Princeton Weekly Bulletin December 14, 1998
Grants available
Visit the web site for the Office of Research and Project Administration (ORPA) at http://www.princeton.edu/~orpa1/grants/list.htm for information on many funding opportun-ities, including those listed below. Questions may be directed to Jan Anderson or Lisa Kulp of ORPA (258-3976 or 258-4958). Grant applications are available in limited numbers from ORPA unless otherwise noted.
American Research Institute in Turkey
(215) 898-3474, mec.sas.upenn.edu/Arit
March 5. Mellon Research Fellowships for Central and Eastern European Scholars in Turkey. Two to three-month postdoctoral fellowships for research conducted in Turkey in any social sciences or humanities field involving Turkey. Open to Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Bulgarian and Romanian scholars who are permanent residents of one of included countries. Stipend is $10,500.
February 1. Graduate Fellowships for Intensive Language Study in Turkey. Full travel and fellowship to attend Turkish language instruction program at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, June 24 to August 14. Open to U.S. citizens enrolled in graduate degree program.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
(919) 991-5100, www.bwfund.org
January 15 (preproposals). Collab-orative Grants. Funding for research in prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases in tropical developing world. Program supports three-way partnerships among labs in U.S. or Canada, labs in United Kingdom, and labs and research stations in developing world. Partnerships may focus on basic, clinical or health-services research, or combination.
January 15. Scholar Awards and New Investigator Awards in Molecular Parasitology or Molecular Pathogenic Mycology. Only one candidate is permitted per institution (contact ORPA before applying). $425,000 over five years for scholar awards; $210,000 over three years for new investigator awards.
January 15. New Initiatives in Malaria Research. Only two candidates are permitted per institution (contact ORPA before applying). $400,000 over four years or $200,000 over two years.
March 1. Visiting Professorships in Basic Medical Sciences and Micro-biological Sciences. $5,000 to enable U.S. and Canadian institutions to bring in distinguished scientist for up to five days for teaching, discussion and lecture on subject pertinent to discipline. Visits should be scheduled between September 15, 1999 and August 31, 2000. Only one candidate is permitted per institution (contact ORPA before applying).
Cornell University
(607) 255-9274
January 4. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow-ships. Teaching and research fellowships for one year residence beginning July 1999, in anthropology, comparative literature, history, history of art, Near Eastern studies, and theatre, film and dance. Applicants must have received PhD after September, 1993 and before June 30, 1999 and be citizens or permanent residents of U.S., or citizens of Canada. Stipend is $30,000.
Great Lakes Protection Fund
(312) 201-0660, www.glpf.org
June 30. Fund supports innovative projects that lead to tangible improvements in health of natural ecosystems, address interdependence of ecological and economic health. Preproposals are required and may be submitted any time from January 1 to June 30, 1999 for funding in 1999. Grants are from $4,500 to $350,000.
International Research and Exchanges Board
(202) 628-8188, www.irex.org
February 1 and June 1. Short-Term Travel Grants. Provide up to $3,000 for scholarly projects of up to two weeks focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Mongolia. Applicant must have PhD or equivalent professional or terminal degree at time of application. Limited to U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or residents in U.S. for at least three years.
March 31. Special Projects in Library and Information Science. Program provides up to $10,000 for librarians, archivists and information specialists of any nation-ality pursuing projects relating to Eurasia.
National Air and Space Museum
(202) 287-3271, www.nasm.edu/NASMDOCS/joinnasm/fellow/fellow.htm
January 15. Guggenheim Fellowship. Three to 12-month fellowship for historical research related to aviation and space. Pre-doctoral applicants should have completed preliminary course work and examinations and be engaged in dissertation research. Postdoctoral applicants should have received PhD within past seven years. Stipends are $15,000 for predoctoral candidates and $27,000 for postdoctoral candidates.
January 15. A. Verville Fellowship. Nine to 12-month fellowship for analysis of major trends, developments and accomplishments in history of aviation or space studies. Stipend is $35,000.
January 15. Ramsey Fellowship in Naval Aviation History. Nine to 12-month fellow-ship focused on history of aviation at sea and in naval service, particularly in U.S. Navy. Stipend is $40,000.
National Endowment for Humanities
(202) 606-8400, www.neh.fed.us/index.html
February 1. Public programs: planning, scripting, implementation, production.
March 1. Grants direct seminars and institutes in summer 2000.
March 15. Faculty Graduate Study Program.
April 15. Humanities focus grants.
May 1. Fellowships; challenge grants.
Eligibility is limited to citizens of U.S. or U.S. territories or permanent residents who have lived in U.S. for more than three years.
National Research Council
(202) 334-2658, www2.nas.edu/oia/24ea.html
January 29 and June 18. Travel Grants. Support scholars for travel to Central Europe and Former Soviet Union for two to six weeks to conduct research related to governance in post-Communist societies. Open to U.S. citizens or permanent residents at postdoctoral level or to advanced graduate students if travel and research are directly relevant to dissertation. Awards are $2,500 to $4,000.
National Science Foundation
(703) 306-1234, www.nsf.gov/home/deadline/deadline.htm
NSF-Wide
January 20. Environmental geochemistry and biogeochemistry.
