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ALGEBRA 1
VARIABLES ON BOTH SIDES
TOPIC: Equations and Inequalities
ALGEBRA 2
BORDER PATROL
TOPIC: Systems of Equations
GEOMETRY
THE HINGE THEOREMS
TOPIC: Triangles
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PRE-CALCULUS
TOPIC: Polynomial, Power, and Rational Functions
STATISTICS
PROBABILITY SIMULATIONS
TOPIC: Probability
VARIABLES ON BOTH SIDES
TOPIC: Equations and Inequalities
ALGEBRA 2
BORDER PATROL
TOPIC: Systems of Equations
GEOMETRY
HINGE THEOREMS
TOPIC: Triangles
PRECALCULUS
TOPIC: Polynomial, Power, and Rational Functions
STATISTICS
PROBABILITY SIMULATIONS
TOPIC: Probability
CALCULUS
EXPONENTIAL DIFFERENTIATION
TOPIC: Derivatives
CALCULUS
THE EXPONENTIAL DERIVATIVE
TOPIC: Derivatives
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
OU Engineering Open House October 28
OU Engineering fair, Registration must be in by Oct. 21st.
I just wanted to let you know that our Open House registration is now
available at www.ou.edu/coe/registration. The Open House information
packet is also available at that site. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Thank you,
Jackie Foos
Engineering Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator
The University of Oklahoma
(405)325-3445
jfoos@ou.edu
I just wanted to let you know that our Open House registration is now
available at www.ou.edu/coe/registration. The Open House information
packet is also available at that site. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Thank you,
Jackie Foos
Engineering Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator
The University of Oklahoma
(405)325-3445
jfoos@ou.edu
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
PLTW Counselor Conference November 7, 2011
All counselors please join us at the PLTW Counselor's Conference November 7, 2011 at the Magnuson Hotel Meridian Convention Center, (previously the Clarion Meridian Convention Center) in Oklahoma City. Registration Sheet, Conference Flier
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Grant Opportunities
Beginning Grant Writing: The Process
Monday, September 19 - 9:00 a.m.-3:30 pm
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education - Linda Mason
Regents Conference Room (2nd floor) of 655 Research Parkway, OKC
This workshop is for those who have not written a grant proposal but are
going to try it soon. Each participant is encouraged to provide an idea for
funding before the workshop. This is a hands-on workshop. Small subgroups
will be formed to craft a proposal for critique in the manner of a grant
review panel. Please bring a laptop and a flash drive; you will use the
laptop for writing, not for internet searching. There is no fee, but you
must register. To register, send an e-mail to
lmason@osrhe.edu.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
WHO WANTS TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR WORKSHOP - LEARN IT SESSION
9:00 am - 6:00 pm Friday, September 30, at the Reed Center in Midwest City
To register for this session, click here:
Registration for the Teach it!" session is by invitation only,
through i2E, Inc. For more information on this session, please contact
Sarah Seagraves at sseagraves@i2E.org.
Participation in the "Live it!" session is limited to 90 business, community
and investment leaders. For registration information on this session,
contact Steven Martinez at
steven.martinez@ocast.ok.gov.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
NSF Regional Grant Workshop
Austin, TX - Westin Austin at the Domain - October 17-18, 2011
The UT Austin presents the opportunity to meet with NSF personnel and with
other research administrators from universities and colleges across the
United States. It is targeted to new faculty, researchers, educators, and
administrators who want to gain key insight into a wide range of current
issues at NSF including the state of current funding. NSF program officers
will be on hand to provide up-to-date information about specific funding and
answer questions.
Registration Fee: $340 - For more information and registration:
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
SEARCH AND SELECT
9:00 am to 12:00 pm - Tuesday, October 18
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education - 655 Research Parkway - OKC
An overview of:
. How to search for grant opportunities
. How to select the right grant program and agency
. Where to find the appropriate information about the grant program
A laptop computer will be necessary. There is no fee, but you must register.
To register, send an e-mail to Linda Mason at
lmason@osrhe.edu.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
OKBIO - GRANT WRITING FOR SBIR AND STTR
Wednesday, September 7 - 9:00am - 4:30pm
Presbyterian Health Foundation Conference Center
655 Research Parkway, OKC
This intensive, one-day workshop will focus exclusively on NIH SBIR and
STTR programs, and how you can write more
competitive proposals to get the funding you need. $25 - OKBio Members - $75
- Non Members - $20 - Faculty
Register here
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Deadline Date - October 31, 2011
Grant Resource - Home Depot
Category - Community Impact Grants
Description - Proposals for the following community improvement activities
will be considered: repairs, refurbishments, and modifications to low-income
and/or transitional housing or community facilities, weatherizing or
increasing energy efficiency of low-income and/or transitional housing or
community facilities; planting trees or community gardens and/or landscaping
community facilities; and development of community parks or green spaces.
Size of Grant - $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/how-we-help/grants.html
Deadline Date - November 1, 2011 Eligibility; December 31, 2011 Proposal
Grant Resource - Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Category - Community Development Grants
Description - The mission of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is
to address the root causes of poverty in the United States through the
support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through
transformative education. CCHD's Community Development Grants support
organizations that bring poor and vulnerable people together to change
structures and policies that perpetuate the cycle of poverty. Priority is
given to organizations that work with persons directly experiencing economic
or social injustice, such as racial discrimination, long-term joblessness,
or economic dislocation.
Size of Grant - $75,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://old.usccb.org/cchd/grants/criteria.shtml
Deadline Date - September 30, 2011
Grant Resource - Dr. Pepper Snapple KaBoom!
Category - Community Playgrounds
Description - With support from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, KaBOOM! will be
awarding grants of $750 each to communities this year who wish to make their
playgrounds cleaner, safer and more inviting. Communities must demonstrate
that they have maintained their playspace and they have led an improvement
project in the last 60 days.
