Development of Psychosocial Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions for Mental Disorders

Deadline: January 15, 2017

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage Phased Innovation (R61/R33) grant applications that focus on psychosocial intervention development consistent with the NIMH emphasis on the experimental therapeutic approach for the treatment and prevention of mental disorders in adults and children. In this approach, clinical trials should be designed so that even negative results will provide information to guide further intervention development efforts.

Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Treatment, Preventive, and Services Interventions

Deadline: January 15, 2017

The purpose of this FOA is to support research to test the therapeutic value of treatment, preventive, and services strategies for which there is already evidence of efficacy, for use in community and practice settings and to test hypotheses regarding moderators, mediators, and mechanisms of action of these interventions.

Confirmatory Efficacy Clinical Trials of Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Mental Disorders

Deadline: January 15, 2017

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support confirmatory efficacy testing of non-pharmacological therapeutic and preventive interventions for mental disorders in adults and children that address unmet therapeutic needs, and are consistent with the NIMH emphasis on the experimental therapeutics approach. In this approach, clinical trials should be designed to increase knowledge of the relationship between underlying disease processes and the mechanisms of action through which any intervention produces therapeutic change.

NIBIB Biomedical Technology Resource Centers

Deadline: January 7, 2017

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) invites applications for Biomedical Technology Resource Centers (BTRCs). BTRCs conduct research and development on new technologies that are driven by the needs of basic, translational, and clinical researchers.

Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants

Deadline: January 7, 2017

NIH and it’s participating Institutes and Centers invite applications which establish the feasibility of technologies, techniques or methods that: 1) explore a new multidisciplinary approach to a biomedical challenge; 2) are high-risk but have high impact; and 3) develop data that may lead to significant future research.

Bioengineering Research Grants

Deadline: January 7, 2017

National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its participating Institutes and Centers invite applications for collaborations between the life and physical sciences that: 1) apply a multidisciplinary bioengineering approach to the solution of a biomedical problem; and 2) integrate, optimize, validate, translate or otherwise accelerate the adoption of promising tools, methods and techniques for a specific research or clinical problem in basic, translational, or clinical science and practice.

The Office of Research Administration and the Faculty Research Committee would like to make you aware of our Summer Fellowship Competition. This annual competition awards research funding up to $10,000 to full time faculty members conducting research throughout the summer months. Competition details and documents can be found on the ORA Faculty Research Committee webpage. The application deadline for this year’s competition is January 27, 2017 at 4 pm.

Prospective Applicants:

Kathryn Watkins will host an informational workshop for individuals interested in submitting proposals. Questions pertaining to the competition and the application process will be answered during these workshops. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, December 6th and again on Wednesday, December 7^st from 11:30-1 pm, in the Student Union room 322. Please RSVP at RschSrvsGA8@uakron.edu to attend.

Cultural Anthropology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

Deadline: January 17, 2017

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Anthropological research spans a wide gamut, and contemporary cultural anthropology is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid.

Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

Deadline: January 17, 2017

The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, linguistic semantics and pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.

Social Psychology

Deadline: January 17, 2017

The sponsor provides support for 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 psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.

Political Science

Deadline: January 17, 2017

The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.

Developmental and Learning Sciences

Deadline: January 17, 2017

DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children’s and adolescents’ development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, social functioning, and productive lives as members of society.

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences

Deadline: January 18, 2017

The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society.

Economics

Deadline: January 18, 2017

The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.