February 1. Knowledge and distributed intelligence (preproposals).
March 1. Enhancing infrastructure for social and behavioral sciences.
Biology
January 10. Metabolic biochemistry; molecular biochemistry; molecular bio-physics; biomolecular processes; microbial genetics; biochemistry of gene expression; biomolecular structure and function; signal transduction and cellular regulation; cellular organization; eukaryotic genetics; cell biology; genetics; neuroscience; neuroendocrinology; neuronal and glial mechanisms; behavioral neuroscience; developmental neuro-science; sensory systems; computational neuroscience; animal behavior; integrative animal biology; ecological and evolution-ary physiology; integrative plant biology; physiology and ethology; animal develop-ment; plant and microbial development; developmental mechanisms; evolution of developmental mechanisms.
January 15. Biotechnology/biochemical engineering; undergraduate mentoring in environmental biology.
March 1. Special competition in systematic biology: partnerships for enhancing expertise in taxonomy.
April 15. Integrative graduate education and research training program (preproposals).
CISE
January 12. Operating systems and compilers; CISE next generation software.
January 15. Experimental activities: CADRE; international digital libraries collaborative research.
January 31. Connections to internet.
February 1. Knowledge modeling and computational intelligence.
February 15. Information and data management; human computer inter-action; robotics and human augmentation; special projects in networking.
March 1. Digital government; advanced computational research (visualization and graphics).
March 15. Educational innovation program.
April 15. Integrative graduate education and research training program (preproposals).
Cross-Cutting Programs
January 15. Research equipment funding: chemical and transport systems division; earth system history; international digital libraries collaborative research.
February 1. Decision-making and valuation for environmental policy.
March 1. Digital government.
March 31. Engineering career supplement requests for awards made prior to 1998.
April 15. Integrative graduate education and research training program (preproposals).
Education and Human Resources
February 1. Postdoctoral fellowships in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education; program for gender equity in science, mathematics, engineering and technology; activities in science, engineering, and mathematics for persons with disabilities.
Engineering
January 14. Engineering research centers (preproposals).
January 15. Biotechnology/biochemical engineering.
February 1. Integrative systems; knowledge modeling and computational intelligence; physical foundations of enabling technologies.
February 5. Engineering microsystems: XYZ on a chip (preproposals).
March 31. Engineering career supplement requests for awards made prior to 1998.
April 1. Manufacturing process and equipment; operations research and production systems; design and integration engineering.
Geosciences
January 15. Margins; earth system history.
February 15. Ocean drilling program; US WOCE activities.
March 15. Coastal ocean processes: wind-driven transport processes in the northeast pacific.
International
January 15. International digital libraries collaborative research.
Math and Physical Sciences
January 11. Research sites for educators in chemistry: special research opportunity; chemistry research instrumentation and facilities.
January 15. Vertical integration of research and education in the math-ematical sciences (letter of intent).
January 29. Instrumentation for materials research.
February 1. Education; physical foundations of enabling technologies.
February 16. Vertical integration of research and education in the mathematical sciences (full proposals).
March 1. Mid-career methodological opportunities.
Polar Programs
January 15. Earth system history.
February 15. Arctic sciences.
Social, Behavioral and Economic Research
January 1. Systematic anthropological collections.
January 15. Methodology, measure-ment and statistics; social psychology; decision, risk and management science; economics; linguistics; human cognition and perception.
February 1. Science and technology studies.
March 1. Mid-career methodological opportunities.
Social Science Research Council
(212) 377-2700, www.ssrc.org
January 13. Fellowships for the study of international migration to U.S. Support dissertation and postdoctoral research and participation in minority summer dissertation workshop.
February 1. Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. Pre and postdoctoral fellowships of nine to 12 months to encourage comparative and interdisciplinary study of economic, political and social aspects of modern and contemporary German and European affairs. Open to citizens and permanent residents of U.S. and Canada.
February 1. Eastern European language training grants. Pre and postdoctoral awards of $2,000 for second-year study in U.S. of any Eastern European language (except languages of Commonwealth of Independent States). Grants of $2,500 for intermediate or advanced study of these languages in Eastern Europe for U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will use language in their academic or professional careers.
February 1. Eastern Europe institutional language grants. Awards of up to $10,000 support first or second-year summer course instruction in Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak or Slovene, hosted by U.S. institution.
February 3. Eurasia program. Fellow-ships for U.S. citizens for social science or humanities projects in Eastern Europe, Russian Empire and Soviet Union and its successor states. Predoctoral awards are up to $15,000 for two years; postdoctoral awards are $24,000 over two years.
United States Institute of Peace
(202) 429-3842, www.usip.org/grants/sg99.html
January 4. Solicited Grants. Topics are Bosnia and Balkans region, Middle East, training in conflict management and changing nature of diplomacy. Awards are $25,000 to $45,000 for one to two years.
Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
(505) 988-3251, C:\Funding\Misc 99\PWBdec.doc
January 1 (letter of intent required).
February 1 (full proposal). Proposals invited from U.S. institutions in cate-gories of individual poets; developing poetry audience; translation; and process of translation and uses of poetry. Grants from $1,000 to $15,000.