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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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Data Management Plan Resources from Harvard Library
A Harvard Working Group has published a template to help researchers create a data management plan for their projects. Using DMPTool, a free resource supported by Harvard Library, researchers can access templates, example answers, and guiding resources to successfully write a data management plan for any research project or grant. 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
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Internal Funding Opportunities |
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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: varies; please see below
Award Amount: varies; please see below
As a major internal funder of Harvard research related to China, the Harvard China Fund administers the Harvard China Faculty Grant Program to advance the research goals of Harvard faculty and improve the education of Harvard students, in collaboration with Chinese partners. Proposals are welcome from all fields. The Harvard China Fund will offer three categories of funding for faculty in FY22 (the deadline for Conference and Research Grants was November 17, 2021):
- Grants for Disruptions Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic (deadline: November 30, 2021):
- Research Assistant Employment Grants (up to $5,000): Faculty may apply to hire an RA in the U.S. or abroad and must have someone in mind whom they would like to hire.
- Small Grants for Other Academic Activities (up to $10,000): These small grants will be awarded to cover the costs for academic needs that have arisen due to COVID-related disruptions. They might include honoraria for manuscript readers, subscriptions, and other academic activities or needs.
Proposed projects must align with Harvard University’s current travel guidance and other COVID-related policies as needed. Questions about this opportunity may be directed to Julia Cai at juliacai@fas.harvard.edu.
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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 Trust in Science program enables faculty across Harvard to study issues related to trust in science, broadly construed. The Trust in Science Project welcomes data-science related initiatives from any field, including humanities and social sciences, ideally involving collaboration that engages with more than one approach, or builds bridges between them. Questions of particular interest include:
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How can the processes and products of data science be made more transparent, and how might strategies of democratization affect the trustworthiness of science?
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How do methods of visualizing data affect the ways that different groups assess the trustworthiness of that data?
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How can collaborative team structures in science increase the trustworthiness of their results?
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What gives rise to extreme or far out interpretations of data and how are conspiracy theories propagated?
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Deadline: December 1, 2021
Award Amount: $2,500
The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) invites applications for grants to support research projects with an urban focus, ideally with an interdisciplinary approach. Projects might include but are not limited to such issues as inequality, diversity, and climate change. HMUI is particularly interested in linking humanistic approaches to cities with spatial investigations of the built and natural environments. HMUI seeks proposals in two broad areas:
- Research in archives and online data sets that will lead to publication and/or course-related projects and programming to strengthen Urban Studies at Harvard.
- Innovative strategies for disseminating knowledge (e.g.: data visualization, maps, multimedia history, etc.).
All Harvard affiliates are eligible to apply. Faculty and instructors can only apply to hire student research assistants. Currently-enrolled students, both undergraduate and graduate, may apply to undertake their own independent or collaborative projects. Collaborative projects that bring together faculty and students from across the university to develop new cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of urban environments, societies, and cultures are welcome. Projects can be conducted in Spring and/or Summer of 2022.
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Deadline: January 25, 2022
Award Amount: up to $150,000
The Fund is intended to foster collaboration between scholars and to support research projects focused on current issues facing Brazil. Proposals are sought for research projects that address education management and administration; social science and its applications; public administration and policy; technological advances in education; and evidence-based research. Consideration will also be given to projects that propose collaboration between Harvard faculty and Brazilian academics in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and basic and applied sciences. Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of academic merit, feasibility, and their anticipated advancement of the objectives of the Fund. They must meet at least one of the following three criteria, with priority given to those projects that meet more than one criterion:
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Focus on Brazil
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Include meaningful collaboration with Brazilian academics
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Be undertaken in Brazil in whole or in part
Applications are invited from individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school and who have principal investigator rights at that school. Harvard Medical School faculty must hold a faculty appointment with PI rights in one of HMS’s basic or social science departments. Faculty may request support for postdoctoral scholars and graduate students from Brazil; and for Harvard postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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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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Non-Federal Funding Opportunities |
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2022
Award Amount: $5,000 per month over 4-12 months
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society's collections. Fellowships are for persons who have already completed their formal professional training. Foreign nationals who have been residents in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline for the fellowship are eligible. Preference will be given to individuals who have not held long-term fellowships during the three years preceding the period for which the application is being made.
AAS-NEH fellows are expected to be in regular and continuous residence at the Society. They must devote full time to their study and may not accept teaching assignments or undertake any other major activities during the tenure of their award. Fellows may hold other major fellowships or grants during fellowship tenure, in addition to sabbaticals and supplemental grants from their own institutions. Other NEH-funded grants may be held serially, but not concurrently.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2022
Award Amount: varies by fellowship; please see below
The American Center of Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan promotes study, teaching, and increased knowledge of ancient and Middle Eastern studies with Jordan as a focus. The following residential fellowships are available:
- NEH Fellowship: This award is intended for scholars who have a Ph.D. or have completed their professional training. Funding is provided for four to ten months. Eligible fields of research include, but are not limited to: modern and classical languages, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, heritage studies, comparative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Social and political scientists are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals living in the U.S. for three years immediately preceding the application deadline. The award for ten months is $50,000, of which $32,000 is for stipend and travel and the remainder is for ACOR room and board. Shorter award periods are prorated accordingly.
