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Expired Grants
Title:Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Preliminary Proposal Due (optional):
April 26, 2005;
April 25, 2006.
Preliminary proposals are optional, but strongly recommended, especially for institutions or departments that have not previously submitted to the ATE program. Full Proposal Deadline (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
Oct. 18, 2005;
Oct. 12, 2006.
Summary: With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions; and other activities. A secondary goal is articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education.
Additionally, the program invites proposals focusing on applied research relating to technician education.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf05530
Title: National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Letter of Intent Due (optional): March 9, 2005; Full Proposal Deadline (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): April 11, 2005
Summary: Building on work supported under the multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative, this program aims to establish a national digital library that will constitute an online network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. In FY2005, the program will accept proposals in three tracks: (1) Pathways projects are expected to provide stewardship for the content and services needed by major communities of learners. (2) Services projects are expected to develop services that support users, resource collection providers and the Core Integration effort and that enhance the impact, efficiency and value of the library. (3) Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services and other aspects of the development of the digital library.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf05545
Title: Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Preliminary proposal (required) Nov. 1, 2004; Full proposal Feb. 9, 2005
Summary: ITEST is designed to increase the opportunities for students and teachers to learn about, experience and use information technologies within the context of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including Information Technology (IT) courses. It is in direct response to the concern about shortages of technology workers in the United States. Supported projects are intended to provide opportunities for both school-age children and for teachers to build the skills and knowledge needed to advance their study and to function and contribute in a technologically rich society. ITEST has two components: (a) youth-based projects with strong emphases on career and educational paths; and (b) comprehensive projects for students and teachers. This solicitation complements and is not intended to overlap with the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program described in Section I. Information Technology (IT) is within the scope of the ATE program, so proposals for the development of IT classroom materials for students or teachers, or for professional development of IT teachers in support of technical careers, should be submitted to the ATE program.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04611/nsf04611.htm
Eligibility: All organizations with an educational mission are eligible. Proposals targeting minorities, persons with disabilities and women are
especially encouraged to apply.
Title: Programs Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
Agency: Federal Department of Education - Office of Postsecondary Education
Deadlines: Applications due Nov. 3, 2004
URL: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html
Eligibility: See website
Title: Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Educational Materials Development (EMD) Adaptation and Implementation (A&I) National Dissemination (ND) Assessment of Student Achievement (ASA) Tracks Program Solicitation
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
- June 16, 2004 - ND Track
- June 17, 2004 - EMD Track
- December 2, 2004 - A&I Track
- December 8, 2004 - ASA Track
Summary: The Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all students, based on educational research and empirical data concerning needs and opportunities in undergraduate education and effective ways to address them. It targets activities affecting learning environments, course content, curricula and educational practices, with the aim of improving learning contributing to the relevant knowledge base that will support future efforts to enhance STEM education.
The CCLI program has four tracks that emphasize, respectively, the development of new educational materials and practices for a national audience (EMD); the local adaptation and implementation of previously developed exemplary materials and practices, including laboratory experiences and support for instrumentation (A&I); the national dissemination of exemplary materials and/or practices through faculty professional development (ND); and the assessment of student achievement, including research on assessment and the development of assessment tools and practices (ASA). Projects may address the needs of a single discipline or cut across disciplinary boundaries. Abstracts of previously funded projects can be found at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/pirs_prs_web/search/.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04565
Title: Science of Learning Centers (SLC)
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Full proposal Jan. 14, 2005; Catalyst competition June 29, 2005; Centers competition (by invitation only) Jan. 15, 2006
Summary: The Science of Learning Centers program (SLC) offers awards for large-scale, long-term Centers that will extend the frontiers of knowledge on learning of all types and create the intellectual, organizational and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of learning research. Centers will be built around a unifying research focus and will incorporate a diverse, multidisciplinary environment involving appropriate partnerships with academia, industry, all levels of education and other public and private entities. Catalyst awards will also be made during the initial years of the program. Catalyst awards are designed to enable partnership-building and research activities that facilitate interdisciplinary approaches to questions that require multiple areas of expertise.
