Jazz NEXT grants available

The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for the second round of its Jazz.NEXT grant program. Visit the Creative Arts Funding Opportunities webpage for more information.

Social Network Analysis and Health grant posted

Social Network Analysis and Health funding opportunity has been posted on the Social Sciences Funding Opportunity webpage. This NIH grant seeks to examine the impact of social networks on health.

Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity Grant for Undergraduate Institutions posted

The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) encourages grant applications from non-research intensive institutions that propose to build, strengthen and/or enhance the research infrastructure and research training capacity of their institution. Each NCMHD Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity (BRIC) grant application must have a plan to establish a research capacity-building infrastructure program at the undergraduate institution.

For more info refer to Health & PE Funding Opportunities webpage.

Acres for America

Acres for America, a partnership between Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, annually provides funding for projects that conserve large landscape-level areas that are important habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants through acquisition of interest in real property.

The goal of the Acres for America program is to offset the footprint of Wal-Mart's domestic facilities on at least an acre-by-acre basis through acquisitions of interest in real property. Endorsement of a proposed acquisition by appropriate federal, state, and local government agencies and by nonprofit organizations that the land is of high conservation value is a primary program consideration. Preference will be given to acquisitions that are part of published conservation plans, State Wildlife Action Plans, or Endangered Species Act Recovery Plans.

Amount: Varies

Date due: April 1, 2010 (Pre-proposal)

For more information, click here.

Eastern Oregon Noxious Weed Projects

Eastern Oregon Noxious Weed project focuses on weed control efforts on these lands by implementing coordinated detection and treatment projects including biological control, surveying and inventorying, and preventing and/or limiting the spread and impact of noxious weeds which compete with, and displace, desirable native domestic plant species. Posted on Natural Sciences & Mathematics Funding Opportunity webpage.

Online Resource Center grant announced

Ethics in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Online Resource Center competition proposes to fund one award to support a multidisciplinary team of researchers who will create an online resource center that develops, compiles, and maintains resources related to ethics in science, mathematics, and engineering. For more info view Computer Sciences Funding Opportunities webpage.

NIH Small Research Grants posted

NIH Small Research Grants focusing on childhood obesity posted on Health & PE Funding Opportunities Page.

Council for Undergraduate Research Conference Proposals being accepted

Proposals are now being accepted for Creativity, Inquiry, and Discovery: Undergraduate Research In and Across the Disciplines, a Network for Academic Renewal meeting to be held November 11-13, 2010, in Durham, North Carolina. This conference will showcase promising models of undergraduate research, and will also focus on aligning undergraduate research with broader student learning goals; integrating research preparation and practice into departmental curricula, courses, and capstone requirements; assessing students’ undergraduate research to see if they have achieved essential learning outcomes; and more. See the call for proposals online—proposals are due April 8.