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CAORC Fellowships: This program offers two- to six-month fellowships for post-doctoral scholars and scholars and professionals with a terminal degree in their field, pursuing research or publication projects in the natural and social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines relating to the Middle East. U.S. citizenship is required. The maximum award amount is $34,200.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 12, 2021
Award Amount: up to $6,000
The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) invites applications from graduate and post-graduate researchers who are US citizens and wish to pursue their research activities in Indonesia. Grants allow scholars to conduct research projects in any field of contemporary or traditional Indonesian Studies. AIFIS encourages applications for projects that foreground collaboration with Indonesian counterparts as well as that produce open-source content for public dissemination and/or curriculum development. These grants can be applied toward travel, accommodation, and support of research activities in Indonesia.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2022
Award Amount: All applicants will need to submit a budget that is reasonable and appropriate to the project. Budgets should include economy airfare, stipend, lodging accommodations and other research-related expenses.
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) is a bi-national research and educational organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan. Fellows must be AIPS individual members in good standing at the time of application and throughout the tenure of the grant. Research must be at least 2 months and less than 9 months; AIPS reserves the right to shorten the duration of research, pending availability of funds. Research can be conducted in Pakistan only (Islamabad and/or Lahore), or in countries other than Pakistan and the US.
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The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research. They are not intended to meet the expenses of attending conferences or the costs of publication. The Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. This program is open to scholars in all fields of study. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Please note that project end dates will be considered flexible/negotiable due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and closures.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 22, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2022
Award Amount: up to $3,500
The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, or psycholinguistics; for the purchase of permanent equipment; or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and cultural change through time.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 8, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: February 15, 2022
Award Amount: up to $3,000
The APF Trauma Psychology Grant seeks to support innovative work to alleviate trauma. Applicants must be an early career psychologist (defined as a doctoral-level psychologist who is no more than 10 years post-doctoral). Proposals will be evaluated on:
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Quality, viability and potential impact of the proposed project.
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Originality, innovation and contribution to the field of trauma.
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Applicant’s demonstrated competence and capability to execute the proposed work.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 16, 2022
Award Amount: varies by fellowship; please see below
The American Research Center in Egypt's mission is to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, foster a broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public, and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. The following programs are accepting applications:
- CAORC Fellowships: This fellowship is open to U.S. citizen pre-doctoral candidates (ABD), postdoctoral scholars, faculty and independent scholars at museums, universities and institutions worldwide for a minimum stay of three months and a maximum stay of 12 months. Actual per diem ranges from $2200-$3520 per month plus round-trip airfare.
- NEH Fellowships: Open to American postdoctoral scholars, faculty and independent scholars at U.S. universities, museums, and institutions. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds may be awarded to foreign nationals who have been residents of the United States for three (3) consecutive years immediately preceding and including the application deadline. Advanced degree candidates must have completed all requirements—except for the actual conferral of the doctoral degree—by the application deadline for the fellowship. ARCE plans to award one four-month (4) fellowship pending notification of its successful grant application in April 2022 (award amount TBD).
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2022
Award Amount: varies by opportunity; please see below
Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of European, African, and Native American engagements in global and comparative contexts.
- Short-term fellowships are open to individuals who are engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent research, regardless of nationality. Short-term fellowships are available for periods of two to four months. Short-term fellowships are available for periods of two to four months and carry a stipend of $2,100 per month.
- Long-term fellowships are available for periods of five to ten months and carry a monthly stipend of $5,000. Some of the long-term fellowships have citizenship requirements.
Additional specialized fellowships are detailed on the library's website.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Concept Papers: January 25, 2022
Sponsor Deadline for Concept Papers: February 1, 2022
Award Amount: $5,000 - $50,000
The Trust makes grant awards twice a year to nonprofit organizations in the city of Boston and contiguous communities, as well as to organizations in which Cabot family members maintain philanthropic interest. Awards are put to work in the areas of arts and culture, education and youth development, environment and conservation, health and human services, and for civic and public benefit. Within these fields, as appropriate, the trustees prefer programs mainly serving youth and young adults, with a special interest in programs focused on insuring the healthy growth and development of infants and young children, as a foundation for their future success. Applications recommended for review meet the following criteria:
- Reflect Cabot family interests and provide benefits to communities and organizations that have been supported by family philanthropy;
- Extend important services to individuals and groups not served adequately through other programs and institutions;
- Manage change by assessing community needs and developing programs to meet emerging needs;
- Promote productive cooperation and full use of resources by nonprofit organizations and community groups; and
- Test new approaches to problems or adapt solutions that have been successful elsewhere.
