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A Note from the Research Development Team
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our team will be working remotely. We are available to provide assistance via email, phone, or Zoom conferencing. As circumstances are evolving quickly, please also refer to our FAS RAS website and the OSP website for information about submitting proposals and managing your awards.
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Unless otherwise noted, all proposals to funders outside of Harvard must be sent for review to the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) five business days prior to the sponsor deadline. We can help you navigate the routing process for your proposal.
Questions?
Please contact Paige Belisle, Research Development Officer at
Harvard affiliates also have access to Pivot, a funding opportunity database. You can also receive personalized suggestions on research funding opportunities via Harvard Link.
*Indicates opportunities new to the newsletter this month.
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News and Resources
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities Spotlight
This section of the newsletter will highlight opportunities relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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National Science Foundation Dear Colleague Letter: A Broader Impacts Framework for Proposals Submitted to NSF SBE
This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) responds to requests from Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) proposal writers by offering a framework that SBE researchers can use to develop and communicate their projects' broader impacts more effectively. The letter can be read here.
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COVID-19 Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding
To get funding as quickly as possible to the research community, NIH is using Urgent and Emergency competing revisions and administrative supplements to existing grant awards. This approach allows NIH to leverage resident expertise, getting additional funding to those researchers who are already working with other organisms, models, or tools so that they can quickly shift focus to the novel coronavirus. Learn more here. |
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Internal Funding Opportunities
For a more comprehensive list of Harvard internal funding opportunities, please see here.
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External Funding Opportunities
Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
Federal Funding Opportunities
- Department of Defense: Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Broad Agency Announcement for Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research (Fiscal Years 2018-2023)
- Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control: Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives*
- Health Resources & Services Administration: Autism Secondary Data Analysis Research Program
- National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Mellon Start-Up Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History*
- National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions
- National Institutes of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients
- National Institutes of Health: Shared Instrumentation Grant Programs
- National Science Foundation: Dear Colleague Letter: Interdisciplinary Frontiers of Understanding the Brain
- National Science Foundation: Designing Accountable Software Systems
- National Science Foundation: Future Manufacturing
- National Science Foundation: National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics
- National Science Foundation: Understanding the Rules of Life: Emergent Networks
- Other opportunities from federal sponsors (USAID, DOS, NIH, NIJ, NEH, NSF)
- Sign up for agency-specific funding alerts
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Internal Funding Opportunities |
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Deadline: April 2, 2021
Award Amount: up to $15,000
The Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF) awards grants to Harvard students, staff, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and academic personnel to pursue ideas that seek to strengthen Harvard’s capacity to advance a culture of belonging. Proposals should aim to focus on having a direct connection to the Harvard community and influence the University's trajectory towards sustainable inclusive excellence. Proposals should aim to address critical challenges around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging by identifying innovative and creative solutions that have the potential to catalyze a culture shift at Harvard.
For the 2020-21 funding cycle the HCLIF is offering application tracks aligned with various issues of great importance. Applications may be submitted for ideas addressing racial justice, mental health, and rebuilding community. There is also the option to submit an application addressing additional areas of interest.
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Deadline: Proposals will be received and reviewed four times a year, with deadlines on the first business day of October, January, April, and July. Applicants will be notified, and funded if approved, within one month of the submission deadline.
Award Amount: up to $3,000
To support the career development of its tenure track faculty, the Division of Social Science is piloting a new grant program. Contingent on continued funding, the Division of Social Science will make available to eligible tenure track faculty members small grants (up to $3,000) to support travel and other expenses associated with bringing experts to Harvard to review and offer guidance on in-progress manuscripts. This funding is intended to augment the $1,000 that is provided to each tenure track faculty member by the Dean of the FAS at the time of the initial faculty appointment (and contained in the faculty member's start-up account).
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Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: up to $5,000
The Harvard Data Science Initiative Faculty Special Projects Fund is intended to support one-time data science opportunities for which other funding is not readily available. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and funding will be awarded throughout the year until available funding is exhausted. Applicants may request funding of up to $5,000 to support research, community-building, outreach, and educational activities. Examples of projects that the Fund is intended to support include offsetting the cost of running workshops or seminars, data visualization or research dissemination, and video production. The HDSI welcomes applications from all fields of scholarship.
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Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: up to $5,000
The FAS Tenure-Track Publication Fund assists assistant and associate professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with costs related to scholarly publications, broadly defined. For example, this might include expenses associated with research assistance, publication subsidies, copying, word processing, obtaining translations or illustrations, or creating footnotes or indices.
The Tenured Publication Fund aids tenured FAS faculty members in bringing scholarly book projects to timely completion. Funds will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, to help defray eligible expenses. The Fund is meant to supplement other available means of support; faculty are expected to seek departmental, center-based, and external funds before applying to this Fund.
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Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Line item budget required
Established through the generous gifts of Donald T. Regan, 66th Secretary of the Treasury, the Regan Fund supports programs that invite distinguished speakers to Harvard to present views in the fields of economics, government, and social problems of the United States and the world. Eligible programs present views that might not otherwise be available to undergraduates seeking knowledge or just curious about alternate solutions to current and future problems.
The Social Science Division seeks proposals for programs that meet the goals of the Regan Fund by bringing diverse speakers to campus to lecture to undergraduates. Proposed activities may be open to other HUID holders, but the focus must be on undergraduate students. The Division is particularly interested in supporting programs tied to academic courses, and/or developed in collaboration with the College. The Division welcomes proposals from recognized student organizations, but requires commitment of active mentorship by a faculty member or departmental administrator.
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Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: up to $20,000
The Canada Program invites proposals from Harvard faculty, departments, and schools across the University, for research funding, or for support in hosting short-term visiting scholars, policy practitioners, and public figures who are engaged in Canadian comparative topics. Visiting Canadianists are welcome to present at Harvard faculty workshops or conferences, or to offer guest lectures for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students.
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Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: up to $50,000
The William F. Milton Fund funds research projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history, and science. Winning projects must either promote the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or investigate and determine the value and importance of any discovery or invention, or assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease. Reviewers will evaluate applications on intellectual merit, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and likely impact on all fields of medicine, geography, history and science. Funds awarded through the Milton Fund support research to explore new ideas, to act as the catalyst between ideas and more definitive directions, and to consider new methods of approaching global solutions.