Size of Grant - $750
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://kaboom.org/build_playground/get_funding/grants#spruce
EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL CONSORTIA
Deadline Date - September 9, 2011
Grant Resource - Kinder Morgan Foundation
Category - Youth Programs
Description - Grants are primarily directed to educational programs for
youth in grades K-12. Funding is provided to local, state, provincial and
regional educational institutions, libraries and programs that provide
ongoing support, such as Junior Achievement. The foundation also supports
youth programs provided by local arts organizations, symphony orchestras,
museums and others.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.kindermorgan.com/community/km_foundation.cfm
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011
Grant Resource - National Gardening Association and Subaru
Category - Children's Gardening
Description - The National Gardening Association (NGA) is dedicated to
promoting home, school, and community gardening as a means to renew and
sustain the essential connections between people, plants, and the environment. The NGA Subaru Healthy Sprouts Awards support school and youth
garden programs throughout the country that use gardens to teach youth about
the environment, nutrition, and the issue of hunger in the United States.
Fifty programs will receive a $500 gift certificate from the Gardening with
Kids catalog as well as lessons and literature from NGA. Applicants must
plan to garden in 2012 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and
18 years.
Size of Grant - $500
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.kidsgardening.org/grants/2011-subaru-healthy-sprouts-award
Deadline Date - October 17, 2011
Grant Resource - Youth Service America
Category - Service-Learning and Health Literacy
Description - The UnitedHealth HEROES program is a service-learning, health
literacy initiative that awards grants to help youth, ages 5-25, create and
implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity. The grants
encourage semester-long projects that launch on MLK Day of Service and
culminate on Global Youth Service Day. Schools, service-learning
coordinators, non-profits, and students in the health professions located in
all 50 states are eligible to apply.
Size of Grant - $1,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.ysa.org/HEROES
Deadline Date - October 1 and December 15 Letter of Intent; November 3, 2011
and January 18, 2012 Full Proposal
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - National Robotics Initiative
Description - The goal of the National Robotics Initiative is to accelerate
the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or
cooperatively with, people. The purpose of this program is the development
of this next generation of robotics, to advance the capability and usability
of such systems and artifacts, and to encourage existing and new communities
to focus on innovative application areas. It will address the entire life
cycle from fundamental research and development to industry manufacturing
and deployment. Methods for the establishment and infusion of robotics in
educational curricula and research to gain a better understanding of the
long term social, behavioral and economic implications of co-robots across
all areas of human activity are important parts of this initiative.
Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other organizations
is strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental
science and technology development, deployment and use.
Size of Grant - Small Grants $250,000/yr for 5 years; Large
Multidisciplinary Grants $1,000/yr for 5 years
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11553/nsf11553.htm
Deadline Date - December 31, 2011
Grant Resource - Whole Kids Foundation
Category - School Gardens
Description - The Whole Kids Foundation to support schools and inspire families to improve children's nutrition and wellness, is accepting grant applications for its first major initiative, the School Garden Grant Program. Designed to help schools grow students' relationships with food through gardening, the new program stems from the Whole Kids Foundation's mission of supporting schools' efforts to improve
children's nutrition. The grant program will be funded by a six-week,
in-store donation drive at all Whole Foods Market stores and online at the
Whole Kids Foundation Web site from August 17 to September 30. FoodCorps
seeks to reverse childhood obesity by increasing children's knowledge of,
engagement with, and access to healthy food, will help administer the grant
program and will provide mentorship services and other resources to grant
recipients.
Size of Grant - $2,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://wholekidsfoundation.org/gardengrants.php
FELLOWSHIPS
Deadline Dates - November 14, 2011 Engineering; November 15, 2011
Mathematical Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences, Engineering,
Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Materials Research; November 16, 2011
Social Sciences, Psychology, Geosciences, STEM Education and Learning;
November 18, 2011 Life Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Description - The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
(GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and
engineering workforce in the United States. The program recognizes and
supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based
master's and doctoral degrees in fields within NSF's mission. The GRFP
provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals
who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in
science and engineering research.
Size of Grant - 2,000 awards of $30,000/yr stipend + $10,500/yr research support
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11582/nsf11582.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_e
v=click
GERONTOLOGY; SENIOR ISSUES
Deadline Date - May 7, 2012
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Gerontology - Secondary Analyses of Social and Behavioral
Datasets in Aging
Description - This Funding Opportunity Announcement is seeking small grant
(R03) applications to conduct secondary analysis of social and behavioral
data in aging. Specifically, NIA seeks applicants to: 1) stimulate and
facilitate secondary analysis of data related to dynamics of health and
disability, cognition, psychosocial and sociodemographic factors, genetics,
and biomarkers, long term care, caregiving, behavioral medicine, retirement,
economic status; 2) provide support for preliminary projects using secondary
analysis that could lead to subsequent applications for other research grant
award mechanisms; 3) provide support for analyses of new databases and
experimental modules for purposes such as informing the design and content
of future study waves; and 4) provide support for pilot research on
under-utilized databases.
Size of Grant - $50,000/yr for 2 years
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-139.html
HEALTH FIELDS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION, OPTOMETRY
Deadline Date - October 2, 2011 Letter of Intent, November 2, 2011 Proposal
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Clinical Research Education and Career Development Program
Description - The purpose of the Clinical Research Education and Career
Development Program is to expand the national capability to improve
diversity for research in the health sciences by developing the research
workforce in clinical and translational sciences though providing grant
support to minority institutions that offer doctorate degrees in the health
professions or in a health-related science.
Size of Grant - 3 5-yr project awards for $500,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-325.html
Deadline Date - October 16, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Pancreatic Cancer
Description - This funding opportunity announcement encourages the
submission of Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions
and organizations that propose to promote innovative research across
multiple disciplines for a better understanding of the biology, etiology,
detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Size of Grant - $275,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-297.html
Deadline Date - October 20, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Dimensional Approaches to Research Classification in Psychiatric
Disorders
Description - This Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks research grant
applications designed to develop innovative ways of understanding mental
disorders through classifying patients in clinical studies on the basis of
experimental research criteria rather than traditional diagnostic
categories.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-12-100.html
Deadline Date - October 26, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Hematologic and Sleep Disorders
Description - The purpose of this FOA is to increase the participation of
individuals from diverse backgrounds in cardiovascular, pulmonary,
hematologic and sleep disorders research across the career development
continuum. The program intended to support training of predoctoral and
health professional students and individuals in postdoctoral training at
non-research intensive institutions with an institutional mission focused on
serving diverse communities that are not well represented in NIH-funded
research, or identified federal legislation of same, with the potential to
develop meritorious training programs in cardiovascular, pulmonary,
hematologic, and sleep disorders.