The Cabot Family Charitable Trust will consider grant applications for general support, support for specific programs and activities and for capital campaigns. While most grant awards are for one year, the trustees may award multi-year funding for capital campaign and in limited circumstances, for a period of up to three years where a longer-term commitment can be shown to accelerate positive outcomes.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: January 24, 2022
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: January 31, 2022
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: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 15, 2021
Award Amount: $60,000
The Center offers a one year residential fellowship in New York City to senior scholars through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award supports original research at the Center in the humanities, including but not limited to Jewish studies, Russian and East European studies, American studies, Germanic studies, as well as musicology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and history. Applications are welcome from college and university faculty in any field who have completed a PhD more than six years prior to the start of the fellowship and whose research will benefit considerably from consultation with materials in the collections of the Center's partners - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: November 30, 2021
Award Amount: varies/unspecified
The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) provides in-country research fellowships for US, Cambodian, and French scholars (or EU citizens holding a degree from a French university) and doctoral students on a yearly basis. CKS Senior Fellows are given direct funding for their research, access to in-country resources, and provided with logistical support and contacts while in-country. These fellowships are open to scholars who already hold a PhD degree in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities who seek to pursue further research focusing on Cambodia alone or on Cambodia within a regional context. Scholars can conduct research in other countries in mainland Southeast Asia (including Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and southern China) provided that some portion of their research is undertaken in Cambodia. There are two types of fellowships:
- Long-Term Research Fellowships: These fellowships are available for 6 to 11 months of research (for US and Cambodian recipients) or up to 9 months of research (for French recipients).
- Short-Term Research Fellowships: These fellowships are available for up to 4 months of research (for US and Cambodian recipients).
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 7, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2022
Award Amount: up to $25,000. 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.
The Foundation will consider applications from institutions for grants to hold conferences, workshops, or seminars on specific subjects related to the Foundation's goals and objectives. Applicants are urged to seek matching funds. Applications should be filed before September 15, or January 15 for conferences to be held during the following six-month period. In principle, the Foundation does not provide funding for annual meetings. Priority will be given to collaborative projects involving institutions in Taiwan. Projects on Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: N/A; grants are applied for by the academic publisher
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2022
Award Amount: $5,000 - $10,000
Academic publishers may apply for subsidies for the publication of scholarly works related to the goals of the Foundation. The publication may be in the form of a book or a monograph. Applications will be accepted for completed book manuscripts, but not for books in a series. Priority will be given to first book projects by junior scholars. Publication Subsidy Grants may only be used to cover editing, indexing, and other relevant publication costs. Translation and research-related expenses may not be included. Priority will also be given to collaborative projects involving institutions in Taiwan. Projects on Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: December 8, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: December 15, 2021
Award Amount: $10,000 - $50,000
This program supports the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Awards cover costs of preservation reformatting for fragile and/or obsolete time-based media content by qualified external service providers. Eligible media may include, but are not necessarily limited to, magnetic audio and video tape, grooved discs, wax cylinders, wire recordings, and film (with or without sound). An independent review panel, comprised of scholars in a variety of domains and technologists with expertise in digitization and digital preservation, will evaluate applications based on impact, urgency, potential for preservation, and approach to access.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 10, 2022
Award Amount: $5,500
Two fellowships provide US $5,500 each (up to US $1500 for transportation and up to an additional US $4000 for research expenses on the island) and are designed for scholars who already have their PhDs, whose research engages the archaeology, history, culture, or geography of Cyprus, and who would derive significant benefit from a month’s research time on the island. Particular consideration is given to applicants whose projects enable them to include Cyprus in their teaching. A minimum of 30 days residence at CAARI is required. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: March 30, 2022 (by midnight, Italy time)
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 in Italy. 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. There are two annual deadlines for applications - 30 March and/or 30 September. The following programs will accept applications for the March 30 deadline:
- 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).
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 18, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: February 28, 2022
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: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2021
Award Amount: stipend of € 3,400/month for postdoctoral scholars
The German Historical Institute in Washington, DC (GHI) is now accepting applications for its long-term visiting fellow program. The fellowships will be granted for a period of 6 to 12 months in the following thematic areas:
- History of Family and Kinship
- History of Knowledge
- History of Migration
- History of Race & Ethnicity
- History of Religion and Religiosity
- History of the Americas
The identified thematic areas are intended to be broad in scope. Applicants are encouraged to identify up to two areas for which they wish to submit their application. The fellowship will start in the fall of 2022. The Fellow is expected to be in residence in Washington, DC and participate in GHI activities and events. Applicants should be based at (or recent graduates of) a North American or European university or research institute. For postdoctoral scholars applying, the preference is for projects that are designed for the "second book" (Habilitation or equivalent).
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 15, 2021
Award Amount: up to $20,000
The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are eligible areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater.