Amount: Anticipated Type of Award: Standard or Continuing Grant or Cooperative Agreement Estimated Number of Awards: 25 including 3 to 5 Center awards and up to 20 Catalyst awards. Catalyst awards will be standard or continuing grants. Center awards will be cooperative agreements. Anticipated Funding Amount: $3,000,000 for new Catalyst awards made under this solicitation in FY2005 and $20,000,000 for new Center awards made under this solicitation in FY 2006, pending availability of funds.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05509/nsf05509.htm
Eligibility: See website
Title: Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Preliminary proposal (required) Feb. 28, 2005; Letter of intent (optional) March 7, 2005; Full proposal April 18, 2005
Summary: The Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program supports efforts to increase the participation and achievement of persons with disabilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Meritorious projects from a diversity of institutions are supported via the RDE Demonstration, Enrichment and Information Dissemination (RDE-DEI) program track. Promising research efforts are also developed further via awards under the Focused-Research Initiatives
(RDE-FRI) program track. In the third program track, broadly applicable methods and products are disseminated for widespread use, commercialization, or inclusion in the activities of program-sponsored Regional Alliances for persons with disabilities in STEM education (RDE-RAD). RDE Alliances serve to inform the public, government and industry about proven-good practices in the classroom, promote broader awareness of disabilities issues and define specific areas of accessibility and human learning in need of further attention by educators and the research community.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04610/nsf04610.htm
Eligibility: A proposal submitted under the RDE-RAD program track must be submitted by a U.S. college or university in the United States. Proposals from minority-serving institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities are especially encouraged to apply.
Title: Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI)
Agency:NSF
Deadlines: Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required): March 1, 2005; March 1, 2006
Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 6, 2005; April 7, 2006
Summary: The Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI) is a collaborative effort jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education (see http://www.ed.gov/programs/edresearch/applicant.html), and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the National Institutes of Health (see http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/funding-opps.htm). In FY 2004 the IERI grant competition will be managed separately by each agency. The National Science Foundation invites proposals for research projects that will investigate the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve student learning and achievement in preK-12 science and/or preK-12 mathematics with an emphasis on middle and high school. Technology should be a part of the intervention or used in an essential manner in the analysis of the intervention.
The goal of the Interagency Education Research Initiative for NSF is to support scientific research that investigates the effectiveness of educational interventions (defined as educational practices, strategies, curricula, or programs) in preK-12 science and/or mathematics as they are implemented in varied school and home settings with diverse student populations. From an empirical perspective, the aim of IERI is to identify the conditions under which effective, evidence-based interventions to improve preK-12 student learning and achievement succeed when applied on a large scale. This necessarily requires a multidisciplinary approach; the participation of a variety of experts including science, mathematics, and engineering faculty along with education researchers is encouraged. In addition, successful projects will include a variety of partners such as states, universities, schools, teachers, and parents and will also require the use of technology for the scaling or the study of the intervention. NSF especially encourages proposals focusing on middle and high school mathematics and/or science.
IERI will fund two types of projects -- contextual projects and scaling projects.
Contextual projects are smaller projects that aim to develop components of a potential scaling project. Examples include feasibility studies, instrument development and replication studies. Contextual projects can be funded for up to five years for up to a total of $2,000,000.
Scaling projects are larger projects that aim to demonstrate that an intervention can scale in either size of affected population or in the variety of contexts in which the intervention is successful. Scaling projects can be funded for up to five years for up to a total of $6,000,000. Scaling projects must have a strong evidentiary base and demonstrate, through rigorous, well-controlled, large-scale empirical studies, which proposed education approaches are in fact most effective in practice. The interventions may be school-based or based outside of school and should use technology either in the intervention or in its analysis.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04553
Title: Higher education, social services and health
and hospital grants
Agency: Charles A. Frueauff
Foundation
Deadlines: March 15 and Sept. 15
Summary: The mission of the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation is to improve
the lives of those in need by awarding grants to non-profit organizations in the
areas of higher education, social services and health and hospitals. Amount: Most first time grant awards are $15,000.
URL: http://www.frueaufffoundation.com
Eligibility: See website.
Title: 2005 Scholastic Library/Grolier National Library Week Grant
Agency: ALA
Deadlines: Application deadline: Oct. 18, 2004
Summary: $5,000 National Library Week grant available; 2005 theme is "Something for everyone @ your library"
U.S. libraries of all types are invited to apply for the 2005 Scholastic Library/Grolier National Library Week Grant. The grant will award $5,000 to a single library for the best public awareness campaign during National Library Week (April 10-16, 2005) that uses the National Library Week 2005 theme of "Something for everyone @ your library."