Applications are invited from individuals who hold a “junior faculty” appointment at a Harvard school (including those based at affiliated hospitals). “Junior faculty” is defined as those with the title of Assistant or Associate Professor. Those who hold the title of Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School, and those with the title Assistant or Associate Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design may also apply. Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows may also apply, as may those in a post-doctoral position at Harvard with a formal accepted offer to join the Junior Faculty at one of Harvard’s schools. This award is intended for early-career scholars and thus preference will be given to junior investigators.
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Non-Federal Funding Opportunities |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: stipend of $5,000
The J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is offered annually by the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the American Historical Association to support significant scholarly research in the collections of the Library of Congress by scholars at an early stage in their careers in history. At the time of application, applicants must hold the PhD or equivalent and must have received this degree within the past seven years. The applicant’s project in American history must be one for which the general and special collections of the Library of Congress offer unique research support. The fellowship will be awarded for two to three months to spend in full-time residence at the Library of Congress. Winners will be notified in June and can take residency at their discretion any time until August of the following year. Working space will be provided at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 24, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: July 1, 2021
Award Amount: up to $20,000
The Marian R. Stuart Grant will further the research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health. Examples include but are not limited to research-based programs that teach medical doctors counseling skills; research-based programs on the effect of behavior on health; and research-based programs on psychologists’ role in medical settings for the benefit of patients. Applicants must be no more than 10 years postdoctoral.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 21, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 28, 2021
Award Amount: up to $3,000
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for one year (June through May). With this grant, the Institute seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research on local, national, or international subjects is welcome. The goal of the Charlton Oral History Research Grant is to bring the strengths of oral history to new topics of investigation, create partnerships with scholars doing noteworthy fieldwork with oral history, build a substantial research collection at Baylor University through the work of a skilled oral historian, and provide long-term scholarly access to significant applications of oral history methodology that model best practices. |
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Nomination Deadline: June 30, 2021
Award Amount: 400,000 euros, a diploma, and a commemorative artwork
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities, and artistic creation. The disciplines and domains of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are:
- Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics)
- Biology and Biomedicine
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Ecology and Conservation Biology
- Climate Change
- Economics, Finance and Management
- Humanities
- Music and Opera
Any scientific or cultural organization or institution may nominate more than one candidate, but no candidate may be nominated in more than one award category. The awards are also open to scientific or cultural organizations that can be collectively credited with exceptional contributions. Candidates may be of any nationality. Self-nomination is not permitted.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2021
Award Amount: varies by fellowship type
The Boston Athenæum offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents. Applications for the fellowships listed below are due April 15.
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Brain Research Foundation: Scientific Innovations Award
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: May 3, 2021
Sponsor LOI Deadline (if nominated): June 24, 2021
Award Amount: Up to $150,000 in total direct costs for a two year grant period. Please note that this sponsor does not allow proposers to budget for indirect costs, which falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss options to recover the shortfall with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
Target Applicants: Applicant must be an Associate Professor or Full Professor working in the area of brain function in health and disease; have major NIH or other peer-reviewed funding in the past three years, though current support is preferred; and propose a new research project that is not funded by other sources.
The Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award Program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism supports creative, exploratory, cutting edge research in well-established research laboratories under the direction of established investigators. Studies should be related to either normal human brain development or specifically identified disease states. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional functioning in health and disease. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications and significant publications in high impact journals. Complete guidelines for the 2022 award cycle are available on the Brain Research Foundation website.
Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard may put forward only one nominee to submit a LOI to the sponsor. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will conduct the internal competition to select the Harvard nominee. To be considered for the Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal via the link above.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 21, 2021
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 31, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified; past grants have ranged from $30,000 - $90,000
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare.
Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. Because of the Foundation’s limited funding capability, it seeks to maximize a grant's potential impact. The Foundation provides funding in the following areas:
- Early Childhood Welfare
- Early Childhood Education and Play
- Parenting Education
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 23, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 30, 2021
Award Amount: $50,000 - $350,000
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices is a national grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. In 2021, the call for applications will focus on projects that propose to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended. The program coheres around five core values:
- Public Knowledge: The program fuels the creation and dissemination of digitized special collections and archives as a public good.
- Broad Representation: The program supports digitization projects that will thoughtfully capture and share the untapped stories of people, communities, and populations who are underrepresented in digital collections in ways that contribute to a more complete understanding of human history.
- Authentic Partnerships: The program prioritizes projects that foreground meaningful engagement with the underserved communities whose stories the source materials tell, and that build inclusive teams across institutional and geographic boundaries.
- Sustainable Infrastructures: The program promotes forward-thinking strategies ensuring the long-term availability, discoverability, and interconnectedness of digitized content.
- Community-Centered Access: The program advocates for approaches to access, description, and outreach that make digitized content as widely available and useful as possible within legal and ethical constraints, centering digital inclusion and respect for materials’ local contexts.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: May 15, 2021
Award Amount: stipend of EUR 10,000 and reimbursement of travel expenses
The Einstein Forum is offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches - following the example set by Albert Einstein. The fellowship includes living accommodations for five to six months in the garden cottage of Einstein`s own summerhouse in Caputh, Brandenburg, only a short distance away from the universities and academic institutions of Potsdam and Berlin. Candidates must be under 35 and hold a university degree in the humanities, in the social sciences, or in the natural sciences.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: review not required at pre-proposal stage
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Proposal: May 1, 2021
Award Amount: $15,000 - $500,000, with most grants averaging ~$160,000 over 2 years
The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed. The Environmental Research and Education Foundation's (EREF) Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure that research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices. Pre-proposal topics must relate to sustainable solid waste management practices and pertain to the following topic areas:
- Waste minimization
- Recycling
- Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals or other useful products. This includes, but is not limited to, the following technologies:
- Waste-to-energy
- Anaerobic digestion
- Composting
- Other thermal or biological conversion technologies
- Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.)
