Bi-Weekly Update on LSO and Internal Funding Competitions
Week of October 9, 2017
Opportunity / Internal
Deadline
NEW: Brain Research Foundation 2018 Fay/Frank Seed Grant
For more information and to apply, please click here / November 13, 2017
Open and previously announced opportunities:
NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)/ PAR 17-339 (LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / October 11, 2017 at 12:00 pm EST
NSF Major Instrumentation Program/ NSF 15-504/(LSO)
Applicants who hold a primary Quad appointment at HMS: To apply to this opportunity, please contact Caroline Shamu, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, at HMS.
Applicants who hold a primary appointment at FAS/SEAS: To apply to this opportunity, please contact Erin Hale, Senior Research Development Officer, and Susan Gomes, Director of Research Development and Strategy.
Applicants who hold a primary appointment at T.H. Chan: To apply to this opportunity, please contact Heather Conrad, Program Coordinator / October 16, 2017
HSPH Applicants: the internal deadline is
10/11/17
Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund/ (Internal Funding)
For more information and to apply, please click here / October 16, 2017
Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program (LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / November 6, 2017
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards, 2018/(LSO)
For more information and to apply, please click here / November 27, 2017
OTHER
(The opportunities listed below are not facilitated by the OVPR office, but are shared in the event that they might be of interest to your research community. The links provided go directly to the sponsor’s website)
Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge.
For more information, please click here / Sponsor deadline to express interest: October 12, 2017
John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity/ Library of Congress
For More information and to anonymously nominate an applicant, please click here / Sponsor deadline October 15, 2017
Astrik L. Gabriel Fellowships in the History of Medieval Education
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships are available.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline October 15, 2017
2018 Conrad H. Hilton Humanitarian Prize
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline October 18, 2017
Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRFP/ NSF 16-5858
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline October 18, 2017
Alan T. Waterman Award from the NSF
Recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the NSF. For more information and to nominate a colleague, please click here / Sponsor deadline October 23, 2017
Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards
For more information and to apply, please click here
Please note two deadlines for this opportunity:
- Two required letters of recommendation are due 10/30/17
- The required LOI is due 11/6/17
See note at left
Truman Fellowship/ Sandia National Laboratories
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 1, 2017
Henry A. Kissinger Program in Foreign Policy and International Relations/Library of Congress
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 1, 2017
Fellows Program/ Supreme Court of the United States
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 3, 2017
Grand Challenges Explorations/ The Gates Foundation
The Gates Foundation is accepting applications focused on three topics related to Global Health and Development
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 8, 2017 at 11:30 am PST
2018 Seldin~Smith Award, The American Society for Clinical Investigation
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 10, 2017
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
To encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 15, 2017
Carter Manny Award/ Graham Foundation
For doctoral students in the arts with a focus on architecture
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 15, 2017
Innovation Grants/ American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline November 15, 2017
NEW: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award
For junior physician scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline December 1, 2017
2018 Kavli Prize
For outstanding scientific achievements in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, and Neuroscience. For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline December 1, 2017
Scholars Award, Truman Library Institute
Grants of $30,000 to post-doctoral scholars engaged in work on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman. For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline December 15, 2017
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Stem Leadership Program
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline December 29, 2017
NEW: Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2018 Hannah H. Gray Fellows ProgramOpen to individuals from gender, racial, ethnic and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences at the career stages targeted by this program.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 10, 2018
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Networks/ Solicitation:NNH17ZDA001N-TCAN
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline January 25, 2018
NEW: Agilent Early Career Professor Award
2018 Focus: Contributions to the development and advancement of techniques and approaches for the study of the human microbiome, microbiome-host interactions and interaction between individual microbiome components.
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline February 28, 2018
2018 Dissertation Grant, Cold War Military History, offered by the Virginia Military Institute
For More information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline March 2, 2018
NEW:King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for the Year 2019
2019 Focus: Bone Biology and Osteoporosis
For more information and to apply, please click here / Sponsor deadline April 1, 2018
Research Administration Contacts by School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Erin Hale –Senior Research Development Officer
617-496-5252
Susan O’Connor Gomes – Director of Research Development and Strategy
617-496-9448
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Cynthia Verba- GSAS Director of Fellowships
Graduate School of Design
Anne Mathew – Director, Research Administration
617-496-1774
Harvard Divinity School
Jody Blackwell, Grants Manager
617-495-4975
Graduate School of Education
Helen Page – Assistant Dean for Research Administration
617-496-8930
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Erin Hale – Research Development Officer
617-496-5252
Susan O’Connor Gomes – Director of Research Development and Strategy
617-496-9448
Harvard Kennedy School
Charlene Arzigian – Assistant Director, Research Administration
617-495-5956
Harvard Law School
Devin Advani – Controller
617-495-5845
Harvard Medical School
Ivona Jukic, Team Manager, Sponsored Programs Administration
HMS Foundation Funds
Clare Lamont, Program Coordinator
617-432-7463
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Amanda Spickard – Senior Associate Director of Research Strategy and Development
617-432-1711
Heather Conrad- Research and Development Coordinator
617-495-8349
Leigh Melanson, Strategic Initiatives Manager
617-432-1774
Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Autumn Bennett, Program Coordinator
Last updated September, 2017