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The
Office of Research frequently releases selected funding opportunities,
calls for nominations, fellowship and internship announcements. Below
are the most recent announcements arranged by deadline. See the Resources for Finding Funding
portion of our website for additional information on identifying
funding for your research. Contact our office at (919) 966-4581 or email us with any questions regarding these funding opportunities.
For an additional listing of announcements, including UNC
internal funding opportunities, please visit this newsletter
provided by Research Support through the GrantSource Library at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Featured Announcement:
NIH Creates Global Health Program to Fight Chronic Diseases
UNC Targeted Audience:
Golden LEAF Foundation
RTI University Collaboration Fund
UCRF 2008 Innovation Awards
Working on Women in Science (WOWS) Announces New Grant Opportunity
University Research Council Small Grant Program
Deadline dates in:
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008
November 2008
Ongoing Opportunities
August 2008
Funding opportunities due in August:
Methodology, Measurement and Statistics Program at NSF
Cancer Prevention Training Program Seeks Fellowship Applicants
NIH Creates Global Health Program to Fight Chronic Diseases
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program
at NSF
Deadline: August 16, 2008
Contact: Cheryl L. Eavey, (703) 292-7269 or ceavey@nsf.gov
MMS Program Announcement
Summary: The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program
is an interdisciplinary program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical
methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are
methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for
multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its
larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal
statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development
of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data.
The MMS Program supports a variety of different types of
awards, including: Regular Research Awards, Mid-Career Research Fellowships, Doctoral
Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, Research Experience for
Undergraduates (REU) Supplements
.
Posted: May 30, 2008
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Cancer Prevention Research Training Program Seeks Fellowship
Applications
Pre-application Deadline: August 13, 2008
Full Application Deadline: October 31, 2008
Contact: Dee Tello at (713)
745-2495 or DTello@MDAnderson.org
Cancer Prevention Training Program website
Summary: For the Cancer Prevention Research Training Program, we are
pleased to announce a call for applications for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral
fellowships in cancer prevention at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson
Cancer Center. All proposals are to be submitted
with the help of your mentors, once you have identified them (one of whom must
have an appointment in the M D Anderson Division of Cancer Prevention and
Population Sciences).
Posted: July 3, 2008
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NIH Creates Global Health Programs to Fight Chronic Diseases
Letter of Intent Deadline: August 31, 2008
Full Application Deadline: September 29, 2008
Contact: Ira R. Allen, (301) 496-8734 or
alleni@mail.nih.gov
Link to Announcement
Summary:
The Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the
National Institutes of Health, today launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant
program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight chronic
diseases in developing nations. The
program is intended to build research capacity in cancer, stroke, lung disease,
environmental factors, obesity, lifestyle and the relationship of all these
conditions to the genetics of chronic diseases in countries often thought of
only in terms of infectious diseases. The plan also amplifies the Center's
longtime effort to fight infectious diseases endemic to poorer regions of the
world and calls for a new emphasis on "implementation research."
The program is seeking proposals from scientists who have
broad understanding of or experience in working across disciplines, such as
nutrition, business, behavioral health, health law, economics, environmental
health and urban planning.
Posted: August 8, 2008
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September 2008
Funding opportunities due in September:
NIH Invites Proposals to Link Environments, Behaviors and HIV/AIDS (R01)
Supplements to Research Grants to Promote Reentry
ESRC and NIH Research Collaboration Grants
Fondation Leducq Seeks Proposals for Research on CVD
Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics (P41)
Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Returning Veterans (R01)
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Promise Grants
RWJF Invites Proposals for Health Disparities Research Program
University Research Council Small Grant Program
NIH Invites Proposals to Research Pathways Linking
Environments, Behaviors and HIV/AIDS (R01)
Deadline: September 1, 2008
Contact: Christy Leake, (301)
496-1305 or leakec@mail.nih.gov
Link to PAR-07-143
Summary: The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Aging
(NIA), and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) are inviting proposals
for research on the interrelationships among and pathways linking social,
economic, cultural, and institutional environments; prevalence and patterning
of individual behaviors related to HIV risk and prevention; and the prevalence,
patterning, and spread of HIV infection in a population. This announcement
seeks to stimulate innovative approaches to understanding the complex
mechanisms involved in the spread of HIV and its consequences in a variety of populations
across the globe. This includes the search for, production of and testing of
improved models to account for changes in both behavior and biology under
different levels of disease prevalence.
