[Plsgs] FW: July 2015 GradFunding Opportunities

[Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert)]

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Subject: July 2015 GradFunding Opportunities

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Workshops

  *   Information Sessions for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program

General Funding Opportunities

  *   Carson Scholar Program – UA Only
  *   Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
  *   Gates Cambridge Scholarships
  *   Harvard University Society of Fellows
  *   Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program in Entrepreneurship
  *   NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SciSIP-DDRIG)
  *   Ohio State University College of Medicine Postdoctoral Recruitment Event
  *   Partnership for Public Service – Public Service Fellows
  *   Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
  *   P.E.O International Peace Scholarship

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

  *   18th Street Arts Center’s Visiting Artist Residency Program
  *   American Educational Research Association Dissertation Grants
  *   American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
  *   Chinati Foundation Artist Residencies
  *   Grammy Foundation- Grants in Music Research and Preservation Projects
  *   History and Philosophy of Medicine Fellowships
  *   Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship
  *   Ucross Foundation- Spring Artist Residencies

Funding Opportunities in Science and Engineering

  *   Demonstration of Energy-Efficient Developments (DEED) Student Research Grants and Internships
  *   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowships
  *   Methane Hydrate Science Research Fellowship
  *   Welder Wildlife Foundation Graduate Fellowships

Postdoctoral Opportunities

  *   American Heart Association Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
  *   Burroughs Wellcome Fund-ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases
  *   Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education Postdoctoral Fellowships
  *   Fulbright Postdoctoral and Early Career Opportunities
  *   NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships


Workshops

Information Sessions for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
This workshop is intended for students who plan to apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. We will discuss the application process and strategies for applying. The workshop will be held in University Services Building Room 214 on the following dates and times:

  *   Wednesday, July 22 from 2:30 - 3:30 in University Services Building Room 214
  *   Thursday, August 13 from 9:30 - 10:30 in University Services Building Room 214
  *   Thursday, August 27 from 9:30 - 10:30 in University Services Building Room 214
  *   Wednesday, September 2 from 11:30 - 12:30 in University Services Building Room 214
Please RSVP here: https://grad.arizona.edu/ofce/nsf-grfp-information-session

General Funding Opportunities

Carson Scholar Program – UA Only
The Carson Scholars Program cultivates and advances interdisciplinary environmental scholarship at the University of Arizona. The program is designed to build a network of graduate students and faculty devoted to furthering knowledge and awareness of Earth’s natural environment and its interactions with people. The program also encourages individual initiative, innovation, and communication. Carson Scholars, through their emphasis on excellence in interdisciplinary environmental scholarship, problem-solving, and communicating science to a broad audience, will become leaders in the advancement of collaborative solutions to environmental challenges among the public, private, NGO, and academic sectors. The Carson Scholars Program offers one-year, one-time-only, $5,000 graduate scholarships. The scholarships are designed to support and retain University of Arizona PhD students whose research is related to the environment, social justice and renewable energy and who are interested in communicating science to a broad audience.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: September 18, 2015
Website: http://carson.arizona.edu/content/scholarship


Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the National Academies in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. An immersive experience, the program is designed to broaden fellows’ appreciation of employment opportunities outside academia and leave them with both a firm grasp of the important and dynamic role of science and technology in decision-making and a better understanding of the role that they can play in strengthening the science and technology enterprise for the betterment of mankind. The stipend for the 12 week session will be $8500. Open to most fields including social science, business, and law.
Citizenship: see website
Deadline: September 9, 2015
Website: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/policyfellows/

Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Gates Cambridge Scholarships are prestigious, highly competitive full-cost scholarships. They are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. The program aims to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
Citizenship:  A citizen of any country outside the United Kingdom may apply
Deadline: October 14 and December 2 (see website)
Website: www.gatescambridge.org<http://www.gatescambridge.org>

Harvard University Society of Fellows
The purpose of the Society is to give men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must be persons of exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness, and should be of the highest caliber of intellectual achievement, comparable to successful candidates for junior faculty positions at leading universities. These Junior Fellows are selected by the Senior Fellows, who with the President of the University and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ex officio, administer the Society. Junior Fellows are required to be in residence in Cambridge or neighboring communities during the academic year and to attend the weekly lunches and dinners. Junior Fellows are not subject to examination, are not required to make reports, receive no credit for courses, and may not be candidates for any degree other than the Ph.D. Candidates are nominated for Junior Fellowships, generally by those under whom they have studied. Applications are not accepted from candidates themselves.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: August 14, 2015 (nomination)
Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~socfell/about.html

Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program in Entrepreneurship
The Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program (KDFP) is an annual competitive program that awards up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $15,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A., or other doctoral students at accredited U.S. universities to support dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: August 19, 2015
Website: http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/programs/entrepreneurship/kauffman-emerging-scholars/kauffman-dissertation-fellowship-program

NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SciSIP-DDRIG)
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. The program funds research to develop models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process and concern the use and allocation of scarce scientific resources. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across the broad array of science and innovation policy challenges. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science, technology and innovation data, and to usefully convey that information to a variety of audiences. Proposals that create and improve science, engineering and innovation data, including the design of new metrics and indicators, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations, are encouraged.
Citizenship: Unrestricted (advisor is the PI)
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15583/nsf15583.htm

Ohio State University College of Medicine Postdoctoral Recruitment Event
This event, held September 30 – October 2, will provide an excellent opportunity for outstanding PhD students from leading graduate programs to meet our research faculty, interview for open postdoctoral positions, and discover the exciting and innovative research taking place at The Ohio State University and the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Selected candidates will be invited to visit the Ohio State campus, network with current OSU and NCH postdocs, present their research to faculty in a podium presentation, interview with prospective mentors, and learn more about postdoctoral opportunities at Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Candidates selected to attend this event may be considered for a variety of opportunities at Ohio State, including fellowships, training grants, and other internal training programs. Full funding will be provided for travel expenses.
Citizenship: Preference will be given to US Citizens and permanent residents who are training grant-eligible. Exceptional international applicants may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Deadline: July 27, 2015
Website: http://medicine.osu.edu/research_ed/postdoc/events/2015apdre/pages/index.aspx

Partnership for Public Service – Public Service Fellows
The Partnership for Public Service’s Fellowship Program provides paid internships at the organization’s offices in Washington, D.C. in specialized assignments that support its mission, including accounting, communications, development, education and outreach, and research.  Undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates from any academic background are eligible to apply.  Candidates should possess a strong commitment to public service, analytical thinking, strong written and oral communication, and an ability to work well in teams.  Full-time fellows with an undergraduate or graduate degree are paid $1,000 per month.
Deadline: July 10
Website: www.ourpublicservice.org/fellows<http://www.ourpublicservice.org/fellows>

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Thirty Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans will be awarded on the basis of a single national competition. Each fellowship supports up to two years of graduate study – in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program – in the United States. Each award is for up to $25,000 in maintenance grants and up to $20,000 in tuition support for each year of graduate study supported, a total of as much as $90,000. Applicants must not yet be 31 years old, as of the application deadline and not beyond their second year, if already enrolled, in a graduate degree program.
Citizenship: A New American (a green card holder or naturalized citizen if born abroad; a child of naturalized citizens if born in this country).
Deadline: November 1, 2015
Website: http://www.pdsoros.org/competition/

P.E.O International Peace Scholarship
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (IPS) Fund was established in 1949 to provide scholarships for international women students to pursue graduate study in the United States and Canada.
Eligibility: Women who are not from U.S. or Canada
Deadline: See website:
Website: http://www.peointernational.org/about-peo-international-peace-scholarship-ips

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

18th Street Arts Center’s Visiting Artist Residency Program
The program in Santa Monica, CA hosts artists from across the United States and from around the world. There are four live/work artist studios at the center where artists are in residence from 1 to 3 months at a time (sometimes longer). This program hosts artists of all disciplines as well as art curators, writers, and musicians. It includes invited artists as well as artists selected through an application process.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: rolling basis
Website: http://18thstreet.org/

American Educational Research Association Dissertation Grants
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces its Dissertation Grants competition. The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance. AERA invites education-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal data bases. Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing the doctoral dissertation. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.
Citizenship: Applicants for Dissertation Grants may be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a doctoral program. Non-U.S. citizens enrolled in a doctoral program at a U.S. institution are also eligible to apply
Deadline: September 10, 2015
Website: http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/Default.aspx

American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association sponsors an annual competition for dissertation research funding. The purpose of the Dissertation Research Award program is to assist science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with research costs. The current program includes 30-40 grants of $1,000 each, along with several larger grants of up to $5,000 to students whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: September 15, 2015
Website: http://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-dissertre.aspx?tab=1

Chinati Foundation Artist Residencies
Founded by Donald Judd in 1979, the Chinati Foundation provides resident artists a furnished apartment on the museum's grounds, a private studio in the town of Marfa, and a stipend of $1,000 to pursue their self-directed projects. Resident artists also have unlimited access to the museum’s collection and archive. A museum exhibition of the artist’s work takes place at the end of the residency.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: November 1, 2015
Website: https://chinati.org/information/internships.php