- Landfilling
Desirable aspects of the above topics, in addition to or as part of hypothesis driven applied research, also include: economic or cost/benefit analyses, feasibility studies for untested technologies or management strategies, life cycle analysis or inventory, and analyses of policies that relate to the above.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for statements of interest
Sponsor Deadline for Statements of Interest: March 31, 2021
Award Amount: up to $50,000
The U.S.-Russia Social Expertise Exchange (SEE) is pleased to announce the launch of its 2021 project competition. Teams composed of at least one U.S. and Russian non-governmental organization are invited to propose innovative bilateral initiatives that will benefit both countries and address a common social issue in one of the thematic areas identified below. Project partners must directly engage with communities in both countries to tackle a pressing social challenge and demonstrate how their collaboration resulted in a specific and measurable impact at the end of the project period. Project teams are expected to be more than a collection of individuals working in parallel. Instead, they should foster dynamic collaboration in which project team members from both countries are exposed to the diverse aspects of each other’s professional expertise and work together toward shared goals. Projects should provide U.S. and Russian partners the opportunity to work collectively through a complex problem and produce meaningful deliverables. Products may take several forms, including bilingual training curricula, community toolkits, published guides and articles, curated exhibitions, instructional video lessons and webinars, documentary videos, community services, and strategic solutions for community needs. The following Thematic Areas are of interest:
- Arctic and environmental conservation
- Indigenous peoples’ empowerment
- Disability and inclusion
- Public health (including public health education and intervention strategies to support vulnerable groups)
- Open Thematic Area (OTA): In addition to the four thematic areas, project teams may propose a project under OTA. Projects must meet all SEE eligibility requirements and must not address political issues or suggest political reforms. Proposals submitted under OTA should explore new topics beyond the aforementioned thematic areas. Partnership teams cannot apply to both OTA and one of the thematic areas identified above.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: March 30, 2021
Award Amount: monthly stipend of €3,000
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships provide a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI. Fellowships last for up to ten months in one of the EUI's four Departments which in turn invite fellows to participate in departmental activities (seminars, workshops, colloquia, etc.). Fellows are encouraged to make contact with researchers sharing their academic interests, may be involved in the teaching and thesis supervision tasks of EUI professors, and associated with one of the research projects being carried out at the EUI.
- Department of Economics: considers applications for the 30 March and the 30 September deadline.
- Department of Law: considers applications only for the 30 March deadline for fellowships during the following academic year (September to June).
The fellowship lasts up to 10 months. Candidates must indicate their intended length of stay in the application but the hosting department may propose a different and/or shorter period to successful candidates subject to available funding. Fellowships are not normally awarded for the months of July and August. Fellows must live in Florence for the duration of the fellowship so that they can take an active part in the academic activities of their Department.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 21, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 31, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget required
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events, in particular national and international conferences with the aim of facilitating the discussion and analysis of specific scholarly questions as well as fostering cooperation and networking of scholars working in the same field or on interdisciplinary topics. An application can be filed in the following areas of support:
Funding is basically reserved for projects that are related to the promotion areas of the Foundation and have a clear connection to the German research system. This connection can be established either at a personal level through German scientists working on the project, at an institutional level through non-German scientists being affiliated to German research institutes or through studies on topics related thematically to German research interests.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 25, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 2, 2021
Award Amount: 3,100 euros per month + supplements to support childcare
Support is primarily provided for the historical humanities, in particular to support research projects in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Historical Islamic Studies, History, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History. Candidates can apply regardless of their nationality and place of work. Grants for research projects involve, depending on the type of project, the assumption of costs for personnel, travel, materials and/or other costs. Only full time scholarships are available. Support can be provided for a minimum of one month and a maximum of 24 months.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 5, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 12, 2021
Award Amount: up to 3,100 EUR/month plus additional supplements for childcare, travel aid, and materials
The funding program is designed to be interdisciplinary and to facilitate projects in which there are varied dimensions to the examination of abandoned cities. At the same time, there should be a focus on causal correlations, both with regard to specific individual cultures and spanning all cultures, and on specifics of place and time. Thus far, such places have emerged for very different reasons, including military destruction, natural disasters, epidemics, environmental pollution, economic collapse, financial speculation, mobility, migration, centralization, deindustrialization, or post-colonial change, to name but a few.
The aim of the program is to describe the tangible cultures of interpretation, knowledge and perception within these different contexts. Lost Cities are part of a distinct culture of memory, for example, which serves for the negotiation of identities, the preservation of knowledge cultures, the formulation of criticism of progress, or the construction of mythical or sacral topographies as part of a veritable “ruin cult.” On this basis, the focus here should not be on the question of which factors led to the city’s abandonment. Rather, it is the abandoned cities themselves that are of particular interest, as well as the different forms of their interpretation, instrumentalization, and coding in various cultures and time frames.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: € 3,400 per month for 1-5 months
The German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. awards short-term research fellowships to European and North American doctoral students as well as postdoctoral scholars to pursue research projects that draw upon primary sources located in the United States. The GHI is particularly interested in research projects that fit into the following fields:
- German and European history
- The history of German-American relations
- The role of Germany and the USA in international relations
- North American history and Pan American, including Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (European doctoral and postdoctoral scholars only)
The proposed research projects should make use of historical methods and engage with the relevant historiography. The GHI especially invites applications from doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who currently have no funding from their home institutions. The fellowships are usually granted for periods of one to five months but, in exceptional cases and depending on the availability of funds, they can be extended by one month.
The GHI will not provide funding for preliminary research, manuscript composition, or the revision of manuscripts. It will give clear priority to those postdoc projects that are designed for the "second book." The fellowship is open to both doctoral and postdoctoral scholars based in North America and Europe.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Grant Proposal Letter: May 21, 2021
Sponsor Deadline for Grant Proposal Letter: May 31, 2021
Award Amount: $50,000 - $150,000
The Foundation considers major grant applications in the fields of libraries and education.
- Grants for Libraries: Grant proposals will be considered generally for resource Endowments (for example, print, film, electronic database, speakers/workshops), capital construction and capital equipment. Projects fostering broader public access to global information sources utilizing collaborative efforts, pioneering technologies and equipment are encouraged.
- Grants for Educational Institutions: Grant proposals from universities, colleges and secondary schools will be considered generally for: educational endowments to fund scholarships based solely on educational achievements, leadership and academic ability of the student (note: need-based scholarships are not within the Foundation's mission); endowments to support fellowships and teaching chairs for educators who confine their activities primarily to classroom instruction in the liberal arts, mathematics and the sciences during the academic year; erection or endowment of buildings, wings of or additions to buildings; equipment for educational purposes; and capital equipment for educational purposes.