Posted: June 30, 2008
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Supplements to Research Grants to Promote Reentry into
Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers
Program Expires: September 8, 2008
Summary: The participating institutes and centers of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), along with the Office of Research on Women's
Health, announce a continuing program for administrative supplements to
research grants to support individuals with high potential to reenter an active
research career after taking time off to care for children or attend to other
family responsibilities. This program will provide administrative supplements
to existing NIH research grants for the purpose of supporting full-time or
part-time research by these individuals in a program geared to bring their
existing research skills and knowledge up to date.
Applications are reviewed on a continuous basis. A request
for a supplement may be made at any time during the funding year, providing
there will be two full years of funding remaining for the parent grant at the
time of funding.
Link to Full Announcement
Posted: May 16, 2008
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Proposals for Health Disparities Research Program
Deadline for Brief Proposals: September
18, 2008
Contact:
info@solvingdisparities.org or (866) 344-9800
Link to Funding Announcement
Summary: The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation's Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change program
seeks to improve the quality of health care provided to patients from racial
and ethnic backgrounds likely to experience disparities.
The Finding Answers
program will grant funds to discover and evaluate practical and replicable solutions
designed to reduce and eliminate disease-specific racial and ethnic health care
disparities; focus on
interventions aimed at healthcare delivery for cardiovascular disease,
depression, and/or diabetes; conduct systematic reviews of the literature
regarding racial and ethnic
healthcare
disparities interventions; and disseminate results from these research efforts
and systematic reviews to encourage healthcare systems to address racial and
ethnic gaps in care.
Applicants may define
a specific population group or subgroups to be targeted.
Posted: August 13, 2008
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Foudation Leducq Seeks Research Proposals relations to CVD
Deadline for Expressions of Interest: September 19, 2008, end of day, Paris time
Fondation Leducq website
Summary: The Fondation Leducq, a French non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting international research in cardiovascular disease, is
issuing a call for applications for its 2008-2009 Transatlantic Networks of
Excellence in Cardiovascular Research Program. This program awards up to U.S. $6 million
over five years to internationally collaborative research teams, who work
together to advance its knowledge and treatment of cardiovascular and
neurovascular disease.
Posted: June 23, 2008
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ESRC (UK) and NIH (USA) Research Collaboration on
Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities/Inequalities
Deadline: September 19, 2008
Contact: Ronald P.
Abeles at (301) 496-7859 or abeles@nih.gov
Link to Program Announcement PAR-07-379
Summary:
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-UK) and the
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of
Health (NIH-USA) intend to enhance and expand cooperative efforts in health and
the behavioral and social sciences. They aim to encourage and facilitate the establishment
of direct relationships between appropriate institutions and individuals in
their two countries. As a first step,
the ESRC and the NIH will jointly support collaborative research on health disparities/inequalities
in the United Kingdom and/or the United States involving collaborative UK-USA
research teams. Applications are to be
submitted in response to the NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
entitled Behavioral and Social Sciences Research on Understanding and Reducing
Health Disparities (PAR-07-379).
Posted: June 13, 2008
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University Research Council Small Grant Program
Deadline: September 22, 2008
Contact: Jennifer Pruitt, jennifer_pruitt@unc.edu
Link to Funding Opportunity
Summary: The University Research Council of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill administers a Small Grant program for faculty
and professional librarians at UNC-CH. Two types of grants are available:
Research grants support the scientific, scholarly or artistic efforts of faculty.
