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NEW Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (12/2) The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. ACLS in partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from June 3, 2026 to June 19, 2026. SISECSE will also provide participating scholars with the opportunity to undertake local fieldwork, including archival or collections research, interviews, site surveys, or other forms of data collection. Fieldwork is not a requirement for participation. Details 🗓️ Applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship and Grant Administration (OFA) System no later than 9:00 PM Eastern Time on December 2, 2025. Posted: 11/11/25 NEW Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship (11/19) The Individual Fellowship program offers an opportunity for artists, scholars, and arts professionals in Asia and the United States to pursue research and a self-directed cultural exchange experience in another country, territory, or region. An Individual Fellowship is not a residency to produce new work, a fund to attend or participate in a single conference or event (i.e. not a travel grant), or an individual’s public relations tour. Rather, Individual Fellows explore focused research questions and activities that enable and promote cultural immersion, dialogue, relationship-building, collaboration, and the exchange of knowledge and ideas among peers. These experiences and relationships lead to invaluable creative inspiration, collaborative opportunities, and a more global and nuanced perspective. Individual Fellows may receive up to $35,000 USD in grant funding. 🗓️ Applications must be submitted by November 19, 2025, at 9:59 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST). Letters of recommendation must be uploaded by November 26, 2025, at 9:59 AM EST. Posted: 11/11/25 NEW Laura Bassi Scholarship (11/28) The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the scholarship is remitted solely through editorial assistance as follows: Master’s candidates: $750 These figures reflect the upper bracket of costs of editorial assistance for master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and academic journal articles, respectively. All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. There are no institutional, departmental, or national restrictions. 🗓️ Application deadline: November 28, 2025 Posted: 11/11/25 Call for Applications for the Sharing Community Histories: Boston-area Faculty Affiliate Program (11/24) The Northeastern Humanities Center, in collaboration with the Reckonings Project, NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, the Arts and Humanities Social Action Lab, and the Centers for Digital Scholarship at Northeastern, invites applications for an 11-month program for Engaged Scholars from Boston-area higher education institutions working in the arts and humanities and related fields, who are interested in community-engaged scholarship and/or teaching. This program is open to both Boston-area faculty who are already in community partnerships and those who are looking to begin this type of work. This faculty affiliate program will run from February to December 2026. Please help us spread the word about this new program by sharing this call with your colleagues in the area and faculty in your departments. To learn more about the program and to apply, please visit the page Sharing Community Histories: A Network for Faculty from Boston-Area Institutions. For questions about the program or application, please email Jen Grieve at j.grieve@northeastern.edu. Please also bring any questions to the optional Zoom Drop-in Information Session on Monday, November 3rd at 4:00 p.m. (Please sign up here.) 🗓️Application Deadline: Applications are due online by 10:00 p.m. ET on Monday, November 24, 2025. Posted 10/29/25 Gerda Henkel Prize (1/30) Every two years, the Gerda Henkel Foundation presents the Gerda Henkel Prize for outstanding scholarly achievements in the disciplines and funding areas supported by the Foundation. The award is endowed with 100,000 Euros. On behalf of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, we hereby cordially invite you to nominate an individual or a research team for the Gerda Henkel Prize 2026. Nominations can be submitted for excellent and internationally acclaimed researchers working in the disciplines and research areas supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The focus of funding by the Gerda Henkel Foundation is on the historical humanities: Archaeology, History, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, History of Law, Prehistory and Early History, and History of Science. Research projects that explore current issues in a larger historical context or consciously focus on topics of relevance to the present or the future receive support from programmes of a limited duration such as, for example, the “Democracy”, “Forced Migration” and “Lost Cities” funding programmes. As part of the Lisa Maskell Fellowship programme, the Foundation supports young scholars in the humanities in Africa. With its “Patrimonies” funding initiative, it promotes the preservation of the cultural heritage, specifically in regions experiencing crisis. These programmes also support research projects in Heritage Studies, Historical Building Research, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Law, Restoration and Conservation, and the Social Sciences. For more detailed information on the call for nominations and the decision-making process please visit the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s website. You can access the selection page for your nomination here. 