A Grant Proposal Letter generally will be considered when:
- Outside funding for the project (including governmental) is not available;
- The project will be largely funded by the grant unless the grant request covers a discrete component of a larger project; and
- The funds will be used for endowments, capital projects or capital equipment.
Except for endowed positions, proposals for direct salary support will not be considered. A grant that supports a research project will also not be considered.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: March 31, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 7, 2021
Award Amount: up to $160,000 (inclusive of 20% indirect costs) over two years
The Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Research Fund supports improvements in the quality of life for children with disabilities. Recognizing that children’s health services and supports are provided in a wide range of community settings as well as hospitals, the Noonan Research program welcomes research proposals from both nonprofit organizations and academic institutions that serve children with physical or developmental disabilities and associated health-related complications. Eligible organizations and target populations must be within the Fund’s geographic area of interest of Greater Boston.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified; Fellowship stipends will be sufficient to supplement transportation and living expenses while in residence in Cincinnati.
The Marcus Center's Fellowship Program was founded with the intent of creating a forum where students and scholars of the American Jewish experience could gather together to research, discuss, and study their chosen topics. Under the auspices of this unique program scholars come to Cincinnati to conduct in-depth research at the American Jewish Archives and to take part in the academic community of the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. The program provides fellows with an opportunity not only to pursue their own research, but also to interact and exchange ideas with research peers as well as with the faculty and students of HUC-JIR.
Applicants for the Marcus Center Fellowship Program must be conducting serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Fellowships are for one month of residency.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 2, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 9, 2021
Award Amount: up to $250,000 in seed funds expendable over 2 - 4 years
Much of the current understanding of behavior is derived from experimental laboratory work that makes substantive conceptual and methodological assumptions during task selection and data acquisition. Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience experiments are typically pursued in artificial environments with subjects drawn from narrowly defined populations performing tasks assumed to be valid proxies for real cognition and behavior. As a result, these experiments may not reflect the naturally occurring, free-flowing behaviors humans engage in their everyday lives. It is reasonable to ask how much has been missed or ignored because researchers’ experimental designs are based on pre-selected and specific aspects of cognition and behavior deemed to be of interest prior to the study. What more might be learned by challenging preconceived notions and common assumptions about cognition and behavior by advancing new theories and by using methods where it is possible to observe what behavior looks like in every day, real-world, dynamic contexts? With the Opportunity Awards, the James S. McDonnell Foundation is seeking to fund projects leading to new conceptual and empirical studies of cognition and behavior that:
- recognize the dynamic nature of cognition and behavior,
- are situated in real world contexts,
- cross levels of analysis,
- unite traditionally separate domains of inquiry (e.g. vision and speech),
- embrace complexity, and
- consider how behavior is influenced by interactions among individuals.
JSMF is encouraging researchers to pursue important questions using conceptual and methodological approaches that takes seriously the trajectories, biological and experiential, contributing to the ongoing development of cognition and behavior occurring across the lifespan. Individual projects need not cover the full human life span but the reasons for focusing on specific age ranges for study should be fully articulated. Research plans that only propose to document task performance of subjects at different ages (e.g., comparing 15-year-old subjects to 60-year-old subjects) are not responsive to the call for proposals.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 8, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified; please note that this sponsor does not allow proposers to budget for indirect costs, which falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss options to recover the shortfall with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
Applications must be for projects which conform to the mission of the Learning Disabilities Foundation of America by responding to an unmet need in the field of learning disabilities. Funds are granted for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes or for the identification, ongoing evaluation, education of and services for children and adults with learning disabilities. Examples of project areas that fall within this philosophy:
- Innovative research into the causes, the prevention and/or the alleviation of learning disabilities
- Distinctive public awareness programs to advance public understanding of the needs of persons with learning disabilities
- Innovative programs to advance the achievement of persons with learning disabilities, increase the support skills of their families, support academic and professional advisors, and enhance the understanding of learning disabilities by their colleagues and employer
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 23, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 30, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget is required
The Max van Berchem Foundation, whose goal is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art history, epigraphy, religion and literature, awards grants for research carried out in these areas by scholars who have already received their doctorate. In recent years, the Foundation has financed archaeological excavations, research projects and studies in Islamic art and architecture in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Sudan, Iraq, Turkmenistan and India. It has also provided financial support for epigraphical projects in France (the Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique), Spain, Italy, Palestine, China, Yemen, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Bengal.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: review not required for statement of interest
Sponsor Deadline for Statement of Interest: March 31, 2021
Award Amount: up to $50,000; in your Statement of Interest budget estimation, please remember to calculate 15% indirect costs as required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please contact your grants administrator with any questions.
In response to worldwide disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Geographic Society is providing funding for projects focused on how humanity and the natural world have reacted to and are living through the unparalleled circumstances created by COVID-19 in order to better understand how this pandemic—or the threat of another—will shape our world for years to come. Proposed projects should seek to better understand and/or provide solutions to the situations created or magnified by the pandemic, thereby helping us to understand and address the challenges and changes of living in a COVID-19 world. This fund invites research, conservation, and technology projects on the following two topics; below are examples of the types of questions and projects that the Society would like to receive:
Community-based and inclusive wildlife and cultural heritage site conservation.
- How have community and grassroots organizations dedicated to the conservation and protection of wildlife and cultural heritage sites been impacted by COVID-19?
- How have organizations continued their conservation activities during the pandemic? What types of new models or innovative approaches to conservation are being tried?
- How are local communities that have depended on external visitors or revenues for their livelihoods and other conservation activities, adapting to the new context?
- With people unable to afford to stay in cities, how are rural communities shaped and changed by people returning?
- Given the ongoing economic crises due to COVID-19, what lessons can be applied post pandemic to support sustainable and just economic recovery in areas with high biodiversity and/or cultural heritage resources?
Impacts of tourism changes on cultural heritage sites and wildlife.
- How have changes in global and/or domestic tourism affected wildlife, protected area management, cultural heritage site conservation, and the livelihoods and well-being of nearby communities?
- What lessons can be applied for when/if tourism returns?
- How has tourism been re-invented during the pandemic? What types of new models or innovative approaches to tourism are being tried?