Grammy Foundation- Grants in Music Research and Preservation Projects
Funded by the Recording Academy, the Grammy Foundation's research projects grant program awards funding of up to $20,000 to organizations and individuals working to research the impact of music on the human condition. Examples include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition, and healing; the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals; and the creative process underlying music. The archiving and preservation projects grant program awards grants to organizations and individuals in support of efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The archiving and preservation area has two funding categories — preservation implementation (grants of up to $20,000) and planning, assessment and/or consultation (grants of up to $5,000).
Deadline: October 1
Website: http://www.grammy.org/grammy-foundation/grants

History and Philosophy of Medicine Fellowships
The fellowships are intended to attract scholars to the Clendening Library and University of Kansas Medical Center Archives who will carry out research in the history of medicine, nursing, allied health and related sciences. The Department will grant fellowships to interested scholars whose research topics are well-suited to the varied collections housed in the library and archives. The Department intends to grant fellowships with the aim of attracting scholars from a wide range of academic levels, including professors, independent researchers, graduate students in the dissertation stage of their degrees, and postgraduate students pursuing advanced scholarship. The department will grant fellowships for a period of two to four weeks. The amount of the fellowships will be $500.00 per week for 2-4 weeks, with a maximum of $2,000.00, to cover expenses, with an additional one-time travel stipend of $500 for scholars from outside of the Kansas City area
Citizenship: unspecified
Deadline: rolling
Website: http://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/history-and-philosophy-of-medicine/fellowships/pearce-fellowship.htm l

Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship
The Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program (KDFP) is an annual competitive program that awards up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $15,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A., or other doctoral students at accredited U.S. universities to support dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship. This program helps launch the careers of emerging world-class entrepreneurship scholars, who have gone on to find positions in top-tier universities, research arms of federal agencies, and private industry, thus laying a foundation for future scientific advancement. The findings generated by this effort will be translated into knowledge with immediate application for policymakers, educators, service providers, and entrepreneurs as well as high-quality academic research.
Deadline: August 19, 2015
Website: http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/programs/entrepreneurship/kauffman-emerging-scholars/kauffman-dissertation-fellowship-program

Ucross Foundation- Spring 2015 Artist Residencies
Founded in 1981, the Ucross Foundation provides uninterrupted time, work space, and living accommodations to competitively selected visual artists, writers, and composers. Nearly thirteen hundred individuals from every state in the U.S. as well as Germany, France, Scotland, England, Poland, Egypt, the Netherlands, Canada, and Thailand have spent time at Ucross since it first opened. Currently, the foundation is accepting applications for its 2016 Spring Residency program, which runs from late-February to mid-June. Residencies vary in length from two weeks to six weeks. At any one time, there are up to nine individuals in residence, representing a mix of visual artists, writers, and composers. In most cases, studios are separate from living quarters. Most meals are provided, and there is cell phone service on the property as well as wireless Internet connection for resident use. Residents are responsible for providing their own working materials and for their travel to Sheridan, Wyoming. There is no charge for a residency. Artists, writers, and composers from the United States and around the globe in any stage of their professional careers are invited to apply.
Deadline: March 1 and October 1
For more information: http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/residency-program/



Funding Opportunities in Science and Engineering

Demonstration of Energy-Efficient Developments (DEED) Student Research Grants and Internships
DEED student research grants and internships support students studying in energy-related disciplines, increase awareness of career opportunities in public power, and provide assistance to DEED member utility sponsors. Each year student research grants and internships are awarded to students conducting research on an energy-related project. Students must be sponsored by a DEED member utility and are required to write an abstract and final report at the completion of the project.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: October 15 (and February 15)
Website: http://www.publicpower.org/Programs/interiordetail2col.cfm?ItemNumber=31309&navItemNumber=38572

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowships
Two fellowships exist, one general fellowship and one focused on microwave engineering to medical applications. The general fellowships are intended to recognize and provide financial assistance to graduate students who show promise and interest in pursuing a graduate degree in microwave engineering. The purpose of fellowship is to recognize and provide financial assistance to graduate students who show promise and interest in pursuing a graduate degree in applying microwave engineering to medical applications. The student must be actively pursuing a graduate degree in electrical engineering, applied physics, biomedical engineering or other appropriate field on a full-time basis at an accredited institution of higher learning.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: October 15, 2015
Website: http://www.mtt.org/students.html

