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Grants & Funding
General information pertaining to UMCP
Guide for New Faculty - This guide will help you put your proposal together. When in doubt, check the ORAA website.
Routing Form - Proposals must be accompanied by the University’s internal routing form. Approval of the proposal is demonstrated by signatures on the proposal cover page and the routing form.
Internal Research Opportunities
Faculty
Division of Research
Limited Submissions - Limited submissions refer to funding opportunities for which the sponsor limits or restricts the number of applications, proposals, pre-proposals, or nominations allowed from an eligible university or research institution.
DRIF incentives - Key to the VPR’s role is the strategic use of the Designated Research Initiative Fund (“DRIF”) to consolidate and elevate the University’s stature as a scholarly institution and to strengthen and enlarge the University’s research activity, visibility and impact.
- TIER 1: Seed Grant/Proof of Concept Program - The deadlines for Tier 1 applications are June 1 and December 1.
- TIER 2: Federally Designated Centers and Major Programs Initiative
- TIER 3: Campus‐wide Research Initiatives Program (CRI)
UM Seed Grant Sites
ADVANCE Advancing women, transforming the University, investing in a culture of inclusive excellence - The ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence aims to transform the institutional culture of our University by facilitating networks, offering individual mentoring and support, and offering information and strategic opportunities for women faculty in all areas of academia. Through initiatives funded from a five year, multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, the ADVANCE Program aims to produce academic environments with assumptions, values and beliefs, policies and practices that support and generate professional growth and excellence for all faculty. Primary Contact: Dr. Pam Lanford, Email: advance@umd.edu, Phone: 301-405-0413
Postdoctoral Researchers
Training Opportunites at UMCP
The Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing announces availability of several predoctoral fellowships for students doing research that is related to the mission of the program and who are in any doctoral program at the University of Maryland. The one-year fellowships (renewal is possible), which include stipend, health insurance, tuition, and some funds for research, provide opportunities for students to do full-time research. Please note that by federal law, the fellowships can only be given to US citizens or permanent residents. The fellowships start on July 1 and run for 12 months (no other starting date allowed). Due date is around March annually. Download application Please note that preference may be given to students working with CCEBH faculty or faculty affiliates of the program (see web site), but exceptions can be made. The nature of the research project, and its relationship the research of CCEBH (as illustrated by the research of the participating faculty), is of paramount importance in selection.
If you think you are interested in applying and want to determine whether your research is appropriate please see either of the co-directors, Dr. Arthur Popper (BIOLOGY) and Robert Dooling (Psychology).
University of Maryland Health Center - Insurance Coverage for Fellows - information link
Costs:
Student, annual = $1,186 |
Student& All Children = $2,466 |
Student & Spouse = $3,900 |
Student, Spouse, kids = $5,180 |
For more information, call the University Health Center 301.314.8165
Predoctoral Students
Training Opportunites at UMCP
- BASIC SCIENCE AND ADDICTIONS TREATMENT announces pre-doctoral training program at the intersection of basic process research and clinical intervention for substance use. The program offers a wide range of interdisciplinary research and
applied experiences at the University Of Maryland, College Park as well as with affiliated
faculty at institutions in the greater Washington DC area (e.g., NIH, University of Maryland
Medical School, Johns Hopkins University). In the context of a translational research project,
trainees will receive joint supervision from one mentor affiliated with the cross-disciplinary
Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences (NACS) Program and the other mentor affiliated with the
Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER). Professional development
will be a core feature of the program, including participation in an interactive speaker series,
training in ethical conduct across both research and applied domains, access to research and
clinical opportunities with underserved populations, and development of grant writing skills. Project Directors: Carl W. Lejuez, Ph.D. (Clinical Core Director) and
Cynthia Moss, Ph.D. (Basic Process Core Director).
- Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing announces availability of several predoctoral fellowships for students doing research that is related to the mission of the program and who are in any doctoral program at the University of Maryland. The one-year fellowships (renewal is possible), which include stipend, health insurance, tuition, and some funds for research, provide opportunities for students to do full-time research. Please note that by federal law, the fellowships can only be given to US citizens or permanent residents. The fellowships start on July 1 and run for 12 months (no other starting date allowed). Due date is around March annually. Download application
- Co-directors: Dr. Arthur Popper (BIOLOGY) and Robert Dooling (Psychology).