- Some natural and cultural heritage areas may have seen increased domestic and local tourism as a result of the pandemic - what are the impacts, if any?
Only applications that propose activity in the applicant’s country of residence will be considered.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: $5,000
NERFC grants support work in a broad array of fields, including but not limited to: history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women's and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography, and the histories of law, medicine, and technology. Member institutions hold collections that offer a historical perspective on topics in all of these fields and more. For information on each member's resources, see its listing in "Participants" and contact the institution. Each NERFC itinerary must:
- be a minimum of eight weeks
- include at least three different member institutions, and
- include at least two weeks at each of these institutions.
NERFC expects fellows to visit all the repositories they list in their proposals for the length of time they specify. The Consortium's policy is to ensure that each member with collections hosts fellows every year. An applicant's proposed itinerary may be a factor in the decision whether to award a fellowship. In keeping with NERFC's regional interests, the Consortium may also favor applications that draw on institutions from more than one metropolitan area.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 24, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: July 1, 2021
Award Amount: up to $150,000 over up to 2 years. Please note that this sponsor allows proposers to budget up to 8% in indirect costs, which falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss options to recover the shortfall with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
The Research Foundation is focused on funding projects grounded in basic laboratory science and the education of scientists working on breakthroughs directed toward a cure for paralysis, secondary health effects, and technologies associated with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D). Projects should be designed to find better treatments and cures for paralysis and support efforts to improve the quality of life of individuals with SCI/D until improved clinical treatments, technologies, or cures are discovered, as well as to train post-doctoral fellow investigators and encourage them to specialize in the area of spinal cord research. Grants are available in the following categories:
- Basic Science: Laboratory research in the basic sciences to find a cure for SCI/D
- Clinical: Clinical and functional studies of the medical, psychosocial, and economic effects of SCI/D, and interventions to alleviate these effects
- Design and Development of assistive technology for people with SCI/D, which includes improving the identification, selection, and utilization of these devices
- Fellowships for postdoctoral scientists, clinicians and engineers to encourage training and specialization in the field of spinal cord research
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: The average Pioneer grant in 2019 was $315,031. However, there is not an explicit range for budget requests. Grant periods are flexible, though generally range from 1 to 3 years.
Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. The Foundation is interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; and Future of Work. Additionally, the Foundation welcomes ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and progress toward a Culture of Health.
The Foundation wants to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, and community leaders--anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes the Foundation seeks require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization, or sector.
Please Note: While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Foundation recognizes that the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 2, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 9, 2021
Award Amount: up to $500,000
Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that builds a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. This 2021 call for proposals will provide funding for research studies that evaluate the impact of innovative potential solutions to the wrong-pocket problem involving public health, medical, and social service systems. Research studies must:
- Focus on the impact of an innovative potential solution to a specific wrong-pocket problem involving organizations in social services and medical care and/or public health systems;
- Evaluate the impact of the solution on relevant health, economic, and/or social outcomes using a scientifically rigorous research design that can support conclusions about the causal effects of the solution on outcomes of interest;
- Evaluate the impact of the solution using a racial equity and racial justice lens, along with other possible dimensions of health equity;
- Identify the extent to which the proposed solution succeeds or fails in eliminating the wrong-pocket problem by more equitably distributing power, influence, and resources across collaborating health and social organizations and systems;
- Propose a research team with theoretical, methodological, and operational expertise that is directly relevant to the wrong-pocket problem of interest, the proposed solution, and the proposed scientific approach;
- Incorporate authentic community engagement methods into the study; and
- Plan specific research translation activities for the products that will be produced and that will help relevant community stakeholders use the resulting scientific knowledge to align medical, social, and public health systems.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 7, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 15, 2021
Award Amount: up to $15,000 (Advanced Development Stages); up to $25,000 (Production and Post-Production Stages)
The Miller/Packan Film Fund supports documentary films that educate, inspire and enrich. At the highest level, the Fund's subject categories are Education, the Environment and Civics. The Foundation encourages potential applicants to review its ideals and values for a sense of what types of topics might be supported. The Foundation is especially interested in investigations into the cost structures of social institutions, such as healthcare and education, and topics that bring the global community together. The Fund supports filmmaking in advanced development (up to $15,000), production and post-production stages (up to $25,000). |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 23, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 1, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified/wide range; previous grants have ranged from $20,000 - $200,000+. Please note that this Foundation allows only 10% of budget totals to be allocated to indirect costs, which falls short of the 15% required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator prior to preparing a proposal.
RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network. Of particular interest are:
- Interventional trials; translational studies; and health services and policy research
- Projects that build on the investigator’s past studies
- Proposals that include robust dissemination plans, if appropriate, to assure that findings reach audiences positioned to act on them
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: April 27, 2021
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 4, 2021
Award Amount: up to $175,000
The Russell Sage Foundation will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under these core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; and Social, Political and Economic Inequality. In addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues:
- Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S.: Specifically, research that assesses the social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences of the pandemic, especially its effects on marginalized individuals and groups and on trust in government and other institutions. RSF's priorities do not include analyses of health outcomes or health behaviors. RSF seldom supports studies focused on outcomes such as educational processes or curricular issues, but does prioritize analyses of inequities in educational attainment or student performance.
- Research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S.: Specifically, research that investigates the prevalence of racial disparities in policing and criminal justice and their social, political, economic, and psychological causes and consequences; the effects of the current social protest movement and mass mobilization against systemic discrimination; the nature of public attitudes and public policies regarding policing, criminal justice, and social welfare; and the effects of those attitudes in the current political environment.
LOIs must include specific information about the proposed data and research design. If you are unsure about the Foundation's expectations, RSF strongly recommends that you review the grant writing guidelines on their website and also view an instructional webinar. Successful proposals from this round can have a start date on or after December 1, 2021.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: June 24, 2021
Award Amount: Full stipend information can be found here.
