Category Archives: Deadline Oct. 2015

Ohio Soybean Council

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Grant Announcement from the Ohio Soybean Council:

The mission of the Ohio Soybean Council is to invest soybean checkoff funds to maximize profit opportunities for Ohio soybean farmers.  To achieve this mission, the Ohio Soybean Council Board of Trustees has updated the strategic plan for FY 2016.

Ohio Soybean Council Strategic Plan

All proposals should be submitted through our online project management system.  The goal of this system is to make the OSC project process more efficient for our contractors, board members and staff.  Please go to the website (http://projects.soyohio.org), log on with your user name and password, and click on “My Proposals” and then “Submit Proposal” to start the proposal process.  Feel free to contact Carla DeBoard at cdeboard@soyohio.org if you need a user name and password, or need assistance with this process. The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, October 30, 2015.

Engineering & Technology

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Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics (PRM) program is to advance fundamental engineering research on the rates and mechanisms of important classes of catalyzed and uncatalyzed chemical reactions as they relate to the design, production, and application of catalysts, chemical processes, biochemical processes, and specialized materials that have important impacts on society.

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Energy for Sustainability

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Energy for Sustainability program is to support fundamental engineering research that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and fuels. Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources.

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Environmental Engineering

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Environmental Engineering program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific and engineering principles to avoid or minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges, resulting from human activities on land, inland and coastal waters, and air, while promoting resource and energy conservation and recovery. The program also fosters cutting-edge scientific research for identifying, evaluating, and monitoring the waste assimilative capacity of the natural environment and for removing or reducing contaminants from polluted air, water, and soils. Any proposal investigating sensors, materials or devices that does not integrate these products with an environmental engineering activity or area of research may be returned without review.

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Combustion and Fire Systems

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Combustion and Fire Systems program is to generate cleaner global and local environments, enhance public safety, improve energy and homeland security, manufacture new materials, and enable more energy-efficient manufacturing. The program endeavors to create basic engineering knowledge and solutions that are needed to develop useful combustion applications (such as flame-assisted synthesis of novel materials) and for mitigating the effects of fire.

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Social Sciences & Humanities

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Franklin Research Grants

Deadline: October 1, 2015

The American Philosophical Society awards small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. Franklin grants are made for noncommercial research.

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Grants to Institutions and Schools; Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Deadline: October 1, 2015

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies considers applications from institutions and schools for small grants to assist projects and events in the field of Hellenic Studies. Typical projects include bursary schemes for academic conferences, productions of Greek drama, Hellenic events, the development of School courses in Greek, the purchase of books and other teaching materials, summer schools.

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RFA-HD-16-002–CAPSTONE Centers for Multidisciplinary Research in Child Abuse and Neglect (P50)

Deadline:  October 19, 2015

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites applications for multidisciplinary centers to serve as the CAPSTONE for research and education n child maltreatment and as a resource for the field. The Center(s) will conduct innovative and high quality research including: 1) trials testing the efficacy and effectiveness of clinical interventions; 2) longitudinal prospective studies examining the long term impact of specific and understudied types of maltreatment including abusive head trauma, medical neglect, sexual abuse; 3) studies examining the neurobiology of abuse and neglect and implications for health outcomes; and 4) studies testing the development of screening tools and clinical assessment measures for early identification and treatment of specific types of abuse and neglect to decrease morbidity and mortality and to identify potential comorbidities.

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William R. Waters Research Grant; Association for Social Economics

Deadline: October 31, 2015

The Association for Social Economics offers a grant promote research in social economics and the social economy. The research grant is for promising new faculty members who have not yet been granted tenure and for graduate students in Ph.D. programs who have not yet completed their dissertation.

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The Arts

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Scientific Research Projects; GRAMMY Foundation

Deadline: October 1, 2015

The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design as well those addressing an important research question.

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NAEF Research Grants

Deadline: October 1, 2015; must be a NAEA member for one year to apply.

NAEF invites proposals to support research in art education that advance knowledge in the field of art education and that promulgate research surrounding the themes of the NAEA Research Agenda (see NAEA Research Commission website at www.arteducators.org; search: Research Commission). Grants are awarded to art educators whose proposals focus on the themes and ideas for research identified in this document. NAEF encourages the submissions of proposals to conduct research that investigates the impact and importance of arts education in student learning and provides hard data to support the findings of the research.

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Troubadour International Poetry Prize

Deadline: October 19, 2015

Coffee-House Poetry will award prizes, including a first prize of £5,000 for the best poetry submissions. Poems must be in English, must each be no longer than 45 lines, must fit on one side of one A4 or US-Letter-size page, must show title and poem only, must not show poet’s name or any other identifying marks on submitted poems (whether submitted by post or as e-mail attachment), must be the original work of the entrant (no translations) and must not have been previously broadcast or published (in print or online).

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Institutional Grants; Dedalus Foundation

Deadline:  October 15, 2015

The sponsor offers institutional grants to support educational programs, exhibitions, and publications by museums, universities, art schools, and other educational institutions. In addition to providing funds for short term projects, the Foundation provides seed money to facilitate long term projects that are in their initial or planning stage.

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International Art Competition – Naked

Deadline: October 31, 2015

The “NAKED” international art competition will be evaluated by the Jury Panel represented by gallery board members and curators, exhibiting artists, art business professionals. Entries must be in JPEG format, no larger than 1400 x 1800 pixels, and under 2MB. This category allows the following aspects: nudity, naked body, erotica, sexuality.

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Health/Biomedical Research

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Biotechnology, Biochemical Engineering Program (BBBE)

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering (BBE) program supports fundamental engineering research that advances the understanding of cellular and biomolecular processes in engineering biology and eventually leads to the development of enabling technology for advanced manufacturing and/or applications in support of the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, and bioenergy industries, or with applications in health or the environment.\

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Nano-Biosensing

Deadline: October 20, 2015

Proposals that incorporate emerging nanotechnology methods are especially encouraged. Areas of interest include: proposals on multi-purpose sensor platforms that exceed the performance of current state-of-the-art measurement methods; projects on novel transduction mechanisms and sensor designs suitable for measurement in practical matrix and sample-preparation free approaches. These include error-free detection of pathogens and toxins in food matrices, waterborne pathogens, parasites, toxins, biomarkers in body fluids, and others.

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Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) program is to provide opportunities to develop novel ideas into discovery-level and transformative projects that integrate engineering and life sciences in solving biomedical problems that serve humanity in the long-term. BME projects must be at the interface of engineering and life sciences, and advance both engineering and life sciences. The projects should focus on high impact transformative methods and technologies. Projects should include methods, models and enabling tools of understanding and controlling living systems; fundamental improvements in deriving information from cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems; new approaches to the design of structures and materials for eventual medical use in the long-term; and novel methods for reducing health care costs through new technologies.

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