Size of Grant - 2 awards of $125,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-12-032.html
Deadline Date - November 5, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Healthy Habits in Children
Description - This Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage Research
Project Grant applications that employ innovative research to identify
mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health
behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18). Positive health
behaviors may include: developing healthy sleep patterns, developing
effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in risk
situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced and
nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity and/or
participating in healthy relationships.
Size of Grant - $500,000 for 5 yr projects
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-327.html
Deadline Date - November 5, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Biomarkers: Bridging Pediatric and Adult Therapeutics
Description - This funding opportunity announcement invites applications
from institutions or organizations that propose adapting adult biomarkers to
children. This would include the application and validation of biomarkers
developed in adults to pediatric diagnosis, prognosis, and estimation of
disease progression, toxicity and response to therapy.
Size of Grant - 5 year projects
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-322.html
Deadline Date - November 5, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Effective Patient-Provider Communication for Treatment and
Self-Management of Chronic Diseases in Underserved Populations
Description - The purpose of this initiative is to stimulate research
utilizing Mobile Health (mHealth) tools aimed at the improvement of
effective patient-provider communication, adherence to treatment and
self-management of chronic diseases in underserved populations
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-330.html
Deadline Date - November 15, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Defense
Category - Biologically-derived Medicines on Demand
Description - The Bio-MOD program seeks to develop devices and techniques to
produce multiple protein biologics in response to specific battlefield
threats and medical needs. This will be achieved by investing in (1) novel,
flexible methodologies for genetic engineering/modification of microbial
strains, eukaryotic strains, and/or cell-free systems to synthesize multiple
protein-based therapeutics; and (2) flexible and portable device platforms
for manufacturing multiple biologics with high purity, efficacy and potency
at the point-of-care, in short timeframes, when the specific need arises.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Solicitations/DSO_Solicitations.aspx
LABORATORIES; EQUIPMENT
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Manufacturing and Construction Machines and Equipment
Description - The MCME program supports fundamental research leading to
improved machines and applications for both manufacturing and construction.
Key goals are to advance the transition of these industries from skill-based
to knowledge-based activities and to develop them as activities with minimal
environmental and societal impact.
Size of Grant - $300,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
LIBRARIES
Deadline Date - November 1, 2011
Grant Resource - Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for
America Grant
Category - Museums for America
Description - Museums for America is IMLS's largest grant program for
museums, supporting projects and ongoing activities that build museums'
capacity to serve their communities. Museums for America grants strengthen a
museum's ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting
high-priority activities that advance the institution's mission and
strategic goals. Museums for America grants can be used for a wide variety
of new or ongoing museum activities and programs, such as improvement of
institutional infrastructure, planning, management of collections, public
access, professional development, purchase of equipment or services,
research and scholarship, public programming and exhibitions, development
and/or implementation of education programs, or efforts by museums to
upgrade and integrate new technologies into their overall institutional
effectiveness. Grants are awarded in the following categories: Engaging
Communities (Education, Exhibitions, and Interpretation): Support projects
that represent a broad range of educational activities through which museums
share collections, content, and knowledge to support learning. Building
Institutional Capacity (Management, Policy, and Training): Support projects
that serve to improve the infrastructure of museums to better serve their
communities. Collections Stewardship (Management of Collections): Support
projects that museums undertake to maintain and improve the management of
museum collections in order to fulfill a museum's public service mission.
Size of Grant - $150,000
Cost Sharing or Match - Yes
Web
Deadline Date - January 13, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Geoinformatics
Description - The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) will consider proposals
for the development of cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences
(Geoinformatics). EAR seeks the development and implementation of enabling
information technology with impacts that extend beyond an individual
investigator or small group of investigators and that facilitates the next
generation of geosciences research. Proposals to this solicitation may seek
support for community-driven development and implementation of databases;
tools for data integration, interoperability, and visualization; software
development and code hardening; and data-intensive/new computing
methodologies that support the enhancement of geosciences research and
education activities.
Size of Grant - 10 awards totaling $4.8 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11581/nsf11581.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25
MATH; ENGINEERING
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Materials and Surface Engineering
Description - The MSE program supports fundamental research leading to a
better understanding of the effect of microstructure, surfaces, and coatings
on the properties and performance of engineering materials; and the ultimate
control of these properties through material design. Of particular interest
is materials service under conditions such as impact, temperature extremes,
corrosion, oxidation, and friction. The program also supports research
leading to biomedical applications of materials. Funded research includes
both experimental and theoretical approaches.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13356
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events
Description - The IMEE program focuses on the impact of large-scale hazards
on civil infrastructure and society and on related issues of preparedness,
response, mitigation, and recovery. The program supports research to
integrate multiple issues from engineering, social, behavioral, political,
and economic sciences. It supports fundamental research on the
interdependence of civil infrastructure and society, development of
sustainable infrastructures, and civil infrastructure vulnerability and risk
reduction.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13353
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Engineering Design and Innovation
Description - The EDI program 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. The program focus is on gaining an understanding of the basic
processes and phenomena underlying a holistic, life-cycle view of design
where the total system life-cycle context recognizes the need for advanced
understanding of the identification and definition of preferences, analysis
of alternatives, effective accommodation of uncertainty in decision-making,
and the relationship between data and knowledge in a digitally-supported
process. The program funds advances in basic design theory, tools, and
software to implement design theory and new design methods that span
multiple domains, such as design for the environment and for
manufacturability.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13340
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Description - The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics
and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale solid and fluid
mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across
molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The relationships between
mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization
are of interest.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13523
Deadline Date - February 1, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
Description - The National Science Foundation encourages the submission of
industry-defined fundamental research proposals from NSF Industry/University
Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) in areas of shared value to both
centers and their members. Industry-defined fundamental research broadens
the scientific and engineering understanding beyond the more specific
applied research interests of the industries traditionally served by the
I/UCRC. Industry participation extends the scope and horizon of center
research projects so as to drive innovation with industrially relevant
fundamental research projects.