The Russell Sage Foundation has established a center where Visiting Scholars can pursue their writing and research. Each year, the Russell Sage Foundation invites a number of scholars to its New York headquarters to investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. The Foundation particularly welcomes groups of scholars who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell Sage. While Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation's current programs, a number of scholars whose research falls outside the Foundation's active programs also participate. These research projects, and other work conducted by the Visiting Scholars, constitute an important part of the Russell Sage Foundation's ongoing effort to analyze the shifting nature of social and economic life in the United States.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 8, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2021
Award Amount: Recent grants have ranged from $20,000 to $1,000,000, with the majority of grants under $100,000. Please note that this sponsor does not allow proposers to budget for indirect costs, which falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss options to recover the shortfall with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
Through its grant-making, the foundation seeks to develop solutions to the country’s most important and challenging domestic policy issues. Recognizing that good policymaking relies on the availability of high-quality research, the foundation invests primarily in scholarship that results in the publication of books, journal articles, and policy papers. Funding is typically provided in the form of research grants, fellowships, and other types of targeted project support. With the foundation’s assistance, university and think tank scholars investigate a wide range of issues, including:
- Tax and budget policy
- Cost-benefit analysis of regulatory practices and proposals
- The workings of the legal system
- Environmental policy
- Social welfare reform
- K-12 and higher education policy
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 26, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 3, 2021
Award Amount: up to $750,000 over up to 3 years, inclusive of 20% indirect costs
The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. The Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science program prioritizes research that produces foundational knowledge about the neurobehavioral differences associated with ASD, which will directly inform the development or refinement of tools needed for translational efforts, such as biomarkers and outcome measures. Special emphasis is placed on objective, quantitative measures that may be used in conjunction with standardized clinical measures and genomic information to better triangulate phenotypic and neurobiological variability within and across individuals with ASD.
In particular, SFARI encourages studies which capitalize on approaches to behavioral analysis that are informed by recent advances in computer vision and machine learning, as well as psychophysics and non-invasive neuroscience techniques (e.g., EEG and MRI). SFARI has a strong interest in developmentally focused studies in areas that include, but are not limited to, communicative, social, and ritualistic/stereotyped behavior, as well as sensory and motor function. SFARI also recognizes the importance of domains of function, such as attention, learning and memory, and sleep, in influencing core ASD diagnostic domains. Applications may propose either laboratory-based or real-world measures of behavior (i.e., wearables/digital phenotyping).
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 10, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 18, 2021
Award Amount: $60,000
The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects. It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.) |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 6, 2021
Award Amount: up to $18,000
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of the place of religion and spirituality into scholarly and public conversations about renewing democracy in the United States. Through research on the intersection of religious and/or spiritual identities, behaviors, attitudes, and organizations with social and political structures, processes, and institutions, RSDR fellows will deepen understanding of the evolving relationships among religion, spirituality, and democracy at this moment in US history. This year's RFP especially seeks projects that examine religious traditions and institutions that are influential in shaping democratic participation, debates, and institutions, as well as public policies. Given the urgency and ongoing relevance of these themes, fellows will be expected to make their findings accessible to a broad range of audiences.
The fellowships offer research support to postdoctoral researchers within five years of their PhD. Fellowship funds will typically be used for activities directly related to research, such as travel expenses and accommodations, research equipment and supplies, support for research assistants, and costs for access to publications or proprietary databases. |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 1, 2021
Award Amount: $21,250 for a six- to nine-month fellowship
The Fellowships in Aerospace History are offered annually by the National Aeronautics Space Administration to support significant scholarly research projects in aerospace history. These fellowships grant the opportunity to engage in significant and sustained advanced research in all aspects of the history of aerospace from the earliest human interest in flight to the present, including cultural and intellectual history, economic history, history of law and public policy, and the history of science, engineering, and management. Three fellowships will be offered for the 2021-21 term; applications will be entered into consideration for all three fellowships:
- AHA Fellowship in Aerospace History
- AHA Fellowship in the History of Space Technology
- HSS Fellowship in Aerospace History
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 24, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 1, 2021
Award Amount: up to $50,000
The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The Foundation's goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. The Foundation seeks to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 23, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 30, 2021
Award Amount: up to $1,000
TAA offers two forms of grants to assist members and non-members with some of the expenses related to publishing their academic works and textbooks.
- Publication Grants provide reimbursement for eligible expenses directly related to bringing an academic book, textbook, or journal article to publication.
- Contract Review Grants reimburse eligible expenses for legal review when you have a contract offer for a textbook or academic monograph or other scholarly work that includes royalty arrangements.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2021
Award Amount: $2,500/month for up to 3 months
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts support the use of any of the UCLA Library Special Collections' extensive holdings in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books. Some of these holdings include: the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine and Early Italian Printing Collections; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Bourbon del Monte de San Faustino Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts. The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who need to use these collections for graduate-level or postdoctoral independent research.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 23, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 1, 2021
Award Amount: up to $20,000
Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: April 26, 2021
Award Amount: $40,000
The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant will be awarded to as many as eight writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general readership. It is intended for multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work. Whiting welcomes applications for works of history, cultural or political reportage, biography, memoir, the sciences, philosophy, criticism, food or travel writing, graphic nonfiction, and personal essays, among other categories. The work should be intended for a general, not academic, adult reader. Projects must be under contract with a US publisher to be eligible. Applicants must be US citizens or residents.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: April 28, 2021
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: May 5, 2021
Award Amount: $100,000 - $600,000 over 2-3 years
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States. The following programs are seeking Letters of Inquiry for the May 2021 cycle:
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality - The Foundation seeks studies to build, test, and increase understanding of responses to inequality in youth outcomes.
- Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence - The Foundation seeks studies about how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through April 29, 2023
Award Amount: Research grants and conference grants are available.
The ARI is the Army's lead agency for the conduct of research, development, and analyses for the improvement of Army readiness and performance via research advances and applications of the behavioral and social sciences that address personnel, organization, and Soldier and leader development issues. Programs funded under this BAA include basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development that can improve human performance and Army readiness.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 23, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 1, 2021
Award Amount: up to $250,000
The purpose of this funding is to address multiple forms of violence impacting adolescents and young adults, particularly in communities with high rates of violence, by implementing prevention approaches with an emphasis on the outer levels of the social-ecological model (i.e., community/societal levels). The program requires recipients to implement community/societal level strategies and approaches that address multiple forms of violence impacting adolescents and young adults, develop and/or enhance a jurisdictional violence prevention strategic plan, develop and implement an evaluation plan, develop a sustainability plan, and participate in a multi-sector coalition. In addition, this funding will address risk factors such as social determinants of health (e.g., concentrated poverty, limited educational/employment opportunities) and racial inequity (e.g., structural, systemic, and institutional racism).