They may be used for costs such as collecting pilot data, research-related
travel, research equipment or supplies, or the costs of smaller-scale projects.
The Council encourages the use of URC grants as a stepping stone to extramural
support. Publication grants help pay the costs of publishing scientific,
scholarly or artistic work. They may be used to pay for such things as
photographs, drawings, figures or tables, or permissions to reprint.
Posted: August 13, 2008
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure Announces the Release
of Promise Grants for the 2008-2009
Deadline for Pre-Application: September 25, 2008, 8:00pm EST
Deadline for the Full Application: December 4, 2008, 8:00pm EST
Questions? Komen Help Desk: helpdesk@komengrantsaccess.org or 866-921-9678
Link to Komen Research Grants
Summary:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Promise Grants provide up to
$1.5M annually over five years to support programs with collaborative and
cross-disciplinary research projects that provide integrated approaches to
solving critical challenges to the rapid translation of scientific discoveries
into new or enhanced clinical tools and applications that have the greatest
potential to significantly reduce breast cancer incidence and/or mortality
within the next decade. Integrated programs of research projects addressing
critical challenges in population disparities in breast cancer outcomes and triple
negative breast cancer are of special interest and may receive funding
priority. Pre-applications are required prior to starting a full application.
Posted: August 13, 2008
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Resource Program Grants in Bioformatics (P41) through NIH
Deadline: September 25, 2008
Contact: James N. Coulombe at
(301) 451-1390 or coulombeJ@mail.nih.gov
Link to Announcement
Summary:
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD) solicits Resource Program Grants in
Bioinformatics for supporting the continued operation, improvement, and
dissemination of databases, digital information, or software tools that are
unique, and of special importance to research using animal models of embryonic
developmental processes. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with the
contact listed to ensure that the proposed project reflects the objectives of
this FOA and the programmatic interests of the NICHD. To qualify for support, bioinformatics
resources – software, algorithms, or knowledge resources – must be of
demonstrable value toward advancing research utilizing animal model systems in
the biomedical sciences and must also be of particular importance to those
seeking to understand the biological basis of human and animal development and
the etiology of structural birth defects.
Posted: July 3, 2008
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Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Returning Combat
Veterans in the Community (R01)
Deadline for the Letter of Intent: September 28, 2008
Deadline for Full Application: October 28, 2008
Contact: Joy R. Knipple at (301)
443-8811 or jk173r@nih.gov
Link to this RFA
Summary: Recent reports document substantial mental health distress
and adjustment difficulties among military personnel returning from combat
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and among the family members of currently
and previously deployed personnel. Problems with depression, post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), and alcohol and substance misuse are common,
particularly among National Guard and Army Reserve personnel. Screening efforts
to identify mental health concerns in the months following return from combat
suggest that up to 42% of National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers, and around
a third of returning veterans overall, have mental health problems that warrant
treatment, but that the majority of these are not receiving treatment for
adjustment difficulties or mental disorders. NIMH solicits applications to study the impact
of existing national, state, and/or local community-based programs addressing
the adjustment and mental health needs of recent combat veterans, including
returning National Guard, Army Reserve, and newly separated active duty
personnel. Research projects supported
through this FOA will produce new information concerning effective strategies
for fostering successful transition from combat to civilian roles for returning
service members.
Posted: July 25, 2008
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October 2008
Funding opportunities due in October:
Beckman Young Investigators Program
Parenting and Health (R21)
NIH Seeks Proposals on the Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Qatar National Research Fund Seeks Applications
Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children
NIH Seeks Applications Related to Neural and Behavioral Profiles of Cognitive Aging (R01)
Pilot Studies on Pancreatic Cancer
Diet-Induced Changes and Colon Cancer
NIH Announces TRACI Program
Beckman Young Investigators Program
Deadline for Proposal: October 1, 2008, by 5 p.m. PST
Contact: Kathlene Williams, (949) 721-2222, k.williams@beckman-foundation.com
Beckman Young Investigators Program Website
Summary: The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation seeks
applications to its Beckman Young Investigators Program (BYI). The BYI Program is intended to provide
research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early
stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Projects should
show promise for contributing to significant advances in the research fields of
interest to the Foundation and represent innovative departures in
research. The BYI program is open to
persons with tenure-track appointments in academic and nonprofit institutions
that conduct fundamental research in the chemical and life sciences. Regardless of general eligibility, no
individual may apply for a BYI award more than three times. Finally, no more than two individuals from
the same institution may apply for this grant in the same year. To learn more about the Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation and this grant
opportunity, please visit the website.
