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SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS (Quarter: April – June, 2016)
Thesis/ Dissertation Funding
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MARCH 2016 Prizes
Issue 25: Volume 2: Scholarships, Prizes and Fellowships (April – June, 2016)
TABLE OF CONTENT
OPPORTUNITIES FOR APRIL 2016 INCENTIVE PRIZES FOR JUNIOR DOCTORS ...... 20 POSTDOCTORAL STUDY GRANTS...... 20 IRVINGTON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 21 FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE ...... 22 ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP ...... 23 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL PRIZE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS...... 24 JOHN DAWSON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLASMA PHYSICS RESEARCH ...... 25 SPECIAL AWARD ...... 25 SOFTLINK INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD ...... 26 RICHARD A FREUND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP ...... 27 ICAAC YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS ...... 28 SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR JEFFERSON-RELATED PROJECTS ...... 28 SARA JACKSON AWARD ...... 29 HUNTINGTON-WHA MARTIN RIDGE FELLOWSHIP ...... 30 DAVID NICHOLLS RESEARCH BURSARIES ...... 30 WALTER RUNDELL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD ...... 31 ARRINGTON-PRUCHA AWARD IN WESTERN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY ...... 32 RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE ...... 33 ARRELL M GIBSON AWARD ...... 33 SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 34 POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAMME ...... 35 STANDARD SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP ...... 36 SMALL EXPLORATORY GRANT ...... 36 NEW INVESTIGATOR GRANT ...... 37 TRENNERT-IVERSON AWARDS...... 38 ROBERT G ATHEARN PRIZE ...... 39 CAUGHEY BOOK PRIZE ...... 40
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JOHN C EWERS AWARD ...... 40 ROBERT M UTLEY AWARD ...... 41 MRS MEDAL ...... 41 VON HIPPEL AWARD ...... 42 SSI/ISID INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 43 CHARLES STARK DRAPER PRIZE...... 44 FRITZ J AND DOLORES H RUSS PRIZE ...... 45 JAAP KUNST PRIZE ...... 46 ALAN MERRIAM PRIZE ...... 46 RICHARD WATERMAN JUNIOR SCHOLAR PRIZE ...... 47 PRIZE FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICS ...... 47 GORDON BELL PRIZE ...... 48 GRAHAM BULL PRIZE IN CLINICAL SCIENCE AND GOULSTONIAN LECTURESHIP ...... 49 BOLTON-CUTTER AWARD IN BORDERLANDS HISTORY ...... 50 POSTER AWARDS ...... 51 DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 51 BEST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD ...... 52 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE...... 52 JENSEN-MILLER AWARD ...... 53 DAVID J WEBER-CLEMENTS PRIZE ...... 54 PANTECH FELLOWSHIP ON KOREAN AFFAIRS FOR MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS ..... 55 BRUNO NETTL PRIZE ...... 56 21ST CENTURY FELLOWSHIP ...... 57 MSC PROJECT BURSARY FUND ...... 58 SCHOLAR AWARD ...... 58 ENZYME ASSAY SCIENTIST AWARD ...... 59 CONGRESS FELLOWSHIPS ...... 60 JAMES SUMNER AWARD ...... 61 STANLEY CORRSIN AWARD ...... 61 PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP ...... 62 WALTHER GUERRERO CIQUERO TUBERCULOSIS FELLOWSHIP ...... 63
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SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP FOR SCIENTIFICALLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ...... 64 EXTENDED DEADLINE: BRITISH CARBON GROUP BRIAN KELLY AWARD ...... 65 RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 65 NAKASONE AWARD ...... 66 MARSH AWARD FOR ECOLOGY ...... 67 P3 IMPACT AWARD ...... 68 FOUNDERS’ PRIZE ...... 69 MARSH AWARD FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH ...... 69 SENIOR CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP ...... 70 CLINICIAN SCIENTIST FELLOWSHIP ...... 71 NORMAN E BORLAUG LEADERSHIP ENHANCEMENT IN AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME ...... 72 KNOWLEDGE FOR TOMORROW – COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA: JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPS ...... 73 KNOWLEDGE FOR TOMORROW – COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA: SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS ...... 74 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ON LIVELIHOOD MANAGEMENT, REFORMS AND PROCESSES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE ...... 75 HUDSWELL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP ...... 76 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FOR AN OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER ...... 77 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR FOREIGN CITIZENS...... 78 H2020 SOFT INNOVATION PRIZE ...... 79 WINTON PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKS ...... 79 SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME...... 80 EARLY CAREER ENDOCRINOLOGISTS’ PRIZE LECTURES ...... 81 DOROTHY MANDELSTAM AWARD ...... 82 EXTENDED DEADLINE: TUSK CONSERVATION AWARDS ...... 83 INTERNATIONAL PHD PROGRAMME ...... 83 SIR HENRY DALE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 84 RICE AWARD ...... 85 FIRST ARTICLE PRIZES ...... 86 RADIATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AWARD...... 87
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EDWARD GOODWIN BALLARD BOOK PRIZE IN PHENOMENOLOGY...... 88 GORDON E MOORE MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ...... 89 MELVIN KRANZBERG DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP ...... 89 ICO PRIZE ...... 90 SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS ...... 91 FELLOWSHIPS FOR NON-DUTCH SCHOLARS ...... 92 TAGE ERLANDER FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ...... 93 ICO GALILEO GALILEI AWARD ...... 94 ALBERT RENOLD PRIZE LECTURE ...... 95 INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACADEMICS ...... 95 KOCHON PRIZE ...... 96 EDELSTEIN PRIZE ...... 97 SAMUEL ELEAZAR AND ROSE TARTAKOW LEVINSON PRIZE ...... 97 BERNARD S FINN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS HISTORY PRIZE ...... 98 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 99 INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 100 URBAN YOUTH FUND ...... 101 HECKMAN STIPENDS ...... 102 HACKER PRIZE ...... 103 FELLOWSHIP ...... 103 BERTEBOS PRIZE ...... 104 JONATHAN EBERHART PLANETARY SCIENCES JOURNALISM AWARD ...... 105 INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR BIOLOGY ...... 105 THEME GROUP FELLOWSHIPS ...... 106 LIS STUDENT PAPER AWARD ...... 107 DAVID BIRENBAUM SCHOLARSHIPS...... 108 GERMAN-CANADIAN STUDIES MA RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP ...... 108 GERMAN-CANADIAN STUDIES DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PRIZE ...... 109 GERMAN-CANADIAN STUDIES MASTER’S THESIS PRIZE ...... 110 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS ...... 111
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GEORG AND GRETA BORGSTROMS PRIZE ...... 111 HÅSTADIUS PRIZE ...... 112 BARNARD HEWITT AWARD ...... 113 FELLOWS PROGRAMME ...... 113 WH PIERCE PRIZE...... 114 REDMOND BARRY FELLOWSHIP ...... 115 IMRICH SARKANY NON-EUROPEAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP ...... 116 MARSH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD ...... 117 CLINICAL RADIOLOGY AUDIT POSTER COMPETITION ...... 118 TWO-WEEK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS FOR PHD STUDENTS ...... 118 JACOBITE STUDIES TRUST FELLOWSHIPS ...... 119 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION GRANTS ...... 120 RESEARCH FELLOW AWARD ...... 121 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS - TSUKUBA ...... 122 MARY R DAWSON GRANT ...... 123 RICHARD ESTES MEMORIAL GRANT ...... 124 JACKSON SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES STUDENT MEMBER TRAVEL GRANT ...... 125 PATTERSON MEMORIAL GRANT ...... 125 INNOVATION PRIZE ...... 126 ALBERT E WOOD AWARD ...... 127 HONORARY MEMBERSHIP AWARDS ...... 127 DEVELOPING NATION INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP ...... 128 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS ...... 129 YOUNG STRUCTURAL ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD ...... 129 STUART MORSON SCHOLARSHIP IN NEUROSURGERY ...... 130 CARL SAGAN MEDAL ...... 131 DAVID SAINSBURY FELLOWSHIPS ...... 132 SENIOR NON-CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP – TRANSITION TO LEADERSHIP ...... 132 CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD ...... 133 IHR DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – SCOULOUDI, THORNLEY, ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY...... 134
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TEMASEK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...... 135 EDCTP FORUM SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 136 EVANS FUND ...... 137 OPHTHALMOLOGY TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP BURSARY ...... 138 POSTER CHAMP AWARDS ...... 138 WORLD HABITAT AWARDS ...... 139 TOP ABSTRACT PRIZES ...... 140 PREMIER'S AGRICULTURE AND FOOD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 141 SUMMER SCHOOL BUDAPEST GRANTS ...... 142 ALAIN BENSOUSSAN FELLOWSHIPS ...... 142 RADCLIFFE-BROWN AND FIRTH TRUST FUNDS FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH ...... 143 BEST PAPER CONTEST ...... 144 NOVARTIS EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR HYPERTENSION RESEARCH ...... 145 FOUNDERS AWARD ...... 145 FRAENKEL PRIZES IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY ...... 146 TC WHITE DENTAL AWARDS ...... 147 COLWORTH PRIZE LECTURE ...... 148 AVANTI AWARD IN LIPIDS ...... 148 INCOSE/STEVENS DOCTORAL AWARD FOR PROMISING RESEARCH IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION ...... 149 RN ROBERTSON TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP ...... 150 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS ...... 151 C WALTON LILLEHEI YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 152 FOUNDERS' PRIZE FOR RESEARCH...... 152 MANUFACTURERS’ AWARD FOR INNOVATION ...... 153 ROY ELLIS PATIENT BENEFIT AWARD ...... 154 ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ESSAY PRIZE ...... 154 GERALD R FORD SCHOLAR AWARD ...... 155 ANATRACE MEMBRANE PROTEIN AWARD ...... 156 GRAWEMEYER AWARD IN EDUCATION ...... 157 WILEY HOUSEWRIGHT DISSERTATION AWARD ...... 158
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EHPRG AWARD ...... 158 PRIZE FOR WOMEN'S CREATIVITY IN RURAL LIFE ...... 159 POSTDOCTORAL BURSARIES ...... 160 ALESSANDRO RICCHI TRANSPLANT SERVICES FOUNDATION AWARD ...... 161 HANS G BORST AWARD FOR THORACIC AORTIC SURGERY ...... 161 SMALL GRANTS FOR THESIS WRITING ...... 162 MARCELA URIBE ZAMUDIO AWARDS ...... 163 UWIN BEST PAPER AWARDS ...... 164 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MASTER’S STUDENTS IN FINNISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE . 164 GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA INITIATIVE PHD SCHOLARSHIP ...... 165 OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 166 INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE PRIZE ...... 167 ESSAY PRIZE ...... 168 GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS ...... 168 TWAS-LENOVO SCIENCE PRIZE ...... 169 ABEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME ...... 170 SINGER PRIZE ...... 171 HARRIET DUSTAN AWARD ...... 172 SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 172 EACTS/SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS AWARD ...... 173 COLLEGE TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 174 MAKERERE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES AT MULAGO HOSPITAL SICOT FELLOWSHIP ...... 175
OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAY 2016 J ALLYN TAYLOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN MEDICINE ...... 176 KING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN SCIENCE ...... 176 MERCK IRVING S SIGAL MEMORIAL AWARDS...... 177 SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 178 ABBOTT AWARD IN CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC IMMUNOLOGY ...... 179 DUPONT INDUSTRIAL BIOSCIENCES AWARD IN APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY...... 179
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BD AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY ...... 180 PROMEGA BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD ...... 181 ASM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 181 JOSEPH H FICHTER RESEARCH GRANT ...... 182 MLA PRIZE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS ...... 183 WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH PRIZE ...... 183 ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES ...... 184 HOWARD R MARRARO PRIZE ...... 185 FENIA AND YAAKOV LEVIANT MEMORIAL PRIZE IN YIDDISH STUDIES ...... 186 WALTER A ROSENBLITH NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 186 MICHAEL AND KATE BÁRÁNY AWARD FOR YOUNG INVESTIGATORS ...... 187 USFCC/J ROGER PORTER AWARD ...... 188 BIOMÉRIEUX SONNENWIRTH AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY ...... 188 RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS: FAA/CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INSTITUTE ...... 189 LIEBER PRIZE ...... 190 RUANE PRIZE ...... 191 GOLDMAN-RAKIC PRIZE ...... 191 RICHARD KALISH INNOVATIVE PUBLICATION AWARD ...... 192 M POWELL LAWTON AWARD...... 193 MARGRET M AND PAUL B BALTES AWARD ...... 193 NATHAN SHOCK NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 194 ABRAHAM PAIS PRIZE FOR HISTORY OF PHYSICS ...... 195 STOCKHOLM PRIZE IN CRIMINOLOGY ...... 196 DISSERTATION FIELDWORK GRANTS ...... 196 HUNT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS...... 197 MARGARET ETTER EARLY CAREER AWARD ...... 198 KATHERINE SINGER KOVACS PRIZE ...... 199 PAEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY RESIDENTS OR FELLOWS RESEARCH AWARD ...... 199 H COLIN SLIM AWARD...... 200
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RUTH A SOLIE AWARD ...... 201 ROBERT M STEVENSON AWARD ...... 201 TAJIMA PRIZE ...... 202 ELECTROCHEMICAL MATERIALS SCIENCE PRIZE ...... 203 ISE-ELSEVIER GREEN ELECTROCHEMISTRY PRIZE ...... 203 ISE-ELSEVIER PRIZE FOR APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY ...... 204 TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS ...... 205 DC WHITE RESEARCH AND MENTORING AWARD ...... 206 ALBERT HOURANI BOOK AWARD ...... 207 JULIET MCLAUCHLAN PRIZE ...... 208 ORONZIO AND NICCOLÒ DE NORA FOUNDATION YOUNG AUTHOR PRIZE ...... 208 NATHAN R BREWER SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 209 BRIAN CONWAY PRIZE FOR PHYSICAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY ...... 210 CENTENARY AWARDS ...... 210 COLVIN PRIZE ...... 211 FELLOWSHIPS ...... 212 PEGASUS MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 213 KING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN MEDICINE ...... 214 KING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ..... 214 KING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN ISLAMIC STUDIES ...... 215 WORLD FOOD PRIZE ...... 216 YAD VASHEM INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH ...... 217 FEJOS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ...... 218 EARLY CAREER ELECTROCHEMISTRY PRIZE OF ISE DIVISION 1 ...... 218 JAROSLAV HEYROVSKY PRIZE FOR MOLECULAR ELECTROCHEMISTRY ...... 219 SCOTTISH RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD ...... 220 RYDON FELLOWSHIP IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS AND POLITICAL HISTORY ...... 220 ROSEMARY VANARSDEL PRIZE ...... 221 SCHOLARSHIP INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ...... 222 CANADA-JAPAN LITERARY AWARDS ...... 222 FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP ...... 223
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FULLER ALBRIGHT AWARD ...... 224 LOUIS V AVIOLI FOUNDERS AWARD ...... 225 FREDERIC C BARTTER AWARD ...... 225 WILLIAM F NEUMAN AWARD ...... 226 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AWARD ...... 227 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN PROTEOMIC SCIENCES AWARD ...... 228 GIDEON A RODAN EXCELLENCE IN MENTORSHIP AWARD ...... 228 EARLY-CAREER EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD ...... 229 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD ...... 230 DISCOVERY IN PROTEOMIC SCIENCES AWARD ...... 231 PAULA STERN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 231 LAWRENCE G RAISZ AWARD ...... 232 RHODA AND BERNARD SARNAT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN MENTAL HEALTH ...... 233 RUDOLF CIMDINS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 234 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 235 TECH AWARDS ...... 235 GLOBAL PARTNERS CAPACITY-BUILDING AWARD ...... 236 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD ...... 237 EW BETH DISSERTATION PRIZE ...... 238 TEMPLETON FREEDOM AWARDS PROGRAM ...... 239 TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 240 CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 241 JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES ...... 241 COMING SOON: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 242 MARTHA T MUSE PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND POLICY IN ANTARCTICA ...... 243 WORLD DATA SYSTEM DATA STEWARDSHIP AWARD ...... 244 JOHN J BONICA TRAINEE FELLOWSHIP ...... 245 CANCER RESEARCH AWARD ...... 246 SCHOLARLY FELLOWSHIPS ...... 247 JAMES A RAWLEY PRIZE IN ATLANTIC HISTORY ...... 248
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ALBERT J BEVERIDGE AWARD IN AMERICAN HISTORY ...... 248 JAMES HENRY BREASTED PRIZE ...... 249 ALBERT B COREY PRIZE IN CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS ...... 249 JOHN K FAIRBANK PRIZE IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY ...... 250 JOAN KELLY MEMORIAL PRIZE IN WOMEN’S HISTORY ...... 251 LITTLETON-GRISWOLD PRIZE IN AMERICAN LAW AND SOCIETY ...... 252 NEW RESEARCH WORKERS’ AWARDS ...... 252 POSTGRADUATE MEETINGS AWARDS ...... 253 RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IN MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ...... 254 MANUSCRIPT AWARDS ...... 255 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 256 PETER G PENTCHEV RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 256 PREMIO DEL REY PRIZE ...... 257 MORRIS D FORKOSCH PRIZE ...... 258 J RUSSELL MAJOR PRIZE ...... 259 VIRGINIA A HODGKINSON RESEARCH BOOK PRIZE ...... 259 GRADUATE STUDIES GRANTS ...... 260 IRA AND HARRIET REISS THEORY AWARD ...... 261 RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY ...... 262 DAVID JW GRANT RESEARCH AWARD IN PHYSICAL PHARMACY ...... 262 MAURICE HILLEMAN/MERCK AWARD ...... 263 CUBIST-ICAAC AWARD ...... 264 STUDENT POSTER SESSION AWARDS ...... 264 SUMMER SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP ...... 265 JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON PRIZE ...... 266 OSCAR G BROCKETT ESSAY PRIZE ...... 266 RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IN CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ...... 267 MARTIN DUBERMAN VISITING SCHOLARS ...... 268 LEE KUAN YEW WATER PRIZE...... 269 ESSAY PRIZE ...... 269
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STUDENT PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST ...... 270 COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – SINGAPORE ...... 271 WALDO G LELAND PRIZE ...... 272 GEORGES MATHÉ TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...... 272 ROBOTDALEN INNOVATION AWARD ...... 273 JOHN DAVID WILLIAMS MEMORIAL AWARD ...... 274 COMMONWEALTH PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS...... 275 INTERNATIONAL BIOETHICS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMME (D43) ...... 276 JOHN A SPROUL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...... 277 DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON THE SCIENCE OF CANCER HEALTH DISPARITIES ...... 278 AOTRAUMA FELLOWSHIPS FOR SURGEONS ...... 279 JACOB P WALETZKY AWARD ...... 279 TOM BERGAN MEMORIAL AWARD...... 280 JULIUS AXELROD PRIZE ...... 281 RALPH W GERARD PRIZE ...... 282 EXTENDED DEADLINE: INTERMEDIATE FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE...... 283 EXTENDED DEADLINE: TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE ...... 284 PHD STUDENTSHIPS ...... 285 GENERAL PRACTICE WITH PRIMARY HEALTHCARE AND CAIPE JOHN HORDER AWARD...... 286 BERNHARD BARON TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP ...... 287 SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ...... 288 SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE ...... 289 UNION SCIENTIFIC PRIZE ...... 290 KAREL STYBLO PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE ...... 290 UNION YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PRIZE ...... 291 JOHN LAWSON PRIZE ...... 292 UNESCO INTERNATIONAL LITERACY PRIZES ...... 292 RESEARCH EFFECTIVENESS AWARD ...... 293 JOHN DOWNHAM AWARD ...... 294
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MIMICS INNOVATION AWARDS ...... 295 YOUNG RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD ...... 295 LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST OF THE YEAR AWARD ...... 296 PRITZKER DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP ...... 297 RITA SCHAFFER YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD ...... 298 CURT RICHTER AWARD ...... 298 DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP ...... 299 VISITING RESEARCHERS SUPPORT PROGRAMME GRANTS ...... 300 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ...... 301 GRANT FOR RESEARCH IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, MINERAL PHYSICS, OR CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY ...... 302 GRANTS FOR STUDENT RESEARCH IN MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY ...... 302 POSTGRADUATE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR WOMEN SCIENTISTS ...... 303 POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 304 CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP ...... 305 CENTENNIAL SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 306 MARK MILLS AWARD ...... 306 JOHN VON NEUMANN THEORY PRIZE...... 307 DINA ZINNES AWARD...... 308 ENRICO GREPPI AWARD...... 309 HENRY CHARLES CHAPMAN VISITING FELLOWSHIP ...... 309 BERNARD AND JOAN MARSHALL RESEARCH PRIZES ...... 310 GREGORY KAVKA/UC IRVINE PRIZE IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ...... 311 PRINCE MAHIDOL AWARDS ...... 312 THESIS PRIZE ...... 312 MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES STUDENT AWARDS ...... 313 NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH STUDENT AWARDS ...... 314 ESSAY COMPETITION ...... 315 SHAC AWARDS SCHEME – NEW SCHOLARS AWARD ...... 315 ESB MOBILITY AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS ...... 316 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES ...... 317
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UNIVERSITY TEACHERS GROUP RESEARCH PRESENTATION PRIZE ...... 318
OPPORTUNITIES FOR JUNE 2016 PHD FELLOWSHIPS ...... 319 ROBERT J MCNAMARA STUDENT PAPER AWARD ...... 320 CHARLES W SERBY COPD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ...... 320 MONAGHAN/TRUDELL FELLOWSHIP FOR AEROSOL TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT .. 321 PHILIPS RESPIRONICS FELLOWSHIP IN NON-INVASIVE RESPIRATORY CARE ...... 322 PHILIPS RESPIRONICS FELLOWSHIP IN MECHANICAL VENTILATION ...... 323 CAREFUSION FELLOWSHIP IN NEONATAL AND PAEDIATRIC THERAPISTS ...... 323 WILLIAM G LENNOX AWARD ...... 324 EXTENDED DEADLINE: LICHTENBERG PROFESSORSHIPS ...... 325 SIEPM FELLOWSHIP IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY ...... 326 GAS TURBINE AWARD ...... 327 DAVID EDGE PRIZE ...... 327 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ...... 328 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE AWARD ...... 329 TRANSLATION PRIZE ...... 330 ATTA-UR-RAHMAN PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY ...... 331 CNR RAO PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH...... 332 GREEN TALENTS COMPETITION ...... 332 PETER AND PATRICIA GRUBER INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD IN NEUROSCIENCE...... 333 SIMON DENTITH MEMORIAL PRIZE ...... 334 DONALD B LINDSLEY PRIZE IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE ...... 335 FELLOWSHIPS ...... 336 ESSAY PRIZE IN LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT ...... 337 IADR/COLGATE ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD ...... 338 CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE ...... 339 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AWARD ...... 340 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN ANALYSIS AND PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY ...... 340
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GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT INTERFACE ...... 341 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS IN PHARMACOKINETICS, PHARMACODYNAMICS, DRUG METABOLISM, CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ...... 342 LIPID-BASED DRUG DELIVERY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD ...... 343 LIPID-BASED DRUG DELIVERY OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD ...... 343 AACR MARGARET FOTI AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CANCER RESEARCH ...... 344 GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS IN MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ...... 345 GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS IN FORMULATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ...... 346 GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS IN PHYSICAL PHARMACY AND BIOPHARMACEUTICALS ...... 346 INNOVATION IN NANOTECHNOLOGY AWARD ...... 347 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD IN QUALITY BY DESIGN AND PRODUCT PERFORMANCE ...... 348 OCULAR DRUG DELIVERY AND DISPOSITION FOCUS GROUP GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER AWARD ...... 348 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN BIOTECHNOLOGY ...... 349 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD IN QUALITY-BY-DESIGN AND PRODUCT PERFORMANCE ...... 350 DANIEL H EFRON RESEARCH AWARD ...... 351 JOEL ELKES RESEARCH AWARD ...... 351 JULIUS AXELROD MENTORSHIP AWARD ...... 352 MANDELA RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 353 JAPAN INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG AGRICULTURAL RESEARCHERS ...... 354 GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD ...... 355 FREDERICK W LANCASTER PRIZE ...... 356 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN STUDYING COMPLEX SYSTEMS ...... 356 EPPENDORF AND SCIENCE PRIZE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY ...... 357 PROQUEST DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD ...... 358 BERGER MEMORIAL PRIZE ...... 359
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HOLBERG PRIZE ...... 359 IBRO RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ...... 360 HOUSHANG POURSHARIATI IRANIAN STUDIES BOOK AWARD ...... 361 SY ZAMRIK PRESSURE VESSEL AND PIPING MEDAL ...... 361 DIRAC MEDAL ...... 362 PHD GRANTS ...... 363 OSTEOLOGY RESEARCHER GRANTS ...... 364 EVOLUTIONARILY DISTINCT AND GLOBALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES FELLOWSHIPS ...... 364 MELODI AWARD ...... 365 YOUNG INNOVATOR IN TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH AWARD ...... 366 GREAT GRANT FOR THROMBOSIS RESEARCHERS ...... 367 GRADUATE TRAINING IN DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS ...... 367 SWARTZ PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE ...... 368 FELLOWSHIPS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE ...... 369 NAGC DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARD...... 370 NAGC MASTERS' AND SPECIALISTS' AWARD ...... 371 ZAYED FUTURE ENERGY PRIZES ...... 371 MALARIA CHAMPIONS OF THE AMERICAS AWARD ...... 372 STERNBERG CLINICAL AWARD ...... 373 AEBC/T-BASE COMMUNICATIONS SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 374 STUDENT CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE AWARDS ...... 375 TONGARIRO NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEMORIAL AWARD ...... 376 COMING SOON: CLINICAL RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 376 COMING SOON: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 378 UNESCO/CHINA GREAT WALL CO-SPONSORED FELLOWSHIPS ...... 379 COMING SOON: ABORIGINAL OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP ...... 381 AFRICA PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING INNOVATION ...... 382 JOINT RCSED/SOMS SHANGHAI HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY FELLOWSHIP ...... 383 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS ...... 383
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NEWCOMB CLEVELAND PRIZE ...... 385 SCHACHTER AWARD ...... 385 FREDA BAGE FELLOWSHIP ...... 386 COMMEMORATIVE FELLOWSHIPS ...... 387 DU PRÉ GRANTS ...... 387 MAX BENTELE AWARD FOR ENGINE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ...... 388 MCDONALD FELLOWSHIPS ...... 389 GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 390 LESLIE W JOYCE AND PAUL W THAYER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN I-O PSYCHOLOGY ...... 390 ALISE/EUGENE GARFIELD DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMPETITION ...... 391 WACCI PHD FELLOWSHIPS ...... 392 FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARDS ...... 393 RAYMOND A KATZELL AWARD IN I-O PSYCHOLOGY ...... 394 AU-TWAS YOUNG SCIENTISTS NATIONAL AWARDS ...... 395 COMING SOON: YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME ...... 396 MARCONI PRIZE ...... 396 PAUL BARAN YOUNG SCHOLARS AWARD ...... 397 CO-FUNDED PHD SCHOLARSHIP ...... 398 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ...... 399 HARDSHIP GRANT ...... 400 MAHATHIR SCIENCE AWARD ...... 400 ESSAY PRIZE FOR CULTURAL HISTORIANS ...... 401 CAROLINE CLAPHAM IELTS MASTER’S AWARD ...... 402 LANCELOT M BERKELEY NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST PRIZE FOR MERITORIOUS WORK IN ASTRONOMY ...... 403 POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 404 POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES ...... 405 UNESCO-EQUATORIAL GUINEA INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN THE LIFE SCIENCES ...... 406 EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FUND ...... 407 YOUNG SCIENTIST RESEARCH AWARD ...... 408
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GORDON SIGNY FELLOWSHIPS ...... 408 AFRICA FARMER ORGANISATION AWARDS ...... 409 MAURICE BERMAN PRIZE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE ...... 410 INBEV-BAILLET LATOUR GRANT FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ...... 411
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APRIL 2016
NCENTIVE PRIZES FOR JUNIOR DOCTORS Association of Clinical Pathologists
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Description: Website: The Association of Clinical Pathologists http://www.pathologists.org.uk/awards/ince invites submissions for its incentive prizes for ntiveprize junior doctors. These recognise work that Application form: demonstrates the importance of pathology in http://www.pathologists.org.uk/file.aspx?id= the practice of medicine. 215
Junior doctors who have not yet begun Eligibility profile specialty training, including F1 and F2 years, ------may apply. Applicants must be practising in Country of applicant institution: Any Great Britain, Ireland or overseas under the supervision of a member of the association. Disciplines ------Up to five prizes, worth up to £100 each, are Pathology available annually. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 ACP Deadline information: This call is repeated 189 Dyke Road once a year. Hove BN3 1TL Posted date: 11 Dec 15 Tel: +44 1273 775 700 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £100
OSTDOCTORAL STUDY GRANTS Fyssen Foundation
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Description: palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology, The Fyssen Foundation invites applications psychology, epistemology, logic and for its postdoctoral study grants. These enable neuroscience. either French postdoctoral researchers to visit foreign laboratories, or foreign postdoctoral Applicants must either have received their researchers to visit French laboratories. PhD within the last two years or be due to Supported research areas include: ethology,
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receive it in the current year. They must be no older than 35 years. Eligibility profile ------The grant duration is eight to 12 months with Country of applicant institution: Any a possible extension of one year. The total budget is worth up to €25,000 per year. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Logic; Palaeontology & Palynology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Psychology; Archaeology; Anthropology; been announced by funder, but this is the Ethology & Comparative Psychology; approximate deadline we expect. Neuroscience; Central Nervous System; Applications due by 12 noon CET. This call Epistemology is repeated once a year. Posted date: 13 Feb 15 Contact Details Award type: Young investigator awards, ------Directed grants for individual investigators, Fondation Fyssen Travel for research purposes 194 Rue de Rivoli Award amount max: €50,000 75001 Paris Website: Tel: +33 1 4297 5316 http://www.fondationfyssen.fr/en/post- Fax: +33 1 4260 1795 doctoral-study-grants/ Email: [email protected] Application form: http://92.48.118.226:9999/en- us/Candidature/register
RVINGTON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Cancer Research Institute
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Description: Applicants must have a doctoral degree and The Cancer Research Institute invites up to five years of relevant postdoctoral applications for the Irvington postdoctoral experience, with the exception of MD fellowships. These support young scientists at applicants, who should not include years of leading universities and research centres residency in this calculation. Applications around the world who wish to receive should include a sponsor who holds a formal training in cancer immunology. Projects appointment at the host institution, which should be hypothesis driven, mechanistic should be a non-profit institution anywhere in studies in both immunology and tumour the world. Only one fellow per sponsor may immunology that directly impact apply per application round. understanding of the immune system’s role in cancer risk, tumour initiation, progression, Fellowships are worth up to US$164,500 over metastasis, host response to tumours or the three years. This includes a stipend of treatment of cancer. US$50,000 for the first year, US$53,000 for the second year and US$57,000 for the third year plus an annual allowance of US$1,500 to the
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LUID DYNAMICS PRIZE American Physical Society
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Description: The American Physical Society invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nominations for its fluid dynamics prize. This been announced by funder, but this is the recognises and encourages outstanding approximate deadline we expect. This call is achievements in fluid dynamics research. The repeated once a year. prize is ordinarily awarded to one person but Posted date: 20 Nov 13 may be shared when all the recipients have Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, contributed to the same achievement. meetings etc. Award budget total: - The prize includes US$10,000 and an Website: allowance for travel to the meeting at which http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ the prize is awarded. fluid.cfm Application form: Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?prize= FLUID
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------APS Disciplines One Physics Ellipse ------College Park, MD 20740-3844 Chemistry; Fluidisation & Fluid Mechanics; Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Computational Fluid Dynamics; Mechanical Fax: +1 301 209 0865 Engineering; Physics; Manufacturing & Email: [email protected] Industrial Engineering; Aerospace Engineering & Avionics
NTHROPOLOGY INTERNSHIP American Museum of Natural History
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Description: The American Museum of Natural History Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April invites applications under its anthropology 2016, 27 August 2016, 1 December 2016, and internship programme. This programme repeated annually. offers internships for undergraduate and Posted date: 12 Oct 11 graduate students interested in careers in Award type: Predoctoral fellowships anthropology, museums or related fields. Award budget total: - Anthropology interns work on projects Website: relating to the collections or to the ongoing http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/collecti research interests of the curatorial staff in the ons/InternshipGuide.shtml museum or in the field. The department's Application form: collections and research are focused on North http://research.amnh.org/anthropology/f/Inte American, Mexican/Central American, and rnshipForm.pdf South American archaeology and ethnology; Asian, African, and Pacific ethnology; and Eligibility profile ------biological anthropology. Applicants should be Country of applicant institution: Any enrolled in or have recently graduated from an academic institution. Disciplines
------Applicants must specify whether they are Politics & Economics of Latin America & the applying for a paid, academic credit or Caribbean; Biological & Medical unpaid internship. For paid internships, Anthropology; Archaeology; Biological monthly stipends will be awarded for up to Sciences; Anthropology; Evolutionary two session’s worth of work. Biology; Ethnography & Ethnology; Politics &
Economics of North America; North Closing date: 01 Apr 16 American Studies
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Contact Details Central Park West and 79th Street ------New York, NY 10024 Division of Anthropology Email: [email protected] American Museum of Natural History
AMES CLERK MAXWELL PRIZE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS American Physical Society J
Description: The American Physical Society invites Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, nominations for the James Clerk Maxwell meetings etc. prize for plasma physics. This recognises Award budget total: - contributions to the advancement and Website: diffusion of the knowledge of properties of http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ highly ionised gasses of natural or laboratory maxwell.cfm origin. Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE The prize shall ordinarily be awarded to one =MAXWELL person but may be shared when all the recipients have contributed to the same Eligibility profile accomplishments. Nominations of women, ------members of minorities and scientists from Country of applicant institution: Any outside the US are especially welcomed. Disciplines The prize includes US$10,000 plus a travel ------allowance to attend the APS meeting. Physics; Plasma Physics & Fusion
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the APS approximate deadline we expect. This call is One Physics Ellipse repeated once a year. College Park, MD 20740-3844 Posted date: 10 Dec 13 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Fax: +1 301 209 0865 Email: [email protected]
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OHN DAWSON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLASMA PHYSICS RESEARCH American Physical Society J
Description: The American Physical Society invites Award budget total: $5,000 nominations for the John Dawson award for Website: excellence in plasma physics research. This http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards recognises a particular recent outstanding /dawson.cfm achievement in plasma physics research. Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE The award is open to all nationalities and may =PLASMA be given to either an individual or a team of individuals. Nominations of women, Eligibility profile members of minorities and scientists from ------outside the US are especially welcomed. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award includes US$5,000, which will be Disciplines divided equally in the case of multiple ------recipients. Plasma Physics & Fusion; Physics
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the APS approximate deadline we expect. This call is 1 Physics Ellipse repeated once a year. College Park, MD 20740 Posted date: 10 Dec 13 Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Award type: Prizes Fax: +1 301 209 0865 Award amount max: $5,000 Email: [email protected]
PECIAL AWARD American Nuclear Society
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Description: The American Nuclear Society invites passive safety features in advanced water applications for its special award. The ANS reactors. special award recognizes important work in a different discipline of the nuclear field each This award, comprising plaque(s) and a year. The award honors an individual or $1,000 monetary award, is is intended to go to individuals for especially meritorious an individual, or to a small team of contributions in research on or developing individuals, rather than to a large group or to understanding in important areas of current an institution. Nominees must be living activity. This year, the topic is inherent and individuals and need not be ANS members.
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Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Nuclear Power, Technology & Engineering; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Nuclear Physics; Aerospace Engineering & repeated once a year. Avionics; Mechanical Engineering; Posted date: 23 Oct 07 Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $1,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.ans.org/honors/va- Honors and Awards special American Nuclear Society Application form: 555 North Kensington Avenue http://www.ans.org/honors/sd/special- La Grange Park, Illinois 60526 form.pdf Tel: +1 708 352 6611 Fax: +1 708 352 0499 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
OFTLINK INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD International Association of School Librarianship
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Description: The International Association of School Award type: Prizes Librarianship invites nominations for the Award amount max: $1,000 Softlink International excellence award. The Award budget total: $1,000 award of US$1,000 recognises significant Website: http://www.iasl- contributions to school librarianship by school online.org/awards/softlink4.html library specialists, educators and researchers. Eligibility profile Nominations will be evaluated on the ------significance of achievement in relation to Country of applicant institution: Any resource context, evidence of commitment to school librarianship and impact on student Disciplines learning and contribution to the professional ------development of others. Preference will be Instructional Materials & Practices; Digitising given to IASL members. & Digital Archives; Information Systems; Administrative Big Data & Informatics; Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Libraries & Information Science; Information Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Society; Business Big Data & Informatics; been announced by funder, but this is the Education; Research Libraries & Special approximate deadline we expect. This call is Collections repeated once a year. Posted date: 05 Apr 13
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Contact Details Chicago, IL 60601 ------Tel: +1 312 419 8950 IASL Email: [email protected] 65 E Wacker Place Suite 1900
ICHARD A FREUND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP American Society For Quality R
Description: The American Society for Quality invites Website: http://www.asq.org/about- applications for the Richard A Freund asq/awards/freundscholar.html international scholarship. This scholarship is Application form: http://www.asq.org/about- for graduate study of the theory and asq/awards/docs/freund_international_schol application of quality control, quality arship.doc assurance, quality improvement, and total quality management. It covers the Eligibility profile engineering, statistical, managerial, and ------behavioral foundations of those fields. Country of applicant institution: Any
The scholarship is offered to members and Disciplines non-members worldwide in their own ------country or abroad. Applicants should have a Quality Control in Engineering; Sociology; grade point average of 3.25 of higher. The Quality Control & Management; Business & award will be approximately US$5,000 per Management Studies; Social Behaviour & year. Attitudes; Business Statistics; Statistics
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Freund International Scholarship Committee approximate deadline we expect. This call is ASQ repeated once a year. Membership Growth and Development Posted date: 28 Apr 08 P.O Box 3005 Award type: Predoctoral fellowships Milwaukee, WI 53201-3005 Award amount max: $5,000 Tel: +1 414 272 8575 Award budget total: - Fax: +1 414 272 1734 Email: [email protected]
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CAAC YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, invites nominations for the interscience meetings etc., Young investigator awards conference on antimicrobial agents and Award amount max: $3,000 chemotherapy young investigator awards. Award budget total: - These recognise and reward young Website: investigators for research excellence and http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- potential in microbiology and infectious awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/38-icaac- diseases. young-investigator-awards Application form: One of the five awards available will be http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- granted to a researcher in North America forms/icaac-young-investigator-nominating working in the area of HIV research. Candidates must be no more than three years Eligibility profile beyond postdoctoral research training in ------microbiology or infectious diseases at the time Country of applicant institution: Any of nomination. Self-nominations and more than one nomination per nominee will not be Disciplines ------accepted. HIV/Aids; Infectious Diseases; Microbiology;
Biological Sciences; Diagnostic Sciences; Each award comprises a US$3,000 cash prize Pharmaceutical Drugs; Infection Agents & to support travel to the ICAAC where the Pathogens; Chemotherapy awards will be presented.
Contact Details Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Awards Programme approximate deadline we expect. This call is ASM repeated once a year. 1752 N Street, NW Posted date: 29 May 14 Washington, DC 20036 Email.: [email protected]
HORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR JEFFERSON-RELATED PROJECTS International Center for Jefferson Studies
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Description: The International Center for Jefferson Studies These are awarded for periods of up to four invites applications for its short-term months to doctoral candidates and fellowships for Jefferson-related projects. postdoctoral scholars from any country. At
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least one fellowship will be reserved for Website: related research topics in African-American http://www.monticello.org/research/fellowsh history and in archaeology. ips/shortterm.html
Fellows are expected to be in residence at the Eligibility profile Robert H Smith International Center for ------Jefferson Studies, where they will have access Country of applicant institution: Any to Monticello's staff and research holdings at the Jefferson Library as well as those of the Disciplines University of Virginia. The awards carry a ------monthly stipend of $2,000 for scholars from Colonial History; Archaeology; the US or Canada and $3,000 for overseas Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; History; fellows. Pre-approved travel costs will also be American Literature; North American Studies; awarded. American History
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April ------2016, 1 November 2016, and repeated Fellowship Committee annually. Robert H Smith International Center for Posted date: 16 Feb 11 Jefferson Studies Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Monticello Predoctoral fellowships P.O Box 316 Award amount max: $12,000 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 434 984 7500 Fax: +1 434 296 1992
ARA JACKSON AWARD Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Award amount max: $500 applications for the Sara Jackson award. Award budget total: $500 Funding of US$500 is given in support of MA Website: or PhD research in the field of western http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda history. Preference will be given to African pricot.org/awards/student/jackson American or other minority students. Eligibility profile Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 21 Feb 13 Award type: Prizes, Student awards
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American History; North American Studies; Contact Details American Literature; Indigenous Peoples of ------the Americas; History Email: [email protected]
UNTINGTON-WHA MARTIN RIDGE FELLOWSHIP Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Award budget total: - applications for the Huntington-WHA Martin Website: Ridge fellowship. Recipients of this US$3,000 http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda fellowship are expected to be in continuous pricot.org/awards/fellowships/huntington residence at the Huntington Library for one month. Holders of PhD degrees, or Eligibility profile equivalent, or doctoral students at the ------dissertation stage, may apply. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; North approximate deadline we expect. This call is American Studies; History; American repeated once a year. Literature; American History Posted date: 21 Feb 13 Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Access Contact Detail to libraries, Financial aid for postgraduate ------students Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $3,000
AVID NICHOLLS RESEARCH BURSARIES Society for Caribbean Studies
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Description: The Society for Caribbean Studies invites • a bursary, worth up to £1,500, for applications for the David Nicholls research postgraduate students in the UK or bursaries. These support research and field overseas, who are preparing a work on the Caribbean. Two types of dissertation or thesis on the Caribbean bursaries are available: and who can benefit from access to the
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David Nicholls memorial library in Award amount max: £1,500 Oxford; Award budget total: - • a bursary, worth up to £1,500, for Website: http://www.dnmt.org.uk/awards postgraduate students from UK institutions to pursue field work in the Eligibility profile Caribbean, spending at least two ------weeks abroad. Country of applicant institution: Any
Applications for the first bursary are Disciplines particularly welcome from students in the ------Caribbean. Latin American & Caribbean Studies; Latin American & Caribbean History; Latin Bursaries cover travel and subsistence in American & Caribbean Literature; Politics & Oxford or the Caribbean. Economics of Latin America & the Caribbean
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. David Nicholls Memorial Trust Posted date: 07 Apr 15 Kellogg College Award type: Travel for research purposes, Oxford OX2 6PN Access to libraries, Thesis/Dissertation Email: [email protected] funding, Directed grants for individual investigators, Equipment and materials
ALTER RUNDELL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Award type: Student awards applications for the Walter Rundell graduate Award amount max: $1,500 student award. This award, which includes a Award budget total: $1,500 cash prize of US$1,500, is offered to graduate Website: students in the field of western American http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda history. Applicants should be doctoral pricot.org/awards/student/rundell candidates who have completed comprehensive examinations for their Eligibility profile dissertation subject. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is North American Studies; American Literature; repeated once a year. Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Posted date: 21 Feb 13 American History; History
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Contact Details St Louis, MO 63121 ------Tel: +1 314 516 7282 Western History Association Fax: +1 314 516 7272 University of Missouri-St Louis Email: [email protected] 152C University Center 1 University Blvd
RRINGTON-PRUCHA AWARD IN WESTERN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Award amount max: $500 nominations for the Arrington-Prucha prize in Award budget total: $500 western American religious history. A US$500 Website: cash prize is awarded for the best essay of the http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda year on religious history in the West. The cash pricot.org/awards/articles&essays/arrington- prize and a plaque are awarded to the author prucha and a certificate is awarded to the publisher. No time period, geographic restrictions or Eligibility profile questions of religious persuasion apply. To be ------eligible, articles must have appeared in the Country of applicant institution: Any prior calendar year in a journal, magazine or edited volume. Any WHA member, as well as Disciplines the publisher or author of the essay, may ------nominate an essay. American History; Studies in Religious Traditions; History; North American Studies; Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) American Literature; Theology & Religious Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Studies been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 21 Feb 13 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes
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AY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Award type: Prizes nominations for the Ray Allen Billington Award amount max: $400 prize. This prize recognises the best article on Award amount min: - western history published in any journal other Award budget total: $500 than the Western Historical Quarterly. The Website: award issues US$400 to the author and http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda US$100 to the journal in which the article was pricot.org/awards/articles&essays/billington published. Eligibility profile To be eligible, an article must deal with a ------topic relating to the North American West, Country of applicant institution: Any including Mexico, Canada, and Alaska. Nominations may be made only by the editors Disciplines of the participating publications, but editors ------may, if they wish, seek the advice of their American Literature; History; American editorial board or of a special committee. History; Canadian Literature; North American Studies; Indigenous Peoples of the Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Americas; Canadian History Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 21 Feb 13
RRELL M GIBSON AWARD Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Any WHA member, as well as the publisher nominations for its Arrell M Gibson award. or author of the essay, may nominate an This award consists of a US$500 cash prize for essay. the best essay of the year on the history of the Native Americans. No time period or Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) geographic restrictions apply, and essays will Deadline information: !! Call has not yet be judged on their significance to the field, been announced by funder, but this is the their contributions to knowledge, and their approximate deadline we expect. This call is literary quality. repeated every 2 years. Posted date: 21 Feb 13
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Award type: Prizes Folklore & Mythology; American Literature; Award amount max: $500 Folk Art; Colonial History; Folk Medicine; Award budget total: - American History; Indigenous Peoples of the Website: Americas; Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda Crimes Against Humanity; North American pricot.org/awards/articles&essays/gibson Studies; Customs & Traditions; Oral History; History; Art & Design: History, Practice & Eligibility profile Theory; Anthropology ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Detail ------Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
UMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS National Fragile X Foundation
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Description: The National Fragile X Foundation, under the Award budget total: - Rosen/Weingarden Summer Fellowship Website: Research Fund, invites applications for its http://www.fragilex.org/research/funding- summer research fellowships. These aim to opportunities/ introduce students in professional training programmes to research in the fragile X field Eligibility profile by providing funding for a summer project. ------The student’s work may be in any area of FXS, Country of applicant institution: Any fraxile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, or fragile X-associated primary ovarian Disciplines insufficiency. ------Pharmacotherapy; Reproduction & Fertility; One or more fellowships, worth US$2,500 Cancer Genetics; Disease Models; Molecular each, are available. Genetics; Intellectual Disabilities; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Physiology; Biological Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Medical Genetics; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Human Physiology; Genetics & Systems been announced by funder, but this is the Biology; Psychology; Growth & Growth approximate deadline we expect. This call is Factors; Obstetrics & Gynaecology; Diagnostic repeated once a year. Sciences; Genetic Diseases; Health Posted date: 28 Feb 13 Counselling Award type: Personal development, Directed grants for individual investigators, Contact Details Predoctoral fellowships, Predoctoral training ------fellowships National Fragile X Foundation Award amount max: $2,500 1615 Bonanza Street, Suite 202
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Walnut Creek, CA 94597 Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 925 938 9300
OSTDOCTORAL PROGRAMME International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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Description: The International Institute for Applied Award type: Directed grants for individual Systems Analysis invites applications to its investigators, Early-Career fellowships postdoctoral programme. This enables Award budget total: - scholars to conduct their own research in Website: collaboration with one or more of IIASAs http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/education/ research programmes or special projects. postdocs.html Application form: Candidates should have their PhD at the time http://www.iiasa.ac.at/ysp/pdoc/applic of taking up the appointment and are expected to have a proven record of research Eligibility profile accomplishments, and a solid working ------knowledge of English. Preference will be Country of applicant institution: Any given to applicants who are nationals of countries where IIASA has a national member Disciplines organisation and who have held a doctoral ------degree for less than five years at the Systems Engineering & Risk Analysis; application deadline. Evolutionary Biology; Climate Change & Global Warming; Population Studies; Air The typical period for IIASA-funded Pollution, Regulation & Control; Biological postdoctoral support is one to two years. Systems Analysis & Modelling; Ecology; Innovation & Technology Management; Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Energy Engineering Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April 2016, 1 October 2016, 1 April 2017, 1 October Contact Details 2017. ------Posted date: 25 Feb 16 Tel: +43 22 3680 7344 Email: [email protected]
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TANDARD SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP European Respiratory Society
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Description: The European Respiratory Society invites Closing date: 01 Apr 16 applications for its standard short-term Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April fellowship. This enables young scientists and 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. clinicians in the early stages of their research Posted date: 12 Feb 16 career in respiratory medicine to visit a host Award type: Directed grants for individual unit in a European country other than the investigators, Travel for research purposes, candidate’s own, with the aim of learning a Postdoctoral training fellowships, Early- research technique not available in their home Career fellowships unit. It aims to foster knowledge and Award budget total: - collaboration between units in different Website: http://www.ersnet.org/ers- countries. funding/fellowships/short-term/ers- standard-short-term-fellowship.html Candidates should be ERS members of any Application form: http://strf2016.sdi- nationality and be scientists, physicians or development.ch/ qualified allied health professionals with MD, Eligibility profile MSc, PhD or MD-PhD qualifications related to ------the respiratory field. Priority is given to Country of applicant institution: Any candidates in the early stages of their career.
A return to the home unit is mandatory upon Disciplines fellowship completion. ------
Respiratory Medicine Fellowships are tenable for between one and three months and encompass a living stipend, Contact Details child allowance and a travel grant of varying ------value depending on where the candidate is Email: [email protected] from and to which European country they are going.
MALL EXPLORATORY GRANT Scoliosis Research Society
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Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites project. Applicants do not need to be applications for a small exploratory grant. members of the society to apply. The society This grant is designed specifically for new has identified the following areas as investigators who have a preliminary concept important research topics: they would like to develop into a research
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• evidence based medicine; Posted date: 09 Nov 12 • idiopathic scoliosis; Award type: Young investigator awards, • aetiology; Directed grants for individual investigators • non-op and operative treatment; Award amount max: $10,000 • 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; Award budget total: - • adult deformity; Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ Application form: • treatment and outcomes; https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants • osteoporosis, in particular
osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Eligibility profile on scoliosis kyphosis management, ------and how it relates to spinal deformity Country of applicant institution: Any and instrumentation; • early onset scoliosis treatment; Disciplines • sagittal imbalance; ------• congenital scoliosis; Chiropractic; General Surgery; Pathogenesis; • neuromuscular spinal deformity; General Practice & Family Health; Public • deformity and reconstruction arising Health, Health Services & Primary Care; from spine and sacral tumour Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine; treatment; Physiology; Osteoporosis & Other Bone • thoracic insufficiency associated with Diseases; Primary Care; Orthopaedic Surgery; spinal deformity in children; Musculoskeletal System; Muscle Diseases; • pulmonary outcome sequeallae Counselling & Talking Therapies; Allied following common natural history of Health Professions spine deformity and treatment history. Contact Details ------The maximum grant award for this category Scoliosis Research Society is US$10,000. The maximum duration of 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 research is one year. Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Tel: +1 414 289 9107 Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Fax: +1 414 276 3349 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April Email: [email protected] 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually.
