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University-Wide or Cross-Disciplinary Opportunities Research Fellowship
Program The German Marshall Fund offers grants for research to improve the understanding of significant contemporary economic, political, and social developments relating to Europe, European integration, and relations between Europe and the United States. Proposed projects should involve either comparative analysis of a specific issue in more than one country or the exploration of an issue in a single country in ways that can be expected to have relevance for other countries. Projects with direct relevance to current public policy issues with a transatlantic dimension will be given special consideration. The geographic scope of the program includes Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, including Russia and Turkey as they relate to Europe, but not the Central Asian countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. Special consideration will be given to applicants seeking support for projects involving parallel or collaborative research by both established and younger scholars, including projects designed on a transatlantic basis. Support for postdoctoral and advanced research will be made in amounts up to $40,000. The awards are intended to help meet, but cannot exceed, a recipient’s current income. Recipients are expected to work full time on the proposed project, without teaching or other substantial professional responsibilities, for a period not less than six months and not greater than one year. Eligibility Note: Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents
are eligible for support. Click here for more information. Crime and Justice
Research The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for crime and justice research on topics relevant to state and/or local criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice. NIJ seeks proposals for social and behavioral research and evaluation addressing community crime prevention, policing, juvenile and criminal justice systems improvement, corrections, alcohol- and drug-related crime, criminal behavior, and other topics (listed below) that have the potential to advance practice and policy in criminal and juvenile justice operations nationally. Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate how the proposed research advances basic knowledge, practice, and/or policy in one of the designated areas or will make a compelling case for proposed research in other areas of crime and justice. NIJ has identified the following priority topic areas for research. Although any specific topic may be proposed, NIJ asks that proposals be submitted on a priority topic in one of the general areas below:
Multiple awards, ranging from less than $100,000 to $300,000, and occasionally more, will be made. The number of awards will depend on the funds available and the number of high-quality applications. URL:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/fundopps.htm 2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Agency: National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation
The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program promotes scholarship in the United States and abroad on
matters relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms.
Research Opportunities through the United States Department of Education Teacher Quality Research - Math/Science Grants Agency: United States Department of Education, Institute
of Education Sciences The United States Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, has announced the availability of grants for research on teacher quality. Each application must be submitted under one and only one of the following goals:
Research supported under this program must be relevant to United States schools. Letters of intent are optional but encouraged. URL: http://www.ed.gov/programs/edresearch/2005-305mmath.doc Teacher Quality Research -Reading/Writing Grants Agency: United States Department of Education, Institute
of Education Sciences The United States Department of Education, Institute of Education
Sciences, has announced the availability of grants to identify
effective strategies for improving the performance of classroom
teachers in ways that increase student learning and school achievement.
The Teacher Quality Research – Reading/Writing Grants program
will support research on key issues of teacher quality that are
likely to lead to substantial gains in academic achievement for
all students and a reduction of the achievement gap between minority
and non-minority students and between economically disadvantaged
students and their more advantaged peers.
Research supported under this program must be relevant to United States Schools. Letters of intent are optional but encouraged. URL: http://www.ed.gov/programs/edresearch/2005-305mreading.doc Education Finance, Leadership, and Management Research Grants Agency: United States Department of Education, Institute
of Education Sciences The United States Department of Education, Institute of Education
Sciences has announced the availability of funding under its Education
Finance, Leadership, and Management (“Finance/Management”)
research program, which supports research on systemic approaches
to improving education (e.g., school-, district-, and state-level
policies and programs) that are likely to lead to substantial
gains in academic achievement for all students and a reduction
of the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students
and between economically disadvantaged students and their more
advantaged peers.
Letters of intent are optional but encouraged. URL: http://www.ed.gov/programs/edresearch/2005-305e.doc Field-Initiated Evaluations of Education Innovations Agency: United States Department of Education, Institute
of Education Sciences The United States Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, will make grants of $200,000 to $500,000 (total cost) per year for up to three years for field-initiated evaluations of promising education interventions designed to improve academic outcomes (e.g., student achievement, high school graduation, grades) and other student behaviors that have a direct impact on academic outcomes (e.g., attendance, drug use, conduct, education plans and aspirations, course taking, studying). Interventions are programs, products, practices, or policies that can be adopted by multiple schools and districts. This program places an emphasis on the theoretical and conceptual basis of the intervention and the reasons it does or does not work. Therefore, for this competition, the Institute of Education Sciences does not require that applicants provide evidence that the intervention is based on prior research or theory, and does not require research designs that can reveal the process by which an intervention produces effects, though neither is discouraged. Applicants may choose to include observational, survey, or qualitative methodologies as a complement to experimental methodologies to assist in the identification of factors that may affect the implementation of the intervention and to provide clues as to how the intervention might be deployed more effectively and efficiently in the future. Research supported through this program must be relevant to United States schools. Letters of intent are optional but encouraged. Opportunity for Faculty Members in the College of Science and Mathematics Information and Data Management Agency: National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation Information and Data Management (IDM) Program supports research and education activities that will enable a new generation of distributed, interoperable, multi-media, intelligent, secure, dynamic, evolvable information systems capable of sophisticated and efficient data, information, and knowledge management. Research pertinent to this goal involves investigating novel concepts or combining and extending conventional concepts and systems. It hinges on research and education advances in databases, information retrieval systems and knowledge-based systems, and includes a wide scope of related areas, ranging from artificial intelligence methodologies to new user interfaces for information access, to techniques that exploit hardware and communications technologies. Projects supported by the IDM Program can be divided into interrelated areas:
Innovative, revolutionary, risky research ideas with a potential for great impact are especially encouraged. The IDM Program can support such research efforts through the Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) program; prospective proposers are encouraged to contact the program director to discuss their ideas. Proposals for planning workshops intended to stimulate innovative/interdisciplinary research are also welcome; prospective proposers are encouraged to contact the program director to discuss this before submitting. Interdisciplinary proposals are welcome. Prospective proposers
should contact the appropriate program directors to discuss the
research and specify all relevant programs when submitting the
proposal. Correction - Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities The deadline for proposal submissions for the National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development Program is October 1, 2004 rather than October 15, 2004 as announced in the Alive Line of August 2, 2004. October 15 was the anticipated deadline, and the 2003 deadline; the actual deadline was moved up to October 1 this year. The deadline date has been corrected on the archived newsletter. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/teachinglearning.html |
