Category: Funding Opportunities

DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children’s and adolescents’ development and learning.  Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as citizens.

Among the many research topics supported by DLS are: developmental cognitive neuroscience; development of higher-order cognitive processes; transfer of knowledge from one domain or situation to another; use of molecular genetics to study continuities and discontinuities in development; development of peer relations and family interactions; multiple influences on development, including the impact of family, school, community, social institutions, and the media; adolescents’ preparation for entry into the workforce; cross-cultural research on development and learning; and the role of cultural influences and demographic characteristics on development. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying learning and development; and integrates different processes (e.g., learning, memory, emotion), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales (e.g. infancy, middle childhood, adolescence).

This program supports Integrative Research Activities for Developmental Science (IRADS).  The program currently is at its capacity for supporting such large-scale awards, and is therefore not considering new IRADS proposals at this point in time.  The program is accepting proposals for individual investigator projects (average total budget of approximately $100,000 per year) and workshops/ small conferences (average total one-time budget of approximately $15,000).

Full proposal Due January 15, 2011 and July 15, 2011

Solicitation

The 2011 Nordic Research Opportunity is now available as a Supplemental Award, for NSF Graduate Research Fellows.  The NSF, the Research Council of Norway (RCN), the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), the Academy of Finland, the Danish National Research Foundation and the Swedish Research Council will support on a competitive basis research visits of 2-12 months or 3-12 months (country-specific) in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden (new this year).  This international research opportunity is intended to enrich the Graduate Research Fellows? experience through cooperative activities with leading Nordic scientists and institutions, thus enabling them to develop early-career collaborations with international research partners. Results of the research collaboration are expected to expand opportunities for innovation and add an international dimension to Fellow research projects. Interested NSF Graduate Research Fellows who have completed at least one year of graduate study and who are studying at U.S. institutions are encouraged to contact potential Nordic host institutions for detailed information on current research activities at that site.  Please read the announcement (Dear Colleague Letter) on the NSF Website at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10073/nsf10073.jsp?org=DUE (also available as a link on the GRFP page, www.nsf.gov/grfp).  The 2011 Supplement Request Deadline is January 14, 2011.  Announcement of supplement awards will be made in early April, 2011.

If you have any questions, please contact Jodi Lehman (jglehman@mtu.edu).

NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program

NASA expects to award 20 undergraduate and five graduate scholarships to students in aeronautics or related fields. Undergraduate students entering their second year of study will receive up to $15,000 per year for two years and the opportunity to receive a $10,000 stipend by interning at a NASA research center during the summer.

Graduate students will receive up to $35,000 per year for up to three years, with an opportunity to receive a $10,000 stipend interning at a NASA research center for up to two consecutive summers.

Application deadline January 17, 2011

The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) goals are to introduce U.S. graduate students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. Selected students participate in research experiences at host laboratories in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan. All institutes, except Japan, last approximately 8 weeks from June to August. Japan lasts approximately 10 weeks from June to August.

The application is now available.

If interested in applying, please contact Jodi Lehman (jglehman@mtu.edu)

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/apply-us.aspx>

* *Posted: August 24, 2010*
* *Internal deadline: September 9, 2010*
* Limit on number of proposals preliminary announcement
* *PI limit:* Students must be starting their second or third year
in an eligible PhD program in the fall (August/September) semester
or quarter of 2010.
* *Number per organization:* Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering, or Mathematics departments at eligible universities
may each nominate up to three (3) students.
* *Full proposal deadline: October 8, 2010*

Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship Program
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/fellows-women.aspx#Schedule>

* *Posted: August 24, 2010*
* *Internal deadline: September 9, 2010*
* Limit on number of proposals preliminary announcement
* *PI limit:* Student must attend a U.S. or Canadian university and
be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in the Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics departments
* *Number per organization:* A maximum of three (3) applicants per
department, per university will be accepted.
* *Full proposal deadline: October 8, 2010*

<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10603/nsf10603.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click>

Please keep in mind that your limited submission proposal must adhere to
the Sponsored Programs Office proposal submission policy which specifies
that all proposals must be submitted to the Sponsored Programs Office in
accordance with their internal deadlines chart
<http://www.mtu.edu/research/administration/sponsored-programs/office/proposal-preparation/spo-internal-deadlines.html>.

You can view the current information about Limited Submission
Opportunities here
<http://www.mtu.edu/research/administration/sponsored-programs/enhancement/identification-funding/limited-submission/opportunities.html>.

If interested in applying contact Jodi Lehman (jglehman@mtu.edu).