Visiting Fellowship Program
Deadline: Open
The Visiting Fellowship Program supports research and development on high-priority topics that enhance the capabilities of criminal justice systems to combat crime, violence, and substance abuse.

U.S. Army Research Laboratory - ARL/ARO Core Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research (Multiple Opportunities)
Deadline: Open
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) solicits proposals for basic and scientific research in chemistry, electronics, environmental sciences, life sciences, materials science, mathematical and computer sciences, mechanical sciences, physics, computational and information sciences, sensors and electron devices, survivability/lethality analysis, and weapons and materials research.

FINRA - Investor Education Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: Open
The foundation is interested in funding projects that reach and actively engage at-risk audiences such as seniorsand first-time investors by offering them access to unbiased information about the markets and fundamental financial issues.

Kresge Foundation - Grant Programs in Health and Environment
Deadline: Open
Both the Health and Environment Programs address health and environment-related social issues, particularly those affecting minority, low-income, and other underserved communities. The Environment Program seeks to have tangible effects on the practices and policies associated with climate change and environmental sustainability.

The Naval Research Laboratory - Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
Deadline: Open
The NRL Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides approximately forty new postdoctoral appointments per year. The selected participants will work in a unique Navy laboratory environment, while interacting with senior laboratory scientists and engineers.

NSF - Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program
Deadline: Open
The Infrastructure Program provides support for activities that differ from the research projects. These include working research sessions, such as conferences, symposia, colloquia, and special years, as well as training programs, such as grants for broadening education in the mathematical sciences or increasing the number of individuals in disciplines that are based in the mathematical sciences.

Carnegie Corporation - National Program: Grants for Creating Pathways to Educational and Economic Opportunity
Deadline: Open
The National Program aims to contribute to a robust democracy fueled by increased educational opportunity, improved institutions of learning, increased civic participation, and immigrant integration.

Kresge Foundation - Challenge Grants
Deadline: Open
Facilities capital challenge grants are awarded to organizations that cater specifically to the needs of poor, disadvantaged and disenfranchised in six fields of interest: health, the environment, arts and culture, education, human services, and community development.

NY Council for the Humanities - Celebrating the 400th: Special Grants & Programs
Deadline: Mini-grants - Rolling Basis
The New York Council for the Humanities is pleased to announce a host of special programs and initiatives in conjunction with the upcoming Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial.

US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement - Multiple Opportunities
Deadline: Continuous
The Environmental Laboratory announces research opportunities involving coastal ecology, riparian and instream habitat restoration, wildlife resource management, natural resources stewardship and waterfowl resources. Please see the BAA for details.

Air Force Office of Scientific Research Broad Agency Announcement - Multiple Opportunities
Deadline: Continuous
The AFOSR announces research opportunities involving aerospace, chemical and material sciences; physics and electronics; mathematics, information and life sciences; discovery challenge thrusts; education and outreach programs; and university research initiative programs. Please see the BAA for details.

U.S. Department of Commerce - Measurement Science and Engineering Grants Program
Deadline: Continuous
The DOC announces multiple research opportunities involving engineering, chemistry, physics, technology and materials science. Please see the full announcement for details.

DOD/Naval Air Orlando - BAA for Simulation andTraining Technology Research and Development (Multiple Opportunities)
Deadline: Continuous
The requirement for R & D conducted under this BAA istoexplore unique training techniques incorporating innovative behavioral and engineering technologies, which are needed for more effective and/or less expensive training systems.