Lee (Patrick P.) Foundation: Grants Program

Due: August 1, 2009

Award: Grants typically range from $25,000 to $1 million and are funded for a five year period

For projects that promote awareness, education, prevention and research of cancer and mental illness. Support is also provided to organizations that serve the public interest and address critical needs within the community. projects that promote awareness, education, prevention and research of cancer and mental illness. Support is also provided to organizations that serve the public interest and address critical needs within the community.

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant

Due: August 1, 2009

Award: Between $15,000-$30,000 annually for two years

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.Particular questions that interest HFG concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence. Research with no useful relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.

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Department of Energy: Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Industrial Sources and Innovative Concepts for Benefical CO2 Use

Due: August 7, 2009

Award: Up to $3,000,000

The sponsor's two specific objectives, identified as Technology Areas, are to demonstrate: (1) Large-scale industrial CCS projects from industrial sources ($1,321,765,000) and (2) Innovative concepts for beneficial CO2 use ($100,000,000).

Technology Area 1 - Large-scale industrial CCS projects from industrial sources: The objective is to demonstrate advanced technologies that capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into underground formations. The large-scale CCS projects include integration of CO2 capture, transportation and sequestration incorporating comprehensive monitoring, verification & accounting (MVA). The projects may include plant efficiency improvements for integration with CO2 capture technology. The industrial sources include, but are not limited to, cement plants, chemical plants, refineries, steel and aluminum plants, manufacturing facilities, and power plants using opportunity fuels (petroleum coke, municipal waste, etc.). Plants with electric power output greater than 50% of total energy output that operate on more than 55% coal as a feedstock are ineligible.

Technology Area 2 - Innovative concepts for beneficial CO2 use: The objective is to demonstrate innovative concepts for beneficial CO2 use, which include, but are not limited to, CO2 mineralization to carbonates directly through conversion of CO2 in flue gas; use of CO2 from power plants or industrial applications to grow algae/biomass; or, conversion of the CO2 to fuels and chemicals. The carbonates produced from the mineralization processes must have the ability to result in permanent storage of the CO2 through end uses such as cement additives or long term underground storage.

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NASA: Design and Usage of Massively Multiply Online Games and Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments

Due: August 10, 2009

Award: Up to $350,000 annually

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space FlightCenter's Learning Technologies Project Office (LTPO) is releasing a Cooperative AgreementNotice (CAN) to conduct research and evaluation on the design and usage of MassivelyMultiplayer Online Games (MMOG) and Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments (VirtualWorlds) for NASA Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Training.The LTPO MMOG Research and Evaluation CAN will consider proposals that communicate therequired approach and skills to:Contribute to NASA, other Federal Agencies, private industry and academias researchinitiatives to improve STEM content and delivery approaches that promote the developmentof our Nations future workforce, workforce applications and missions.Provide experiences and activities that are grounded in education research or utilizeevidence-supported approaches, techniques, and tools; andStimulate linkages and connections to and from secondary education and higher educationand informal education communities using NASA content within a gaming context.It is anticipated that one award of up to $350,000 annually will be made to partner withLTPO and the MMOG developer to infuse educational content and design into the NASA MMOGfor up to three years. One award of up to $100K annually is planned to award anindependent evaluation effort for up to three years and one award of up to $100K annuallyis planned to conduct broad-based research of the applicability of educational gaming todiverse institutions and people.

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DARPA: Panoptic Analysis of Chemical Traces (PACT)

Due: August 20, 2009

Award: Unspecified

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) is soliciting proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Panoptic Analysis of Chemical Traces (PACT) program. The PACT program will develop technology capable of analyzing complex gas mixtures without reliance on preconceived libraries of anticipated analytes. PACT will provide automated, high-throughput analysis of atmospheric sampling efforts aimed at producing exhaustive chemical maps of urban and military environments.DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of high-throughput chemical analysis of trace gases. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice is specifically excluded.DARPA-BAA08-62, entitled Panoptic Analysis of Chemical Traces (PACT), is provided as an attachment to this solicitation notice and includes information on the specific areas of interest, the submission process, proposal formats, as well as all other pertinent administrative and contractual information.Administrative, technical, or contractual questions should be sent via email to DARPA-BAA-08-62@darpa.mil. All requests must include the name, address, and phone number of a point of contact.

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NSF: International Research Network Connections (IRNC)

Due: August 21, 2009

Award: $1 million per year for five years

NSF expects to make a set of awards to: provide network connections linking U.S. research networks with peer networks in other parts of the world; leverage existing international network connectivity; improve the quality of end-to-end networking on international paths; explore experimental networking; stimulate the deployment and operational understanding of emerging technologies such as IPv6 in an international context. Network links funded by this program are intended to support science and engineering research and education applications, and preference will be given to solutions which provide the best economy of scale and demonstrate the ability to support the largest communities of interest with the broadest services. Funded projects will assist the U.S. research and education community by enabling state-of-the-art international network services similar to and interconnected with those currently offered or planned by domestic research networks. Funded projects will assist the U.S. research and education community by enabling state-of-the-art international network services and access to increased collaboration and data services. Through extended international network connections, additional research and production network services will be enabled, complementing those currently offered or planned by domestic research networks.

This program supports international research network connections across three areas: Production network environments (IRNC:ProNet); Experimental networking activities in support of cyber-science applications (IRNC:Exp); and special projects including advanced network development, deployment, security, monitoring, and other approaches (IRNC:SP).

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NSF: Cognitive Neuroscience

Due: August 27, 2009

Award: Between $320,000 and $800,000 annually

The Cognitive Neuroscience program seeks highly innovative proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior. Topics may bear on core functions such as sensory, learning, language, reasoning, emotion, and executive processes, or more specialized processes such as empathy, creativity, representation of self and other, or intentionality, among many other possibilities. Topics may also include how such processes develop and change in the brain.

The program is particularly interested in supporting the development of new techniques and technologies for recording, analyzing, and modeling complex brain activity. Such projects should include a plan for sharing new software and other technologies with the research community at large.

Studies of disease states (e.g., brain damaged patients) may be components of projects supported by this program. However, the emphasis in such projects must be to advance basic scientific understanding of neural mechanisms, and not on disease etiology, diagnosis, or treatment.

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