Size of Grant - 10 awards of $200,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11570/nsf11570.htm
MINORITY STUDENTS
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 1, 2012; June 1, 2012
Grant Resource - Seventh Generation Fund
Category - Indian Students
Description - The Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development is
dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples and
the sovereignty of tribal Nations throughout the Americas. The Fund's
primary grantmaking program areas include the following: Arts and Cultural
Expression, Environmental Health and Justice, Human Rights, Sustainable
Communities, Intergenerational Leadership, and Women's Leadership.
Size of Grant - $500 requests ongoing; $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.7genfund.org
Deadline Date - October 2, 2011; October 2, 2012
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Clinical Research in Minority Serving Institutions
Description - The purpose of the Clinical Research Education and Career
Development Program is to expand the national capability to improve
diversity for research in the health sciences by developing the research
workforce in clinical and translational sciences though providing grant
support to minority institutions that offer doctorate degrees in the health
professions or in a health-related science. These institutions historically
have trained professionals from diverse backgrounds who provide health care
to minority populations and are uniquely positioned to engage these
populations in research and in the translation of research advances into
culturally appropriate, measurable and sustained improvements in health
outcomes.
Size of Grant - $500,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-325.html
NANOSCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - NanoManufacturing
Description - The NM program supports research, education and innovation in
design and manufacturing at the nanoscale (using mechanical, thermal,
electrical and chemical processes) and/or by biological actors (viruses,
cells, bacteria etc) as transformative production systems. Rather than
analysis or synthesis/processing of nanomaterials (supported by other ENG,
DMR etc programs), NM focuses on nano/bio-enabled spatio-temporal
structuring by design, optimization and control through predictive modeling,
as well as on multi-scale integration of nanostructures into microdevices
and meso/macro-systems. The emphasis of the program is on basic research
enabling manufacturing scalability (suitability for production, reliability,
robustness, throughput rate, yield, efficiency, affordability) providing
fundamental understanding for technology transfer and implementation for
industrial application.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13347
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Deadline Date - Ongoing for all except Cooperative Education: October 3,
2011
Grant Resource - CHS Foundation
Category - Agriculture and Rural America
Description - The CHS Foundation invests in the future of agriculture and
rural America through a strong commitment to education and leadership
development. Funding is program-orientated and your request should fall into
one of the five program areas:
University Partnerships
Rural Youth Leadership Development
Returning Value to Rural Communities
Cooperative Education
Farm and Agricultural Safety
Size of Grant - varies
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.chsfoundation.org/
Deadline Date - October 31, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Rural Health Network Planning Grant
Description - Network Planning Grants promote, through planning and
implementation, the development of integrated healthcare networks that have
combined the functions of the entities participating in the networks in
order to: (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand access to, coordinate, and
improve the quality of essential health care services; and (iii) strengthen
the rural health care system as a whole. . This program brings together key
parts of a rural health care delivery system so they can work together to
establish or improve local capacity and coordination of care, particularly
those entities that may not have collaborated in the past. The major focus
of the Network Planning Grant is to support rural entities in the
development of health care networks. The grant program supports one year of
planning to develop and assist health care networks in becoming operational.
Size of Grant - 15 awards totaling $1.15million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?
&mode=VIEW&oppId=118833
See AGRICULTURE, Grant Resource - National Center for Preservation
Technology and Training.
SAFETY
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering
Description - The HMSE program supports fundamental research on the design
and performance of structural systems and on new technologies for improving
the behavior, safety, and reliability of structural systems and their
resistance to natural hazards such as earthquakes and technological hazards
(such as bombs). Also supported by the program are innovations in analysis
and model-based simulation of structural behavior and response, design
concepts that improve structural performance, reliability, resilience and
sustainability, structural health monitoring, and applications of new
control techniques for structural systems.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13358
Deadline Date - November 22, 2011
Grant Resource - National Aeronautics and Aerospace Administration
Category - Earth Sciences Applications: Natural Disasters
Description - This NASA Research Announcement solicits proposals for
supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of
Earth and space science program elements relevant to Earth Science.
Size of Grant - $100,000 to $1 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init
&solId={AEF75D0F-2272-7DE7-D52A-295B47C8F5CF}&path=open
SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY
Deadline Date - December 2, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Commerce
Category - National Estuarine Research Reserve System
Description - The National Estuarine Research Reserve System consists of
estuarine areas of the United States and its territories which are
designated and managed for research and educational purposes. Each reserve
within the system is chosen to represent a different bio-geographic region
and to include a variety of ecosystem types in accordance with the
classification scheme of the national program as presented in 15 CFR Part
921. By funding designated reserve agencies and universities to conduct land
acquisition and construction projects that support the NERRS purpose, NOAA
will strengthen protection of key land and water areas, enhance long-term
protection of the area for research and education, and provide for facility
and exhibit construction that meet the highest sustainable design standards
possible.
Size of Grant - 3 awards totaling $1.7 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://www07.grants.gov/search/announce.do;jsessionid=JJGQTmnTgfvFnMkNzsnG4J
3K1p3qytlsq2JJJl1H1LdyQ6lw3hV3!-619865725
Deadline Date - December 7, 2011
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation, NIH, USDA
Category - Ecology and the Evolution of Infectious Disease
Description - The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program
supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological
principles and processes that regulate the transmission dynamics of
infectious diseases. The program's focus is on both the discovery, and the
building and testing models that elucidate these principles and processes.
Research proposals should focus on understanding the determinants of
transmission of diseases to humans, non-human animals, or plants; the spread
of pathogens by environmental factors, vectors or abiotic agents; the
population dynamics and genetics of reservoir species or alternate hosts; or
the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of disease
transmission. Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne,
vector-borne, or enteric diseases of either terrestrial, freshwater, or
marine systems and organisms, including diseases of non-human animals and
plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental
systems.
Size of Grant - 9 awards totaling $15 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11580/nsf11580.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25
TEACHER PREPARATION; FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Deadline Date - October 13, 2011
Grant Resource - Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
Category - Improving Teacher Quality
Description - OSRHE invites applications for measurable and sustainable
high-quality professional development activities to improve teachers'
content knowledge and/or effectiveness in mathematics, science and reading
and language arts.