🗓️Application Deadline: The deadline is 30 January 2026. Posted 10/29/25 NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Program – 2026 (11/6) The NSF ART Program seeks to accelerate and scale the path from fundamental academic discovery to meaningful real-world outcomes. It is not designed to support isolated, individual investigator research projects, but rather institutional efforts to build or grow infrastructure, systems, and partnerships that enable discoveries to move into practice. NSF’s definition of research translation and technology transfer go beyond a traditional focus on lab-to-market pathways to grow capacity at IHEs to achieve the full range of translational impacts emanating from research discoveries and innovations by including civic entrepreneurship; informing standards-setting, policy, and regulatory bodies; scaling rigorous and engaging curricula, instructional material, and pedagogies; and more. The ART Program is built around the following five distinct yet interconnected tracks. BU is eligible to submit one proposal under the following Tracks: FUNDING INFORMATION ELIGIBILITY BU may forward one proposal for either Track 2 or Track 3 (not both). BU will select a single institutional lead proposal based on submitted expressions of interest. The PI, co-PIs, and other Senior/Key personnel must hold an appointment at an eligible organization. Researchers with primary appointments at overseas branch campuses of U.S. institutions of higher education are not eligible. Researchers from foreign academic institutions who contribute essential expertise to the project may participate as Senior/Key Personnel or Collaborators but may not receive NSF support. INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS Interested investigators should submit an expression of interest with the following information via InfoReady Review by: 11/6/2025 Research Development will coordinate the BU team submitting proposals in response to this call and will contact all faculty who express interest. DEADLINES Expression of Interest: Thursday, November 6, 2025 by 11:59 pm ET Anticipated Notification Date: Friday, November 21, 2025 Full Proposal Due – Track 2: Thursday, January 15, 2026 Full Proposal Due – Track 3: Thursday, March 12, 2026 Posted 10/28/25 Anthropology Career Readiness Network Department Advisory Initiative (12/1) Anthropology departments are invited to apply for The Anthropology Career Readiness Network’s (ACRN) Department Advisory Initiative (DAI), which provides up to $1,000 in facilitator support for workshops that strengthen student career readiness and faculty advising. 🗓️Application Deadline: Applications are due December 1. Posted 10/21/25 Dana Foundation Rapid Response Neuroscience & Society Bridge Funding Program (10/10)
Posted 9/24/25 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowships (10/15) Each year, the ISM brings a group of long-term fellows from around the world to join its community of scholars and artists. Long-term fellows are in residence for one year and pursue interdisciplinary projects and teach at Yale. All fellows work in a variety of academic and artistic disciplines, including, but not limited to, anthropology, architecture, art history, composition, African American studies, area studies, art, creative writing, ethnomusicology, film studies, history of art or architecture, languages and literatures, Latinx studies, literature, liturgical studies, musicology, Native American and Indigenous studies, religion and literature, religious studies, ritual studies, sociology, theater studies, and theology. Candidates are eligible to apply as fellows if they are employed as regular full-time faculty or if they have more than six years of related experience following the terminal degree. If you have less than six years of full-time experience after being awarded your terminal degree, you can apply as a Postdoctoral Associate (see below). Fellowships are typically one-year long, though shorter residencies (e.g. one term) are possible in special circumstances. An applicant should typically hold a relevant terminal degree. The work pursued must support the mission of the ISM and fellows are expected to work primarily on this project during their year in residence. The fellowship period for Fellows normally lasts the duration of the academic year from late August until early May. All fellows are expected to be free of commitments that would prevent them from devoting themselves full-time to the work outlined in their proposal and to live in residence within five miles of the Yale campus. 💰Funding Information: Stipends for fellowships are typically half of the fellow’s regular annual salary up to $65,000 per year. 🗓️Application Deadline: The deadline for all materials to be submitted is October 15, 2025. Fellowship decisions will be announced in mid-March 2026. Posted 9/22/25 Simons Foundation Collaboration in Ecology and Evolution (10/16) Purpose: to fund collaborations identifying breakthrough areas of ecology and evolution. The program seeks high-risk research that focuses on basic principles of ecological and evolutionary dynamics, especially their interface. Interest in projects that integrate levels of scale and cut across boundaries, such as fields and subfields, diverse methodological approaches, and/or the geographical regions from which investigators work. 💰Funding Information: Up to $20 million over 5 years, including 20% IDC. 