The grant is sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing and its publishing imprint Grolier and is administered by the Public Awareness Committee of the American Library Association (ALA). All proposals must use the "Something for everyone @ your library" theme, which incorporates The Campaign for America 's Libraries' @ your library brand, on any and all promotional and publicity material supporting the National Library Week activities. The theme was chosen by the ALA 's National Library Week Subcommittee for its broad appeal and ability to be adapted by different libraries. Guidelines for using the @ your library brand are available on the campaign website at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary under the "Download logos" section.
URL: A grant application form and guidelines are available on The Campaign for America 's Libraries website at www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/nlwgrant.
Information also available from the ALA Public Information Office: Telephone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 4020
E-mail: mhumphrey@ala.org
Title: Association for Library & Information Science Education: Research Grant Awards
Agency: Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
Deadlines: Oct. 10, 2004
Summary: The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is now accepting proposals for its 2004 Research Grant Program Competition. An award of one or more grants totaling $5,000 may be made to support research broadly related to education for library and information science. The Research Grant Award cannot be used to support a doctoral dissertation. At least one applicant in a group submitting a proposal must be a personal member of ALISE as of the deadline date.
URL: http://www.alise.org/awards/researchgrants.html
Eligibility: At least one applicant in a group submitting a proposal must be a personal member of ALISE as of the deadline date.
Title: Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (DIGARCH) Program
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): Sept. 14, 2004
Summary: The goal of this program is to stimulate research that builds capabilities for long-term management and preservation of digital materials. As more research disciplines and societal sectors have come to rely on data-driven models and observational data, the archiving problem is growing, the shortcomings of current technologies have become apparent and the need to preserve historical material has become imperative. This program will support both technical and sociotechnical research topics.
Candidate topics include
- scientific data such as astronomy and the human genome,
- government material such as drug-testing records,
- private for-profit media such as film and music recordings, and
- public documents such as those associated with the government rulemaking process.
- Content may include text, databases, electronic documents, images, sound, video and other object types.
More information: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=10000000000103
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04592
Title: CampusEAI Oracle Portal Grant
Agency: Oracle and the CampusEAI Consortium
Deadlines:
- Aug. 27, 2004: Application Due Date
- Sept. 10, 2004: CampusEAI Oracle Portal Grants are announced
- September - December 2004: Implementation of CampusEAI Oracle Portal begins
- January-May 2005: Grant recipients begin "beta launch" of CampusEAI Oracle Portal
- May-August 2005: Grant recipients begin "production launch" of CampusEAI Oracle Portal
Summary: The CampusEAI Oracle Portal Grant Program is designed to cover the costs of software, hardware and services associated with the implementation of the CampusEAI Oracle Portal system, an intranet portal that integrates with online learning, administrative computing and student services systems. The Grant offering includes hardware, software, project management, installation, and training costs necessary to install and operate a CampusEAI Oracle Portal, in the form of a grant which ranges between $250,000 to $1,000,000 in software, hardware, and services, depending on the size and requirements of the school.
URL: http://www.campuseai.org/grantprogram.asp
Title: NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure program
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Full Proposal: Aug. 23, 2004; Letter of Intent: July 25, 2005
Summary: The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure program supports the acquisition, development, enhancement, and operation of research infrastructure that enables discovery, learning, and innovation in all computing fields supported by CISE. Supported infrastructure includes instrumentation needed by a few research or research and education projects, major experimental facilities for an entire department or for multi-institutional projects, and testbeds or data archives for an entire subfield of CISE researchers. One goal of the CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program is to provide infrastructure that enables high-quality computing research and education. A second goal is to extend the set of individuals and departments that are able to conduct such activities. The CRI program is committed to maintaining a broad portfolio that supports research and education across a diverse population and lessens the digital divide. The program encourages proposals that are from or that include minority-serving institutions. The CRI program will support a variety of infrastructure needs, such as general or specialized research equipment, technical support, and/or software. CRI will also support the development of infrastructure that can be used by others, such as data archives or libraries of software tools. The primary criteria are that the infrastructure facilitates the conduct of high-quality research and related education, and that it cannot be acquired or developed without funding resources beyond those available from individual research and education grants and the host institution.