Posted: April 21, 2008
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Qatar National Research Fund Seeks Applications
Deadline: October 1, 2008
Contact: nprp@qf.org.qa
QNFR website
Summary:
The mission of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) is to
advance knowledge and education by supporting original, competitively selected
research. It will provide opportunities for researchers at all levels from
students to professionals, in the private, public, and academic sectors. For
its flagship program, the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), QNRF
presents a Request For Proposals (RFP). The National Priorities Research
Program is the largest grant funding activity of QNRF and the primary means by
which QNRF will seek to address key national, regional, and global needs
through research and to pursue research opportunities for which Qatar may have
a comparative advantage.
Posted: July 18, 2008
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NIH Seeks Applications Related to Neural and Behavioral
Profiles of Cognitive Aging (R01)
Deadline for the Letter of Intent: October 3, 2008
Full Application Deadline: November 3, 2008
Contact: Joseph R. Ellis, Jr.,
Grants Management Specialist, at (301) 402-7736 or ellisjoe@nia.nih.gov
Link to this RFA
Summary: The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a component of the
National Institutes of Health, invites applications for research examining the
neural and behavioral signatures of age-related changes in cognition, with
particular emphasis on the determination of characteristics that distinguish
healthy age-related cognitive change from pathological cognitive change.
The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate basic research to identify neural and
behavioral profiles of cognitive aging, particularly applications that explore
these areas at multiple levels of analysis. Applications that advance the
interpretation and understanding of whether and how the brain and/or behavior
changes and adapts with age for maintenance of good cognitive function are
encouraged. Both human and animal studies are appropriate for this FOA.
Posted: July 25, 2008
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NIH Seek Proposals to Study the Evolution of Infectious
Diseases (R01)
Deadline: October 5, 2008
Contact: Marcia Cohn at (301)
594-3918 or cohnm@mail.nih.gov
Link to Announcement PA-07-130
Summary: The purpose of the announcement is to encourage research on
the evolutionary principles that underlie the emergence, spread, and
containment of infectious disease. An explicit goal of the announcement is to
stimulate interdisciplinary research between quantitative and computational
sciences, and experimental, clinical, or field studies. Approaches might
include, but are not limited to, evolutionary biology, microbiology, population
dynamics, immunology, and computational modeling. The focus of this program is
limited to discovery of fundamental biological principles rather than to
detailed knowledge or treatment of specific diseases .
Posted: July 16, 2008
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NIH Seeks Applications for Pilot Studies on Pancreatic
Cancer
Deadline: October 16, 2008
Contact for R21: Mukesh Verma at
301-594-7344 or vermam@mail.nih.gov
Contact for R03: Jane Paull at (301) 496-2182 or paullj@mail.nih.gov
Link to the R21 Announcement
Link to the R03 Announcement
Summary: This R21 funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by
the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health, aims
to promote innovative research across multiple disciplines to better understand
the etiology of pancreatic cancer and to facilitate its early detection,
prevention, and treatment. Proposed projects may center on the biology,
etiology, detection, prevention, and treatment of pancreatic cancer. Using the NIH Exploratory Grant (R21) funding
mechanism, this FOA focuses on pilot projects in early and conceptual stages
that could provide a basis for more extended research. These studies may
involve considerable risk but should have the potential to generate highly
innovative findings or technical/methodological improvements that could have a
major impact on the field of pancreatic cancer research.
