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• 2009 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP)
  
  
• CONTACT PROGRAM: CALL FOR WHITE PAPERS
  
  
• AMERICAN EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AERA) RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
  
  
• AMERICAN EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AERA) DISSERTATION GRANTS PROPOSALS
  
  
• PROGRAM FOR DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMPLETION
  
  
• ACLS COMPETITION & FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
  
  

2009 DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP)

The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the Fiscal Year 2009 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), a part of the University Research Initiative (URI). DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S. institutions of higher education (hereafter referred to as "universities") to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment.

This announcement seeks proposals to purchase instrumentation in support of research areas of interest to the DoD, including areas of research supported by the administering agencies. The research areas of interest for the administering agencies are available on-line at the following addresses:

Army Research Office:
http://www.aro.army.mil (select "For the Researcher" and then "Funding Opportunities")
See BAA W911NF-07-R-0003 U.S. Army Research Office BAA FY 2007 - 2011

Office of Naval Research:
http://www.onr.navy.mil (select "ONR Science and Technology Departments")
(Refer questions about appropriate program managers to contact to Dr. Bill Lukens, 703-696-4668)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research:
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/AFRL/afosr (select "Main Areas of Interest - Research")

For detailed information regarding technical goals, potential proposers are advised to refer to the announcements cited above and may contact DoD program managers listed therein to explore mutual interest before submitting proposals. A proposal may be submitted to more than one agency; however, only one award will be given.

A central purpose of the DURIP is to provide equipment to enhance research-related education. Therefore proposals must address the impact of the equipment on the institution's ability to educate students, through research, in disciplines important to DoD missions.

Eligibility

Award

Grants will be for the purchase of research equipment costing $50,000 or more, for items that typically cannot be purchased within the budgets of single-investigator awards. With very few exceptions (see section III.3.b) an individual award may not exceed $1,000,000

Deadline for submission: August 26, 2008

Site URL:

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;js essionid=LGZFNcYTT4z5CL6L3wDvpS8Fv1B78l2YyrWHwx8R6fJpQjrsvzY1!-1888265958?oppId=41854&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW

For further information please contact you TEES proposal administrator:

http://trsweb.tamu.edu/PADivisions.pdf

CONTACT PROGRAM: CALL FOR WHITE PAPERS
DEADLINE: MONDAY, APRIL 21st

This is a call for 1-2 page white papers for new research ideas in the six technical areas identified in the CONTACT program for the upcoming year 2009.All submissions should be sent to Dr. Zeynep Celik--Butler or Dr. Kelsey Downum no later than Monday, April 21st. White papers, especially those that include other CONTACT* partners are especially encouraged to submit.

White papers will be considered for the following objectives:
- Years two, three and four of the CONTACT Program
- AFOSR funding
- Army Research Laboratory funding
- Development of new programs including a new University/AFRL center

The CONTACT Nanoscience Research Focus Meeting was held at Rice in October 2007 to determine current research interests and goals of the Air Force, Army, and industry. Six areas of current research interest emerged. Two new research areas, thermal management and nanoparticle-enhanced composites were added to the CONTACT Program.Please click here for the descriptions on The Super Six. These research areas are the focus of a call for white papers. Click here for some general guidelines for writing a white paper. For those of you who submitted white papers in the first round for The CONTACT Program, we have them and they are still in consideration. They have been provided to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for consideration for grants there and have also been provided to the Air Force Research Laboratory and to industrial firms.

Please forward this information to any colleagues at your university who may have research interests in these areas. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. You can also visit the CONTACT website at *www.contact.rice.edu for more information on the program.

Background: The CONTACT program is a federally funded effort involving Rice University, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and six other Texas Universities directed to advance nanotechnology projects for the defense aerospace industry. Presently in the first year, the program involves nine research projects which were developed from four areas of interest - The Fabulous Four. The Fabulous Four had been selected by the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials Directorate and reflected the research areas of interest at the time and were the basis for a call for white papers for the CONTACT program.

American Education Research Association (AERA) Reserach Grant Program

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program.

The program's goals are:
(1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets
(2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and
(3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets.