Applicants and grantees are advised to plan for the added difficulties surrounding travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. To support scholars, the Foundation has lengthened the grant period to a two-year timeframe. Grantees will be able to adjust their travel plans and submit an updated itinerary.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 15, 2021
Award Amount: stipend of up to $60,000
The Charles Bullard fellowship program at Harvard Forest supports advanced research and study by individuals who show promise of making an important contribution, either as scholars or administrators, to forestry and forest-related subjects including biology, earth sciences, economics, politics, administration, philosophy, humanities, the arts, or law. Bullard Fellowships are generally awarded to individuals in mid-career who have established themselves in academia, public service, or in the private sector. Research areas include, for example, forest ecology, tree physiology, forest soils, forest resource management, conservation and biodiversity issues, environmental policy, industrial ecological issues and management processes, forest land planning, public policy, and the arts. A major goal of the Bullard Fellowship program is to enhance research activities at Harvard Forest and build long-term collaborations that connect Harvard Forest with other parts of the University. Fellows can be based at the Harvard Forest or associated with other departments and centers at Harvard University. Fellowships are 6-12 months in length.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 22, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2022
Award Amount: $1,500 - $15,000
Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, New York City, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. Furthermore looks for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. Funds apply to such specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. Book projects to which a university press, nonprofit or trade publisher is already committed and for which there is a feasible distribution plan are usually preferred.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2022
Award Amount: Junior (untenured) fellows receive a stipend of $25,000 per semester; senior (tenured) fellows receive $30,000 per semester, plus housing
Each year, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. The Institute particularly seeks scholars who will actively integrate their research with ongoing Kroc research initiatives. Fellowships begin at the start of the University of Notre Dame’s fall or spring semester (August or January) and can run for one semester or a full academic year. Visiting Fellow openings for 2022-2023 include:
- Gender, Intersectionality, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
- Peace Accords Matrix
- International Mediation
- Systemic Racism in the United States
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 3, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: January 10, 2022
Award Amount: up to $25,000
The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins. Priority of funding is commonly given to exploratory phases of promising new research projects that meet the stated purpose of the Foundation. Investigators may only submit one proposal as a principle investigator (PI) per granting cycle. There are no citizenship restrictions; however, all applications must be written in English.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 21, 2021
Award Amount: up to $150,000
The Library of Congress was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant titled “Of the People: Widening the Path” to fund a new, multi-part initiative to connect more deeply with Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and other communities of color by exposing grantees to the Library’s expansive collections, using technology to enable storytelling, and offering more internship and fellowship opportunities. The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Artist or Scholar in Residence program will fund an Artist in Residence or a Scholar in Residence in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Each Artist/Scholar in Residence will serve for 2 years, supported for $50,000 in their first year and up to $100,000 in their second year. Individuals selected will be either artists or scholars whose artistic or scholarly work connects with the intersections of technology and cultural heritage, and engages with the legacies of racial division in the United States. Proposed projects will help the Library and the American people imagine new ways of preserving, accessing, and sharing the stories of underserved communities, connecting the nation’s past to its future.
During the first year, the artist or scholar in residence will be required to submit quarterly project updates, and to participate in meetings and events at the Library. Before the second year of the grant, the artist or scholar in residence will produce a fully revised and expanded work plan and budget to reflect the developments in the first year for approval by Library staff. During the second year, the artist or scholar in residence will be expected to visit the Library for at least 20 days in person to engage more deeply in the scholarly and artistic life of the Library. In addition, the technical, artistic, and/or scholarly product should be created and shared during this year, resulting in a public-facing research or artistic publication, project, exhibition, or event.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 22, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2022
Award Amount: unspecified
The Marc Fitch Fund makes small grants towards the costs of publishing scholarly work in the fields of British and Irish national, regional and local history, archaeology, antiquarian studies, historical geography, the history of art and architecture, heraldry, genealogy and surname studies, archival research, artifact conservation and the broad fields of the heritage, conservation and the historic environment. The following grants are available:
- Publication Grants: These are intended to help with production costs, including the costs of illustrative material.
- Research Grants: These are intended to cover incidental expenses, such as the cost of travel and accommodation within the UK/Ireland to visit archives; they are not intended to cover time spent in research and writing. To qualify, the work must already have been provisionally accepted for publication.
- Special Project Grants: From time to time the Fund considers applications for special projects that do not fit easily into one of the above categories, such as the conservation, cataloguing, scanning, transcription and study of significant primary sources, or the conservation and study of significant artifacts. To qualify, original research and the publication of the results has to be part of the project.
Prospective applicants should submit a brief outline of their project by e-mail. If the proposal meets the Fund's criteria, the relevant application forms will be provided.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 7, 2022
Award Amount: ~$5,410 per Fellowship
The primary purpose of the Foundation is to award fellowships to present and prospective teachers, with an emphasis on present teachers at the college or university level, to enable them to study abroad or at some location or locations other than that with which they are most closely associated. The aim is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and related expenses and not as salary substitutes, scholarships, or grants in aid.
The Foundation does not maintain a website but application guidelines can be found at the link above. Applicants should submit all required materials along with the candidate information form to the foundation via email. Additional information can be found in the foundation's FAQs.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 25, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2022
Award Amount: unspecified
The following grants are available:
- Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding to organize scholarly gatherings (e.g., workshops, seminars, small conferences) in North America that advance scholarship in Byzantine studies broadly conceived. The Center is particularly interested in supporting convenings that build diverse professional networks that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, propose creative approaches to fundamental topics in Byzantine studies, or explore new areas of research or methodologies.
- Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.
- Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. The Center encourages the submission of first-book projects.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2022
Award Amount: $5,000 per month for 4-12 months
The Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston offers assistance to scholars who need to use its library and archival collections. During their residence, MHS Research Fellows become part of a scholarly community that includes other current fellows, MHS staff, Boston-area scholars, and former fellows. They participate in "brown-bag" lunchtime programs, present their own research, attend seminars, and join MHS staff and other fellows for collegial lunches every Thursday at a neighborhood eatery. The program is open to U.S. citizens and to foreign nationals who have lived in the United States for at least 3 years immediately preceding the application deadline.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: March 24, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: March 31, 2022
Award Amount: unspecified; detailed budget 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: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 9, 2021
Award Amount: $50,000
Through its program of Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. This program is open to individuals awarded a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree no earlier than December 9, 2014 and no later than December 9, 2021 in an eligible research-based field from a U.S. institution of higher education.
