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Events
Meet the Spencer Foundation
- Finding Funding in Education (virtual)
The Spencer Foundation, in partnership with the Office of Research and Foundation Relations, will present a workshop to help acquaint researchers at BU with the Foundation’s mission, funding priorities, programs, and grant application protocols.- Date: Monday, November 8, 2021
- Time: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Register here
Prizes
- Dan David Prize
The prize recognizes the work of historians, art historians, archaeologists, digital humanists, curators, documentary filmmakers and all those who deepen our knowledge and understanding of the past. You can view past winners here.
Due: November 1, 2021 (Nominations)
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations
Highlighted RFP
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) – Emerging Voices Fellowship *Final Competition – program ending*
The program allows recent PhDs in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to take up one-year positions at select institutions in ACLS’ Research University Consortium for the 2021-22 academic year. At a time of economic downturn and uncertainty in academe, the fellowships provide support for a vanguard of scholars whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come.Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the humanities or humanistic social sciences from a US institution and that degree must be conferred between June 1, 2018 and December 31, 2021.All applicants must attest to formal receipt of the Ph.D. (degree conferred) by December 2021. Students who anticipate receiving the Ph.D. after December 31, 2021 are not eligible.ACLS Consortium institution for academic years 2022–23 and 2023–24.
The stipend for fellows in 2022-24 will be $65,000 per year, supplemented by an annual $3,500 in funds for research, travel, books, computers, childcare, or other expenses. ACLS also will provide a one-time relocation allowance of $3,000.
Due: 9:00 p.m., ET, January 12, 2022
Humanities
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations
- Gerda Henkel Stiftung | Gerda Henkel Foundation General Research Grants: Scholarships
Up to €74,400 (~$86,000) over up to 2 years
Due: November 24, 2021 - Terra Foundation for American Art Academic Workshop & Symposium Grants
Up to $25,000, 15% for indirect costs
Due: December 3, 2021 (LOI) - American Council of Learned Societies (ALCS) Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
Up to $225,000 over 1 year
Due: December 7, 2021 - ALCS: Sustaining Public Engagement Grant Program
Focused on research initiatives involving higher education faculty and students partnering with community members in the creation of knowledge
$3.5 million grant
Due: December 7, 2021
ACLS will host a series of informational webinars about the application process starting on Monday, October 18, 2 p.m. Register at bit.ly/ACLS-SPEWebinar. - Henry Moore Foundation Long Term Research Grants
The program supports extended, sculpture-focused research projects requiring funding for more than one year
Up to £20,000 ($27,300)
Due: December 9, 2021 - Henry Moore Foundation Research and Travel Grants
Up to £2,500 ($3,400)
Aimed at individual academics (post-MA), curators, and scholars
Due: December 9, 2021 - Henry Moore Foundation Conferences, Lectures, and Publications
The program provides support for books, journals, and conferences about sculpture
Up to £5,000 ($6,800)
Due: December 9, 2021 - Phi Kappa Phi Excellence in Innovation Award
$100,000 funding
Due: December 15, 2021
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk
Up to $50,000
Due: December 15, 2021 - Yiddish Book Center Fellowship Program
$32,000 over 11 months
Due: January 3, 2021
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Palestinian American Research Center Fellowship for Field-Based Humanities Research in Palestine
Up to $50,000 ($5,000 per month for four to 10 months of research)
Due: January 10, 2022 - Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Addressing Access to Care
$100,000 over 2 years
Due: January 13, 2022 - American Council of Learned Societies Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies
$300,000 over 4 years
Due: January 11, 2021
Natural Sciences
- Simons Foundation – Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards
$666K over 3 years; 20% overhead/IDC
Due: October 29, 2021 (reference letters); November 5, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation Grant for Infrastructure/Registry Research
Up to $300,000 over 3 years
Due: November 8, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - National Multiple Sclerosis Society Investigator-Initiated Research
Up to $600,000 over up to 3 years (including indirect costs)
Due: November 10, 2021
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - American Diabetes Association Leveraging Nutrition and Lifestyle for Diabetes Prevention Across the Life Span
ICTSN Awards: up to $600,000 over 3 years, 10% indirect, up to 20% PI Salary
Junior Faculty Awards: $414,000 over 3 years, 10% indirect
Postdocs: up to $225,000 over 3 years, no indirect costs
Due: November 11, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Centre de Recherches Mathematiques CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellowships
$46,000 Canadian ($35,800 US) ($45,000 stipend and $1,000 in research funding)
Due: November 12, 2021
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Healthy Eating Research COVID-19 and Socioeconomic Recovery Efforts
Up to $250,000 over up to 18 months
Due: November 17, 2021
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation BSF Research Grants
Up to $250,000
Due: November 17, 2021
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Start-Up Research Grants: About – BSF
Up to $75,000 per PI over 2 years
Due: November 17, 2021
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Parkinson’s Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Basic Scientists
$124,000 over 2 years as well as $5,000 annual research allowance to be used at the Fellow’s discretion