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Description: The Scoliosis Research Society invites national granting organisations. Applicants applications for a new investigator grant. This do not need to be members of the society to grant is specifically targeted to new apply. The society has identified the following investigators. It will not be awarded to those areas as important research topics: who have received prior funding from
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• evidence based medicine; Posted date: 09 Nov 12 • idiopathic scoliosis; Award type: Directed grants for individual • aetiology; investigators, Young investigator awards • non-op and operative treatment; Award amount max: $25,000 • 3D deformity of the spine and thorax; Award budget total: - • adult deformity; Website: http://www.srs.org/research/ Application form: • treatment and outcomes; https://srs.execinc.com/edibo/Grants • osteoporosis, in particular
osteoporotic spine fractures, its impact Eligibility profile on scoliosis kyphosis management, ------and how it relates to spinal deformity Country of applicant institution: Any and instrumentation; • early onset scoliosis treatment; Disciplines • sagittal imbalance; ------• congenital scoliosis; Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; • neuromuscular spinal deformity; Musculoskeletal System; General Practice & • deformity and reconstruction arising Family Health; Pathogenesis; Counselling & from spine and sacral tumour Talking Therapies; Public Health, Health treatment; Services & Primary Care; Chiropractic; • thoracic insufficiency associated with Orthopaedic Surgery; Clinical Medicine; spinal deformity in children; Diagnostic Sciences; Physiology; Allied • pulmonary outcome sequeallae Health Professions; General Surgery; Primary following common natural history of Care; Muscle Diseases spine deformity and treatment history. Contact Details ------The maximum award is US$25,000, and the Scoliosis Research Society duration of research may extend up to two 555 East Wells Street, suite 1100 years. Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823 Tel: +1 414 289 9107 Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Fax: +1 414 276 3349 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April Email: [email protected] 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually.
RENNERT-IVERSON AWARDS Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Association conference. The award also applications for the Trennert-Iverson awards. includes conference registration. These two US$500 annual awards for MA or PhD students facilitate the students' Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) attendance at the annual Western History
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Country of applicant institution: Any repeated once a year. Posted date: 21 Feb 13 Disciplines Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Financial aid for postgraduate students North American Studies; History; Indigenous Award amount max: $500 Peoples of the Americas; American Literature; Award budget total: $1,000 American History Website: http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda Contact Detail pricot.org/awards/conferencescholarships/tre ------nnert-iverson Email: [email protected]
OBERT G ATHEARN PRIZE Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association, supported Award budget total: - by the friends and students of professor Website: Athearn, invites applications for the Robert G http://westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot. Athearn prize. This recognises a book on the org/awards/books/athearn 20th-century American west published in 2012 or 2013. Publishers may submit more Eligibility profile than one nomination. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award consists of US$500 for the author and US$500 for the press. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) American History; American Literature; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet North American Studies; Indigenous Peoples been announced by funder but this is the of the Americas; History approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated every 2 years. Contact Detail Posted date: 24 Jul 13 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $1,000
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AUGHEY BOOK PRIZE Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Eligibility profile nominations for the Caughey book prize. This ------prize is given annually for the most Country of applicant institution: Any distinguished book on the history of the American west. Disciplines ------The award consists of US$2,500, a certificate Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; History; to the author and a certificate to the press. American History; American Literature; North American Studies Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Western History Association repeated once a year. University of Missouri-St Louis Posted date: 21 Feb 13 152C University Center Award type: Prizes 1 University Blvd Award amount max: $2,500 St Louis, MO 63121 Award budget total: $2,500 Tel: +1 314 516 7282 Website: Fax: +1 314 516 7272 http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda Email: [email protected] pricot.org/awards/books/caughey
OHN C EWERS AWARD Western History Association J
Description: The Western History Association invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for the John C Ewers award. This repeated every 2 years. recognises the best book on the North Posted date: 24 Jul 13 American Indian ethnohistory that was Award type: Prizes published in 2012 or 2013. Each publisher may Award amount max: $500 submit more than one title. Award budget total: $500 Website: The award includes US$500 for the author. http://westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot. org/awards/books/ewers Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder but this is the ------Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines Literature; Indigenous Peoples of the ------Americas; American History North American Studies; Anthropology; Colonial History; Ethnography & Ethnology; Contact Details Canadian Literature; Cultural History; ------History; Canadian History; American Email: [email protected]
OBERT M UTLEY AWARD Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Eligibility profile nominations for the Robert M Utley award. ------This award is given annually for the best book Country of applicant institution: Any published on the military history of the frontier and western North America including Disciplines Mexico and Canada from prehistory to the ------20th century. The award is worth US$500. History; Creole Languages; American Literature; Politics & Economics of North Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) America; Military History; American History; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; been announced by funder, but this is the Canadian Literature; North American Studies; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Canadian History; Latin American & repeated once a year. Caribbean Studies; Spanish Language; Posted date: 05 Apr 13 Portuguese Language Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $500 Contact Details Award budget total: $500 ------Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda pricot.org/awards/books/utley
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Description: The Materials Research Society invites recognition of an exceptional recent nominations for its MRS medal. The medal is achievement in materials research. The medal intended to offer public and professional will be awarded for a specific outstanding
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recent discovery or advancement which is Application form: http://www.mrs.org/mrs- expected to have a major impact on the medal-nomination-form-pdf/ progress of any materials-related field. Eligibility profile Nominees need not be a member of the MRS, ------and nominees of any nationality are eligible. Country of applicant institution: Any Each medal consists of a US$5,000 cash prize, an engraved and mounted medal, and a Disciplines citation certificate. ------Materials Properties & Analysis; Materials Sciences; Mechanical Engineering; Aerospace Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Engineering & Avionics; Manufacturing & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Industrial Engineering; Materials Fabrication been announced by funder, but this is the & Processing; Metallurgy approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 08 Oct 08 ------Award type: Prizes MRS Award amount max: $5,000 506 Keystone Drive Award budget total: - Warrendale, PA 15086 Website: http://www.mrs.org/medal/ Email: [email protected]
ON HIPPEL AWARD Materials Research Society
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Description: The Materials Research Society invites reasonable travel expenses paid in order to nominations for its Von Hippel award. This attend the MRS fall meeting. recognises the qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers, namely Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) brilliance and originality of intellect, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet combined with vision that transcends the been announced by funder, but this is the boundaries of conventional scientific approximate deadline we expect. This call is disciplines. repeated once a year. Posted date: 16 Mar 15 Nominations are invited from all scientific Award type: Prizes disciplines as long as the work has been in Award budget total: - areas commonly associated with materials Website: http://www.mrs.org/vonhippel/ research. Nominees need not be members of Application form: http://www.mrs.org/von- the society, and all nationalities are eligible. hippel-nomination-form-pdf/
The award includes a US$10,000 cash prize Eligibility profile and honorary membership in MRS. The ------recipient will have registration fees and Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines 506 Keystone Drive ------Warrendale, PA 15086-7573 Materials Sciences; Metallurgy Tel: +1 724 779 3003 Fax: +1 724 779 8313 Contact Details [email protected] ------MRS
SI/ISID INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME International Society for Infectious Diseases
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Description: The International Society for Infectious Deadline information: This call is repeated Diseases, in partnership with the Swiss once a year. Society for Infectious Diseases, invites Posted date: 17 Nov 15 applications for the SSI/ISID infectious Award type: Travel for research purposes, diseases research fellowship programme. The Directed grants for individual investigators, aim of this programme is to support infectious Early-Career fellowships disease physicians and scientists from Award amount max: SFr.36,000 developing and middle-income countries Website: through multidisciplinary clinical and http://www.isid.org/grants/grants_ssi_fellow laboratory training at select biomedical ships.shtml institutions in Switzerland. The programme Application form: offers opportunities for training and research http://www.isid.org/downloads/programs/ssi in a variety of areas ranging from basic _isid_app.pdf studies of the mechanism of disease to studies in public health, epidemiology, diagnostics, Eligibility profile ------therapeutics or vaccine development. Country of applicant institution: Lower-
Middle-Income countries, Low Income Applicants must be citizens or permanent countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries residents of developing countries or Eastern Country of applicant institution: Albania, Europe, and must have an MD or PhD in a Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and relevant field. Applicants should also hold a Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Serbia, Czech position at a medical, research or public Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Croatia, Hungary, health programme and have sufficient Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Republic of, language skills of French or German, in Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, addition to English. Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Kosovo,
Montenegro The fellowships are worth up to CHF36,000 over one year for travel and living expenses. Disciplines
------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Infectious Diseases
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Contact Details Brookline, MA 02446 ------Tel: +1 617 278 9113 ISID Email: [email protected] Professional Development Working Group 9 Babcock Street, Unit 3
HARLES STARK DRAPER PRIZE National Academies
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Description: The National Academy of Engineering invites Website: nominations for the Charles Stark Draper http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects/Awar prize. This honours an engineer whose ds/DraperPrize.aspx accomplishment has significantly impacted society by improving the quality of life, Eligibility profile providing the ability to live freely and ------comfortably or permitting the access to Country of applicant institution: Any information. Disciplines The prize is awarded for a specific ------achievement or for a series of achievements in Civil Engineering; Engineering Standards & any engineering discipline and may be Specifications; Petroleum Engineering; awarded to an individual or a group. NAE General Engineering; Engineering; members and non-members worldwide may Mechanical Engineering; Manufacturing & apply. Industrial Engineering; Engineering Education; Energy Engineering; Aerospace The recipient receives a US$500,000 cash Engineering & Avionics; Ceramics; Chemical award. Engineering; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Mining Engineering; Biomedical Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Engineering Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. National Academies Posted date: 27 Feb 14 500 Fifth St, NW Award type: Prizes Washington, DC 20001 Award amount max: $500,000 Tel: +1 202 334 2000 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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RITZ J AND DOLORES H RUSS PRIZE National Academies
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Description: The National Academy of Engineering invites Award type: Prizes applications for the Fritz J and Dolores H Russ Award amount max: $500,000 prize. This recognises a bioengineering Award budget total: - achievement in widespread use that improves Website: the human condition. The prize also aims to http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects/Awar encourage collaboration between the ds/RussPrize.aspx engineering and medical or biological Application form: professions to work closely together. http://www.naeawardsonline.com/ Examples of eligible achievements include research, education or product development Eligibility profile within the following disciplines: ------Country of applicant institution: Any • biomedical instrumentation, separation and control systems; Disciplines ------• aerospace biomedical engineering; Medical Devices; Biological Markers & Sensor • diagnostic technologies; Mechanisms; Automated Clinical Analysis; • applied genetic engineering; Computer Engineering & Hardware; • pharmaceutical processing; Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; • prosthetic technologies; Automation & Control Engineering; Chemical • biomolecular engineering; Engineering; Manufacturing & Industrial • medical engineering; Engineering; General Engineering; • applied physiological systems. Mechanical Engineering; Computer Science & Informatics; Bioengineering; Engineering; The prize may be awarded to an individual or Biochemical Engineering; Biomedical a group and is worth US$500,000. Engineering
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder but this is the NAE Awards approximate deadline we expect. National Academy of Engineering Nominations accepted from January 2013. 500 Fifth Street, NW, Keck 1048 Official nomination period is between 2 Washington, DC 20001 January and 1 April 2014. This call is Tel: +1 202 334 1266 repeated every 2 years. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 06 Feb 13
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AAP KUNST PRIZE Society for Ethnomusicology J
Description: The Society for Ethnomusicology invites Award amount max: $200 nominations for the Jaap Kunst prize. This Award budget total: - recognises the most significant article in Website: ethnomusicology written by a member of http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_Ku SEM and published within the previous year. nst
Articles in any language may be submitted. Eligibility profile Self-nominations are encouraged. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize is worth US$200. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Musicology; Music Theory; Ethnography & been announced by funder, but this is the Ethnology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 25 Feb 15 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]
LAN MERRIAM PRIZE Society for Ethnomusicology
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Description: The Society for Ethnomusicology invites Posted date: 25 Feb 15 nominations for the Alan Merriam prize. This Award type: Prizes recognises the most distinguished, published Award amount max: $300 English-language monograph in the field of Award budget total: - ethnomusicology. Website: http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_M The book must have been published in the erriam previous two years. Eligibility profile The prize is worth US$300. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Ethnography & Ethnology; Musicology; repeated once a year. Music Theory
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Contact Details Morrison Hall 005 ------Indiana University Allan Merriam Prize 1165 3rd Street c/o Business Office Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 Society for Ethnomusicology
ICHARD WATERMAN JUNIOR SCHOLAR PRIZE Society for Ethnomusicology
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Description: The Society for Ethnomusicology invites Posted date: 08 Jan 15 applications for the Richard Waterman junior Award type: Prizes scholar prize. This recognises the best article Award amount max: $200 by a junior scholar in the ethnomusicological Award budget total: - study of popular music published within the Website: previous year. http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_W aterman Junior scholars are defined as any scholars, regardless of employment status, who Eligibility profile received their PhD no more than seven years ------prior to the submission deadline. Country of applicant institution: Any
The prize is worth up to US$200. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Social & Cultural Anthropology; Ethnography Deadline information: !! Call has not yet & Ethnology; Musicology been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Contact Details Submissions due by 12 noon eastern time. ------This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
RIZE FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICS American Physical Society
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Description: American Physical Society invite nominations physics. This prize is awarded to an for its prize for industrial applications of individual, or individuals, for applications of
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physics in an industrial setting. The purpose Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) of the prize is to recognise excellence in the Deadline information: !! Call has not yet industrial application of physics, and thereby been announced by funder but this is the to publicize the value of physics in industry, approximate deadline we expect. This call is to encourage physics research in industry, repeated every 2 years. and to enhance students' awareness of and Posted date: 18 Mar 09 interest in the role of physics in commercial Award type: Prizes product development. Award amount max: $10,000 Award budget total: - The prize will be awarded for innovative, Website: leading-edge applications of physics to http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ emerging technologies. It is not necessary for industrial.cfm the application to have already achieved commercial success, but it should have Eligibility profile ------demonstrated potential for significant impact. Country of applicant institution: Any Although nominees need not now be working in industry, the contribution for which they are cited must have been made while their Disciplines ------principal employment was in industry. The Physics recognised contribution may be a product, a process, or a tool enabling practical Contact Details application of physics. Nominees need not be ------APS members, and there is no restriction with Executive Office regard to geography or nationality. American Physics Society
One Physics Ellipse The prize consists of US$10,000 and a College Park, MD 20740-3844 certificate citing the contribution for which the Tel: +1 301 209 3268 prize was awarded. In addition, an allowance Fax: +1 301 209 0865 is made for the expenses incurred by the Email: [email protected] recipients to attend the APS meeting at which the prize is presented.
ORDON BELL PRIZE Association for Computing Machinery
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Description: The Association for Computing Machinery performance computing to applications in invites nominations for the Gordon Bell prize. science, engineering and large-scale data This recognises outstanding achievement in analytics. high performance computing. The aim is to track the progress over time of parallel Individuals or teams may apply by computing, with particular emphasis on submitting a technical paper. Finalists are rewarding innovation in applying high required to present their work at the annual
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SC conference, and their submissions are Application form: included in the conference proceedings. https://submissions.supercomputing.org
The award includes a cash prize of US$10,000. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Computer Science & Informatics Posted date: 16 Jan 15 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $10,000 ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://awards.acm.org/bell/nominations.cfm
RAHAM BULL PRIZE IN CLINICAL SCIENCE AND GOULSTONIAN LECTURESHIP Royal College of Physicians
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Description: The Royal College of Physicians invites Award type: Prizes, Young investigator applications for the Graham Bull prize in awards clinical science and Goulstonian lectureship. Award amount max: £1,000 This recognises young researchers who have Award budget total: - made a major contribution to clinical science. Website: The work may cover a wide range of http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/research/fundin expertise, such as molecular and cellular g-and-awards/prizes/graham-bull-prize- biology, imaging technology, psychiatry and clinical-science-and-goulstonian-lectureship health sciences. Application form: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/file/2033/down RCP members and fellows of RCP London load?token=wv4HKAdQ under the age of 45 on 1 April 2016 are eligible to apply. Eligibility profile ------The prize is worth £1,000. The recipient will Country of applicant institution: Any also be invited to deliver the Goulstonian lecture. Disciplines ------
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Clinical Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Medicine; Plant Cell & Molecular Biology Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 27 Nov 15 Contact Details ------
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RCP Tel: +44 20 3075 1564 11 St Andrews Place Fax: +44 20 7224 0719 Regent’s Park Email: [email protected] London NW1 4LE
OLTON-CUTTER AWARD IN BORDERLANDS HISTORY Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Posted date: 21 Feb 13 nominations for its Bolton-Cutter award in Award type: Prizes borderlands history. A cash prize of US$500 Award amount max: $500 will be awarded for the best article on any Award budget total: - phase of the history of the borderlands, from Website: the Floridas to the Californias, from the 16th http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda century to the present, including the pricot.org/awards/articles&essays/bolton- northward movement of Spanish-speaking cutter people into the US in recent times, major political, economic and social developments, Eligibility profile cultures, peoples, institutions and ------movements, broad essays of synthesis or new Country of applicant institution: Any interpretations. Disciplines Any member of the association, as well as the ------publisher or author of the essay, may American History; Social Work & Social nominate an essay. Award-winning articles in Policy; Social Reform & Social Movements; languages other than English will be Sociology; Immigrants & Migrants; History of considered for publication in the Western Economic Thought; American Literature; Historical Quarterly. North American Studies; History; Economics & Econometrics Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated once a year.
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OSTER AWARDS European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Description: The European College of Application form: http://www.ecnp- Neuropsychopharmacology invites congress.eu/en/abstracts/CMAbstractSubmis applications for its poster awards. These sion.aspx recognise outstanding posters presented at the annual ECNP congress. Eligibility profile ------The awards are worth €500. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 12 Jan 15 ------Award type: Prizes 28th ECNP Congress Award amount max: €500 Colloquium Brussels Award budget total: - Tel: +32 2 776 0657 Website: http://www.ecnp- Fax: +32 2 779 5960 congress.eu/Highlights/awards/ECNPpostera Email: organisingsecretariat@ecnp- ward.aspx congress.eu
OCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Herzog August Bibliothek
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Description: The Herzog August Bibliothek invites Closing date: 01 Apr 16 applications for its doctoral fellowships. These Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April support doctoral candidates from Germany 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. and abroad in pursuing research at the library Posted date: 22 Sep 14 on all disciplines. Award type: Access to libraries, Predoctoral fellowships, Directed grants for individual Fellowships are worth €1,100 per month for a investigators stay of two to 10 months, with an allowance of Award budget total: - €100 per month to cover the costs of copying and reproductions. Travel costs to and from Website: Wolfenbüttel may be refunded if no funds are http://www.hab.de/en/home/research/fellow available to fellows from other sources. ships/doctoral-fellowships.html
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Herzog August Bibliothek Postfach 1364 Disciplines 38299 Wolfenbüttel ------Email: [email protected] Any
EST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD International Association for Aerobiology
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Description: The International Association for Aerobiology Award budget total: - invites nominations for its best research paper Website: award. This recognises single, significant http://sites.google.com/site/aerobiologyinter research contributions to the peer-reviewed national/best-research-paper-award literature which incrementally move the science of aerobiology forward. Eligibility profile ------The prize will be bestowed to the first author Country of applicant institution: Any of an article on aerobiology published during the previous year. Self nominations are not Disciplines accepted. The prize is one free registration to ------an aerobiological conference. Bacteriology; Plant Development & Reproduction; Virology; Mycology Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 12 May 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes
OSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE Postcolonial Studies Association
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Description: The Postcolonial Studies Association and the prize. This recognises the best essay on a topic Journal of Postcolonial Writing invite related to postcolonial studies, from applications for their postgraduate essay disciplines including cultural studies,
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geography, politics, history, literature, film, Award budget total: - and development studies. Website: http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.c Applications are open to any postgraduate o.uk/pg-essay-prize/ student who is registered at any institution Application form: worldwide by, or within three months of, the http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.c submission deadline. Only one submission o.uk/assets/EssayPrize/2015PSAEssayPrizeFo per person is allowed. Candidates who have rm.docx previously entered the competition are welcome to enter again, but must submit a Eligibility profile different piece of work. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The winner will receive £250 prize money, and, should they not already be a member, a Disciplines complementary one-year membership to the ------PSA. The winning essay will, subject to Colonial & Postcolonial Literature; Colonial & editorial approval, be published in the Journal Postcolonial Studies of Postcolonial Writing. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet PSA been announced by funder, but this is the Armstrong House approximate deadline we expect. This call is First Avenue repeated once a year. Robin Hood Airport Posted date: 30 Jan 15 Doncaster DN9 3GA Award type: Prizes Email: Award amount max: £250 [email protected].
ENSEN-MILLER AWARD Western History Association J
Description: The Western History Association invites nominations for the Jensen-Miller award, Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) funded by the Charles Redd centre for Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Western Studies at Brigham Young been announced by funder, but this is the University. This award, which includes a approximate deadline we expect. This call is US$500 cash prize, recognises the best article repeated once a year. in the field of women and gender in the north Posted date: 21 Feb 13 American west. No time period restrictions Award type: Prizes apply. Award amount max: $500 Award budget total: $500 Any WHA member, as well as the publisher Website: or author of the essay, may nominate an http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda essay.
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pricot.org/awards/articles&essays/jensen- Sociology; American Literature; American miller History; Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies; History; Gender Roles & Sexuality; Eligibility profile North American Studies ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
AVID J WEBER-CLEMENTS PRIZE Western History Association
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Description: The Western History Association invites Award type: Prizes nominations and applications for the David J Award amount max: $2,500 Weber-Clements prize. This award is given Award budget total: - for the best non-fiction book on south-western Website: America. The competition is open to any non- http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wilda fiction book, including biography, on any pricot.org/awards/books/weber-clements aspect of Eligibility profile southwestern life, past or present. The author ------will receive US$2,500 and an invitation to give Country of applicant institution: Any the annual Weber-Clements prize lecture at Southern Disciplines ------Methodist University. American Literature; American History; North American Studies; History; Indigenous Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Peoples of the Americas; Biography Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 21 Feb 13
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ANTECH FELLOWSHIP ON KOREAN AFFAIRS FOR MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS Stanford University
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Description: The Walter H Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Website: Research Center at Stanford University invites http://aparc.stanford.edu/fellowships/pantec applications for the Pantech fellowship on h_fellowship_on_korean_affairs_for_midcar Korean affairs for mid-career professionals. eer_professionals/ This enables individuals currently working in the public or private sector to carry out Eligibility profile research on issues related to Korea, and to ------participate in workshops and other Country of applicant institution: Any collaborative activities at the centre. Disciplines Up to two residential fellowships are available ------for a period between three to nine months. A Business & Management Studies; Politics & monthly stipend of up to US$7,000 is International Studies; International Trade; provided. Asian Studies; International Relations & Diplomacy Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Shorenstein APARC repeated once a year. Stanford University Posted date: 05 Nov 13 Encina Hall E301 Award type: Directed grants for individual Stanford, CA 94305-6055 investigators, Mid-Career fellowships, Tel: +1 650 724 8271 Travel for research purposes, Fax: +1 650 723 6530 Networking/collaboration Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $63,000 Award budget total: -
LAUS P WACHSMANN PRIZE FOR ADVANCED AND CRITICAL ESSAYS IN ORGANOLOGY K Society for Ethnomusicology
Description: The Society for Ethnomusicology invites study of musical instruments. The publication applications for the Klaus P Wachsmann prize may be a monograph, an article, a unified for advanced and critical essays in series of articles or a video/electronic media organology. The prize recognises a major item. Any organological publication publication that advances the field of regarding one or a set of instruments, organology through the presentation of new instruments or organology in general are data and by using innovative methods in the welcomed. The prize is worth US$300.
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Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder but this is the Anthropology; Music Theory; Music; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Ethnography & Ethnology; Social & Cultural repeated every 2 years. Anthropology; Performing Arts; Musicology; Posted date: 08 Feb 13 Dance Award type: Prizes, Publish, edit, translate, disseminate Contact Details Award amount max: $300 ------Award budget total: - Indiana University, Website: Morrison Hall 005 http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_W 1165 E 3rd St achsmann Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 Tel: +1 812 855 6672 Eligibility profile Fax: +1 812 855 6673 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
RUNO NETTL PRIZE Society for Ethnomusicology
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Description: The Society of Ethnomusicology invites The prize is worth US$500. applications for the Bruno Nettl prize. This award recognises an outstanding publication Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) contributing to or dealing with the history of Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ethnomusicology or of the general character, been announced by funder, but this is the problems and methods of ethnomusicology. approximate deadline we expect. This call is This is intended to include predecessor repeated once a year. disciplines and closely related fields, and Posted date: 15 Jan 15 contributions involving the relationship of Award type: Prizes ethnomusicology to other fields such as Award amount max: $500 historical musicology, anthropology, music Website: theory, systematic musicology or organology. http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_Ne ttl The publication must have appeared during the previous year and may be a monograph, Eligibility profile article or chapter in a book. Relevant audio ------and visual recordings or films may also be Country of applicant institution: Any considered. Along with work by SEM members in English, publications by non- Disciplines ------members of SEM are eligible, as are publications in a language other than English.
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Folk Art; Music Theory; Ethnography & SEM Business Office Ethnology; Musicology; Social & Cultural 1165 East Third Street Anthropology; History of Music Morrison Hall 005 Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------
1ST CENTURY FELLOWSHIP Society for Ethnomusicology
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Description: The Society of Ethnomusicology invites Application form: applications for its 21st century fellowship. http://www.ethnomusicology.org/resource/re This aims to further excellence in smgr/docs/21st_century_fellowship_appl.doc ethnomusicological research through support to PhD students for dissertation fieldwork. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be current SEM members Country of applicant institution: Any and must have achieved ABD or equivalent doctoral candidate status at their institution. Disciplines ------The fellowship is worth US$5,000. Ethnography & Ethnology; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Musicology Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Society for Ethnomusicology repeated once a year. Indiana University Posted date: 21 Jan 15 Morrison Hall 005 Award type: Directed grants for individual 1165 E 3rd St investigators, Predoctoral fellowships, Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 Thesis/Dissertation funding Tel: +1 812 855 6672 Award amount max: $5,000 Fax: +1 812 855 6673 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Prizes_21 stCentury
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SC PROJECT BURSARY FUND British Society for Plant Pathology
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Description: The British Society for Plant Pathology invites Award budget total: - applications for its MSc project bursary fund. Website: This enables MSc students who are unable to http://www.bspp.org.uk/funds/msc.php find other sources of funding to complete the Application form: research element of their course. http://www.bspp.org.uk/funds/docs/bsppms c.doc The scheme is open to all members of the society and applications are invited from Eligibility profile supervisors on behalf of their MSc student. ------Each supervisor may submit one application Country of applicant institution: Any each year. Disciplines Bursaries are worth £200 per week for up to ------17 weeks and £500 in total for consumables. Plant Diseases & Pathology
Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. University of the West of England Posted date: 14 Jul 15 Coldharbour Lane Award type: Directed grants for individual Bristol BS16 1QY investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Tel: +44 117 32 83819 students Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £3,900
CHOLAR AWARD William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation
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Description: The William Guy Forbeck Research recommendation from the applicant’s director Foundation invites nominations for its scholar of studies. award. This enables junior clinical or postdoctoral fellows to attend the annual The award covers travel to the meeting and foundation forum on cancer to be held in expenses occurred during the event. November in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, US. Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Participation is by invitation only and been announced by funder, but this is the nominations must be made by a letter of
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Cancers; repeated once a year. Nursing; Human Biological Sciences; Non- Posted date: 14 Mar 13 cancerous Tumours; Prostate & Testicular Award type: Personal development, Retreats, Cancers; Physiology; Diagnostic Sciences; Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Young Carcinogenesis; Clinical Medicine; Oncology investigator awards Nursing; Chemotherapy; Brain Cancer; Award budget total: - Cancer Immunology; Lung Cancer; Website: http://wgfrf.org/scientific- Molecularly Targeted Therapy; activities/forbeck-scholars/ Gynaecological Cancers; Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers; Cancer Studies & Oncology; Application form: Melanoma & Other Skin Cancers; Cancer Cell http://wgfrf.org/index.php/get- Biology; Breast Cancer involved/nominate-a-scholar/ Contact Details Eligibility profile ------WGFRF Country of applicant institution: Any 23 Peninsula Drive
Hilton Head Island Disciplines South Carolina 29926 ------Email: [email protected]
NZYME ASSAY SCIENTIST AWARD Novozymes
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Description: Novozymes invites applications for its The award is worth €5,000 plus travel and enzyme assay scientist award. This recognises accommodation costs. a student or postdoc for the development of an outstanding enzyme activity or Closing date: 01 Apr 16 performance assay for screening of one of the Deadline information: Applications are following enzyme classes: amylases, invited between 1 January and 1 April 2016. cellulases, lipases, phytases, proteases, This call is repeated every 2 years. oxidoreductases or glycosyltransferases. The Posted date: 09 Jul 14 aim of the award is to boost the general assay Award type: Prizes, Young investigator awareness and interest and reward good awards, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. assay ideas developed by young scientists. Award amount max: €5,000 Award budget total: - The assay should have been published within Website: the last two years or have an expected publish http://www.novozymes.com/en/innovation/E date. The assay has to be novel and it is nzyme-Assay-Scientist-Award/Pages/event- expected that it has high-throughput potential and-awards.aspx and correlates to a real-world enzyme application.
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Eligibility profile & Metabolism; Nucleus & Organelles; Food ------Safety Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Novozymes A/S Biocatalysis & Enzyme Technology; Biological Krogshoejvej 36 Sciences; Allied Health Professions; Food 2880 Bagsvaerd Chemistry; Chemistry; Enzymology; Lipids; Email: [email protected] Food Science; Nutrigenomics; Cell Physiology
ONGRESS FELLOWSHIPS European Society of Surgical Oncology
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Description: The European Society of Surgical Oncology fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, invites applications for its congress Young investigator awards fellowships. These enable participants from Award amount max: €500 Poland or from emerging countries to attend Award budget total: - the ESSO congress in Krakow, Poland in Website: September 2016. http://www.essoweb.org/eursso/2012-02-29- 22-05-50/congress-fellowships.html Members of the ESSO or the Polish Society of Surgical Oncology under the age of 40 are Eligibility profile eligible to apply. Applicants must have ------submitted an abstract to the congress, with Country of applicant institution: Poland, priority given to those with an abstract Lower-Middle-Income countries, Low Income accepted for presentation. countries
Fellowships are worth €500 each, to support travel, accommodation and registration. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 Apr 16 Cancer Studies & Oncology Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 11 Feb 16 ------Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Tel: +32 2 537 3106 etc., Predoctoral fellowships, Mid-Career Email: [email protected]
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AMES SUMNER AWARD Chartered Institution of Wastes Management J
Description: The Chartered Institution of Wastes Application form: Management invites applications for the http://www.ciwmawards.com/Application- James Sumner award. This enables students, Forms/James-Sumner-2015.docx graduates or licentiate members to attend an international conference on waste Eligibility profile management in a country other than the one ------in which they reside. The award is worth up Country of applicant institution: Any to £1,000. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Waste Management & Disposal been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 11 Feb 15 CIWM Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings 9 Saxon Court etc., Student awards St Peter's Gardens Award amount max: £1,000 Northampton NN1 1SX Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ciwmawards.com/james- summer-award.php
TANLEY CORRSIN AWARD American Physical Society
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Description: The American Physical Society invites The award includes US$5,000 and a travel nominations for the Stanley Corrsin award. allowance to the society meeting at which the This recognises a recent achievement, a award is presented and the winner is to particular discovery or an innovation in the present a lecture. field of fundamental fluid dynamics. Closing date: 01 Apr 16 (Forecast) The award is ordinarily awarded to one Deadline information: !! Call has not yet person but it may be shared in the case of been announced by funder, but this is the multiple contributors. Nominations of approximate deadline we expect. This call is qualified women, members of repeated once a year. underrepresented groups and scientists from Posted date: 10 Dec 13 outside the US are especially encouraged.
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Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Fluidisation & Fluid Mechanics; Electrostatics; meetings etc. Physics; Mechanical Engineering; Chemistry; Award budget total: - Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Website: Superfluidity; Computational Fluid http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards Dynamics; Manufacturing & Industrial /corrsin.cfm Engineering Application form: http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE Contact Details =CORRSIN ------APS Eligibility profile One Physics Ellipse ------College Park, MD 20740-3844 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Fax: +1 301 209 0865 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
ULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP European Respiratory Society
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Description: The European Respiratory Society, with candidates in the early stages of their career. support from GlaxoSmithKline, invites A return to the home unit is mandatory upon applications for its pulmonary arterial fellowship completion. hypertension short-term fellowship. This supports research projects in the broad field of Fellowships are tenable for between one and pulmonary circulation, such as immunology, three months and encompass a living stipend, cardiology and vascular diseases. child allowance and a travel grant of varying value depending on where the candidate is Applicants should be ERS members of any from and to which country they are going. nationality and be based in Europe or overseas, going to another country in Europe to carry out the research project. They must Closing date: 01 Apr 16 hold an MD, MSc, PhD or equivalent Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April qualification in respiratory medicine or 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. science, pulmonary arterial hypertension, Posted date: 12 Feb 16 immunology, biology, genetics, Award type: Early-Career fellowships, pharmacology, biophysics or chemistry. Postdoctoral training fellowships, Directed Qualified healthcare professionals who are grants for individual investigators, Travel non-MD working in the pulmonary arterial for research purposes hypertension respiratory field may also apply. Award budget total: - Support is given to basic science, clinical and Website: http://www.ersnet.org/ers- translational research, with priority given to funding/fellowships/short-term/ers-pah- the latter two. Priority is also given to supported-by-gsk.html
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Application form: Disciplines http://strf2016.sdi-development.ch/ ------Cardiology; Respiratory Medicine; Eligibility profile Cardiovascular Diseases; Immunology ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details ------Email: [email protected]
ALTHER GUERRERO CIQUERO TUBERCULOSIS FELLOWSHIP European Respiratory Society
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Description: The European Respiratory Society invites Deadline information: There may be an applications for the Walther Guerrero Ciquero additional round in October 2016. tuberculosis fellowship. Posted date: 12 Feb 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual This aims to support the training and investigators, Postdoctoral training education in research techniques of a young fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, doctor in the field of tuberculosis. Travel for research purposes Award budget total: - Candidates should be ERS members from low Website: http://www.ersnet.org/ers- to medium income countries who are going to funding/fellowships/short-term/walther- work in Europe. They should be scientists, guerrero-ciquero.html physicians or qualified allied health Application form: http://strf2016.sdi- professionals with MD, MSc, PhD or MD-PhD development.ch/ related to the respiratory field. Priority is Eligibility profile given to candidates in the early stages of their ------career. A return to the home unit is Country of applicant institution: Lower- mandatory upon fellowship completion. Middle-Income countries, Low Income
countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Fellowships are tenable for between one and three months and encompass a living stipend, Disciplines child allowance and a travel grant of varying ------value depending on which European country Respiratory Medicine; Tuberculosis they are going to.
Contact Details Closing date: 01 Apr 16 ------Email: [email protected]
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HORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP FOR SCIENTIFICALLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES European Respiratory Society
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Description: The European Respiratory Society invites Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 April applications for its short-term fellowship for 2016, 1 October 2016, and repeated annually. scientifically developing countries. This Posted date: 12 Feb 16 enables young scientists and clinicians from Award type: Travel for research purposes, developing countries in the early stages of Directed grants for individual investigators, their research career in respiratory medicine Postdoctoral training fellowships, Early- to visit a host unit in a European country, Career fellowships with the aim of learning a research technique Award budget total: - not available in their home unit. It aims to Website: http://www.ersnet.org/ers- foster knowledge and collaboration between funding/fellowships/short-term/ers- units in different countries. fellowship-for-scientifically-developing- countries.html Candidates should be ERS members and be based in or residents of a scientifically Eligibility profile ------developing country and going to a country in Country of applicant institution: Lower- Europe, or be based in a country in Europe Middle-Income countries, Low Income with a scientific gap in the respiratory field countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries going to another country in Europe. Country of applicant institution: Albania, Applicants should be scientists, physicians or Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and qualified allied health professionals with MD, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Serbia, MSc, PhD or MD-PhD qualifications related to Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Republic of, the respiratory field. Priority is given to Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, candidates in the early stages of their career. Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo, A return to the home unit is mandatory upon Montenegro fellowship completion.
Disciplines Fellowships are tenable for between one and ------three months and encompass a living stipend, Respiratory Medicine child allowance and a travel grant of varying value depending on where the candidate is Contact Details from and to which country they are going. ------
Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Apr 16
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XTENDED DEADLINE: BRITISH CARBON GROUP BRIAN KELLY AWARD Institute of Physics
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Description: The Institute of Physics’ British Carbon Group Award amount max: £500 has extended the closing date for the Brian Award budget total: - Kelly award. The previous deadline of 2 Website: March has now been extended to 3 April 2016. http://www.britishcarbon.org/kelly.shtml All other call information remains unchanged. Eligibility profile This provides a travel grant to enable students ------and early career researchers with less than 10 Country of applicant institution: Canada, years’ postdoctoral experience to attend the Mexico, All African Nations, All European annual world carbon conference, to be held in Nations, All Asian nations, All South the US. American nations, All Oceanian nations, Caribbean, Central America Anyone living or working in the country where the conference is held is not eligible. Disciplines ------The prize is worth £500 and is presented with Composite & Hybrid Materials; Materials a certificate. The winner will attend the Sciences; Chemistry; Metallurgy; conference and present his or her paper either Macromolecular Chemistry orally or as a poster. Contact Details Closing date: 03 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: NNL Central Laboratory Posted date: 23 Feb 16 Sellafield Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Cumbria CA20 1PG etc., Young investigator awards Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS Wellcome Trust
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Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for qualification through high-quality research in its research training fellowships. These an appropriate unit or clinical research support medical, dental, veterinary or clinical facility. psychology graduates who wish to develop a long-term career in academic medicine. The Applicants must have a relevant connection to scheme enables individuals to undertake the European Economic Area and should not substantial training towards a PhD or MD normally be more than 10 years from the date
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of their first medical, dental or veterinary Deadline information: Applications due by qualification. They should have completed 5pm on deadline dates. The last full general professional training as defined by the application deadline is 4 April 2016. relevant college in their field. Sponsoring Deadlines on: 4 December 2015, 4 April 2016. laboratories must be based in an eligible NHS Posted date: 20 Oct 15 or academic institution in the UK or Republic Award type: Directed grants for individual of Ireland, and sponsors must have a contract investigators, Travel for research purposes, of employment within an academic Travel to conferences, meetings etc., institution, or an honorary academic Predoctoral training fellowships, Equipment appointment in the case of an NHS employee. and materials, Financial aid for postgraduate Non-UK applicants should contact the trust students prior to application. Research projects should Award budget total: - normally be undertaken in the UK or RoI, in Website: which fellows may request to spend up to http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed three months overseas. However, for ical-science/Funding- schemes/Fellowships/Clinical- candidates who are carrying out research in fellowships/WTD004435.htm public health and tropical medicine in a Application form: developing country location, the duration of https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? the fellowship may be spent overseas. ReturnUrl=%2f
Fellowships normally provide a salary and Eligibility profile research expenses for a period of two to three ------years. In exceptional cases a fellowship may Country of applicant institution: Any be tenable for up to four years for those who wish to undertake relevant master’s training Disciplines or a diploma course. Candidates who wish to ------pursue research in epidemiology or Medicine & Health; Veterinary Medicine bioinformatics, and need to undertake a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene or a Contact Details master’s degree as an essential entry point, ------may be considered for an extra year's funding Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 and course fees. Email: [email protected]
Closing date: 04 Apr 16
AKASONE AWARD Human Frontier Science Programme
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Description: The Human Frontier Science Programme research in biology, encompassing conceptual, invites nominations for the Nakasone award. experimental or technological breakthroughs. This recognises junior and senior scientists who have undertaken frontier-moving
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Nominations are open to all scientists, Application form: however, the jury will pay particular attention http://www.hfsp.org/sites/www.hfsp.org/file to recent breakthroughs by younger scientists. s/Nomination%20Form%20Nakasone%20Aw Self-nominations are not accepted. ard%202015.docx
The award is worth US$10,000. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 04 Apr 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Biological Sciences; Neuroscience; Posted date: 13 Mar 14 Biotechnology; Systematics; Biochemistry & Award type: Prizes Molecular Biology; Nucleus & Organelles; Award amount max: $10,000 Allied Health Professions Award budget total: - Website: Contact Detail http://www.hfsp.org/awardees/hfsp------nakasone-award Email: [email protected]
ARSH AWARD FOR ECOLOGY British Ecological Society
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Description: The British Ecological Society invites Award budget total: - nominations for the Marsh award for ecology. Website: This recognises an outstanding recent http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/gran discovery or development that has had a ts-awards/honours_awards_prizes/marsh- significant impact on the development or award-for-ecology/ application of the science of ecology. Application form: The award is open to ecologists world-wide. http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp- Nominators must be current members of the content/uploads/BES_Award_Nomination_f society. orm_2016.doc
The award is worth £1,000. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 04 Apr 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: Applications due by 5pm. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 25 Feb 16 ------Award type: Prizes Ecology Award amount max: £1,000
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Contact Details London WC1N 2JU ------Tel: +44 20 7685 2500 BES Fax: +44 20 7685 2501 Charles Darwin House Email: [email protected] 12 Roger Street
3 IMPACT AWARD Department of State
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Description: The Department of State invites applications Deadline information: This call is repeated for its P3 impact award. This recognises best once a year. practices of public-private partnerships (P3s) Posted date: 28 Jan 16 that are improving communities and the Award type: Prizes world in the most impactful ways. The award Award budget total: - seeks to highlight leading practices and Website: actionable insights in the P3 arena. https://p3impact.nonprofitcms.org/a Application form: Any cross-sector collaborations that features https://p3impact.nonprofitcms.org/a/organiz public, private, nonprofit, or non- ations/main/submissions/details/5157 governmental organisations and addresses societal problems may apply. Eligibility profile ------The winners receive ten tickets to attend the Country of applicant institution: All African 2016 Concordia Summit in New York City Nations and a scholarship for one member of each partner entity to attend a week-long Executive Disciplines Education course at the University of Virginia ------Darden School of Business. Development Studies
Contact Details ------Closing date: 04 Apr 16 Email: [email protected]
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OUNDERS’ PRIZE British Ecological Society
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Description: The British Ecological Society invites Application form: nominations for its founders’ prize. This http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp- recognises an outstanding ecologist, early in content/uploads/BES_Award_Nomination_f their career who is making a significant orm_2016.doc contribution towards the science of ecology. Eligibility profile The prize includes an honorarium of £500 and ------a certificate. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Closing date: 04 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by Ecology 5pm. This call is repeated every 2 years. Posted date: 26 Feb 16 Contact Details Award type: Young investigator awards, ------Directed grants for individual investigators British Ecological Society Award amount max: £500 Charles Darwin House Award budget total: - 12 Roger Street Website: London WC1N 2JU http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/gran Tel: +44 20 7685 2500 ts-awards/honours_awards_prizes/founders- Fax: +44 20 7685 2501 prize/ Email: [email protected]
ARSH AWARD FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH British Ecological Society
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Description: The British Ecological Society invites Closing date: 04 Apr 16 nominations for the Marsh award for climate Deadline information: Applications due by change research. This recognises an 5pm. This call is repeated once a year. outstanding contribution to climate change Posted date: 25 Feb 16 research. Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for individual investigators The award is open to ecologists world-wide. Award amount max: £1,000 Nominators must be members of the society. Award budget total: - Website: The award is worth £1,000. http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/gran
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ts-awards/honours_awards_prizes/marsh- award-for-climate-change-research/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile BES ------Charles Darwin House Country of applicant institution: Any 12 Roger Street London WC1N 2JU Disciplines Tel: +44 20 7685 2500 ------Email: [email protected] Climate Change & Global Warming; Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
ENIOR CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP Medical Research Council
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Description: equivalent qualifications and their project is of The Medical Research Council invites relevance to human health. Applicants should applications for its senior clinical fellowship. hold a PhD or equivalent and have at least This enables medically and other clinically five years’ relevant postdoctoral research qualified professionals, with an effective track experience at the time of application. record of internationally competitive independent research, to make the transition Fellowships are not available to individuals to research leadership. Applications are who hold a tenured academic position. welcome across all areas of MRC’s remit and Applicants are encouraged to establish may range from basic studies with relevance collaborative networks and cross-sector to mechanisms of disease, to translational and development as the council may support a developmental clinical research. period of research overseas, at a second UK institution or within industry where MRC is also offering awards under this appropriate. In addition, applicants should scheme in collaboration with the Motor demonstrate that their skills and experience Neuron Disease Association, named Lady match those of the transition to leadership Edith Wolfson fellowships. These awards career stage at the time of their application. enable clinicians to pursue research into the pathogenesis and treatment of motor neurone Fellowships are tenable for five years and disease, and they offer co-funding for cover salary costs, support for research staff, fellowships, as well as the opportunity for the consumable expenses, travel costs and capital fellow to report on their project and present equipment appropriate for the research their work at meetings. project. There is no limit for funding.
Hospital doctors, dentists, general Closing date: 06 Apr 16 practitioners, nurses, midwives and members Deadline information: Applications due by of the allied health professions, may apply. 4pm. Veterinarians may apply where they have Posted date: 25 Feb 16
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Award type: Senior fellowships, Directed Eligibility profile grants for individual investigators, ------Equipment and materials, Travel for Country of applicant institution: Any research purposes, Networking/collaboration Contact Detail Award budget total: ------Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- careers/fellowships/clinical- Disciplines fellowships/senior-clinical-fellowship-scf/ ------Population Studies, Medical; Mental Health; Application form: https://je- Neuroscience; Cell & Developmental Biology; s.rcuk.ac.uk/JeS2WebLoginSite/Login.aspx Clinical Medicine
LINICIAN SCIENTIST FELLOWSHIP Medical Research Council
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Description: The Medical Research Council invites attained a higher degree to pursue proposals for its clinician scientist fellowship. further research into kidney disease. This supports medically and other clinically qualified professionals who have gained a Hospital doctors, dentists, general higher research degree to lead their own practitioners, nurses, midwives and members research plans and establish their own of the allied health professions, may apply. research team, and to make the transition to Veterinarians may apply where they have independent investigator. equivalent qualifications and providing their project is of relevance to human health. Proposals are welcome across all areas of the Applicants must have obtained a PhD or research council’s remit, and they may range equivalent, or expect to do so by the time they from basic studies with relevance to take up the award. mechanisms of disease, to translational and developmental clinical research. MRC is also Medical or dental graduates should be of offering the following two jointly funded specialty registrar or consultant status, or be schemes: at the equivalent level in general practice. Nurses, midwives and other allied health • Motor Neurone Disease Association professionals must have completed their Lady Edith Wolfson fellowships, professional training. Fellowships are not enabling clinicians to pursue research available to individuals who hold a tenured into the pathogenesis and treatment of academic position. In addition, applicants are motor neurone disease; encouraged to establish collaborative • Kidney Research UK Professor David networks and cross-sector development, as Kerr clinician scientist award, the award supports a period of research enabling clinicians who have already overseas, at a second UK institution or within industry where appropriate.
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There is no limit for funding. Fellowships Award budget total: - cover salary costs, support for research staff, Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- consumables, travel costs and capital careers/fellowships/clinical- equipment appropriate for the research fellowships/clinician-scientist-fellowship- project. Fellowships are tenable for four years, csf/ with a further year’s funding available for Application form: https://je- patient-oriented clinician scientist fellowships s.rcuk.ac.uk/JeS2WebLoginSite/Login.aspx where the project requires significant amounts of patient contact. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 06 Apr 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: Proposals due by 4pm. Disciplines Posted date: 24 Feb 16 ------Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Medicine & Health Equipment and materials, Travel for research purposes, Directed grants for Contact Detail individual investigators, ------Networking/collaboration, Postdoctoral Email: [email protected] training fellowships
ORMAN E BORLAUG LEADERSHIP ENHANCEMENT IN AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME Agency for International Development (USAID) N
Description: The University of California at Davis and the International Agricultural Research centre, or US Agency for International Development a combination of appropriate institutions. invite applications for the Norman E Borlaug leadership enhancement in agriculture Citizens of USAID-assisted countries in sub- programme. This aims to enhance the quality Saharan Africa, who are currently enrolled as of thesis research of graduate students from a master’s or PhD student at a US or sub- sub-Saharan Africa who show strong promise Saharan university, may apply. Applicants as leaders in the field of agriculture and must have completed at least one year of related disciplines. The programme supports graduate-level coursework in the programme research on all topics related to the US in which they are enrolled and be fluent in government’s global hunger and food security reading, writing and speaking English. initiative, Feed the Future, although emphasis is placed on work of relevance to the national Funding supports a variety of research needs, development of the student’s home country. such as travel to the research site, research Internships are tenable for up to 12 months support at the host institute and US faculty and may be held at a US graduate-level member travel to the research site for university, a Consultative Group on mentoring purposes. Funds may not be used
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NOWLEDGE FOR TOMORROW – COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA: JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPS VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation K
Description: The Volkswagen Foundation invites problems concerning respective regions or applications for its knowledge for tomorrow – Africa as a continent. Research projects should cooperative research projects in Sub-Saharan deal with the question of how individual or Africa: junior fellowships call. This provides collective social actors can manage and promising postdoctoral researchers based in protect resources efficiently and develop Africa with opportunities to enhance both sustainable livelihood strategies under their skills and academic qualifications by present social and environmental conditions conducting research in collaboration with a and in view of locally and globally changing German scholar. circumstances.