Size of Grant - $35,000 to $120,000
Cost Sharing or Match - Encouraged, not required
Monday, September 19 - 9:00 a.m.-3:30 pm
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education - Linda Mason
Regents Conference Room (2nd floor) of 655 Research Parkway, OKC
This workshop is for those who have not written a grant proposal but are
going to try it soon. Each participant is encouraged to provide an idea for
funding before the workshop. This is a hands-on workshop. Small subgroups
will be formed to craft a proposal for critique in the manner of a grant
review panel. Please bring a laptop and a flash drive; you will use the
laptop for writing, not for internet searching. There is no fee, but you
must register. To register, send an e-mail to
lmason@osrhe.edu.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
WHO WANTS TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR WORKSHOP - LEARN IT SESSION
9:00 am - 6:00 pm Friday, September 30, at the Reed Center in Midwest City
To register for this session, click here:
Registration for the Teach it!" session is by invitation only,
through i2E, Inc. For more information on this session, please contact
Sarah Seagraves at
Participation in the "Live it!" session is limited to 90 business, community
and investment leaders. For registration information on this session,
contact Steven Martinez at
steven.martinez@ocast.ok.gov.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
NSF Regional Grant Workshop
Austin, TX - Westin Austin at the Domain - October 17-18, 2011
The UT Austin presents the opportunity to meet with NSF personnel and with
other research administrators from universities and colleges across the
United States. It is targeted to new faculty, researchers, educators, and
administrators who want to gain key insight into a wide range of current
issues at NSF including the state of current funding. NSF program officers
will be on hand to provide up-to-date information about specific funding and
answer questions.
Registration Fee: $340 - For more information and registration:
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
SEARCH AND SELECT
9:00 am to 12:00 pm - Tuesday, October 18
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education - 655 Research Parkway - OKC
An overview of:
. How to search for grant opportunities
. How to select the right grant program and agency
. Where to find the appropriate information about the grant program
A laptop computer will be necessary. There is no fee, but you must register.
To register, send an e-mail to Linda Mason at
lmason@osrhe.edu.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITY
OKBIO - GRANT WRITING FOR SBIR AND STTR
Wednesday, September 7 - 9:00am - 4:30pm
Presbyterian Health Foundation Conference Center
655 Research Parkway, OKC
This intensive, one-day workshop will focus exclusively on NIH SBIR and
STTR programs, and how you can write more
competitive proposals to get the funding you need. $25 - OKBio Members - $75
- Non Members - $20 - Faculty
Register here
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Deadline Date - October 31, 2011
Grant Resource - Home Depot
Category - Community Impact Grants
Description - Proposals for the following community improvement activities
will be considered: repairs, refurbishments, and modifications to low-income
and/or transitional housing or community facilities, weatherizing or
increasing energy efficiency of low-income and/or transitional housing or
community facilities; planting trees or community gardens and/or landscaping
community facilities; and development of community parks or green spaces.
Size of Grant - $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/how-we-help/grants.html
Deadline Date - November 1, 2011 Eligibility; December 31, 2011 Proposal
Grant Resource - Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Category - Community Development Grants
Description - The mission of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is
to address the root causes of poverty in the United States through the
support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through
transformative education. CCHD's Community Development Grants support
organizations that bring poor and vulnerable people together to change
structures and policies that perpetuate the cycle of poverty. Priority is
given to organizations that work with persons directly experiencing economic
or social injustice, such as racial discrimination, long-term joblessness,
or economic dislocation.
Size of Grant - $75,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://old.usccb.org/cchd/grants/criteria.shtml
Deadline Date - September 30, 2011
Grant Resource - Dr. Pepper Snapple KaBoom!
Category - Community Playgrounds
Description - With support from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, KaBOOM! will be
awarding grants of $750 each to communities this year who wish to make their
playgrounds cleaner, safer and more inviting. Communities must demonstrate
that they have maintained their playspace and they have led an improvement
project in the last 60 days.
Size of Grant - $750
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://kaboom.org/build_playground/get_funding/grants#spruce
EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL CONSORTIA
Deadline Date - September 9, 2011
Grant Resource - Kinder Morgan Foundation
Category - Youth Programs
Description - Grants are primarily directed to educational programs for
youth in grades K-12. Funding is provided to local, state, provincial and
regional educational institutions, libraries and programs that provide
ongoing support, such as Junior Achievement. The foundation also supports
youth programs provided by local arts organizations, symphony orchestras,
museums and others.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.kindermorgan.com/community/km_foundation.cfm
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011
Grant Resource - National Gardening Association and Subaru
Category - Children's Gardening
Description - The National Gardening Association (NGA) is dedicated to
promoting home, school, and community gardening as a means to renew and
sustain the essential connections between people, plants, and the environment. The NGA Subaru Healthy Sprouts Awards support school and youth
garden programs throughout the country that use gardens to teach youth about
the environment, nutrition, and the issue of hunger in the United States.
Fifty programs will receive a $500 gift certificate from the Gardening with
Kids catalog as well as lessons and literature from NGA. Applicants must
plan to garden in 2012 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and
18 years.
Size of Grant - $500
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.kidsgardening.org/grants/2011-subaru-healthy-sprouts-award
Deadline Date - October 17, 2011
Grant Resource - Youth Service America
Category - Service-Learning and Health Literacy
Description - The UnitedHealth HEROES program is a service-learning, health
literacy initiative that awards grants to help youth, ages 5-25, create and
implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity. The grants
encourage semester-long projects that launch on MLK Day of Service and
culminate on Global Youth Service Day. Schools, service-learning
coordinators, non-profits, and students in the health professions located in
all 50 states are eligible to apply.
Size of Grant - $1,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.ysa.org/HEROES
Deadline Date - October 1 and December 15 Letter of Intent; November 3, 2011
and January 18, 2012 Full Proposal
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - National Robotics Initiative
Description - The goal of the National Robotics Initiative is to accelerate
the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or
cooperatively with, people. The purpose of this program is the development
of this next generation of robotics, to advance the capability and usability
of such systems and artifacts, and to encourage existing and new communities
to focus on innovative application areas. It will address the entire life
cycle from fundamental research and development to industry manufacturing
and deployment. Methods for the establishment and infusion of robotics in
educational curricula and research to gain a better understanding of the
long term social, behavioral and economic implications of co-robots across
all areas of human activity are important parts of this initiative.
Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other organizations
is strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental
science and technology development, deployment and use.
Size of Grant - Small Grants $250,000/yr for 5 years; Large
Multidisciplinary Grants $1,000/yr for 5 years
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11553/nsf11553.htm
Deadline Date - December 31, 2011
Grant Resource - Whole Kids Foundation
Category - School Gardens
Description - The Whole Kids Foundation to support schools and inspire families to improve children's nutrition and wellness, is accepting grant applications for its first major initiative, the School Garden Grant Program. Designed to help schools grow students' relationships with food through gardening, the new program stems from the Whole Kids Foundation's mission of supporting schools' efforts to improve
children's nutrition. The grant program will be funded by a six-week,
in-store donation drive at all Whole Foods Market stores and online at the
Whole Kids Foundation Web site from August 17 to September 30. FoodCorps
seeks to reverse childhood obesity by increasing children's knowledge of,
engagement with, and access to healthy food, will help administer the grant
program and will provide mentorship services and other resources to grant
recipients.
Size of Grant - $2,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://wholekidsfoundation.org/gardengrants.php
FELLOWSHIPS
Deadline Dates - November 14, 2011 Engineering; November 15, 2011
Mathematical Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences, Engineering,
Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Materials Research; November 16, 2011
Social Sciences, Psychology, Geosciences, STEM Education and Learning;
November 18, 2011 Life Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Description - The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
(GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and
engineering workforce in the United States. The program recognizes and
supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based
master's and doctoral degrees in fields within NSF's mission. The GRFP
provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals
who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in
science and engineering research.
Size of Grant - 2,000 awards of $30,000/yr stipend + $10,500/yr research support
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11582/nsf11582.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_e
v=click
GERONTOLOGY; SENIOR ISSUES
Deadline Date - May 7, 2012
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Gerontology - Secondary Analyses of Social and Behavioral
Datasets in Aging
Description - This Funding Opportunity Announcement is seeking small grant
(R03) applications to conduct secondary analysis of social and behavioral
data in aging. Specifically, NIA seeks applicants to: 1) stimulate and
facilitate secondary analysis of data related to dynamics of health and
disability, cognition, psychosocial and sociodemographic factors, genetics,
and biomarkers, long term care, caregiving, behavioral medicine, retirement,
economic status; 2) provide support for preliminary projects using secondary
analysis that could lead to subsequent applications for other research grant
award mechanisms; 3) provide support for analyses of new databases and
experimental modules for purposes such as informing the design and content
of future study waves; and 4) provide support for pilot research on
under-utilized databases.
Size of Grant - $50,000/yr for 2 years
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-139.html
HEALTH FIELDS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION, OPTOMETRY
Deadline Date - October 2, 2011 Letter of Intent, November 2, 2011 Proposal
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Clinical Research Education and Career Development Program
Description - The purpose of the Clinical Research Education and Career
Development Program is to expand the national capability to improve
diversity for research in the health sciences by developing the research
workforce in clinical and translational sciences though providing grant
support to minority institutions that offer doctorate degrees in the health
professions or in a health-related science.
Size of Grant - 3 5-yr project awards for $500,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-325.html
Deadline Date - October 16, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Pancreatic Cancer
Description - This funding opportunity announcement encourages the
submission of Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions
and organizations that propose to promote innovative research across
multiple disciplines for a better understanding of the biology, etiology,
detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Size of Grant - $275,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-297.html
Deadline Date - October 20, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Dimensional Approaches to Research Classification in Psychiatric
Disorders
Description - This Funding Opportunity Announcement seeks research grant
applications designed to develop innovative ways of understanding mental
disorders through classifying patients in clinical studies on the basis of
experimental research criteria rather than traditional diagnostic
categories.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-12-100.html
Deadline Date - October 26, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Hematologic and Sleep Disorders
Description - The purpose of this FOA is to increase the participation of
individuals from diverse backgrounds in cardiovascular, pulmonary,
hematologic and sleep disorders research across the career development
continuum. The program intended to support training of predoctoral and
health professional students and individuals in postdoctoral training at
non-research intensive institutions with an institutional mission focused on
serving diverse communities that are not well represented in NIH-funded
research, or identified federal legislation of same, with the potential to
develop meritorious training programs in cardiovascular, pulmonary,
hematologic, and sleep disorders.
Size of Grant - 2 awards of $125,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HL-12-032.html
Deadline Date - November 5, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Healthy Habits in Children
Description - This Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage Research
Project Grant applications that employ innovative research to identify
mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health
behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18). Positive health
behaviors may include: developing healthy sleep patterns, developing
effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in risk
situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced and
nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity and/or
participating in healthy relationships.
Size of Grant - $500,000 for 5 yr projects
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-327.html
Deadline Date - November 5, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Biomarkers: Bridging Pediatric and Adult Therapeutics
Description - This funding opportunity announcement invites applications
from institutions or organizations that propose adapting adult biomarkers to
children. This would include the application and validation of biomarkers
developed in adults to pediatric diagnosis, prognosis, and estimation of
disease progression, toxicity and response to therapy.
Size of Grant - 5 year projects
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-322.html
Deadline Date - November 5, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Effective Patient-Provider Communication for Treatment and
Self-Management of Chronic Diseases in Underserved Populations
Description - The purpose of this initiative is to stimulate research
utilizing Mobile Health (mHealth) tools aimed at the improvement of
effective patient-provider communication, adherence to treatment and
self-management of chronic diseases in underserved populations
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-330.html
Deadline Date - November 15, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Defense
Category - Biologically-derived Medicines on Demand
Description - The Bio-MOD program seeks to develop devices and techniques to
produce multiple protein biologics in response to specific battlefield
threats and medical needs. This will be achieved by investing in (1) novel,
flexible methodologies for genetic engineering/modification of microbial
strains, eukaryotic strains, and/or cell-free systems to synthesize multiple
protein-based therapeutics; and (2) flexible and portable device platforms
for manufacturing multiple biologics with high purity, efficacy and potency
at the point-of-care, in short timeframes, when the specific need arises.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Solicitations/DSO_Solicitations.aspx
LABORATORIES; EQUIPMENT
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Manufacturing and Construction Machines and Equipment
Description - The MCME program supports fundamental research leading to
improved machines and applications for both manufacturing and construction.
