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  • Tarleton University Organized Research (ORG) Grants
    Objectives: develop the university's research efforts, improve its research accomplishments, and enhance the university's and faculty's visibility within the academic community. Funding is from September 1 through August 31 of the next year.
    2007 Application Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Monday, July 16, 2007, in the Mathematics Office, Room 142, of the Mathematics building.

  • NSF - Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
    CFDA Number: 47.076                               Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 07-514
    Attaining a basic understanding of information technologies and mastery of essential technical skills is a requirement for anyone to benefit from innovation in the modern world. ITEST is designed to increase opportunities for students and teachers to learn about, experience, and use information technologies within the context of STEM, including IT courses. ITEST components are: youth-based projects with strong emphasis on career and educational pathways; and comprehensive projects for students and teachers. For youth-based projects, creation of innovative and creative models for engaging students in meaningful learning experiences is a priority. Comprehensive projects focus on technologies that would support learning and teaching within the context of the core curriculum.
    Preliminary Proposal Deadlines: January 4, 2008 and the first Friday in January thereafter
    Full Proposal Deadlines: May 8, 2008     and the second Thursday in May thereafter

  • Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)
    CFDA Number: 93.242, 93.361, 93.399, 93,837, 93.838, 93,848, 93,865, 93,866
    U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services grants to promote innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Typically, measurement of usual dietary intake or physical activity over varying intervals or in the past, by necessity, has relied on self-report instruments. Such reports are cognitively difficult for respondents and are prone to varying degrees of measurement error depending on the time period considered, the ease of the instrument, and the characteristics of the respondents. Understanding and interpretation of instruments and the concepts they address may differ among population subgroups. Applications may include development of: novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations; across various age-groups including older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; or statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases.
    Application Deadline: February 5, June 5, October 5

  • NSF - Social Psychology
    CFDA Number: 47.075                                     Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1332
    NSF's Social Psychology program supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span.  Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psycho physiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.
    Application Due: January 15, 2008; July 15, 2008.

  • NSF - Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC)
    Funding Opportunity Number: NSF 06-610                                         CFDA Number: 47.075
    IOC supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOC-supported research should ordinarily combine theory with empirical validation. IOC research might draw on theories and findings from fields including, but not limited to, organization theory, organizational behavior, industrial engineering, industrial/organizational psychology, organizational sociology, risk management, public administration, computer science, information science, and management science. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including but not limited to archival analyses, surveys, simulation studies, comparative case studies, and network analyses.
    Application Deadline: February 2 annually

  • Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes
    CFDA Number: 45.163                             RFA Number:
    Grants to support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks.  Program formats: 1) Seminar for school teachers where 15 participants explore a topic or set of readings under the guidance of a scholar; 2) Institute for school teachers where 25 to 30 participants are given the best available scholarship on important humanities issues; 3) Seminar for college and university teachers where 15 participants conduct scholarly research or focused study under an expert's direction; and 4) Institute for college and university teachers where 25 to 30 participants focus on a topic of major importance in understanding undergraduate curricula.
    Application: March 1, 2007 for Summer, 2008 projects

  • NSF: Developmental and Learning Sciences
    CFDA Number: 47.075                          Funding Opportunity Number: 07-508
    The program supports studies that increase our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning. Additional priorities are to support developmental research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods and theories; examines transfer of knowledge from one domain to another and from one situation to another; assesses peer relations, family interactions, social identities, and motivation; examines the impact of family, school, and community resources; assesses adolescents' preparation for entry into the workforce; and investigates the role of demographic characteristics and cultural influences on children's development. Research supported by the 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.
    Application Deadline: January 15, 2008; July 15, 2008.

  • NSF - Perception, Action & Cognition
    Funding Opportunity Number: 03-7252
    This program supports research on perception, action and cognition, including the development of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control, and developmental issues in all topic areas. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. Research involving acquired or developmental deficits is appropriate if the results speak to basic issues of perception, action and cognition.
    Application Deadline: January 15, 2008; July 15, 2008.