RFPs and Newsletters

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Message regarding the Center for the Environment

On June 30, 2008, the Center for the Environment (CfE) at Cornell University will officially close. The environmental mission of CfE will become a key part of the new Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF), a cross-campus organization advancing a portfolio of research activities covering energy, the environment, and economic development programs. The CCSF promotes collaborations across Cornell and with selected external partners, leveraging Cornell's resources to help build a sustainable future for the world. The CCSF website is http://sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/.

Programs developed by the CfE will transition to CCSF over the next year. In particular, the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectures, which bring prominent scholars, newsmakers, scientists, and leaders to Cornell to address environmental issues of paramount importance to humankind, will remain a keystone event at Cornell under the stewardship of CCSF. Recognizing scholarship on the frontiers of scientific inquiry and promoting an interdisciplinary approach to solving environmental problems, the Iscol Lectures provide opportunities for Cornell students, faculty, staff, and the public to gain new knowledge about pressing environmental issues and enrich the intellectual character of the University and the community.

Questions about the transition of CfE programs to CCSF should be directed to Professor Anthony Hay, Interim Director of CfE, or to Professor Frank DiSalvo, Director of CCSF.

Please look for the weekly News and Announcements distribution to return in Fall 2008.

AIBS Public Policy Report Headlines from June 9, 2008

• Climate legislation dies in Senate
• AIBS Comments on American Academy of Arts and Sciences White Paper
• New in BioScience: "Shale Oil: Alternative Energy or Environmental Degradation?"
• From the Federal Register

GRANT AND PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES

New

Joyce Foundation: Environment Grants (Aug 20)
AERA: Research and Dissertation Grants Program (Aug 29)
Mott Foundation: Environment Program (Aug 31)
Munson Foundation Grants (Sep 01)
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation/Walmart: Acres for America Initiative (Sep 01)
Tinker Foundation Institutional Grants (Sep 01)
Bay and Paul Foundations: Biodiversity Leadership Award (Sep 01)
USDA: US–Israel Binational Agricultural Research & Development (BARD) (Sep 01)
Ittleson Foundation, Inc. (Sep 01)
NSF: Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (Sep 01)
NSF: International Research Fellowship (IRFP) (Sep 09)
Wildlife Conservation Society: Research Fellowship Program (Sep 15)
NSF: Developing Global Scientists & Engineers (Sep 15)
NIH: Pharmacogenetics of Flouride (Sep 15)
NSF: Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems Cluster (Sep 15)
NSF: Transport and Thermal Fluids Phenomena Cluster (Sep 15)

Deadlines in June

Lindbergh Foundation: Seed Grants Program (Jun 12)
NIH: Independent Scientist Award (Jun 12)
Housing and Urban Development: Early Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (Jun 12)
NASA: Atmospheric Composition Laboratory Research (Jun 16)
NIH: Science & Ecology of Early Development (Jun 16)
NIH: Small Research Grants (Jun 16)
NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Jun 16)
NSF: Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (Jun 25)
Northern Nut Growers Association (NNGA): Research Grants (Jun 30)

Deadlines in July

NSF: Archaeology & Archaeometry (Jul 01)
NSF: Physical Anthropology (Jul 01)
HUD: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Programs (Jul 03)
NSF: Ecosystem Science Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Ecological Biology Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (Jul 09)
NSF: Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (Jul 09)
NSF: Population & Evolutionary Processes Cluster Grants (Jul 09)
NSF: Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (Jul 09)
NSF: Biomolecular Systems Cluster Grants (Jul 12)
NSF: Cellular Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
NSF: Genes and Genome Systems Cluster (Jul 12)
National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis: Various Opportunities (Jul 14)
NSF: EarthScope Program Research (Jul 16)
NSF: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry (Jul 16)
NSF: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics (Jul 16)
NSF: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (Jul 16)
Dep't of Defense: Young Investigator Program (Jul 22)
NSF: Biological Research Collections (BRC) (Jul 27)
NSF: Biological Physics (BP) (Jul 31)

Deadlines in August

National Academies: Research Associateship Program (Aug 01)
NSF: Science & Society (S&S) Grants, Conferences, & Scholarship Support (Aug 01)
American Honda Foundation Grants (Aug 01)
ICWA: John Miller Musser Memorial Forest & Society Fellowships (Aug 01)
NIH Manufacturing-related Biomedical Research SBIR/STTR Grants (Aug 05)
Trans-NIH Consortium (BECON): Bioengineering Nanotechnology (STTR) (Aug 05)
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Environmental Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Aug 14)
DOE NICCR: Inland and Coastal Terrestrial Ecosystems (Aug 15)
NIH: Molecular Probes for Microscopy of Cells (Aug 29)