🗓️ Application Deadlines: October 16, 2025 (Vision Statement Deadline); April 30, 2026 (full proposal deadline) Posted 08/20/25 Russell Sage Foundation Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants (10/22) The Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants Competition seeks to support early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors) and promote diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and/or employed at under-resourced colleges and universities. This includes racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Funding & Eligibility Only faculty who have not previously received a research grant or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply. RSF expects to fund 12-15 one-year projects by assistant professors, lecturers, and adjunct assistant professors. Proposals are due on October 22, 2025[1], for funding starting in Summer 2026. Individual applicants can apply for grants of up to $50,000; teams of two or more eligible applicants can apply for grants of up to $65,000. RSF will pair grantees with mentors conducting research on related issues and provide an honorarium for the mentors. On occasion, RSF will deem a project or applicant more appropriate for its Presidential Grants competition and review a Pipeline Grants proposal as a letter of inquiry for that competition instead. Proposals may also be shared with potential co-funders at institutions such as the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) or The Policy Academies. Research Conference and Workshop Grantees are expected to present their preliminary findings at a conference during Summer 2027 where other grantees, mentors, and other senior scholars will participate. The goal of the conference is to provide constructive feedback on the research ahead of publication and to foster collaboration among early career and senior scholars. RSF will reimburse[2] participants for reasonable travel expenses to attend the conference. Application Guidelines Proposals are limited to seven single-spaced pages (12-point font) and should include a very brief literature review (no more than one page), and detailed information on the research question, hypotheses (where applicable), research methods and data, analytic plan, and project timeline. Also required are an abbreviated CV (5 pages maximum), and a brief description of the budgeted items. A detailed budget, budget justification, and other relevant due diligence requirements such as IRB approval or pre-registration will only be expected from those whose proposals are funded. Applications must be submitted via the Foundation’s FLUXX portal. Click on “Apply for an Early Career Grant (Pipeline or CRCJS)” and select “Pipeline Grants Competition” as the grant type. Learn more about RSF’s grant writing guidelines, example proposals, and an instructional video on applying to RSF through Fluxx here. Areas of Interest Below we provide some examples of topics and questions that are relevant to this competition. This list is not all-encompassing. Short descriptions of previously funded projects are available on our website. Applicants are also encouraged to look at the RFP’s for RSF’s existing program areas for other examples of questions/topics the foundation is interested in: Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality; and Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context. Posted 9/26/25 Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellowship in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture (10/23) The Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to announce that it will offer one Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year, to be awarded to a scholar from outside the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Thanks to a generous bequest by the late Birutė Ciplijauskaitė, John Bascom Professor Emerita in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and a Senior Fellow of IRH, the fellowship is available to a scholar with a Ph.D. (at any stage of career), working in Spanish literary and cultural studies of the Iberian Peninsula. We are especially interested in scholars working on peninsular Spanish poetry. The Ciplijauskaitė Fellowship does not typically support editions, anthologies, or translations. All IRH fellowships are residential. Ciplijauskaitė Fellows are required to live in Madison, Wisconsin throughout the academic year to ensure their active participation in the intellectual and social life at IRH. Fellows are also expected to participate in the intellectual life of IRH by attending the required weekly Monday afternoon seminar, utilizing their IRH office regularly, and giving a seminar presentation. Fellows are also encouraged to join the weekly afternoon teas and other IRH events as time and interest permit. Fellows may extend their residency through the summer on a non-stipendiary basis. However, the fellowship may not be deferred for any reason. 💰Funding Information: The award provides a stipend of $60,000, plus health benefits (if accepting the award through UW-Madison payroll), office space, limited support services, and access to university facilities (libraries). 