- NSF-IGERT Interdisciplinary Language
Science Program
For students interested in the interdisciplinary study of language, the
NSF-IGERT program on the UMD campus offers opportunities for funding and
academic development. For more information please visit Language at Maryland www.languagescience.umd.edu.
University of Maryland Health Center - Insurance Coverage for Fellows - information link
Costs:
Student, annual = $1,186 |
Student& All Children = $2,466 |
Student & Spouse = $3,900 |
Student, Spouse, kids = $5,180 |
For more information, call the University Health Center 301.314.8165
Graduate School Fellowships
- Flagship Fellowships are intended to help graduate programs to recruit and retain truly exceptional students. Flagship Fellowships are multi-year enhancement awards to be added to fellowship/assistantship offers made by graduate programs. Flagship Fellowship enhancements may total $40,000 per student over the duration of the award. The goal is to award ten Flagship Fellowships per year, reaching a steady state of approximately forty Flagship Fellows.
- Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowships The new McNair Fellowship program will enhance opportunities for our campus doctoral programs to recruit and retain outstanding alumni or alumnae of McNair undergraduate programs from institutions across the country. The McNair Graduate Fellowships will provide entering graduate students with a first-year support package that includes a fellowship stipend of $18,000, plus tuition remission, fees, and health insurance. Programs admitting McNair Fellows must commit to providing an additional three-year package of at least comparable annual GA and/or fellowship support.
- Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships provide support to outstanding doctoral students at “mid-career,” that is, in the period approximately before, during, or after achievement of candidacy, and are intended to enable students to prepare for or complete a key benchmark in their program’s requirements. Summer Research Fellowships carry stipends of $5,000.
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertation and whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertation. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of $10,000 plus candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The Graduate School awards approximately 40 Wylie Dissertation Fellowships per year.
- University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Both methodological and substantive quality will be judged. Awards will be given each year in four broad disciplinary areas: 1) Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering; 2) Social Sciences; 3) Humanities and Fine Arts; and 4) Biological and Life Sciences. The Council of Graduate Schools uses these categories for its annual
national dissertation awards. Recipients of the Distinguished Dissertation Award will receive an honorarium of $1000 and may be nominated by the University for the CGS national award.
The Graduate School Endowed Awards
- The Spencer Award, established by the daughters of Dr. Mabel S. Spencer, honors the memory and outstanding professional achievements of Dr. Spencer. It carries a stipend of $15,000 and candidacy tuition remission (if not covered by other tuition remission).
- The Longest Award, established by Mary Jack Wintle (Mrs. James W. Longest), honors the memory and outstanding personal and professional achievements of Dr. James W. Longest. It provides $2,000 to support doctoral dissertation research in the social sciences with potential benefits for small and/or disadvantaged communities. Candidacy tuition remission also will be granted for each of two semesters (if not covered by other tuition remission).
- The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study offers $1,000 to an outstanding doctoral candidate who has demonstrated excellence beyond his or her course work, and who has served at least one academic year as a teaching assistant with a commendable performance.
- The Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship offers $1,000 to a student who “best exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship achievement.”
External Research Opportunities
Faculty
National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review
Peer Review at NIH
PAYLINES
ADVISORY COUNCIL NOTES - Did you know that reading over the council session minutes is a great way to get extra time on RFAs?
Council notes typically show the direction the institute is taking ... RFAs are typically a quick turn-around, this is one way to stay ahead of the competition.
NCBI / eRA Commons
As of July 23, 2010 |
PD/PIs are no longer able to enter citations
manually into eRA Commons and must use My Bibliography to enter and
maintain any citations they wish to have available in Commons.****
How can I delegate someone to help with my references for NCBI? PI needs to login to NCBI and go to my bibliography. On the right hand side - click on edit my bibliography setting. At the bottom of the page, click add delegate:
- Your delegate will receive an e-mail notifying them of access.
- Your delegate will click a link in the e-mail to activate access.
- If your delegate does not have a My NCBI account, they will be invited to register.
