Name: Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE)

Deadline: 5/16/06 (new deadline not on website)

Amount: Maximum $200,000 for 2 years

URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13656&from=fund

Description: This solicitation aims at introducing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate education. The focus is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to devices and systems and/or on the social, economic, and ethical issues that surround nanotechnology.

Name: Cross-cutting Topics on Stochastic Systems

Deadline: ?

Amount: Varies. See http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do;jsessionid=8145F3A25A4C1BC54FCD7B66C936EB65?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=igms&ProgOrganization=DMS&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=&BooleanElement=true&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=trueS&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=#results

URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05039/nsf05039.jsp

Description: In recent years, there has been a surge of research activities within the mathematical sciences community on analysis, modeling, and computation of inherently stochastic systems. Such studies are interdisciplinary with a broad range of applications, including models in biology, nanoscience, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, finance, economics, and social sciences, etc. Unanswered and challenging questions arise from stochastic refinements of deterministic laws that are necessary and appropriate for uncertainty quantification, understanding of observed variabilities, and prediction.

Name: Human and Social Dynamics

Deadline: 02/14/2006

Amount: Varies.  See  http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=&BooleanElement=false&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=false&ProgProgram=%28%287322%3Cor%3E7319%3Cor%3E7318%3Cor%3E7318%3Cor%3E7319%3Cor%3E7325%3Cor%3E7324%3Cor%3E7323%29%3Cin%3Epgm_ele_codes%29%3COR%3E%28%287322%3Cor%3E7318%3Cor%3E7319%3Cor%3E7325%3Cor%3E7324%3Cor%3E7323%29%3Cin%3Epgm_ref_codes%29&ProgFoaCode=&Search=Search#results

URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11678&org=DMS

Description:   The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. HSD aims to increase our collective ability to (1) anticipate the complex consequences of change; (2) understand the dynamics of human and social behavior at all levels, including that of the human mind; (3) understand the cognitive and social structures that create, define, and result from change; and (4) manage profound or rapid change, and      make decisions in the face of changing risks and uncertainty.      Accomplishing these goals requires multidisciplinary research      teams and comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches across the      sciences, engineering, education, and humanities, as appropriate.       The FY 2006 competition will include three emphasis areas (Agents      of Change; Dynamics of Human Behavior; and Decision Making, Risk      and Uncertainty). Support will be provided for Full Research      projects and for shorter-term Exploratory Research and HSD      Research Community Development projects.

Name: Electromag. Spectrum Management (ethical issues)

Deadline: ?

Amount: ?

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5654&org=AST&from=home

Description: I don't think there's a specific grant program for this, but I imagine the AST program reviews grant proposals on this issue.

Name: Politics (electoral choice, etc.)

Deadline: ?

Amount: Varies.  See  http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=SES&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=1371&BooleanElement=true&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=true&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&RestrictActive=on&Search=Search#results

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418&org=SES&from=home

Description: The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.  In recent years, program awards have supported research projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice, and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization, political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political economy; party activism; political psychology and political tolerance. The Program also has supported research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations, in the discipline.

Name: Science and Society

Deadline: August 1, 2006 or Feb. 1, 2007

Amount: Varies.  See http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=SES&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=1353%2C7567%2C7915%2C8815&BooleanElement=true&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=true&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&RestrictActive=on&Search=Search#results

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324&org=SES&from=home

Description: S&S considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS). The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area.  This program solicitation covers the following modes of support:  1. S&S Scholars Awards  2. Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research  3. S&S Postdoctoral Fellowships  4. S&S Professional Development Fellowships  5. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants  6. Small Grants for Training and Research  7. Conference and Workshop Awards  8. Other Funding Opportunities

Name: Law and Social Sciences

Deadline: 08/15/2006

Amount: Varies.  See http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=SES&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=1372&BooleanElement=true&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=true&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&RestrictActive=on&Search=Search#results

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5422&org=SES&from=home

Description: The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. Within this framework, the Program has an "open window" for diverse theoretical perspectives, methods and contexts for study. For example, research on social control, crime causation, violence, victimization, legal and social change, patterns of discretion, procedural justice, compliance and deterrence, and regulatory enforcement are among the many areas that have recently received program support. In addition to standard proposals, planning grant proposals, travel support requests to lay the foundation for research, and proposals for improving doctoral dissertation research are welcome.  The Law and Social Science Program continues to solicit proposals that take account of the growing interdependence and interconnections of the world. Thus proposals are welcome that advance fundamental knowledge about legal interactions, processes, relations, and diffusions that extend beyond any single nation as well as about how local and national legal institutions, systems, and cultures affect or are affected by transnational or international phenomena. Thus, proposals may locate the research within a single nation or between or across legal systems or regimes.