Investigators, who are interested in proposing small
research projects that can be completed in a short time with more limited
resources, should submit applications in
response to the partner FOA of identical scientific scope (PA-08-209), which
uses the NIH Research Project Grant (R03) funding mechanism. Therefore,
projects of limited cost or scope that use widely accepted approaches and
methods within well-established fields are better suited for the R03 small
grant mechanism.
Posted: July 31, 2008
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Translational Research at the Aging/Cancer Interface (TRACI)
Deadline for R01: October 5, 2008
Deadline for R21: October 16, 2008
Contact: Linda Whipp, (301) 496-1472 or whippl@nia.nih.gov
Link to R01 Opportunity
Link to R21 Opportunity
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute on
Aging, National Institutes of Health, encourages research grant applications
from institutions/organizations that propose translational research in the
overlapping areas of human aging and cancer, linking basic and clinical
research relevant to the care of older cancer patients through both “bench to
bedside” and “bedside to bench” approaches. Ultimately, information from
the research supported by this initiative should improve the health and
well-being of elderly patients at risk for, or diagnosed with, cancer and
decrease the functional impairment and morbidity associated with cancer in this
population. This announcement is available under both the Research Project Grant (R01) and NIH Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant mechanisms.
Posted: August 13, 2008
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Diet-Induced Changes in Inflammation as Determinants of
Colon Cancer
Deadline for R01: October 5, 2008
Deadline for R21: October 16, 2008
Contact: Young Kim at 301-496-0126 or yk47s@nih.gov
Link to R01 Announcement
Link to R21 Announcement
Summary:
This R01 funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by
the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is designed to promote research on the
mechanistic links connecting diet, inflammation, and colon cancer. Applications submitted in response to this
FOA should be focused on the identification and characterization of diet-induced
changes in inflammation linked to colon cancer risks. Of particular interest are research efforts
that will lead to the identification and characterization of: a) diet-induced
changes in anti- and pro-inflammatory mediators that modulate colon cancer
risk; b) genetic polymorphisms that modify the responses to specific bioactive
food components with regard to colon cancer inhibition; and c) the
physiological effectiveness of dietary components in terms of concentration,
activity, duration of exposure, degrees of stability, chemical forms, and
receptor-binding affinity in inflammatory colonocytes.
Investigators, who are interested in proposing early phase,
pilot/exploratory, and/or hypothesis-driven projects, should submit
applications in response to the partner FOA of identical scientific scope
(PA-08-211), which uses the NIH exploratory/developmental (R21) grant
mechanism.
Posted: July 31, 2008
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Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved
Children (R01)
Deadline: October 5, 2008
Contact: Brian Albertini at (301)
594-6869 or Albertib@mail.nih.gov
Link to Program Announcement
Summary: This initiative is designed to stimulate
research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. For
purposes of this initiative, health disparities apply to children who have
limited access to resources and privileges that impact their health. As such,
this initiative includes a focus on ethnic and racial minority children and
populations of underserved children to include children from low literacy,
rural and low-income populations; geographically isolated children; hearing and
visually impaired children; physically or mentally disabled children; children
of migrant workers; children from immigrant and refugee families; and language
minority children.
Posted: July 16, 2008
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Parenting Capacities and Health Outcomes in Youths and
Adolescents (R21)
Deadline: October 16, 2008
Contact: Brian Albertini at (301) 594-6869 or Albertib@mail.nih.gov
Link to Program Announcement
Summary:
This program announcement solicits research applications
aimed at increasing the parenting skills and capacities of parents and
caregivers to improve the health outcomes of their young and adolescent
children. This is important because childhood, and particularly adolescence, is
a time for the development of health habits that can last a lifetime. Moreover,
adolescence is a transitional period during which experimentation and high-risk
health behaviors may be displayed. The long-term consequences of health habits
and behaviors often become manifest in young adulthood and adulthood.
Posted: July 3, 2008
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November 2008
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Announces the Investigators in the
Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Program
Deadline: November 3, 2008
Contact: Dr. Victoria McGovern at (919) 991-5112 or vmcgovern@bwfund.org.