🗓️Application Deadline: Applications are due on Thursday, October 23, 2025. The final notification of awards will be sent in late February or early March 2026. Applications must be submitted through the “application form” link to Interfolio above. For help using Interfolio, or with issues with letters of recommendation or other files, please refer to the documents below. Posted 9/22/25 Robert M. Kingdon Fellowship (10/23) The Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to offer two Robert M. Kingdon Fellowships for the academic year 2026–2027, to be awarded to scholars from outside the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Through a generous bequest from Robert M. Kingdon, the Kingdon Fellowship sponsors scholars working in the humanities in the historical, literary, artistic, and/or philosophical studies of Christian and/or Jewish religious traditions and their role in society. Projects may focus on any period from antiquity to the present, on any part of the world, and in any field(s) in the humanities. They may explore various forms of the Jewish and/or Christian traditions; the interaction of one or both of these with other religious traditions; and/or the relationship of one or both of these religions to other aspects of society within or outside of Europe. The Kingdon Fellowship does not typically support editions or translations. All IRH fellowships are residential. Kingdon Fellows are required to live in Madison, Wisconsin throughout the academic year to ensure their active participation in the intellectual and social life at IRH. Fellows are also expected to participate in the intellectual life of IRH by attending the required weekly Monday afternoon seminar, utilizing their IRH office regularly, and giving a seminar presentation. Fellows are also encouraged to join the weekly afternoon teas and other IRH events as time and interest permit. Fellows may extend their residency through the summer on a non-stipendiary basis. However, the fellowship may not be deferred for any reason. 💰Funding Information: The award provides a stipend of $60,000, plus health benefits (if accepting the award through UW-Madison payroll), office space, limited support services, and access to university facilities (libraries). 🗓️Application Deadline: Applications are due on Thursday, October 23, 2025. The final notification of awards will be sent in late February or early March 2026. Applications must be submitted through the “application form” link to Interfolio above. For help using Interfolio, or with issues with letters of recommendation or other files, please refer to the documents below. Posted 9/22/25 2026 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar: Approaches to Teaching Holocaust Testimonies (10/31) The 2026 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar explores interdisciplinary approaches for incorporating Holocaust survivor testimonies into the college classroom. While foregrounding audiovisual interviews, this seminar will examine various forms of survivor testimonies to consider what kinds of questions they can and cannot answer about Holocaust history and memory. Together, we will discuss approaches for introducing students to how testimonies can illuminate everyday experiences of the Holocaust across a diverse range of linguistic, geographic, religious, and gendered contexts. We will also reflect on how survivor testimonies are shaped by the institutional cultures and approaches of their respective archives, including those at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and the USC Shoah Foundation. Finally, we will discuss how the digital turn in Holocaust testimony, including the use of AI technology, shapes how students engage with testimonies as we transition to a period in which survivors will no longer be present to provide the ethical anchorage for how their recorded testimonies are used. Themes we will consider include: The 2026 Hess Seminar is designed to help faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD candidates currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component relating to the Holocaust. Applications are welcome from instructors across academic disciplines. Seminar applicants can be at any career stage but must be teaching or anticipate teaching relevant courses at accredited institutions in North America, including colleges, universities, and community colleges. Applications must include: Seminar Dates: January 5-9, 2026 Applications must be received electronically. Please contact Campus Outreach Programs (campusoutreach@ushmm.org) with any questions. 🗓️Application Deadline: Applications must be received electronically no later than Friday, October 31, 2025. Posted 9/26/25 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime and pave the way, together, to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. We fund leaders who are using strategies that are both innovative and time-tested in order to create lasting change. The RWJF Health Policy Fellows program supports RWJF’s vision by creating a highly effective community of health policy leaders committed to advancing health across the country. The program provides midcareer professionals with the nation’s most comprehensive learning experience at the intersection of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. We are seeking applicants with deep experience and subject matter expertise as health professionals, behavioral and social scientists, and others with an interest in health and its drivers. During their placements, fellows will be full-time, contributing participants in the national policymaking process in congressional or executive branch offices of their choosing. The activities during the fellowship—developing legislative proposals; organizing hearings; meeting with constituents; briefing officials on health issues—will advance fellows’ leadership skills in health policy and their ability to influence policymaking to improve health. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) conducts and administers the fellowship, with funding support from RWJF. Posted 9/26/25
