News for Grant Seekers

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will hold its first-ever virtual grants conference during the weeks of November 16 and November 30. This event is designed to give new faculty, researchers, and administrators key insights into a wide range of current issues at the NSF. NSF staff will be providing up-to-date… Continue reading »

The webinar Ford Fellowships: Advice from Winners at Liberal Arts Colleges will be held from 3:00PM-4:30PM EDT on Friday, October 9. This webinar will aid faculty who are interested in applying for the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and would like a sense of how colleagues at other liberal arts… Continue reading »

Recordings of three webinars for grant-seeking faculty at liberal arts colleges are now available for viewing online. These webinars, hosted by Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton, Colorado, Grinnell, Middlebury, Swarthmore, and Union Colleges, were first presented in summer 2020 and led by faculty who had previously been successful applying for grants from… Continue reading »

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration Tuesday, October 27 – Friday, October 30. Registration is free. The 2020 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration has been designed to provide attendees with a unique opportunity… Continue reading »

The American Academy in Berlin is now inviting applications for the Berlin Prize, the Academy’s residential fellowship, for the academic year 2021/22. The Academy seeks to enrich transatlantic relations in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the… Continue reading »

The webinar Guggenheim Fellowships: Advice from Winners at Liberal Arts Colleges will be held from 12:00PM-1:30PM CDT on August 11, 2020. This webinar, hosted by Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton, Colorado, Grinnell, Middlebury, Swarthmore, and Union Colleges, will aid faculty who are interested in applying for the Guggenheim Fellowship and would like… Continue reading »

Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton, Colorado, Grinnell, Middlebury, Swarthmore, and Union Colleges will be hosting the webinar ACLS Fellowships: Advice from Winners at Liberal Arts Colleges from 11:30AM-1:00PM CDT on August 7, 2020. This webinar will aid faculty who are interested in applying for the ACLS Fellowship and would like a sense… Continue reading »

The National Humanities Center is now accepting applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships for 2021-2022. Mid-career, senior, and emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work from all areas of the humanities are encouraged to apply. The Center also accepts applications from individuals in the natural and social… Continue reading »

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is seeking research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences for the Council’s 2021-2022 ACLS Fellowship competition. Given the disproportionate effect the current economic downturn is having on emerging, independent, and untenured scholars, this year the awards are designated… Continue reading »

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the NEH Summer Stipends program. The purpose of this program is to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The Summer Stipends program provides $6,000 to support continuous full-time work on a humanities… Continue reading »

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program’s 2021-2022 competition is now open. Deadline for applications is September 15, 2020. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers opportunities for scholars in all disciplines to advance their research and teaching interests, promote mutual understanding, and collaborate with scholars abroad. There are over 450 awards in… Continue reading »

In response to the multiple crises of 2020, the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) is dedicating its next funding cycle exclusively to research that seeks to improve our understanding of these extraordinary times. The severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic—including its economic disruptions—and the recent mass protests to combat systemic racial… Continue reading »

In consideration of the challenges facing many in the US, NSF is extending the upcoming proposal deadline for the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) until 5:00 p.m. submitter’s local time on Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Please note that the eligibility requirements specified in the solicitation remain unchanged, and proposers… Continue reading »

The webinar, “NSF CAREER: Advice from Winners at Liberal Arts Colleges,” will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, from 1:30pm-3:00pm Eastern. Three CAREER awardees from liberal arts colleges (Rebecca Barnes, Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Colorado College; Jack Bateman, Samuel S. Butcher Associate Professor in the… Continue reading »

The spring 2020 competition for AALAC collaborative faculty workshops, which would have been held in 2021, has been cancelled. The internal deadline for proposals was to be May 8. Faculty who had been planning to apply are being asked to please set aside their proposals until next spring. The plan… Continue reading »

Applications for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships are due April 8, 2020. NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. NEH Fellowships provide recipients time (six to 12 months) to conduct research or to produce books,… Continue reading »

Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, will be hosting an afternoon workshop with the National Science Foundation on Monday, March 30, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Dr. Paul Raterron, program director in the NSF’s geophysics program, will share information about NSF programs, opportunities, and grant writing tips. This workshop,… Continue reading »

The Russell Sage Foundation is seeking applications for its 2021-2022 visiting scholar program. Established over thirty years ago, the program is a unique opportunity for social scientists to pursue research projects that investigate essential questions on social, economic, and political life in the U.S. while in residence in New York… Continue reading »

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1) has been issued. The new PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted or due, and awards made, on or after June 1, 2020. Significant changes… Continue reading »

