PrintFunding Spotlight
Questions about any of the funding opportunities listed below can be addressed to Erin Cromack at cromack@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-5252 or Susan Gomes at sgomes@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-9448.
Internal Harvard Opportunities
- None at this time
Limited Submission Opportunities
- Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research
- Searle Scholars Program
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
- NSF Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (NSF 13-569)
External Opportunities
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
- Cottrell Scholar Award
- Fulbright Scholar Program
Internal Harvard Opportunities
None at this time
Limited Submission Opportunities
Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research
FAS Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 2, 2013 by 5pm
Award Amount: $100,000 per year for three years, inclusive of 5% indirect costs
Target Disciplines: Basic biomedical research (investigators in the physical sciences whose projects focus on biomedical science are also encouraged to apply)
Target Faculty: Early Career (first independent faculty appointment July 1, 2011 through December 1, 2013)
The Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research supports promising junior faculty who are beginning to establish their own independent laboratories and research programs. The mission of the program is to launch the careers of newly independent biomedical researchers with the ultimate goal of achieving medical breakthroughs. Applications focus on all fields of biomedical science and may also be submitted by investigators in physics, chemistry and engineering.
Searle Scholars Program
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 8, 2013 by 5pm
Award Amount: $300,000 over three years
Target Faculty: Early career
Eligible disciplines: Biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, chemistry, medicine, biological sciences
The Searle Scholars Program supports research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose appointment is their first tenure-track position. Applicants are expected to be pursuing independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. The Searle Scholars Program does not ordinarily support purely clinical research but has supported research programs that include both clinical and basic components.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: July 15, 2013 by 5pm
Award Amount: $6,000 for two consecutive months (beginning May 2014 or later)
Eligible disciplines: Languages; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; social sciences with humanistic content and methods
NEH Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project at any stage of development for a period of two months. Summer Stipends normally support work carried out during the summer months, but arrangements can be made for other times of the year. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.
NSF Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (NSF 13-569)
FAS Letter of Intent Deadline: August 1, 2013 by 5PM
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: September 3, 2013 by 5PM
Award Amount: $10M available across 4-12 awards in FY 2014
This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic, paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about associated organisms, collector field notes, and tissues and molecular data extracted from the specimens, is a rich resource providing the baseline from which to further biodiversity research and provide critical information about existing gaps in our knowledge of life on earth. Only one Thematic Collections Network (TCN) application may be submitted with Harvard University as the lead organization.
External Opportunities
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Deadline: July 22-24 (varies by directorate)
OSP Deadline: 5 business days before sponsor deadline
Award Amount: $400-500K minimum, includes indirect costs, five years
Eligible Disciplines: All disciplines supported by NSF
The NSF CAREER award program is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Applicants must hold a doctoral degree in a field supported by NSF and be employed in a tenure-track (or tenure-track-equivalent) position as an assistant professor (or equivalent title) by October 1, 2013.
Cottrell Scholar Award
Sponsor Deadline: August 1, 2013
Award Amount: $75,000; an amount of $5,000 is set aside to cover travel expenses related to attendance at two annual Cottrell Scholar conferences.
Eligible Disciplines: Astronomy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, or physics
Eligible Faculty: Faculty appointed to first tenure track position in 2010
The goal of the Cottrell Scholar Award is to promote and support the university scholar model. University scholars are faculty members who have both excellent research programs and excellent approaches to student learning at the undergraduate level. A key objective of the program is to build a community of outstanding scholar-educators who are dedicated to becoming leaders in both research and teaching and who collectively have the potential to change the way science is taught nationally.
Fulbright Scholar Program
Sponsor Deadline: August 1, 2013, 11:59 PM EST
Award Amount: Varies by country and type of award.
Eligible Disciplines: Fulbright grants support a wide variety of fields in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers approximately 800 teaching, research or combination teaching/research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals for teaching and/or conducting research abroad. Grants are offered in a wide variety of academic and professional fields in over 125 countries worldwide for the 2014-2015 academic year. Grant lengths also vary in duration and applicants can propose projects for a period of two to 12 months, as specified in the individual award descriptions. Fulbright grants are budgeted to cover travel and living costs in-country for the grantee.