Key goals are to advance the transition of these industries from skill-based
to knowledge-based activities and to develop them as activities with minimal
environmental and societal impact.
Size of Grant - $300,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
LIBRARIES
Deadline Date - November 1, 2011
Grant Resource - Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for
America Grant
Category - Museums for America
Description - Museums for America is IMLS's largest grant program for
museums, supporting projects and ongoing activities that build museums'
capacity to serve their communities. Museums for America grants strengthen a
museum's ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting
high-priority activities that advance the institution's mission and
strategic goals. Museums for America grants can be used for a wide variety
of new or ongoing museum activities and programs, such as improvement of
institutional infrastructure, planning, management of collections, public
access, professional development, purchase of equipment or services,
research and scholarship, public programming and exhibitions, development
and/or implementation of education programs, or efforts by museums to
upgrade and integrate new technologies into their overall institutional
effectiveness. Grants are awarded in the following categories: Engaging
Communities (Education, Exhibitions, and Interpretation): Support projects
that represent a broad range of educational activities through which museums
share collections, content, and knowledge to support learning. Building
Institutional Capacity (Management, Policy, and Training): Support projects
that serve to improve the infrastructure of museums to better serve their
communities. Collections Stewardship (Management of Collections): Support
projects that museums undertake to maintain and improve the management of
museum collections in order to fulfill a museum's public service mission.
Size of Grant - $150,000
Cost Sharing or Match - Yes
Web
Deadline Date - January 13, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Geoinformatics
Description - The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) will consider proposals
for the development of cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences
(Geoinformatics). EAR seeks the development and implementation of enabling
information technology with impacts that extend beyond an individual
investigator or small group of investigators and that facilitates the next
generation of geosciences research. Proposals to this solicitation may seek
support for community-driven development and implementation of databases;
tools for data integration, interoperability, and visualization; software
development and code hardening; and data-intensive/new computing
methodologies that support the enhancement of geosciences research and
education activities.
Size of Grant - 10 awards totaling $4.8 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11581/nsf11581.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25
MATH; ENGINEERING
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Materials and Surface Engineering
Description - The MSE program supports fundamental research leading to a
better understanding of the effect of microstructure, surfaces, and coatings
on the properties and performance of engineering materials; and the ultimate
control of these properties through material design. Of particular interest
is materials service under conditions such as impact, temperature extremes,
corrosion, oxidation, and friction. The program also supports research
leading to biomedical applications of materials. Funded research includes
both experimental and theoretical approaches.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13356
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events
Description - The IMEE program focuses on the impact of large-scale hazards
on civil infrastructure and society and on related issues of preparedness,
response, mitigation, and recovery. The program supports research to
integrate multiple issues from engineering, social, behavioral, political,
and economic sciences. It supports fundamental research on the
interdependence of civil infrastructure and society, development of
sustainable infrastructures, and civil infrastructure vulnerability and risk
reduction.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13353
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Engineering Design and Innovation
Description - The EDI program 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. The program focus is on gaining an understanding of the basic
processes and phenomena underlying a holistic, life-cycle view of design
where the total system life-cycle context recognizes the need for advanced
understanding of the identification and definition of preferences, analysis
of alternatives, effective accommodation of uncertainty in decision-making,
and the relationship between data and knowledge in a digitally-supported
process. The program funds advances in basic design theory, tools, and
software to implement design theory and new design methods that span
multiple domains, such as design for the environment and for
manufacturability.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13340
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Description - The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics
and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale solid and fluid
mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across
molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The relationships between
mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization
are of interest.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13523
Deadline Date - February 1, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
Description - The National Science Foundation encourages the submission of
industry-defined fundamental research proposals from NSF Industry/University
Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) in areas of shared value to both
centers and their members. Industry-defined fundamental research broadens
the scientific and engineering understanding beyond the more specific
applied research interests of the industries traditionally served by the
I/UCRC. Industry participation extends the scope and horizon of center
research projects so as to drive innovation with industrially relevant
fundamental research projects.
Size of Grant - 10 awards of $200,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11570/nsf11570.htm
MINORITY STUDENTS
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 1, 2012; June 1, 2012
Grant Resource - Seventh Generation Fund
Category - Indian Students
Description - The Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development is
dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples and
the sovereignty of tribal Nations throughout the Americas. The Fund's
primary grantmaking program areas include the following: Arts and Cultural
Expression, Environmental Health and Justice, Human Rights, Sustainable
Communities, Intergenerational Leadership, and Women's Leadership.
Size of Grant - $500 requests ongoing; $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.7genfund.org
Deadline Date - October 2, 2011; October 2, 2012
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Clinical Research in Minority Serving Institutions
Description - The purpose of the Clinical Research Education and Career
Development Program is to expand the national capability to improve
diversity for research in the health sciences by developing the research
workforce in clinical and translational sciences though providing grant
support to minority institutions that offer doctorate degrees in the health
professions or in a health-related science. These institutions historically
have trained professionals from diverse backgrounds who provide health care
to minority populations and are uniquely positioned to engage these
populations in research and in the translation of research advances into
culturally appropriate, measurable and sustained improvements in health
outcomes.
