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CFP: http://science.doe.gov/grants/pdf/SC-FOA-0000571.pdf

DE-FOA-0000571

Preapplication due Sept 9, 2011

Full proposal due Oct 26, 2011

* The Cyber Center at Purdue’s Discovery Park is interested in collaborators for a proposal to this program. Contact Michael Witt if interested. *

The Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) and the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announce their interest in receiving Cooperative Agreement applications from interdisciplinary teams to the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, for Scientific Computation Application Partnerships (hereafter, Partnerships) in the area of fusion energy sciences. The FES SciDAC portfolio focuses on the development and application of high physics fidelity simulation codes that can advance the fundamental science of magnetically confined plasmas by fully exploiting leadership class computing resources and contribute to the FES goal of developing the predictive capability needed for a sustainable fusion energy source.

CFP: https://www.onr.navy.mil/~/media/Files/Funding-Announcements/BAA/2011/11-026.ashx

Whitepaper deadline: 9/15/11

Proposal due: 11/10/11

Call from the Department of Defense and the Office of Naval Research contains multiple multidisciplinary research opportunities that could include library science, especially those that relate to the management of complex information and computational social science.) See full call for proposals for details.

Link: http://www.lisjobs.com/careers/conference-funding.asp

List of sources for scholarships, grants, and funding to attend or present at LIS conferences including ALA, ASIS&T, MLA, SLA, NASIG, and others.

You can find scholarships, awards, and grants to attend local and national conferences. For additional opportunities, check the web pages of the associations and subgroups of which you are a member. Also visit the awards, grants, fellowships, and scholarships categories at Beyond the Job for announcements of new opportunities.

Please note that many of these awards and scholarships have limited annual application periods, and applications may be closed at the time you click on a link. Bookmark to try back later during the formal application period. Also check every official conference website; often limited-term scholarship opportunities are posted there.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Greater Midwest Region

List of CFPs: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/current.html

Summary of funding available to GMR members:

For the 2011/2012 contract year, five types of awards are available; awards are in amounts less than $5,000. Network members may apply for these awards by using the application form linked to the Call for Application (CFA) for each of the awards.

Funded amounts of $5,000 and over are called subcontracts and require completion of additional support documentation.

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11539/nsf11539.htm

Deadline: July 18, 2011

Awards: 40-50 awards from $30M total estimated funding

Computation is accepted as the third pillar supporting innovation and discovery in science and engineering and is central to NSF’s vision of a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21^st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) as described in http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp).

Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for realizing the CIF21 vision. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement of researchers’ capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific progress, NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI²) program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure. SI² is a long-term investment focused on catalyzing new thinking, paradigms, and practices in developing and using software to understand natural, human, and engineered systems. SI²‘s intent is to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution, and accuracy by integrating computation, data, networking, observations and experiments in novel ways. It is NSF’s expectation that SI² investment will result in robust, reliable, usable and sustainable software infrastructure that is critical to achieving the CIF21 vision and will transform science and engineering while contributing to the education of next generation researchers and creators of future cyberinfrastructure. Education at all levels will play an important role in integrating such a dynamic cyberinfrastructure into the fabric of how science and engineering is performed.

The SI² program includes three classes of awards:

1. Scientific Software Elements (SSE): SSE awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust software elements for which there is a demonstrated need that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
2. Scientific Software Integration (SSI): SSI awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common software infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems. SSI awards will result in a sustainable community software framework serving a diverse community.
3. Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2 awards will focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in software infrastructure and technologies, which will serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary breadth.

Awards: $200 to $10,000

CFP: http://www.wishyouwellfoundation.org/apply/

Supporting family literacy in the United States by fostering and promoting the development and expansion of new and existing literacy and educational programs. Requests are reviewed four times a year.

Deadline: August 15, 2011

Planning and Design Grants: up to $100,000

CFP: http://www.imls.gov/about/macarthur.shtm

These grants will support the planning and designing of up to 30 Learning Labs in libraries and museums throughout the country. The Labs are intended to engage middle- and high-school youth in mentor-led, interest-based, youth-centered, collaborative learning using digital and traditional media. Grantees will be required to participate, in-person and online, in a community of practice that will provide technical assistance, networking, and cross-project learning. Projects are expected to provide prototypes for the field and be based on current research about digital media and youth learning. There will be two project deadlines for this grant program, with the second deadline planned for spring 2012.

Deadline: September 27, 2011

Awards: $100,000-$325,000 each

CFP: http://www.neh.gov/ODH/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=9Qc1l5gLcHw%3d&tabid=108

This program is designed to be a follow-on to our popular Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program (SUG). As you know, the SUG program awards small grants and is designed to fund early, cutting-edge, experimental work that shows great potential. SUGs can also be used for small planning meetings, studies, or workshops.

But now that we’ve funded nearly 200 SUGs, we’ve heard a lot of feedback from the field that the timing is right to offer a larger implementation program aimed at helping projects move beyond the start-up phase and into full implementation. Enter: DHIG!

The DHIGs offer a much larger maximum grant (from $100K to $325K). Projects applying for a DHIG grant should be able to demonstrate that they’ve already successfully completed an earlier start-up phase and are now ready to build on it with a larger grant.

CFP: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/electronic.html

Awards: 1 to 3 years and up to $300,000. Up to 6 grants for a total of up to $600,000.

Deadline: June 8, 2011

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The Commission seeks proposals that will increase the capacity of archival repositories to create electronic records archives that preserve records of enduring historical value. The NHPRC supports efforts by archivists and records managers to meet the challenges of electronic records. Projects must involve institutions that have already established archives and records management programs. We seek applications for start-up or collaborative projects: Start-up projects: Develop the capacity of institutions to prepare to capture and preserve electronic records, through program planning; or Collaborative projects: Establish and/or improve electronic records archives by engaging in effective and innovative collaborations.

CFP: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html

Deadline: July 20, 2011

Awards: Up to $350,000 for 3 years

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.  These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.  Awards also support the creation of reference materials, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities.  Maximum awards are $350,000 for up to three years.

Eligible activities include:

*              arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections;

*              cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture;

*              providing conservation treatment (including deacidification) for collections, leading to enhanced access;

*              digitizing collections;

*              preserving and improving access to born-digital sources;

*              developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials;

*              creating encyclopedias;

*              preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars

*              developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS);

*              designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources.

In response to recent studies noting the deeply hidden, often perilous condition of audio-visual sources in cultural heritage institutions, this program encourages applications that address the preservation and access needs of humanities collections of sound recordings and moving images. Applicants may request funds to establish intellectual and physical control of such materials as well as to digitize them.