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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Opportunity
Early Career Research Program
Agency: US Department of Energy
Deadline: August 3, 2009 for letters of intent (encouraged but not required)
September 1, 2009 full proposal
The Office of Science of the Department of Energy is soliciting grant applications for support under the Early Career Research Program in the following program areas:
- Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR);
- Biological and Environmental Research (BER);
- Basic Energy Sciences (BES),
- Fusion Energy Sciences (FES);
- High Energy Physics (HEP), and
- Nuclear Physics (NP).
The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by the DOE Office of Science.
The Principal Investigator must be an untenured Assistant Professor on the tenure track at a U.S. academic institution as of the deadline for the application. No more than ten (10) years can have passed between the year the Principal Investigator's Ph.D. was awarded and the year of the deadline for the application (for the present competition, those who received doctorates no earlier than 1999 are eligible).
The typical award size is expected to be $750,000 over five years. The minimum award size is $150,000 per year over five years. Institutions are encouraged to propose research expenditures as close to this funding minimum as possible.
URL: https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/7828CB6F4F50E9A7852575E70060C340?OpenDocument
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Institutional, University-Wide, or Multi-Disciplinary Opportunity
Enduring Questions
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadlines: September 15, 2009
The purpose of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Enduring Questions grant program is to encourage faculty and students at the undergraduate level to grapple with the most fundamental concerns of the humanities, and to join together in deep, sustained programs of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.
Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline or field or profession can lay an exclusive claim. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or interesting answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment.
What are these enduring questions? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate.
- What is the good life?
- What is happiness?
- What is friendship?
- What is beauty?
- Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it?
- What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?
- How do science and ethics relate to one another?
- Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Good and evil?
- What is good government?
The Enduring Questions grant program will support new humanities courses at the undergraduate level: their design and preparation, teaching, and assessment, as well as ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community. Courses may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities ( e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), provided humanities sources are central to the course.
Enduring Questions grants can be funded up to $25,000 in outright funds for projects serving a single institution. The grant period must range between eighteen and twenty-four months and the resulting course must be taught at least twice within the grant period. Recipients may begin their grant as early as June 1, 2010, but must begin no later than January 1, 2011. Cost sharing is not required.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
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Individual Opportunities for Faculty Members in the Humanities or Humanities-Related Social Sciences
Teacher Development Fellowships
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadlines: October 1, 2009
Teaching Development Fellowships (TDF) support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at deepening their core knowledge in the humanities to improve their undergraduate teaching. The program has three broad goals:
- To improve the depth and quality of humanities education in the United States;
- To strengthen the link between research and teaching in the humanities; and
- To foster excellence in undergraduate instruction.
Projects must improve an existing undergraduate course that has been taught in at least three different terms and will continue to be taught by the applicant. Proposals for new courses or for mere course preparation will not be considered. The research project must be closely related to the applicant's core interests as an interpreter of the humanities. The research undertaken as a part of the project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning. Projects may entail the acquisition of new language or digital skills as a means to performing the proposed research. The project must be directed primarily towards course improvement, not scholarly publication. Research in any area of the humanities is welcome.
All U.S. citizens are eligible to apply, whether they reside inside or outside the United States. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline are also eligible. The Teaching Development Fellowships program accepts applications from faculty members who carry a full-time teaching load at two-year or four-year colleges and universities. Applicants whose part-time teaching positions at different colleges or universities amount to the equivalent of a full-time teaching load are also eligible.
Applicants must have their department or program chair or dean certify in writing that the institution supports the proposed project and will offer the proposed course after the completion of the award. Applicants must have completed formal education by the application deadline. While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply.
Teaching Development Fellowships cover periods lasting from three to five months with stipends of $4,200 per month. The maximum stipend is $21,000 for a five-month award period. Applicants should request award periods that suit their schedules and the needs of their projects. A request for a shorter award period will not improve one’s chances of receiving a fellowship. Recipients may begin their award as early as June 1, 2010, and as late as March 1, 2011. The award period must be continuous. Although recipients should ideally work full time on their projects, they may teach no more than one course per term during the fellowship period. Applications are being accepted now through October 1, 2009.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html
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ACLS Fellowships
Agency: American Council of Learned Societies
Deadlines: September 30, 2009
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; science, technology, and medicine studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group. Special funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the ACLS has been set aside for up to ten ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships to be designated among the successful applicants to the central ACLS Fellowship competition. Scholars pursuing research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union will be eligible for these special fellowships. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. An ACLS Fellowship may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and any sabbatical pay, up to an amount equal to the candidate's current academic year salary. Tenure of the grant may begin no earlier than July 1, 2010 and no later than February 1, 2011.
The Fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank: up to $35,000 for Assistant Professor and career equivalent; up to $40,000 for Associate Professor and career equivalent; and up to $60,000 for full Professor and career equivalent. ACLS will determine the level based on the candidate's rank or career status as of the application deadline date. Up to 25 fellowships will be available at the Assistant Professor level, up to 20 at the Associate Professors level, and up to 25 at the full Professor level.
Eligibility :
- Ph.D. degree conferred at least two years before the application deadline. (An established scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify.)
- U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status as of the application deadline date.
- Lapse of at least two years since the last "supported research leave" and July 1, 2010, including any such leave to be taken or initiated during the 2009-2010 academic year
URL: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=380
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