Proposed projects should be interdisciplinary Applicants must be based in, or wish to return and have a strong reference to questions and to, sub-Saharan countries and have less than
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three years of postdoctoral experience. The Award budget total: - PhD must be completed by February 2017. Website: Projects must be carried out in cooperation http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/funding/ with a partner institution in Germany. international-focus/knowledge-for- tomorrow-cooperative-research-projects-in- The fellowship is awarded for up to three sub-saharan-africa.html?L=1 years and covers salary, consumables, Application form: equipment, travel and administrative costs of https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant up to €110,000. In addition to that, the rag/login.do candidate may apply for up to €5,000 for the German partner, up to €15,000 for an Eligibility profile additional lecturer at the African host ------institution, up to €30,000 for the postdoctoral Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan fellow based in Germany, €10,000 for a Africa mentorship programme and €4,000 to be used Country of applicant institution: Germany for a preparatory meeting with the German partner. Disciplines ------Closing date: 06 Apr 16 Use & Management of Natural Resources; Deadline information: Pre-poposals due by 6 Environmental Management; Society; April; full invited proposals due by late Sustainable Development & Resource Use October 2016. Posted date: 17 Dec 15 Contact Details Award type: Early-Career fellowships, ------Travel to conferences, meetings etc., VolkswagenStiftung Directed grants for individual investigators, Kastanienallee 35 Networking/collaboration, Travel for 30519 Hannover research purposes, Personal development, Tel: +49 511 8381 276 Development (Africa/Caribbean) Email: [email protected]
NOWLEDGE FOR TOMORROW – COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA: SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation K
Description: The Volkswagen Foundation invites Proposed projects should be interdisciplinary applications for its knowledge for tomorrow – and have a strong reference to questions and cooperative research projects in Sub-Saharan problems concerning respective regions or Africa: senior fellowships call. This provides Africa as a continent. Research projects should promising postdoctoral researchers based in deal with the question of how individual or Africa with opportunities to enhance both collective social actors can manage and their skills and academic qualifications by protect resources efficiently and develop conducting research in collaboration with a sustainable livelihood strategies under German scholar. present social and environmental conditions
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and in view of locally and globally changing conferences, meetings etc., Senior circumstances. fellowships, Development (Africa/Caribbean), Early-Career fellowships Applicants must be based in, or wish to return Award budget total: - to, sub-Saharan countries and have more than Website: three, but less than six years of postdoctoral http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/funding/ experience. Projects must be carried out in international-focus/knowledge-for- cooperation with a partner institution in tomorrow-cooperative-research-projects-in- Germany. sub-saharan-africa.html?L=1 Application form: The fellowship is awarded for up to three https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant years and covers salary, consumables, rag/login.do equipment, travel and administrative costs of up to €145,000. In addition to that, the Eligibility profile ------candidate may apply for up to €5,000 for the Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan German partner, up to €15,000 for an Africa additional lecturer at the African host Country of applicant institution: Germany institution, up to €30,000 for the postdoctoral fellow based in Germany, €10,000 for a Disciplines mentorship programme and €4,000 to be used ------for a preparatory meeting with the German Society; Environmental Management; Use & partner. Management of Natural Resources;
Sustainable Development & Resource Use Closing date: 06 Apr 16
Deadline information: Pre-poposals due by 6 April; full invited proposals due by late Contact Details October 2016. ------Posted date: 17 Dec 15 VolkswagenStiftung Award type: Travel for research purposes, Kastanienallee 35 Personal development, 30519 Hannover Networking/collaboration, Directed grants Tel: +49 511 8381 276 for individual investigators, Travel to Email: [email protected]
OSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ON LIVELIHOOD MANAGEMENT, REFORMS AND PROCESSES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation P
Description: The Volkswagen Foundation invites research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa applications for its postdoctoral fellowships initiative. This aims to provide promising on livelihood management, reforms and postdoctoral researchers based in Africa and processes of structural change as part of the those wishing to return to Africa with knowledge for tomorrow – cooperative opportunities to enhance both their skills and
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academic qualifications and enable them to fellowships, Postdoctoral training establish professional perspectives in fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships academia. Research projects should focus on Award amount max: €145,000 how individual or collective social actors can Award budget total: - manage and protect resources efficiently and Website: develop sustainable livelihood strategies http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/funding/ under the present social and environmental international-focus/knowledge-for- conditions and in view of locally and globally tomorrow-cooperative-research-projects-in- changing circumstances. sub-saharan-africa.html?L=1 Application form: Postdoctoral researchers starting academic https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant careers in Africa may apply. Applicants must rag/login.do?siteLanguage=en have less than three years of postdoctoral experience to apply for the junior postdoctoral Eligibility profile ------fellowship and more than three but less than Country of applicant institution: Germany six years of postdoctoral experience to apply Country of applicant institution: Sub-Saharan for the senior postdoctoral fellowship. The Africa project must be carried out in co-operation with a German academic partner institute. Disciplines
------Up to €110,000 is available for junior Any fellowships and up to €145,000 is available for senior fellowships. Contact Details
------Closing date: 06 Apr 16 VolkswagenStiftung Deadline information: Kastanienallee 35 Posted date: 26 Jan 16 Award type: Networking/collaboration, 30519 Hanover Senior fellowships, Early-Career Tel: +49 511 8381 276 Email: [email protected]
UDSWELL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP Institution of Engineering and Technology
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Description: The Institution of Engineering and Applicants must be members studying in a Technology invites applications for the country outside their home country and must Hudswell international research scholarship. be in the first or second year of the research This is awarded to assist members with programme. In addition, applicants must advanced research work leading to the award have achieved an upper second class honours of a doctorate at an internationally recognised in their first degree to be eligible. university or research establishment in the field of electrical, electronic, manufacturing or One scholarship worth £5,000 is available. information engineering.
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Closing date: 07 Apr 16 Deadline information: Applications are due Eligibility profile by 5pm GMT. This call is repeated once a ------year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 18 Jan 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Disciplines investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate ------students Applied Electronics; Manufacturing & Award amount max: £5,000 Industrial Engineering; Mechanical Award budget total: - Engineering; Electrical & Electronic Website: Engineering http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/sc holarships/postgraduate/hudswell- Contact Details scholarship.cfm ------Application form: Tel: +44 1438 765 535 https://ietawards.conference- Email: [email protected] services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=3 999&language=en-uk
OSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FOR AN OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER Institution of Engineering and Technology
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Description: The Institution of Engineering and Deadline information: Applications are due Technology invites applications for its by 5pm BST. This call is repeated once a postgraduate scholarship for an outstanding year. researcher. This aims to help researchers share Posted date: 18 Jan 16 knowledge throughout the global science, Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, engineering and technology community by Directed grants for individual investigators assisting students undertaking a doctorate for Award amount max: £10,000 research in engineering or technology Award budget total: - internationally. Website: http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/sc The scholarship is open to members who are holarships/postgraduate/outstanding- postgraduate students in any year of study researcher.cfm undertaking research in any country. Candidates must have achieved a 2:1 or Application form: higher in their first degree. https://ietawards.conference- services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=3
999&language=en-uk The scholarship is worth £10,000 and is tenable for one year. Eligibility profile
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Engineering Tel: +44 1438 765 535 Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME FOR FOREIGN CITIZENS Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
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Description: The Scientific and Technological Research 7 April 2016, 7 October 2016, and repeated Council of Turkey invites applications for its annually. research fellowship programme for foreign Posted date: 15 Jan 16 citizens. This enables PhD students and Award type: Postdoctoral training young postdoctoral researchers to pursue fellowships, Predoctoral fellowships, Travel research in Turkey in the fields of natural for research purposes, Young investigator sciences, engineering and technological awards sciences, medical sciences, agricultural Website: sciences, social sciences and humanities. The http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en/funds/academy aim is to promote Turkey’s scientific and /international-researchers-fellowship- technological collaboration with countries of programmes/content-2216-research- the prospective researchers. fellowship-programme-for-international- researchers Each applicant must be a non-Turkish citizen, Application form: http://e- bideb.tubitak.gov.tr/ and may not hold a dual citizenship with
Turkey either. They should have an invitation Eligibility profile from a university or research institute in ------Turkey. Applicants must be 35 years old or Country of applicant institution: All African younger and PhD student applicants must be Nations, All European Nations, All Asian enrolled in a programme outside Turkey. nations, All South American nations, All Postdoctoral applicants who hold a PhD Oceanian nations, All North American nations degree from Turkey must have a GPA of at least 3.5 or 4. Disciplines
------Fellowships are available for a maximum of Physical Sciences and Engineering; Social 12 months. Funding includes a monthly living Sciences; Bio/Medical; Humanities allowance of up to TL2,250, travel costs worth up to TL2,250 and health insurance worth up Contact Details to TL2,250. ------
Tübitak-Bideb 2216 Closing date: 07 Apr 16 Akay Caddesi 6 Deadline information: Applications invited 06420 Bakanlıklar between 7 March and 7 April and between Tel: +90 0 312 444 6690 31 August and 7 October 2016. Deadlines on: Email: [email protected]
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2020 SOFT INNOVATION PRIZE Horizon 2020: Euratom
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Description: The European Commission Horizon 2020: Posted date: 13 Nov 15 Euratom invites applications for its H2020 Award type: Prizes SOFT innovation prize. This aims to highlight Award budget total: €90,000 and reward the excellence in innovation that Website: can be found in fusion research as well as the http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/port quality of the researchers and industries al/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h202 involved. Applications concerning any 0-prize-innovation-soft- physics or technology innovation that has 2016.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- been, or is being, developed in magnetic Prize-Innovation-SOFT- confinement fusion research and that has a 2016/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&c market potential or has been taken up by allStatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Closed/1/ industry will be accepted. 1/0&+identifier/desc
The contest is open to researchers or research Eligibility profile ------teams working for the Euratom fusion Country of applicant institution: EU research programme or a national programme (European Union), EU Associated Countries, in an International Thermonuclear EU All International Cooperation Partner Experimental Reactor partner country or in countries (ICPC), Overseas Countries and any third country that has a bilateral fusion Territories cooperation agreement with Euratom, and to Country of applicant institution: Switzerland industrial participants benefiting from the
ITER project. Disciplines
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Technology & Engineering; Nuclear Physics; Closing date: 07 Apr 16 Nuclear Chemistry; Nuclear Fuels, Deadline information: Applications due by Enrichment & Waste Processing 5pm Brussels time.
INTON PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKS Royal Society
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Description: The Royal Society invites submissions for the adult audiences. Books may focus on any Winton prize for science books. This aspect of popular science and technology, recognises the books that contribute best to including biographies of scientists and making science more accessible to public
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technologists, and histories of science and Award budget total: £37,500 technology. Website: https://royalsociety.org/grants- schemes-awards/book-prizes/winton-book- Books must be submitted by the publisher, prize/ and must have been published for the first Application form: time in English between 1 October 2015 and https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7DM2X3 30 September 2016 inclusive. 5
There is no restriction on the geographical Eligibility profile location of the publisher, or on the nationality, ------age or any other characteristic of the author or Country of applicant institution: Any illustrator of any entry. Disciplines Prizes totalling £37,500 will be awarded. The ------authors of up to five shortlisted books will Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and receive £2,500 and the author of the winning Engineering; History of Engineering & book will receive £25,000. Technology; History of Science; Sociology of Science & Technology Closing date: 08 Apr 16 Deadline information: Entry forms and Contact Details books due by 6pm GMT. This call is ------repeated once a year. Royal Society Posted date: 27 Jan 16 6-9 Carlton House Terrace Award type: Prizes London SW1Y 5AG Award amount max: £25,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: £2,500
CHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME Goethe Institute
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Description: The Goethe Institute and Institute for be fluent in English and be either PhD Advanced Study in Humanities (KWI) invite students or postdoctoral researchers from the applications for their scholars in residence humanities, cultural and social science sectors. programme. This programme will provide Funding includes round-trip tickets to the scholars with opportunities to pursue joint host country, accommodation in the host projects with German academics working on country and a daily allowance of €530 a week. similar issues. This year’s programme will focus on the links between culture and Closing date: 08 Apr 16 (Forecast) climate, economics and conflict. International Deadline information: !! Call has not yet scholars will travel to Germany from 15 been announced by funder, but this is the October 2013 for six to eight weeks. The approximate deadline we expect. This call is German scholar will travel to their partner’s repeated once a year. country from 1 January 2014. Applicants must Posted date: 28 Jan 13
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Award type: Young investigator awards, British & Irish Studies; History; Litigation & Directed grants for individual investigators, Mediation; Eastern European Languages; Travel for research purposes, Scandinavian Languages; English Language & Networking/collaboration Literature; Earth Sciences; Theology & Award budget total: - Religious Studies; Music; Performing Arts; Website: African Studies; Art & Design: History, https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/wuz/2037 Practice & Theory; Climate Change & Global 6340.html Warming; Middle Eastern Studies; Creole Application form: Languages; Spanish Language; Italian http://www.goethe.de/uun/wwm/wuz/srv/en Language; Philosophy; Russian Language; 9360100.htm Asian Studies; Politics & International Studies; Labour & Demographic Economics; Eligibility profile Central European Languages; Archaeology; ------Dutch Language; Cultural Studies; Business & Country of applicant institution: Any Management Studies
Disciplines Contact Details ------International Relations & Diplomacy; German Goethe-Institut e.V. Language; Portuguese Language; Linguistics; Section 31 – Science and Current Affairs Arts and Humanities; North American Dachauer Strasse 122 Studies; Economics & Econometrics; 80637 Munich European Studies; Classics; Peace & Email: [email protected] Disarmament; Libraries & Information Science; Business Ethics; French Language;
ARLY CAREER ENDOCRINOLOGISTS’ PRIZE LECTURES Society for Endocrinology
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Description: The Society for Endocrinology invites The society awards one basic science and one abstracts for its early career endocrinologists’ clinical prize lecture. Each prize is worth £750. prize lectures. These enable young endocrinologists to gain recognition for their Closing date: 08 Apr 16 work, present a lecture at the society’s annual Deadline information: Abstracts due by 12 conference and publish a review article on the midnight. This call is repeated once a year. subject of their lecture in one of the society’s Posted date: 16 Feb 16 journals. Award type: Prizes Award amount max: £750 Applicants must be members of the society, Award budget total: - either a scientist-in-training or clinician-in- Website: training. http://www.endocrinology.org/grants/grant_ yeprizelecture.html
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Tel: +44 1454 642 200 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Hormones & Endocrinology
OROTHY MANDELSTAM AWARD Association for Continence Advice
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Description: The Association for Continence Advice invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet submissions for the Dorothy Mandelstam been announced by funder, but this is the award. This recognises the best case study or approximate deadline we expect. This call is paper on continence care or a continence repeated once a year. service development that improves the Posted date: 19 Dec 14 quality of patient care. The study must Award type: Prizes address at least one of the following patient Award amount max: £1,000 groups: Award budget total: - Website: • women or men; http://www.aca.uk.com/education/awards/ • disease or condition specific, such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Eligibility profile ------dementia, stroke or spinal cord injury; Country of applicant institution: Any • age specific, such as paediatrics,
teenagers or the elderly; Disciplines • learning disabilities. ------
Geriatrics & Gerontology; Medical Members of the association may apply. Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Paediatric
Nursing; Patient Care & Education; The award is worth up to £1,000, including Incontinence; Geriatric Nursing conference attendance expenses.
Contact Details Closing date: 10 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Email: [email protected]
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Description: The Tusk Trust has extended the deadline for approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for its Tusk conservation awards. repeated once a year. The deadline has been extended from 6 Posted date: 19 Feb 15 February to 10 April 2015. All other call Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for details remain unchanged. individual investigators Award budget total: - These recognise inspirational conservation Website: work in Africa, ranging from the protection of http://www.tuskawards.com/nominations/ endangered species and threatened habitat to Application form: the promotion of environmental education http://www.tuskawards.com/userfiles/file/do and the development of community driven wnloads/TCA-2015-Nomination-Form.docx conservation. Two awards are available: Eligibility profile ------• the Prince William award for Country of applicant institution: Any conservation in Africa, awarded to a
distinguished individual for their Disciplines dedication and contribution to ------conservation in Africa; Animal Ecology & Habitats; Environmental • the Tusk conservation award, Education; Environmental Conservation & recognises an up-and-coming Biodiversity; Endangered Species conservationist whose work has
already demonstrated an exceptional Contact Details commitment to conservation and has ------made a significant impact to date. Tusk Trust
4 Cheapside House Winners receive a grant to further their work. High Street
Gillingham Closing date: 10 Apr 16 (Forecast) Dorset SP8 4AA Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +44 1747 831 005 been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL PHD PROGRAMME European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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Description: The European Molecular Biology Laboratory a predoctoral course in molecular biology or invites applications for its international PhD the opportunity to study for the EMBL programme. This supports thesis supervision, international PhD.
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Applicants must hold, or anticipate receiving Application form: before enrolment, a university degree that https://erecruit.embl.de/phd- would formally qualify them to enter a PhD app/?_ga=1.241553547.807958363.1455200096# or equivalent programme in the country !login where the degree was obtained. Applicants may be of any nationality. Eligibility profile ------Funding lasts for three and a half to four Country of applicant institution: Any years. The stipends are competitive by international standards and include broad Disciplines health care benefits and pension. ------Plant Cell & Molecular Biology; Animal Closing date: 11 Apr 16 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Deadline information: Registration due by Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 11.59pm CEST, 11 April 2016; submissions due by 11.59pm CEST, 18 April 2016. Contact Details Posted date: 23 Feb 16 ------Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Tel: +49 6221 387 8612 Predoctoral fellowships Fax: +49 6221 387 8400 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.embl.de/training/eipp/applicatio n/index.html
IR HENRY DALE FELLOWSHIPS Wellcome Trust
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Description: The Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society be no more than seven years from the date of invite applications for the Sir Henry Dale receiving their PhD. They must be: fellowships. These enable postdoctoral scientists who wish to build their own UK- • a UK or EEA national; based independent research career to address • a non-EEA national who either has a an important biomedical question. Research relevant degree from a UK university, may range from the molecules and cells vital or has worked in the UK for at least a to life and their role in the global spread of continuous three-year period; disease, to clinical and public-health research • an exceptional biomedical scientist seeking to improve the quality of healthcare. who does not fall within the categories It can be based in the laboratory, clinic or above and whose recruitment to the field, and may involve experimental or host organisation would be theoretical approaches. advantageous to both the applicant and the organisation. Applicants are expected to have relevant scientific or mathematical qualifications and
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Applicants must also have an eligible Award type: Networking/collaboration, sponsoring host organisation in the UK that Travel for research purposes, Early-Career can guarantee support and adequate space fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, and resources for the duration of the award. Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: - Fellowships are tenable for five years in the Award amount min: - first instance, with the potential to apply for Award budget total: - competitive renewal for an additional three Website: years. Funding covers a basic salary plus an http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed enhancement of £7,500 per year, research ical-science/Funding- expenses, travel and subsistence, and overseas schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical- allowances. In addition, the funders provide fellowships/WTDV031823.htm an inflation and flexible funding allowance, as Application form: well as a contribution towards indirect and https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? estate costs of £11,000 per year. ReturnUrl=%2f
Eligibility profile Closing date: 12 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: First round Country of applicant institution: Any preliminary applications due by 5pm, 12
April; invited full applications due by 5pm, 21 June; second round preliminary Disciplines applications due by 5pm, 17 August; invited ------full applications due by 5pm, 24 October Medicine & Health; Biological Sciences 2016. Deadlines on: 12 April 2016, 17 August 2016. Contact Details Posted date: 22 Jan 16 ------Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Email: [email protected]
ICE AWARD Society for International Development
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Description: The Society for International Development • have at least two years of experience invites applications for the Rice award. This as a volunteer or paid young recognises the achievements of an exceptional professional in international young professional working in the field of development. international development. The award includes a cash prize of US$1,000 Applicants must: and a one-year, honorary membership to SID- Washington. • be aged between 22 and 32 years; • be available to accept the award in Closing date: 13 Apr 16 (Forecast) person at the 2015 World Congress;
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Eligibility profile approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 03 Mar 15 Award type: Prizes, Development Disciplines (Africa/Caribbean) ------Award amount max: $1,000 Development Studies Award budget total: - Website: http://www.sidw.org/apply-for-the- Contact Details 2015-rice-award ------Application form: Tel: +1 202 331 1317 http://www.sidw.org/assets/2015%20andrew Email: [email protected] %20e.%20rice%20award%20application.pdf
IRST ARTICLE PRIZES Columbia University
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Description: The Council for European Studies at Nominations may be submitted by the Columbia University invites nominations for publisher, editor, author or colleagues. Strong its European studies first article prizes. Two preference will be given to submissions in prizes will be awarded, one to a scholar English, French, German and Spanish. working in the humanities and one working in the social sciences. These will honour the Each winner will receive US$500. writers of the best first articles on European studies published within a two-year period. Closing date: 14 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Each nominated article must meet the been announced by funder but this is the following criteria: approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. • be the first article published by the Posted date: 15 Mar 13 nominee in the field of European Award type: Prizes studies in a peer-reviewed journal; Award amount max: $500 • be published between 1 January 2012 Award budget total: $1,000 and 31 December 2013; Website: http://www.ces.columbia.edu/grants-and- • be the work of one author only or be awards/first-article-prize an article on which the nominee is the
first author; Eligibility profile • be authored by a member of the ------Council for European Studies or a Country of applicant institution: Any faculty or student of an institution that
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Disciplines Irish Studies; Russian Language; Spanish ------Language; Theology & Religious Studies; Art Eastern European Languages; Politics & & Design: History, Practice & Theory; International Studies; History; Geography; Libraries & Information Science; European Anthropology; Dutch Language; Law; Sales & Union Law; Performing Arts; Scandinavian Marketing; International Relations & Languages; Central European Literature; Diplomacy; Sociology; English Language & Public Administration; European Union, Literature; Portuguese Language; Social Work Policy & Politics; Central European History; & Social Policy; Business & Management Psychology; Religious Studies; Classics; Asian Studies; Economics & Econometrics; Italian Studies; Business Administration; Arts and Language; Communication & Media Studies; Humanities; British & Irish Literature; Criminology; Music; Central European Archaeology; Humanities; African Studies; Languages; Philosophy; German Language; French Language; Linguistics Modern Languages & Linguistics; Eastern European Literature; Political Science; Creole Contact Detail Languages; Middle Eastern Studies; ------Education; English Language; European Email: [email protected] Studies; North American Studies; British &
ADIATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AWARD American Nuclear Society
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Description: The American Nuclear Society invites engraved plaque and a US$2,000 monetary applications for its radiation science and award. technology award. This award recognises outstanding creative applications of radiation Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) sciences and engineering principles. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Qualification is based on meritorious scientific been announced by funder, but this is the and engineering achievement that has approximate deadline we expect. This call is important implications for radiation science repeated once a year. and technology. The work may have been Posted date: 23 Oct 07 performed at any time in the past, but the Award type: Prizes findings must have been reported in peer- Award amount max: $2,000 reviewed scientific journals. Also the Award budget total: - feasibility of industrial application must have Website: http://www.new.ans.org/honors/va- been established although the work need not radscitech be in widespread use at the time of the award. Application form: http://www.new.ans.org/honors/sd/radscitec Any member of the ANS can nominate a h-form.pdf candidate, who does not have to be an ANS Eligibility profile member. The recipient will receive an ------Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Nuclear Power, Technology & Engineering; Honors and Awards Physics; Mechanical Engineering; Aerospace American Nuclear Society Engineering & Avionics; Radiation & Matter; 555 North Kensington Avenue Radiation Sources & Isotopes; Manufacturing La Grange Park, Illinois 60526 & Industrial Engineering Tel: +1 708 352 6611 Fax: +1 708 352 0499 Email: [email protected]
DWARD GOODWIN BALLARD BOOK PRIZE IN PHENOMENOLOGY Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
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Description: The Center for Advanced Research in Website: Phenomenology invites nominations for the http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/ Edward Goodwin Ballard book prize in phenomenology. The prize of $1,000 is Eligibility profile awarded annually for the best book in ------phenomenology from the previous three years Country of applicant institution: Any nominated in an area of interest to Ballard. Disciplines Books that are phenomenological and ------published in English, French, German, or Aesthetics; Ethical Use of Technology; History Spanish focusing on art, ancient philosophy, of Art; History of Architecture; History of the philosophy of the liberal arts, or the Philosophy; History; Philosophy; Art & philosophies of mathematics, natural science, Design: History, Practice & Theory; or technology will be preferred. Phenomenology; Research Ethics & Misconduct Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Department of Philosophy repeated once a year. University of Memphis Posted date: 29 Sep 10 Mephis, TN 38152-6103 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $1,000 Award budget total: -
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ORDON E MOORE MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Electrochemical Society G
Description: The Electrochemical Society invites Website: nominations for the Gordon E Moore medal http://www.electrochem.org/awards/ecs/rules for outstanding achievement in solid state /ssst_rules.htm science and technology. The award recognises Application form: outstanding contributions to the fundamental http://www.electrochem.org/awards/ecs/ecs_ understanding and technological applications awards.htm#d of solid state materials, phenomena and processes, and consists of a medal and Eligibility profile US$7,500. The recipient need not be a member ------of the society. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Applied Electronics; Electrical & Electronic been announced by funder but this is the Engineering; Physics; Chemistry; Inorganic approximate deadline we expect. This call is Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics; repeated every 2 years. Electrochemistry Posted date: 08 Nov 13 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $7,500 ------Award budget total: - Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Email: [email protected]
ELVIN KRANZBERG DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP Society for the History of Technology
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Description: The Society for the History of Technology institutes of higher learning anywhere in the invites applications for the Melvin Kranzberg world who are working on projects relating to dissertation fellowship. This is presented to a the history of technology may apply, and doctoral student engaged in the preparation candidates from outside the US are of a dissertation on the history of technology. particularly encouraged. Applicants must Funding is available to support dissertation- have completed all requirements for their related research and writing expenses, doctorate except for the dissertation by 1 including travel to archival collections, September of the year the award is made. photocopying or microfilming, and translation of documents. Students from The fellowship award is worth US$4,000.
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Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 05 Dec 14 ------Award type: Travel for research purposes, History of Engineering & Technology; History Thesis/Dissertation funding of Science Award amount max: $4,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/ Email: [email protected] kranzberg.html
CO PRIZE International Commission for Optics
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Description: The International Commission for Optics approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites nominations for its ICO prize. The repeated once a year. prize is given to an individual who has made Posted date: 14 Oct 14 a noteworthy contribution to optics, opening a Award type: Prizes, Young investigator subfield or significantly expanding an awards established subfield in research or technology. Award amount max: $3,000 The character of the work of successive prize Award budget total: - recipients should preferably alternate between Website: http://e-ico.org/activities/awards predominantly experimental or technological and predominantly theoretical. Eligibility profile ------The applicant’s contribution must have been Country of applicant institution: Any published or submitted for publication before they have reached the age of 40, and they Disciplines must be no older than 40 before 31 December ------of the year in which the prize is awarded. Nonlinear Optics; Classical Optics; Physics; Photonics & Optical Communication; The prize is preferably given to an individual, Electrical & Electronic Engineering but it can be shared by two persons. The prize includes a US$2,000 award and US$1,000 for Contact Details travel expenses. ------ICO Prize Committee Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Dipartimento di Fisica Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Politecnico di Milano been announced by funder, but this is the Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
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20133 Milano Email: [email protected] Tel: +39 02 2399 6150
HORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS Smithsonian Institution
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Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate invites applications for its short-term students, Travel for research purposes, fellowships. These enable graduate students Directed grants for individual investigators, to carry out short-term research projects in the Predoctoral fellowships, Thesis/Dissertation topic areas of the STRI research under the funding supervision of staff scientists. Smaller projects Award budget total: - that are part of a larger thesis or dissertation Website: are encouraged and exceptional exploratory http://www.stri.org/english/education_fello projects or pilot studies with well-defined wships/fellowships/index.php goals and methods may also be considered. Application form: https://solaa.si.edu/solaa/solaahome.html Eligible candidates are graduate students. Occasionally awards are made to Eligibility profile undergraduate students. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Fellowships provide a stipend to cover living expenses, worth US$800 per month, a research Disciplines ------allowance worth up to US$2,000 and round- Tropical Zones; Botany; Ecology; Zoology; trip coach airfare. Projects have a maximum Forestry Science (Silvology); Atmospheric duration of three months. Sciences
Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Contact Details ------April 2016, 15 July 2016, 15 October 2016, 15 January 2017, and repeated annually. Tel: +1 507 212 8031 Posted date: 06 Jan 16 Email: [email protected]
LAUDE BERNARD MEDAL AND LECTURE European Association for the Study of Diabetes C
Description: The European Association for the Study of This recognises an individual's innovative Diabetes, supported by Sanofi, invites leadership and contributions to the nominations for the Claude Bernard lecture. advancement of knowledge in the field of
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diabetes mellitus and related metabolic Application form: diseases. http://www.easd.org/images/easdwebfiles/pr izes/Application%20Forms/Claude%20Berna Nominations may be submitted by members rd%202017%20Application%20Form.doc of the association, and must include a list of not more than ten relevant publications. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 15 Jan 16 ------Award type: Prizes Diabetes; Human Metabolism Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.easd.org/index.php?option=com ------_content&view=article&id=92:claudebernar Email: [email protected] dprize&catid=14:sample-data-articles
ELLOWSHIPS FOR NON-DUTCH SCHOLARS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Description: The Netherlands Institute for Advanced may be reimbursed, and a stipend may be Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences available if the fellow’s home institution (NIAS) invites applications for its fellowships cannot cover the fellow’s salary for the for non-Dutch scholars. These enable duration of the stay at NIAS. prominent researchers and senior scholars in the humanities and social sciences to Stipends range from €2,600 to €3,800 per undertake research at the institute. month over a period of up to one academic year. Applicants should have at least three years of postdoctoral academic experience and they Closing date: 15 Apr 16 should already have made a contribution to Deadline information: This call is repeated their field. The applicants’ achievements and once a year. the added value of the proposed project for Posted date: 22 Jan 16 the Dutch scientific community are given Award type: Senior fellowships, Travel for special consideration in the evaluation research purposes, Mid-Career fellowships, process. Applications by former NIAS fellows Retreats, Directed grants for individual and scholars at the end of their career are investigators given low priority. Award budget total: - Website: Fellows receive an office at the institute and a http://www.nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/indivi studio or family apartment at a subsidised dual-fellowships rate. Travel costs for relocating to the NIAS
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Application form: Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San http://www.nias.knaw.nl/documents/applica Marino, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Holy tion-form-nias-fellowship-non-dutch-2017- See (Vatican City State), All African Nations, 18 All Asian nations, All South American nations, All Oceanian nations, Kosovo, Eligibility profile Caribbean, Central America, All North ------American nations Country of applicant institution: Andorra, Anguilla, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Disciplines Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ------Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Canada, Social Sciences; Humanities Switzerland, Serbia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Contact Details Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, ------Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, NIAS Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Meijboomlaan 1 Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, 2242 PR Wassenaar Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Macedonia, Tel: +31 70 512 2700 the former Yugoslav Republic of, Malta, Email: [email protected] Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian
AGE ERLANDER FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Socialdemokraterna – Social Democratic Party in Sweden
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Description: The Social Democratic Party in Sweden Deadline information: !! Call has not yet invites applications for its international been announced by funder, but this is the cooperation grants, under the Tage Erlander approximate deadline we expect. This call is Foundation. These enable international repeated 2 times a year. scholars to study Swedish social state of Posted date: 17 Mar 15 affairs in Sweden, and Swedish scholars to Award type: Travel for research purposes, study social state of affairs in a developing Directed grants for individual investigators, country. Studies should preferably be Young investigator awards, Personal conducted in the areas of solidarity, equality, development, Networking/collaboration, peace and freedom. Financial aid for postgraduate students Award budget total: - Applications from young scholars are Website: especially encouraged. Preference is given to http://www.socialdemokraterna.se/Vart- applicants from a developing country. parti/Partistyrelse/Ekonomi-och- stadgar/Stiftelser-fonder-och-medaljer/Tage- Swedish applicants must conduct their Erlanders-stiftelse-for-internationellt- studies in a developing country. samarbete/
Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast)
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Eligibility profile Social Reform & Social Movements; ------International Aid & Relief Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Tage Erlander Foundation for international Political Ideologies; Political Parties & cooperation Institutions; International Communication; c/o Socialdemokraterna Peace & Disarmament; International Relations 105 60 Stockholm & Diplomacy; International Security; Tel: +46 8 700 2600 Democracy & Participation; Civil & Human Fax: +46 8 21 3018 Rights; Economic Development; International Economics; Equal Educational Opportunity;
CO GALILEO GALILEI AWARD International Commission for Optics
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Description: The International Commission for Optics Award budget total: - invites nominations for the Galileo Galilei Website: http://www.e- prize. This is given for outstanding ico.org/node/28#galileo contributions to the field of optics, achieved under unfavourable circumstances such as Eligibility profile difficult economic or social conditions or a ------lack of access to scientific or technical facilities Country of applicant institution: Any or sources of information. Disciplines The award is normally given to one person ------but a team of several persons may Theoretical Physics; Physics; Photonics & exceptionally be selected. The award consists Optical Communication; Classical Optics; of a medal, financial travel assistance to Nonlinear Optics; Electrical & Electronic attend an ICO meeting and a cash donation. Engineering; Magnetism & Electromagnetism The winner will be expected to deliver a talk at the meeting. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Galileo Galilei Award Committee of ICO Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Department of Electronic Engineering been announced by funder, but this is the Tsinghua University approximate deadline we expect. This call is Beijing 100084 repeated once a year. Tel: +86 10 6278 8983 Posted date: 15 Oct 14 Fax: +86 10 6277 0317 Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Email: [email protected] meetings etc.
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LBERT RENOLD PRIZE LECTURE European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Description: The European Association for the Study of Award type: Prizes Diabetes, sponsored by Lilly, invites Award budget total: - nominations for the Albert Renold prize Website: lecture. This recognises an individual's http://www.easd.org/index.php?option=com contributions to the advancement of _content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=504 knowledge in the field of islet studies, in Application form: particular the islets of Langerhans. http://www.easd.org/images/easdwebfiles/pr izes/Application%20Forms/Albert%20Renol The letter of nomination should be d%202016%20Application%20Form.doc accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the nominee with complete bibliography and a Eligibility profile list of ten publications considered to reflect ------the nominee's most important contributions in Country of applicant institution: Any the field. Disciplines There are no restrictions as to age or ------nationality of the awardee. Organ Transplantation; Diabetes; Lymphatic System Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 15 Jan 16 Email: [email protected]
NTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH FOR INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACADEMICS Radiological Society of North America
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Description: The Radiological Society of North America training directors, with only one nomination invites nominations for its introduction to allowed from each nominator. Candidates research for international young academics must be fluent in English and either residents programme. This enables young radiologists and fellows currently in radiology training from countries outside North America to programmes or radiologists who are not more attend a seminar held during the society’s than two years out of training and beginning scientific assembly and annual meeting. or considering an academic career. Awards include complimentary registration, Nominations must be made by the shared hotel accommodation and a stipend candidates’ department chairpersons or for travel expenses.
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Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Mexico, All approximate deadline we expect. This call is African Nations, All European Nations, All repeated once a year. Asian nations, All South American nations, Posted date: 08 Jan 15 All Oceanian nations, Caribbean, Central Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings America etc., Young investigator awards, Personal development Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.rsna.org/Introduction_to_Resear Radiology & Medical Imaging ch_for_International_Young_Academics.asp Contact Details x ------Application form: RSNA http://www.rsna.org/uploadedFiles/RSNA/C 820 Jorie Boulevard ontent/Science_and_Education/International Oak Brook, IL 60523-2251 _Programs/CIRE/IRIYA-Application.pdf Email: [email protected]
OCHON PRIZE Stop TB Partnership
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Description: The Stop TB Partnership, in collaboration with Website: the Kochon Foundation, invites applications http://www.stoptb.org/global/awards/kochon for the Kochon prize. This recognises major / contributions to combating tuberculosis. The Application form: theme for this year will focus on unsung http://www.stoptb.org/assets/documents/glo heroes working in tuberculosis control. bal/awards/kochon/2016%20Kochon%20Priz e%20-%20Nomination%20Form%20- All Stop TB partners may nominate any %20Final.doc individuals or organisations. Eligibility profile The prize is worth US$65,000. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 19 Feb 16 Tuberculosis Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $65,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
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Chemin de Blandonnet 2 Geneva 1214 Vernier Email: [email protected]
DELSTEIN PRIZE Society for the History of Technology
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Description: The Society for the History of Technology Website: invites nominations for the Edelstein prize. http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/ This is awarded to the author of an edelstein.html outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology published during the preceding Eligibility profile three years. Non-English language books are ------eligible for three years following the date of Country of applicant institution: Any their English translation. Disciplines Nominations are welcome from publishers ------and authors. History of Science; History; History of Engineering & Technology; Sociology; The prize consists of a cash award and a Sociology of Science & Technology plaque. Contact Details Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet SHOT been announced by funder, but this is the Department of Science, Technology and approximate deadline we expect. This call is Society repeated once a year. University of Virginia Posted date: 13 Mar 13 P.O Box 400744 Award type: Prizes Charlottesville, VA 22904-4744 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 434 987 6230 Email: [email protected]
AMUEL ELEAZAR AND ROSE TARTAKOW LEVINSON PRIZE Society for the History of Technology
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Description: The Society for the History of Technology and Rose Tartakow Levinson prize. This is invites nominations for the Samuel Eleazar awarded for a single-authored, unpublished
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ERNARD S FINN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS HISTORY PRIZE Society for the History of Technology B
Description: The Society for the History of Technology Engineers history prize. This is awarded to invites nominations for the Bernard S Finn the best paper in the history of Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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electrotechnology published during the Website: preceding year. http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/ ieee.html Papers may focus on the history of power, electronics, telecommunications or computer Eligibility profile science; however, any article published in a ------learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art Country of applicant institution: Any or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be Disciplines written in English, although the journal or ------periodical in which it appears may be a History of Engineering & Technology; foreign language publication. Sociology of Science & Technology; Electric & Hybrid Vehicles; History; History of Science; The prize consists of a certificate and US$500. Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Sociology; Computer Science & Informatics; Network Infrastructure Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Society for the History of Technology repeated once a year. Department of Science, Technology & Society Posted date: 15 Sep 14 University of Virginia Award type: Prizes P.O Box 400744 Award amount max: $500 Charlottesville VA 22904-4744 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
OSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Cystinosis Research Foundation
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Description: The Cystinosis Research Foundation invites already studying cystinosis, will be applications for its postdoctoral fellowships. considered if funding is available. These aim to attract qualified, promising investigators to establish careers in cystinosis The fellow’s stipend should be the usual research. amount for such a trainee at that institution. The award is worth up to US$75,000 per year First priority will be given to named for one to three years. postdoctoral trainees. However, investigators who are already studying cystinosis can apply Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) for a fellowship position with the expectation Deadline information: !! Call has not yet of attracting a suitable postdoctoral fellow been announced by funder, but this is the within a year. Predoctoral students, who are approximate deadline we expect. Applications due by 12 midnight PT. This call is repeated 2 times a year.
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Posted date: 04 Sep 14 Disciplines Award type: Predoctoral training ------fellowships, Postdoctoral training Public Health, Health Services & Primary fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, Care; Primary Care; Biological Sciences; Predoctoral fellowships Clinical Medicine; Diagnostic Sciences; Award amount max: $225,000 Genetic Diseases; Chronic Care Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://www.cystinosisresearch.org/For------Researchers Cystinosis Research Foundation 18802 Bardeen Avenue Eligibility profile Irvine, CA 92612-1521 ------Tel: +1 949 223 7610 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS United European Gastroenterology
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Description: United European Gastroenterology invites Website: http://www.ueg.eu/awards- applications for its international scholarships. grants/ueg-week-awards/international- These enable young gastroenterologists to scholarships/ attend UEG week. Application form: http://www.ueg.eu/index.php?id=912&url=h Applicants should be aged 40 years and ttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.ueg.eu%2Fawards- below, of any academic level, with the grants%2Fueg-week- exception of professor titles, and be citizens of awards%2Finternational- countries with a human development index scholarships?showApplicationForm below 0.8. Eligibility profile 30 grants of €1,000 each are available to cover ------travel expenses, congress registration fees and Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, entry to the UEG week postgraduate teaching Antigua and Barbuda, Albania, Armenia, programme. Angola, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Bulgaria, Burundi, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Deadline information: This call is repeated Bahamas, Bhutan, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, once a year. Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Posted date: 18 Jan 16 Central African Republic, Congo, Côte Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa etc., Young investigator awards Rica, Serbia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Award amount max: €1,000 Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Award budget total: - Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, Gabon,
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Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea- Trinidad and Tobago, Tanzania, United Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, Republic of, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, India, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Jamaica, Uzbekistan, Saint Vincent and the Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Grenadines, Venezuela, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic Zimbabwe, South Sudan Republic, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Disciplines Republic of, Madagascar, Macedonia, the ------former Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, Gastroenterology Mongolia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Contact Details Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, ------Oman, Panama, Peru, Papua New Guinea, United European Gastroenterology Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, House of European Gastroenterology Occupied, Palau, Paraguay, Romania, Russian Wickenburggasse 1 Federation, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, 1080 Vienna Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Tel: +43 1 997 1639 Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Fax: +43 1 997 163 910 Salvador, Syrian Arab Republic, Swaziland, Email: [email protected] Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-
RBAN YOUTH FUND United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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Description: The United Nations Human Settlements Award type: Young investigator awards, Programme invites applications for grants Directed grants to institutions, research under its urban youth fund. Grants support groups etc, Development (Africa/Caribbean) pilot projects on employment, governance, Award amount max: $25,000 shelter and secure tenure. Applicant Award budget total: - organisations must be led by young people Website: http://unhabitat.org/urban- aged 15 to 32 years, and must be based in initiatives/urban-youth-fund/ cities or towns in developing countries. Application form: Grants of up to US$25,000 are available. http://www.unhabitatyouthfund.org/Default .aspx Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Country of applicant institution: Lower- Applications due by 12 noon GMT. This call Middle-Income countries, Low Income is repeated once a year. countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Posted date: 18 Feb 13
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Sustainable Development & Resource Use; United Nations Human Settlements Government & Governance Studies; Poverty; Programme, Partners and Youth Branch Urban Sociology; Prejudice & Discrimination; Monitoring and Research Division, UN Gigiri, Economic Development; Urban Planning & N-block, 1st Floor Policy; Social Work & Social Policy; Housing; P.O Box 30030 Social Programmes; Environmental Science; 00100 GPO Nairobi Built Environment & Spatial Planning Tel: +254 20 762 3900 Email: [email protected]
ECKMAN STIPENDS Saint John's University
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Description: The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at for individual investigators, Travel for Saint John's University invites applications for research purposes the Heckman stipends. The program is Award amount max: $2,000 specifically intended to help scholars who Award budget total: - have not yet established themselves Website: professionally and whose research cannot http://www.hmml.org/research2010/heckman progress satisfactorily without consulting 10.htm materials to be found in the collections of HMML. Eligibility profile ------Undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral Country of applicant institution: Any scholars (those who are within three years of completing a terminal master’s or doctoral Disciplines degree) are eligible. ------Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; Stipends up to $2,000 may be used to defray Materials Conservation & Preservation; the cost of travel, room and board, microfilm Manuscripts & Books; European Studies; reproduction, photo-duplication and other History; African Studies; Middle Eastern expenses associated with research at HMML. Studies Length of residency may range from two weeks to six months. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Committee on Research Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 Hill Museum and Manuscript Library April 2016, 15 November 2016, and repeated Bush Center annually. P.O Box 7300 Posted date: 01 Mar 11 Saint John’s University Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Collegeville, MN 56321-7300 students, Access to libraries, Directed grants Tel: +1 320 363 3514
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ACKER PRIZE Society for the History of Technology
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Description: The Society for the History of Technology Eligibility profile invites nominations for the Hacker prize. This ------honours exceptional scholarship that reaches Country of applicant institution: Any beyond the academy to toward a broad audience in the history of technology. Any Disciplines book published in the three years preceding ------the year of the award is eligible. History; History of Engineering & Technology; Sociology of Science & Nominations are welcome from publishers Technology; Sociology; History of Science and authors.The prize consists of a cash award and a certificate. Contact Details ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) SHOT Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Department of Science, Technology and been announced by funder, but this is the Society approximate deadline we expect. This call is University of Virginia repeated once a year. P.O Box 400744 Posted date: 13 Mar 13 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4744 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 434 987 6230 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/ hacker.html
ELLOWSHIP International Headache Society
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Description: The International Headache Society invites headache disorders. Applicants should be applications for its fellowship. This supports within seven years of completing their the mobility of researchers and physicians training, such as their MD or PhD, exclusive working in basic and clinical research within of non-professional periods. The host different institutions worldwide, and aims to institution must be different from the home actively increase the knowledge base of institution and preferably in another country. headache disorders. The fellowship is worth up to £50,000 over The applicant and mentor must be members one year. Short-term fellowships of between of the society and professionally involved in three and six months may also be considered, the treatment, research or management of
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and smaller grants will be allocated accordingly. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 22 Feb 16 ------Award type: Directed grants for individual Headaches investigators, Early-Career fellowships Award amount max: £50,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.ihs- Email: [email protected] headache.org/awards-training-newsletters Application form: http://www.ihs- headache.org/binary_data/2567_2016- fellowship-application-form.docx
ERTEBOS PRIZE Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien – Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
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Description: The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture Website: http://www.ksla.se/priser- and Forestry invites nominations for the beloningar/akademiens-priser/bertebos- Bertebos prize. This recognises an individual prize/ who has carried out research of distinguished quality and practical use within the areas of Eligibility profile food, agriculture, ecology or animal health. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize is worth SEK300,000. Disciplines Closing date: 15 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Food Science; Agriculture; Ecology every 2 years. Posted date: 26 Feb 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: kr300,000 Tel: +46 8 5454 7700 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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ONATHAN EBERHART PLANETARY SCIENCES JOURNALISM AWARD American Astronomical Society J
Description: The American Astronomical Society invites Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) nominations for the Jonathan Eberhart Deadline information: !! Call has not yet planetary sciences journalism award. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is The purpose is to recognise and stimulate repeated once a year. distinguished popular writing on planetary Posted date: 25 Mar 13 sciences. Planetary science includes the Award type: Prizes multidisciplinary study of the solar system Award budget total: - and its members, as well as other planetary Website: http://dps.aas.org/prizes/eberhart systems and their members, excluding work Application form: dealing primarily with the sun or the Earth. http://dps.aas.org/prizes/eberhart_entry_for Entries must: m
• have been published at any time Eligibility profile ------during the two years preceding the Country of applicant institution: Any award;
• be written by journalists or feature Disciplines writers; ------• be newspaper, magazine or web Physics; Galaxies & Stellar Systems; Planetary articles; Systems Sciences; Universe Sciences; Earth • be submitted by the journalist or by a Sciences third party.
Contact Details The award includes a US$1,000 cash prize and ------personal and travel expenses. Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR BIOLOGY Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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Description: The Japan Society for the Promotion of The prize includes a medal and a cash prize Science invites nominations for its worth ¥10 million. international prize for biology. This recognises an individual who has contributed Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) to the advancement of research in cell biology. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Nominees may be of any nationality.
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 05 Feb 15 ------Award type: Prizes Cell & Developmental Biology Award amount max: ￥10,000,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e------biol/index.html Secretary Office Application form: http://www.jsps.go.jp/j- International Prize for Biology biol/data/NOMINATION_FORM2015.doc JSPS 5-3-1 Chiyoda-ku Eligibility profile Tokyo 102-0083 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
HEME GROUP FELLOWSHIPS Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Description: The Netherlands Institute for Advanced • the academic status of the applicant Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences within the research field in question; (NIAS) invites applications for its theme • the originality of the proposal and group fellowships. These aim to bring evidence of the benefit of group together scholars of different backgrounds collaboration; with specific expertise to work together on a • the expected impact of the theme daily basis, to advance knowledge on a group on the participants' research particular theme within the social sciences fields; and humanities. • an account of how the planned activities will lead to a joint end The aim of the theme group is to produce a product; concrete result such as a book, scientific paper • the coordinator's leadership qualities; or conference. • the feasibility of the study and resources, in particular the feasibility Each NIAS research theme group is composed and lasting impact of research results. of up to six scholars, half of them from the Netherlands, the other half from other Successful applicants are awarded a NIAS countries, working both individually and as a theme group fellowship. Researchers will be team on a clearly defined research topic. fellows of NIAS for one full research year, from 1 September to 30 June, or one semester The following criteria are considered of of five months, starting on 1 September or 1 importance: February respectively.