Size of Grant - $500,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-325.html
NANOSCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - NanoManufacturing
Description - The NM program supports research, education and innovation in
design and manufacturing at the nanoscale (using mechanical, thermal,
electrical and chemical processes) and/or by biological actors (viruses,
cells, bacteria etc) as transformative production systems. Rather than
analysis or synthesis/processing of nanomaterials (supported by other ENG,
DMR etc programs), NM focuses on nano/bio-enabled spatio-temporal
structuring by design, optimization and control through predictive modeling,
as well as on multi-scale integration of nanostructures into microdevices
and meso/macro-systems. The emphasis of the program is on basic research
enabling manufacturing scalability (suitability for production, reliability,
robustness, throughput rate, yield, efficiency, affordability) providing
fundamental understanding for technology transfer and implementation for
industrial application.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13347
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Deadline Date - Ongoing for all except Cooperative Education: October 3,
2011
Grant Resource - CHS Foundation
Category - Agriculture and Rural America
Description - The CHS Foundation invests in the future of agriculture and
rural America through a strong commitment to education and leadership
development. Funding is program-orientated and your request should fall into
one of the five program areas:
University Partnerships
Rural Youth Leadership Development
Returning Value to Rural Communities
Cooperative Education
Farm and Agricultural Safety
Size of Grant - varies
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.chsfoundation.org/
Deadline Date - October 31, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Health and Human Services
Category - Rural Health Network Planning Grant
Description - Network Planning Grants promote, through planning and
implementation, the development of integrated healthcare networks that have
combined the functions of the entities participating in the networks in
order to: (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand access to, coordinate, and
improve the quality of essential health care services; and (iii) strengthen
the rural health care system as a whole. . This program brings together key
parts of a rural health care delivery system so they can work together to
establish or improve local capacity and coordination of care, particularly
those entities that may not have collaborated in the past. The major focus
of the Network Planning Grant is to support rural entities in the
development of health care networks. The grant program supports one year of
planning to develop and assist health care networks in becoming operational.
Size of Grant - 15 awards totaling $1.15million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?
&mode=VIEW&oppId=118833
See AGRICULTURE, Grant Resource - National Center for Preservation
Technology and Training.
SAFETY
Deadline Date - October 1, 2011; February 15, 2012
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation
Category - Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering
Description - The HMSE program supports fundamental research on the design
and performance of structural systems and on new technologies for improving
the behavior, safety, and reliability of structural systems and their
resistance to natural hazards such as earthquakes and technological hazards
(such as bombs). Also supported by the program are innovations in analysis
and model-based simulation of structural behavior and response, design
concepts that improve structural performance, reliability, resilience and
sustainability, structural health monitoring, and applications of new
control techniques for structural systems.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13358
Deadline Date - November 22, 2011
Grant Resource - National Aeronautics and Aerospace Administration
Category - Earth Sciences Applications: Natural Disasters
Description - This NASA Research Announcement solicits proposals for
supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of
Earth and space science program elements relevant to Earth Science.
Size of Grant - $100,000 to $1 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init
&solId={AEF75D0F-2272-7DE7-D52A-295B47C8F5CF}&path=open
SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY
Deadline Date - December 2, 2011
Grant Resource - US Department of Commerce
Category - National Estuarine Research Reserve System
Description - The National Estuarine Research Reserve System consists of
estuarine areas of the United States and its territories which are
designated and managed for research and educational purposes. Each reserve
within the system is chosen to represent a different bio-geographic region
and to include a variety of ecosystem types in accordance with the
classification scheme of the national program as presented in 15 CFR Part
921. By funding designated reserve agencies and universities to conduct land
acquisition and construction projects that support the NERRS purpose, NOAA
will strengthen protection of key land and water areas, enhance long-term
protection of the area for research and education, and provide for facility
and exhibit construction that meet the highest sustainable design standards
possible.
Size of Grant - 3 awards totaling $1.7 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web -
http://www07.grants.gov/search/announce.do;jsessionid=JJGQTmnTgfvFnMkNzsnG4J
3K1p3qytlsq2JJJl1H1LdyQ6lw3hV3!-619865725
Deadline Date - December 7, 2011
Grant Resource - National Science Foundation, NIH, USDA
Category - Ecology and the Evolution of Infectious Disease
Description - The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program
supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological
principles and processes that regulate the transmission dynamics of
infectious diseases. The program's focus is on both the discovery, and the
building and testing models that elucidate these principles and processes.
Research proposals should focus on understanding the determinants of
transmission of diseases to humans, non-human animals, or plants; the spread
of pathogens by environmental factors, vectors or abiotic agents; the
population dynamics and genetics of reservoir species or alternate hosts; or
the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of disease
transmission. Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne,
vector-borne, or enteric diseases of either terrestrial, freshwater, or
marine systems and organisms, including diseases of non-human animals and
plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental
systems.
Size of Grant - 9 awards totaling $15 million
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11580/nsf11580.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25
TEACHER PREPARATION; FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Deadline Date - October 13, 2011
Grant Resource - Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
Category - Improving Teacher Quality
Description - OSRHE invites applications for measurable and sustainable
high-quality professional development activities to improve teachers'
content knowledge and/or effectiveness in mathematics, science and reading
and language arts.
Size of Grant - $35,000 to $120,000
Cost Sharing or Match - Encouraged, not required
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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One Grand Prize winner and five Segment winners will be selected. Prizes will
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and $5,000 for the Grand Prize winner.
Additionally, all winners will receive an all-expense paid trip to the Education
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If you have any questions or need additional details about the 2011 LEGO Smart Creativity
Contest, please e-mail LEGOsmart@LEGOeducation.us.
Good luck!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Submit your entries NOW!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Contest web ad for Creativity Contest!
This year the contest is all about creativity, innovation, and hands-on learning!
We want you to think beyond the books and focus on the power of the brick!
That's why in 150 seconds or less, we challenge you to . . .
Create a video that showcases how you use LEGO Education solutions to spark student
innovation!
One Grand Prize winner and five Segment winners will be selected. Prizes will
consist of LEGO Education gift certificates valued at $2,500 for Segment winners
and $5,000 for the Grand Prize winner.
Additionally, all winners will receive an all-expense paid trip to the Education
STEM Summit hosted by LEGO Education in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 16, 2011.
As an added bonus, the first 8,000 public or private school contestants and 2,000
homeschool contestants will receive a FREE LEGO Smart Kit with an exclusive contest
challenge card inside!
To register as a contestant for the 2011 LEGO Smart Creativity Contest or for more
information on how to submit your video go to: http://aux.legoeducation.us/Forms/LEGOSmartContest.aspx
If you have any questions or need additional details about the 2011 LEGO Smart Creativity
Contest, please e-mail LEGOsmart@LEGOeducation.us.
Good luck!
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