The CRI program will make three kinds of awards. Cost sharing is specialized as summarized below and described in detail in Section V. B.
* Infrastructure Acquisition. These awards have budgets up to $2,000,000. Cost sharing is not required on small grants; cost sharing of 20% is required on medium grants but only from Ph.D. -granting institutions; cost sharing of 30% is required on large grants but only from Ph.D. -granting institutions.
* Community Resource Development. These awards have budgets from $300,000 to $2,000,000: medium from $300,000 to $800,000 and large over $800,000. Cost sharing is not required on these awards. Development projects create a resource for an entire CISE research community, such as a testbed for evaluating research results or a large data resource that contains problems a community is trying to solve (e.g. , annotated speech data).
* Planning. These awards facilitate the preparation of a proposal for a medium or large infrastructure acquisition grant. They have budgets up to $50,000 for one institution or up to $100,000 if more than one institution is involved. Cost sharing is not required. The CRI program replaces and expands upon three previous programs: Minority Institutional Infrastructure (MII), Research Infrastructure (RI), and Research Resources (RR). The most significant new features are that CRI will support resource development grants in addition to infrastructure acquisition grants and that personnel may be supported when well justified.
URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.cfm?div=cns
Title: CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI)
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required for large proposals only (over $800,000)): July 26, 2004; Fourth Monday in July annually; Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): August 23, 2004; Fourth Monday in August annually
Summary: The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure program supports the acquisition, development, enhancement, and operation of research infrastructure that enables discovery, learning, and innovation in all computing fields supported by CISE. Supported infrastructure includes instrumentation needed by a few research or research and education projects, major experimental facilities for an entire department or for multi-institutional projects, and testbeds or data archives for an entire subfield of CISE researchers.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04588/nsf04588.htm
Title: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Deadlines vary by NSF Directorate
July 20, 2004
Biological Sciences (BIO)
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Education and Human Resources (EHR)
July 21, 2004
Engineering (ENG)
July 22, 2004
Geosciences (GEO)
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Summary: Recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf02111
Title: Software and Tools for High-End Computing (ST-HEC) Program
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (optional): May 14, 2004. The submission of a letter of intent is strongly encouraged. Full Proposal Deadline (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): July 7,
2004.
Summary: Because of the ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems, computational needs continue to increase rapidly.
Breakthrough-quality scientific discoveries and the optimal design of large and complex artifacts impose enormous demands on computing resources and the expertise to utilize them. But most of the currently available hardware, software, systems, and algorithms are primarily focused on business applications or smaller scale scientific and engineering problems, and cannot meet the high-end computing (HEC) needs of cutting-edge scientific and engineering work.
This solicitation is concerned exclusively with high-end software tools for extreme-scale scientific computation, which are highly computation- and data-intensive, and cannot be satisfied in today's typical cluster environment. The target hosts for these tools are systems comprised of thousands to tens of thousands of processors.
The ST-HEC program will support innovative research activities aimed at building complex software and tools (on top of the operating system) for high-end architectures. The topics of interests are:
- Pre-processors and compilers.
- Software tools for dynamic and adaptive computation.
- Software tools for job scheduling and resource management.
- Software tools for debugging and monitoring.
- Programming and software tools for effective locality-aware computing.
- Software tools for adaptive and global memory management.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04569
Title: Instructional Materials Development (IMD), Instructional Materials for Students Assessment
Agency: NSF
Deadlines: Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required): May 10, 2004; Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): August 26, 2004
Summary: The Instructional Materials Development (IMD) program includes three
components:
Instructional Materials for Students -- supports the creation and
substantial revision of comprehensive curricula and supplemental
instructional materials that are research-based; enhance classroom
instruction, preK-12; and reflect standards for science, mathematics,
and technology education developed by national professional
organizations.
Assessment -- supports the creation of tools for assessing student
learning that are tied to nationally developed standards and reflect the
most current thinking on how students learn mathematics and science.
Projects can also focus on assistance to schools and districts in
implementing new assessments.
Applied Research -- supports the research for development of the IMD
program and projects; provides evidence for the effectiveness of
materials and feedback for strengthening the portfolio; and identifies
possible new directions in instructional materials and assessment.
Proposals may be submitted for projects in any field of science,
technology or mathematics (STM) education typically supported by NSF
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04562/nsf04562.htm
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