Date

Multiple Funding Announcements

  1. Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic
    Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
    National Science Foundation
    Office of Polar Programs

  2. EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Inter-Campus
    and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity
    National Science Foundation
    Office of Polar Programs

  1. Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic
    Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
    National Science Foundation
    Office of Polar Programs

Letter of Intent deadline: Monday, 4 October 2010.

Full proposal deadline: Monday, 8 November 2010.

The goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to
increase the representation and advancement of women in academic
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, thereby
contributing to the development of a more diverse science and
engineering workforce. ADVANCE focuses on ensuring that women faculty
with earned STEM degrees consider academia as a viable and attractive
career option. This program does not support projects to increase or
retain the number of women entering into or persisting in STEM doctoral
degree programs. Thus, efforts to impact the STEM pipeline are not
considered appropriate for the ADVANCE Program.

Creative strategies to realize the ADVANCE program goal are sought from
women and men. Members of underrepresented minority groups and
individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
Proposals that address the participation and advancement of academic
STEM women from underrepresented minority groups and women with
disabilities are particularly encouraged. Further, given the increasing
emphasis on international collaborations in many STEM disciplines, and
the importance of international recognition to career advancement,
proposal components that systemically enhance and provide access to
international collaborations are encouraged.

Proposals from community colleges, primarily undergraduate institutions,
minority-serving institutions (e.g. Tribal Colleges and Universities,
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving
Institutions, Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges
and Universities), women's colleges, and institutions primarily serving
persons with disabilities are encouraged.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=OPP&from=home.

The full solicitation can be viewed at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10593/nsf10593.htm.

  1. EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Inter-Campus
    and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity
    National Science Foundation
    Office of Polar Programs

Full proposal deadline: Wednesday, 10 November 2010.

The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is a
program designed to fulfill the National Science Foundation's (NSF)
mandate to promote scientific progress nationwide. The EPSCoR program is
directed at those jurisdictions that have historically received lesser
amounts of NSF Research and Development (R&D) funding. Twenty-seven
states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are
currently eligible to participate. Through this program, NSF establishes
partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are
designed to effect lasting improvements in a state's or region's
research infrastructure, R&D capacity and hence, its national R&D
competitiveness.

The Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Inter-Campus and
Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2). Awards made under this program
will provide up to $1 million for up to 2 years to support the
enhancement of inter-campus and intra-campus cyber connectivity within
an EPSCoR jurisdiction. These awards are intended to enhance broadband
access for academic research and the utilization of cyberinfrastructure
consistent with the jurisdiction's Science and Technology (S&T) plan.
The inter-campus and intra-campus connectivity targeted by these awards
is expected to broaden individual and institutional participation in
STEM research and education activities within and among jurisdictions
and to facilitate synergy among NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure
Improvement activities.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5672&org=OPP&from=home.

The full solicitation can be viewed at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10598/nsf10598.htm.