Awards will be made for study in research-based programs. Examples include the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields: American studies, anthropology, archaeology, art and theater history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, cultural studies, earth sciences, economics, education, engineering, ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, geography, history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics, literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, urban planning, and women's studies. Also eligible are interdisciplinary ethnic studies programs, such as African American studies and Native American studies, and other interdisciplinary programs, such as area studies, peace studies, and social justice.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2022
Award Amount: $5,000
The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies, will offer at least two dozen awards in the 2022-2023 application cycle. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Awards are open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents. Grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies.
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: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2021
Award Amount: $35,000 (Long-term Fellowships); $3,000 per month (Short-term Fellowships)
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program offers long-term and short-term fellowships to support scholars and writers working on projects that would benefit from access to the Center's extensive resources for the study of African diasporic history, politics, literature, and culture. The Schomburg Center is a world-renowned repository of sources on every facet of the African diasporic experience, with extensive holdings including numerous unique manuscript and archival collections as well as a comprehensive range of publications, photographs, films, audio recordings, and visual art. Long-term fellowships provide a $35,000 stipend to support postdoctoral scholars and independent researchers who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of six months. Short-term fellowships are open to postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets) who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of one to three months. Short-term fellows receive a stipend of $3,000 per month. Only U.S. citizens, permanent residents and foreign nationals who have been resident in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline may apply.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2022
Award Amount: $1,000 per week for a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 concurrent weeks
The New York Public Library is pleased to offer Short-Term Research Fellowships to support scholars, based outside the metropolitan New York City area, engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research in the arts and humanities. This fellowship is intended to support projects that would significantly benefit from research conducted on-site at one of the Library's three research centers, drawing from collections unique to The New York Public Library. U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and foreign nationals who have been in residence in the United States for at minimum three years as of the application closing date are eligible to apply.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 15, 2021 (Short-term Fellowships)
Award Amount: $3,000 for 1-2 months (Short-term Fellowships)
The Newberry’s long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. Fellows have access to the Newberry’s wide-ranging and rare archival materials as well as to a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. The Newberry expects recipients to advance scholarship in various fields, develop new interpretations, and expand our understandings of the past.
Short-term fellowships are available for 1 to 2 months and must be submitted by 11:59 PM CST on December 15. These fellowships are intended to assist researchers who need to examine specific items in the Newberry’s collection in order to advance a significant scholarly project. These fellowships are mainly restricted to individuals who live outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 3, 2022 (U.S. Research Fellowships); January 10, 2022 (NEH/FPIRI Research Fellowships)
Award Amount: varies by fellowship type; please see below
The primary mission of the Palestinian American Research Center is to improve scholarship about Palestinian affairs, expand the pool of experts knowledgeable about the Palestinians, and strengthen linkages among Palestinian, American, and foreign research institutions and scholars. The following opportunities are available:
- NEH/FPIRI Fellowships: This competition is for research in the humanities or research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods. Fellowship awards are for research in Palestine for a minimum of four and a maximum of ten consecutive months for scholars who have earned their PhD or have completed their professional training. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or have lived in the U.S. for last three years. Fellowship awards are for $5,000 per month of research.
- U.S. Research Fellowships: This competition is for research that will contribute to Palestinian Studies. Any area of study will be considered, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, public health, and applied sciences. Applicants must be doctoral students or scholars who have earned their PhD and must be U.S citizens. Research must take place in Palestine, Israel, Jordan, or Lebanon. Fellowship awards can be up to $9,000.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 1, 2021
Award Amount: varies; details can be found here
During the academic years 2022-24, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University will focus on the topic of “Environment and Climate.” In selecting each group of Fellows, the selection committee seeks to foster a vibrant and diverse intellectual community, anchored by the broad historical problem that serves each year as the Center’s theme. Fellowships at The Davis Center may run either for one semester (September - January or February - June) or for the full academic year, September - June. Though the Center is normally able to offer fellowship support for only a single semester, it welcomes the residence of year-long Fellows who combine Center support with funds from elsewhere. Center fellowships are residential. Fellows are required to live in Princeton in order to take an active part in the exchange of ideas with Fellows and others in the university community.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: unspecified; the size of the budget will be weighed in relation to the importance and likely contribution of the proposed work
Evidence for Action (E4A) prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. The Foundation is concerned both with the direct impacts of structural racism on the health and well-being of people and communities of color (e.g., Black, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander people, and other races and ethnicities)—as well as the ways in which racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority. This funding is focused on studies about upstream causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities. It should be able to inform a specific course of action and/or establish beneficial practices, not stop at characterizing or documenting the extent of a problem.
E4A seeks grantees who are deeply committed to conducting rigorous and equitable research and ensuring that their findings are actionable in the real world. In addition to research funding, RWJF also supports grantees with stakeholder engagement, dissemination of findings, and other activities that can enhance their projects’ potential to “move the needle” on health and racial equity. Only through intentional and collaborative efforts to disrupt racism and translate research to action can we hope to build a more just and equitable society and a Culture of Health.