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Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 22 Jan 16 Award type: Senior fellowships, Mid-Career Disciplines fellowships, Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Early-Career Humanities; Social Sciences fellowships, Networking/collaboration, Hosting conferences Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.nias.knaw.nl/theme- NIAS groups Meijboomlaan 1 Application form: 2242 PR Wassenaar http://www.nias.knaw.nl/theme- Tel: +31 70 512 2700 groups/how-to-apply Email: [email protected]
IS STUDENT PAPER AWARD International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
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Description: The International Federation of Library Award budget total: - Associations and Institutions Education & Website: http://www.ifla.org/set/student- Training Section, in collaboration with paper-award ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH, invites applications for its LIS student paper award. Eligibility profile This enables library and information science ------students to present their work at the 81st Country of applicant institution: Any IFLA Congress, which will take place between 15 and 21 August 2015 in Cape Town, South Disciplines Africa. ------Information Science; Libraries & Information The first prize winner receives the IFLA Science; Digitising & Digital Archives; Congress registration fee, a grant for an Computer Science & Informatics; Research economy flight and lodging to attend the Libraries & Special Collections; Information IFLA Congress 2015, worth up to €1,000. Systems
Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the IFLA approximate deadline we expect. This call is P.O Box 95312 repeated once a year. 2509 CH Den Haag Posted date: 29 Oct 14 Tel: +31 70 314 0884 Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Fax: +31 70 383 4827 meetings etc. Email: [email protected]
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AVID BIRENBAUM SCHOLARSHIPS American Association of Bioanalysts
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Description: The American Association of Bioanalysts Application form: invites applications for the David Birenbaum http://www.aab.org/images/aab/pdf/DBSchol scholarships. These provide funding to enable ar%20ST.pdf regular and associate AAB members, their spouses, children and grandchildren, to Eligibility profile undertake further studies in bioanalytics. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Each applicant must meet a minimum educational requirement of graduation from Disciplines an accredited high school, or equivalent. ------Applicants do not need to be US-based or US Automated Clinical Analysis; Health & citizens. Medical Informatics; Medical Research of Selected Fields; Bioinformatics; Computer Closing date: 15 Apr 16 (Forecast) Science & Informatics Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. AAB Scholarship Committee Posted date: 18 Jun 14 906 Olive Street, Suite 1200 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Saint Louis MO 63101 students Tel: +1 314 241 1445 Award budget total: - Fax: +1 314 241 1449 Website: http://www.aab.org/aab/david_birenbaum_s cholarships.asp
ERMAN-CANADIAN STUDIES MA RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP University of Winnipeg
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Description: The University of Winnipeg invites and their descendants in Canada, as well as applications for the German-Canadian studies into history and nature of relations and MA research scholarship. This supports the exchanges between Germany and Canada. most promising master’s thesis project on any aspect in the field of German-Canadian Applications are open to students who are studies. The aim is to foster community enrolled in a higher degree programme at interest and research into the past and present either a Canadian university, or at a experiences of German-speaking immigrants university outside of Canada with the
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intention to carry out a substantial part of filesystem-action/pdfs/german- their research in Canada. Applicants from cdn/scholarship-instruction-app.pdf outside of Canada should be associated with a faculty member of a Canadian university for Eligibility profile the duration of their stay. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The scholarship is worth CA$8,000 and is not renewable. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 Apr 16 German Literature; Anthropology; Deadline information: This call is repeated Linguistics; Canadian Literature; German once a year. Language; Cultural Studies; Sociology; Posted date: 04 Feb 16 German History; Economics & Econometrics; Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Politics & International Studies; Geography; students, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Canadian History Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: $8,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/german- University of Winnipeg canadian/fellowships.html 515 Portage Avenue Application form: Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9 http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/cms-
ERMAN-CANADIAN STUDIES DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PRIZE University of Winnipeg
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Description: The University of Winnipeg invites applications for the German-Canadian studies Closing date: 15 Apr 16 doctoral dissertation prize. This recognises the Deadline information: This call is repeated best doctoral dissertation on any aspect in the once a year. field of German-Canadian studies. The aim is Posted date: 04 Feb 16 to foster community interest and research into Award type: Prizes the past and present experiences of German- Award amount max: $1,000 speaking immigrants and their descendants in Award budget total: - Canada, as well as into history and nature of Website: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/german- relations and exchanges between Germany canadian/prizes.html and Canada. Eligibility profile The thesis must have been successfully ------defended in the previous calendar year, and Country of applicant institution: Any should be the final version of the thesis. Disciplines The prize is worth CA$1,000. ------
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German Literature; German History; Politics & Economics of North America; Canadian Contact Details History; Arts; German Language; ------Communication & Media Studies; Linguistics; University of Winnipeg Education; Cultural Studies; Society; 515 Portage Avenue Philosophy; Canadian Literature; Theology & Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9 Religious Studies
ERMAN-CANADIAN STUDIES MASTER’S THESIS PRIZE University of Winnipeg
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Description: The University of Winnipeg invites Award budget total: - applications for the German-Canadian studies Website: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/german- master’s thesis prize. This recognises the best canadian/prizes.html master’s thesis on any aspect in the field of German-Canadian studies. The aim is to foster Eligibility profile community interest and research into the past ------and present experiences of German-speaking Country of applicant institution: Any immigrants and their descendants in Canada, as well as into history and nature of relations Disciplines and exchanges between Germany and ------Canada. Communication & Media Studies; Canadian Literature; Education; Cultural Studies; The thesis must have been successfully Linguistics; Society; German History; defended in the previous calendar year, and Canadian History; Arts; Politics & Economics should be the final version of the thesis. of North America; Theology & Religious Studies; German Literature; Philosophy; The prize is worth CA$750. German Language
Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. University of Winnipeg Posted date: 04 Feb 16 515 Portage Avenue Award type: Prizes Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9 Award amount max: $750
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NTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS World Cancer Research Fund International I
Description: The World Cancer Research Fund Posted date: 04 Dec 15 International invites applications for its Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate international fellowships. These support students postgraduates to attend the 6th international Award budget total: - course in nutritional epidemiology, taking Website: http://www.wcrf.org/int/research- place in the School of Public Health, Imperial we-fund/wcrf-academy/our-fellowships College London, from 5 to 16 September 2016. This advanced and interactive course also Eligibility profile gives participants a solid grounding in the ------knowledge and skills required to work as a Country of applicant institution: Any nutritional epidemiologist. By the end of the course participants are expected to be able to Disciplines critically evaluate results from nutritional ------epidemiological studies, evaluate a diet- Epidemiology; Nutrition & Dietetics disease association and be aware of current developments in the field. Contact Details ------MSc or PhD level students from all over the WCRF world may apply. 22 Bedford Square London WC1B 3HH The fellowship will cover the course fees. Tel: +44 20 7343 4200 Fax: +44 20 7343 4220 Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information:
EORG AND GRETA BORGSTROMS PRIZE Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien – Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
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Description: The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture The prize consists of SEK50,000 and a and Forestry invites nominations for the diploma. Georg and Greta Borgstroms prize. This recognises individuals who actively engage in Closing date: 15 Apr 16 research or work within the world’s Deadline information: This call is repeated population, food supply and associated every 3 years. ecological, demographic and economic Posted date: 26 Feb 16 aspects. Award type: Prizes Award amount max: kr50,000 Award budget total: -
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Website: http://www.ksla.se/priser- beloningar/akademiens-priser/georg-o-greta- Disciplines borgstroms-pris/ ------Application form: http://www.ksla.se/wp- Population Studies; Malnutrition; Poverty in content/uploads/2010/10/Akademiens-priser- Developing Countries; Ecological Economics; och-beloningar-PM_Utlysning-2016- Population Ecology %E2%80%93-utdelning-2017.pdf Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
ÅSTADIUS PRIZE Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien – Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry
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Description: The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture Award amount max: kr100,000 and Forestry, through Ulla och Briger Award budget total: - Håstadius stiftelse, invites applications for the Website: http://www.ksla.se/priser- Håstadius prize. This recognises the beloningar/akademiens-priser/hastadius- promotion of scientific research and pris/ development in the crop production area with relevance to Sweden. Efforts rewarded may Eligibility profile relate to processing, crop production or ------developments that benefited Swedish Country of applicant institution: Any agriculture or food production. Disciplines Nominees may be of Swedish or foreign ------nationality but the effort that is rewarded has Horticultural & Crop Production to be beneficial to crop production in Sweden. Contact Details The prize is worth SEK100,000. ------Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien Closing date: 15 Apr 16 Drottninggatan 95B Deadline information: This call is repeated P.O Box 6806 once a year. 113 86 Stockholm Posted date: 26 Feb 16 Tel: +46 8 5454 7700 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]
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ARNARD HEWITT AWARD American Society for Theatre Research
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Description: The American Society for Theatre Research Award type: Prizes invites nominations for the Barnard Hewitt Award amount max: $2,000 award. The purpose is to recognise the best Award budget total: - book in theatre history or cognate disciplines Website: published during the previous calendar year. http://www.astr.org/?page=Hewitt_Award
Scholars residing in the Americas, or scholars Eligibility profile located outside the Americas but writing on ------an American topic are eligible to apply. Plays, Country of applicant institution: Any edited collections and anthologies are not eligible for this prize. Authors wishing to be Disciplines considered for the award should contact their ------publishers about nominating them. The History of Architecture; History of Art; award is worth US$2,000. Theatre Studies; Performing Arts; Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory Closing date: 16 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Detail been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated once a year. Posted date: 20 Feb 13
ELLOWS PROGRAMME MQ: Transforming Mental Health
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Description: MQ: Transforming Mental Health invites • salary support, whether for the statements of intent for its fellows applicants or for research assistance programme. This supports early-career staff. researchers undertaking interdisciplinary projects related to mental health. Funding Applicants should be early-career research may be used for the following: scientists who are establishing their independence, and who hold a PhD DPhil, • start-up funding for a specific project DClinPsy, MMBS, MD or equivalent, awarded or transition funding for a current prior to 31 October 2013. They should have project; two to six years research experience • direct research costs; equivalent in nature to postdoctoral
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experience, by 31 October 2015. Applicants Award type: Early-Career fellowships, may be from any country in the world, and be Directed grants for individual investigators, based anywhere, and may be from any Research centres discipline, including basic science, clinical Award amount max: £225,000 science, social science or medical humanities. Award budget total: - Host institutions must be recognised in the Website: appropriate field, and be able to provide http://www.joinmq.org/research/pages/fello support for independent research. Non-profit ws-programme and for-profit institutions are eligible Application form: https://mq.flexigrant.com/ provided they cover the above criteria. Eligibility profile Each fellowship is worth up to £75,000 per ------year for three years. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines Closing date: 16 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Mental Health been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Statements Contact Details of intent due by 5pm BST, 16 April; invited ------proposals due by 5pm BST, 23 July 2015. Tel: +44 300 030 8100 Posted date: 19 Feb 15 Email: [email protected]
H PIERCE PRIZE Society for Applied Microbiology
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Description: The Society for Applied Microbiology invites Posted date: 26 Mar 15 nominations for the WH Pierce memorial Award type: Prizes, Young investigator prize. This recognises an outstanding young awards microbiologist for their contribution to Award amount max: £3,000 applied microbiology. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.sfam.org.uk/en/grants-- Nominees must be under the age of 40. awards/supporting-microbiology/w-h- Nominations must be submitted by full pierce-prize/index.cfm members. Eligibility profile The prize is worth £3,000. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 17 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Microbiology repeated once a year.
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Contact Details Bedford MK41 7PH ------Tel: +44 1234 326 661 SFAM Fax: +44 1234 326 678 Bedford Heights Email: [email protected] Brickhill Drive
EDMOND BARRY FELLOWSHIP University of Melbourne
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Description: The University of Melbourne, in collaboration individual investigators, Mid-Career with the State Library of Victoria, invites fellowships, Predoctoral fellowships, Early- applications for the Redmond Barry Career fellowships, Senior fellowships fellowship. This enables to scholars and Award amount max: $20,000 writers to facilitate research and production of Award budget total: - works of literature that utilise the collections Website: of the State Library of Victoria and the http://library.unimelb.edu.au/museumsandc University of Melbourne. During the ollections/teaching_and_learning/fellowship fellowship period, fellows are expected to s_and_awards/redmond_barry_fellowship pursue their own project, present a lecture or Application form: short seminar series open to the public, library http://library.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/p and university communities. df_file/0004/1751791/redmondbarryapplicati on2016.pdf Applications are invited from scholars from Australia and overseas. Projects may be in any Eligibility profile ------discipline or area in which the library and the Country of applicant institution: Any university have strong collections.
Disciplines The fellowship is worth up to AU$20,000 over ------three to six months. It includes space in a Law; History; Architecture, Built Environment shared office that is accessible outside normal & Planning; Physical Sciences and library hours, special access to collections and Engineering; Politics & International Studies; staff expertise, and complimentary Friends of English Language & Literature; Bio/Medical; the Library membership for one year after the Arts; Education; Business & Management conclusion of their fellowship. Studies; Sport & Exercise Sciences, Leisure &
Tourism; Economics & Econometrics Closing date: 17 Apr 16
Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 10 Feb 16 Award type: Travel for research purposes, Tel: +61 3 8664 7335 Access to libraries, Directed grants for Email: [email protected]
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MRICH SARKANY NON-EUROPEAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
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Description: The European Academy of Dermatology and Eligibility profile Venereology invites applications for the ------Imrich Sarkany non-European memorial Country of applicant institution: United Arab scholarship. This provides free registration to Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Angola, the EADV congress held from 28 September Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, to 2 October 2016 in Vienna, Austria. Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Botswana, Canada, Cocos (Keeling) Each applicant must be a Islands, Congo, the Democratic Republic of dermatovenereologist, resident or trainee the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte under 35 years of age. Nationals from the d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Cape Verde, following regions may apply: Christmas Island, Djibouti, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, • Africa, except Algeria, Egypt, Libyan Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea- Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco and Bissau, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, British Tunisia; Indian Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic • all American countries; Republic of, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, • western, central and eastern Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Comoros, Korea, except Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Democratic People's Republic of, Kuwait, Palestine, Syria and Turkey; Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic • Oceania. Republic, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, Applicants must have adequate knowledge of Macao, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, English and must not previously have Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, received an EADV scholarship. Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Réunion, Russian Federation, The scholarship includes €1,000, minus the Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sudan, cost of one year’s membership, according to Singapore, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, the status of each recipient. Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Closing date: 17 Apr 16 Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Taiwan, Deadline information: Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United Posted date: 25 Jan 16 States, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Mayotte, Award type: Young investigator awards, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa, All Travel to conferences, meetings etc. South American nations, All Oceanian Award budget total: - nations, Caribbean, Central America, All Website: North American nations http://www.eadv.org/scholarships/imrich- sarkany-memorial-scholarship/ Disciplines ------Application form: Dermatology; Venereology & Sexually http://www.eadv.org/nc/scholarships/apply- Transmitted Diseases for-scholarship/
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Contact Detail Email: [email protected] ------
ARSH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD British Ecological Society
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Description: The British Ecological Society invites ts-awards/honours_awards_prizes/marsh- nominations for the Marsh book of the year book-of-the-year-award/ award. This recognises a book published in Application form: the last two years that has had the greatest http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp- influence on the science or application of content/uploads/Grant_Award_Nomination_ ecology. form.doc
Books may have been published anywhere in Eligibility profile the world. Nominators must be current ------members of the society. Publishers may not Country of applicant institution: Any submit nominations. Disciplines The award is worth £1,000. ------Ecology Closing date: 17 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is BES repeated once a year. Charles Darwin House Posted date: 10 Mar 15 12 Roger Street Award type: Prizes London WC1N 2JU Award amount max: £1,000 Tel: +44 20 7685 2500 Award budget total: - Fax: +44 20 7685 2501 Website: Email: [email protected] http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/gran
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LINICAL RADIOLOGY AUDIT POSTER COMPETITION Royal College of Radiologists
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Description: The Royal College of Radiologists invites Award amount min: £70 abstract submissions for its clinical radiology Award budget total: - audit poster competition. This recognises the Website: best audit posters displayed at the college’s http://www.rcr.ac.uk/abstracts.aspx?PageID= annual scientific meeting. 547 Application form: The first or second author of each poster must https://www.rcr.ac.uk/node/41714 be an active member or fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists. Radiographers, Eligibility profile physicists and others are encouraged to ------contribute as authors. In order for a poster to Country of applicant institution: Any be eligible, one of the named authors must be registered for at least one day at the meeting.
The first and second place winners receive Disciplines cheques worth £280 and £70, respectively. ------Radiology & Medical Imaging Closing date: 18 Apr 16 Deadline information: Abstract submissions Contact Details due by 12 noon. This call is repeated once a ------year. RCR Posted date: 02 Feb 16 63 Lincoln's Inn Fields Award type: Prizes London WC2A 3JW Award amount max: £280 Email: [email protected]
WO-WEEK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS FOR PHD STUDENTS Yad Vashem – International Institute for Holocaust Research
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Description: The Yad Vashem – International Institute for Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD Holocaust Research invites applications for its programme outside of Israel, and may not two-week research fellowships for PhD hold Israeli citizenship. The topic of the students. These enable PhD students who are dissertation must have been already writing a dissertation on any aspect of the approved. Holocaust to travel to Israel in order to conduct research in the Yad Vashem archives The fellowship includes a roundtrip airline for two weeks. ticket to Israel, and room and boarding during
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Application form: Disciplines http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/insti ------tute/pdf/2015/application_summer_research_ Crimes Against Humanity; Jewish Studies; 2015.pdf Civil & Human Rights
Eligibility profile ------Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: United Arab Yad Vashem - International Institute for Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Holocaust Research Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, P.O Box 3477 Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, China, Jerusalem 91034 Christmas Island, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong
ACOBITE STUDIES TRUST FELLOWSHIPS Institute of Historical Research J
Description: The Institute of Historical Research invites art and the political, diplomatic, military, applications for the Jacobite Studies Trust religious, intellectual and cultural context in fellowships. These non-residential fellowships which they lived. support historical research into the Stuart dynasty in the British Isles and in exile, from Fellowships are open to: the departure of James II in 1688 to the death of Henry Benedict Stuart in 1807. This may • current doctoral students who have also include work on their friends and been registered on their programme supporters, their activities, their influence, for at least three years full-time or six their views, ideologies, artefacts and works of years part- time;
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• holders of the doctorates awarded Website: within two years of the beginning of http://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/jacobit the session in which the awards are to e-studies-trust-fellowship be held, who are working in the Application form: research area of the trust. http://www.history.ac.uk/online- applications/ Applications are encouraged from all suitably qualified candidates without regard to Eligibility profile nationality or academic affiliation. Fellows ------should undertake further historical research Country of applicant institution: Any and writing. They will not be required to be resident in London, but should participate in Disciplines the activities of the institute. ------Modern History; British & Irish History; Early Fellowships are worth £15,000 over one year. Modern History
Closing date: 20 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. IHR Posted date: 20 Jan 16 Institute of Historical Research Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Senate House Directed grants for individual investigators, Malet Street Predoctoral fellowships London WC1E 7HU Award amount max: £15,000 Tel: +44 20 7862 8740 Award amount min: - Fax: +44 20 7862 8745 Award budget total: £15,000 Email: [email protected]
OCTORAL DISSERTATION GRANTS International Research Foundation for English Language Education
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Description: The International Research Foundation for • language teacher education; English Language Education (TIRF) and the • language policy and planning; British Council invite proposals for their • plurilingualism in business, industry, doctoral dissertation grants. These support the professions and educational students whose dissertation research plans contexts; investigate one of the following research • students’ age and effective English priority topics: language education in schools.
• digital technology in language Two types of grants are available: the first one education; is supported by the Cambridge English • English as a medium of instruction; Language Assessment and the second one is • language assessment; offered in collaboration with the British
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Council. Proposals that have clear Closing date: 20 Apr 16 implications for educational policy makers Deadline information: Proposals due by and others in positions to make decisions 11.59pm Pacific Time. This call is repeated about English language education practices once a year. are favoured. Posted date: 16 Feb 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Applicants must be clearly advanced to investigators, Travel to conferences, doctoral candidacy, meaning they must have meetings etc., Thesis/Dissertation funding, completed their research, coursework or Travel for research purposes, Publish, edit, examinations as required by their university, translate, disseminate, Equipment and and have had their research plan approved by materials a faculty committee. This must be confirmed Award amount max: $5,000 by the candidate’s research supervisor Award budget total: - through a letter of support. Website: http://www.tirfonline.org/research- grants/doctoral-dissertation-grants/ Application form: In addition, for the British Council grants, http://www.tirfonline.org/wp- applicants must be from the countries, or content/uploads/2015/12/TIRF_DDG_2016_A attending universities in the countries, on the pplicationForm_Final.docx Development Cooperation Directorate’s
Development Assistance Committee’s list of Eligibility profile countries. However, those attending ------universities in other countries but who are Country of applicant institution: Any conducting research that has the potential for positive impact in developing nations, may Contact Detail also apply. ------Email: [email protected] Grants are worth up to US$5,000 each. Funding covers conference travel, registration Disciplines and accommodation fees, data collection and ------research meetings costs. Dissemination of the English Language findings is strongly encouraged.
ESEARCH FELLOW AWARD Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
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Description: The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Researchers world wide who hold a PhD, MD invites applications for its research fellow or equivalent degree at the post-doctorate, award programme. The goal of the clinical fellow or junior faculty level are programme is to help support young encouraged to apply. Post-doctorate and investigators studying in the field of multiple medical fellows applying for the award must myeloma.
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work under the supervision of a research Website: http://www.themmrf.org/research- mentor in the multiple myeloma field. partners/mmrf-research-grants/ Application form: Proposals may request up to US$75,000, https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ including up to 10 per cent for indirect costs, for one year. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 21 Apr 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. ------Applications due by 5pm EST. This call is Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers repeated once a year. Posted date: 16 Jan 15 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Postdoctoral training MMRF fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, 383 Main Avenue Travel to conferences, meetings etc. 5th floor Award amount max: $75,000 Norwalk, CT 06851 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 203 652 0233 Email: [email protected]
ISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS - TSUKUBA Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
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Description: The Japan International Research Centre for natural sciences or technology, and have Agricultural Sciences invites applications for adequate command of English or Japanese. its visiting research fellowships in Tsukuba. Selected fellows must be willing to return to These enable qualified researchers from their country to continue to carry out research developing countries to carry out at the same institute or university. collaborative research for the rapid and sustainable development of agriculture, Five fellowships are available, with benefits forestry and fisheries compatible with the including return airfare, a living allowance of preservation of the natural environment. ¥7,700 per day, housing allowance, research Research will be conducted at the JIRCAS facility and insurance. The fellowship covers headquarters in Tsukuba. one year from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015. Applicants must be nationals of a developing countries currently employed by research institutes or universities where they are Closing date: 21 Apr 16 (Forecast) actively engaged in research. In addition, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet applicants must hold at least a master’s been announced by funder, but this is the degree in a field related to socio-economics,
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is Agricultural Production Systems; Earth repeated once a year. Sciences; Agricultural Management; Posted date: 13 Mar 14 Biological Sciences; Livestock & Animal Award type: Directed grants for individual Science; Physics; Environmental Science; investigators, Travel for research purposes, Politics & International Studies; Agriculture in Predoctoral fellowships, Early-Career Developing Countries; Wood & Wood fellowships, Networking/collaboration Processing; Forestry Science (Silvology); Award budget total: - Agroforestry; Food Science; Forest Economics; Website: Agricultural Economics; Agricultural https://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp/english/public Engineering; Agricultural Ecology; Animal _relations/jircasfellow/jircas_fellow.html Care; Agricultural Land Management; Forest Application form: Engineering; Production & Organisations; http://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp/english/public_ Forest Ecology; Agricultural Commodities; relations/jircasfellow/tuskuba_form2014.doc Food Engineering & Technology; Fisheries
Science; Use & Management of Natural Eligibility profile Resources; Chemistry ------
Country of applicant institution: Lower- Contact Details Middle-Income countries, Low Income ------countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Research Support Office
JIRCAS Disciplines 1-1, Ohwashi ------Tsukuba Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture; Physical Ibaraki 305-8686 Sciences; Veterinary Medicine; Forest Management; Economics & Econometrics;
ARY R DAWSON GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites The award may be used to cover dissertation applications for the Mary R Dawson Grant. research travel, data collection and analyses. This recognises graduate student research excellence and promotes a successful career in Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) vertebrate paleontology by supporting the Deadline information: !! Call has not yet recipient’s dissertation research. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Current membership in the Society of repeated once a year. Vertebrate Paleontology is required, and the Posted date: 07 Feb 13 student must have advanced to candidacy for Award type: Young investigator awards, the PhD. Thesis/Dissertation funding, Travel for research purposes, Directed grants for
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individual investigators, Financial aid for Biology; Earth Sciences; Physical Sciences; postgraduate students Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; Award budget total: - Evolutionary Biology; Seismology & Seismic Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- Waves; Animal Physiology (1).aspx Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Departement of Biological Sciences Country of applicant institution: Any Clemson University 132 Long Hall Disciplines Clemson, SC 29634 ------Email: [email protected] Palaeontology & Palynology; Biological Sciences; Palaeoclimatology; Vertebrate
ICHARD ESTES MEMORIAL GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- applications for the Richard Estes memorial (2).aspx grant. This is intended to support graduate research in non-mammalian vertebrate Eligibility profile palaeontology, with emphasis on systematics, ------morphology, biography and paleoecology. Country of applicant institution: Any The society especially welcomes one-off field- based activities. Disciplines ------Applicants must be members of the society Biological Sciences; Seismology & Seismic and graduate students at the time of Waves; Palaeoclimatology; Evolutionary application. Biology; Physical Sciences; Palaeontology & Palynology; Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; Animal Physiology; Vertebrate Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Biology; Earth Sciences Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Museum für Naturkunde Posted date: 07 Feb 13 Leibniz-Institute for Research on Evolution & Award type: Directed grants for individual Biodiversity at Humboldt University Berlin investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Invalidenstrasse 43 students, Thesis/Dissertation funding 10115 Berlin Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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ACKSON SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES STUDENT MEMBER TRAVEL GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology J
Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites Award budget total: - applications for the Jackson school of Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- geosciences student member travel grant. This (14).aspx aims to encourage student participation in the society's annual meeting. Applicants must Eligibility profile meet the following requirements: ------Country of applicant institution: Any • be a current SVP member at the time of application; Disciplines • be currently enrolled at a recognised ------academic institution; Seismology & Seismic Waves; Animal • be first author on an accepted oral or Physiology; Physical Sciences; Biological poster presentation; Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary • register for the conference by the pre- Adaptation & Variation; Vertebrate Biology; conference deadline. Earth Sciences; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeontology & Palynology Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Richard Stockton College of New Jersey repeated once a year. NAMS-Biology Posted date: 07 Feb 13 P.O Box 195 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Pomona, NJ 08240-0195 etc., Financial aid for postgraduate students Email: [email protected]
ATTERSON MEMORIAL GRANT Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites Applicants and their sponsors must be SVP applications for the Patterson memorial grant. members. The purpose of this award is to support graduate-level student field work in Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) vertebrate paleontology. Proposals must be Deadline information: !! Call has not yet for field work, and particular consideration been announced by funder, but this is the will be given to proposals for field work that approximate deadline we expect. This call is is innovative, venturesome and unusual. repeated once a year. Posted date: 07 Feb 13
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Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Palaeoclimatology; Animal Physiology; students, Directed grants for individual Physical Sciences; Vertebrate Biology; investigators Seismology & Seismic Waves; Evolutionary Award budget total: - Biology; Earth Sciences; Biological Sciences; Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- Palaeontology & Palynology; Evolutionary (3).aspx Adaptation & Variation
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any Smithsonian Institution Department of Paleobiology Disciplines P.O Box 37012, NHB, MRC-121 ------Washington, DC 20013-7012 Email: [email protected]
NNOVATION PRIZE Universal Biotech
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Description: Universal Biotech invites applications for its approximate deadline we expect. This call is life science innovation prize. This recognises repeated once a year. innovation projects within the following Posted date: 07 Apr 15 fields: drugs, medical devices and Award type: Prizes, Innovation grants, applications, platforms and technologies Technology innovation/development connected to diagnostic, therapeutic and e- Award amount max: €30,000 health solutions. The prize targets services or Award budget total: €60,000 products that are under development. Website: https://www.universal-biotech- prize.com/ Applications are invited from academic Application form: https://www.universal- researchers in the field of life sciences and biotech-prize.com/register representatives from companies that have been up and running for less than eight years. Eligibility profile The prize is open to candidates from all over ------the world. Country of applicant institution: Any Country of applicant institution: Any Two projects will each be awarded with a grant and a year of consulting services offered Disciplines ------by Universal Biotech, with a combined value Medical Devices; Diagnostic Sciences; Medical of €30 000. & Diagnostic Tests; Therapy Evaluation;
Pharmacy & Pharmacology Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast)
Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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Contact Detail Email: [email protected]
LBERT E WOOD AWARD Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites research purposes, Financial aid for applications for the Albert E Wood award. postgraduate students This supports student research that involves Award amount max: $1,200 museum and university vertebrate fossil or Award budget total: - natural history collections. Proposals must be Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- for collection-based work on some aspect of (9).aspx vertebrate evolution, with special attention Application form: given to those that greatly enhance the value https://online.vertpaleo.org/svpssa/sbmssam of fossil material already residing in ysubmittals.sbmcreate?p_collection_id=2015 collections. _SVP_AWARDS&p_subcollection_cd=AEW &p_topic=AEW Both the applicant and the sponsor must be current SVP members. Eligibility profile ------The award is worth up to US$1,200. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Palaeobiology; Vertebrate Biology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 30 Mar 15 ------Award type: Student awards, Directed grants Email: [email protected] for individual investigators, Travel for
ONORARY MEMBERSHIP AWARDS Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites awards. These are awarded in recognition of nominations for its honorary membership distinguished contributions to the discipline
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of vertebrate palaeontology. Up to two _SVP_AWARDS&p_subcollection_cd=HON honourees are named per year. ORARY&p_topic=HONORARY
Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 30 Mar 15 ------Award type: Prizes Palaeobiology; Vertebrate Biology Award budget total: - Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- Contact Details (12).aspx ------Application form: Email: [email protected] https://online.vertpaleo.org/svpssa/sbmssam ysubmittals.sbmcreate?p_collection_id=2015
EVELOPING NATION INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Description: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is applications for its developing nation repeated once a year. institutional membership. This scheme aims Posted date: 07 Feb 13 to increase access to electronic-based Award type: Prizes publications and news of the society for Award budget total: - institutions based in areas with developing Website: http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Award- economies. The programme is particularly (13).aspx intended for those who are based at institutions with limited funds. Eligibility profile ------Nominations must be made by current Country of applicant institution: Lower- members. Eligibility is limited to institutions Middle-Income countries, Low Income established in economically disadvantaged countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries nations, as defined by a ranking of <0.75 UN development index. Disciplines ------Up to five institutions may be selected per Evolutionary Biology; Physical Sciences; year. Palaeoclimatology; Evolutionary Adaptation & Variation; Vertebrate Biology; Biological Closing date: 22 Apr 16 (Forecast) Sciences; Palaeontology & Palynology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Animal Physiology; Earth Sciences; been announced by funder, but this is the Seismology & Seismic Waves
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RADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS Society of Systematic Biologists
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Description: The Society of Systematic Biologists invites Award amount max: $2,000 applications for its graduate student research Award amount min: $1,200 awards. These assist students in the initiation Award budget total: - of their systematics projects and in the Website: http://www.systbio.org/graduate- collection of preliminary data to pursue student-research-awards.html additional sources of support or to enhance dissertation research. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be members of the society Country of applicant institution: Any and may be from any country. Master’s and PhD students in their first two years are Disciplines eligible to apply. ------Systematics Approximately 15 awards worth between US$1,200 and US$2,000 each are available. Contact Details ------Closing date: 24 Apr 16 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Deadline information: This call is repeated Organismal Biology once a year. Iowa State University Posted date: 11 Feb 11 Ames Award type: Directed grants for individual IA 50011 investigators, Travel for research purposes, Email: [email protected] Student awards
OUNG STRUCTURAL ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD Institution of Structural Engineers
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Description: The Institution of Structural Engineers invites young structural engineers who demonstrate applications for its young structural engineer outstanding performance and show of the year award. This award is given to exceptional promise for the future. Applicants
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must be younger than 28 by 1 April in the Eligibility profile year of entry. The winner receives £1,500 and ------the runner up receives £500. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 24 Apr 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Engineering; Manufacturing & Industrial approximate deadline we expect. This call is Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Civil repeated once a year. Engineering; Structural Engineering; General Posted date: 11 Feb 13 Engineering; Aerospace Engineering & Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Avionics awards Award amount max: £1,500 Contact Details Award amount min: £500 ------Award budget total: £2,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.istructe.org/ysepa
TUART MORSON SCHOLARSHIP IN NEUROSURGERY Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Description: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons The scholarship is worth AU$30,000 for three invites applications for the Stuart Morson to six months. Ref: REA-RES-025. scholarship in neurosurgery. This enables neurosurgeons to undertake further research Closing date: 26 Apr 16 or training in neurosurgery overseas. Deadline information: This call is repeated Occasionally, the scholarship may enable once a year. overseas neurosurgeons to spend time in Posted date: 29 Feb 16 Australia or New Zealand furthering their Award type: Directed grants for individual research in neurosurgery. investigators, Travel for research purposes, Personal development, Young investigator Applicants should be neurosurgeons within awards five years of receiving their fellowship from Award amount max: $30,000 the college, or neurosurgical trainees. Young Award amount min: - surgeons who are registered to practice Award budget total: - neurosurgery in Australia or New Zealand, Website: http://www.surgeons.org/member- but who are not fellows of the college, may services/scholarships-awards-lectures- also apply. Overseas neurosurgeons wishing prizes/research-and-travel- scholarships/stuart-morson-scholarship-in- to come to Australia or New Zealand for neurosurgery/ further training can only be considered prior Application form: to commencing their travel and cannot be http://www.surgeons.org/media/22511261/201 considered once they have arrived in 7-Travel-application-final.pdf Australia or New Zealand to take up a position.
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any RACS 199 Ward Street Disciplines North Adelaide SA 5069 ------Tel: +61 8 8219 0900 Neurosurgery Fax: +61 8 8219 0999 Email: [email protected]
ARL SAGAN MEDAL American Astronomical Society
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Description: The American Astronomical Society invites Award type: Prizes nominations for the Carl Sagan medal. This Award budget total: - award is given to an active planetary scientist Website: http://dps.aas.org/prizes/sagan in recognition of their excellence in the Application form: communication of planetary science to the http://www.aas.org/dps/prizes_contact.html public. Planetary science includes the multidisciplinary study of our solar system Eligibility profile and its members, as well as other planetary ------systems and their members, excluding work Country of applicant institution: Any dealing primarily with the sun or the Earth. Disciplines The prize includes a cash award. ------Physics; Earth Sciences; Universe Sciences; Closing date: 26 Apr 16 (Forecast) Planetary Systems Sciences; Galaxies & Stellar Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Systems been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 25 Mar 13 Email: [email protected]
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AVID SAINSBURY FELLOWSHIPS National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
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Description: The National Centre for the Replacement, Closing date: 26 Apr 16 Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Deadline information: Informal outlines due Research (NC3Rs) invites outlines for the by 4pm, 26 April; full applications are David Sainsbury fellowships. These support invited between 4 May and 4pm, 22 June early-career scientists with the transition to an 2016. This call is repeated once a year. independent career within one of the three Posted date: 10 Feb 16 areas of replacement, reduction and Award type: Early-Career fellowships, refinement and in any area of medical, Directed grants for individual investigators, biological or veterinary research. Proposals Academic-Industry links, that integrate a range of disciplines, or that Networking/collaboration, Postdoctoral include an industrial partner, are particularly training fellowships encouraged. Award amount max: - Award budget total: £1,000,000 Applicants should have no more than five Website: years’ postdoctoral experience. Final year PhD http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/page.asp?id=1536 students may apply provided they are Eligibility profile awarded their PhD before the fellowship ------begins. There are no residency requirements Country of applicant institution: Any and international applicants are eligible to apply. Each application must identify a Disciplines sponsor at the host organisation, which may ------include UK HEIs, independent research Bio/Medical; Veterinary Medicine organisations and Research Council institutes.
Contact Detail The total budget is worth £1 million. ------Fellowships are tenable for three years. Email: [email protected]
ENIOR NON-CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP – TRANSITION TO LEADERSHIP Medical Research Council
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Description: The Medical Research Council invites encouraged across all areas of the research applications for its senior non-clinical council’s remit, from basic studies with fellowship. This provides non-clinical relevance to mechanisms of disease to researchers with a track record of excellence translational and developmental clinical in their scientific field with the opportunity to research. transition into research leaders. Proposals are
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Applicants should hold a PhD or equivalent; April; and between 12 August and 4pm, 22 however, there are no rules based on years of September 2016. postdoctoral experience. There are also no Posted date: 25 Feb 16 residence eligibility restrictions for this Award type: Senior fellowships, Directed fellowship. The award is not available to grants for individual investigators, individuals who hold a tenured academic Networking/collaboration, Travel for position at the time of application. Applicants research purposes, Equipment and materials are encouraged to consider the opportunities Award budget total: - to establish collaborative networks and for Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- cross-sector development as the award will careers/fellowships/non-clinical- support a period of research overseas, at a fellowships/senior-non-clinical-fellowship- second UK institution or within industry if sncf/ appropriate. Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/
In addition, applicants should demonstrate Eligibility profile ------that their skills and experience match those of Country of applicant institution: Any the transition to leadership career stage at the time of their application. Disciplines
------The fellowship comprises salary costs, Population Studies, Medical; Clinical support for research staff, consumables Medicine; Cell & Developmental Biology; expenses, capital equipment for the research Neuroscience; Mental Health project and travel costs for a period of up to seven years. There is no limit for funding. Contact Details
------Closing date: 27 Apr 16 Email: [email protected] Deadline information: Applications are accepted between 16 March and 4pm, 27
AREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD Medical Research Council
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Description: The Medical Research Council invites translational and developmental clinical proposals for its career development award. research. This enables postdoctoral researchers to lead their own research plans and establish their Applicants are normally expected to have a own research team to make the transition PhD; however, in some cases applicants from postdoctoral researcher to independent without a PhD may be considered. Applicants investigator. Proposals are encouraged across who hold a tenured academic position are not all areas of the research council’s remit, and eligible. There are no eligibility rules based on they may range from basic studies with postdoctoral experience. Applicants must be relevance to mechanisms of disease, to able to demonstrate that their skills and
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experience match those of the transition to Award type: Early-Career fellowships, independence career stage. Directed grants for individual investigators, Travel for research purposes, Funding provides salary, support for research Networking/collaboration, Equipment and staff, consumables, travel costs and capital materials equipment appropriate for the research Award budget total: - project. The maximum duration of an award Website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills- is five years. There is no limit for funding. careers/fellowships/non-clinical- fellowships/career-development-award-cda/ MRC encourages applicants to consider the Application form: https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/ funding for research outside the UK, at a second UK institution or within industry in Eligibility profile order to establish collaborative networks or ------cross-sector development. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 27 Apr 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Proposals are ------accepted between 16 March and 4pm, 27 Clinical Medicine April; and between 12 August and 4pm, 22 September 2016. Contact Details Posted date: 24 Feb 16 ------Email: [email protected]
HR DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – SCOULOUDI, THORNLEY, ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Institute of Historical Research I
Description: The Institute of Historical Research invites open to UK citizens or to candidates applications for its IHR doctoral fellowships – with a degree from a UK university; Scouloudi, Thornley, Royal Historical Society. • one Isobel Thornley Bequest These fellowships are awarded to doctoral fellowship, worth £15,726, open to students engaged in the completion of a PhD candidates regardless of nationality in history. The following fellowships are but only to those registered for a PhD available: at the University of London. up to two Royal Historical Society Applicants should have completed at least fellowships, worth £15,726 each, open to three years of full-time or four years of part- candidates without regard to nationality or time research on their doctoral programme at academic affiliation; the beginning of the academic year for which the awards are made. • up to three Scouloudi Foundation fellowships, including three full year Fellowships are tenable for up to one year. fellowships worth £15,726 each and one half year fellowship worth £7,863, Closing date: 27 Apr 16
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Deadline information: This call is repeated Eligibility profile once a year. ------Posted date: 18 Jan 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Disciplines Directed grants for individual investigators ------Award amount max: £15,726 History Award amount min: £7,863 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/ihr- IHR doctoral-fellowships-scouloudi-thornley-rhs Senate House Application form: Malet Street http://www.history.ac.uk/online- London WC1E 7HU applications/ Email: [email protected]
EMASEK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP National University of Singapore
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Description: The National University of Singapore invites option to extend for a further three years and applications for the Temasek research attractive and competitive remuneration. fellowship. This enables young researchers with a doctoral degree in science or Closing date: 27 Apr 16 (Forecast) technology to conduct research relevant to Deadline information: !! Call has not yet defence in the following subjects: been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is • advanced protective materials; repeated once a year. • cyber security; Posted date: 11 Feb 15 • machine intelligence; Award type: Early-Career fellowships, • photonics engineering Young investigator awards, Directed grants for individual investigators • visual and IR technologies. Award budget total: -
Website: Applicants must have postdoctoral work http://www.nus.edu.sg/dpr/funding/trf.html experience as well as hold a PhD in a relevant Application form: discipline. https://share.nus.edu.sg/corporate/forms/rese
arch/grant-endorsement-form.doc Applicants will have the potential to qualify for a normal academic staff position at the end Eligibility profile of the fellowship. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The fellowship includes a three-year flexible research grant of up to SG$1 million with the
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Disciplines National University of Singapore ------University Hall, Lee Kong Chian Wing, Knowledge-Based Systems & Learning #UHL-05-02, Systems; Photonics & Optical 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd Communication; Cybersecurity; Defence Singapore 119077 Studies Tel: +65 6516 8114 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
DCTP FORUM SCHOLARSHIPS European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
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Description: European and Developing Countries Clinical Deadline information: Trials invites applications for its forum Posted date: 05 Jan 16 scholarships. These aim to facilitate Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings participation of those who might not etc., Young investigator awards otherwise be able to attend the eighth EDCTP Award budget total: - forum taking place from 7 to 9 November Website: 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia. http://www.edctpforum.org/2016/index.php/ abstracts/apply-for-a-scholarship/ Scholarships are open to a limited number of Application form: early career investigators and scientists http://www.edctpforum.org/2016/index.php/r actively working in the field of EDCTP. egistration/register-for-the-forum/ Applications for scholarships must be submitted in parallel with the abstract Eligibility profile submission, which must be original and ------innovative contributions to EDCTP-relevant Country of applicant institution: Angola, research. Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Priority will be given to applicants who have Central African Republic, Congo, Côte few alternative sources of funding, applicants d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, who have not previously received an EDCTP Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, scholarship to attend the forum, as well as Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, EDCTP grantees who have new results to Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, present. Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Scholarships cover registration to the forum; Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra economy class airfare ticket; accommodation Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and and visas fees. Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Closing date: 27 Apr 16 Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Disciplines ------Contact Details Poverty in Developing Countries; Infectious ------Diseases; Health Systems in Developing Email: [email protected] Countries
VANS FUND University of Cambridge
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Description: The Cambridge University invites Posted date: 05 Feb 16 applications for the Evans fund. This aims to Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate contribute to the furtherance of the study of students, Directed grants for individual anthropology and archaeology in Cambridge. investigators Award amount max: £18,000 Graduates from any university may apply, Website: provided they intend to engage in research in http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/about- anthropology and archaeology in relation to us/funding/research-funding/evans-fund South East Asia. Preference will be given to applicants who intend to engage in research Eligibility profile in relation to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, ------Singapore and Thailand. It is expected that Country of applicant institution: Any the successful candidate will either be based in Cambridge or will spend a substantial Disciplines period of time during or after their period of ------research in Cambridge. Asian Studies; Archaeology of Asia; Anthropology The tenure of a fellowship will be between one and two years in the first instance with Contact Details the option to extend to a maximum of three ------years. The stipend is worth up to £6,000 per Evans Fund year. Department of Social Anthropology Free School Lane Closing date: 27 Apr 16 Cambridge Deadline information: This call is repeated CB2 3RF once a year. Email: [email protected]
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PHTHALMOLOGY TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP BURSARY Royal Society of Medicine
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Description: The Royal Society of Medicine invites fellowships, Directed grants for individual applications for its ophthalmology travelling investigators, Mid-Career fellowships fellowship bursary. This enables British Award amount max: £1,000 ophthalmologists to travel abroad to further Award budget total: - the study or advancement of ophthalmology, Website: https://www.rsm.ac.uk/prizes- or foreign ophthalmologists to visit the UK for awards/trainees.aspx the same purpose. Application form: https://www.rsm.ac.uk/media/345660/prize_s Ophthalmologists from anywhere in the ubmission_form.docx world may apply. Eligibility profile Bursaries are worth up to £1,000. Fellows may ------be required to hold a lecture at a meeting of Country of applicant institution: Any the section on their experiences during the tenure of the fellowship. Disciplines ------Closing date: 28 Apr 16 Ophthalmology Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 times a year. Contact Details Posted date: 04 Dec 15 ------Award type: Travel for research purposes, Email: [email protected] Senior fellowships, Early-Career
OSTER CHAMP AWARDS United European Gastroenterology
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Description: United European Gastroenterology invites Closing date: 29 Apr 16 applications for its top poster prizes. This Deadline information: This call is repeated recognises the five best daily posters once a year. presented at UEG week. Posted date: 18 Jan 16 Award type: Prizes Prizes are awarded on the basis of scientific Award budget total: - merit. Website: http://www.ueg.eu/awards- Awardees receive free entry to the grants/ueg-week-awards/poster-champ- postgraduate training programme of the next award/ year's UEG Week. Application form: https://www.ueg.eu/index.php?id=912&url=
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https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ueg.eu%2Fapplicati Contact Details on3%2Findex.php%2Fdirect_link_login%2Fs ------ystem%2Fcpaper%2F United European Gastroenterology House of European Gastroenterology Eligibility profile Wickenburggasse 1 ------1080 Vienna Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +43 1 997 1639 Fax: +43 1 997 163 910 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Gastroenterology
ORLD HABITAT AWARDS Building and Social Housing Foundation
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Description: The Building and Social Housing Foundation progress. Submissions may be made in invites preliminary submissions for the world English, Spanish or French. habitat awards. These support projects that provide practical and innovative solutions to Two awards, each worth £10,000, are current housing needs and problems. available. Suggested areas for submission include: Closing date: 29 Apr 16 • provision of low-cost, affordable Deadline information: This call is repeated housing for low-income households; once a year. • environmentally sustainable housing; Posted date: 31 Jul 15 • restoration of existing housing; Award type: Prizes, Development • provision of housing designed to (Africa/Caribbean) withstand natural disasters; Award amount max: £10,000 • housing provision for those with Award budget total: £20,000 special needs; Website: http://www.worldhabitatawards.org/enter/se • technical innovation; lection.cfm?lang=00 • housing developed and managed on a Application form: cooperative or other socially http://www.worldhabitatawards.org/enter/ap sustainable basis; ply.cfm?lang=00 • projects and processes that ensure the right to land and housing. Eligibility profile ------Any individual, organisation or government Country of applicant institution: Any who has an innovative and practical solution to housing needs and problems may apply. Disciplines Entries should relate to housing projects and ------processes that are either completed or in Housing
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Contact Details Leicestershire LE67 3TU ------Tel: +44 1530 510 444 World Habitat Awards Fax: +44 1530 510 332 BSHF Email: [email protected] Memorial Square Coalville
OP ABSTRACT PRIZES United European Gastroenterology
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Description: United European Gastroenterology invites Application form: applications for its top abstract prizes. These https://www.ueg.eu/index.php?id=912&url= recognise the top five abstracts submitted to https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ueg.eu%2Fapplicati United European Gastroenterology week. on3%2Findex.php%2Fdirect_link_login%2Fs ystem%2Fcpaper%2F All abstracts submitted will be considered, provided that they have not previously been Eligibility profile presented at an international meeting. Prizes ------will be awarded to the first author, who Country of applicant institution: Any should also be the presenting author. Disciplines Five prizes, worth €10,000 each, are available. ------Gastroenterology
Closing date: 29 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. United European Gastroenterology Posted date: 18 Jan 16 House of European Gastroenterology Award type: Prizes Wickenburggasse 1 Award amount max: €10,000 1080 Vienna Award budget total: - Tel: +43 1 997 1639 Website: http://www.ueg.eu/awards- Fax: +43 1 997 163 910 grants/ueg-week-awards/top-abstract-prize/ Email: [email protected]
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REMIER'S AGRICULTURE AND FOOD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME Government Of Western Australia P
Description: The Government of Western Australia’s Office located during the period of funding on a full- of Science, under the Science and time basis at a host university in WA. The Agribusiness Connect initiative, invites host university must demonstrate applications for the Premier's agriculture and collaboration with at least one other WA food fellowship programme. This enhances university. the competitiveness of WA agrifood sector by offering a long-term opportunity for a The fellowship programme includes up to distinguished researcher to lead cutting edge AU$1 million for the lead fellow over four research and development using their data years, and up to AU$500,000 for an early to science and analytic capabilities to capture the mid-career fellow for four years. The total opportunities offered by big data. In budget for this programme is AU$1.5 million. particular the objectives of the fellowship programme are to: Closing date: 29 Apr 16 Deadline information: Applications due by • attract a leader and distinguished 3pm AWST. researcher of international Posted date: 12 Feb 16 prominence from interstate or Award type: Directed grants to institutions, overseas to build and lead WA research groups etc, Senior fellowships, research teams; Networking/collaboration, Directed grants • undertake research and development; for individual investigators, Early-Career • increase WA’s capabilities and fellowships, Travel for research purposes capacity in the area of research; Award amount max: $1,000,000 Award amount min: $500,000 • deliver benefits and opportunities to Award budget total: $1,500,000 regional WA; Website: • strengthen WA’s national and https://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/science/ScienceA international research standing; ndAgribusinessConnect/Pages/Fellowship- • improve WA’s local, national, Program.aspx international and industry Application form: collaboration in research and https://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/science/ScienceA development; ndAgribusinessConnect/Documents/SAC%2 • increase investment in research and 0Premiers%20Agriculture%20and%20Food% development in WA. 20Fellowship%20Program%20Lead%20Fello w%20Application%20Form.doc The nominated fellow must be a distinguished researcher at the forefront of Eligibility profile international scientific research who is: ------Country of applicant institution: Any currently residing in Australia but outside WA; an expatriate Australian researcher, who Disciplines wishes to return to pursue research in WA; or ------not of Australian nationality and currently Agriculture; Food Science overseas, who wishes to pursue research in WA. Also, the nominated fellow must be
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Contact Details Tel: +61 8 6552 6462 ------Email: [email protected] Office of Science Department of the Premier and Cabinet
UMMER SCHOOL BUDAPEST GRANTS European Consortium for Political Research
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Description: The European Consortium for Political Award type: Directed grants for individual Research invites applications for its summer investigators, Travel to conferences, school grants. These enable students to attend meetings etc., Financial aid for postgraduate one or two week courses on political science students at the summer school in Budapest. Award amount max: €415 Award amount min: €250 Applicants must be from a full member Award budget total: - institution and self-funded graduate master or Website: http://ecpr.eu/Funding/Default.aspx PhD students. Eligibility profile Grants are worth €250 each for a one week ------course or €415 for a two week course. A Country of applicant institution: Any maximum of two grants per institution per year will be awarded. Disciplines ------Closing date: 29 Apr 16 Political Science Deadline information: Applications are invited between 16 March and 29 April 2016. Contact Detail Posted date: 18 Feb 16 ------Email: [email protected]
LAIN BENSOUSSAN FELLOWSHIPS European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
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Description: The European Research Consortium for European centres outside their own country. Informatics and Mathematics invites Research must align with the following topics: applications for the Alain Bensoussan computer applications, computer systems fellowship programme. This enables early- organisation, computing methodologies, career scientists to conduct research at leading computing milieux, data, hardware,
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information systems, mathematics, Award type: Networking/collaboration, mathematics of computing, software, theory Travel for research purposes, Early-Career of computation and other related disciplines. fellowships, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Young investigator awards Applicants must have obtained a PhD degree Award amount max: €42,600 during the last eight years, or be in the last Award amount min: €14,760 year of their thesis work, although the PhD Award budget total: - degree must be completed before the start of Website: the fellowship programme. Applicants must http://fellowship.ercim.eu/information be fluent in English. Member institutes must Application form: not host a candidate of the same nationality. https://fellowship.ercim.eu/application/new
Fellowships last for 12 months and each Eligibility profile fellow receives a monthly allowance worth ------between €1,230 and €3,550, depending on the Country of applicant institution: Any host country, and is reimbursed for travel expenses. Fellows must spend at least one Disciplines ------week visiting another ERCIM member Computer Science & Informatics; institute. Mathematical Sciences
Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Deadline information: Contact Detail ------Posted date: 02 Oct 15 Email: [email protected]
ADCLIFFE-BROWN AND FIRTH TRUST FUNDS FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH Royal Anthropological Institute R
Description: The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great expect to submit their thesis between the Britain and Ireland, together with the following December and April. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, invites grant Grants, worth between £500 and £750, cover applications under the Radcliffe-Brown and costs of living and thesis production. Firth Trust Funds. This supports young scholars who are restricted by lack of funds in Closing date: 30 Apr 16 the final stages of completing a doctorate. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 April 2016, 30 November 2016, and repeated Candidates registered in UK or annually. Commonwealth institutions teaching social Posted date: 14 Jul 15 anthropology may apply. Applicants to the 30 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate April round must expect to submit their thesis students, Thesis/Dissertation funding between the following May and November; Award amount max: £750 applicants to the 30 November round must Award amount min: £500
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Award budget total: - Website: Disciplines http://therai.org.uk/awards/research------grants/736-radcliffe-brown-and-firth-trust- Social & Cultural Anthropology funds-for-social-anthropological-research Application form: Contact Details http://therai.org.uk/awards/awards------forms/radcliffe-brown-a-firth-trust-funds- RAI application 50 Fitzroy St London W1T 5BT Eligibility profile Tel: +44 207 387 0455 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Commonwealth member states
BEST PAPER CONTEST Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
Description: The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Website: invites submissions for its annual best paper http://www.tms.org/students/bestpapers.asp contest. Papers must be of a technical research x nature and may deal with any of the following disciplines: physical and Eligibility profile mechanical metallurgy; extractive and process ------metallurgy; materials science. Graduate Country of applicant institution: Any students are encouraged to apply. Disciplines A first prize of $1,000 and a second prize of ------$500 will be awarded. All applicants must be Materials Sciences; Mineralogy; Extractive student members of the society. Applications Metallurgy; Metallurgy; Mineral Exploration; must be submitted in English. Earth Sciences; Mining Engineering
Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the TMS Student Awards Program approximate deadline we expect. This call is 184 Thorn Hill Road repeated once a year. Warrendale, PA 15086 Posted date: 04 Oct 10 Tel: +1 724 776 9000 Award type: Student awards, Prizes Fax: +1 724 776 3770 Award amount max: $1,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: $1,500
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OVARTIS EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR HYPERTENSION RESEARCH American Heart Association
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Description: The American Heart Association invites Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, nominations for the Novartis excellence meetings etc. award for hypertension research. This Award budget total: - honours excellence in research and Website: discoveries in the field of hypertension. http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Co uncils/AwardsandLectures/LifetimeAchieve ASA membership is not required and a ment/Excellence-Award-for-Hypertension- scientist may be nominated an unlimited Research-sponsored-by- number of times by different individuals in Novartis_UCM_322694_Article.jsp the same year. Application form: http://my.americanheart.org/professional/reg The winner receives an honorarium, travels istration/loginForm.jsp?signinType=CAWD costs to attend the high blood pressure research scientific sessions, including round- Eligibility profile ------trip airfare, ground transportation and hotel Country of applicant institution: Any accommodations, and complimentary registration. Disciplines ------Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Hypertension; Clinical Medicine Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 04 Mar 14 Tel: +1 214 706 1181 Email: [email protected]
OUNDERS AWARD Biophysical Society
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Description: The Biophysical Society invites nominations annually. Nominees must be members of the for the founders award. The award was society in good standing. established by the society to recognize outstanding achievement in any area of Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) biophysics. These achievements are often Deadline information: !! Call has not yet reflected in the acceptance of and use by been announced by funder, but this is the others in the field, either promptly or over a approximate deadline we expect. This call is period of years. The award of $1,000 is made repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 30 Dec 10 Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: $1,000 ------Award budget total: - Physics; Biological Physics Website: http://www.biophysics.org/Awards/SocietyA Contact Details wards/FoundersAward/tabid/502/Default.asp ------x Society Awards Application form: Biophysical Society http://www.biophysics.org/LinkClick.aspx?fi 11400 Rockville Pike, Suite 800 leticket=s4qPLlluFwQ%3d&tabid=502 Rockville, Maryland, 20852 Tel: +1 240 290 5600 Eligibility profile Fax: +1 240 290 5555 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
RAENKEL PRIZES IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Wiener Library
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Description: The Wiener Library invites submissions for The work must be written in English, French the Fraenkel prizes in contemporary history. or German. Translations and previous These recognise outstanding unpublished submissions are not eligible. work in the field of 20th century history in one of the library's fields of interest, which Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) include the history of Europe, Jewish history, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet the two world wars, anti-Semitism, been announced by funder, but this is the comparative genocide and political approximate deadline we expect. extremism. Submissions due by 5.30pm. This call is repeated once a year. The library will award prizes in the following Posted date: 26 Feb 15 two categories: Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $6,000 • category A, which provides US$6,000 Award amount min: $4,000 for a completed but unpublished book Award budget total: - not based on a PhD thesis or Website: equivalent; http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/educationan doutreach/fraenkelprize.aspx • category B, which provides US$4,000
for a completed but unpublished PhD Eligibility profile thesis or equivalent. MA theses are ------not admissible. Country of applicant institution: Any
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Crimes Against Humanity; Central European The Wiener Library for the Study of the History; Eastern European History; Jewish Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29 Russell Square London WC1B 5DP Email: [email protected]
C WHITE DENTAL AWARDS Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
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Description: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons membership or dentists who have passed part of Glasgow invites applications for the TC one MFDS or equivalent. Those who have White dental awards. These support research passed part one MFDS or equivalent must related to dentistry. The following awards are have registered to sit part two MFDS available: RCPS(Glasg).