Link to Funding Announcement
Summary: The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring
multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. The goal of the program is to provide
opportunities for accomplished investigators still early in their careers to
study the pathogenesis of infectious disease at its most fundamental level—the
points where human and microbial systems connect. The program supports research
that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of this
encounter: how colonization, infection, commensalism and other relationships
play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones.
Applications must be submitted
electronically.
Posted: July 25, 2008
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Ongoing Opportunities
RTI University Collaboration Fund
Contact: Tony Waldrop 919-962-1319 or twaldrop@email.unc.edu
Summary: This fund has been created by Duke University, North Carolina
State University, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), and UNC-Chapel
Hill to provide small grants for activities that will promote greater
dialog among researchers at the four participating institutions. The
broader aim is to enhance collaborative scientific work.
Small grants (less than $20,000 each) will be made available
for activities that bring together researchers from at least three of
the four institutions (one of which must be RTI). These collaborations
should ultimately lead to joint proposal development for external
funding. Some possible areas of common research interest include
energy, global health, biomarker research, and global climate change.
Examples of the type of activities that may be funded are:
1. supporting discussion groups around a specific area of common interest
2. supporting seminar series
3. supporting small conferences on specific topics
4. support for inviting prominent external speakers
5. other mechanisms that promote communication and joint proposal development
More Information
Posted: February 22, 2008
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Golden LEAF Foundation/UNC-Chapel Hill
Collaborative
Contact: Jean Elia, 919-962-2624 or jean_elia@unc.edu
Summary: The Golden LEAF Foundation is interested in outreach project ideas
developed and delivered by UNC-Chapel Hill investigators that focus on rural
business assistance, rural health care, community asset-based economic
development, tourism, community leadership development, program evaluation,
professional economic development education, or K-12 education. Outreach
project ideas in these areas are intended to lead to the systemic or long-term
capacity building necessary to create competitive communities over time.
Whenever possible, the projects should involve collaboration with regional
universities and community colleges, and advance one or more of the UNC
Tomorrow report recommendations. Faculty and/or staff
can submit project ideas at any time to GLFCollaborative@unc.edu.
More Information
Posted: March 28, 2008
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Working on Women in Science (WOWS) Announces Productivity
Maintenance Awards
Contact: Dr. Trish Byrns, pbyrns@med.unc.edu or
(919) 843-7232
WOWS website
Summary: The WOWS (Working on Women in Science) program through the UNC School of Medicine announces a
pilot program for 2008-09. The goal of the Productivity Maintenance Award program
is to assist a faculty member to maintain productivity or meet key professional
goals or deadlines during periods of increased personal demand that coincide
with critical career junctures or events.
To qualify for a PMA, a faculty member must be facing a new, and generally
unexpected or complicated, personal demand on time that could negatively impact
productivity or ability to pursue activities that are key to continued career
advancement.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis with funds
becoming available starting June 1, 2008.
Posted: June 6, 2008
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation and the
Environment Grant Program
Contacts: William Robertson IV, wr@mellon.org, (212)
500-2497 or Doreen N. Tinajero, dnt@mellon.org, (212) 500-2496
Conservation and the Environment Grant Program Website
Summary: The Andrew
Mellon Foundation seeks applications to its Conservation and the Environment
grant program for junior faculty. Junior
Faculty Research grants are awarded to new faculty as they begin their first
tenure-track positions. The idea is to provide intellectual venture
capital to promising researchers at the critical and formative stage when they
begin their independent research careers. This program is devoted to
basic research on how natural ecosystems work. It emphasizes support of
leading institutions, innovative research, and the training of promising
doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. The proposed research must be in
the field of plant ecosystem ecology—here we include soils ecology, and plant
and ecosystem processes. The project or projects must be field research,
and not to support analysis, modeling, correlations or surveys using extant
data sets.
Posted: May 2, 2008
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