External Funding Opportunities

Arts and Humanities Funding

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants

Deadline: Dec. 11, 2011

Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of a minimum of one year up to a maximum of three years. Eligible projects include

  • research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities;
  • conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research;
  • archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); and
  • research that uses the knowledge and perspectives of the humanities and historical or philosophical methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.

 

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects

Deadline: Jan. 5. 2012

Through fellowships to published translators, the Arts Endowment supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. The Arts Endowment encourages translations of writers and of work that are not well represented in English translation. All proposed projects must be for creative translations of published literary material into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and value. Priority will be given to projects that involve work that has not yet been translated into English.

 

Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Composition Program

Anticipated Deadline: Jan. 7, 2012 (announcement expected in late Oct. 2011)

The TMC Composition Program balances intensive on-site writing projects with classes, seminars, and discussions led by distinguished composers from a wide range of aesthetic perspectives. Composers will each have at least three performances of their works during the summer: two or more of which will be works written on-site. Each Composition Fellow will have one previously composed acoustic chamber work performed during the season on a regular TMC concert. As part of their application materials, composers should include at least one work which they would like to have performed at the center, suitable for performance by TMC forces. The on-site projects involve producing work quickly in order to experiment, develop specific (perhaps unfamiliar) skills, and to foster close collaborations with TMC performers. Inter-Arts initiatives often form one such project; others have included writing in less familiar musical genres or for under-utilized instruments, or writing for an ensemble consisting of the composers themselves.

 

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Programs

Deadline Jan. 15, 2012 (anticipated)

Fellowships are offered by the Smithsonian Institution to provide opportunities for graduate students, predoctoral students, and postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct research in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff, and to utilize the resources of the Institution. Applicants must propose to conduct research at the Smithsonian in one of its areas of research as outlined in the publication, Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study, for a period of three to twelve months, or ten weeks for the Graduate Student Fellowship. Past or current fellowship recipients are eligible to apply for another award.

 

EPA Solicitations

Activities That Reduce Global Anthropogenic Methane Emissions- This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals for investigation, survey, study, training, and demonstration projects (eligible projects) that advance international near-term, cost-effective methane abatement and/or recovery and use as a clean energy source, and support the goals of the Global Methane Initiative.

 

BAA - Lab Results and a Preliminary Analytical Framework to Assess the Magnitude and Uncertainty in Geotechnical Properties Estimated from the Results of Offshore Geophysical Surveys - This announcement seeks out laboratory test results and a preliminary analytical framework such that uncertainties in estimating soil strength from the results of geophysical tests can be quantified and reduced.

 

NIST Solicitations

NIST Small Business Innovation Research Program, Fiscal Year 2012- Proposals will be sought from small business firms for participation in the NIST Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The following are some of the research topics available for Phase 1 in the 2012 solicitation: Ultrafast Photodetector for Probing Coplanar Waveguide Electrical Circuits; High-Power, High-Speed Photodiodes; and Microfabricated High-Frequency Connectors for Millimeter-Wave Technology.