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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 for Letter of Inquiry: February 22, 2022
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: March 1, 2022
Award Amount: unspecified/wide range; previous grants have ranged from $20,000 - $200,000+
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: February 22, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2022
Award Amount: $1,000 - $3,000. Matching funds are required. Please note that this sponsor does not allow indirect costs, which falls short of the 15% required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator prior to preparing a proposal.
The Society for Industrial Archeology offers Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants (DeLony Grants) from $1000 to $3000 for the study, documentation, recordation, and/or preservation of significant historic industrial sites, structures, and objects. Awards are made to nonprofit organizations and qualified individuals. Contributions of in-kind services, as well as cash resources from the sponsoring and cosponsoring agencies may qualify for matching purposes. Funds may be used for a range of projects including, but not limited to: increasing public awareness of preservation efforts, photography, videography, preparing inventories and developing measured drawings of extant significant industrial sites, structures, maritime facilities and industrial artifacts. Applicants are encouraged to contact a member of the Grant Committee when planning to apply.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 28, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: February 4, 2022
Award Amount: $7,500
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) advances developmental science and promotes its use to improve human lives. The years immediately following completion of the terminal degree are critical for scholars launching their own independent program of research. However, availability of funding to initiate exploratory, pilot, or extension research on which a new research program can build, varies depending on the position and institution of the researcher. Grants of up to $7,500 USD are available on a competitive basis for research projects conducted by SRCD Early Career Members who completed their degrees in the past five years, regardless of their appointment, institution or country of residence. Applicants must be SRCD members conducting child development research and must have completed the doctoral degree (or equivalent) no earlier than January 1, 2016 and/or will have completed the degree no later than June 1, 2022.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 3, 2021
Award Amount: stipend individually determined
The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University serves as a forum for scholars and professionals to explore complex international problems and innovative solutions in a collegial and collaborative environment. The CISAC Fellowship Program is an integral part of this mission. CISAC fellows spend the academic year engaged in research and writing, and are expected to participate in seminars/workshops and to interact and collaborate with leading faculty and researchers. Natural scientists have the opportunity to conduct research on the scientific and technical aspects of security topics, as well as to work in collaboration with faculty members. ISAC offers numerous fellowships. Applicants will be considered for all fellowships for which they are deemed eligible. Current fellowship opportunities include:
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: January 7, 2021
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: January 15, 2021
Award Amount: unspecified budget ceiling; please note that the Foundation limits overhead expenses to 10% of the total project budget, which falls short of 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS. Please discuss shortfall recovery options with your grants administrator prior to preparing your proposal.
The United States-Japan Foundation supports US-Japan policy-related studies, initiatives and exchanges that help address issues of significant mutual concern to the United States and Japan. The Foundation seeks to respond to policy-relevant needs as identified by experts and practitioners in US-Japan policy studies field and we are therefore open to innovative projects. Areas of current interest are:
- National Interest/Foreign Policy
- Nationalism/National Identities
- Energy and the Environment
- Managing Globalization
- Understanding Institutions
- US-Japan Trade and Economic Relations
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 8, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: February 15, 2022
Award Amount: $3,000, $6,000, or $9,000.
The Jacobs Research Funds (JRF) and the Kinkade Language and Culture Fund (KLF) are sister organizations that fund linguistic and anthropological research on indigenous peoples of North and South America. The JRF accepts proposals on behalf of both organizations. Priority is given to research on the Pacific Northwest. However, research in other areas of the Americas will be funded if possible.
Grants are only for study indigenous languages and cultures of the Americas. There are three categories of grants, with funding limits tied to the US dollar ($3,000, $6,000, and $9,000 USD). Allowed expenses include payments to Consultants (that is, First Nations experts), Research Assistants, supplies, travel, accommodation, and archiving. Disallowed expenses include Researcher salaries, food, per diems, conference travel, health insurance, and capital expenditures such as computers.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: January 14, 2022
Award Amount: funded (amount unspecified)
The Fellowship Program is at the heart of the activities of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. Started in 1975 as the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Institute has annually appointed scholars who conduct research for an academic year or for one semester in a range of fields related to African and African American Studies. With a record of supporting more than 300 Fellows since its founding, the Institute has arguably done more in its short existence to ensure the scholarly development of African and African American Studies than any other pre-doctoral or post-doctoral program in the United States. Fellows work in such areas as art and art history, Afro-Latin American research, design and the history of design, education, hiphop, African studies, the African diaspora, African American studies, literature, journalism, and creative writing. Awards may be held for one or two semesters.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: January 5, 2022
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: January 12, 2022
Award Amount: $100,000 - $600,000 (Reducing Inequality); $100,000 - $1M (Improving Use of Research Evidence)
The Foundation’s mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. The following programs will be accepting applications:
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: The Foundation seeks studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. The Foundation prioritizes studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
- Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence: The Foundation welcomes descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use, as well as evaluations of deliberate efforts to increase routine and beneficial uses of research in decision-making. The Foundation is particularly interested in descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use, as well as evaluations of deliberate efforts to increase routine and beneficial uses of research in decision making.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: not required for grants awarded directly to individuals
Sponsor Deadline: December 3, 2021
Award Amount: up to $50,000
The Newhouse Center at Wellesley College hosts three to five external fellows each academic year. Residencies are ordinarily for the full academic year, but one-semester residencies may also be considered. Resident fellows devote themselves primarily to their own research, but they also participate actively in the intellectual life of the institution, attending fellows' lunches and sharing their work in progress with one another and with the larger Wellesley community. Fellows may also work with the director to develop programming for the center in the form of guest speakers, a faculty series, or a mini-conference.