Please Note: An informational conference call will be held on Thursday, April 8, 2021, 1:30PM - 3:00PM EST. You may register here. |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 5, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 12, 2021
Award Amount: Up to $100,000 for 1 year. HRSA anticipates making up to 4 awards.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the fiscal year 2021 Autism Secondary Data Analysis Research (SDAR) Program. The purpose of these grants is to support applied Maternal and Child Health (MCH) research that exclusively utilizes secondary analyses of existing national databases and/or administrative records to determine the evidence-based practices for interventions to improve the physical and behavioral health of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Developmental Disabilities (DD) across the lifespan, with a focus on addressing the needs of underserved populations for whom there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of interventions, and limited access to screening, diagnosis, and treatment for ASD/DD. HRSA supports programs to improve the quality of care for those diagnosed with ASD/DD through education, early detection, and intervention.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 2, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 9, 2021
Award Amount: up to $60,000 per year for up to 2 years
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks proposals for its new program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History. With an overarching goal to broaden participation in the production and publication of historical and scholarly digital editions, the Start-Up grants program is designed to:
- Provide opportunities that augment the preparation and training of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) new to the work of historical documentary editing, especially those currently working in history or related area and ethnic studies departments.
- Encourage and support the innovative and collaborative re-thinking of the historical and scholarly digital edition itself—how it is conceived, whose voices it centers, and for what purposes.
- Encourage and support the early planning and development of significant, innovative, and well-conceived digital edition projects rooted in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history and ethnic studies.
- Stimulate meaningful, mutually beneficial, and respectful collaborations that help to bridge longstanding institutional inequalities by promoting resource sharing and capacity building at all levels, and that build into their plans a variety of means for achieving meaningful community and user input and engagement.
Grants are awarded to collaborative teams consisting of at least two scholar-editors, as well as one or more archivists, digital scholars, data curators, and/or other support and technical staff, as appropriate to fulfill the planning goals and early-implementation needs of the proposed edition. NHPRC strongly encourages applications from collaborative teams that include BIPOC faculty and staff in key positions, and that include editorial, archival, and technical staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges, and/or other Indigenous and Native American tribal scholars and community members, and members of the Asian American community. NHPRC also encourages projects to seek out community members as well as undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to (and benefit from) participation in all phases of the project.
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Sponsor Draft Deadline (optional): April 1, 2021
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: June 2, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 9, 2021
Award Amount: up to $175,000. Please note that cost sharing is required; the Commission provides no more than 50 per cent of total project costs. Please discuss this requirement with your grants administrator before beginning an application.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary editions of historical records. The NHPRC especially welcomes projects that focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as law (including the social and cultural history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history. Projects may also center on the papers of major figures from American history.
The Commission is especially interested in projects to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The NHPRC encourages applications that use collections to examine the ideals behind the founding of the United States and the continual interpretation and debate over those ideals over the past 250 years. The NHPRC welcomes projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: varies by NOSI
Award Amount: varies
NIH has compiled Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding at the link above. This includes guidance for proposal submission and award management, answers to frequently asked questions, and funding opportunities.
To get funding as quickly as possible to the research community, NIH is using Urgent and Emergency competing revisions and administrative supplements to existing grant awards. This approach allows NIH to leverage resident expertise, getting additional funding to those researchers who are already working with other organisms, models, or tools so that they can quickly shift focus to the novel coronavirus. These Urgent and Emergency competitive revision Funding Opportunity Announcements allow NIH to fund applications quickly, often in under three months, because evaluation for scientific and technical merit is done by an internal review panel convened by staff of the NIH awarding institute or center rather than by the traditional peer review process. These opportunities require applications to be submitted in response to an Emergency or Urgent Notice of Special Interest (NOSI). In addition to the opportunities for revisions and supplements to existing awards, other notices of special interest seek full research project grant proposals to conduct research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-2019 through an array of parent FOAs. NIH is maintaining a list of COVID-19 specific notices of special interest in the funding opportunities section at the link above.
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FAS/SEAS Statement of Intent Deadline: March 31, 2021
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 22, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 1, 2021
Award Amount: $50,000-$2,000,000
Target Applicants: Groups of three or more PIs on active, distinct NIH research awards
The objective of the NIH S10 Instrumentation Grant Programs is to make available to institutions expensive research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational or clinical areas of biomedical/behavioral research. The program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The S10 programs include the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (for direct costs $50,000-$600,000) and the High End Instrumentation Grant (HEI) Program (for direct costs $600,001-$2,000,000). There is a third S10 program, the Basic Instrumentation Program (BIG), which is targeted to institutions that receive lesser amounts of NIH funding per year compared with leading biomedical research institutions, and therefore Harvard will not be running an internal competition for the BIG opportunity.
While there is no restriction on the number of applications an institution can submit for the Shared Instrumentation and High End Instrumentation Programs, there are restrictions to applications submitted for similar equipment from the same institution. In order to determine if there are any overlapping requests within Harvard, potential applicants for all of the S10 programs are asked to submit a brief statement of intent to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at vpr@harvard.edu no later than March 31, 2021.
The statement of intent should include the following:
- PI Name
- Instrumentation Program (Shared Instrumentation, High End Instrumentation, or SIFAR)
- Brief description of the proposed instrument (one brief paragraph)
- Major user group (three or more investigators who are Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) on three distinct active NIH research grants)
- Proposed location of the instrument, if funded
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National Science Foundation: Dear Colleague Letter: Interdisciplinary Frontiers of Understanding the Brain
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: N/A
Sponsor Deadline for Requests for Information: March 31, 2021
Award Amount: N/A
Exciting new opportunities at the interface of neuroscience and other science and engineering disciplines, catalyzed by transformative new discoveries and technologies, are poised to reshape brain research and its applications. Advances at these interdisciplinary frontiers depend on dialogue across many areas of scholarship, including behavioral, biological, cognitive, computing, educational, engineering, mathematical, and physical sciences research, as well as fields and subfields that have not traditionally been linked to neuroscience. The National Science Foundation seeks community input that illuminates these interdisciplinary opportunities, from theory to applications, and points to how they might best be realized. Specific questions are outlined in the Dear Colleague letter linked above. To respond to this RFI, please use the official submission form available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LQBPS6S.
