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Grants and Awards
National Science Foundation – Science of Science & Innovation Policy Research
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program at NSF supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations.
Proposals are due September 9, 2009. For more information, visit the NSF information page
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
The National Science Foundation is funding Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) collaborative groups to support teams of researchers who will advance fundamental understanding of decision making under uncertainty for climate change and related long-term environmental risks. The focus of these collaborative groups will be to generate fundamental new knowledge as well as information and tools that decision makers will find useful to help them incorporate climate change and related long-term environmental risks in their decision making. The deadline is July 14, 2009. Click here for more information.
NIH Basic Research on Emotion
Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invite research grant applications that propose basic or translational research on the processes involved in or mechanisms underlying the experience, expression, and/or regulation of emotion.
Emotion encompasses a wide range of physiological, psychological, social, cognitive, and developmental phenomena. Emotional processes can be studied in human or animal subjects. Important objects of study include, but are not limited to: 1) Central and peripheral nervous system activity in the origins, expression, regulation and modulation of emotion, 2) The contribution of emotional and motivational systems to cognitive faculties such as perception, attention, learning, and memory, 3) Investigations of overt behaviors, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision making, 4) The environmental circumstances and experiences that evoke and modulate different emotions.
This FOA encourages applications at both basic and translational levels. Basic topics of interest include the interface between emotion and cognition, the development of emotions and emotion regulation over the lifespan, and the neurobiological systems involved in emotional function. Translational topics of interest include understanding mechanisms involved in emotional function in mental disorders, the mechanisms by which alcohol/drug dependence and/or withdrawal affects emotions, and the ways individual differences in emotional function impact health behaviors, health-related decision-making, and health outcomes.
The purpose of this FOA is to advance the study of emotion at a variety of levels, using a broad range of techniques. Measurements of emotional correlates can be made at the behavioral, neural, and/or physiological levels. Proposals which seek to combine these levels of analysis are especially encouraged.
For more information, see the NIH page for deadlines and The Program Announcement.
Stimulus Funding Still Available for Behavioral Research
Though deadlines for certain grant programs under the $10 billion Congressional stimulus package have passed, there are still opportunities for short-term research funding and institutional program support. Remember that the funds need to be spent in about a two-year period and that grantees will be required to report in more detail than usual.
Grand Opportunities (“GO”) grants program: This program will support projects that address large, specific biomedical and biobehavioral research endeavors that will benefit from significant two-year funds without the expectation of continued NIH funding beyond two years. The research supported by the ”GO” grants program should have high short-term impact, and a high likelihood of enabling growth and investment in biomedical research and development, public health, and health care delivery. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-004.htmlDeadline is May 29, 2009.
Academic Research Enhancement Awards: The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. These AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale health-related research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-007.html Deadline is September 24, 2009.
Institute-Specific Requests for Applications: The individual Institutes at NIH have information about research they will fund under the stimulus package. For a complete list of Institutes, see: http://www.nih.gov/icd/
For more information on all of the above: http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/