Deadline Note

The deadline for letters of intent is September 4. Applications are due by October 23, 2009.

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The sponsor provides support for dissertation research of doctoral candidates who wish to pursue HIV and AIDS-related studies within a variety of biomedical, social/behavioral, clinical, health services, epidemiological, policy, and prevention research areas.

Deadline Note

Letters of intent are due September 4. The deadline for applications is October 23, 2009.

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The sponsor provides support to individuals wishing to obtain postdoctoral or clinical research training in HIV/AIDS-related fields and to foster mentoring activities by established HIV/AIDS researchers.

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The sponsor provides fellowships for information technology professionals to attend EDUCAUSE events, thus helping to build future leaders.

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The sponsor offers the grants as a way to help communities find and assert public rights-of-way to the Maine coast that are in danger of being lost by the passing of generations and changing land ownership patterns.

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The sponsor offers an international prize of 50000 euros to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the Foundation such as ethology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, epistemology, logic and the neurosciences. The topic for the 2009 International Prize is Neuropsychology.

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The sponsor supports research in ethnology, psychology, neurobiology, anthropology, ethnology, human paleontology and archaeology.

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The sponsor is accepting applications for the FY 2010 Water Resource Research Center program grant. The proposed research must be directed at research priorities of New Hampshire, New England, or the northeastern United States.

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Support is provided for transatlantic research cooperation among German, American, and/or Canadian scholars (Ph.D. required) in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. The sponsor provides EUR 55,000 over a three-year period.

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The St Andrews Prize is an international initiative of the energy company ConocoPhillips and the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest and best-known seat of learning. An important aim of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment is to provide seed-funding to help promote implementation of innovative environmental ideas and solutions. The Prize consists of an award of USD$75,000 and a medal. Additional awards of USD$25,000 are given to the runners-up.

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The sponsor offers support for campaigns to save and restore native species and wild ecosystems, including actions to defend wilderness and biological diversity. Proposals from organizations with annual budgets greater than $250,000 are rarely funded.

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The National Maritime Museum offers a major fellowship generously sponsored by the Sackler Foundation to fund research of significance and originality in any field of the Museum’s subjects and collections. The Fellowship is primarily intended to allow established researchers, already in post at an academic institution, to devote themselves to a sustained period of research lasting for up to two years.

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The National Maritime Museum aims to promote an understanding of the history and future of Britain and the Sea by preserving, interpreting and developing its collections, premises and expertise. The Caird Senior Research Fellowship is offered annually by the Trustees of the Museum to support high-quality research on the Museum’s collections or in any field of British naval and maritime history. The Museum’s collections of oil paintings, prints and drawings, manuscripts, charts and maps, ship models and antiquities have an international reputation and are particularly rich in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

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Each year the National Maritime Museum offers a number of Caird Short-term Research Fellowships for advanced research into its collections. The awards are specifically intended to support scholars and museum professionals who live abroad or at a distance from London for periods of up to three months.

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The Sackler Short-Term Research Fellowship in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences has been established to promote advanced research in the history of science and scientific instruments, specifically related to the strengths of the Royal Observatory’s collections.

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The Harvey Prize is awarded annually in a variety of disciplines within the categories of Science & Technology and Human Health.

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The Trust Fund for the Second Decade was established to promote, support and implement the objectives of the Decade. The Fund will give priority to projects concerning the main areas of the Second Decade: culture, education, health, human Rights, the environment and social and economic development.

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The program seeks to advance the sponsor's national commitment to institutional diversity as well as its strategic agenda to bridge exemplary scholarship with multilevel engagement and innovation. This fellowship program is designed to help promote outstanding faculty candidates with strong commitments to diversity at U-M or other major universities.

Deadline Note

The deadline for receipt of required letters of intent is November 2, 2009 by 2:00PM EST. The deadline for receipt of full applications, if invited, is February 1, 2010 by 2:00PM EST.

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The sponsor seeks to promote the recruitment of promising scientists to institutions of New York State to carry out independent research that advances the goals and objectives of the Spinal Cord Injury Research Board (SCIRB). Such applicants can be recruited from institutions outside or within New York State; as part of the recruitment, they will establish a new independent laboratory in New York State. Approximately $3.6 million is available to support these awards.

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The sponsor provides a fifteen to twenty postdoctoral fellowships annually in all fields for research conducted under faculty sponsorship on any one of the University of California's ten campuses.

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Professional Development Program (PDP) Grants are aimed at helping Cooperative Extension Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service and other agricultural professionals in the Western Region increase their understanding and proficiency in sustainable agriculture.

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The sponsor invites applications for the Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which provides an opportunity for highly qualified, recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research that is broadly related to the scientific mission of the NASA Physics of the Cosmos program as addressed by any of the missions of this program.

Deadline Note

The deadline for applications is Thursday, November 5, 2009. Letters of reference are due Thursday, November 12, 2009.

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The program provides an opportunity for highly qualified recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research that is broadly related to the mission of NASA Cosmic Origins scientific goals as addressed by any of the missions in this program: the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the Herschel Space Observatory, and the James Webb Space Telescope. The research will be carried out at United States Host Institutions chosen by each Fellow. This program is open to applicants of any nationality who have earned (or will have earned) their doctoral degrees on or after January 1, 2007, in astronomy, physics, or related disciplines.

Deadline Note

The deadline for applications is Thursday, November 5, 2009. Letters of reference are due by Thursday, November 12, 2009.

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The sponsor invites applications for the Giacconi Fellowship, which provides up to three years of support for outstanding postdoctoral researchers in any field of astronomy, astrophysics, or planetary science.

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The sponsor is offering Future Conservationist Awards of up to $12,500 to high potential teams who aim to develop their skills through practical conservation projects. The aim of Future Conservationist Awards is to develop leadership capacity amongst emerging conservationists to address the most pressing conservation issues of our time.

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The sponsor invites applications for research and education projects which will help to achieve the sponsor's mission of: promoting good stewardship of the nation’s natural resources; enhancing the quality of life of farmers and ranchers and ensuring the viability of rural communities; protecting the health and safety of those involved in food and farm systems; promoting crop, livestock and enterprise diversification; and examining the regional, economic, social and environmental implications of adopting sustainable agriculture practices and systems.