Due: November 16, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Postdoctoral Fellowships for Clinical Neurologists
$140,000 over 2 years
Due: November 16, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award
Up to $300,000, up to 10% indirect costs
Due: November 16, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Launch Award | Parkinson’s Foundation
$400,000 over up to 4 years, up to 10% indirect costs
Due: November 16, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - American Association of University Women Research Publication Grant in Engineering, Medicine, and Science
Up to $35,000 over 1 year, payment of the final 10% of the funds will be contingent upon acceptance to a scholarly publication within six months of the end of the grant year
Due: December 1, 2021 (application due)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Environmental Research & Education Foundation Waste Management Practices
Up to $500,000 (average grant of $160,000 over two years)
Due: December 1, 2021
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - American Mathematical Society AMS Centennial Research Fellowship Program
$50,000, no indirect costs
Due: December 1, 2021
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - American Institute of Physics Congressional Science Fellowships
$82,400 stipend for 1 year
Due: December 1, 2021
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Paralyzed Veterans of America Education Foundation Research and Education Grants
Up to $50,000 over 1 year, indirect costs may be no more than 8% of direct cost (up to $15,000 for conferences and symposia)
Due: December 3, 2021
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Parkinson’s Foundation Impact Awards
Up to $150,000 over up to 18 months, no more than 10% as indirect costs
Due: December 1, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Research Centers of Excellence
Up to $2 million over 4 years; up to 10% indirect costs
Due: December 1, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Exchange Program
Up to €110,000 (~$128,000) stipend for 2 years, plus transportation
Due: December 1, 2021
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Simons Foundation/NSF NSF-Simons Collaboration on a National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology
$25 million over 5 years
Due: December 1, 2021 (Preliminary Proposal)
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
Up to $1.08 million over up to 8 years
Due: December 1, 2021
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Foundation Research Grants in Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine
Up to $30,000
Due: December 2, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Single-Cell Biology Data Insights
Up to $400,000 over 18 months (inclusive of up to 15% indirect costs)
Due: December 14, 2021 (Cycle 1)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - American Federation for Aging Research Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and Grants for Junior Faculty
Up to $125,000 over up to 2 years, up to 8% as indirect costs
Due: December 15, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award
$300,000 over 3 years, up to 8% as indirect costs
Due: December 15, 2021
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - McGovern Institute Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience
$150,000
Due: December 15, 2021 (Nominations)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize
$500,000
Due: December 15, 2021 (Nominations)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize
$500,000
Due: December 15, 2021 (Nominations)
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Mitzi & William Blahd, MD Pilot Research Grant
$25,000, no indirect costs and no salary support for other research personnel
Due: January 6, 2022
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience McKnight Scholar Awards
$225,000 over 3 years, no indirect costs
Due: January 10, 2022
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - [William Webster] Allen Foundation Nutrition Grants
Up to $250,000
Due: January 15, 2022
For more information, contact John Wendelken (johnw@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - International Society for Neurochemistry: Conference Committee support for small conferences or symposia
Due: April 30, 2022 (Spring Round)
For more information, contact Tristan Barako (tbarako@bu.edu), Foundation Relations
Social Science
- Charles Koch Foundation Trade Policy Research
Funding levels are commensurate with the requirements of the research and the potential for the research to advance an understanding of critical issues
Due: Rolling
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Russell Sage Foundation – Research Grants: Social, Political & Economic Inequality; Future of Work; Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Special Topics
Due: November 10, 2021 (LOI)
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Retirement Research Foundation Projects in Aging
Up to $500,000 (average grant of $160,000 over two years)
Due: November 11, 2021
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award
$1 million
Due: December 15, 2021
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Association for Computing Machinery Prize in Computing
$250,000
Due: December 15, 2021
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Association for Computing Machinery Grace Murray Hopper Award
$35,000
Due: December 15, 2021
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Association for Computing Machinery Athena Lecturer Award
$25,000
Due: December 15, 2021
For more information, contact Cecilia V. Lalama (clalama@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
Up to $165,000 for 1 year. Up to 6 awards will be made.
Due: February 11, 2022
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations - Carnegie Corporation of New York Family Engagement to Improve Student Learning
Up to $100,000 over 1 year; there is an opportunity to renew the grant for a second year
For more information, contact Joseph Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), Foundation Relations
Due: February 15, 2022