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National Science Foundation: Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: April 12, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: April 19, 2021
Award Amount: up to $750,000 over up to 3 years
The Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program solicits foundational research aimed towards a deeper understanding and formalization of the bi-directional relationship between software systems and the complex social and legal contexts within which software systems must be designed and operate. The DASS program aims to bring researchers in computer and information science and engineering together with researchers in law and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for understanding the drivers of social goals for software and for designing, implementing, and validating accountable software systems. DASS will support well-conceived collaborations between these two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in software design, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as formal methods, programming languages, software engineering, requirements engineering and human-centered computing. The second group consists of researchers in law and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, who study social systems and networks, culture, social norms and beliefs, rules, canons, precedents, legal code, and routine procedures that govern the conduct of people, organizations, and countries.
Proposals for this program must create general advances in both (1) understanding the social, behavioral, economic and/or legal context of software design; and (2) improving the methodology for designing accountable software beyond specific use cases. Each proposal must have at least one Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI with expertise in software design and at least one PI with expertise in law or a social, behavioral, or economic science. All proposals must contain a detailed collaboration plan that leverages the complementary expertise of the PIs/co-PIs in the designated areas and describes the mechanisms for continuous bi-directional collaboration. |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 7, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: May 14, 2021
Award Amount: up to $3M over up to 4 years (Research Grants); up to $500,000 over up to 2 years (Seed Grants)
The goal of Future Manufacturing is to support fundamental research and education of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to enable new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Future Manufacturing will require major advances in technologies and algorithms for the synthesis and production of new materials, chemicals, devices, components, and systems of assured quality with high yield at reasonable cost. It will require new advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, new cyber infrastructure, new approaches for mathematical and computational modeling, new dynamics and control methodologies, new ways to integrate systems biology, synthetic biology and bioprocessing, and new ways to influence the economy, workforce, human behavior, and society.
Future Manufacturing requires creative convergence approaches in science, technology and innovation, empirical validation, and education and workforce development to address pressing challenges for manufacturing. At the same time, Future Manufacturing can leverage highly integrated physical, digital, and social frameworks that underpin society to enable manufacturing that addresses urgent social challenges such as global health disparities, economic and social divides, infrastructure deficits of marginalized populations and communities, and environmental sustainability. Cross-disciplinary partnerships among scientists, engineers, social and behavioral economists, and experts in arts and humanities may be required to provide solutions that are equitable and inclusive.
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The National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics (NRI-3.0) program builds upon the preceding National Robotics Initiative (NRI) programs to support fundamental research in the United States that will advance the science of robot integration. The program supports research that promotes integration of robots to the benefit of humans including human safety and human independence. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit, and other organizations is encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science and engineering and technology development, deployment, and use. The NRI-3.0 program is supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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This Understanding the Rules of Life: Emergent Networks (URoL:EN) solicitation adds to previous foundational activities to now understand "rules of emergence" for networks of living systems and their environments. Emergent networks describe the interactions among organismal, environmental, social, and human-engineered systems that are complex and often unexpected given the behaviors of these systems when observed in isolation. The behavior of emergent networks of living systems depend on, but are not wholly predicted by, chemical and physical principles and unit-level biological properties (molecule/cell/organism/population), as well as communication and information flows among nodes in the network. Networks of living systems are reciprocally coupled with natural, built, and social environments in ways that are complex and difficult to predict. The often-unanticipated outcomes of these interactions can be both wide-ranging and enormously impactful. Prediction is further hampered by accelerating perturbations within evolving environments and the associated increase in the frequency of previously rare or extreme events. Determining the emergent properties of these networks, which arise from complex and nonlinear interactions among the different systems that in isolation do not exhibit such properties, is a critical and unsolved problem.
Successful projects of the URoL:EN program are expected to use convergent approaches that explore emergent network properties of living systems across various levels of organizational scale and, ultimately, contribute to understanding the rules of life through new theories and reliable predictions about the impact of specific environmental changes on behaviors of complex living systems, or engineerable interventions and technologies based on a rule of life to address associated outcomes for societal benefit. The convergent scope of URoL:EN projects also provides unique STEM education and outreach possibilities to train the next generation of scientists in a diversity of approaches and to engage society more generally. Hence, the URoL:EN program encourages research projects that integrate training and outreach activities in their research plan, provide convergent training opportunities for researchers and students, develop novel teaching modules, and broaden participation of under-represented groups in science.
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Agency for International Development (USAID)
Department of State
- U.S. Mission to Germany: Reimagining the Transatlantic Relationship - April 13, 2021*
- U.S Mission to Armenia: Democracy Commission Small Grants Program - April 15, 2021
- U.S. Mission to the Dominican Republic: Public Diplomacy Grants Program - April 30, 2021
- U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan: Public Diplomacy Grants Program - April 30, 2021*
- U.S. Mission to Panama: Public Diplomacy Grants Program - April 30, 2021
- U.S. Mission to India: Promoting Gender Equality by Addressing Gender Disparities in Popular Indian Films and the Film Industry - May 4, 2021*
- U.S. Mission to Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Public Diplomacy Grants Program - May 14, 2021*
- U.S. Mission to Serbia: Public Diplomacy Grants Program - Rolling through May 18, 2021*
- Media and Information in Russia - June 1, 2021*
- U.S. Mission to Vietnam: Public Diplomacy Grants Program - June 1, 2021*
- See all current Department of State Opportunities
National Institute of Justice
National Institutes of Health
- SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and Consequences of Alcohol Use (R01) - April 14, 2021
- Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R01) - June 5, 2021*
- Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Data (R01) - June 5, 2021*
- Addressing the Etiology of Health Disparities and Health Advantages Among Immigrant Populations (R01) - June 5, 2021*
- Development and Optimization of Tasks and Measures for Functional Domains of Behavior (R01) - June 5, 2021*
- Emotion Regulation, Aging, and Mental Disorder (R01) - June 5, 2021*
- Prevention Research in Mid-Life Adults (R01) - June 5, 2021*
- See all current NIH opportunities
National Science Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
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