Deadline Note

Letters of intent are due February 1. If invited, full proposals are due April 1.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for research projects that could be useful to the Canadian Beef Industry. Projects may be one to three years in duration.

Deadline Note

The deadline for receipt of applications for Visiting Professorships at both Technicon and Hebrew University is 30 November 2009.

Synopsis

Professorships provide support for full or associate professors to teach or conduct research for two to four months at the Hebrew University of Israel or three to nine months at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Deadline Note

For any grant exceeding $25,000, applicants must prepare and submit a concept paper describing the proposed project by September 30, 2009. Applications for grants less than $25,000 must be received by November 30, 2009.

Synopsis

The sponsor administers grants to be used to support projects, activities or endeavors within the watershed of the Connecticut River upstream of the confluence of the White and Connecticut Rivers at White River Junction, Vermont, and West Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports accomplished, motivated individuals who are eager to prepare themselves for greater leadership opportunities and to create positive change in their communities. Applicants are invited to propose academic or self-designed learning experiences that will help them attain goals that they set for themselves. The program encourages applications that will expand fellows' experiences beyond the familiar to learning environments that might be inaccessible without a fellowship.

Synopsis

Support of $6,000 is provided for full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members at U.S. universities to develop or update courses with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides funds for a one-year cultural exchange, involving work and study, to give participants an understanding for and knowledge of the everyday life, education, and professional training in Germany. The program is directed to young adults in business, technical, vocational, and agricultural fields.

Deadline Note

The December 1st deadline is for letters of inquiry.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support to programs in California working to: preserve and enhance biodiversity of food crops and wild species bordering farms; accelerate the pace of transition to sustainable organic growing practices; increase access to and public demand for sustainable organic food from regional foodsheds; and develop the intellectual and policy frameworks to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to recognize preeminence in and contributions to the field of food technology. A $5,000 honorarium and a bronze medal are provided.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to honor a member of the sponsor's organization who has attained distinction by contributions to food technology which result in improved public health through nutrition or more nutritious food. The prize consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a plaque.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to a member of the sponsor's organization who has shown outstanding ability in research in some area of food science and technology. The award consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a plaque.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to honor a member of the sponsor's organization or an institution whose outstanding efforts result in one or more of the following: international exchange of ideas in the field of food technology; better international understanding in the field of food technology; and/or practical successful transfer of food technology to an economically depressed area in a developing or developed nation. The award consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a plaque.

Synopsis

The sponsor honors an IFT member who has achieved excellence in teaching food science and technology.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to honor a member of the sponsor's organization and Phi Tau Sigma who has brought honor and recognition to the profession of food science and technology through a distinguished career in that profession displaying exemplary leadership, service and communication skills that enhance the effectiveness of all food scientists in serving society. The award consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a plaque.

Synopsis

The sponsor honors a company or organization for an outstanding development which represents a significant advance in the application of food science and technology to food production.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to honor an individual who has provided continuing, meritorious and imaginative service to the sponsor's organization. The award consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a plaque.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to honor a member of the sponsor's organization who is a food scientist or technologist and who has made significant contributions to lipid or flavor science. The award consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a Steuben crystal sculpture.

Synopsis

The sponsor honors an IFT-member industrial scientist or team of industrial scientist(s) who has made a major technical contribution to the advancement of the food industry.

Synopsis

The sponsor honors an IFT member or team of members who have made a recent, significant research and development contribution to the understanding of food science, food technology, or nutrition.

Synopsis

The sponsor honors an IFT member for pursuit of humanitarian ideals and unselfish dedication that have resulted in significant contributions to the well-being of the food industry, academia, students, or the general public.

Synopsis

The sponsor honors an IFT member for his or her contribution to the scientific knowledge of food ingredient safety or leadership in establishing principles for food ingredient safety evaluation or regulation.

Deadline Note

The prize is awarded every other year, in even years.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides a prize to honor and provide research funding for an IFT-member or nonmember scientist or engineer conducting basic chemistry/physics/engineering research applied to food processing and improvement of food quality.

Deadline Note

All proposals must be received before midnight (Fairbanks, Alaska) on December 1 of the current year. Letters of reference should be sent electronically by that date or as soon as possible thereafter.

Synopsis

The sponsor will make Research and Conservation Grants (RCG) to help support bear conservation, education projects, and research. Emphasis is given to projects that demonstrate significant positive effects for bear species, populations, and areas of the world with the highest conservation needs.

Deadline Note

Pre-proposals are due December 1, 2009. Full proposals, if invited, will be due by February 1, 2010.

Synopsis

The BBN program seeks projects that initiate partnerships with private landowners, demonstrate successful collaborative efforts, address watershed health issues that would lead to restoring, protecting, and enhancing habitats and are key to restoring, protecting, and enhancing native aquatic species and their migration corridors, promote stewardship on private lands, and that can demonstrate a 2:1 non-federal to federal match.

Deadline Note

All grant applications for each year's granting session are due by December 1 of the prior year.

Synopsis

The sponsor makes grants in support of wildlife conservation projects conducted by recognized charitable organizations throughout the world.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for projects for the conservation of sage-grouse in the Upper Green River Basin.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides grants of up to $75,000 to nonprofit organizations and their partners to restore fish habitat for sportfish and NOAA species of interest in the Chesapeake Bay and its Maryland tributaries.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award of £1000 to recognise significant innovations or advances for the welfare of wild animals: either (i) towards alleviating or preventing anthropogenic harm to the welfare of free-living wild animals or (ii) towards improving the welfare of wild animals in captivity.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides competitive challenge grants to community-based and national nonprofit organizations to engage in on-the-ground conservation initiatives that benefit National Forests and Grasslands. The Matching Awards Program is unique, in that it effectively doubles the money available to natural-resource conservation projects by adding federal funds to private, non-federal matching dollars.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for three or four postdoctoral research fellows in residence for an academic year. Candidates who do work that is qualitative and humanistic in nature are drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences. The Fellowship carries a stipend of $50,000.

Deadline Note

Letters of Intent are due on December 11, 2009 and invited full proposals are due March 19, 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support to expand the body of knowledge in the fields of laboratory animal science and medicine.

Synopsis

Support is provided for research into medical problems affecting cats. The maximum grant amount is $15,000.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides a fellowship in diplomacy, security and development.

Synopsis

Fellows spend one year engaging in projects, programs, policies and outreach initiatives to: protect animal, plant and environmental health; address ecosystem degredation, pollution, and biological threats, tackle challenges and opportunities in agriculture, fisheries, climate change, and energy; and to safeguard the air, water, land and natural resources.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides one-year fellowships which focus the Fellows experience to support improved programs, policies, planning risk analysis, regulation, monitoring and evaluation for a broad range of initiatives in Preventive and community health, disease identification and response, and medical research; Individual, family and community social services, systems and support; Food, processing and distribution safety; and Science education, research, and innovation.

Synopsis

The sponsor funds research projects that address the diseases affecting cats, or promote new therapies to combat those diseases.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides grants to strawberry research scientists in the United States and Canada.