National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) (11/4) was released which solicits proposals for a variety of projects relevant to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, including the Earth Science Research, Applied Sciences, Technology, and Data Systems Programs. The Earth Science Division (ESD) is sponsoring opportunities that address challenges stemming from environmental change by increasing the understanding of Earth’s systems and climate. Please find more information about NASA’s Earth Science Research Program here. Specific pre-proposal information will be posted under other documents on the NSPIRES page for each program element. Upcoming Earth science and environmental opportunities through the Earth Science Research Program include: Posted 07/22/25 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Innovation Grants (11/15) for natural and social science disciplines 🗓️ Application Deadline: November 15, 2025 Posted 09/2/25 Gerda Henkel Stiftung General Research Grants: Scholarships (11/20) Purpose: To provide scholarships to support research projects in the historical humanities (archaeology, history of art, historical Islamic studies, history, history of law, history of science, prehistory, and early history). Fall 2025 Opportunities
– The program will offer a stipend for travel to and from Bulgaria and cover accommodation and per diem expenses for the two-week residency.
– Participating scholars will be expected to be in residence and to take part in all planned events for the duration of the institute.
– Participating scholars may undertake local fieldwork, including archival or collections research, interviews, site surveys, and other forms of data collection.
– There will be at least one weekend group trip.
– Applicants should submit their research proposals and supporting materials through the ACLS online system.
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500
The total budget for 1-3 new Ecology and Evolution Collaborations will be $8 million per year. The foundation plans to fund 3 collaborations, and suggests budgets of between $1–4 million per year, including IDC.
During the week of December 7, 2026 (presentations)
February 1, 2027 (award notification)
Application Details
Research Scholarships after Post Doctoral Lecture Qualification: €3,720/month
Research Scholarships for Postdocs: €2,760/month
The activities supported by the fund will complement or enrich students’ experience in your course, giving them the opportunity to apply material from class and to learn by doing. Award amounts are typically determined by course enrollment and capped at $45 per student. Current fund levels allow the AEF to support EL activities for approximately 200 students each semester (across multiple courses, if applicable). As of Fall 2024, faculty members receiving awards will be asked to have their students complete a short reflection on their experiential learning activity. Funding is reserved for new or pilot EL initiatives; activities that are a required part of the curriculum and those integral to the course design will not be supported. AEF funds are intended for one-time purposes only. (Requests for recurring funding should be made as part of the annual budget submission process. Please work with administrators in your department or program to prepare the request.) View a list of activities previously funded by the AEF. Now accepting requests for Spring 2026 courses. The deadline to request AEF support for next semester is December 1, 2025. Decisions will be announced on or before January 6, 2026. Please direct any questions to esalius@bu.edu. Engagement Opportunity: DARPA Releases Solicitation for ERIS Marketplace The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in conjunction with its marketplace manager, the Applied Research Institute (ARI), released an updated long-term, open call through the Expedited Research Innovation System (ERIS) for new technologies, processes, research, or methods that advance DARPA-related research and solutions. ERIS will assess and curate novel and revolutionary solutions and make those solutions widely available for rapid acquisition and funding through a digital environment consisting of video pitches. The goal of ERIS is to establish a centralized repository for DARPA-related ideas that have been deemed eligible for funding and, if selected by a Department of Defense (DOD) entity for award, can be rapidly acquired or funded. The updated call changed the name of the ERIS mechanism to “Expedited Research Innovation Series”, rather than “Implementation Series,” announced the new ERIS topic areas, and updated the ERIS selection criteria. The updated ERIS topic areas can be found on the website. Applicants must submit a video pitch of no longer than seven minutes that defines the specific DARPA problem, highlights opportunities for advancing the state of the art, describes team capabilities, and identifies defense or commercial market impact. Selected videos will be placed in the ERIS Marketplace for 12 months for DARPA or other DOD entities to review and procure breakthrough technologies and capabilities through rapid acquisition pathways. Most recently, DARPA utilized the ERIS mechanism to solicit video pitches for DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Ag X BTO initiative. Contact the ERIS coordinator at eris@darpa.mil 🗓️ Application Deadline: Submissions are collected monthly, with the cutoff on the final day of each monthly collection period at noon eastern time. NSF 25-545: NSF STEM K-12 (STEM K-12) This new solicitation seeks to support innovative, multidisciplinary research that explores how AI and other emerging technologies can be leveraged to study and enhance STEM teaching and learning. NSF is encouraging investigators who would have previously applied to the Advancing Informal STEM Learning; Computer Science for All; Discovery Research PreK-12; or Translation and Diffusion programs (all which are currently archived), as well as those who would typically submit to the EDU Core Research solicitation for research in informal and K-12 settings, to apply to this new program. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Lincoln Prize Keywords: American History, American Literature, American Studies, Civil Conflicts & Revolutions, North America, North American History National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) was released which solicits proposals for a variety of projects relevant to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, including the Earth Science Research, Applied Sciences, Technology, and Data Systems Programs. The Earth Science Division (ESD) is sponsoring opportunities that address challenges stemming from environmental change by increasing the understanding of Earth’s systems and climate. Please find more information about NASA’s Earth Science Research Program here. Specific pre-proposal information will be posted under other documents on the NSPIRES page for each program element. Upcoming Earth science and environmental opportunities through the Earth Science Research Program include: 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling
The Pracademic Fellowship Program Over the past several decades, there have been limited opportunities for faculty members in public management, public policy, and related fields to move between the academy and the world of practitioners. The Pracademic Fellowship Program aims to address this gap by supporting mid-career faculty members to work in federal government agencies in the Washington, D.C. area. Pracademic fellows work directly with decision-makers involved in programs of their interest and get a first-hand vantage point of a federal agency’s decision-making environment. Participation in the Pracademic Fellowship Program enables faculty members to bring an enhanced understanding of real-world management challenges to their research and classroom. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling The Diversity & Inclusion Rapid Innovation Initiative Fund is an endowed fund designed to provide support for projects that will advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at the College of Arts & Sciences, specifically by providing the CAS Dean with the means to propel and accelerate curriculum innovation; expand access to experiential learning activities, student-led forums and events; and help fund faculty outreach and recruitment. GeoCAFÉ! We are excited to introduce GeoCAFÉ, a new NSF-funded RCN seeking to accelerate the pace climate and health research by fostering greater collaboration between those who understand and focus on studying the environment from where the triggers of many climate-related health issues arise and experts who study the impact and treatment of health conditions driven by those triggers. As a starting point, we’re now accepting applications from researchers at US academic institutions interested in being part of our first GeoCAFÉ climate and health cohort. Cohort members drawn from the health and geosciences will participate in a series of virtual and in-person events over the next 12 months. Fulbright Canada Entrepreneurship Awards for Specialists are short-term collaborations on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities at Canadian institutions. Specialists receive the necessary resources to transform innovative ideas into successful entrepreneurial endeavours. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Applications are accepted throughout the year. TESS Young Investigator Competition You may already know about the TESS Experiments – short for “Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences,” a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that provides academic researchers access to NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel for U.S. population experiments. TESS is holding a special competition for young investigators. Successful applicants will be able to field their experiment using AmeriSpeak at no cost. Bogliasco Foundation The Foundation welcomes applications from individuals doing creative or scholarly work in the following disciplines: archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and visual arts. The Foundation awards approximately 60 Fellowships each year in seven residency periods that run from September through May. An American nonprofit with a program in Italy, the Bogliasco Foundation awards one-month Fellowships to individuals of all ages and nationalities who are developing significant new work in the arts and humanities. Fellows live and work in bucolic surroundings on the coast near Genoa, where natural beauty combines with an intimate group setting to encourage inquiry and transformative exchange across all disciplines. Apply: https://bfny.org/en/apply 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling Collaborative Research Proposals in Sociology as part of the NSF-BSF in Sociology is open to receive applications anytime throughout the year. As part of the NSF-BSF joint program, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) invites collaborative research proposals in Sociology, in the Social, Behavioral and Economics Sciences (SBE) Directorate at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Call for Proposals can be found here. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Applications are welcomed throughout the year. Teagle Foundation Program: Education for American Civic Life The program supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities. The funder seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education by partnering with institutions offering bold and coherent initiatives that endow students with the content, skills, and sensibility to participate in a political system designed for self-governance. The program is focused on funding in two particular areas: (1) anchoring significant questions in democratic thought in local history and community and (2) strengthening preparation for public service. 💰Funding Information: up to $300,000 over up to 3 years Proposals for planning grants in the range of $25,000 over 6-12 months are strongly encouraged. 🗓️ Application Deadlines: Concept papers for this initiative will be reviewed three times per year with submissions due by December 1, March 1, and August 1. The Fulbright Specialist Award is designed to provide U.S. and Canadian faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning, and a variety of other activities. Short-term grants of two to six weeks are available to provide leading U.S. scholars and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with their Canadian counterparts. HOW TO APPLY: American scholars and professionals interested in joining the roster of Fulbright Specialists are advised to contact our cooperating agency, World Learning, for detailed program information. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling Colorado specific funding options: El Pomar which focuses on arts and culture, civic and community initiatives, education, health, and human services, learn more. They also offer funding via several additional funds, learn more. Boettcher Foundation, which in 2023 is focused on community connections and their Rural Catalyst Grants, learn more. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling Call for Collaborative Research Proposals in Sociology: NSF-BSF The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. The program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Full proposals are accepted throughout the year in all programs. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling Overview of Federal Funding Opportunities for Behavioral and Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities BU in collaboration with Lewis Burke Associates has produced a compendium of potential funding sources. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling Sawyer Seminars, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer seminars bring together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. Each seminar normally meets for one year. Seminar leaders are encouraged also to invite participants from nearby institutions, such as community colleges, liberal arts colleges, museums, research institutes, etc. Awards provide support for one postdoctoral fellow to be recruited through a national (or international) competition, and for the dissertation research of two graduate students. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling Spencer Foundation. The Spencer Foundation, a leading funder of education research since 1971, seeks to improve education, make education systems more equitable, and increase opportunities to learn across the lifespan. The Foundation’s programs provide funding for education-focused research projects, research training fellowships, and additional field-building initiatives. 🗓️ Application Deadline: Rolling NIH Common Fund’s Transformative Health Disparities Research Initiative Community To stimulate transformative research to address health disparities and advance health equity, the NIH Common Fund is developing a new program planned to launch in fiscal year 2023. Through a series of facilitated listening sessions with the community, the NIH Common Fund’s Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity working group seeks your input on new, innovative research into health disparities, minority health, and health equity. 🗓️ Application Deadline: RollingRolling Deadlines
AmeriSpeak is the first U.S. multi-client household panel to combine the speed of panel surveys with enhanced representativeness of the U.S. population, an industry-leading response rate, and the NORC Card, an innovative sample quality report card. AmeriSpeak is the most scientifically rigorous multi-client panel available in the U.S. market. Our sampling captures a true picture of America, providing better representation than other panels for hard-to-reach populations.
While anyone can submit a proposal via the regular TESS mechanism, this Special Competition is limited to investigators who are either graduate students or no more than three years post-PhD / post-residency for MDs. Check out tessexperiments.org for more information and please pass this along to colleagues, graduate students, or anyone you know who might be interested.
If you have any questions or want to learn more about the AmeriSpeak Panel, reach out to us at AmeriSpeak-BD@norc.org.