AERA invites education policy- and practice-related research proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level researchers. Applicants for Research Grants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Applicants must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant. Please note a recent policy change that researchers who have previously received a Research Grant as a PI or Co-PI, a Postdoctoral Fellowship, or an AERA Fellowship through the AERA Grants Program may not apply for a Research Grant. Awards for Research Grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects. In accordance with AERA's agreement with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs on these awards. Successful principal investigators may consult with NCES or NSF staff regarding their proposed research projects and the handling of NCES, NSF, and other federal agency data sets pertinent to their projects. Successful applicants will be expected to submit for review a progress report and a final report. Research grantees' final reports should be of a quality and in a format suitable for publication in a scholarly journal.

Application Requirements
All applications for Research Grants must include:

• An AERA Research Grants Program cover sheet
• Research proposal (limited to 7 single-spaced pages) that addresses the following:

  • Brief review of relevant research/policy literature
  • Policy issue and its importance
  • Description of methodology including proposed data set and criteria for selecting data file, sample (e.g., groups used, exclusions to sample, and estimated sample sizes),variables (including selection of variables and rationale for, using them), and analytic techniques
  • Importance of findings to the policy issue
• Symbolic or figural model outlining the framework for the study
• Proposed budget
• Current curriculum vitae
• Brief list of current other support (grants, awards, etc.)

Application Submission
Proposals for Research Grants will be reviewed three times a year, with funding decisions made within a month of the review date. Upcoming deadlines for proposals are:

January 4, 2008 to be reviewed in February
February 22, 2008 to be reviewed in March
August 29, 2008 to be reviewed in September

American Education Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grants Proposals

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Dissertation Grants Program.

The program's goals are:
(1) to stimulate research on U.S. education policy- and practice-related issues using NCES and NSF data sets
(2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them
(3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets.

The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES and NSF, and have U.S. education policy relevance. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
AERA invites education policy- and practice-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing the doctoral dissertation. Applicants for Dissertation Grants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Awards for Dissertation Grants are up to $15,000 for 1-year projects. In accordance with AERA's agreement with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs on these awards. Dissertation grantees' final reports may either be an article of a quality and in a format suitable for publication in a scholarly journal, or a copy of the dissertation.

Research topics may cover a wide range of policy- or practice-related issues that include but are not limited to: science and mathematics education; the supply (pipeline) of students taking mathematics and science courses; teachers and teaching, including supply, quality, and demand; policies and practices related to student achievement and assessment; policies and practices that influence student and parental attitudes; contextual factors (individual, curricular, and school related) in education; educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through career entry); at-risk students; early childhood education; US education in an international context; school finance; the quality of educational institutions; and methodological studies. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the project. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.

Application Submission
Proposals for Dissertation Grants will be reviewed three times a year, with funding decisions made within a month of the review date. Upcoming deadlines for proposals are:

January 4, 2008 to be reviewed in February
February 22, 2008 to be reviewed in March
August 29, 2008 to be reviewed in September

**ACLS Opens Competitions for 2006-2007 Fellowship & Grant Awards**
see: www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm

• The ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION/ACLS DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIPS. These year-long fellowships in support of Ph.D. dissertation completion in the humanistic disciplines are the first part of the MELLON/ACLS EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM. These fellowships carry a stipend and benefits up to a total of $33,000. Under this program, ACLS will award 65 Fellowships to graduate students, who will be expected to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure or shortly thereafter.
  
  The second element of the program is the Mellon/ACLS Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients. This competition-to commence next year-will provide recent recipients of the doctorate with a stipend to support a year of research, within the context of an academic position (as new hires), in affiliation with a humanities research center, or independent of institutional affiliation. These fellowships are fewer in number (25), and awardees will be selected from a pool that includes Fellows in the first part of the program, other highly ranked applicants from that earlier competition, and winners of other, similar awards such as the Whiting Fellowships.
  
  Deadline is November, 12, 2008.

• ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

  The specifics of the competitions vary. Program descriptions, eligibility requirements, and application procedures for each program can be found on the Competitions and Deadlines page.

• The application process (including submission of reference letters) for most programs is entirely online. The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in East Asian Archaeology and Early History, the Southeast European Language Training Grants for Individuals, the Committee on Scholarly Communications with China, and the Contemplative Practice Fellowship programs will continue to use paper application forms, available in PDF format to be printed out from the ACLS Web site. (Applications for these programs may also be requested by e-mail or mail.)
• The New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society program does not use application forms. Application guidelines are available on the ACLS Web site. Application guidelines for the Southeast European Studies language-training grants to institutions, travel grants, and conference grants are available from Olga Bukhina, Coordinator of International Programs, obukhina@acls.org.