Methane Hydrate Science Research Fellowship
The NRC, in association with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), administers a Research Fellowship Program designed to support the development of Methane Hydrate science and enable highly qualified graduate and postgraduate students to pursue advanced degrees and training in an area of increasing national interest. With respect to the energy production potential of gas hydrates, interest is in projects that will provide improved tools, methods, and information relative to the remote detection, characterization, and appraisal of production potential of Methane Hydrates. With respect to gas hydrates as a part of the global environment, interest is in projects that provide an improved understanding of the processes that control the distribution, occurrence, and stability of gas hydrates in marine and permafrost settings. The 2 or 3-year fellowships are available to support work towards the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, or to support a Postdoctoral appointment.  Research during the term of the fellowship can be performed at any federal lab or accredited university in the United States.
Citizenship: USA
Deadline: August 1 (and February 1)
Website: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/RAP/PGA_050492

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants in the Biological Sciences
The National Science Foundation awards Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in selected areas of the biological sciences. These grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research to improve the overall quality of research. Allowed are costs for doctoral candidates to participate in scientific meetings, to conduct research in specialized facilities or field settings, and to expand an existing body of dissertation research.
Citizenship: Unrestricted (advisor is the PI)
Deadline: October 8, 2015
Website: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5234

Welder Wildlife Foundation Graduate Fellowships
The graduate research fellowship program is designed to promote the education of exceptionally qualified students and provide research information to manage wildlife populations. Studies are limited to the continental United States. The Foundation will entertain research proposals in the following areas of study: animal behavior, biology, botany, conservation education, ecology, genetics, mammalogy, ornithology, parasitology, range science, veterinary pathology, and wildlife and fisheries sciences.
Citizenship: USA
Deadline: see website
Website: http://welderwildlife.org/content/research/fellowships/

Postdoctoral Opportunities

American Heart Association Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
The fellowship aims to help trainees initiate careers in cardiovascular and stroke research while obtaining significant research results under the supervision of a sponsor or mentor; supports individuals before they are ready for some stage of independent research. Research should broadly relate to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts. Proposals are encouraged from all basic disciplines as well as epidemiological, behavioral, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems.
Citizenship: See website
Deadline: July 22 - July 24
Website: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Research/FundingOpportunities/SupportingInformation/Postdoctoral-Fellowship_UCM_443314_Article.jsp

Burroughs Wellcome Fund-ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund-ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases was established in 1999 to support career development of physician/scientists focused on infectious diseases of the developing world. Thanks to a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, these fellowships provide funding for selected individuals to conduct research in tropical infectious diseases (and, on occasion, other clinical conditions unique to tropical medicine). The fellowship is designed to stimulate or sustain interest in research in tropical infectious diseases by individuals who are planning academic or other career paths ultimately focused on clinical research relevant to tropical or developing areas of the world.
Deadline: August 12, 2015
Website: http://www.astmh.org/ASTMH_Sponsored_Fellowships/5886.htm

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education directs a postdoctoral fellowship program that offers supervised research experience in tobacco control with members of the Center faculty. Each trainee meets regularly with a faculty mentor regarding research progress and career or professional issues. We offer diverse educational and research opportunities, including postdoctoral fellowships, graduate research positions, advocacy training, and individualized documents training. Our work spans policy and historical research, economics, and science.
Fellows are recruited from a variety of fields including the basic sciences, social sciences, public health practitioners, clinical fields, political science, history, economics, law, and marketing.
Citizenship: unrestricted (one international position annually)
Deadline: January 20, 2016
Website: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/fellowship

Fulbright Postdoctoral and Early Career Opportunities
There is still time to apply for an exciting Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program opportunity in Europe and Eurasia and the Middle East and North Africa for postdoctoral and early career scholars! Our organization, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, administers the Fulbright Scholar Program on behalf of the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Scholar competition for academic year 2016-2017 is currently accepting applications and opportunities are available in a number of countries, including but not limited to the following:
• Iceland: Fulbright-National Science Foundation
• Belgium: Postdoctoral-Junior Research Award in Cancer Clinical and Translational Research
• France: Fulbright-EHESS Post-Doctoral Award (Junior Research); Fulbright-Rhone Alpes Award (Junior Research)
• Poland: STEM - Science and Technology
• Italy: Fulbright-LUISS Junior Research Lectureship
• Israel: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Deadline: August 3, 2015
Website: http://www.cies.org/program/postdoc

NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The purpose of the MSPRF is to support future leaders in mathematics and statistics by facilitating their participation in postdoctoral research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development. There are two options for awardees: Research Fellowship and Research Instructorship. Awards will support research in areas of mathematics and statistics, including applications to other disciplines.
Citizenship: United States
Deadline: October 21
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5301&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

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