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National Science Foundation
New Investigator Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Effective 1/18/2011
MANDATORY Data
Management & Sharing
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The Data Management Plan will be
reviewed as an integral part of the proposal, coming under Intellectual
Merit or Broader Impacts or both, as appropriate for the scientific
community of relevance.http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp |
Office of Naval Research
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA
Department of Defense
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Foundations / Other Funding Sources
Postdoctoral Researchers
- NRSA Individual Fellowship Funding (pre and post doctoral) - The purpose of this individual postdoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support to promising Fellowship Applicants with the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields relevant to the missions of participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
- NIH Small Grant Program (R03)
- The R03 grant mechanism will support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The NIH has standardized the Small Grant (R03) application characteristics, requirements, preparation, and review procedures in order to accommodate investigator-initiated (unsolicited) applications.
- NIH Pathway to Independence - The Pathway to Independence Award program is intended to facilitate the ability of a new investigator to complete their supervised research work, establish independence, publish results, obtain an independent research position, and to prepare an application for NIH Research Project (R01) grant support.
- NSF
Specialized Information for
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) - from website:
The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in selected areas of biology supported by BIO and with special goals for human resource development in biology. The fellowships encourage independence at an early stage of the research career to permit Fellows to pursue their research and training goals in the most appropriate research locations regardless of the availability of funding for the Fellows at that site.
- Life Sciences Research Foundation - Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. All U.S. citizens are eligible to apply with no geographic restriction on the laboratory of their choice. Foreign applicants will be eligible for study in U.S. laboratories. LSRF fellows must carry out their research at nonprofit institutions. LSRF fellows can change projects, laboratories, and/or institutions during the fellowship as long as the eligibility rules listed here are not violated. A person holding a faculty appointment is not eligible to apply for an LSRF fellowship.
- Ford Foundation
Predoctoral Students
Early Graduate Program opportunities
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. Great Resources for GRFP:
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships - The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship is a highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of fifteen supported disciplines. NDSEG confers high honors upon its recipients, and allows them to attend whichever U.S. institution they choose. NDSEG Fellowships last for three years and pay for full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and up to $1,000 a year in medical insurance.
- The Hertz Foundation - The Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship empowers outstanding young people pursuing a PhD degree in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences with the freedom to innovate and explore their genius in collaboration with leading professors in the field.
Advanced Graduate Program opportunities
- NRSA Individual Fellowship Funding (pre and postdoctoral) - The purpose of this individual predoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support for promising doctoral candidates who will be performing dissertation research and training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
- NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE DDRIG) - Synopsis of Program: The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
- In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in both BCS and SES, the Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics program within NCSES, and the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program in SMA accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Requirements vary across programs, so proposers are advised to consult the relevant program's webpage for specific information and contact the program director if necessary.
- The student must be enrolled at a U.S. academic institution, but need not be a U.S. citizen. Proposals from women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged.
- PI Limit: The proposal must be submitted by the dissertation advisor(s) on behalf of the graduate student who is at the point of initiating or already conducting dissertation research.
- The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) - Educational Committee offers awards to help women complete their education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Undergraduate and Graduate awards available.
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships - from website: ACLS invites applications for the fourth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. These fellowships are to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences (1) in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2011.
- ACLS will award 65 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2010 for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the Fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. The total award of up to $33,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. These Fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.
- Ford Foundation - Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
- Eligibility to apply for a Ford fellowship is limited to:
- All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation, Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors or other designations),
- Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level.
- For information regarding level-specific eligibility requirements, stipends, and other program information for each of the three levels of the Fellowship program, please access the fact sheet for the program level of your interest, predoctoral, dissertation or postdoctoral.
- The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation - The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature.
- Microsoft Research Fellowship programs - Microsoft Research is eager to recognize and support outstanding fellows, scholars, and researchers to advance the state of computer science and to strengthen collaborative relationships with academic institutions. We sponsor several programs in North America.
- Acoustical Society of America Fellowships, Scholarships, Prizes, Grants and Student Awards
- The Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics
- Minority Fellowship
- Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science
- Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography
- Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education
- Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics
- The Robert Bradford Newman Student Award Fund- Newman Medals and Schultz Grants
- The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation awards a Research Grant in Speech Science, supported by the Dennis Klatt memorial fund.
Fellowships for Non-US Students
Student Travel Awards
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Maria Chait (Ph.D 2006) moved from Tel Aviv, Israel to join the NACS program. She works with researchers in the US, Japan and France with Dr. Poeppel employing functional brain imaging (MEG) to study the cortical systems that involved in the processing of auditory information. In short, Maria seeks answers to how a listener is able to segregate sounds.
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