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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: January 18, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: January 25, 2022
Award Amount: Each award will include a 24-month base period (maximum of $500,000; PIs may request up to $250,000 per year) and a 12-month option period (maximum of $500,000). This option period, referred to as the “Director’s Fellowship,” will be reserved for a limited number of awardees who demonstrate exceptional YFA project performance over the 24-month base period.
DARPA’s Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise. The YFA program will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative DoD capabilities. Participation is open to individuals who are U.S. Citizens, U.S. permanent residents, and foreign nationals who are: current tenure-track assistant/associate professors; current tenured faculty within 3 years of their Tenure date; or an equivalent at a non-profit research institution within 12 years of the receipt of their Ph.D. Recipients of non-YFA DARPA awards are eligible to propose. Submissions to young investigator programs sponsored by other agencies are not restricted. This research announcement solicits single PI proposals for research and development in the following specific topic areas (TAs) of interest:
- Modulation of Brown Adipose Tissue for Arctic Resilience
- Engineered Cellular Symbiosis (ECS)
- Hierarchical Control of Biomaterial Structure, Function, and Organization for Injury Repair
- Metabolic Engineering Enabling Rare Chemistries
- Strongly Correlated Material Systems and Sensors
- Benchmarking Power Requirements for Electromagnetic Non-reciprocity
- Autonomous Manufacturing and Repair for Austere Environments
- Neuromorphic Metamaterials
- Computational Theory of Information Control
- Threat Modeling of the Influence Platform Ecosystem
- Patch Process Leapfrogging
- Computational Theory of Insecurity
- Effective Assurance for 5G Technologies
- Adaptive Conventions for Human-Machine Partnership
- Embodied Physical Intelligence
- Physics of Charge Trapping in Bulk Dielectrics
- In-Situ Characterization of Additively Manufactured Materials in Complex Structures
- Self-Assembled Transistor Fabrication to Support Manufacturing as a Technology Differentiator
- Highly-reliable and Bandwidth-scalable Electrical Interconnects
- Intelligent Sensor Management for Undersea Environmental Characterization
- Distributed Machine Learning over Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs)
- Trust Architectures to Enable Space Infrastructure as a Service
- Scaling Challenges in Metal Additive Manufacturing
- Platform Design Optimization Leveraging Power Beaming
- Integrated Perception Learning and Control for Autonomous Robots
Each submission (executive summary or full proposal) must specify ONE and only one TA for the submission. At the executive summary phase, proposing PIs are limited to one executive summary per TA. At the full proposal phase, proposing PIs are limited to submitting only one full proposal to only one topic under this RA.
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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/OSP Deadline: December 3, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: December 10, 2021
Award Amount: up to $300,000 for 2 years
The NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program aims to promote research on the fundamentals of security, privacy, and trustworthy cyberspace as a multidisciplinary subject that will lead to new knowledge and approaches to design, build, and operate cyber systems, protect persons, organizations, and existing infrastructure, and motivate and educate individuals about cybersecurity and privacy. With this Dear Colleague Letter, NSF is announcing its intention to encourage the submission of EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals that will foster novel, excellent interdisciplinary research in the SaTC domain to be carried out in collaborations between one or more Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) researchers and one or more Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) researchers. Many scientific and practical challenges of security, privacy, and trust have both social and technical dimensions, making it important to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations among researchers from the disciplines represented in NSF's CISE and SBE directorates on topics that draw on the strengths of their respective disciplines. Some of these topics are suggested in the most recent SaTC program solicitation, but other topics relevant to the SaTC program are also welcome.
Please Note: Prior to submitting an EAGER proposal, send an email to satc-cise-sbe@nsf.gov with a description of the project concept. Full guidelines for this email submission can be found within the full Dear Colleague Letter linked above.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: varies by program
Award Amount: varies by program
The CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) and SBE (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) Advisory Committees recently held joint meetings to discuss research areas of mutual interest, resulting in a joint working group that engaged members of the research communities in exploring critical societal problems at the intersection of the sciences funded by the two directorates. The discussion added to the CISE and SBE directorates' ongoing recognition of possibilities for transformative research from collaboration between CISE and SBE researchers. The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to acquaint the CISE and SBE communities, whose members may be unaware of these funding opportunities, with recent programs either dedicated to such collaborations or welcoming of them. These programs are in addition to the many Foundation-wide programs at NSF that are encouraging of cross-disciplinary and cross-directorate projects more generally and that also would support CISE-SBE collaborations. The cross-directorate programs are included in the DCL for completeness. This DCL is a reminder of the opportunities available to researchers and of our directorates' interest in furthering these collaborations.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling; must be sent at least 3 months prior to the proposed visit
Award Amount: up to $20,000
This letter invites current NSF grantees to submit supplemental funding requests for research visits to any identified, appropriate European Research Council-funded European research group. NSF particularly encourages requests from NSF grantees who are early in their careers or who are still actively building their careers. The European hosts will provide funding to support in-country living expenses during the visits, and NSF will provide travel funds to and from Europe. Please note that grantees must consult with the cognizant NSF program director of the original award or Fellowship prior to submitting a supplemental funding request.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 21, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: January 28, 2022
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 accountable 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 or co-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: January 6, 2022 (HNDS-R); January 27, 2022 (HNDS-I)
Sponsor Deadline: January 13, 2022 (HNDS-R); February 3, 2022 (HNDS-I)
Award Amount: The HNDS-I track anticipates funding approximately 4 large infrastructure projects ranging up to $1.2 million; HNDS-R anticipates funding from 5 to 20 core research projects, including up to $1.2 million for larger projects with convergent research teams.