• the TC White young researcher grant, Closing date: 30 Apr 16 worth up to £10,000, enables Deadline information: This call is repeated individuals at an early stage of their once a year. careers to develop general research Posted date: 14 Jul 15 skills in a wide range of dental Award type: Young investigator awards, research; Travel to conferences, meetings etc., • three TC White travel grants, worth Personal development, Travel for research up to £2,000 each, enable individuals purposes, Directed grants for individual to gain clinical or research experience, investigators, Publish, edit, translate, and to attend or present at symposia; disseminate Award amount max: £10,000 • two TC White observership awards, Award budget total: - worth £2,000 each, enable non-UK Website: residents to gain experience at a centre https://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/dentistry/supportin of excellence within the UK or g-your-career/awards-and-scholarships.aspx overseas for a period of two weeks;
• one TC White lecture award, worth up Eligibility profile to £1,000, enables those at an early ------stage of their career, who have less Country of applicant institution: Any than 12 years experience, to present their research in all areas of dentistry Disciplines to a larger audience. ------Dentistry Applicants must be fellows or members of the dental faculty of the college. They must either be dental care professionals with associate
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OLWORTH PRIZE LECTURE Society for General Microbiology
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Description: The Society for General Microbiology invites Website: nominations for the Colworth prize lecture. http://www.microbiologysociety.org/grants- This recognises an individual who has prizes/prize-lectures.cfm/unilever-colworth- demonstrated outstanding contribution to prize-lecture-sponsored-by-unilever-safety- translational microbiology. environmental-assurance-centre Application form: The prize is worth £1,000, and the winner is http://www.sgm.ac.uk/download.cfm/docid/5 expected to deliver a lecture on his or her B54AEC0-007C-44E8-BE7975983D9BF11B work at a society meeting. Eligibility profile Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 18 Feb 15 Microbiology Award type: Prizes Award amount max: £1,000 Contact Details Award amount min: ------Award budget total: - SGM Email: [email protected]
VANTI AWARD IN LIPIDS Biophysical Society
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Description: The Biophysical Society invites nominations must have made important and well- for the Avanti award in lipids. This award recognized contributions to the will be given to an investigator for understanding of lipid biophysics, including outstanding contributions to the the metabolism, enzymology, structure, or understanding of lipid biophysics. Nominees function of lipids or lipid membranes.
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Nominations must be made by a member in good standing of the society. Nominees may Eligibility profile be of any nationality or academic rank, and ------may be affiliated with nonacademic Country of applicant institution: Any institutions provided that the work for which they are to be recognized has been published Disciplines in recognized scholarly journals. The winner ------receives $3,000. Molecular Transport & Membranes; Lipids; Enzymology; Human Metabolism; Biological Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Sciences; Physics; Biocatalysis & Enzyme Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Technology; Biological Physics been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 30 Dec 10 Society Awards Award type: Prizes Biophysical Society Award amount max: $3,000 11400 Rockville Pike, Suite 800 Award budget total: - Rockville, Maryland, 20852 Website: Tel: +1 240 290 5600 http://www.biophysics.org/Awards/SocietyA Fax: +1 240 290 5555 wards/AvantiAwardinLipids/tabid/483/Defa Email: [email protected] ult.aspx Application form: http://www.biophysics.org/LinkClick.aspx?fi leticket=s4qPLlluFwQ%3d&tabid=483
NCOSE/STEVENS DOCTORAL AWARD FOR PROMISING RESEARCH IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION International Council on Systems Engineering I
Description: The International Council on Systems Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Engineering and the Stevens Institute on been announced by funder, but this is the Technology invite applications for their approximate deadline we expect. This call is doctoral award for promising research in repeated once a year. systems engineering and integration. The Posted date: 09 Dec 10 purpose of the award is to inspire and Award type: Prizes recognize innovative doctoral-level research Award amount max: $5,000 related to the field of systems engineering and Award budget total: - integration. Candidates must be qualified Website: PhD students in a degree program. The award http://www.incose.org/practice/research/doct carries a $5,000 grant along with a plaque and oralaward.aspx recognition at the annual INCOSE symposia. Application form: http://www.incose.org/practice/doctoral_awa Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) rd/Doctoral_Application.doc
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------INCOSE Disciplines 7670 Opportunity Rd, Suite 220 ------San Diego, CA 92111-2222 Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Flexible Tel: +1 858 541 1725 Manufacturing Systems; Chemical Fax: +1 858 541 1728 Engineering; Manufacturing & Industrial Email: [email protected] Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
N ROBERTSON TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP Australian Society of Plant Scientists
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Description: The Australian Society of Plant Scientists Closing date: 30 Apr 16 invites applications for the RN Robertson Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 travelling fellowship. This enables graduate November 2015, 30 April 2016. research students and recent PhD graduates Posted date: 06 Nov 15 to undertake research aimed at elucidating Award type: Networking/collaboration, plant function and should enhance the current Predoctoral fellowships, Travel for research research of the applicant by providing access purposes, Early-Career fellowships, Directed to expertise and facilities outside of that grants for individual investigators currently available to them. The aim is to Award amount max: $4,000 encourage young plant scientists to Award amount min: - participate in research in a discipline that Award budget total: $4,000 differs from their own. Website: http://www.asps.org.au/awards/robertson- The fellowship should be undertaken at fellowship Application form: another institution outside of the Australian http://www.asps.org.au/wp- state in which their current research content/uploads/FINAL-RNR2015- institution resides. For overseas applicants, Application-Form.doc the proposed host research institution must be within Australia. Young plant scientists from Eligibility profile Australia and overseas, who are doing ------honours-level projects or postgraduate Country of applicant institution: Any research projects or have completed their PhD less than two years before the application date Disciplines are eligible to apply. ------Horticultural Crop Growth; Botany Up to two awards are available each year to a maximum value of AU$4,000.
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Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------
OUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Description: The European Association for Cardio- Website: Thoracic Surgery invites manuscript http://www.eacts.org/awards/young- submissions for its young investigator investigator-awards/ awards. These recognise the best manuscripts Application form: http://eacts2016.event.y- on topics of clinical or experimental research congress.com/ScientificProcess/Submission/i in the fields of thoracic surgery, cardiac ndex.html?setLng=en surgery and congenital heart disease, presented by young investigators at the Eligibility profile association’s annual meeting. The meeting ------will be held between 1 and 5 October 2016 in Country of applicant institution: Any Barcelona in Spain. Disciplines Candidates must be under 35 years of age and ------first authors of the paper. Respiratory Medicine; Cardiovascular Diseases; Birth & Congenital Defects; Awards are worth €3,000 each. Cardiology; Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 02 Feb 16 EACTS Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Maderia Walk awards Windsor SL4 1EU Award amount max: €3,000 Tel: +44 1753 832 166 Award budget total: - Fax: +44 1753 620 407
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WALTON LILLEHEI YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Description: The European Association for Cardio- Award budget total: - Thoracic Surgery invites abstract submissions Website: http://www.eacts.org/awards/c- for the C Walton Lillehei young investigator walton-lillehei-young-investigators-award/ award. This provides additional support to Application form: http://eacts2016.event.y- the cardiovascular community for research congress.com/ScientificProcess/Submission/i efforts in the field of heart valve surgery. ndex.html?setLng=en Abstracts are to be submitted for the annual meeting which will be held between 1 and 5 Eligibility profile October 2016 in Barcelona in Spain. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must be under 35 years of age. They must be the first author of the paper Disciplines abstract. ------Respiratory Medicine; General Surgery; The award is worth US$10,000. Cardiology
Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. EACTS House Posted date: 02 Feb 16 Madeira Walk Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Windsor SL4 1EU awards Tel: +44 1753 832 166 Award amount max: $10,000 Fax: +44 1753 620 407 Award amount min: -
OUNDERS' PRIZE FOR RESEARCH Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
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Description: The Institute of Physics and Engineering in The prize includes £500, a trophy and Medicine invites nominations for its founders’ certificate, and free one-day attendance at an prize for research. This recognises quality institute conference or meeting for both the research in the field of medical physics and nominee and nominator. engineering. Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Any member of the institute may apply or be Deadline information: Nominations are nominated accepted between 1 January and 30 April annually. This call is repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 11 May 15 Eligibility profile Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Prizes Country of applicant institution: Any Award budget total: - Website: Disciplines http://www.ipem.ac.uk/ProfessionalMatters/ ------TheFoundersPrize.aspx Biomedical Engineering; Medical Physics
Application form: Contact Details http://www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Documents/ ------Prizes%20and%20Awards/Application%20fo Email: [email protected] rm%20for%20Founders'%20Award.doc
ANUFACTURERS’ AWARD FOR INNOVATION Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
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Description: The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Medicine invites nominations for its meetings etc. manufacturers’ award for innovation. This Award budget total: - recognises an individual who has provided or Website: implemented an original solution to a wider http://www.ipem.ac.uk/ProfessionalMatters/ problem in the field of physics and TheManufacturersAward.aspx engineering in medicine. Application form: http://www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Documents/ Members of the association are eligible to Prizes%20and%20Awards/Application%20fo nominate and be nominated. r%20Manufacturers'%20Award%20for%20In novation.doc The award includes a cash prize of £500, a trophy and certificate, and free one-day Eligibility profile attendance at an institute conference or ------meeting for both the nominee and nominator. Country of applicant institution: Any
Disciplines ------Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Deadline information: Nominations are Biomedical Engineering; Medical Physics accepted between 1 January and 30 April annually. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Detail Posted date: 11 May 15 ------Email: [email protected]
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OY ELLIS PATIENT BENEFIT AWARD Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
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Description: The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Medicine invites nominations for the Roy Ellis etc., Prizes patient benefit award. This recognises an Award budget total: - individual who has demonstrated how they Website: have benefited patients, either directly such as http://www.ipem.ac.uk/ProfessionalMatters/ designing a bespoke device, or indirectly, TheRoyEllisAward.aspx such as producing an information leaflet or Application form: provided advice on a website. http://www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Documents/ Prizes%20and%20Awards/Application%20fo Members of the institute both within the UK rm%20for%20Roy%20Ellis%20Patient%20Be and overseas may apply. nefit%20Award.doc
The award includes a cash prize of £500, a Eligibility profile trophy and certificate, and free one-day ------attendance at an institute conference or Country of applicant institution: Any meeting for both the nominee and nominator. Disciplines ------Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Deadline information: Nominations are Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering accepted between 1 January and 30 April annually. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 11 May 15 ------Email: [email protected]
OYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ESSAY PRIZE Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
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Description: The Institute of Physics and Engineering in published article or written with a view to Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians publication. invite applications for their essay prize. This recognises novel work in the form of a jointly Applicants must either be members of the written essay which has exploited or society or institute. developed any aspects of the physics and engineering in medicine and biology. The The prize is worth £1,000, and winners are essay should aim at increasing public invited to IPEM’s conference dinner to receive awareness of the contribution of physics and the award. engineering in healthcare. It may be either a
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Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Applications are ------invited between 1 January and 30 April Country of applicant institution: Any annually. This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 20 Nov 15 Disciplines Award type: Networking/collaboration, ------Prizes Biomedical Engineering; Medical Physics Award amount max: £1,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.ipem.ac.uk/ProfessionalMatters/ Prizes and Awards Advisory Group, IPEMRCPEssayPrize.aspx Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, Application form: Fairmount House, http://www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Documents/ 230 Tadcaster Road, Prizes%20and%20Awards/RCP- YORK YO24 1ES IPEM%20Essay%20Prize.doc Email: [email protected]
ERALD R FORD SCHOLAR AWARD National Archives and Records Administration
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Description: The National Archives and Records Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Administration's Gerald R Ford Presidential Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Library and Museum invites applications for been announced by funder, but this is the its scholar award. This annual award of $5,000 approximate deadline we expect. This call is is given to a doctoral student to support repeated once a year. dissertation research on an aspect of the Posted date: 09 Dec 10 United States political process and public Award type: Predoctoral fellowships policy during the last half of the 20th century. Award amount max: $5,000 Of special interest is the role and analysis of Award budget total: - public opinion in that process. Website: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/fsa.asp Doctoral students in political science, history, journalism, communications, public policy, Eligibility profile foreign relations, or American studies are ------encouraged to apply. Applicants must have Country of applicant institution: Any completed all requirements for the PhD program except for the dissertation, by the Disciplines ------application deadline. The successful scholar Political Science; International Relations & will be required to conduct at least some of Diplomacy; Political Philosophy; Politics & the research at the Gerald R Ford library. International Studies; Journalism; Political
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Parties & Institutions; Political Systems & Gerald R Ford Library Methodology; North American Studies; 1000 Beal Avenue History; Communication & Media Studies; Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Public Policy; American Literature; American Tel: +1 734 205 0554 History Fax: +1 734 205 0571 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
NATRACE MEMBRANE PROTEIN AWARD Biophysical Society
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Description: The Biophysical Society invites nominations Application form: for the Anatrace membrane protein award. http://www.biophysics.org/LinkClick.aspx?fi This award recognizes an outstanding leticket=s4qPLlluFwQ%3d&tabid=482 investigator who has made a significant contribution to the field of membrane protein Eligibility profile research. The award is designed to promote ------membrane protein studies and recognize Country of applicant institution: Any excellence in the field. Achievements may be in the study of the structure, biochemistry, or Disciplines biological function of membrane proteins. ------Nominees must be members of the society. Chemistry; Nucleus & Organelles; Physics; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Molecular The award consists of a prize of $3,000. Transport & Membranes; Protein Trafficking; Diagnostic Sciences; Biological Sciences; Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Biological Physics Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Society Awards Posted date: 30 Dec 10 Biophysical Society Award type: Prizes 11400 Rockville Pike, Suite 800 Award amount max: $3,000 Rockville, Maryland, 20852 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 240 290 5600 Website: Fax: +1 240 290 5555 http://www.biophysics.org/Awards/SocietyA Email: [email protected] wards/AnatraceMembraneProteinAward/tab id/482/Default.aspx
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RAWEMEYER AWARD IN EDUCATION University of Louisville
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Description: The University of Louisville invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for the Grawemeyer award in repeated once a year. education. This aims to stimulate the Posted date: 08 Jan 13 dissemination, public scrutiny and Award type: Prizes implementation of ideas that have potential to Award amount max: $100,000 bring about significant improvement in Award budget total: - educational practice and advances in Website: educational attainment. The award is http://grawemeyer.org/education/description intended not only to reward the individuals .html/ responsible, but also to draw attention to their Application form: ideas, proposals or achievements. The award http://grawemeyer.org/files/nomination- is designed to recognise a specific recent forms/2014-grawemeyer-nom-form.pdf achievement rather than a lifetime of accomplishment. Eligibility profile ------
Country of applicant institution: Any The award is open to individuals and non- profit organisations. Nominations may be Disciplines made by professional educators, educational ------institutions and organisations, or publishers Research Methods in Education; Education; and editors of educational books and journals. Teacher Quality & Evaluation; Curriculum & Entries must be submitted in English. Pedagogy Theory; Schools Policy & Politics;
Teacher Education & Professional The award is worth US$100,000, payable in Development five annual instalments. The winner will be expected to come to Louisville during the Contact Details second week in April to make a formal ------presentation based on the winning idea, College of Education and Human participate in informal meetings with faculty Development and students as requested, and to receive the University of Louisville award. Louisville, KY 40292
Tel: +1 502 852 2271 Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Fax: +1 502 852 0159 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the
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ILEY HOUSEWRIGHT DISSERTATION AWARD Society for American Music W
Description: The Society for American Music invites time: 11.59 PDT. This call is repeated once a applications for the Wiley Housewright year. dissertation award. This award is designed to Posted date: 09 Mar 11 recognize a single dissertation on American Award type: Prizes music for its exceptional depth, clarity, Award budget total: - significance and overall contribution to the Website: http://american- field. American is understood here to embrace music.org/awards/HousewrightDiss.php all of North America, including Central America and the Caribbean, and aspects of its Eligibility profile cultures elsewhere in the world. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Dissertations from American studies, American history, and other fields beyond Disciplines theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology are ------welcome as long as the primary focus of the History; Musicology; Music Theory; American work is a musical topic. The dissertation must Literature; North American Studies; History be in English and must have been completed of Music; American History; Music in calendar year 2010. The award consists of a plaque and a cash award. Contact Details ------Society for American Music Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Stephen Foster Memorial Deadline information: !! Call has not yet University of Pittsburgh been announced by funder, but this is the Pittsburgh, PA 15260 approximate deadline we expect. Deadline Tel: +1 412 624 3031 Email: [email protected]
HPRG AWARD European High Pressure Research Group
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Description: The European High Pressure Research Group given must refer to a high-pressure work invites applications for its award. This carried out in any scientific area in any promotes high pressure research of high laboratory, even non-European. quality and aims to encourage young scientists and engineers in the field. Up to two awards, worth €500 each, will be Applicants must be European citizens and awarded. under 35 years of age in the year the award is granted. The work for which the award is Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast)
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Physics; Chemistry; High Pressure Sciences Posted date: 01 May 14 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Prizes ------Award amount max: €500 School of Engineering and CSEC Award budget total: - The University of Edinburgh Website: http://www.ehprg.org/award.php Erskine Williamson Building Application form: The King’s Buildings http://www.ehprg.org/docs/award_applicatio Mayfield Road n.doc Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Tel: +44 131 651 7049 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
RIZE FOR WOMEN'S CREATIVITY IN RURAL LIFE Women’s World Summit Foundation
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Description: The Women's World Summit Foundation invites nominations for the prize for women's Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) creativity in rural life. The prize honours Deadline information: !! Call has not yet women and women's groups worldwide been announced by funder, but this is the exhibiting exceptional creativity, courage and approximate deadline we expect. This call is commitment for the improvement of the repeated once a year. quality of life in rural communities through Posted date: 01 Oct 13 their contributions to sustainable Award type: Development development, household food, security and (Africa/Caribbean), Prizes peace. Award amount max: $3,000 Award amount min: $1,000 Nominees should be women and women's Award budget total: - groups active in rural life whose efforts have Website: not been acknowledged by other awards. http://www.woman.ch/index.php?page=nom Applicants may not nominate themselves. The ination-guidelines&hl=en_US nominating organisation or individual must Application form: have direct experience of the nominee's work http://www.woman.ch/uploads/15oct/Nomin and commit to organising an award ceremony ation_Guidelines_EN_2014.pdf if the candidate is selected for the prize.
The prize is worth US$1,000 per laureate, or
US$3,000 for African women's organisations.
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Eligibility profile Security; Rural Health; Development Studies; ------Equal Educational Opportunity; Food Science; Country of applicant institution: All African Rural Planning & Policy; Social Programmes; Nations Education; Built Environment & Spatial Planning; Food Engineering & Technology Disciplines ------Contact Details Civil & Human Rights; Violence & Violent ------Crime; Environmental Science; Sociology; WWSF Democracy & Participation; Urban Planning & 11 Avenue de la Paix Policy; Women's Rights; Sustainable 1202 Geneva Agriculture; Agriculture; International Tel: +41 22 738 6619 Security; Sustainable Development & Fax: +41 22 738 8248 Resource Use; Social Work & Social Policy; Email: [email protected] Politics & International Studies; Food
OSTDOCTORAL BURSARIES University of Edinburgh
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Description: The University of Edinburgh's Institute for Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Advanced Studies in the Humanities invites Deadline information: Applications are applications for its postdoctoral bursaries. invited between January and 30 April 2016. These support research in any area of the This call is repeated once a year. humanities and social sciences. Fellows are Posted date: 18 Aug 15 expected to give at least one seminar Award type: Early-Career fellowships, presentation during their tenure. Postdoctoral training fellowships, Directed Interdepartmental and interdisciplinary study grants for individual investigators, is encouraged. Networking/collaboration Award amount max: £10,000 Applicants must have been awarded a Award budget total: - doctorate, normally within the last three Website: years, and should not have held a permanent http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowships/fellow position at a university, or a previous ships-at-iash/postdoctoral-bursaries-2016-17/ fellowship at the institute. However, Application form: candidates who have held temporary or short- http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowships/fellow term appointments may apply. ships-at-iash/postdoctoral-bursaries-2016-
17/application-form/ Bursaries are worth up to £10,000 each and are tenable between three and nine months. Eligibility profile Funding may be used to top up an existing ------postdoctoral fellowship or as a contribution Country of applicant institution: Any towards living expenses.
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Disciplines Social Sciences; Humanities ------
LESSANDRO RICCHI TRANSPLANT SERVICES FOUNDATION AWARD European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Description: The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Award amount max: €3,000 Surgery invites submissions for the Award budget total: - Alessandro Ricchi Transplant Services Website: http://www.eacts.org/awards/ Foundation award. This is awarded for work in the field of transplant surgery. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be the first author of a paper Country of applicant institution: Any on the subject of transplantation heart, transplantation lung, cardiovascular or Disciplines thoracic tissue and cell transplantation or ------engineering. Candidates must also be under Organ Transplantation; Cardiology; 35 years of age in the year of the award. Respiratory Medicine; Cardiovascular Diseases The award is worth €3,000. Contact Details Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet EACTS been announced by funder, but this is the Maderia Walk approximate deadline we expect. This call is Windsor SL4 1EU repeated once a year. Tel: +44 1753 832 166 Posted date: 26 Jan 15 Fax: +44 1753 620 407 Award type: Prizes, Young investigator awards
ANS G BORST AWARD FOR THORACIC AORTIC SURGERY European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Description: The European Association for Cardio- surgery. This stimulates advanced clinical or Thoracic Surgery invites abstract submissions experimental research in the field of thoracic for the Hans G Borst award for thoracic aortic aortic surgery by young investigators, as
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documented by an outstanding presentation Website: http://www.eacts.org/awards/hans- during the annual meeting of the association. g-borst-award-for-thoracic-aortic-surgery/ Abstracts must be submitted for the 2016 Application form: http://eacts2016.event.y- annual meeting which will take place between congress.com/ScientificProcess/Submission/i 1 and 5 October 2016 in Barcelona in Spain. ndex.html?setLng=en
Applicants must be under 40 years of age. Eligibility profile They must be the first author of the paper ------abstract. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award is worth €5,000. Disciplines ------Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Respiratory Medicine; Cardiovascular Deadline information: This call is repeated Diseases; Cardiology once a year. Posted date: 02 Feb 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Young investigator ------awards EACTS Award amount max: €5,000 Maderia Walk Award amount min: - Windsor SL4 1EU Award budget total: - Tel: +44 1753 832 166 Fax: +44 1753 620 407
MALL GRANTS FOR THESIS WRITING Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Description: The Council for the Development of Social Grants are worth up to US$5,000 each and Science Research invites applications for its may be used to cover the costs of fieldwork, small grants for thesis writing. These aim to books and documents, data processing and contribute to the development of social thesis or dissertation printing. sciences and the continuous renewal and strengthening of research capacities in African Closing date: 30 Apr 16 universities through the funding of primary Deadline information: research conducted by postgraduate students. Posted date: 03 Feb 16 Award type: Publish, edit, translate, Applications are open to students currently disseminate, Equipment and materials, registered in PhD programmes at African Thesis/Dissertation funding, Financial aid universities who are preparing their theses for postgraduate students, Directed grants and dissertations in any field of social sciences for individual investigators or other disciplines involving social or Award amount max: $5,000 economic analysis. Award budget total: -
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Website: Disciplines http://newebsite.codesria.org/spip.php?articl ------e2524&lang=en Social Sciences Application form: http://newebsite.codesria.org/IMG/doc/2015_ Contact Details small_grants_application_form------2.doc?4626/d0ceb87aec2830517e535ea36abb24 Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing 6b8044ecb0 CODESRIA BP 3304 Eligibility profile CP 18524 ------Dakar Country of applicant institution: All African Tel: +221 33 825 9822 Nations Email: [email protected]
ARCELA URIBE ZAMUDIO AWARDS International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
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Description: The International Society of Orthopaedic Award amount max: $1,000 Surgery and Traumatology invites Award budget total: - applications for the Marcela Uribe Zamudio Website: http://www.sicot.org/rome-awards awards. These are awarded at the Orthopaedic World Congress and aim to Eligibility profile encourage young female researchers and ------clinicians. Country of applicant institution: Any
Candidates must be women orthopaedic Disciplines surgeons or trainees under 40 years of age ------who have published an original scientific Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; work in orthopaedics or traumatology in Orthopaedic Surgery English within the last three years. Contact Details Two prizes, worth US$1,000 each, are ------awarded. SICOT aisbl Rue de la Loi 26 - b.13 Closing date: 30 Apr 16 1040 Brussels Deadline information: Tel: +32 2 648 6823 Posted date: 05 Jan 16 Fax: +32 2 649 8601 Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Email: [email protected] awards
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WIN BEST PAPER AWARDS UniCredit Foundation
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Description: The UniCredit Foundation, in cooperation Application form: with UniCredit Women’s International http://www.unicreditanduniversities.eu/inde Network, invites submissions for the UWIN x.php/en/sfGuardUserProfile/new/edition_id best paper awards. These will be awarded for /96 the two best papers on the topic of gender economics. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must have been born after 1980 Country of applicant institution: Austria, and be either citizens of a country where Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UniCredit is present, or be currently Bulgaria, Serbia, Czech Republic, Germany, employed or enrolled in a PhD programme at Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, a university or institution in one of these 17 Russian Federation, Slovenia, Slovakia, countries. Papers must be written in English Turkey, Ukraine and be published after 2015. Country of applicant institution: Any
Two prizes, worth €5,000 each, will be Disciplines awarded. ------Demographic Economics; Feminist, Women's Closing date: 30 Apr 16 & Gender Studies; Economic & Social Deadline information: This call is repeated Environment once a year. Posted date: 14 Jan 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Young investigator ------awards UniCredit & Universities Foundation Award amount max: €5,000 Piazza Gae Aulenti Award budget total: €10,000 UniCredit Tower - Tower A Website: 20154 Milan http://unicreditanduniversities.eu/en/fellow/ Tel: +39 02 8862 4340 show/fellow_id/17 Email: [email protected]
CHOLARSHIPS FOR MASTER’S STUDENTS IN FINNISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Centre for International Mobility Finland – Kansainvälisen liikkuvuuden ja yhteistyön keskus CIMO S
Description: The Centre for International Mobility Finland master’s students in Finnish. These enable invites applications for its scholarships for students of Finnish language and culture,
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Tel: +358 295 338 525 Eligibility profile Fax: +358 9 753 1123 ------Email: [email protected]
OVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA INITIATIVE PHD SCHOLARSHIP University of London
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Description: The School of Oriental and African Studies at undertaking a full-time PhD programme in the University of London, in association with the field of governance for development in the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, invites Africa. applications for its governance for development in Africa initiative PhD Applicants must be domiciled in or scholarship. This supports an African student permanent residents of an African country.
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Preference is given to candidates living in Eligibility profile sub-Saharan Africa. The research undertaken ------must directly address or be applicable to the Country of applicant institution: All African issue of governance in Africa. Nations
The scholarship provides fees for three years, Disciplines accommodation and living expenses for the ------first year only, return flights and an annual Poverty in Developing Countries; Politics & stipend of £5,000 in the second and third year Economics of Africa; Agriculture in of the programme. Developing Countries; Health Systems in Developing Countries; Education in Closing date: 30 Apr 16 Developing Countries Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 27 May 15 ------Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance for students, Directed grants for individual Development in Africa Initiative investigators, Development SOAS (Africa/Caribbean) University of London Award budget total: - Thornhaugh Street Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/gdai/gdai- Russell Square phd-scholarships.html London WC1H 0XG Application form: Tel: +44 20 7898 4370 http://www.soas.ac.uk/gdai/file43391.pdf Email: [email protected]
UTSTANDING INVESTIGATOR AWARD International Society for Heart Research
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Description: The International Society for Heart Research be active members of the society. invites nominations for its outstanding Nominations are sought from members of the investigator award. This recognises a scientist society. Self nominations will not be who is making major and independent considered. contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science and leading a growing The winner will present a major lecture, and research programme likely to play a major receive US$3,000, a plaque and free role in the future. registration and expenses up to a maximum of US$1,500 for continental and US$3,000 for This award is targeted at established intercontinental travel for the meeting at investigators in the intermediate phase of which he or she will lecture. their academic career, of at least assistant or associate professor status or equivalent and Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) normally under the age of 45. Nominees must
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiology; Posted date: 07 Apr 14 Diagnostic Sciences; Myocardial Infarction Award type: Young investigator awards, (Heart Attack); Clinical Medicine Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Award amount max: $6,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: Systems Biology Center http://www.ishrworld.org/?page=Investigato NHBI, NIH r Betheseda MD 20895 Tel: +1 301 496 5828 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
NTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE PRIZE Inter-Research Science Center
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Description: The Inter-Research Science Center, under the Deadline information: !! Call has not yet International Ecology Institute, invites been announced by funder, but this is the nominations for its international recognition approximate deadline we expect. This call is of professional excellence prize. This honours repeated once a year. a young ecologist who has published Posted date: 27 Feb 15 uniquely independent, original and Award type: Prizes, Young investigator challenging research representing an awards important scientific breakthrough, or who has Award amount max: €3,000 worked under particularly difficult Website: http://www.int-res.com/ecology- conditions. institute/call-for-nominations/
Nominations are invited from research Eligibility profile ecologists under the age of 40 worldwide. The ------prize is awarded in annual sequence to a Country of applicant institution: Any marine, terrestrial or freshwater ecologist. In 2015 the prize will be awarded to a researcher Disciplines in the field of freshwater ecology. ------Freshwater Ecology & Limnology The prize is worth €3,000 and the winner is expected to write a book for the Excellence in Contact Details ------Ecology series. Email: [email protected]
Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast)
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SSAY PRIZE Garden History Society
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Description: The Garden History Society invites entries for Website: its essay prize. This recognises the best http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org/publica student essay on any aspect of garden history. tions/annual-essay-prize/ Entries must be between 5,000 and 6,000 words. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be enrolled in a university or Country of applicant institution: Any have graduated within the last 12 months. The prize consists of £250, free membership of the Disciplines society for one year and consideration for ------publication in the society’s journal. Botany; Cultural History; Landscape Architecture; Botanical Gardens Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Garden History Society repeated once a year. 70 Cowcross Street Posted date: 09 Dec 14 London EC1M 6EJ Award type: Prizes, Student awards Tel: +44 020 7608 2409 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
LOBAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS United States Pharmacopeial Convention
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Description: The United States Pharmacopeial Convention • food ingredients. invites applications for its global fellowship awards. These are for research in areas Applicants must have been accepted for full- relating to standards for medicines, foods and time study in a PhD or PharmD programme dietary supplements. Research must align or medical or dental school, have been with one of the following topics: accepted to a fellowship programme or have been awarded a postdoctoral research (non- • general research; faculty) appointment. Non-US applicants • small molecules; must have a background in standards and • biologics and biotechnology; currently be enrolled in an equivalent • excipients; educational programme. • dietary supplements;
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Three fellowships worth US$50,000 each are Eligibility profile available. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Nucleus & Organelles; Biological Sciences; repeated once a year. Chemistry; Biotechnology; Food Science; Posted date: 17 Apr 13 Dietary Guidelines; Nutrition & Dietetics; Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Protein Trafficking Postdoctoral training fellowships Award amount max: $50,000 Contact Details Award budget total: $150,000 ------Website: http://www.usp.org/global/global- USP Fellowship Program fellowship-awards-program 12601 Twinbrook Parkway Application form: Rockville, Maryland 20852 http://www.usp.org/sites/default/files/usp_p Tel: +1 301 881 0666 df/EN/aboutUSP/ga033f_fellowship_prog_ap Email: [email protected] p_2012-10_y.pdf
WAS-LENOVO SCIENCE PRIZE TWAS
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Description: The World Academy of Sciences and Lenovo The prize is worth US$100,000, and includes a invite nominations for their science prize. This medal and a certificate. recognises an outstanding scientist in the developing world. The prize will focus on the Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) basic sciences, with the specific subject area Deadline information: !! Call has not yet changing each year. In 2015, the prize will be been announced by funder, but this is the awarded in the field of mathematics. approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Nominations are welcome from TWAS Posted date: 26 Feb 15 members, selected individuals, as well as Award type: Prizes science academies, national research councils, Award amount max: $100,000 universities and scientific institutions. Award budget total: - Nominations of women scientists are Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas- particularly encouraged. Self-nominations are lenovo-science-prize not accepted. Eligible candidates must be nationals of a developing country who have Application form: lived and worked in a developing country for http://twas.org/sites/default/files/prize/twas- the last ten years. lenovo-prize-2015-nomination.doc
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Lower- TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize Middle-Income countries, Low Income ICTP Campus countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Disciplines Tel: +39 040 2240 387 ------Fax: +39 040 2240 7387 Mathematical Sciences Email: [email protected]
BEL VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME International Mathematical Union
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Description: The International Mathematical Union and The grant is worth up to US$5,000, and will the Niels Henrik Abel Board invite cover health insurance, visa cost, all travel applications for the Abel visiting scholar and living expenses, including programme. This enables mathematicians accommodation for one month. professionally based in developing countries to visit an international research collaborator Closing date: 30 Apr 16 for a period of one month. Deadline information: Applications must be received at least four months before the Applicants must hold a PhD in mathematics, desired starting date. Deadlines on: 30 April be based in a developing country at the time 2016, 31 August 2016, 8 January 2017. of application, hold a position in a university Posted date: 14 Jan 16 or research institution and be in the early Award type: Personal development, Travel stages of their professional careers. Applicants for research purposes, Young investigator should not yet be of full professorial rank but awards, Directed grants for individual have a working contract in a university or investigators, Networking/collaboration college, and they must be under 40 years of Award amount max: $5,000 age on the application deadline. The Award budget total: - maximum age may be increased by up to Website: three years in the case of an individual with a http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grants/abel- visiting-scholar-program/ broken career pattern. Applications from Application form: women mathematicians are strongly http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/image encouraged. The applicant must already have s/cdc/downloads/Application_Form_for_the_ initiated contact with the proposed Abel_Visiting_Scholar_Program.docx international research partner. The collaboration should take place at the Eligibility profile international partner’s home institution. ------Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
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Benin, Bolivia, Bhutan, Congo, the Democratic Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, Republic of the, Central African Republic, El Salvador, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Tajikistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated Republic of, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, States of, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, South Sudan Honduras, Haiti, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Lao People's Disciplines Democratic Republic, Liberia, Lesotho, ------Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, Mathematical Sciences Marshall Islands, Mali, Mauritania, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Contact Detail Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, ------Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Email: [email protected] Paraguay, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sudan,
INGER PRIZE British Society for the History of Science
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Description: The British Society for the History of Science Posted date: 22 Feb 16 invites applications for the Singer prize. This Award type: Student awards, Prizes is awarded to the best unpublished essay by a Award amount max: £300 younger scholar, or one new to the profession, Award budget total: - on any aspect of the history of science, Website: technology or medicine. http://www.bshs.org.uk/prizes/singer-prize
Candidates must be registered for a Eligibility profile postgraduate degree or have been awarded ------such in the two years prior to the closing date. Country of applicant institution: Any Essays must not be published or under consideration anywhere outside the British Disciplines Journal for the History of Science. Entry is not ------limited to British nationals. History of Engineering & Technology; History of Medicine; History of Science The prize is worth up to £300. Contact Detail Closing date: 30 Apr 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] every 2 years.
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ARRIET DUSTAN AWARD American Heart Association
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Description: The American Heart Association invites Website: nominations for the Harriet Dustan award. http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Co This recognises female investigators who have uncils/AwardsandLectures/CareerAchievem made outstanding contributions in the field of ent/Career-Achievement- hypertension. Awards_UCM_322211_Article.jsp Application form: The award includes complimentary http://my.americanheart.org/professional/reg registration to the high blood pressure istration/loginForm.jsp?signinType=CAWD scientific sessions, round-trip coach airfare, hotel accommodation at the conference and a Eligibility profile US$2,000 honorarium. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Clinical Medicine; Hypertension repeated once a year. Posted date: 04 Mar 14 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, ------meetings etc. Tel: +1 214 706 1181 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
CHOLARSHIPS IATSE Local 891
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Description: IATSE Local 981 invites applications for its In total, 10 scholarships, worth CA$5,000 scholarships. These are awarded to students each, are available. who are enrolled full time in post-secondary studies relating to film, media, theatre or fine Closing date: 30 Apr 16 (Forecast) arts, as well as any other subjects. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Members and dependents of members who approximate deadline we expect. This call is are in good standing and enrolled at any repeated once a year. Canadian or international accredited post- Posted date: 10 Nov 14 secondary institution are eligible to apply. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate students
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Award amount max: $5,000 Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Any http://iatse.com/benefits/scholarships.aspx Application form: Contact Details http://iatse.com/_content/documents/public/ ------Scholarships/IATSE%20Local%20891%20Sch IATSE Local 891 olarship%20Form%202015-2016pdf.pdf 1640 Boundary Road Burnaby BC V5K 4V4 Eligibility profile Tel: +1 604 664 8910 ------Fax: +1 604 298 3456 Country of applicant institution: Canada Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
ACTS/SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS AWARD European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Description: The European Association for Cardio- Award budget total: - Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Website: Surgeons invite abstract submissions for their http://www.eacts.org/awards/eactssts-award/ award. This rewards the best abstract in the Application form: http://eacts2016.event.y- field of thoracic aortic medicine presented congress.com/ScientificProcess/Submission/i during the combined EACTS/STS aortic ndex.html?setLng=en session. Abstracts must address the theme of 2016, namely ‘acute type A and type B Eligibility profile dissection’. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must be the first author of the paper, which must be submitted for the 2016 Disciplines annual meeting. This will take place between ------1 and 5 October 2016 in Barcelona in the Respiratory Medicine; Cardiovascular Spain. Diseases; Cardiology
The award is worth €2,000. Contact Details ------Closing date: 30 Apr 16 EACTS Deadline information: This call is repeated Maderia Walk once a year. Windsor SL4 1EU Posted date: 02 Feb 16 Tel: +44 1753 832 166 Award type: Prizes Fax: +44 1753 620 407 Award amount max: €2,000
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OLLEGE TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIPS Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
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Description: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Postdoctoral training fellowships, Personal of Glasgow invites applications for its development, Travel for research purposes, travelling fellowships. These enable younger Young investigator awards members of the college to travel to centres of Award amount max: £2,000 excellence in order to gain further experience Award budget total: £32,000 in any area of surgery, or for members from Website: https://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/The- overseas to visit centres in the UK. In College/Supporting-Your-Career/Awards- addition, the fellowships support a variety of and-Scholarships/Travelling- other learning opportunities, including taster Awards/College-Travelling-Fellowship.aspx weeks for junior doctors. Application form: https://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/~/media/P3/Files/A Members and fellows of the college, including wards%20and%20Scholarship/Forms/AppFo introductory postgraduate, associate or rmCollege%20Travelling%202016.doc affiliate members, as well as members of the Eligibility profile faculties of travel medicine and podiatric ------medicine, may apply. Country of applicant institution: Any
Up to 16 fellowships, worth up to £2,000 each, Disciplines are available every year. Four of these are ------allocated to overseas members. Funding Surgery & Intensive Care covers travel and subsistence expenses, but does not support attendance at year-long Contact Details salaried post, courses or conferences. ------
RCPSG Closing date: 30 Apr 16 232-242 St Vincent Street Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 Glasgow G2 5RJ April 2016, 30 November 2016. Tel: +44 141 221 6072 Posted date: 21 Jan 16 Award type: Directed grants for individual Fax: +44 141 211 1804 investigators, Early-Career fellowships, Email: [email protected]
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AKERERE COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES AT MULAGO HOSPITAL SICOT FELLOWSHIP International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology M
Description: The International Society of Orthopaedic Award type: Travel for research purposes, Surgery and Traumatology invites Early-Career fellowships, Mid-Career applications for its Makerere College of fellowships Health Sciences at Mulago Hospital SICOT Award amount max: €2,500 Fellowship. This enables surgeons to Award budget total: - undertake a fellowship at Makerere Univesity Website: http://www.sicot.org/makerere- College of Health Sciences at Mulago Hospital fellowship in Kampala, specialising in arthroplasty, spine surgery, trauma and paediatric orthopaedics. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must be members of the society of Country of applicant institution: Any at least two years standing, hold a postgraduate degree in general or orthopaedic Disciplines surgery, be fluent in English and under the ------age of 40 at the beginning of the fellowship. Orthopaedic Surgery
Two fellowships are available. They cover Contact Details travel and accommodation costs of up to ------€2,500 each for a period of up to six months. Makerere University College of Health Sciences Closing date: 30 Apr 16 P.O Box 7072 Kampala Deadline information: This call is repeated Tel: +256 414 530 020 once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 26 Jan 16
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MAY 2016
ALLYN TAYLOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN MEDICINE John P Robarts Research Institute J
Description: The John P Robarts Institute invites Award budget total: - nominations for the J Allyn Taylor Website: http://www.robarts.ca/node/981 international prize in medicine. This recognises a scientist or a team of scientists for Eligibility profile contributions to basic or clinical research in ------cellular and molecular imaging of cancer. Country of applicant institution: Any Nominations should be made by the scientific community. Disciplines ------The prize includes a cash reward of Radiology & Medical Imaging; Cancer Studies CA$25,000. & Oncology
Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Robarts Research Institute approximate deadline we expect. This call is 1151 Richmond Street N. repeated once a year. London ON N6A 5B7 Posted date: 16 Feb 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $25,000
ING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN SCIENCE King Faisal Foundation
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Description: The King Faisal Foundation invites individuals or political parties will not be nominations for the King Faisal international considered. Nominated works must be prize in science. This will be awarded for a published, benefit mankind and enrich publication in the field of biology. human knowledge.
Nominations are welcomed from universities, The award includes a cash prize worth research centres and other learned circles. SR750,000 (US$200,000), a certificate and a Previous winners may also submit gold medallion. Should the foundation select nominations, while nominations from
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ERCK IRVING S SIGAL MEMORIAL AWARDS American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Website: invites nominations for the Merck Irving S http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- Sigal memorial awards. These recognise awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/28-merck- excellence in basic research in medical irving-s-sigal-memorial-awards microbiology and infectious diseases. Application form: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- Nominees must be no more than five years forms/sigal-nominating beyond completion of postdoctoral research training in microbiology or infectious diseases Eligibility profile at the time of the nomination deadline. Self------nominations and multiple nominations for Country of applicant institution: Any one candidate will not be accepted. Disciplines Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by 1 Microbiology May, 2016. Posted date: 08 Jul 14 Contact Detail Award type: Prizes ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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CHOLARSHIPS Environmental Research and Education Foundation
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Description: The Environmental Research and Education Foundation invites applications for its Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) scholarships. These are awarded to recognise Deadline information: !! Call has not yet excellence in master’s, doctoral and been announced by funder, but this is the postdoctoral waste management research and approximate deadline we expect. education. The following scholarships are Applications are due by 5pm ET. This call is available: repeated once a year. Posted date: 25 Mar 15 • the Fiessinger doctoral scholarship Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Early- recognises excellence in PhD or Career fellowships, Financial aid for postdoctoral environmental research postgraduate students and education; Award amount max: $36,000 Award budget total: - • the EREF doctoral scholarship Website: recognises the furthering of education http://erefdn.org/index.php/scholarships/ind in the solid waste management ex industry and is available for PhD or Application form: postdoctoral candidates; https://erefscholarships.communityforce.com • the Robert P Stearns/SCS engineers /Funds/Search.aspx master’s scholarship expands the EREF doctoral scholarship Eligibility profile programme at master’s level; ------• the Robert J Riethmiller/PTR Baler Country of applicant institution: Any and Compactor master’s scholarship for work relating to the waste Disciplines industry; ------• the Waste Industries Scholarship Hazardous Materials & Waste; Waste honouring Lonnie C Poole Jr; Management & Disposal; Waste Recycling, Reduction & Recovery Individuals who will be this year or who are a current full-time master’s or doctoral students Contact Details or postdoctoral researchers and who have a ------clearly demonstrated interest in solid waste EREF management research are eligible to apply. 3301 Benson Drive, Suite 301 Raleigh, NC 27609 Doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships are Tel: +1 919 861 6876 worth up to US$12,000 per year for up to Email: [email protected] three years. Master’s scholarships are worth up to US$5,000 per year for up to two years.
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BBOTT AWARD IN CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC IMMUNOLOGY American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Website: invites nominations for the Abbott award in http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- clinical and diagnostic immunology. This awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/52- honours a scientist in clinical or diagnostic abbott-laboratories-award-in-clinical-and- immunology for contributions to those fields. diagnostic-immunology Application form: Nominees must demonstrate significant http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- contributions to understanding the forms/abbott-laboratories-award-in-clinical- functioning of the host immune system in and-diagnostic-immunology-nominating human disease, clinical approaches to diseases involving the immune system or development Eligibility profile or clinical application of immunodiagnostic ------procedures. Only one nominating form and Country of applicant institution: Any two supporting forms are accepted per nomination. Only one of the two supporters Disciplines may be employed at the nominee’s institution. ------Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Disease Models; Diagnostic Sciences; Immunological Closing date: 01 May 16 & Bioassay Methods Deadline information: Posted date: 02 Nov 15 Contact Detail Award type: Prizes ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
UPONT INDUSTRIAL BIOSCIENCES AWARD IN APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY American Society for Microbiology D
Description: The American Society for Microbiology Nominees must demonstrate outstanding invites nominations for the Dupont industrial accomplishment in research or development biosciences award. The purpose of this award in an appropriate field and be actively is to recognise distinguished achievements in engaged in research or development at the research and development in applied non- time that the award is presented. Self- clinical and environmental microbiology. nominations and multiple nominations for one candidate will not be accepted.
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Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: Applications due by 1 Eligibility profile May, 2016. ------Posted date: 08 Jul 14 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Prizes Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- Microbiology awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/35- procter-a-gamble-award-in-applied-and- Contact Detail environmental-microbiology ------Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- forms/pg-nominating
D AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Award type: Prizes invites nominations for the BD award for Award budget total: - research in clinical microbiology. This award Website: honours a distinguished scientist for research http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- accomplishments that form the foundation for awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/21-bd- important applications in clinical award-for-research-in-clinical-microbiology microbiology. Application form: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- Nominees must be distinguished clinical forms/bd-nominating microbiologists. Self-nominations and multiple nominations of the same candidate Eligibility profile are not accepted. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award includes a cash prize of US$2,000 and travel to the society’s general meeting, Disciplines where the awardee will deliver the BD award ------lecture. Microbiology
Closing date: 01 May 16 Contact Detail Deadline information: Applications due by 1 ------May, 2016. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 04 Jul 14
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ROMEGA BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Award budget total: - invites nominations for the Promega Website: biotechnology research award. This honours http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- outstanding contributions to the application awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/17- of biotechnology through fundamental promega-biotechnology-research-award microbiological research and development. Application form: The contribution may be a single http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- exceptionally significant achievement or a forms/promega-nominating/view/form collection of exemplary accomplishments. Eligibility profile Self-nominations and multiple nominations of ------the same candidate are not allowed. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award includes a cash prize of US$5,000, Disciplines and travel to the society's general meeting, ------where the awardee is expected to deliver the Microbiology; Biotechnology Promega award lecture. Contact Detail Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by 1 Email: [email protected] May, 2016. Posted date: 08 Jul 14 Award type: Prizes
SM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology invites nominations for the ASM lifetime Self-nominations and more than one achievement award. This honours a nomination per nominee will not be accepted. distinguished scientist for sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences. The prize includes US$20,000, a commemorative piece and travel to the Nominees must be mature scientists, active or society’s general meeting, where the awardee retired, from all relevant areas of will deliver the ASM lifetime achievement microbiology. award lecture.