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the establishment of the Dreyfus Program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering. The goal of this program is to further the understanding and applications of machine learning throughout the chemical sciences, thereby providing new opportunities. The deadline for proposal submissions is… Continue reading »

The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who hold a PhD. Scholarly/Professional development fellowships are available to scholars and professionals who have… Continue reading »

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accepting applications for the 2020 round of the Public Scholars program, which supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. It does so by offering grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other… Continue reading »

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation has issued its annual request for applications for the Whiting Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to faculty with the aim to stimulate and broaden the awardees’ minds so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and… Continue reading »

Do you have a leave planned during the 2020-21 academic year? The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is offering more than 470 unique awards that will provide 800 scholars the opportunity to teach and research in 143 different countries. Included are opportunities for postdoctoral and early career scholars; these awards are… Continue reading »

The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation has issued its annual request for applications for the Whiting Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to faculty with the aim to stimulate and broaden the awardees minds so as to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction. Grants are primarily for travel and… Continue reading »

Experience the Fall 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference virtually! The plenary sessions for the upcoming conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 8-9, 2018 will be webcast live to the research community. View the plenary sessions to gain key insights into a wide range of current issues at… Continue reading »

The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)—a cooperative, non-profit organization of eighty-six American colleges and universities that supports the advancement of knowledge and understanding of India, its people, and culture—is now welcoming applications for its 2019-2020 fellowship program.  The deadline for submission is July 1, 2018. Applications to conduct research… Continue reading »

Interested in improving your proposal-writing skills? The Council on Undergraduate Research will be holding its annual Proposal Writing Institute July 12-16, 2018 at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA. The deadline for applications in May 15, 2018. The four-day event will consist of periods of proposal preparation interspersed with one-on-one mentoring… Continue reading »

The NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences has changed the dates for submission of proposals to six of its programs. Principal Investigators may want to pay particular attention to those programs whose due dates are now earlier than in previous years: Combinatorics: The new target date is the fourth Tuesday in… Continue reading »

THIS CALL FOR PROPOSALS HAS BEEN CANCELED. As a member institution of the Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC), Williams is invited to participate in the Collaborative Faculty Workshops Program.  This program provides funds for colleagues from 24 liberal arts colleges* to gather and work together on a subject… Continue reading »

Registration is now open for the Spring 2018 National Science Foundation Grants Conference. The conference will be held June 4-5, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. The registration fee is $405. The NSF anticipates that the spring conference will reach capacity very quickly,… Continue reading »

The 2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar competition is now open. Per the Fulbright Scholar program website: “The Core Fulbright Scholar Program offers nearly 500 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists,… Continue reading »

In a press release published March 5, 2018, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has announced the creation of the Course Hero-Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. Created by the online learning library Course Hero and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, this new fellowship program will support… Continue reading »

In a press release published February 21, 2018, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced that it has increased the monthly stipend awarded through its fellowships program to $5,000 a month, for a maximum stipend award of $60,000 for a twelve-month fellowship project.  The increased stipend also applies to NEH-Mellon Fellowships… Continue reading »

December 15, 2017 All Williams faculty  now have access to a new folder, NSF Resources, located in the Faculty Grant Proposal Library in GLOW. Here you will find presentations and information from the November 2017 NSF Grants Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. Within this… Continue reading »

December 8, 2017 The National Science Foundation has announced the release of its new Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). The new PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 29, 2018. Significant changes include: The addition of a new eligibility subcategory on international branch campuses of… Continue reading »

December 8, 2017 The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the creation of an Archives Research Travel Fund, a new opportunity for researchers and scholars interested in visiting the Rauschenberg Foundation and its Archives in New York City.  The Fund will provide partial support for incurred costs related to travel expenses… Continue reading »

December 8, 2017 The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society invites applications for its 2018–19 cohort of postdoctoral and senior fellows. The deadline for application submissions is January 31, 2018. The RCC’s fellowship program is designed to bring together excellent scholars who are working in environmental history and… Continue reading »

Released:  November 27, 2017. Registration is now open for the 2018 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration to be held in Washington, D.C., May 2-4.  Register today through December 15, 2017 for discounted rates. Topics will include: Fundamentals of the NIH, compliance, peer review, grant writing for success,… Continue reading »

Released: October 13, 2017. The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation is accepting applications for 2018-19 travel fellowships.  This opportunity is for teachers (primarily at the college or university level) to improve and enhance the quality of their instruction, and to do so in a location other than that which they… Continue reading »