Name: Theory of Computing

Deadline: ?

Amount: ?

URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5206

Description: -

Name: Ethics Education in Science & Engineering

Deadline: 03/24/2006 (next not yet announced)

Amount: 5 to 12 awards.  Total of $1,550,000.

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13338&org=SES&from=home

Description:  The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program considers proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports. For this year, proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields, and on ethical issues that arise in research or graduate research education in those fields, particularly in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts.

Name: Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences

Deadline: Jan 11th and August 11th yearly

Amount: Varies.  See http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=SES&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=1321&BooleanElement=true&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=true&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&RestrictActive=on&Search=Search#results

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&org=SES&from=home

Description: The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants for exploratory research of a time-critical or high-risk, potentially transformative nature (see Small Grants for Exploratory Research.)

Name: Method, Measure, & Stats

Deadline: 08/16/2006

Amount: Varies.  See http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/afSearch.do?ProgEleCode=1333&page=4&QueryText=&SearchType=afSearch&PIFirstName=&PILastName=&COPILastName=&COPIFirstName=&IncludeCOPI=&PIInstitution=&PIState=&PIZip=&PICountry=&ProgOrganization=&ProgOfficer=&ProgProgram&ProgRefCode=&ProgFoaCode=&CongDistCode=&AwardNumberOperator=&AwardNumberFrom=&AwardNumberTo=&StartDateOperator=&ExpDateOperator=&StartDateFrom=&StartDateTo=&ExpDateFrom=&ExpDateTo=&AwardAmount=&AwardInstrument=&Search=Search#results

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5421&org=SES&from=home

Description: The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program that supports the development of innovative methods and models for the social and behavioral sciences. The MMS Program interacts with the other programs in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), as well as other programs in the Foundation, most notably the Statistics and Probability Program in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS). In general, MMS seeks proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature, methodologically innovative, and grounded in theory. The MMS Program welcomes proposals in the following areas: general research and infrastructure activities; mid-career research fellowships; research on survey and statistical methodology; and doctoral dissertation research.

Name: Sociology

Deadline: ?

Amount: ?

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&org=SES&from=home

Description: -

Name: Perception, Action & Cognition

Deadline: July 15, 2006 and January 15, 2007

Amount: Varies.  See http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/progSearch.do?SearchType=progSearch&page=2&QueryText=&ProgOrganization=BCS&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=7252%2C+1180&BooleanElement=true&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=true&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&RestrictActive=on&Search=Search#results

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686&org=BCS&from=home

Description: Supports research on perception, action and cognition including the development of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control, and developmental issues in all topic areas. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. Research involving acquired or developmental deficits is appropriate if the results speak to basic issues of perception, action, and cognition. 

Name: Cross-Directorate Activities

Deadline: ?

Amount: ?

URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5412&org=BCS&from=home

Description: ?

Name: Delmas Foundation - Humanities Program

Deadline: open, Application by invitation only -- send a letter of inquiry.

Amount: ? Varies wildly.  Some ~$10k, some ~$150k.  See http://www.delmas.org/past_grants/humanities_2004.html

URL: http://www.delmas.org/programs/humanities.html

Description: Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.  The Humanities Program is primarily directed to institutions of higher education and humanistic enterprises such as learned societies, museums, and major editorial projects. The program may also consider, on a selective basis, projects that increase the exposure of those outside these institutions to the humanistic experience or that strengthen preparation for the humanistic disciplines in secondary education.

Name: Spencer Foundation.

Deadline:  Initial proposals are accepted at any time, regardless of the level of funding requested.  For proposals over $40,000, if you are invited to submit an expanded proposal, the deadlines normally fall at the beginning of April, July, and December each year, with notification taking place within eight months.

Amount: ?

URL: http://www.spencer.org/programs/grants/ps.htm

Description: See the description of programs they're looking to fund (http://www.spencer.org/programs/grants/e_and_f.htm)