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Closing date: 01 May 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Applications due by 1 ------May, 2016. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 08 Jul 14 Award type: Prizes Disciplines Award amount max: ------Award budget total: - Microbiology Website: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- Contact Detail awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/48------abbott-asm-lifetime-achievement-award Email: [email protected] Application form: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- forms/asm-lifetime-achievement-nominating
OSEPH H FICHTER RESEARCH GRANT Association for the Sociology of Religion J
Description: The Association for the Sociology of Religion Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, invites applications for the Joseph H Fichter Directed grants for individual investigators research grant. This supports scholars Award amount min: - involved in sociological research on women in Award budget total: $24,000 religion or on the intersection between Website: religion and gender or religion and http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures sexualities. Dissertation research and -papers/fichter-research-grant-competition/ postdoctoral research by junior and senior scholars may be funded. Eligibility profile ------Applicants must have or be currently Country of applicant institution: Any pursuing a PhD qualification. Membership of the association is also required. Disciplines ------A grant fund of US$24,000 will be distributed Religion & Society; Psychology; Education; among successful applicants. Gender Roles & Sexuality; Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies; Gender & Sexuality in Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Education; Theology & Religious Studies; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Psychology of Sex & Gender; Feminist been announced by funder, but this is the Theory; Theology; Sociology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Detail Posted date: 01 Oct 13 ------Email: [email protected]
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LA PRIZE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS Modern Language Association
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Description: The Modern Language Association invites Award budget total: - applications for its prize for independent Website: scholars. This aims to recognise and further http://www.mla.org/resources/awards/award encourage the achievements and s_submissions/awards_competitions/prizes_ contributions of independent scholars, and is annual2010/prizeinfo_indsch awarded for a distinguished scholarly book Application form: published in 2014 or 2015 in the field of http://www.mla.org/pdf/mlaprizeindsch.pdf English or another modern language or literature. Eligibility profile ------MLA members and non-members may apply. Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must not be enrolled in a degree programme and must not have held a tenured Disciplines position in a postsecondary educational ------institution when the book was published. English Language & Literature; Modern Languages; English Literature; Literature in The prize, which consists of a cash award and English a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention Contact Details in January 2017. ------Office of Programmes Closing date: 01 May 16 Modern Language Association Deadline information: This call is repeated 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor every 2 years. New York, NY 10004-1789 Posted date: 21 Jan 15 Tel: +1 646 576 5141 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]
ILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH PRIZE Modern Language Association
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Description: The Modern Language Association invites Applications are welcome from members and applications for the William Sanders non-members. Scarborough prize. This is awarded to an outstanding scholarly study on Black The prize includes a cash award that will be American literature or culture published in presented to the winning author at the 2014.
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association’s annual convention in January Eligibility profile 2016. ------Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the American History; Disadvantaged & Minority approximate deadline we expect. This call is Groups; North American Studies; American repeated once a year. Literature Posted date: 21 Jan 15 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award budget total: ------MLA Website: 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor http://www.mla.org/resources/awards/award New York, NY 10004-1789 s_submissions/awards_competitions/prizes_ Tel: +1 646 576 5141 annual2010/prizeinfo_wss Email: [email protected]
LDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR STUDIES IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Modern Language Association A
Description: The Modern Language Association invites Closing date: 01 May 16 applications for the Aldo and Jeanne Deadline information: Entries may be sent at Scaglione prize for studies in Germanic any time but must be received by day of languages and literatures. The prize is deadline. This call is repeated every 2 years. awarded biennially for an outstanding Posted date: 16 Mar 15 scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures Award type: Prizes of the Germanic languages, including Danish, Award budget total: - Dutch, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Website: Swedish and Yiddish. http://www.mla.org/resources/awards/award s_submissions/awards_competitions/prizes_ Books written by members of the association biennial2004/prizeinfo_germanic and published in 2014 or 2015 are eligible. Works of literary history, literary criticism, Eligibility profile philology, and literary theory are eligible for ------consideration; books that are primarily Country of applicant institution: Any translations will not be considered. The prize, which consists of a cash award and a Disciplines ------certificate, will be presented to the winning Linguistics; Scandinavian Literature; Dutch author at the association's annual convention Language; German Literature; Dutch in January 2017.
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Literature; Jewish Studies; German Language; 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor Literary Criticism; Scandinavian Languages New York, NY 10004-1789 Tel: +1 646 576 5141 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Modern Languages Association
OWARD R MARRARO PRIZE Modern Language Association
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Description: The Modern Language Association invites Website: nominations for the Howard R Marraro prize. http://www.mla.org/resources/awards/award This is awarded to the author of an s_submissions/awards_competitions/prizes_ outstanding scholarly book or essay on any biennial2004/prizeinfo_marraro phase of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian. Eligibility profile ------Works that have been published in 2015 by Country of applicant institution: Any current members of the association are eligible. Disciplines ------The prize includes a cash award that will be Comparative Literature; Italian Literature; presented to the winning author at the Italian Language association’s annual convention in January 2017. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 May 16 Office of Programmes Deadline information: This call is repeated Modern Languages Association every 2 years. 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor Posted date: 21 Jan 15 New York, NY 10004-1789 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 646 576 5141 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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ENIA AND YAAKOV LEVIANT MEMORIAL PRIZE IN YIDDISH STUDIES Modern Language Association
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Description: The Modern Language Association invites s_submissions/awards_competitions/prizes_ applications for the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant biennial2004/prizeinfo_leviant memorial prize in Yiddish studies. The prize is awarded alternately to an outstanding Eligibility profile translation or an outstanding scholarly work ------in the field of Yiddish. In the 2016 Country of applicant institution: Any competition, the prize will be awarded to a scholarly work in English in the field of Disciplines Yiddish published between 2012 and 2015. ------Theology & Religious Studies; European The prize consists of a cash award and a Studies; Eastern European Literature; Central certificate. European Literature; Middle Eastern Languages; Jewish Studies Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details every 2 years. ------Posted date: 28 May 14 MLA Award type: Prizes 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor Award budget total: - New York, NY 10004-1789 Website: Tel: +1 646 576 5141 http://www.mla.org/resources/awards/award Email: [email protected]
ALTER A ROSENBLITH NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Health Effects Institute
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Description: The Health Effects Institute solicits requests Scientists of any nationality holding a PhD, for applications for the Walter A Rosenblith ScD, MD, DVM, or DrPH degree or equivalent new investigator award. The purpose of this are eligible to apply. At the time of award is to bring new, creative investigators application, the candidate should have one to into active research on the health effects of air six years of research experience after pollution. It provides three years of funding obtaining the highest degree and must be in for a small project relevant to higher an entry-level position at an academic education institutes' research interests to a institution. new investigator with outstanding promise at the assistant professor or equivalent level. Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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approximate deadline we expect. Letters of Disciplines intent due by 1 May; full applications due ------by 4 June 2013. This call is repeated once a Air Quality Engineering; Public Health, year. Health Services & Primary Care; Allied Posted date: 29 Oct 08 Health Professions; Air Pollution, Regulation Award type: Young investigator awards & Control; Environmental Impact Award budget total: - Assessment; Environmental Science; Environmental & Occupational Health & Website: Safety; Public Health http://www.healtheffects.org/funding.htm Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Tel: +1 617 488 2303 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
ICHAEL AND KATE BÁRÁNY AWARD FOR YOUNG INVESTIGATORS Biophysical Society
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Description: The Biophysical Society invites nominations Application form: for the Michael and Kate Bárány award for http://www.biophysics.org/tabid/3874/Defau young investigators. This recognises an lt.aspx outstanding contribution to biophysics by a person who has not achieved the rank of full Eligibility profile professor at the time of nomination. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Nominees must be members of the society in good standing. Disciplines ------The winner receives a US$2,000 honorarium. Biological Physics
Closing date: 01 May 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Biophysical Society Posted date: 11 Feb 11 11400 Rockville Pike Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Suite 800 awards Rockville Award amount max: $2,000 MD 20852 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 240 290 5600 Website: Fax: +1 240 290 5555 http://www.biophysics.org/AwardsOpportu Email: [email protected] nities/SocietyAwards/MichaelandKateBaran yAward/tabid/504/Default.aspx
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SFCC/J ROGER PORTER AWARD American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Posted date: 05 Oct 15 invites nominations for the USFCC/J Roger Award type: Prizes Porter award. This recognises a scientist who Award budget total: - has demonstrated the importance of microbial Website: biodiversity through sustained curatorial or http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- stewardship activities for a major resource awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/34-usfccj- used by the scientific community. roger-porter-award Application form: Successful nominees must have greatly aided http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- other scientists by demonstrating the forms/usfcc-porter-nominating/view/form fundamentals of culture collections and related resources, and the rich biodiversity Eligibility profile that such collections preserve. Resources may ------include collections of cells or microorganisms, Country of applicant institution: Any databases, tools, major reference works or services as an essential aspect of either one or Disciplines more major publications or an extensive work ------effort. Research Libraries & Special Collections; Materials Conservation & Preservation; Nominations are accepted from any member Database Management; Agricultural of the society or the United States Federation Collectives & Cooperatives; Microbiology; for Culture Collections. Self-nominations are Manuscripts & Books not accepted. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: Email: [email protected]
IOMÉRIEUX SONNENWIRTH AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY American Society for Microbiology B
Description: The American Society for Microbiology dedication to the ASM and the advancement invites nominations for the BioMérieux of clinical microbiology as a profession. Sonnenwirth award for leadership in clinical microbiology. This honours a distinguished The nominee must be a microbiologist microbiologist for the promotion of identified with clinical microbiology. Self- innovation in clinical laboratory science,
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nominations and multiple nominations for the Eligibility profile same candidate will not be accepted. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: Applications due by 1 Disciplines May, 2016. ------Posted date: 08 Jul 14 Microbiology; Diagnostic Sciences; Biological Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Sciences; Bacteriology; Infection Agents & meetings etc. Pathogens; Bacterial Diseases; Virology; Award budget total: - Infectious Diseases Website: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- Contact Details awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/23------biomerieux-sonnenwirth-award-for- American Society for Microbiology leadership-in-clinical-microbiology 1752 N Street, NW Application form: Washington, DC 20036-2904 http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- Tel: +1 202 737 3600 forms/biomerieux-sonnenworth-nominating Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS: FAA/CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INSTITUTE National Research Council R
Description: The National Research Council invites applications for its research associateship Opportunities are open to all US citizens and programs at the FAA/Civil Aerospace to citizens of other countries who have full Medical Institute. The objectives of the command of the English language. The programs are to provide postdoctoral current annual stipend for a postdoctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise research associate is $42,000 plus a travel and ability with opportunities for research on allotment of $2,000. problems, largely of their own choice, that are compatible with the interests of the Closing date: 01 May 16 sponsoring laboratories. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May 2016, 1 August 2016, 1 November 2016, 1 Awardees must hold a PhD, ScD, or other February 2017, and repeated annually. earned research doctoral degree recognized in Posted date: 20 Aug 10 US academic circles as equivalent to a PhD. Award type: Early-Career fellowships Postdoctoral associates must have held the Award amount max: $44,000 doctorate for under five years. Senior Award amount min: - associates must have held the doctorate for Award budget total: - five years or more or have equivalent research Website: experience. Tenure ranges from three months http://nrc58.nas.edu/RAPLab10/Opportunity/ to one year. Program.aspx?LabCode=31&ReturnURL=%2
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fRAPLab10%2fOpportunity%2fPrograms.as Environmental & Occupational Health & px%3fLabCode%3d31 Safety; Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; Application form: Safety Engineering; Aerospace Engineering & http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/RAP/ Avionics; Civil Engineering; Mechanical PGA_046398 Engineering
Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute MMAC, CAMI, AAM-3 Disciplines P.O Box 25082 ------Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73125 Aeronautical Safety; Physiology; Medical Tel: +1 405 954 1000 Devices; Psychobiology; Manufacturing & Fax: +1 405 954 1010 Industrial Engineering; Public Health, Health Email: [email protected] Services & Primary Care; Psychology; Aerospace Medicine; Human Physiology;
IEBER PRIZE Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
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Description: The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Award amount max: $50,000 invites nominations for the Lieber prize. This Award budget total: - recognises a scientist carrying out work Website: relevant to the causes, pathophysiology, http://bbrfoundation.org/outstanding- treatment or prevention of schizophrenia. achievement-prizes Nominees must give particular promise for advancing the understanding of Eligibility profile schizophrenia or of basic brain mechanisms in ------schizophrenia. The contributions should be of Country of applicant institution: Any a fundamental nature and may be either in clinical or basic research Disciplines ------The prize is worth US$50,000. Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders
Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation approximate deadline we expect. This call is 90 Park Avenue repeated once a year. New York, NY 10016 Posted date: 08 Apr 15 Tel: +1 646 681 4888 Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for Fax: +1 646 681 4891 individual investigators Email: [email protected]
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UANE PRIZE Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
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Description: The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Award amount max: $50,000 invites nominations for the Ruane prize. This Award budget total: - recognises a scientist carrying out research on Website: the causes, pathophysiology, treatment or http://bbrfoundation.org/outstanding- prevention of severe child psychiatric illness. achievement-prizes Nominees must give particular promise for advancing the understanding of psychotic, Eligibility profile affective or other severe psychiatric disorders ------having their onset in childhood or Country of applicant institution: Any adolescence. Contributions should have been made in the last ten years and may be for Disciplines clinical research or relevant basic science. ------Child & Adolescent Psychiatry The prize is worth US$50,000. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Brain & Behavior Research Foundation been announced by funder, but this is the 90 Park Avenue approximate deadline we expect. This call is New York, NY 10016 repeated once a year. Tel: +1 646 681 4888 Posted date: 02 Apr 15 Fax: +1 646 681 4891 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected]
OLDMAN-RAKIC PRIZE Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
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Description: The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation invites nominations for the Goldman-Rakic The prize is worth US$40,000. prize. This recognises neurobiological research at the cellular, physiological or Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) behavioural levels that may lead to a greater Deadline information: !! Call has not yet underlying psychiatric or neurological been announced by funder, but this is the disease. Nominees must have made a truly approximate deadline we expect. This call is outstanding contribution in the area of repeated once a year. neurobiological research. Posted date: 02 Apr 15 Award type: Prizes
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Award amount max: $40,000 Neurobiology Award budget total: - Website: Contact Details http://bbrfoundation.org/outstanding------achievement-prizes Brain & Behavior Research Foundation 90 Park Avenue Eligibility profile New York, NY 10016 ------Tel: +1 646 681 4888 Country of applicant institution: Any Fax: +1 646 681 4891 Email: [email protected] Disciplines ------
ICHARD KALISH INNOVATIVE PUBLICATION AWARD Gerontological Society of America
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Description: The Gerontological Society of America invites Website: nominations for the Richard Kalish innovative http://www.geron.org/Membership/Awards/ publication award. The award recognises Behavioral%20&%20Social%20Sciences%20 insightful and innovative publications on Awards?start=1 ageing and life course development in the behavioural and social sciences. Any Eligibility profile empirical or conceptual publication which ------represents state-of-the-art thinking in ageing Country of applicant institution: Any and life course development is eligible for the award, provided it is in English and was Disciplines published in the last three years. One award ------will be made for an article and one for a book. Medical Sociology; Public Health, Health Nominations for the award must be made by Services & Primary Care; Sociology; Primary a GSA member. The award carries a prize of Care; Social Services Delivery; Psychology of US$250. Ageing; Geriatrics & Gerontology; Social Work & Social Policy; Psychology Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Gerontological Society of America repeated once a year. 1220 L Street NW, Suite 901 Posted date: 20 Jul 12 Washington, DC 20005 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 202 842 1275 Award amount max: $250 Fax: +1 202 842 1150 Award budget total: $500 Email: [email protected]
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POWELL LAWTON AWARD Gerontological Society of America
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Description: The Gerontological Society of America invites Award type: Prizes nominations for the M Powell Lawton award. Award amount max: $3,500 The award recognises outstanding Award budget total: - contributions from applied gerontological Website: research that have benefitted older people and https://www.geron.org/membership/awards/ their care. The prize is awarded for a society-wide-awards?showall=&start=3 significant contribution in gerontology that has led to an innovation in gerontological Eligibility profile treatment, practice or service, prevention, ------amelioration of symptoms or barriers, or a Country of applicant institution: Any public policy change that has led to some practical application that improves the lives of Disciplines older persons. ------Social Work & Social Policy; Health Systems Nominations must be made or endorsed by a Policy; Preventive Medicine; Health Systems, member of the society. Nominees need not be Administration; Geriatrics & Gerontology; members but should be in the early or mid Home Health Care Services; Primary Care; stages of their career. Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care The award includes a US$2,500 cash prize and up to US$1,000 can be made available for the Contact Details awardee's travel and per diem expenses. ------Gerontological Society of America Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) 1220 L Street NW, Suite 901 Washington, DC Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 20005 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 202 842 1275 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +1 202 842 1150 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 30 May 13
ARGRET M AND PAUL B BALTES AWARD Gerontological Society of America
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Description: The Gerontological Society of America invites gerontology. The award acknowledges nominations for the Margret M and Paul B outstanding early-career contributions in Baltes award in behavioural and social behavioural and social gerontology.
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The award is given to a person from any Eligibility profile discipline in the social sciences. Nominees ------must have a PhD degree and must not be Country of applicant institution: Any more than 10 years past the date the PhD was awarded. Disciplines ------The award includes US$1,000. Social Work & Social Policy; Primary Care; Psychology of Ageing; Geriatrics & Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Gerontology; Public Health, Health Services & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Primary Care; Psychology; Sociology; Social been announced by funder, but this is the Services Delivery; Medical Sociology; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Behavioural Medicine repeated once a year. Posted date: 30 May 13 Contact Details Award type: Prizes, Early-Career fellowships ------Award amount max: $1,000 Gerontological Society of America Award budget total: - 1220 L Street NW Suite 901 Website: Washington, DC 20005 https://www.geron.org/membership/awards/ Tel: +1 202 842 1275 society-wide-awards?showall=&start=5 Fax: +1 202 842 1150 Email: [email protected]
ATHAN SHOCK NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Gerontological Society of America
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Description: The Gerontological Society of America invites Posted date: 02 Apr 12 nominations for the Nathan Shock new Award type: Prizes investigator award. This is given for Award amount max: $1,500 innovative and influential publications that Award budget total: - have made outstanding contributions to new Website: knowledge about ageing through basic http://www.geron.org/Membership/Awards/ biological research. Nominees must have a Biological%20Sciences%20Awards?start=1 PhD, MD, DDS, or equivalent degree, and must be within seven years of their Eligibility profile postdoctoral research. The award winner will ------receive US$1,500. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Biological Sciences; Human Physiology; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Primary Care; Geriatrics & Gerontology; repeated once a year.
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Public Health, Health Services & Primary 1220 L Street NW, Suite 901 Care; Neurology Washington, DC 20005 Tel: +1 202 842 1275 Contact Details Fax: +1 202 842 1150 ------Email: [email protected] Gerontological Society of America
BRAHAM PAIS PRIZE FOR HISTORY OF PHYSICS American Physical Society
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Description: The American Physical Society invites Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings applications for the Abraham Pais prize for etc., Prizes history of physics. This recognises scholarly Award amount max: - achievements in the history of physics. Award amount min: $10,000 Award budget total: - These include the publication of one or more Website: scholarly books or a series of scholarly articles http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/ on any topic or chronological period in the pais.cfm history of physics. Further professional Application form: achievements such as teaching, lecturing, http://prizes.aps.org/prizes/login.cfm?PRIZE editing of journals, organisation of =PAIS conferences and productions on the web or in other electronic media may be considered. Eligibility profile ------Nominations of qualified women, members of Country of applicant institution: Any underrepresented minority groups and scientists from outside the US are especially Disciplines ------encouraged. History; Physics; History of Engineering &
Technology; History of Science The award consists of US$10,000 and an allowance for travel to the APS meeting. Contact Details
------Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) American Physical Society Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the One Physics Ellipse approximate deadline we expect. This call is College Park, MD 20740-3844 repeated once a year. Tel: +1 301 209 3200 Posted date: 05 Dec 13 Email: [email protected]
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TOCKHOLM PRIZE IN CRIMINOLOGY Stockholms universitet – Stockholm University
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Description: Stockholm University and the Swedish Website: Ministry of Justice invite nominations for the http://www.su.se/english/about/prizes- Stockholm prize in criminology. This awards/the-stockholm-prize-in- recognises achievements in criminological criminology/nominations research or the application of research results Application form: by practitioners or scholars for the reduction https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m21_oOMI of crime and the advancement of human FycMV3T7j2BHyIl1EM5FWKeM4PtPKGlXx rights. eg/viewform
Nominations may be made by any three Eligibility profile individual criminologists, any society of ------criminology or other organisation applying or Country of applicant institution: Any producing criminology. Disciplines Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Criminology once a year. Posted date: 17 Feb 16 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
ISSERTATION FIELDWORK GRANTS Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Applicants must be currently enrolled for a Anthropological Research invites applications doctoral degree and complete the application for its dissertation fieldwork grants. These jointly with a dissertation supervisor or other assist students of any nationality with scholar acting as the project’s supervisor. doctoral or thesis research in anthropology. The research should demonstrate a clear link There are no time limits on the duration of the to anthropological theory and debates, and grants, which may be worth up to US$20,000 promise to make a solid contribution to each. advance these ideas. Closing date: 01 May 16
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Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May Eligibility profile 2016, 1 November 2016, and repeated ------annually. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 16 Jan 15 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Disciplines students, Thesis/Dissertation funding, ------Directed grants for individual investigators Anthropology Award amount max: $20,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.wennergren.org/programs/disser Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological tation-fieldwork-grants Research 470 Park Avenue South, Application form: 8th Floor http://www.wennergren.org/programs/access New York, NY 10016 -online-application/download-dissertation- Tel: +1 212 683 5000 fieldwork-grant-application Fax: +1 212 532 1492
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UNT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Up to eight fellowships, each of which Anthropological Research invites applications provides up to US$40,000, are awarded to for the Hunt postdoctoral fellowships. These support periods of up to 12 months. support early-career investigators with the writing-up of already completed research in Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) anthropology. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the The research should demonstrate a clear link approximate deadline we expect. This call is to anthropological theory and debates and repeated once a year. promise to make a solid contribution to Posted date: 18 Aug 14 advancing these ideas. Proposals that employ Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Mid- a comparative perspective, generate Career fellowships, Directed grants for innovative approaches or ideas, or integrate individual investigators, Publish, edit, two or more subfields are particularly translate, disseminate welcomed. Award amount max: $40,000 Award budget total: - Applicants should be scholars who have held Website: their PhD for no longer than 10 years. There http://www.wennergren.org/programs/hunt- postdoctoral-fellowships are no restrictions on institutional affiliation, country of residence or nationality.
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Application form: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/hunt- Contact Details postdoctoral-fellowships/access-online------application Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Eligibility profile 470 Park Avenue South, ------8th Floor Country of applicant institution: Any New York, NY 10016 Tel: +1 212 683 5000 Disciplines Fax: +1 212 532 1492 ------Email: [email protected] Anthropology; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Primary Care
ARGARET ETTER EARLY CAREER AWARD American Crystallographic Association
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Description: The American Crystallographic Association Application form: invites applications for its Margaret Etter http://www.amercrystalassn.org/awardpglist/ early career award. Scientists involved in nomination.pdf crystallographic research in the broadest sense will be eligible for the award. At the Eligibility profile time of the closing date for nominations, ------nominees must have begun their first Country of applicant institution: Any independent (not postdoctoral) position within the past six years (not including career Disciplines breaks). The award consists of a monetary ------award of US$1,000 and a plaque. Chemistry; Materials Sciences; Mineralogy; Earth Sciences; Mining Engineering; Crystallography; Metallurgy; Inorganic Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Chemistry; Display Devices Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. American Crystallographic Association Posted date: 20 Aug 07 Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Award type: Prizes Institute Award amount max: $1,000 700 Ellicott St., Buffalo Award budget total: - NY 14203 Website: Tel: +1 716 898 8690 http://www.amercrystalassn.org/content/pag Fax: +1 716 898 8695 es/main-award-descriptions#ettercareer Email: [email protected]
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ATHERINE SINGER KOVACS PRIZE Modern Language Association
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Description: The Modern Language Association invites Website: applicants for the Katherine Singer Kovacs http://www.mla.org/resources/awards/award prize. The prize recognises an outstanding s_submissions/awards_competitions/prizes_ book published in English or Spanish in the annual2003/prizeinfo_kovacs field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. Interpretative books Eligibility profile that enhance understanding of the ------interrelations among literature, the other arts, Country of applicant institution: Any and society and that offer a fresh perspective in the field are particularly welcome. To be Disciplines eligible for consideration, books must have ------been published in the previous calendar year. Creole Languages; Spanish Literature; North American Studies; Latin American & The prize consists of a cash prize and a one- Caribbean Studies; Spanish Language; year membership to the association. Portuguese Language Applications are welcome from members and non-members of the association. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Office of Programmes Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Modern Languages Association been announced by funder, but this is the 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor approximate deadline we expect. This call is New York, NY 10004-1789 repeated once a year. Tel: +1 646 576 5141 Posted date: 07 Aug 13 Fax: +1 646 458 0030 Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
AEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY RESIDENTS OR FELLOWS RESEARCH AWARD Society for Pediatric Dermatology
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Description: The Society for Pediatric Dermatology invites or fellow. Papers may be submitted prior to nominations for its paediatric dermatology publication. residents or fellows research award. This recognises a paper on clinical or laboratory The award includes a US$500 honorarium and research relating to paediatric dermatology, coverage of expenses for two people to attend by either a paediatric or dermatology resident the society's annual meeting, where the recipient will present the paper.
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Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Dermatology; Primary Care; Clinical approximate deadline we expect. Medicine; Neonatal Disorders; Diagnostic Applications due by 5pm ET. This call is Sciences; Paediatrics; Birth & Congenital repeated once a year. Defects; Melanoma & Other Skin Cancers; Posted date: 30 Jun 14 Public Health, Health Services & Primary Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Care; Allergy meetings etc. Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.pedsderm.net/sections/research_ SPD fellowaward.php 8365 Keystone Crossing, Suite 107 Indianapolis, IN 46240 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
COLIN SLIM AWARD American Musicological Society
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Description: The American Musicological Society invites Website: http://www.ams- nominations for the H Colin Slim award. This net.org/awards/slim.php honours a musicological article of exceptional Application form: http://www.ams- merit, published during the previous year in net.org/awards/award_nomination.php any language and in any country. Eligibility profile Nominees must be scholars who completed ------their PhD no more than 10 years ago. They Country of applicant institution: Any should either be a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of the US or Disciplines Canada. ------Music The award consists of a monetary prize and a certificate. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 May 16 American Musicological Society Deadline information: This call is repeated 6010 College Station once a year. Brunswick, ME 04011-8451 Posted date: 30 Jul 15 Tel: +1 207 798 4243 Award type: Prizes Fax: +1 207 798 4254 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
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UTH A SOLIE AWARD American Musicological Society
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Description: The American Musicological Society invites Website: http://www.ams- nominations for the Ruth A Solie award. This net.org/awards/solie.php honours a collection of musicological essays Application form: http://www.ams- of exceptional merit published during the net.org/awards/award_nomination.php preceding calendar year in any language in any country. Eligibility profile ------Works should be edited by a scholar or Country of applicant institution: Any scholars, at least one of whom is an AMS member or a citizen or a permanent resident Disciplines of Canada or the US. ------Music The award consists of a monetary prize and a certificate. Contact Details ------Closing date: 01 May 16 AMS Deadline information: This call is repeated 6010 College Station once a year. Brunswick ME 04011-8451 Posted date: 30 Jul 15 Tel: +1 207 798 4243 Award type: Prizes Fax: +1 207 798 4254 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
OBERT M STEVENSON AWARD American Musicological Society
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Description: The American Musicological Society invites The prize will be awarded to a book, nominations for the Robert M Stevenson monograph, edition or journal article by a award. This award recognises outstanding member of AMS. The publication must be scholarship in Iberian music, which includes written in English and must have been music composed, performed, created, published during the preceding three collected, belonging to or descended from the calendar years. musical cultures of Spain, Portugal and all Latin American areas in which Spanish and The award consists of a monetary prize and a Portuguese are spoken. certificate.
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Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 31 Jul 15 Music Award type: Prizes Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.ams------net.org/awards/stevenson.php AMS Application form: http://www.ams- 6010 College Station net.org/awards/award_nomination.php Brunswick, ME 04011-8451 Tel: +1 207 798 4243 Eligibility profile Fax: +1 207 798 4254 ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
AJIMA PRIZE International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry Award amount max: SFr.1,000 invites applications for the Tajima prize. This Award budget total: - recognises electrochemists on the basis of Website: http://www.ise- published work. online.org/awards/tajim.php Application form: http://iseawards.ise- Applicants must be under 40 years of age on 1 online.org/taj June of the year of application. Each applicant must have published at least one paper in Eligibility profile Electrochimica Acta. Candidates should apply ------on their own behalf. Country of applicant institution: Any
The prize includes CHF1,000 and free ISE Disciplines membership for one year. ------Electrochemistry; Chemistry Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: Applications are Contact Details invited between 1 February and 1 May 2016. ------This call is repeated once a year. ISE Posted date: 01 Sep 14 Chemin de Closelet 2 Award type: Young investigator awards, 1006 Lausanne Prizes Email: [email protected]
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LECTROCHEMICAL MATERIALS SCIENCE PRIZE International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry Award type: Young investigator awards, invites applications for its electrochemical Prizes materials science prize. This recognises Award budget total: - contributions in the field of electrochemical Website: http://www.ise- material science, including corrosion, online.org/awards/engel.php electrodeposition and surface treatment. Application form: http://iseawards.ise- online.org/eng Applicants must be under 35 years of age on 1 June of the year of application and should Eligibility profile apply on their own behalf. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize includes a sum of €1,000, registration and banquet fees for the annual Disciplines meeting and free ISE membership for one ------year. Corrosion & Coatings; Colloid & Surface Chemistry; Materials Sciences; Closing date: 01 May 16 Electrochemistry Deadline information: Applications are invited between 1 February and 1 May 2016. Contact Details Posted date: 19 Jan 16 ------Email: [email protected]
SE-ELSEVIER GREEN ELECTROCHEMISTRY PRIZE International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry The prize is worth €2,000, inclusive of a invites applications for the ISE-Elsevier green contribution towards travel expenses for the electrochemistry prize. This recognises recent winner to attend the ISE annual meeting application-oriented achievements in the field where the award will be presented. Their of environmental electrochemistry by a young registration and banquet fees will be covered. scientist. The winner also receives free ISE membership for one year. Candidates must be under 35 years of age on 1 January of the year of the award and should Closing date: 01 May 16 apply on their own behalf.
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Deadline information: Applications are Eligibility profile invited between 1 February and 1 May 2016. ------This call is repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 19 Jan 16 Award type: Young investigator awards, Disciplines Prizes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. ------Award budget total: - Electrochemistry; Environmental Chemistry Website: http://www.ise- online.org/awards/denora5.php Contact Details Application form: http://iseawards.ise------online.org/nee Email: [email protected]
SE-ELSEVIER PRIZE FOR APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry Posted date: 19 Jan 16 invites applications for the ISE-Elsevier Award type: Young investigator awards, applied electrochemistry prize. This Prizes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. recognises recent achievements in the field of Award budget total: - applied electrochemistry by a young scientist. Website: http://www.ise- online.org/awards/denora7.php Candidates must be under 35 years of age on Application form: http://iseawards.ise- 1 January of the year of the award and apply online.org/nae on their own behalf. Eligibility profile The prize is worth €2,000, inclusive of a ------contribution towards travel expenses for the Country of applicant institution: Any winner to attend the ISE annual meeting where the award will be presented. Their Disciplines registration and banquet fees will be covered. ------The winner also receives free ISE membership Electrochemistry for one year. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: Applications are Email: [email protected] invited between 1 February and 1 May 2016. This call is repeated once a year.
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IOELECTROCHEMISTRY PRIZE OF ISE DIVISION 2 International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry Award budget total: - invites nominations for its bioelectrochemistry Website: http://www.ise- prize of ISE division 2. This is awarded every online.org/awards/division2.php two years to a scientist who has made an Application form: http://www.ise- important contribution to the field of online.org/awards/forms/division2.doc bioelectrochemistry. Eligibility profile Nominations may be made by individuals or ------institutions. Candidates are also allowed to Country of applicant institution: Any apply on their own behalf. Disciplines The prize includes €750 and registration and ------banquet fees to attend the ISE meeting, where Electrochemistry; Molecular Electronics; the award will be presented. Chemistry
Closing date: 01 May 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Applications accepted ------between 1 February and 1 May 2016. ISE Posted date: 01 Sep 14 Chemin de Closelet 2 Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings 1006 Lausanne etc., Prizes Email: [email protected] Award amount max: €750
RAINING FELLOWSHIPS European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
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Description: The European Society for Paediatric Infectious The applicant must be a trainee paediatrician Diseases invites applications for its training or in medical, allied health professional or fellowships. These fund visits by ESPID scientific training in a clinical or academic members to other centres to obtain experience centre involved in paediatrics or child health or training in techniques or areas not under the age of 40. Applications from those otherwise available to them. Clear and in career posts may also be funded if there is a specific training objectives, which could clear case that the relevant experience to be involve clinical, laboratory, public health or gained is of strategic importance and not other academic areas, are essential. available locally. The host must be in a different country from the applicant’s home
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country, and provide written confirmation in Award amount max: - advance that they can provide the type of Award budget total: - training being specifically requested. Both Website: http://www.espid.org/award- applicants and host staff must be ESPID content.aspx?Group=Awards&Page=TrainFe members. llow
The awards will cover round-trip travel costs Eligibility profile and a maximum of €412 per week towards ------subsistence while away. The host centre is Country of applicant institution: Any offered fixed funding towards its costs; €82 for administration expenses, plus a maximum Disciplines of €185 per week to cover infrastructure costs. ------Visits are usually for around one to two Infectious Diseases; Paediatrics months, and the maximum is ten weeks. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 ------Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 May ESPID 2016, 1 August 2016, 1 November 2016, 1 c/o Kenes International Organizers of February 2017, and repeated annually. Congresses SA Posted date: 05 Dec 14 Rue François-Versonnex 7 Award type: Young investigator awards, 1207 Geneva Travel for research purposes, Personal Tel: +31 20 763 0104 development, Access to laboratories, Fax: +31 20 763 0511 telescopes etc., Hosting visits, Hosting access Email: [email protected] to facilities
C WHITE RESEARCH AND MENTORING AWARD American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology The recipient will receive a cash prize of invites nominations for the DC White research US$5,000, and travel to the ASM general and mentoring award. This award recognises meeting where the laureate will deliver the distinguished accomplishments in DC White research and mentoring award interdisciplinary research and mentoring in lecture. microbiology. Closing date: 01 May 16 Nominees must have a distinguished record Deadline information: Applications due by 1 of accomplishments in microbiological May 2016 research. Self-nominations and multiple Posted date: 04 Jul 14 nominations for the same candidate will not Award type: Prizes be accepted. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all-
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awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/27-dc- white-research-and-mentoring-award Disciplines Application form: ------http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- Microbiology forms/dc-white-nominating Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
LBERT HOURANI BOOK AWARD University of Arizona
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Description: The University of Arizona's Middle East approximate deadline we expect. This call is Studies Association invites nominations for repeated once a year. the Albert Hourani book award. The aim of Posted date: 27 Mar 12 the award is to recognise outstanding Award type: Prizes publishing in Middle East studies. Areas Award amount max: $1,000 primarily of interest include Iran, Turkey, Award budget total: - Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the Website: countries of the Arab world from the seventh http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/awards/albert- century to modern times. Spain, southeastern hourani-book.html Europe, the Soviet Union and other regions are also included for the periods on which Eligibility profile their territories were part of the Middle ------Eastern empires or were under the influence Country of applicant institution: Any of Middle Eastern civilisation. Disciplines To be eligible, books must be non-fiction ------scholarly monographs based on original Middle Eastern History; Ethnography & research published in English between 1 May Ethnology; Politics & Economics of Eastern 2011 and 30 April 2012. Works not eligible Europe; Eastern European History; include edited collections and compilations, Anthropology; History; European Studies; proceedings of symposia, new editions of Social & Cultural Anthropology; Ancient previously published books, bibliographies, History; Latin & Classical Greek History; dictionaries, textbooks and surveys. African Studies; Politics & Economics of the Middle East; Politics & Economics of Western The prize consists of a certificate and Europe; Middle Eastern Studies US$1,000. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 2011 Book Award Competition been announced by funder, but this is the Middle East Studies Association
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1219 N Santa Rita Avenue Tel: +1 520 626 4753 University of Arizona Fax: + 1 520 626 9095 Tucson, AZ 85721 Email: [email protected]
ULIET MCLAUCHLAN PRIZE Joseph Conrad Society J
Description: The Joseph Conrad Society invites Award type: Prizes, Student awards submissions for the Juliet McLauchlan prize. Award amount max: £200 This recognises the best essay on any aspect of Award budget total: - the works and life of Joseph Conrad. Website: http://www.josephconradsociety.org/prizes_ The competition aims to foster work by new study_grants.htm and emerging scholars, including postgraduates and independent academics of Eligibility profile any age. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Applicants must not have held a full-time academic appointment for more than three Disciplines years. ------Literature, Fiction; Early Modern Literature; The prize is worth £200. Colonial & Postcolonial Literature; British & Irish Literature Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 12 Dec 14 Email: [email protected]
RONZIO AND NICCOLÒ DE NORA FOUNDATION YOUNG AUTHOR PRIZE International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry published in Electrochimica Acta in the invites applications for the Oronzio and preceding calendar year. Niccolò De Nora Foundation young author prize. This recognises the best paper
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Applicants must be under 30 years of age on 1 Website: http://www.ise- January in the year of the award. online.org/awards/denora.php Application form: http://iseawards.ise- The prize is worth US$2,000, which includes online.org/nyo travel costs for ISE meeting attendance. The winner also receives free ISE membership for Eligibility profile one year. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: Applications are Disciplines invited between 1 February and 1 May 2016. ------This call is repeated once a year. Electrochemistry Posted date: 19 Jan 16 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
ATHAN R BREWER SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
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Description: The American Association for Laboratory Posted date: 14 Oct 11 Animal Science invites nominations for the Award type: Prizes Nathan R Brewer scientific achievement Award amount max: $2,000 award. The award recognises research Award budget total: - relevant to laboratory animal science and Website: comparative medicine that advances current http://www.aalas.org/association/awards.asp knowledge and contributes to the existing x literature in those fields and is directly Application form: applicable to a variety of research settings. http://www.aalas.org/association/award_nom ination_form.aspx Candidates must have made major and repeated scientific contributions to laboratory Eligibility profile animal science/medicine or comparative ------medicine. The award is open to all members Country of applicant institution: Any of professional scientific societies, who are over 40 years of age. The award includes a Disciplines $2,000 honorarium. ------Veterinary Medicine; Livestock & Animal Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Science; Agriculture; Laboratory Animals; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Allied Health Professions been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year.
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Contact Details Memphis, TN 38125-8538 ------Tel: +1 901 754 8620 AALAS Email: [email protected] 9190 Crestwyn Hills Drive
RIAN CONWAY PRIZE FOR PHYSICAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry Website: http://www.ise- invites nominations for the Brian Conway online.org/awards/conway.php prize for physical electrochemistry. This Application form: http://iseawards.ise- recognises achievements in the field of online.org/cwy physical electrochemistry made in recent years by ISE members. Eligibility profile ------Individuals or institutions may nominate Country of applicant institution: Any candidates. Self-nominations will not be accepted. Disciplines ------The prize is worth €1,000. Physics; Electrochemistry; Chemistry
Closing date: 01 May 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Applications accepted ------between 1 February and 1 May 2016. ISE Posted date: 01 Sep 14 Chemin de Closelet 2 Award type: Prizes 1006 Lausanne Award amount max: €1,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ENTENARY AWARDS Egypt Exploration Society
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Description: The Egypt Exploration Society invites archive-based research. The society applications for its centenary awards. These particularly welcomes proposals that have assist early-career Egyptologists with arisen from, or can be related to, present or conducting fieldwork and museum- or past society fieldwork.
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Applicants must be current postgraduate Award amount min: - students or be within five years of having Award budget total: £6,000 been awarded their postgraduate degree. Website: Applicants need not be members of the http://www.ees.ac.uk/research/centenary- society. awards.html Application form: The total budget is £6,000 to be divided http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/EES_Cent among projects, which are unlikely to receive _Award_2015%20FINAL%20protected.doc more than £2,500 each. Eligibility profile Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Disciplines Applications due by 5pm GMT. This call is ------repeated once a year. African Studies; Archaeology of Africa; Posted date: 07 Apr 15 Middle Eastern Studies Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Contact Details students, Travel for research purposes ------Award amount max: £2,500 Email: [email protected]
OLVIN PRIZE Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
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Description: The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) invites nominations for the Colvin prize. This Deadline information: !! Call has not yet recognises a scientist carrying out work on the been announced by funder, but this is the causes, pathophysiology, treatment or approximate deadline we expect. This call is prevention of bipolar illness. repeated once a year. Posted date: 02 Apr 15 Nominees must give particular promise for Award type: Prizes advancing the understanding of affective Award amount max: $50,000 illness or its basic brain mechanisms that will Award budget total: - lead to new treatment approaches. Website: http://bbrfoundation.org/outstanding- Contributions should have been made in the achievement-prizes last five years and be of a fundamental nature and may be either in clinical or basic research. Eligibility profile ------
Country of applicant institution: Any The prize is worth US$50,000.
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Disciplines 5415 W. Cedar Lane, 201B ------Bethesda, MD 20814 Bipolar Disorder Tel: +1 301 530 8247 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
ELLOWSHIPS International Continence Society
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Description: The International Continence Society invites applications for its fellowships. These enable Closing date: 01 May 16 continence specialists of any profession to Deadline information: This call is repeated gain bladder and bowel skills in research, once a year. clinical practice or education at expert centres. Posted date: 25 Nov 15 Three types of fellowship are available: Award type: Travel for research purposes, Personal development, Mid-Career • urodynamics fellowships, which fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, enable physicians, nurses or Senior fellowships technicians to train in expert centres Award amount max: £5,000 all over the world; Award budget total: - • neurology fellowships, which enable Website: http://www.ics.org/members/awardsfellowsh candidates to learn from experts at ips/fellowships international centres of excellence;
• clinical fellowships, which enable Eligibility profile continence specialists of any ------profession to gain specialist skills at Country of applicant institution: Any expert centres.
Disciplines Applicants must have been members of the ------society for at least one year. Priority is given Urology to members from less economically developed countries, allied and non-medical health Contact Details professionals and members in training. ------Email: [email protected] Fellowships are worth up to £5,000 each over one to three months.
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EGASUS MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE FELLOWSHIPS Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO)
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Description: The Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders Flemish host institution. Applicants must (FWO), with co-financing of the COFUND have obtained their PhD no longer than three programme within the Marie Skłodowska- years ago. They must also have been Curie Actions of Horizon 2020, invites performing research activities in the Flemish applications for the Pegasus Marie community one year prior to the submission Skłodowska-Curie fellowships. These aim to date and have not stayed for longer than 12 stimulate the international mobility of months in the previous three years in the researchers by attracting excellent country they wish to carry out their research. postdoctoral researchers to the Flemish The fellowship covers a PhD salary between community on the one hand, as well as by €29,069.73 and €45,317.25 yearly, plus a offering postdoctoral researchers in the mobility allowance of €1,650 per month Flemish community the opportunity to carry during the two years abroad and a yearly out part of their research abroad on the other bench fee of €4,000. One-time travel expenses hand. Therefore there are two programmes to and from the place of destination are available: covered as well.
Incoming fellowships: these are aimed at There are 30 fellowships available for each foreign postdoctoral researchers who wish to programme, spread out over two calls in 2015 carry out their research in the Flemish and 2016. community and postdoctoral researchers with the Belgian nationality who currently carry Closing date: 01 May 16 research abroad and wish to proceed their Deadline information: research in the Flemish community. Posted date: 16 Feb 16 Applicants must have obtained a PhD no Award type: Postdoctoral training longer than three years ago and have not fellowships stayed in Belgian for longer than 12 months in Award budget total: - the three years preceding the fellowships. The Website: http://www.fwo.be/en/fellowships- fellowship covers a PhD salary between funding/postdoctoral- €29,069.73 and €45,317.25 yearly, plus a fellowships/[pegasus]%C2%B2-marie- mobility allowance of €600 per month and a sk%C5%82odowska-curie-fellowships/ yearly bench fee of €4,000. It also covers a one- Application form: http://www.fwo- time return trip to Brussels for the fellow. eloket.be/FWO.ELoket.WebUI/Login.aspx
Outgoing fellowships: these are aimed at Eligibility profile ------postdoctoral researchers of the Flemish Country of applicant institution: Any community who wish to carry out research at a foreign research institution or company for Disciplines the first two years of their fellowship. They ------must return to the Flemish community in the Any third year of their fellowship in order to continue their research activities at the
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ING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN MEDICINE King Faisal Foundation
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Description: The King Faisal Foundation invites Posted date: 17 Apr 15 nominations for the King Faisal international Award type: Prizes prize in medicine. This will be awarded for a Award amount max: $200,000 publication in the field of clinical application Award budget total: $200,000 of next generation genetics. Website: http://kfip.org/medicine/
Nominations are welcomed from universities, Eligibility profile research centres and other learned circles. ------Previous winners may also submit Country of applicant institution: Any nominations, while nominations from individuals or political parties will not be Disciplines considered. Nominated works must be ------published, benefit mankind and enrich Genetics & Systems Biology; Genetic Diseases; human knowledge. Medical Genetics; Cancer Genetics; Genetic Engineering; Deoxyribonucleic Acid, DNA The award includes a cash prize worth SR750,000 or US$200,000, a golden medallion Contact Details and a certificate. Should the foundation select ------more than one winner, the prize money shall King Faisal International Prize be divided among the winners. Al-Khairia Building King Fahd Road Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) P.O Box 22476 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Riyadh 11495 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +966 1 465 2255 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +966 1 465 8685 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
ING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE King Faisal Foundation
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Description: The King Faisal Foundation invites Nominations are welcomed from Islamic nominations for the King Faisal international institutions, universities, research centres and prize in Arabic language and literature. This other learned circles. Previous winners may will be awarded for a publication on the also submit nominations, while nominations analysis of the Arabic poetic text. from individuals or political parties will not be considered. Nominated works must be
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published, benefit mankind and enrich human knowledge. Eligibility profile ------The award includes a cash prize worth Country of applicant institution: Any SR750,000 (US$200,000), a certificate and a gold medallion. Should the foundation select Disciplines more than one winner, the prize money shall ------be divided among the winners. Arabic Literature; Literature, Poetry
Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the King Faisal International Prize approximate deadline we expect. This call is Al-Khairia Building repeated once a year. King Fahd Road Posted date: 17 Apr 15 P.O Box 22476 Award type: Prizes Riyadh 11495 Award amount max: $200,000 Tel: +966 1 465 2255 Award budget total: $200,000 Fax: +966 1 465 8685 Website: http://kfip.org/arabic-language- Email: [email protected] and-literature/
ING FAISAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN ISLAMIC STUDIES King Faisal Foundation
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Description: The King Faisal Foundation invites more than one winner, the prize money shall nominations for the King Faisal international be divided among the winners. prize in Islamic studies. This will be awarded for a publication on Muslim geography Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) heritage. Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Nominations are welcomed from Islamic approximate deadline we expect. This call is institutions, universities, research centres and repeated once a year. other learned circles. Previous winners may Posted date: 17 Apr 15 also submit nominations, while nominations Award type: Prizes from individuals or political parties will not Award amount max: $200,000 be considered. Nominated works must be Award budget total: $200,000 published, benefit mankind and enrich Website: http://kfip.org/islamic-studies/ human knowledge Eligibility profile The award includes a cash prize worth ------SR750,000 (US$200,000), a certificate and a Country of applicant institution: Any gold medallion. Should the foundation select
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Disciplines King Fahd Road ------P.O Box 22476 Islamic Studies; Social & Cultural Geography Riyadh 11495 Tel: +966 1 465 2255 Contact Details Fax: +966 1 465 8685 ------Email: [email protected] King Faisal International Prize Al-Khairia Building
ORLD FOOD PRIZE World Food Prize Foundation
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Description: The World Food Prize Foundation invites organisation, or governmental unit may nominations for its world food prize. This is nominate. The prize is worth US$250,000. awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement at any point along the full range of food production Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) and distribution chain. Fields of achievement Deadline information: !! Call has not yet include: been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is • soil and land; repeated once a year. • plant and animal science; Posted date: 06 Sep 13 • food science and technology; Award type: Prizes • nutrition; Award amount max: $250,000 Website: • rural development; http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/nominati • marketing; ons/the_world_food_prize_nomination_proc • food processing and packaging; edure/ • water and the environment; Application form: • natural resource conservation; http://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?n • physical infrastructure; odeID=28504&audienceID=1 • transportation and distribution; • special or extraordinary feeding Eligibility profile programmes; ------• social organisation and poverty Country of applicant institution: Any elimination; • economics and finance; Disciplines • policy analysis; ------• public advocacy. Poverty; Nutrition & Dietetics; Soil Sciences; Fisheries Science; Agriculture, Veterinary & The prize is intended for one person. Any Food Science; Food Science; Farm academic institution, private or public Management; Sustainable Agriculture; Meat & Meat Products; Food Systems; Food
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Engineering & Technology; Social Work & Harvest, Transport, Processing & Storage; Social Care; Water Resources Engineering & Botany; Social Work & Social Policy Management; Environmental Conservation & Biodiversity; Food Security; Food Contact Details Manufacturing & Processing; Livestock & ------Animal Science; Fertilisers & Agrochemicals; World Food Prize Foundation Agriculture, Drainage & Irrigation; 1700 Ruan Center Agriculture; Distribution; Built Environment 666 Grand Avenue & Spatial Planning; Rural Planning & Policy; Des Moines, IA 50309 Packaging; Agricultural Production Systems; Tel: +1 515 245 3783 Fax: +1 515 245 3785 Email: [email protected]
AD VASHEM INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH Yad Vashem – International Institute for Holocaust Research
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Description: The Yad Vashem - International Institute for Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Holocaust Research invites applications for meetings etc. the Yad Vashem international book prize for Award budget total: - Holocaust research. This is awarded in Website: recognition of high scholarly research and http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/insti writing on the Holocaust. tute/book_prize.asp Application form: Books must be in the original published http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/insti language and must contain new research on tute/pdf/book_prize_2015.pdf the Holocaust, or its antecedents and aftermath, which were published between 1 Eligibility profile January 2013 and 31 December 2014. ------Anthologies or works containing articles Country of applicant institution: Any written by multiple authors are not eligible. Disciplines The prize includes a monetary sum and travel ------to Israel to attend the award ceremony where Jewish Studies the recipient will present a paper. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Yad Vashem been announced by funder, but this is the The International Institute for Holocaust approximate deadline we expect. This call is Research repeated once a year. P.O Box 3477 Posted date: 11 Feb 15 Jerusalem 91034 Tel: +972 2644 3480 Email: [email protected]
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EJOS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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Description: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Award amount max: $40,000 Anthropological Research invites applications Award budget total: $80,000 for the Fejos postdoctoral fellowship in Website: ethnographic film. This supports the http://www.wennergren.org/programs/fejos- completion of ethnographic films based on postdoctoral-fellowships anthropological research already Application form: accomplished by the fellow. http://www.wennergren.org/programs/fejos- postdoctoral-fellowship-ethnographic- Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent in film/access-online-application anthropology and they must have received it within the last 10 years. Preference is given to Eligibility profile applicants who are untenured or do not yet ------have a permanent academic position. Country of applicant institution: Any
A maximum of two fellowships, each of Disciplines which provides US$40,000 financial assistance ------for 12 months of continuous full-time work, Ethnography & Ethnology; Anthropology are awarded. Contact Details Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological been announced by funder, but this is the Research approximate deadline we expect. This call is 470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor repeated once a year. New York, NY 10016 Posted date: 14 Nov 13 Tel: +1 212 683 5000 Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Fax: +1 212 683 9151 Publish, edit, translate, disseminate Email: [email protected]
ARLY CAREER ELECTROCHEMISTRY PRIZE OF ISE DIVISION 1 International Society of Electrochemistry
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Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry, of analytical electrochemistry made by a with support from OrigaLys ElectroChem scientist under 35 years of age on 1 January of SAS, invites nominations for its early career the year of the award. analytical electrochemistry prize. This recognises research achievements in the field
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The prize includes €750 and registration and banquet fees for the ISE annual meeting in the Eligibility profile following year, where the prize will be ------awarded. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 01 May 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Electrochemistry; Chemistry Posted date: 01 Sep 14 Award type: Young investigator awards, Contact Details Prizes ------Award amount max: €750 ISE Award budget total: - Chemin de Closelet 2 Website: http://www.ise- 1006 Lausanne online.org/awards/division1.php Email: [email protected] Application form: http://iseawards.ise- online.org/div1
AROSLAV HEYROVSKY PRIZE FOR MOLECULAR ELECTROCHEMISTRY International Society of Electrochemistry J
Description: The International Society of Electrochemistry Award type: Prizes invites nominations for the Jaroslav Award amount max: €750 Heyrovsky prize for molecular Award budget total: - electrochemistry. This recognises a scientist Website: http://www.ise- who has made an important contribution to online.org/awards/Heyrovsky.php the field of molecular electrochemistry in the Application form: http://awards.ise- past five years. online.org/mol/
Nominations may be made by individuals or Eligibility profile institutions, not by candidates themselves. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize includes €750 and registration and banquet fees for the ISE annual meeting Disciplines where the prize will be awarded. ------Electrochemistry Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: Applications accepted Contact Details between 1 February and 1 May 2016. This ------call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 19 Jan 16
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COTTISH RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Saltire Society
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Description: The Saltire Society, in partnership with the Award amount max: £2,000 National Library of Scotland, invites entries Award budget total: - for the Scottish research book of the year Website: award. This recognises the best book that http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/awards/liter represents a significant body of research and ature/literary-awards/scottish-research-book- offers new insight or dimension on their of-the-year-award/ subject. Application form: http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/Downloads/ Submissions are only accepted from Literary_Awards/Lit_Awards_Entry_Form_2 publishers. Books must have been written by 015.pdf authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, or they must deal with the work or Eligibility profile life of a Scot, a Scottish question, event or ------situation. They must have been first published Country of applicant institution: Any between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015. Disciplines ------The award is worth £2,000. Award winners British & Irish Studies; British & Irish History will be shortlisted for the society’s Scottish book of the year award, worth £6,000. Contact Details ------
Saltire Society Closing date: 01 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 9 Fountain Close been announced by funder, but this is the 22 High Street approximate deadline we expect. This call is Edinburgh EH1 1TF repeated once a year. Tel: +44 131 556 1836 Posted date: 07 Apr 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes
YDON FELLOWSHIP IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS AND POLITICAL HISTORY Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
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Description: The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies This enables a scholar to conduct research at invites applications for the Rydon fellowship the Menzies Centre. Preference is given to: in Australian politics and political history.
