Select Funding Opportunities in "Diversity"
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African American Episcopal Historical Collection
Humanities, Sociology, and Psychology: Historical Society of the Episcopal Church: AAEHC
Travel reimbursement grants are available to individuals who would like to use the African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC) for research. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, independent researchers, and Episcopal clergy and laypersons are encouraged to apply. Funds are available for transportation, meals, lodging, photocopying, and other research costs.
https://www.vts.edu/bishop-payne-library/african-american-episcopal-historical-collection
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI)
The DFI Program Board and the IBHE are pleased to announce the release of the current DFI Fellowship Program. For more than 23 years, the DFI program and its predecessor programs have provided competitive need-based financial awards to underrepresented students who have earned graduate degrees from a participating Illinois higher education institution.
National Institutes of Health
Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin-Supp)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hereby notify all Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) holding any of the NIH research grants listed in “Part 1 Overview Information” that funds are available for administrative supplements to support and recruit students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators. Administrative supplements must support work within the scope of the original project.
The NIH currently provides multiple opportunities to develop research careers and improve participation for individuals from groups with low representation in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences. Nevertheless, reports from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (see http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/) and others provide strong evidence that diversity remains an important problem that the entire research enterprise must actively address.
This program is designed to provide support for research experiences for individuals from the identified groups throughout the continuum from high school to the faculty level; all NIH awarding components participate. Continuation of this program in the future will depend on evaluation of the career outcomes of the supported individuals as well as continuing assessments of the diversity of the scientific workforce as reported by the NSF and others.
Exploratory Grant Award to Promote Workforce Diversity in Basic Center Research (R21)
The purpose of this FOA is to close the gap that currently exists between new investigators and NCI R01-funded investigators and to ensure that individuals from underrepresented backgrounds who have entered the research pipeline remain in the pipeline. Inquire with funder for award amount.
NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K08)
Increase representation of physician-scientists from groups shown to be underrepresented on a National basis in biomedical, behavioral, or translational cancer research; Develop the research careers of recently trained individuals representative of groups underrepresented in biomedical research who hold a clinical doctoral degree or its equivalent, or who are oncology nurses with doctoral degrees. Inquire with funder for award amount.
Independent Scientist Award (Parent K02)
The overall goal of the NIH Research Career Development program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. The NIH Independent Scientist Award (K02) is intended to foster the development of outstanding scientists and enable them to expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field of research. It provides three, four, or five years of salary support and "protected time" for newly independent scientists who can demonstrate the need for a period of intensive research focus as a means of enhancing their research careers. Inquire with funder for award amount.
National Science Foundation
Partnerships for Research and Education Materials (PREM)
The objective of PREM is to enhance the diversity of the workplace in materials research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, research and education collaborations between minority-serving colleges and universities and DMR-supported centers and facilities. The award amount is $3,000,000.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5439&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
EHR Core Research (ECR) Fundamental Research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education
The EHR Core Research (ECR) program of fundamental research in STEM education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. EHR seeks proposals that will help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following focal areas: STEM learning, STEM learning environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in STEM. This program accepts proposals to advance STEM research and education from diverse teams. Inquire with funder for award amount.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504924&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)
CRII awards will be given to researchers to undertake exploratory investigations, to acquire and test preliminary data, develop collaborations within or across research disciplines, and/or develop new algorithms, approaches, and system designs/prototypes. Inquire with funder for award amount.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504952&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Expeditions in Computing
Projects supported by the Expeditions program comprise the following characteristics: foster research climates that nurture creativity and informed risk-taking, and value complementary research and education contributions such that the whole Expeditions project is greater than the sum of its parts; draw upon well-integrated, diverse teams of investigators from one or more disciplines within computer and information science and engineering, as well as investigators from other fields where necessary. The award ceiling is $3,000,000.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503169&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