The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual and group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that provide data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security. HNDS has two tracks:
- (1) Human Networks and Data Science – Infrastructure (HNDS-I). Infrastructure proposals will address the development of data resources and relevant analytic techniques that support fundamental Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) research. Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct user-friendly large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.
- (2) Human Networks and Data Science – Core Research (HNDS-R). Core research proposals will advance theory in a core SBE discipline by the application of data and network science methods. This includes the leveraging of large data sets with diverse spatio-temporal scales of measurement and linked qualitative and quantitative approaches, as well as multi-scale, multi-level network data and techniques of network analysis. Supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform theory and methods, and that generate novel understandings of human behavior – particularly understandings that can improve the outcomes of significant societal opportunities and challenges. HNDS-R encourages core research proposals that make innovative use of NSF-supported data networks, data bases, centers, and other forms of scientific infrastructure including those developed by HNDS-I (formerly RIDIR) projects.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 10, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: January 18, 2022
Award Amount: $40,000 - $400,000 (Research Awards); $400,000 -$500,000 (CAREER); $20,000 - $50,000 (Conferences, Travel, and Community Development); $300,000 - $400,000 (Research Coordination Networks); $20,000 - $60,000 (RAPID)
The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated, generalizable research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences. Because the National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research, the NSF Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal humanistic understanding or applied research. HEGS welcomes proposals that creatively integrate scientific and critical approaches, and that engage rigorous quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods in novel ways. However, a proposal that applies geographical/spatial methods to a social problem but does not propose how that problem provides an opportunity to make a theory-testing and/or theory expanding contributions to geographical science will be returned without review. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and methods, and that will have positive broader impacts that benefit society. A proposal to the HEGS Program must also articulate how the results are generalizable beyond the case study.
It should be noted that HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore, it is critical that research projects submitted to the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program illustrate how the proposed research questions engage human dimensions relevant and important to people and societies.
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FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 9, 2022
Sponsor Deadline: February 16, 2022
Award Amount: up to $300,000 over up to 24 months (Incubator Grants); up to $3M over up to 5 years (Research Grants); unlimited budget over up to 5 years (Collaboratory Grants)
Arctic temperatures are warming faster than nearly everywhere else on Earth, with some models projecting that continued warming could produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean in a few decades. The 6th Assessment Report from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted the consequences of this warming, including the loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, lengthening fire seasons, increasing extreme heat events, thinning and loss of Arctic sea ice, threat of ocean acidification, and reductions in spring snow cover. The rapid and wide-scale changes occurring in response to this warming portend new opportunities and unprecedented risks to natural environments; social and cultural systems; economic, political and legal systems; and built environments of the Arctic and across the globe. Gaps in scientific observations and the prevalence of interdependent social, natural, and built systems in the Arctic make it challenging to predict the region's future. Understanding and adapting to a changing Arctic requires creative new directions for Arctic-related research, education, workforce development, and leveraging of science, engineering, and technology advances from outside the Arctic.
Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) embodies an important forward-looking response by the Foundation to these profound challenges. NNA seeks innovations in fundamental convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, computing and information sciences, and engineering that address the interactions or connections among natural and built environments and social systems, and how these connections inform our understanding of Arctic change and its local and global effects. This solicitation requests proposals that fall within one of three tracks: NNA Incubator Grants, dedicated to developing convergent teams to carry out research projects of larger scope in the future; NNA Research Grants, aimed to support creative projects on fundamental research that address convergent scientific and engineering challenges related to the rapidly changing Arctic; and NNA Collaboratory Grants, designed to support collaborative teams undertaking research and training initiatives addressing grand challenges related to the rapidly changing New Arctic.
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- Accountable Institutions and Behavior - January 15, 2022
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- Decision, Risk and Management Sciences - January 17, 2022
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- Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence - January 19, 2022
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- Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics - January 27, 2022
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- Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact - February 10, 2022*
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- Public Scholars - December 15, 2021
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- Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections - January 13, 2022
- Digital Humanities Advancement Grants - January 14, 2022
- Dynamic Language Infrastructure: Documenting Endangered Languages Senior Research Grants - February 15, 2022*
- Institutes for Higher Education Faculty - February 22, 2022*
- Institutes for K-12 Educators - February 22, 2022*
- Landmarks of American History and Culture - February 22, 2022*
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