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• scholars who have recently completed Award type: Directed grants for individual their PhD and have a contract to investigators, Early-Career fellowships convert their thesis into a book; Award amount max: £5,000 • scholars who are engaged in Award budget total: - collaborative research with Menzies Website: Centre staff; http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/ • scholars whose project fits the menzies/scholarships/rydon.aspx Menzies Centre’s active research agenda. Eligibility profile ------The fellow will be entitled to office space and Country of applicant institution: Any facilities, use of a computer with web access and a King’s College London library card. Disciplines ------
Australian History; Colonial & Postcolonial The fellowship is tenable for one term and Studies; Colonial History; Politics & worth £5,000. Economics of Australia & New Zealand
Closing date: 01 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Detail once a year. ------Posted date: 14 Jul 15 Email: [email protected]
OSEMARY VANARSDEL PRIZE Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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Description: The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Deadline information: This call is repeated invites submissions for the Rosemary once a year. VanArsdel prize. This recognises the best Posted date: 03 Nov 15 graduate essay related to Victorian periodicals Award type: Student awards, Prizes and newspapers. Award amount max: $300 Award budget total: - Graduate students may submit papers. Website: http://rs4vp.org/vanarsdel-prize/ Manuscripts must not have previously appeared in print. Eligibility profile ------The prize is worth US$300, and the winning Country of applicant institution: Any essay will be published in the Victorian Periodicals Review. Disciplines ------Closing date: 01 May 16 British & Irish History; Print Media & Publishing; Victorian Literature
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Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------
CHOLARSHIP INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic)
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Description: The Netherlands Organisation for Deadline information: Applicants should International Cooperation (EP-Nuffic), on check their university’s website for the behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture appropriate deadline and application forms. and Science and 48 Dutch teaching institutes, Posted date: 13 Jan 16 invites applications for its Holland Award type: Grants - undirected, Financial Scholarship for international students. This aid for postgraduate students aims to stimulate students from outside the Award amount max: €5,000 EEA to apply for a bachelor’s or master’s Award budget total: - programme in the Netherlands. Website: https://www.epnuffic.nl/hoger- onderwijs/beurzen-en-subsidies/holland- Applicants must be applying to a bachelor’s scholarship or master’s programme at one of participating Dutch higher education institutions. Eligibility profile Applicants should not have obtained a degree ------from an education facility in the Netherlands Country of applicant institution: All African before. Nations, All Asian nations, All South American nations, All Oceanian nations, All The scholarship is worth €5,000. North American nations
Closing date: 01 May 16 Disciplines ------Any
ANADA-JAPAN LITERARY AWARDS Canada Council for the Arts – Conseil des Arts du Canada
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Description: The Canada Council for the Arts invites Canadian writers who are writing on Japan, nominations for the Canada-Japan literary Japanese themes, or themes that promote awards. These recognise literary excellence by mutual understanding between Japan and
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Canada. They also recognise literary d-a-prize/prizes/canada-japan-literary- excellence by Canadian translators of such awards books from Japanese into English or French. Application form: http://canadacouncil.ca/~/media/files/grants Nominated books must be submitted by a %20prizes%20- professional book publisher. Authors and %20en/endow%20and%20prizes/canada- translators must be Canadian citizens or japan%20literary%20awards%202012/prg30e permanent residents but do not need to be %2001-14.pdf?force=1 currently residing in Canada. Eligibility profile Two awards worth CA$10,000 each are ------available, one for an English language book Country of applicant institution: Any and one for a French language book. Disciplines Closing date: 02 May 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due on Japanese Language; Multicultural & Cross- 30 April every two years. If this deadline Cultural Studies; Japanese Literature falls on a weekend or statutory holiday applications are due on the next business Contact Details day. This call is repeated every 2 years. ------Posted date: 02 Feb 15 Canada Council for the Arts Award type: Prizes 150 Elgin Street Award amount max: $10,000 P.O Box 1047 Award amount min: - Ottawa ON K1P 5V8 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 613 566 4414 ext 4086 Website: Email: [email protected] http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/prizes/fin
OUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Mineralogical Association of Canada – Association Minéralogique du Canada
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Description: The Mineralogical Association of Canada Canadian citizens enrolled in equivalent invites applications for its foundation programmes at any university may also scholarship. Two scholarships are available apply. each year, one to support an MSc student and one to fund a PhD student in mineralogy, Each scholarship is worth CA$5,000. crystallography, geochemistry, mineral deposits or petrology. Closing date: 02 May 16 Deadline information: Applications due by 2 Applicants must be students entering the May; transcripts accepted until 13 May 2016. second year of an MSc programme or the This call is repeated once a year. second or third year of a PhD programme at a Posted date: 07 Jul 15 Canadian university in September 2015.
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Award type: Directed grants for individual Eligibility profile investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate ------students Country of applicant institution: Canada Award amount max: $5,000 Country of applicant institution: Any Award amount min: - Award budget total: $10,000 Disciplines Website: ------http://www.mineralogicalassociation.ca/inde Petrology; Geochemistry; Mineralogy; x.php?p=60 Crystallography
Application form: Contact Detail http://www.mineralogicalassociation.ca/doc/ ------ScholarshipForm.doc Email: [email protected]
ULLER ALBRIGHT AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Application form: Research invites nominations for the Fuller https://www.asbmr.org/login.aspx?ReturnUr Albright award. This is given in recognition of l=/Meetings/ASBMRAwards/NominationFor meritorious scientific accomplishment in the m.aspx bone and mineral field to an ASBMR member who has not yet reached theirr 45th birthday Eligibility profile before 1 July of the year the award is ------presented. Country of applicant institution: Any
Nominations are available only to members. Disciplines ------The award includes a US$2,000 honorarium. Musculoskeletal System; Diagnostic Sciences; Orthopaedic Surgery; Physiology; Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Human Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biological Sciences; Bone Cancers; Cell been announced by funder, but this is the Physiology & Metabolism approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 04 Apr 13 ------Award type: Prizes ASBMR Business Office Award amount max: $2,000 2025 M Street NW Award budget total: - Suite 800 Website: Washington, DC 20036-3309 http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw Tel: +1 202 367 1161 ards/Detail.aspx?cid=0a2b96b5-4163-49f9- Email: [email protected] 917e-8b3d5ca91864
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OUIS V AVIOLI FOUNDERS AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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The award includes a US$2,000 honorarium. Disciplines ------Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Bone Cancers; Human Biological Sciences; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; been announced by funder, but this is the Diagnostic Sciences; Physiology; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Musculoskeletal System; Orthopaedic repeated once a year. Surgery; Cell Physiology & Metabolism Posted date: 04 Apr 13 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $2,000 ------Award budget total: - ASBMR Business Office Website: 2025 M Street NW http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw Suite 800 ards/Detail.aspx?cid=6184de24-ce08-48a6- Washington, DC 20036-3309 949a-e29d9b6759e6 Tel: +1 202 367 1161 Email: [email protected]
REDERIC C BARTTER AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research invites nominations for the Frederic The award includes US$2,000 honorarium. C Bartter award. This is given to an ASBMR member in recognition of outstanding clinical Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) investigation in disorders of bone and mineral Deadline information: !! Call has not yet metabolism. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Nominations are available only to members. repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 04 Apr 13 Disciplines Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $2,000 Bone Cancers; Diagnostic Sciences; Award budget total: - Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Clinical Website: Medicine; Cell Physiology & Metabolism; http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw Human Biological Sciences; Musculoskeletal ards/Detail.aspx?cid=abd3b617-70df-4096- System; Orthopaedic Surgery; Physiology; a9fc-37163e3bd730 Human Metabolism; Chronic Care Application form: https://www.asbmr.org/login.aspx?ReturnUr Contact Details l=/Meetings/ASBMRAwards/NominationFor ------m.aspx ASBMR Business Office 2025 M Street NW Eligibility profile Suite 800 ------Washington, DC 20036-3309 Country of applicant institution: Any Tel: +1 202 367 1161 Email: [email protected]
ILLIAM F NEUMAN AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Website: Research invites nominations for the William http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw F Neuman award. This recognises an ASBMR ards/Detail.aspx?cid=04fc6f46-21a7-4f26- member for outstanding and major scientific b04c-91bc55adca08 contributions in the area of bone and mineral Application form: research and for contributions to associates https://www.asbmr.org/login.aspx?ReturnUr and trainees in teaching, research and l=/Meetings/ASBMRAwards/NominationFor administration. m.aspx
Nominations are available only to members. Eligibility profile The award includes an US$2,000 honorarium. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Orthopaedic Surgery; Musculoskeletal repeated once a year. System; Physiology; Osteoporosis & Other Posted date: 04 Apr 13 Bone Diseases; Bone Cancers; Cell Physiology Award type: Prizes & Metabolism; Human Biological Sciences; Award amount max: $2,000 Diagnostic Sciences Award budget total: -
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Contact Details Washington, DC 20036-3309 ------Tel: +1 202 367 1161 ASBMR Business Office Email: [email protected] 2025 M Street NW Suite 800
CIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AWARD Human Proteome Organisation
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Description: The Human Proteome Organisation invites Award budget total: $3,000 nominations for its science and technology Website: http://www.hupo.org/about- award. This recognises an individual or a hupo/awards/ team who has played a key role in Application form: commercialisation of a proteomics http://www.hupo.org/communications/hupo technology, product or procedure. The _awards/NominationForm2013.pdf emphasis is on making the technology, product or procedure widely available, which Eligibility profile is different from the basic scientific invention. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Nominations are open to individuals or teams of up to three people in private industry. Self Disciplines nominations will not be accepted. ------Chemistry; Biological Sciences; Biological The award, worth US$3,000, will be presented Macromolecules, Physical Characteristics; at the HUPO World Congress, at which the Structural Biology; Protein Trafficking; winner must present a talk. Congress Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover; registration fees will be waived, but no travel Proteomics & Molecular Interactions support will be provided. Contact Details Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet HUPO been announced by funder, but this is the 2019 Galisteo Street approximate deadline we expect. This call is Bldg I-1 repeated once a year. Santa Fe, NM 87505 Posted date: 06 Feb 13 Tel: +1 505 983 8550 Award type: Prizes Fax: +1 505 989 1073 Award amount max: $3,000 Email: [email protected] Award amount min: -
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ISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN PROTEOMIC SCIENCES AWARD Human Proteome Organisation
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Description: The Human Proteome Organisation invites Application form: nominations for its distinguished achievement http://www.hupo.org/communications/hupo in proteomic sciences award. This recognises a _awards/NominationForm2013.pdf scientist for distinguished scientific achievements in the field of proteomic Eligibility profile science. Self-nominations will not be ------considered. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award, worth US$3,000, will be presented Disciplines at the HUPO World Congress, at which the ------winner must present a talk. Congress Proteomics & Molecular Interactions; registration fees will be waived, but no travel Biological Macromolecules, Physical support will be provided. Characteristics; Protein Trafficking; Structural Biology; Chemistry; Biological Sciences; Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. HUPO Posted date: 06 Feb 13 2019 Galisteo St Award type: Prizes Bldg I-1 Award amount max: $3,000 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Award budget total: $3,000 Tel: +1 505 983 8550 Website: http://www.hupo.org/about- Fax: +1 505 989 1073 hupo/awards/ Email: [email protected]
IDEON A RODAN EXCELLENCE IN MENTORSHIP AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral of young investigators in bone and mineral Research invites nominations for the Gideon metabolism. A Rodan excellence in mentorship award. The award is given in recognition of outstanding Nominations are available only to members. support provided by a senior scientist who has helped promote the independent careers The award includes a US$2,000 honorarium.
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Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 04 Apr 13 ------Award type: Prizes Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Bone Award amount max: $2,000 Marrow; Bone Cancers; Cell Physiology & Award amount min: - Metabolism; Physiology; Osteoporosis & Award budget total: - Other Bone Diseases; Human Biological Website: Sciences http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw ards/Detail.aspx?cid=c24c7d1c-f03d-443e- Contact Details a805-9126dfc88f06 ------ASBMR Business Office Application form: 2025 M Street, Suite 800 https://www.asbmr.org/login.aspx?ReturnUr Washington, DC 20036-3309 l=/Meetings/ASBMRAwards/NominationFor Tel: +1 202 367 1161 m.aspx Email: [email protected]
ARLY-CAREER EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: American Society for Bone and Mineral Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Research invites nominations for its early- Deadline information: !! Call has not yet career excellence in teaching award. The been announced by funder, but this is the award recognises an individual who displays approximate deadline we expect. This call is strong commitment to teaching and learning repeated once a year. in the classroom, the clinic or research Posted date: 04 Apr 13 laboratory . Candidates for this award should Award type: Prizes have made a significant impact on students' Award amount max: $1,500 intellectual development by providing them Award budget total: - with opportunities to develop their interests Website: in bone and mineral-related research. http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw ards/Detail.aspx?cid=6fe3647a-7ee8-4864- The nominee must be an assistant or early b14f-d900536fec29 associate professor, or equivalent level at a Application form: non-US institution, and be in the early stages http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw of their career. Nominations are available only ards/NominationForm.aspx?aid=6fe3647a- to members. 7ee8-4864-b14f-d900536fec29
The award includes a US$1,500 honorarium.
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Eligibility profile Bone Cancers; Osteoporosis & Other Bone ------Diseases Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------ASBMR Business Office Human Biological Sciences; Physiology; Cell 2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800 Physiology & Metabolism; Diagnostic Washington, DC 20036-3309 Sciences; Bone Marrow; Clinical Medicine; Tel: +1 202 367 1161 Email: [email protected]
ISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Human Proteome Organisation
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Description: The Human Proteome Organisation invites Application form: nominations for its discovery in proteomic http://www.hupo.org/communications/hupo sciences award. This recognises an exemplary _awards/NominationForm2013.pdf member of the proteomic research community whose dedicated service has made Eligibility profile indispensable contributions to the ------organisation and mission of the organisation. Country of applicant institution: Any Self nominations will not be accepted. Disciplines The award, worth US$3,000, will be presented ------at the HUPO World Congress, at which the Structural Biology; Biological Sciences; Protein winner must present a talk. Congress Trafficking; Chemistry; Proteomics & registration fees will be waived, but no travel Molecular Interactions; Protein Synthesis, support will be provided. Modification & Turnover; Biological Macromolecules, Physical Characteristics Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is HUPO repeated once a year. 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I-1 Posted date: 06 Feb 13 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 505 983 8550 Award amount max: $3,000 Fax: +1 505 989 1073 Award budget total: $3,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.hupo.org/about- hupo/awards/
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ISCOVERY IN PROTEOMIC SCIENCES AWARD Human Proteome Organisation
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Description: The Human Proteome Organisation invites Application form: nominations for its discovery in proteomic http://www.hupo.org/communications/hupo sciences award. This recognises a scientist for _awards/NominationForm2013.pdf a single discovery in the field of proteomics. Self nominations will not be accepted. Eligibility profile ------The award, worth US$3,000, will be presented Country of applicant institution: Any at the HUPO World Congress, at which the winner must present a talk. Congress Disciplines registration fees will be waived, but no travel ------support will be provided. Protein Synthesis, Modification & Turnover; Chemistry; Biological Macromolecules, Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Physical Characteristics; Proteomics & Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Molecular Interactions; Protein Trafficking; been announced by funder, but this is the Structural Biology; Biological Sciences approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 06 Feb 13 ------Award type: Prizes HUPO Award amount max: $3,000 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I-1 Award amount min: - Santa Fe, NM 87505 Award budget total: $3,000 Tel: +1 514 983 8550 Website: http://www.hupo.org/about- Fax: +1 505 989 1073 hupo/awards/ Email: [email protected]
AULA STERN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Nominations are available only to members. Research invites applications for the Paula Stern achievement award. This recognises a The award includes an US$2,000 honorarium. woman who has made significant scientific achievements in the bone field and who has Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) promoted the professional development and Deadline information: !! Call has not yet advancement of women in the field. been announced by funder, but this is the
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approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 04 Apr 13 ------Award type: Prizes Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Award amount max: $2,000 Diagnostic Sciences; Human Biological Award amount min: - Sciences; Bone Cancers; Orthopaedic Surgery; Award budget total: - Physiology; Musculoskeletal System; Cell Website: Physiology & Metabolism http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw ards/Detail.aspx?cid=e6aac688-7a01-4579- Contact Details 8f77-bfccc9015b93 ------Application form: ASBMR Business Office https://www.asbmr.org/login.aspx?ReturnUr 2025 M Street NW l=/Meetings/ASBMRAwards/NominationFor Suite 800 m.aspx Washington, DC 20036-3309 Tel: +1 202 367 1161 Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------Country of applicant institution: Any
AWRENCE G RAISZ AWARD American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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Description: The American Society for Bone and Mineral Website: Research invites nominations for the http://www.asbmr.org/Meetings/ASBMRAw Lawrence G Raisz award. This recognises an ards/Detail.aspx?cid=c4e451de-fed5-4254- ASBMR member for outstanding 9889-d92f13243a59 achievements in preclinical and translational Application form: research, cellular or in animals. https://www.asbmr.org/login.aspx?ReturnUr l=/Meetings/ASBMRAwards/NominationFor Nominations are available only to members. m.aspx
The award includes an US$2,000 honorarium. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 03 May 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Cell Physiology & Metabolism; Human Posted date: 04 Apr 13 Biological Sciences; Diagnostic Sciences; Bone Award type: Prizes Cancers; Musculoskeletal System; Award amount max: $2,000 Osteoporosis & Other Bone Diseases; Award budget total: -
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Physiology; Orthopaedic Surgery; 2025 M Street NW Translational Medicine Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036-3309 Contact Details Tel: +1 202 367 1161 ------Email: [email protected] ASBMR Business Office
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Description: The Institute of Medicine invites nominations Eligibility profile for the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat ------international prize in mental health. This Country of applicant institution: Any prize recognises individuals, groups or Country of applicant institution: Any organisations for outstanding achievements in improving mental health. The award is Disciplines presented at the IOM's October annual ------meeting in Washington, DC. Psychotherapy; Social Work & Social Policy; Clinical Psychology; Mental Illness; Public Nominees do not need to be affiliated with the Health; Population Studies, Medical; Nursing; IOM. Psychiatry; Health Disparities; Health Systems Policy; Public Health, Health Services The prize is worth US$20,000 and is & Primary Care; Drug & Substance Abuse; accompanied by a medal. Neuroscience; Psychopathology; Psychology; Mental Health Closing date: 05 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Institute of Medicine repeated once a year. Keck Center Posted date: 13 Apr 11 847 Award type: Prizes 500 Fifth St NW Award amount max: $20,000 Washington, DC 20001 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 202 334 2177 Website: Fax: +1 202 334 2604 http://www.iom.edu/CMS/28312/32015.aspx Email: [email protected] Application form: http://sarnat.iom.edu/
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UDOLF CIMDINS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS European Society for Biomaterials
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Description: The European Society for Biomaterials invites applications for the Rudolf Cimdins student Closing date: 05 May 16 (Forecast) scholarships. These support student Deadline information: !! Call has not yet participation in the ESB annual conference, to been announced by funder, but this is the be held in Kraków, Poland from 30 August to approximate deadline we expect. This call is 3 September 2015. The leading topic of the repeated once a year. conference is balancing the needs for research Posted date: 17 Nov 14 and translation in a time of limited resources, Award type: Student awards, Travel to and topics include: conferences, meetings etc. Award budget total: - • smart biomaterials; Website: • surface modification and http://www.esbiomaterials.eu/cms/content/11 functionalisation; Eligibility profile • advanced manufacturing; ------• antimicrobial surfaces and materials; Country of applicant institution: Albania, • biointerfaces; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and • bioimaging and biosensing; Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Serbia, Czech • tissue engineering and regenerative Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Croatia, Hungary, medicine; Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Republic of, • angiogenesis and vascularisation; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, • drug and gene delivery; Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, • cell encapsulation and delivery; Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Lower-Middle- • stem cells; Income countries, Low Income countries, • cancer therapy; Upper-Middle-Income countries • bone and cartilage; • neural regeneration; Disciplines • cardiovascular applications; ------• wound healing; Biomaterials • clinical trials; • translation and commercialisation. Contact Details ------Applications are open to students from ESB academic or research centres based in a new c/o Polish Society for Biomaterials EU country, other east European country or AGH University of Science and Technology third world country. Applicants must have an Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics accepted abstract and be the presenting Department of Biomaterials author. Al. Mickiewiza 30 30-059 Kraków Winners receive free congress registration. Email: [email protected]
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IFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD European Society for Medical Oncology
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Description: The European Society for Medical Oncology approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites nominations for its lifetime repeated once a year. achievement award. This recognises Posted date: 19 Mar 15 international research by individuals, teams Award type: Prizes and organisations that demonstrate Award budget total: - commitment to clinical cancer research or Website: http://www.esmo.org/Career- education. Development/Awards/ESMO-Lifetime- Achievement-Award Candidates must demonstrate an affiliation to Application form: a major academic or cancer research or http://www.esmo.org/Career- treatment institution, possess an international Development/Awards/Awards-Nomination- reputation within the field and present a topic Form of high current interest. The candidate should also have published results on cancer research Eligibility profile ------topics in significant peer-reviewed journals. Country of applicant institution: Any Nominations may be made by any ESMO full, honorary and emeritus members. Candidates Disciplines may not nominate themselves. ------
Cancer Studies & Oncology The award includes the opportunity to give a lecture on the research findings during either Contact Details the ESMO or the ECC congress plus free ------registration, free accommodation and ESMO reimbursement of travel expenses. Via Luigi Taddei 4
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ECH AWARDS Tech Museum of Innovation
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Description: The Tech Museum of Innovation invites innovative technology. Awards are given in nominations for the Tech Awards. These are the five categories of environment, education, awarded for projects addressing well-defined young innovator, health or economic and globally significant problems with development. The technology and application
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LOBAL PARTNERS CAPACITY-BUILDING AWARD Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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Description: The Society of Environmental Toxicology and environment, education in the environmental Chemistry invites applications for its global sciences and the use of science in partners capacity-building award. This environmental policy and decision making. recognises individuals or groups for their contribution toward building capacity in the Priority is given to applicants that reside environmental sciences within countries with within a developing country, though developing economies. Emphasis is given to applicants external to developing countries the promotion of advancement and are also eligible. Self-nominations are application of scientific research related to acceptable. contaminants and other stressors in the
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The award comprises US$1,000, and Website: registration and travel costs to the societies’ http://www.setac.org/?page=SETACAwardG annual meeting. lobalPart
Closing date: 06 May 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 12 Feb 16 Award type: Directed grants to institutions, Disciplines research groups etc, Development ------(Africa/Caribbean), Directed grants for Environmental Science; Emerging Economies individual investigators, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: ------Award amount min: $1,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
CHOLARSHIP AWARD OPEC Fund for International Development
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Description: The OPEC Fund for International Closing date: 08 May 16 (Forecast) Development invites applications for its Deadline information: !! Call has not yet scholarship award. This scholarship enables been announced by funder, but this is the students from developing countries to pursue approximate deadline we expect. This call is a master’s degree in a field relating to repeated once a year. development or energy studies at any Posted date: 02 Feb 15 recognised university or college in the world. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Developing-country nationals aged between students 23 and 32 are eligible to apply. Applicants Award amount max: $50,000 must have obtained or be about to obtain an Award budget total: $200,000 undergraduate degree or its equivalent from Website: http://www.ofid.org/FOCUS- an accredited university or college and have a AREAS/Beyond-the-scope/Scholarship- minimum cumulative grade point average of Award 3.0 on a 4.0 rating system or equivalent. Application form: https://app.wizehive.com/appform/login/Ofi Applicants must be matriculated at an dScholarship accredited university for the upcoming academic year prior to application, and must Eligibility profile maintain full-time status for the duration of ------their studies. Country of applicant institution: Lower-
Middle-Income countries, Low Income The scholarship is worth up to US$50,000 over countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries a maximum of two years.
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Disciplines Parkring 8 ------1010 Vienna Development Studies Tel: +43 1 515 640 Fax: +43 1 513 92 38 Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------OPEC Fund for International Development
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Description: The Association for Logic, Language and Closing date: 09 May 16 Information (FoLLI) and the EW Beth Deadline information: This call is repeated Foundation invite nominations for the EW once a year. Beth dissertation prize. These support Posted date: 07 Jan 16 outstanding PhD dissertations in the fields of Award type: Prizes logic, language and information. Award amount max: €2,500 Award budget total: - Candidates who were awarded a PhD degree Website: http://www.folli.info/?page_id=84 in these fields between 1 January and 31 December 2015, are eligible. The dissertations Eligibility profile must be written in English. English ------translations or theses originally written in Country of applicant institution: Any other languages are accepted if they resulted in a PhD degree between 1 January 2013 and Disciplines 31 December 2014. There is no restriction on ------the nationality of the candidate or on the Philosophy of Information; Information university where the PhD was granted. Systems; Information Science; Logic; Linguistics The prize consists of €2,500, a certificate and an invitation to submit the dissertation for Contact Details publication. ------Email: [email protected]
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EMPLETON FREEDOM AWARDS PROGRAM Atlas Economic Research Foundation
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Description: Atlas Economic Research Foundation invites by univeristy based centers in applications for the Templeton freedom promoting liberty; awards program. The program recognizes the • award for special achievement by a achievements and future promise of young institute. Recognizing independent think tanks. Prizes are awarded outstanding performance by an in each of the following categories: institute that is less than five years old. One winner will be chosen from a • solutions of poverty. Recognizing developed country, and another one outstanding research and innovative from a more difficult part of the projects addressing how economic world. and legal institutions can solve problems of poverty; Two winners will be announced in each • ethics and values. Recognizing category. Both established and emerging non- outstanding research and innovative profit institutes are encouraged to apply. Each projects concerning the relationship winner will receive $10,000. between free enterprise and the ethics, values, and character that sustain it; Closing date: 11 May 16 (Forecast) • student outreach. Recognizing Deadline information: !! Call has not yet outstanding work by think tanks to been announced by funder, but this is the improve education about freedom; approximate deadline we expect. • social entrepreneurship. Recognizing Posted date: 14 Apr 11 outstanding research and innovative Award type: Prizes projects on social entrepreneurship to Award amount max: $10,000 benefit the poor, increased Award amount min: - cooperation among think tanks, the Award budget total: $160,000 private sector organizations for the Website: http://atlasnetwork.org/prizes- free society, and general building of a grants/templeton-freedom-awards/how-to- apply/ sound, strong, civil society; Application form: • initiative in public relations. http://atlasnetwork.org/wp- Recognizing nonprofit research content/uploads/downloads/2011/04/2011- institutes that have demonstrated TFA-Nomination-Form.doc outstanding success in effectively communicating the ideas of a free Eligibility profile society; ------• innovative media award. Recognizing Country of applicant institution: Any outstanding think tank projects that use film or multimedia technologies to Disciplines promote the principles of a free ------society; Political Parties & Institutions; Civil & Human • award for special achievement by a Rights; Business & Management Studies; university-based center. Recognizing Social & Income Inequality; Human outstanding projects and achievement Geography, Methods & Theory; Research Methods in Sociology; Poverty; Public Policy;
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Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises; Contact Details Education; Business Ethics; Social Work & ------Social Policy; Research Methods in Education; Atlas Economic Research Foundation Politics & International Studies; Equal 1201 L Street, NW, 2nd Floor Educational Opportunity Washington, DC 20005 Tel: +1 202 449 8446 Email: [email protected]
RANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS European Society for Medical Oncology
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Description: The European Society for Medical Oncology Award type: Networking/collaboration, invites applications for its translational Personal development, Directed grants for research fellowships. These support research individual investigators, Young investigator in oncology through training, career awards, Early-Career fellowships development and translational research Award amount max: €81,000 projects. Each applicant must be: Award budget total: - Website: http://www.esmo.org/Career- • a full or junior ESMO member, or Development/Oncology- apply for membership; Fellowships/Fellowship- • an oncologist with at least one year Offers/Translational-Research experience in medical, radiation or Application form: surgical oncology; http://www.esmo.org/Career- Development/Oncology- • be under the age of 40; Fellowships/Fellowship- • be proficient in English. Offers/Translational-
Research/2016/Translational-Research- Awards are worth €40,000 for one year, with Fellowship-online-application-2016 the possibility of an additional €40,000 for a second year. Host institutes receive €1,000 Eligibility profile towards administrative costs. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 12 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 24 Dec 15 Cancer Studies & Oncology
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LINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS European Society for Medical Oncology
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Description: The European Society for Medical Oncology Award type: Networking/collaboration, invites applications for its clinical research Directed grants for individual investigators, fellowships. The fellowships provide Personal development, Young investigator necessary support to develop clinical awards, Early-Career fellowships oncology research projects and the Award amount max: €41,000 opportunity to further enhance professional Award amount min: - skills and network in oncology. Each Award budget total: €41,000 applicant must be: Website: http://www.esmo.org/Career- Development/Oncology- • a full or junior ESMO member, or Fellowships/Fellowship-Offers/Clinical- apply for membership; Research • an oncologist with at least two years Application form: http://www.esmo.org/Career- of clinical experience in internal Development/Oncology- medicine or medical, radiation or Fellowships/Fellowship-Offers/Clinical- surgical oncology; Research/2016/Clinical-Research-Fellowship- • below 40 years of age; online-application-2016 • proficient in English. Eligibility profile The fellowship is worth €40,000 each for one ------year. Host institutions will receive €1,000 Country of applicant institution: Any towards administration costs. Disciplines Closing date: 12 May 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Cancer Studies & Oncology once a year. Posted date: 24 Dec 15
UNIOR PROFESSORSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES J Robert Bosch Stiftung
Description: Robert Bosch Stiftung invites applications for approaches may be based in the natural its junior professorship for sustainable use of sciences, as well as in the social, renewable natural resources. The developmental, political, medical and public professorship seeks to support a young health sciences, and should focus on outstanding scientist and to contribute to a developing and emerging countries. better standing of the emerging field of Applicants should have en excellent doctorate sustainability science in Germany. Research degree, completed no more than five years
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Application form: Contact Details https://bewerbung.boschstiftung------portal.de/onlinebewerbung Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH
Heidehofstrasse 31 Eligibility profile 70184 Stuttgart ------Tel: +49 711 460 8481 Country of applicant institution: Any Fax: +49 711 460 841 081
Email: anna.mueller-trimbusch@bosch- Disciplines ------stiftung.de
OMING SOON: COMPARATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement
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Description: The Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement will shortly be inviting These are awarded to researchers not already applications for its comparative research receiving funding from Netspar. Proposals for grants. The next call will be expected in 2016. research projects must be on topics that relate The following information is subject to to the organisation’s objective: to conduct change. innovative scientific research on all aspects of
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the economics of ageing. The maximum grant is €10,000 per project. Seven grants are Eligibility profile available in this round. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 12 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Geriatrics & Gerontology; Savings & repeated once a year. Investments; Psychology of Ageing Posted date: 14 Jan 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual Contact Details investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate ------students Tel: +31 13 466 8220 Award amount max: €10,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: €70,000 Website: http://www.netspar.nl/grants_research_grant .htm
ARTHA T MUSE PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND POLICY IN ANTARCTICA Tinker Foundation
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Description: The Tinker Foundation and the Scientific Closing date: 13 May 16 (Forecast) Committee on Antarctic Research of the Deadline information: !! Call has not yet International Council for Science invite been announced by funder, but this is the nominations for the Martha T Muse prize for approximate deadline we expect. This call is science and policy in Antarctica. This repeated once a year. recognises an individual who has Posted date: 10 Feb 15 demonstrated excellence in Antarctic science Award type: Prizes, Young investigator or policy, and who shows clear potential for awards sustained major and significant contributions Award amount max: $100,000 that will enhance the understanding of Award budget total: - Antarctica. Website: http://www.museprize.org/nominations.html Nominees should be less than 50 years of age Application form: on the closing date of nominations. http://www.museprize.org/userfiles/2015%20 files/MM_Nomination_Form_2015.doc Individuals throughout the world are eligible, however nominees from South America, Asia, Eligibility profile and Russia are particularly encouraged. Self------nominations are not considered. Country of applicant institution: Any
The prize is worth US$100,000.
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Disciplines Contact Detail ------Cold, Arctic & Antarctic Regions Email: [email protected]
ORLD DATA SYSTEM DATA STEWARDSHIP AWARD Royal Society of New Zealand
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Description: The Royal Society of New Zealand, on behalf Deadline information: This call is repeated of the World Data System, invites once a year. nominations for its WDS data stewardship Posted date: 26 Feb 16 award. This recognises contributions to the Award type: Young investigator awards, improvement of scientific data stewardship Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes by early career researchers through their Award budget total: - engagement with the community, academic Website: https://www.icsu- achievements, and innovations. wds.org/news/news-archive/call-from- nominations-wds-data-stewardship-award- Nominees must be under the age of 40 and 2015 within 10 years of obtaining their PhD or Application form: https://www.icsu- equivalent professional training. Nominations wds.org/files/WDSDataStewardshipAward2 must be sent by the representative of World 016.docx Data System member or working group, International Council for Science Eligibility profile ------interdisciplinary body or ICSU national and Country of applicant institution: Any union member.
Disciplines The award will be presented at SciDataCon ------2016. Administrative Big Data & Informatics; Open
Access & Scholarly Publishing; Information The award includes a prize and participation Science at the conference, covering travel expenses, lodging costs and registration. Contact Details
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RROL HILL AWARD American Society for Theatre Research
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Description: The American Society for Theatre Research Award budget total: - invites nominations for the Errol Hill award. Website: This is given for the best book-length project, http://www.astr.org/?page=Hill_Award such as a monograph or essay collection, or scholarly article, in recognition of outstanding Eligibility profile scholarship in African American theatre ------history, dramatic literature or performance Country of applicant institution: Any studies. Disciplines The book or article must have been published ------during the previous calendar year. Performing Arts Management & Independent, tenured or untenured scholars Administration; Theatre Studies; American are eligible to apply. Nominations can come History; Literature, Drama; History; from the author of the work to be considered, Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; any member of ASTR, the editor of a journal Performing Arts; Cultural History in which an essay has appeared or a book publisher. Contact Details ------Closing date: 14 May 16 (Forecast) Stanford University Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 590 Escondido Mal been announced by funder, but this is the Sweet Hall approximate deadline we expect. This call is Room 432 repeated once a year. Stanford CA 94305-3082 Posted date: 04 Apr 14 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes
OHN J BONICA TRAINEE FELLOWSHIP International Association for the Study of Pain J
Description: The International Association for the Study of and mentor must be members of IASP. All Pain invites applications for the John J Bonica applications must be submitted in English. trainee fellowship. The fellowship is intended to support training in clinical and basic The stipend is worth up to US$50,000 per year science research in the field of pain. for two years. The fellowship is not intended Applicants will be expected to designate the to supplement or extend current training. institution and mentor of the proposed Preference will be given to candidates who training. The trainee will generally be in an seek training outside their current institution. early stage of his or her career. Both trainee
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Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 23 Jul 12 ------Award type: Predoctoral training Life Expectancy & Quality of Life; Medicine & fellowships, Postdoctoral training Health; Allied Health Professions; Primary fellowships Care; Public Health, Health Services & Award amount max: $100,000 Primary Care; Health Systems; Pain Award budget total: - Management; Chronic Pain; Clinical Medicine Website: http://www.iasp- pain.org/Education/GrantDetail.aspx?ItemN Contact Details umber=1110 ------IASP Secretariat Application form: http://www.iasp- 111 Queen Avenue North pain.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=IASP_J Suite 501 ohn_J_Bonica_Trainee_Fellowship&Templat Seattle, WA 98109-4955 e=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=733 Tel: +1 206 283 0311 2 Fax: +1 206 283 9403
Email: [email protected]
ANCER RESEARCH AWARD Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Foundation
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Description: The Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Foundation approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites applications for its 2015 cancer repeated every 2 years. research award. The aim of the award is to Posted date: 19 Feb 14 fund outstanding cancer related research. Award type: Directed grants for individual Applicants should be early career investigators, Prizes investigators involved in projects in basic or Award amount max: SFr.1,050,000 clinical research. Priority is given to Award amount min: - applications from scientists based within Award budget total: SFr.1,050,000 European institutions. Website: http://www.steinerstiftung.unibe.ch/ The award provides funding worth up to Application form: CHF1 million over four years. A personal http://www.steinerstiftung.unibe.ch/downlo prize of CHF50,000 will be awarded to the ad/ApplicationForm.docx successful principal investigator. Eligibility profile
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Disciplines Non-cancerous Tumours; Nursing; Diagnostic ------Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Breast Cancer; Brain Cancer; Cancer Studies & Oncology; Gynaecological Cancers Cancer Cell Biology; Melanoma & Other Skin Cancers; Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Contact Details Cancers; Leukaemia & Other Blood Cancers; ------Primary Care; Prostate & Testicular Cancers; Institut für Physiologie Lung Cancer; Chemotherapy; Public Health, Bühlplatz 5 Health Services & Primary Care; Physiology; 3012 Bern Molecularly Targeted Therapy; Tel: +41 31 631 46 11 Carcinogenesis; Human Biological Sciences; Email: [email protected] Oncology Nursing; Cancer Immunology;
CHOLARLY FELLOWSHIPS Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Description: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Award amount max: $3,000 History invites applications for short-term Award budget total: - research fellowships. These support doctoral Website: candidates, university faculty and http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fell independent scholars working in the field of owship1.html American history and support them to do Application form: research at archives in New York City. This http://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs- year, preference will be given to applicants exhibitions/fellowship-application-form whose research is focused on primary sources in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. As part of Eligibility profile their award, the 2015 fellows will be provided ------with a work station at the main office of the Country of applicant institution: Any Gilder Lehrman Institute in Manhattan. Disciplines Each award is worth US$3,000. ------American History Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Fellowship repeated once a year. Programme Posted date: 08 Feb 13 49 West 45th street, sixth floor Award type: Directed grants for individual New York, NY 10036 investigators, Access to libraries, Predoctoral Tel: +1 646 366 9666 ext 29 fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, Senior Fax: +1 646 366 9669 fellowships, Early-Career fellowships Email: [email protected]
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AMES A RAWLEY PRIZE IN ATLANTIC HISTORY American Historical Association J
Description: The American Historical Association invites Website: http://www.historians.org/awards- applications for the James A Rawley prize in and-grants/awards-and-prizes/james-a- Atlantic history. This is awarded in rawley-prize recognition of outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic Eligibility profile worlds before the 20th century. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Books with a copyright of 2015 are eligible for the 2016 award. Only books of high scholarly Disciplines and literary merit will be considered. ------Latin American & Caribbean History; Central Closing date: 15 May 16 European History; Early Modern History; Deadline information: This call is repeated Modern History; American History once a year. Posted date: 20 Nov 15 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
LBERT J BEVERIDGE AWARD IN AMERICAN HISTORY American Historical Association
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Description: The American Historical Association invites documents are not. Only books bearing an applications and nominations for the Albert J imprint of 2013 are eligible for the 2014 prize. Beveridge award in American history. The award is given for a distinguished book in The award is worth between US$1,000 and English on the history of the United States, US$1,500. Latin America or Canada, from 1492 to the present. Books that employ new Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) methodological or conceptual tools or that Deadline information: !! Call has not yet constitute significant re-examinations of been announced by funder, but this is the important interpretive problems will be given approximate deadline we expect. This call is preference. repeated once a year. Posted date: 20 May 13 Biographies, monographs and works of Award type: Prizes synthesis and interpretation are eligible; Award amount max: $1,500 translations, anthologies and collections of Award amount min: $1,000 Award budget total: -
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Website: Studies; History; Canadian History; Canadian http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? Literature; North American Studies; American PrizeAbbrev=BEVERIDGE History; Latin American & Caribbean History; American Literature Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------AHA Disciplines 400 A St SE ------Washington, DC 20003-3889 Politics & Economics of Latin America & the Caribbean; Latin American & Caribbean
AMES HENRY BREASTED PRIZE American Historical Association J
Description: The American Historical Association invites Website: http://www.historians.org/awards- entries for the James Henry Breasted prize. and-grants/awards-and-prizes/james-henry- This recognises the best book in English in breasted-prize any field of history prior to CE 1000. Eligibility profile Only books of a high scholarly nature and ------bearing a copyright of 2015 may be submitted. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 15 May 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. History Posted date: 24 Nov 15 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award budget total: ------Email: [email protected]
LBERT B COREY PRIZE IN CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS American Historical Association
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Description: The American Historical Association, in Association, invites applications for the Albert partnership with the Canadian Historical B Corey prize in Canadian-American
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relations. The prize is awarded for the best Eligibility profile book dealing with the history of Canadian------American relations or the history of both Country of applicant institution: Any countries. Books bearing an imprint of 2012 or 2013 are eligible for the 2014 prize. Disciplines ------History; North American Studies; Political Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) History; Canadian History; Canadian Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Literature; American History; American been announced by funder, but this is the Literature approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated every 2 years. Contact Details Posted date: 01 Dec 11 ------Award type: Prizes American Historical Association Award budget total: - 400 A St SE Website: Washington, DC 20003-3889 http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? Tel: +1 202 544 2422 PrizeAbbrev=Corey Fax: +1 202 544 8307 Email: [email protected]
OHN K FAIRBANK PRIZE IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY American Historical Association J
Description: The American Historical Association invites Award budget total: - entries for the John K Fairbank prize in east Website: Asian history. This is awarded annually for an http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? outstanding book on the history of China PrizeAbbrev=FAIRBANK proper, Vietnam, Chinese central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea or Japan, Eligibility profile substantially after 1800. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Books with a copyright of 2015 are eligible for the 2016 prize. Contact Details ------Only books of high scholarly and literary Email: [email protected] merit will be considered. Disciplines Closing date: 15 May 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Japanese History; Modern History; Chinese once a year. History; South-East Asian History; History of Posted date: 20 Nov 15 the Indian Subcontinent; Korean History; Award type: Prizes Asian Studies; Early Modern History
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EO GERSHOY AWARD IN 17TH- AND 18TH-CENTURY WESTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY American Historical Association L
Description: The American Historical Association invites Website: nominations for the Leo Gershoy award. This http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? is awarded annually to the author of the most PrizeAbbrev=Gershoy outstanding work published in English on any aspect of the fields of 17th- and 18th- Eligibility profile century western European history. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Books with a copyright of 2015 will be eligible for the 2016 award. Only books of high Disciplines scholarly and literary merit will be ------considered. Finnish History; Scandinavian History; Italian History; German History; French History; Closing date: 15 May 16 Central European History; British & Irish Deadline information: This call is repeated History; Spanish History; Dutch History; once a year. Portuguese History; Early Modern History Posted date: 20 Nov 15 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award budget total: ------Email: [email protected]
OAN KELLY MEMORIAL PRIZE IN WOMEN’S HISTORY American Historical Association J
Description: The American Historical Association invites interrelationship between women and the applications for the Joan Kelly memorial prize historical process should be addressed. Books in women's history. This is awarded annually with a copyright of 2015 are eligible for the for the book in women's history or feminist 2016 award. theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life Closing date: 15 May 16 and work of Joan Kelly. Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Submissions must be books in any Posted date: 20 Nov 15 chronological period, any geographical Award type: Prizes location or in an area of feminist theory that Award budget total: - incorporates an historical perspective and a Website: recognition of the important role of sex and http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? gender in the historical process. The PrizeAbbrev=Kelly
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Eligibility profile Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies; ------Feminist Theory; History; Gender Roles & Country of applicant institution: Any Sexuality
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ITTLETON-GRISWOLD PRIZE IN AMERICAN LAW AND SOCIETY American Historical Association
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Description: The American Historical Association invites Website: http://www.historians.org/awards- nominations for the Littleton-Griswold prize. and-grants/awards-and-prizes/littleton- This is awarded for the best book in any griswold-prize subject on the history of American law and society, broadly defined. Eligibility profile ------Books with a copyright of 2015 are eligible for Country of applicant institution: Any consideration for the 2016 award. Only books of high scholarly and literary merit will be Disciplines considered. ------American History; North American Studies; Closing date: 15 May 16 History of Law & Justice Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 20 Nov 15 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
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Description: The Quaternary Research Association invites studying for higher degrees in quaternary applications for its new research workers’ science and typically support such activities awards. These recognise younger researchers as field expeditions, geological surveys,
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coring activities, laboratory visits, purchase of Application form: field equipment and laboratory analyses. https://www.qra.org.uk/media/uploads/NR WAapplication15.docx Postgraduates who have been members of the association for at least six months may apply. Eligibility profile Applicants must not hold a doctoral degree or ------tenured academic position. Preference will be Country of applicant institution: Any given to those who have no source of fieldwork funding or whose access to such Disciplines funds is limited. ------Structural Geology; Archaeological Sites & Awards are normally worth up to £1,000. Field Work
Closing date: 15 May 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 May ------2016, 15 September 2016, 15 January 2017, QRA and repeated annually. Department of Geography Posted date: 13 Jan 16 Durham University Award type: Travel for research purposes, Science Laboratories Equipment and materials, Directed grants South Road for individual investigators, Student awards Durham DH1 3LE Award amount max: £1,000 Tel: +44 191 33 43498 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.qra.org.uk/
OSTGRADUATE MEETINGS AWARDS Quaternary Research Association
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Description: Awards normally cover 50 per cent of the The Quaternary Research Association invites costs of the meeting, excluding travel to the applications for its postgraduate meetings venue. awards. These enable postgraduates to attend association meetings, namely field meetings Closing date: 15 May 16 and annual discussion meetings. Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 May 2016, 15 September 2016, 15 January 2017, Registered postgraduates who are current and repeated annually. members of the association may apply. Posted date: 20 Jul 15 Applications are particularly encouraged Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings from students in their first year of etc., Student awards postgraduate study. The main criteria for the Award budget total: - distribution of awards will be relevance to Website: https://www.qra.org.uk/ research topic and financial need.
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Application form: Contact Details https://www.qra.org.uk/media/uploads/Postg ------radMeetingApp15.docx QRA Department of Geography Eligibility profile Durham University ------Lower Mountjoy Country of applicant institution: Any South Road Durham Disciplines DH1 3LE ------Tel: +44 191 334 3498 Quaternary Environments Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IN MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists R
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Application form: Scientists invites nominations for its research http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ achievement awards in manufacturing science Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C and engineering. These recognise outstanding onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site scientists who have conducted fundamental _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/2015%20AM%20R research that has had significant impact in the AA%20revised.doc field of pharmaceutical manufacturing science and engineering. Eligibility profile ------The nominator must be an AAPS member. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Pharmacy & Pharmacology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 07 Jan 15 ------Award type: Prizes AAPS Award budget total: - 2107 Wilson Blvd Website: Suite 700 http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ Arlington, VA 22201-3042 Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ Tel: +1 703 248 4781 Email: [email protected]
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ANUSCRIPT AWARDS American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Recipients need not be AAPS members. Scientists invites submissions for its manuscript awards. The following awards are Winners will receive a complimentary offered: registration to the AAPS annual meeting and travel reimbursement of up to US$1,000. For • the journal manuscript award the outstanding manuscript award in analysis recognises outstanding contributions and pharmaceutical quality there is an to the pharmaceutical sciences as honorarium of US$500. demonstrated by authors in the quality and originality of a manuscript Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) published in the AAPS Journal; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet • the pharmaceutical research been announced by funder, but this is the meritorious manuscript award approximate deadline we expect. This call is recognises outstanding achievement repeated once a year. in the pharmaceutical sciences as Posted date: 14 Apr 15 demonstrated by authors of a Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, manuscript published in the journal meetings etc. Pharmaceutical Research in the Award budget total: - previous two years; Website: http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ • the outstanding manuscript award in Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ analysis and pharmaceutical quality
recognises achievement in Eligibility profile pharmaceutical analysis and quality ------as demonstrated by authors in a Country of applicant institution: Any manuscript published in an
analytically focused journal; Disciplines • the outstanding manuscript award in ------PharmSciTech recognises outstanding Pharmacy & Pharmacology achievement in pharmaceutical technologies as demonstrated by Contact Details authors of a manuscript published in ------the journal PharmSciTech. Email: [email protected]
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ESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Myositis Association
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Description: The Myositis Association invites applications Posted date: 20 Apr 15 for its research fellowships. These are Award type: Early-Career fellowships, designed to help promising postdoctoral Postdoctoral training fellowships, Directed investigators to pursue research into any type grants for individual investigators of immune-mediated myositis. Award amount max: $108,000 Award budget total: - Applicants must have an MD, PhD or Website: http://www.myositis.org/explore- equivalent degree. They should have research/tma-grants-a-fellowships/myositis- completed residency training or have received research-funding their degree within five years prior to commencing the fellowship. Eligibility profile ------Awards are worth up to US$50,000 per year Country of applicant institution: Any for a period of two years. TMA also provides funds for indirect costs up to eight per cent. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Autoimmune Diseases; Muscle Diseases; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Inflammation been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Letter of Contact Detail intent due by 12 midnight ET, 15 May; full ------application due by 12 midnight ET, 15 June Email: [email protected] 2015. This call is repeated once a year.
ETER G PENTCHEV RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation
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Description: The National Niemann-Pick Disease and potential treatment of NPC. The Foundation invites applications for the Peter following fellowships are available: G Pentchev research fellowships. These support research into understanding the • postdoctoral fellowships, worth biology and pathogenesis of Niemann-Pick US$50,000 per year for two years; Disease Type C disease. Preference is given to • early career investigator fellowships, projects developing new therapies for NPC worth US$50,000 per year for two and to translational projects that improve years, aimed at new principal understanding of the biology, pathogenesis investigators in their first independent
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laboratory following postdoctoral Posted date: 31 Mar 15 work; Award type: Early-Career fellowships, • predoctoral fellowships, worth Financial aid for postgraduate students, US$30,000 per year for three years, Predoctoral fellowships, Postdoctoral aimed at predoctoral fellows enrolled training fellowships, Directed grants for in an accredited doctoral programme individual investigators who have already been accepted Award amount max: $100,000 within a lab, and have had their thesis Award budget total: - proposals accepted by the Website: programme. http://www.nnpdf.org/npresearch_15.html
Postdoctoral and predoctoral candidates must Eligibility profile apply for a fellowship under the guidance of a ------sponsor, who should be actively involved in Country of applicant institution: Any the planning, execution and supervision of the proposed research. In addition, postdoctoral Disciplines ------candidates must be beginning their first or Human Metabolism; Metabolomics; Genetic second full-time research fellowship, and Diseases; Neurogenetics have completed one or more degrees including a MD, PhD or DVM. Research Contact Details projects must be conducted at a university, ------hospital or research institution. Candidates c/o NNPDF must be currently associated with a P.O Box 49 recognised laboratory. 401 Madison Ave
Suite B Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Fort Atkinson WI 53538 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +1 920 563 0930 been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +1 920 563 0931 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
REMIO DEL REY PRIZE American Historical Association
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Description: The American Historical Association invites communities of Medieval Spain as well as nominations for the Premio Del Rey prize. early new world topics prior to 1516. This recognises a distinguished book in English in the field of early Spanish history, Books with a copyright of 2014 or 2015 are covering the medieval period in Spain’s eligible for the 2016 award. history and culture between 500 and 1516 CE including works on Hispanic history and Closing date: 15 May 16 culture and the Islamic and Jewish
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Deadline information: This call is repeated Country of applicant institution: Any every 2 years. Posted date: 24 Nov 15 Disciplines Award type: Prizes ------Award budget total: - Spanish History; Medieval History; Jewish Website: http://www.historians.org/awards- Studies; Islamic Studies and-grants/awards-and-prizes/premio-del- rey Contact Detail ------Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
ORRIS D FORKOSCH PRIZE American Historical Association
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Description: The American Historical Association invites Award budget total: - nominations for the Morris D Forkosch prize. Website: This is awarded annually in recognition of the http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? best book in English in the field of British, PrizeAbbrev=FORKOSCH British Imperial or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Submission of books Eligibility profile relating to the shared common law heritage of ------the English-speaking world are particularly Country of applicant institution: Any encouraged. Disciplines Books with a copyright of 2015 will be eligible ------for the 2016 competition. British & Irish History; History of Law & Justice; Colonial History Closing date: 15 May 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Detail once a year. ------Posted date: 20 Nov 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes
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RUSSELL MAJOR PRIZE American Historical Association J
Description: The American Historical Association invites Website: nominations for the J Russell Major prize. This http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? recognises the best work written in English PrizeAbbrev=Major and published in the previous year, on any aspect of French history. Books with an Eligibility profile imprint of 2015 are eligible for the 2016 ------award. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 15 May 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. French History Posted date: 19 Nov 15 Award type: Prizes Contact Detail Award budget total: ------Email: [email protected]
IRGINIA A HODGKINSON RESEARCH BOOK PRIZE Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
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Description: ARNOVA and Independent Sector invite approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for their Virginia A Hodgkinson repeated once a year. research prize. This prize recognizes the best Posted date: 05 Apr 11 book on philanthropy and the nonprofit Award type: Prizes sector that informs policy and practice. Award amount max: $1,000 Award budget total: - Submissions from scholars representing any Website: discipline are welcome. Submissions from https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/Dynamic young scholars, practioners working in Page.aspx?Site=ARNOVA&WebCode=Awar collaboration with university-based dsVirginia researchers, and scholars working on multi- Application form: http://www.arnova- disciplinary approaches. There is a $1,000 proposal.org/Awards/Submit/ honorarium. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines ARNOVA ------550 W. North Street, Suite 301 Philanthropy; Volunteering; Business & Indianapolis, IN 46202 Management Studies; Nonprofit Tel: +1 317 684 2120 Organisations; Social Work & Social Policy Fax: +1 317 684 2128 Email: [email protected] Contact Details ------
RADUATE STUDIES GRANTS Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation
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Description: The Audio Engineering Society Educational applications accepted between March 15 and Foundation invites applications for its May 15, annually. graduate study grants. Grants for graduate Posted date: 04 Nov 11 studies in audio engineering and related fields Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate are awarded annually. students, Predoctoral fellowships Award budget total: - Applicants must meet the following criteria: Website: http://www.aes.org/education/edu_foundatio • successful completion of an n.cfm undergraduate degree program at a Application form: recognized college or university; http://www.aes.org/education/foundation/AE SEduFoundGrantForm.pdf • demonstrated commitment to audio
engineering; Eligibility profile • acceptance or a pending application ------for graduate studies leading to a Country of applicant institution: Any master’s or higher degree.
Disciplines Recipients are selected on the basis of ------demonstrated talent and achievement, and on Sound Processing & Recording; Acoustics; faculty recommendation. A recipient may Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Computer apply for one-time renewal after the Science & Informatics successful completion of at least one year of graduate studies. Payment will be sent Contact Details directly to the graduate school on behalf of ------the student's tuition account. AES Educational Foundation
60 East 42nd Street Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Room 2520 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet New York, NY 10165 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 212 661 8528 approximate deadline we expect. Deadline: Fax: +1 212 682 0477
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Website: http://www.aes.org/contact/hq.cfm
RA AND HARRIET REISS THEORY AWARD Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
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Description: The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality invites nominations for the Ira and Closing date: 15 May 16 Harriet Reiss theory award. The purpose of Deadline information: This call is repeated the award is to support theoretical advances once a year. in social science theories concerning human Posted date: 30 Dec 10 sexuality. Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. The award is made to the author of the best Award amount max: $1,000 social science article, chapter, or book Award budget total: - published in the previous year in which Website: theoretical explanations of human sexual http://sexscience.org/the_ira_and_harriet_rei attitudes and behaviours are developed. In ss_theory_award/ addition to careful theoretical development, stress will be placed on the use of relevant Eligibility profile empirical evidence to examine the validity of ------the theoretical explanations. Country of applicant institution: Any
The publication must have appeared in 2015. Disciplines The author will be expected to present a ------plenary address based on the winning Gender Roles & Sexuality; Psychology of Sex publication at the annual meeting of the & Gender; Gender & Sexuality in Culture; Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Gender & Sexuality in Education which will be held in Arizona 17 to 20 November 2016. Contact Details ------
Department of Psychology The award consists of US$500 and a plaque. University of Lethbridge To defray expenses associated with the Lethbridge AB T1J 0V6 presentation, an additional US$500 will be Email: [email protected] made available.
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ESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Website: Scientists invites nominations for its research http://www.aaps.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?L achievement awards in biotechnology. These inkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2377 recognise scientists who have demonstrated Application form: significant impact in the field of http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ biotechnology. Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site Nominations can be made by any AAPS _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/2015%20AM%20R member and must be backed by two AA%20revised.doc additional supporting letters. There are no restrictions on nominee nationality. Eligibility profile ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Biotechnology repeated once a year. Posted date: 09 Apr 15 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award budget total: - Tel: +1 703 248 4781 Email: [email protected]
AVID JW GRANT RESEARCH AWARD IN PHYSICAL PHARMACY American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Award recipients will receive a US$1,000 Scientists invites nominations for the David honorarium and complimentary AAPS annual JW Grant research award in physical meeting registration. Travel expenses will be pharmacy. This recognises outstanding reimbursed up to US$1,000 for domestic scientists who have conducted fundamental travel and US$1,500 for international travel. or practical research that has had significant impact in the fields of physical pharmacy. Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Candidates may be working in academia, been announced by funder, but this is the industry and government. Self nominations approximate deadline we expect. This call is are accepted. repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 09 Apr 15 Eligibility profile Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, ------meetings etc. Country of applicant institution: Any Award budget total: - Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ Disciplines ------Application form: Pharmaceutical Drugs; Drug Design http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C Contact Details onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site ------_Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/2015%20AM%20D Tel: +1 703 248 4781 avid%20Grant%20in%20Physical%20Pharma Email: [email protected] cy%20updated.doc
AURICE HILLEMAN/MERCK AWARD American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology awards/10-awards-a-grants/awards/26- invites nominations for the Maurice maurice-hillemanmerck-award Hilleman/Merck award. This recognises Application form: major contributions to pathogenesis, vaccine http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- discovery, vaccine development or control of forms/hilleman-nominating vaccine-preventable diseases. Eligibility profile The award includes US$20,000 and travel to ------the ASM general meeting, where the recipient Country of applicant institution: Any will present the Maurice Hilleman/Merck award lecture. Disciplines ------Closing date: 15 May 16 Infectious Diseases; Immunisation Deadline information: This call is repeated Programmes & Vaccination; Disease Control; once a year. Immunology; Pathogenesis; Epidemiology Posted date: 21 Dec 15 Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Contact Details meetings etc. ------Award budget total: - ASM Website: 1752 N Street NW http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards/all- Washington DC 20036-2904 Email: [email protected]
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UBIST-ICAAC AWARD American Society for Microbiology
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Description: The American Society for Microbiology Award budget total: - invites nominations for its Cubist-ICAAC Website: award. The purpose of this award is to http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- honour an outstanding accomplishment in grants2/10-awards-a-grants/awards/37-cubist- antimicrobial research. icaac-award Application form: The nominee must be actively engaged in http://www.asm.org/index.php/awards- research involving development of new forms/cubist-icaac-nominating agents, investigation of antimicrobial action or resistance to antimicrobial agents, or the Eligibility profile pharmacology, toxicology or clinical use of ------those agents. Self-nominations and more than Country of applicant institution: Any one nomination per nominee will not be accepted. Disciplines ------The award consists of a cash prize of Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Chemotherapy; US$10,000 and travel to ICAAC, where the Microbiology; Toxicology; Biological Sciences; laureate delivers the award lecture. Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Diagnostic Sciences; Pharmaceutical Drugs Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Awards Programme repeated once a year. ASM Posted date: 29 May 14 1752 N Street, NW Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Washington, DC 20036 meetings etc. Email: [email protected] Award amount max: $10,000
TUDENT POSTER SESSION AWARDS Electrochemical Society
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Description: The Electrochemical Society invites are meant to acknowledge the quality and applications for its student poster session thoroughness of the candidate’s work, awards. The awards are given to the best originality and independence of the poster presentations at a society meeting and candidate's contributions, significance and
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timeliness of research results, and depth of Website: understanding of the research topic and its http://www.electrochem.org/awards/student/ relationship to the fields of interest to the student_awards.htm#l Electrochemical Society. One award will be presented in the field of electrochemical Eligibility profile science and the other in the field of solid state ------science and technology. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award includes US$250. Disciplines Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Physics; Electrochemistry; Inorganic been announced by funder, but this is the Chemistry; Applied Electronics; Electrical & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Electronic Engineering; Condensed Matter repeated 2 times a year. Physics; Chemistry Posted date: 08 Nov 13 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $250 ------Award budget total: - Tel: +1 609 737 1902 Email: [email protected]
UMMER SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP European Society for Translation Studies
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Description: The European Society for Translation Studies Directed grants for individual investigators, invites applications for its summer school Student awards scholarship. This provides support for Award amount max: €1,000 students preparing a doctoral dissertation in Award budget total: - translation studies. The grant can be used for Website: http://www.est- any summer school organised within translationstudies.org/committees/summer_s translation studies. chool/ss_grant.htm Application form: http://www.est- Applicants must be EST members. translationstudies.org/committees/summer_s chool/application_form.docx The scholarship is worth €1,000. Eligibility profile Closing date: 15 May 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Country of applicant institution: Any once a year. Posted date: 28 Jul 15 Disciplines Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate ------students, Thesis/Dissertation funding, Translation Studies
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Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------
AMES HARVEY ROBINSON PRIZE American Historical Association J
Description: The American Historical Association invites Posted date: 13 Mar 13 applications for the James Harvey Robinson Award type: Prizes prize. The prize is awarded biennially for the Award amount max: $1,500 teaching aid that has made the most Award amount min: $1,000 outstanding contribution to the teaching and Award budget total: - learning of history in any field for public or Website: http://www.historians.org/awards- educational purposes. Teaching aids include and-grants/awards-and-prizes/james-harvey- textbooks, source and reference materials, robinson-prize audiovisuals, computer-assisted instruction, and public history or museum materials. Eligibility profile Monographs and revisions will not be ------considered. Items to be submitted for the 2014 Country of applicant institution: Any competition must have an imprint of 2012 or 2013. Disciplines ------The winner will receive a one-year History; Curriculum & Pedagogy Theory; membership in the Association. The award is Teacher Quality & Evaluation; Education worth between US$1,000 and US$1,500. Contact Details Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet AHA been announced by funder, but this is the 400 A St SE approximate deadline we expect. This call is Washington, DC 20003-3889 repeated once a year.
SCAR G BROCKETT ESSAY PRIZE American Society for Theatre Research
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Description: The American Society for Theatre Research, in University of Texas at Austin, invites association with the Oscar G Brockett Center nominations for the Oscar G Brockett essay for Theatre History and Criticism at the prize. This recognises the best essay relating
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to any subject in theatre research written and approximate deadline we expect. This call is published in English in a referred scholarly repeated once a year. journal or volume published by a scholarly Posted date: 04 Apr 14 press. Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $1,500 The author must have been a member of Award budget total: - ASTR for at least three years and must be at Website: least seven years beyond the PhD. Essays http://www.astr.org/?page=Brockett_Prize must have been published in the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is Eligibility profile given. Essays in edited anthologies may not ------have appeared elsewhere previously. Country of applicant institution: Any Nominations may come from the author of an essay, any member of ASTR or the editor of a Disciplines journal or volume in which the essay has ------appeared. Literature, Drama; Theatre Studies; History of Architecture; History of Art; Art & Design: The prize is worth US$1,500. History, Practice & Theory; Performing Arts; Performing Arts Management & Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) Administration Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Detail ------Email: [email protected]
ESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IN CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists R
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its research repeated once a year. achievement awards in clinical pharmacology Posted date: 09 Apr 15 and translational research. These recognise Award type: Prizes scientists who have demonstrated significant Award budget total: - impact in their field. Website: http://www.aaps.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?L Nominations can be made by any AAPS inkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2377 member and must be backed by two Application form: additional supporting letters. There are no http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ restrictions on nominee nationality. Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/2015%20AM%20R Deadline information: !! Call has not yet AA%20revised.doc been announced by funder, but this is the
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Eligibility profile Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; ------Translational Medicine Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Fax: +1 703 248 4781 Email: [email protected]
ARTIN DUBERMAN VISITING SCHOLARS New York Public Library
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Description: The New York Library invites applications for Award amount max: $8,500 the Martin Duberman visiting scholars. These Award amount min: $1,000 awards support scholars doing research in the Award budget total: - library’s premier lesbian, gay, bisexual and Website: http://www.nypl.org/node/113221 transgender history collections. Eligibility profile The awards are available for scholars without ------permanent academic appointments or Country of applicant institution: Any unaffiliated with an academic institution. Disciplines The awards range from US$1,000 to US$8,500 ------and cover travel expenses. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies; Gender Roles & Sexuality; Sociology; Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) History; Social Work & Social Policy Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. The New York Library Posted date: 07 Feb 13 Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Award type: Directed grants for individual Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street investigators, Travel for research purposes, NY 10018 Access to libraries, Young investigator Email: [email protected] awards
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EE KUAN YEW WATER PRIZE Singapore International Water Week L
Description: The Singapore International Water Week Award type: Prizes invites nominations for the Lee Kuan Yew Award budget total: - water prize. This recognises an individual or Website: http://www.siww.com.sg/about- organisation for contributions towards prize solving the world’s water problems by Application form: applying novel technologies or implementing https://www.gevme.com/lee-kuan-yew- innovative policies and programmes which water-prize-2016 benefit humanity. Nominators are expected to be one of the following: Eligibility profile ------• water industry or water utilities Country of applicant institution: Any leaders; • leading academics in the field of water Disciplines research, policy and management; ------Water Resources Engineering & Management; • heads of international organisations; Subsurface & Ground Water; Hydraulic • members of government; Engineering & Harbours; Wastewater • individuals in the water field. Treatment; Water Treatment; Water Pollution,
Regulation & Control; Water Quality Nominations must be submitted in English. Engineering
The prize is worth SG$300,000. Contact Details
------Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) SIWW Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Lee Kuan Water Prize Secretariat been announced by funder, but this is the 40 Scotts Road #10-01, Environment Building approximate deadline we expect. Singapore 228231 Applications due by 6pm. This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 23 Feb 15
SSAY PRIZE Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
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Description: The Intellectual Property Society of Australia of the author’s choice regarding intellectual and New Zealand invites entries for its essay property. prize. This recognises the best essay on a topic
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Essays must be unpublished by the time of Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, submission and be original work of the meetings etc. author. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.ipsanz.com.au/news- The prize is worth AU$5,000. The second and events/ipsanz-prize/ third place entrants receive prize of AU$1,000 each. All three winners also receive a Eligibility profile complimentary registration at the IPSANZ ------conference, including two nights’ Country of applicant institution: Any accommodation and return economy airfare from within Australia or New Zealand. In the Disciplines case of a winning entry from outside these ------countries, a monetary contribution will be Intellectual Property Law & Policy made, representing economy airfare between Sydney and the capital city in which the Contact Details conference is to be held. ------IPSANZ Closing date: 15 May 16 (Forecast) GPO Box 2491 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Melbourne VIC 3001 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +61 3 9761 2833 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +61 3 9761 2899 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 09 Feb 15
TUDENT PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST Society for the History of Discoveries
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Description: The Society for the History of Discoveries Papers on other aspects of geographic invites research papers for its student prize discovery are also welcome. essay contest. This aims to stimulate research and publishing in the history of geographical Students currently enrolled in a college or exploration. Research papers may be on the university degree programme world-wide are following topics: eligible. Candidates who will have received a doctoral degree prior to 15 May 2016 are not • voyages and travels; eligible. • biography; • history; The prize is worth US$600. The winner will • cartography; also be invited to make an oral presentation • the technologies of travel; about the paper at the annual meeting of the • the impact of travel and cross-cultural SHD. contact. Closing date: 15 May 16
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Deadline information: Submissions must be Country of applicant institution: Any postmarked by deadline date. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 23 Jul 15 ------Award type: Student awards, Travel to History; Cartography; Historical Geography; conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Social & Cultural Geography Award amount max: $600 Website: http://www.sochistdisc.org/essay- Contact Details contest.htm?PHPSESSID=d4d0e7f0105bbe63 ------0c1ed2f3a9a8c944 Tel: +1 612 624 6895 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------
OMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS – SINGAPORE Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
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Description: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Award budget total: - in the UK, in partnership with the National Website: University of Singapore, invites applications http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/scholarships- for its commonwealth scholarships – uk-citizens/singapore/ Singapore. These support PhD study at the National University of Singapore’s Graduate Eligibility profile School of Integrative Sciences and ------Engineering. Country of applicant institution: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bangladesh, Citizens of any Commonwealth country other Brunei Darussalam, Bahamas, Botswana, than Singapore who have at least an upper Belize, Canada, Cameroon, Cyprus, Dominica, second class honours degree or equivalent are Fiji, United Kingdom, Grenada, Ghana, eligible to apply. Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Each award covers full tuition fees, a monthly Lesotho, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, stipend and a computer, book or conference Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, allowance. Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sierra Closing date: 15 May 16 Leone, Swaziland, Tonga, Trinidad and Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 May Tobago, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic 2016, 15 August 2016. of, Uganda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Posted date: 23 Feb 16 Vanuatu, Samoa, South Africa, Zambia, Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Developing Commonwealth countries students, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Directed grants for individual investigators
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Disciplines Contact Detail ------Universe Sciences; Physical Sciences and Email: [email protected] Engineering; Biological Sciences
ALDO G LELAND PRIZE American Historical Association
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Description: The American Historical Association invites Award type: Prizes applications for the Waldo G Leland prize. Award budget total: - The prize is offered every five years for the Website: most outstanding reference tool in the field of http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm? history. The term reference tool encompasses PrizeAbbrev=Leland bibliographies, indexes, encyclopedias, and other scholarly apparatus. The award is Eligibility profile honourific. For the 2016 award, works ------published between May 1, 2011, and April 30, Country of applicant institution: Any 2016, will be eligible for consideration. Disciplines Closing date: 16 May 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Computer Science & Informatics; Libraries & every 5 years. Information Science; Records & Document Posted date: 03 Jul 09 Management; History
EORGES MATHÉ TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP European Society for Medical Oncology
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Description: The European Society for Medical Oncology therapeutic innovation in the field of oncology invites applications for the Georges Mathé and cancer immunology. translational research fellowship. This provides intuitive medical oncology Candidates must be: researchers with the opportunity to receive training in translational research in an • a full or junior ESMO member, or European centre of excellence in medicine and apply for membership;
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• involved in cancer research and Website: http://www.esmo.org/Career- treatment with at least two years Development/Oncology- experience in medical oncology; Fellowships/Fellowship-Offers/Georges- • under the age of 40; Mathe-Translational-Research • proficient in English. Application form: http://www.esmo.org/Career- The fellowship is worth €35,000 for one year. Development/Oncology- The host institute will receive €1,000 for Fellowships/Fellowship-Offers/Georges- administration costs. Mathe-Translational-Research/2016/Georges- Mathe-Translational-Research-Fellowship- online-application-2016 Closing date: 16 May 16
Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Eligibility profile ------Posted date: 24 Dec 15 Award type: Young investigator awards, Country of applicant institution: Any Networking/collaboration, Directed grants for individual investigators, Personal Disciplines development, Travel for research purposes ------Award amount max: €36,000 Cancer Immunology; Cancer Studies & Award budget total: - Oncology
OBOTDALEN INNOVATION AWARD Robotdalen
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Description: Robotdalen invites applications for its products can create new user benefits in innovation award. This recognises the best society or in industry. ideas, concepts or solutions that have commercial potential and breakthrough Innovators, entrepreneurs, graduate and technology related to the following fields of postgraduate students based anywhere in the robotics and automation: world may apply.
• industrial robotics and automation, The total award budget is SEK230,000, which including providing solutions for is divided across three winners. First place small- and medium-sized companies; receives SEK110,000, which is split into • back-to-back service robotics; SEK45,000 as prize money and SEK55,000 to • health robotics, including technologies be used to develop the concept in cooperation for independent life. with Robotdalen. Second place receives SEK75,000, and third place receives Preference is given to applications that have SEK45,000, and both amounts are also divided demonstrated how their ideas can be between prize money and to support concept commercialised and how the resulting development, respectively.
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Closing date: 17 May 16 (Forecast) media/documents/ria_entranceform_2015.pd Deadline information: !! Call has not yet f been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Eligibility profile repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 05 Mar 15 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Innovation grants, Technology innovation/development, Prizes, Research Disciplines calls for business, Financial aid for ------postgraduate students, Directed grants for Assistive Technology; Automation & Control individual investigators, Directed grants to Engineering; Robotics; Advanced institutions, research groups etc Manufacturing Award amount max: kr110,000 Award amount min: kr45,000 Contact Details Award budget total: kr230,000 ------Website: http://www.robotdalen.se/award Tel: +46 70 934 9302 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.robotdalen.se/sites/default/files/
OHN DAVID WILLIAMS MEMORIAL AWARD International Society of Chemotherapy J
Description: The International Society of Chemotherapy Applications due by 11.59pm ET. This call is invites applications for the John David repeated once a year. Williams memorial award. This assists young Posted date: 18 Feb 15 scientists from countries with limited Award type: Prizes, Young investigator resources in attending the International awards, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection and Award budget total: - the Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Website: Agents and Chemotherapy, to be held in San http://www.ischemo.org/awards/john-david- Diego from 17 to 21 September 2015. williams-memorial-award Application form: Applicants must be under 35 years of age on https://asmeetings.wufoo.com/forms/john- or prior to the conference start date. They david-williams-memorial-award/ must be members of ISC member societies. Eligibility profile ------The award covers air travel, accommodation Country of applicant institution: Albania, and free registration. Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Belize, Congo, Côte
d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Closing date: 18 May 16 (Forecast) Egypt, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, approximate deadline we expect. Honduras, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka,
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Lesotho, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nigeria, Kosovo, South Sudan Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Disciplines Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Senegal, ------Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian Chemotherapy Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Contact Details Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Lower------Middle-Income countries, Low Income Tel: +44 141 530 9037 Email: [email protected]
OMMONWEALTH PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK
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Description: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission experience in a profession related to the in the UK invites nominations for its subject of the application. Commonwealth professional fellowships. These enable mid-career professionals from Fellowships cover return airfare to the UK, a developing Commonwealth countries to visit monthly living allowance of up to £1,938 per a UK host organisation working in their field. month, an arrival allowance of £878, a flat-rate Priority is given to applications within the contribution of £800 to the host or nominating following broadly defined fields: organisation, fees for conferences and short courses, and other fees considered on a case- • agriculture, fisheries and forestry; by-case basis. • economic growth; • education; Closing date: 18 May 16 (Forecast) • engineering, science and technology; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet • environment; been announced by funder, but this is the • governance; approximate deadline we expect. • public health. Nominations due by 11.59pm GMT This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 31 Mar 15 Applicant organisations must be UK-based, Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings and may either apply to host a fellow or etc., Personal development, Mid-Career nominate candidates to work with other fellowships, Hosting visits, Travel for organisations with which they have links. research purposes, Studentship allocations, Candidates should be Commonwealth Senior fellowships, Directed grants to citizens, refugees or British protected persons, institutions, research groups etc and must be permanently resident in a Award budget total: - developing commonwealth country. They Website: should have five years’ relevant work http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/professional- fellowships/
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Application form: http://csc.do-it- Vanuatu, Samoa, South Africa, Zambia, online.org.uk/csc/ElectronicApplicationSyste Zimbabwe m.htm Disciplines Eligibility profile ------Any; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Country of applicant institution: Antigua and Economic Development, Technological Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, Bangladesh, Change & Growth; Education; Agriculture; Bermuda, Botswana, Belize, Cameroon, Government & Governance Studies; Public Dominica, Fiji, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Health Grenada, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Saint Kitts and Contact Details Nevis, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Sri ------Lanka, Lesotho, Montserrat, Mauritius, CSCUK Maldives, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, c/o ACU Namibia, Nigeria, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Woburn House Pakistan, Pitcairn, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, 20-24 Tavistock Square Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Turks London WC1H 9HF and Caicos Islands, Tonga, Trinidad and Tel: +44 20 7380 6700 Tobago, Tuvalu, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
NTERNATIONAL BIOETHICS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMME (D43) NIH: National Institutes of Health
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Description: The National Institutes of Health, Fogarty or conceptual ethics research that addresses international Center and the National Human challenging issues in health research and Genome Research Institute invite applications research policy in these countries as well as for their international bioethics research provide research ethics leadership to their training programme (D43). This institutions, governments and international announcement aims to support mentored research organisations. FIC will support doctoral and long term postdoctoral research LMIC-US collaborative institutional bioethics training for ethic experts from low and doctoral and postdoctoral research training middle income countries that complements programs that incorporate didactic, mentored other global health research and research research and career development components training programmes in the mission areas of to prepare a number of individuals with the NIH institutes and centres. The overall ethics expertise for positions of scholarship goal of this initiative is to support the and leadership in health research institutions development of a sustainable critical mass of in the LMIC. bioethics scholars in low and middle income country research intensive institutions with This funding opportunity uses the NIH the capabilities to conduct original empirical international research training (D43) grants
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mechanism and runs in parallel with one of Award amount max: $1,150,000 identical scientific scope, PAR-16-081, which Award budget total: - solicits applications under the NIH education Website: project (R25) mechanism. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- files/PAR-16-082.html Eligible applicants are foreign institutions in a LMIC or eligible US institutions that Eligibility profile demonstrates collaborations with an LMIC ------institution. Country of applicant institution: United States Country of applicant institution: Lower- Application budgets are limited to US$230,000 Middle-Income countries, Low Income per year over the maximum period of five countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries years.
Ref: PAR-16-082. Disciplines ------Closing date: 18 May 16 Bioethics & Neuroethics; Research & Deadline information: Applications open on Innovation Economics & Policy; Public 18 April and due by 5pm local time of Health, Health Services & Primary Care applicant organisation, 18 May 2016. Posted date: 14 Jan 16 Contact Detail Award type: Postdoctoral training ------fellowships, Development Tel: +1 301 401 9467 (Africa/Caribbean), Personal development, Email: [email protected] Networking/collaboration, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc
OHN A SPROUL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP University of California J
Description: The University of California invites presentation on a Canadian topic while in applications for the John A Sproul research residence. fellowship in Canadian studies. This aims to support a period of study at Berkeley in the Awards are worth approximately US$7,000 to discipline of Canadian studies. This is US$8,000 each. intended as a supplement to other support the scholar may have. Most Sproul fellows Closing date: 19 May 16 (Forecast) recently have been visiting scholars, either Deadline information: !! Call has not yet with Canadian Studies or with another unit been announced by funder, but this is the on campus. approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. The fellow will be expected to attend Posted date: 03 Jun 11 programme activities and to give at least one Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Senior fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships
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Award budget total: - American Literature; American History; Website: Population Studies; Indigenous Peoples of the http://canada.berkeley.edu/sproul.htm Americas; Canadian History; North American Application form: Studies; Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People; History Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Canadian Studies Program Disciplines University of California at Berkeley ------2223 Fulton Street, # 2324 Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; Law; Berkeley CA 94720-2324 Politics & Economics of North America; Social Email: [email protected] Work & Social Policy; Canadian Literature;
ISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON THE SCIENCE OF CANCER HEALTH DISPARITIES American Association for Cancer Research
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Description: The American Association for Cancer approximate deadline we expect. Research, funded by Susan G Komen, invites Nominations are due by 4pm EST. This call nominations for its distinguished lecture on is repeated once a year. the science of cancer health disparities. This Posted date: 15 Apr 15 recognises an investigator whose work has Award type: Prizes had or may have a far-reaching impact on the Award amount max: $5,000 aetiology, detection, diagnosis treatment or Award budget total: - prevention of cancer health disparities. Website: http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/ All cancer researchers who are affiliated with Awards- any institution involved in cancer research, Detail.aspx?ItemId=10#.VS0iJheJKi4 cancer medicine or cancer-related biomedical Application form: science anywhere in the world may be nominated. Nominations may be made by any Eligibility profile ------scientist, whether an AACR member or non- Country of applicant institution: Any member. Candidates may not nominate themselves. Disciplines
------The winner will receive a US$5,000 Cancer Studies & Oncology honorarium and present a 45-minute lecture at the annual AACR conference. Contact Details
------Closing date: 20 May 16 (Forecast) AACR Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 17th Floor, 615 Chestnut St been announced by funder, but this is the
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Philadelphia, PA 19106-4404 Email: [email protected]
OTRAUMA FELLOWSHIPS FOR SURGEONS AO Foundation
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Description: The AO Foundation invites applications for its Award budget total: - AOTrauma fellowships for surgeons. These Website: provide fully trained orthopaedic and general https://aotrauma.aofoundation.org/Structure/ surgeons with additional experience on AO education/fellowships/Pages/fellowships.as techniques. The purpose is to familiarise px fellows with indications, planning, techniques and pitfalls of osteosynthesis. Eligibility profile ------The fellowships last between four and 12 Country of applicant institution: Any weeks and include a contribution towards expenses. Disciplines ------Closing date: 20 May 16 (Forecast) Traumatology, Accidents & Injury; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Orthopaedic Surgery been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Detail repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 13 May 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Postdoctoral training fellowships, Personal development, Directed grants for individual investigators
ACOB P WALETZKY AWARD Society for Neuroscience J
Description: The Society for Neuroscience invites Eligible candidates should be active in nominations for the Jacob P Waletzky research at the time the award is given and memorial award. This honours a scientist who should have received a PhD or MD within the has conducted research or plans to conduct past 15 years. Nominees do not need to be research in the area of substance abuse and society members but the nominations must be the brain and nervous system. made or endorsed by a current society member.
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The award includes a cash prize worth 01cdff63eb59b10883c37c25e360dc5f106c45863 US$25,000. The recipient will also receive dff5509546a752f69308b complimentary registration, economy airfare travel and accommodation for the society’s Eligibility profile annual meeting. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 21 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Human Biological Sciences; Clinical Medicine; repeated once a year. Physiology; Psychology; Pharmacy & Posted date: 15 Apr 14 Pharmacology; Allied Health Professions; Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Addiction; Central Nervous System; Public etc., Prizes Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Award amount max: $25,000 Alcoholism; Diagnostic Sciences; Drug & Award budget total: - Substance Abuse; Neuroscience; Primary Website: http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- Care; Smoking & Tobacco Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and- Contact Details Career-Awards/Jacob-P-Waletzky-Award ------Application form: SfN http://ebiz.sfn.org/sso/login.aspx?vi=9&vt=e 1121 14th Street 323b0441a73a834ff8048b067d4a12e51a163b24 Suite 1010 0c3cab860993e27ce439ae869fc836903e1da26d7 Washington, DC 20005 f3cf39b6889ebcb12666dfb7057a9f3da936686a Tel: +1 202 962 4000 4b2ad1ed387df5f3a0a6dd799245c383e8e98e0e Email: [email protected]
OM BERGAN MEMORIAL AWARD International Society of Chemotherapy
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Description: The International Society of Chemotherapy The award covers conference registration, invites applications for the Tom Bergan airfare and reasonable accommodation. memorial award. This enables young scientists from countries with limited Closing date: 21 May 16 (Forecast) resources to attend the 29th International Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection, due been announced by funder, but this is the to take place from 17 to 21 September 2015 in approximate deadline we expect. San Diego, US. Applications due by 11.59pm ET. Posted date: 20 Mar 15 Applicants must be under 35 years of age on Award type: Prizes, Young investigator or before 17 September 2015. awards, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Award budget total: -
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Website: http://ischemo.org/index.php/awards/tom- Disciplines bergan ------Application form: Chemotherapy; Cancer Studies & Oncology https://asmeetings.wufoo.com/forms/tom- bergan-memorial-award/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile ISC ------Tel: +44 141 530 9037 Country of applicant institution: Lower- Email: [email protected] Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
ULIUS AXELROD PRIZE Society for Neuroscience J
Description: The Society for Neuroscience invites Award budget total: - nominations for the Julius Axelrod prize. This Website: http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- honours a scientist with distinguished Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- achievements in the broad field of Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and- neuropharmacology or a related area and Career-Awards/Julius-Axelrod-Prize exemplary efforts in mentoring young Application form: scientists. http://ebiz.sfn.org/sso/login.aspx?vi=9&vt=b dccdb1d5c5614e970fdd9c4f1741b65f29a90c83 Nominees do not need to be society members aea1e460861dc72d36ffd4608d983f14fe7500499 but the nominations must be made or 0587ffb0191bab9a1ba9526dbfea3c60947de92a endorsed by a current society member. 5e0e1b24de1ccf6e12dc4273ac5fec8f19019bb34 af68b0837aa8e295b39ba9e2828f41bed4cadfeb The award includes a cash prize worth abd9aed59e13304a305d0 US$25,000. The recipient will also receive Eligibility profile complimentary registration, economy airfare ------travel and accommodation for the society’s Country of applicant institution: Any annual meeting.
Disciplines Closing date: 21 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Neurology; Clinical Pharmacy & been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Pharmacology; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; repeated once a year. Neuroscience; Diagnostic Sciences; Central Posted date: 15 Apr 14 Nervous System; Neuropharmacology Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Award amount max: $25,000
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Contact Details Washington, DC 20005 ------Tel: +1 202 962 4000 SfN Email: [email protected] 1121 14th Street Suite 1010
ALPH W GERARD PRIZE Society for Neuroscience
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Description: The Society for Neuroscience invites Career-Awards/Ralph-W-Gerard-Prize-in- nominations for the Ralph W Gerard prize. Neuroscience This honours a scientist who has made Application form: significant contributions to neuroscience http://ebiz.sfn.org/sso/login.aspx?vi=9&vt=4 throughout his or her career. Nominees do 30cc53088300cc61c1a7f5a634929df82615904bb not need to be society members but the 45520276350e82a48a87dc242e37d458c9a5ef80a nominations must be made or endorsed by a da8ea1be8429aac7233a00d166eba041f2457d99 current society member. 5a20a398cdadc16dd761087c109e31a029bf7606 bbc3a095c8910bb512ab0c6bdeb8deb0e87f442 The award includes a cash prize worth 74de8ea36c701ca68a91ef US$25,000. The recipient will also receive complimentary registration, economy airfare Eligibility profile travel and accommodation for the society’s ------annual meeting. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 21 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Neuroscience; Central Nervous System repeated once a year. Posted date: 15 Apr 14 Contact Details Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Prizes SfN Award amount max: $25,000 1121 14th Street Award budget total: - Suite 1010 Website: http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- Washington, DC 20005 Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- Tel: +1 202 962 4000 Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and- Email: [email protected]
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XTENDED DEADLINE: INTERMEDIATE FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE Wellcome Trust E
Description: The Wellcome Trust has extended the closing higher qualification equivalent to membership date for the intermediate fellowships in public of the UK Royal Colleges of Physicians or health and tropical medicine. The previous recognised as a specialist within a relevant deadline of 29 April 2016 has now been research area. Three to six years' postdoctoral extended to 23 May 2016. All other call or research experience is required. Applicants information remains unchanged. who do not have a PhD but who are educated to first degree or master's level and have These enable mid-career researchers from extensive research experience may be low- and middle-income countries to establish considered/ an independent research programme. Fellows must be based at an eligible Projects must be in public health or tropical sponsoring institution that will administer the medicine aimed at understanding and fellowship, and must have a sponsor who controlling human and animal diseases of holds an established post for the duration of local, national or global health importance. the award and who can guarantee that space This may include laboratory-based molecular and facilities will be available. analysis of field or clinical samples, but projects focused solely on in vitro or animal Fellowships last for up to five years and model studies are not normally considered include basic salary, research expenses, under this scheme. Topics may include the training costs, funding allowance, travel to following: meetings and public engagement costs. Research-dedicated costs should not exceed • demographic, social science and £60,000 per year. Course fees and overseas health economic studies; allowances may also be considered. • epidemiological, field and community based studies; Closing date: 23 May 16 • healthcare systems and policy Deadline information: Preliminary research; applications due by 5pm, 23 May; invited • measurement of infectious and full applications due by 5pm, 18 July 2016. chronic disease burden; Posted date: 13 Nov 15 • population studies; Award type: Directed grants for individual • clinical trials and case control studies; investigators, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Travel for research purposes, • studies of disease mechanisms in the Equipment and materials, natural host; Networking/collaboration, Publish, edit, • determinants of disease susceptibility translate, disseminate, Mid-Career and resistance; fellowships, Clinical trials • immunity or resistance in natural hosts or vectors. Award amount max: - Award budget total: - Applicants must be nationals or legal Website: residents of a low- or middle-income country http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed and should be graduates in a relevant subject ical-science/Funding- with a PhD, or a medical graduate with a
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schemes/Fellowships/Public-health-and- tropical-medicine/WTD025883.htm Disciplines Application form: ------https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Public Health ReturnUrl=%2f Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Country of applicant institution: Lower- Email: [email protected] Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries
XTENDED DEADLINE: TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE Wellcome Trust E
Description: The Wellcome Trust has extended the closing • healthcare systems and policy date for the training fellowships in public research; health and tropical medicine. The previous • measurement of infectious and deadline of 29 April has been extended to 23 chronic disease burden; May 2016. All other call information remains • population studies; unchanged. • clinical trials and case control studies; • studies of disease mechanisms in the These fellowships enable early-career natural host; researchers from low- and middle-income • determinants of disease susceptibility countries to gain research experience and and resistance; high-quality research training in public health • immunity or resistance in natural and tropical medicine. Projects must be in hosts or vectors. public health or tropical medicine aimed at understanding and controlling human and Applicants must be nationals or legal animal diseases of local, national or global residents of a low- or middle-income country health importance. This may include and should be either a graduate in a relevant laboratory-based molecular analysis of field subject with a PhD and no more than three or clinical samples, but projects focused solely years' postdoctoral experience, or a medical on in vitro or animal model studies are not graduate with a higher qualification normally considered under this scheme. equivalent to membership of the UK Royal Topics may include the following: Colleges of Physicians and some initial research experience. Applicants may also • demographic, social science and apply if they do not have a PhD but have a health economic studies; clinical, basic or master’s degree and some • epidemiological, field and community initial research experience, with the based studies; expectation that they will register for a PhD.
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Fellows must be based at an eligible conferences, meetings etc., Publish, edit, sponsoring institution that will administer the translate, disseminate, Postdoctoral training fellowship, and must have an appropriate fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, sponsor who holds an established post for the Directed grants for individual investigators duration of the award. The sponsor must be Award budget total: - able to guarantee that space and facilities will Website: be available. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed ical-science/Funding- Fellowships normally last for three years, but schemes/Fellowships/Public-health-and- may last for up to four years for those who tropical-medicine/WTD025882.htm wish to undertake a relevant master's training Application form: or diploma course. Support includes a salary, https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx? research expenses, training costs, a funding ReturnUrl=%2f allowance, funding to attend scientific meetings and provision for public Eligibility profile ------engagement costs. The trust may also provide Country of applicant institution: Lower- project costs directly incurred by the overseas Middle-Income countries, Low Income institution. Research-dedicated costs should countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries not exceed £30,000 per year.
Disciplines Closing date: 23 May 16 ------Deadline information: Preliminary Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Public Health applications due by 5pm, 23 May; invited full applications due by 5pm, 18 July 2016. Posted date: 13 Nov 15 Contact Details Award type: Predoctoral training ------fellowships, Equipment and materials, Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Travel for research purposes, Email: [email protected] Networking/collaboration, Travel to
HD STUDENTSHIPS National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
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Description: The National Centre for the Replacement, Applicants should be UK-based researchers Refinement and Reduction of Animals in with a minimum of five years’ postdoctoral Research (NC3Rs) invites outlines for its PhD experience who must name a supervisor studentships. These support the training of based at a HEI, independent research graduate scientists from a broad range of organisation or Research Council institute. scientific backgrounds within one of the three Applicants with limited supervisory areas of replacement, reduction and experience should name a more experienced refinement and in any area of medical, colleague as a co-supervisor. Proposals may biological or veterinary research. integrate two disciplines or departments. Industrial and overseas researchers cannot be
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principal applicants, but can be included as Website: collaborators or project partners. http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/page.asp?id=1040 Application form: Up to 10 awards, worth up to £30,000 per year http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/sites/default/files/d for three years, are available. The total budget ocuments/Funding/Studentship%20Supporti is £1.08 million. ng%20Information%20%20Form%202016.doc
Closing date: 23 May 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Outline submissions ------due by 4pm, 23 May; full applications are Country of applicant institution: United invited between 31 May and 4pm, 13 July Kingdom 2016. This call is repeated once a year. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 11 Feb 16 Award type: Networking/collaboration, Disciplines Studentship allocations, Personal ------development, Directed grants for individual Bio/Medical; Veterinary Medicine investigators Award amount max: £90,000 Contact Detail Award amount min: ------Award budget total: £1,080,000 Email: [email protected]
ENERAL PRACTICE WITH PRIMARY HEALTHCARE AND CAIPE JOHN HORDER AWARD Royal Society of Medicine G
Description: The Royal Society of Medicine, in collaboration with the General Practice with The award is worth £1,500. The winning team Primary Healthcare Section and the Centre for is expected to present their paper at the the Advancement of Interprofessional society’s 36th GP update forum. Education, invites submissions for its general practice with primary healthcare and CAIPE Closing date: 23 May 16 John Horder award. This recognises an Deadline information: Submissions due by interprofessional team working within the 9am GMT. This call is repeated once a year. primary healthcare community, with the aim Posted date: 16 Nov 15 to promote more effective interprofessional Award type: Prizes collaboration and highlight examples of best Award amount max: £1,500 interprofessional, collaborative practice. Award amount min: - Award budget total: £1,500 Interprofessional teams working within the Website: https://www.rsm.ac.uk/prizes- primary healthcare community may submit awards/other-prizes-and-awards.aspx papers. Teams may be from anywhere in the Application form: world. https://www.rsm.ac.uk/media/1163477/abstra ct_submission_form.docx
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Tel: +44 20 7290 3856 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Primary Care
ERNHARD BARON TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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Description: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Career fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, Gynaecologists invites applications for the Senior fellowships Bernhard Baron travelling fellowship. This Award amount max: £6,000 enables candidates to undertake short-term Award amount min: - travel in order to expand their knowledge in Award budget total: £12,000 an area of obstetrics and gynaecology in Website: https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/careers- which they already have experience. training/awards-grants-prizes/bernhard- baron-travelling-fellowship/ Applicants must be members or fellows of the Application form: college. https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/docum ents/careers-and-training/awards-- Two fellowships are available, worth up to prizes/bernhard-baron-travelling- £6,000 each. scholarship_application-form-2015.doc
Eligibility profile Closing date: 24 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 28 Apr 15 ------Award type: Travel for research purposes, Obstetrics & Gynaecology Directed grants for individual investigators, Postdoctoral training fellowships, Early- Contact Detail ------Email: [email protected]
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ENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE Wellcome Trust S
Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for additional trust supplement of £12,500 per its senior research fellowships in basic year, research programme costs, including biomedical science. These support equipment and collaborative travel, inflation outstanding postdoctoral scientists based in allowance and public engagement costs. academic institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Candidates are expected Closing date: 24 May 16 to have an excellent track record in their Deadline information: First round scientific field and be able to demonstrate preliminary applications due by 5pm, 24 their ability to carry out independent May; invited full applications due by 5pm, research. 27 July; second round preliminary applications due by 5pm, 19 September; Applicants should have between seven and 12 invited full applications for second round years’ research experience at postdoctoral due by 5pm, 21 November 2016. Deadlines level or veterinary equivalent, and a on: 24 May 2016, 19 September 2016. substantial publication record in their chosen Posted date: 14 Dec 15 area of research in leading international Award type: Senior fellowships, Equipment journals. Each applicant must be: and materials, Networking/collaboration, Travel for research purposes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Publish, edit, • a UK or EEA national; translate, disseminate, Mid-Career • a non-EEA national who either has a fellowships relevant degree from a UK university, Award budget total: - or has worked in the UK for at least a Website: continuous three-year period; http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed • an exceptional biomedical scientist ical-science/Funding- who does not fall within the categories schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical- above. fellowships/WTD004442.htm Application form: Applicants need an eligible sponsoring host https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/ institution in the UK or Ireland with the support of the relevant head of department or Eligibility profile equivalent, who must have a contract of ------employment with the host institution or an Country of applicant institution: Any honorary academic appointment. Applicants who wish to undertake fieldwork or research Disciplines in a low- or middle-income country must ------identify an appropriate head of department at Medicine & Health; Biological Sciences the overseas institution. Time spent outside the research environment is considered. Contact Details ------Fellowships are tenable for five years in the Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 first instance, and provide a basic salary, Email: [email protected] normally of up to £65,000 per year, with an
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ENIOR FELLOWSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE Wellcome Trust
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Description: The Wellcome Trust invites applications for inflation allowance and public engagement its senior fellowships in public health and costs. An overseas allowance may be tropical medicine. These enable researchers provided for periods of training or from low- or middle-income countries to collaborative research spent outside the host establish themselves as leading investigators institution. Research-dedicated costs may not at an academic institution in the field of exceed £100,000 per year. public health or tropical medicine, with the aim of building sustainable capacity in areas Closing date: 24 May 16 of research that increases health benefits for Deadline information: First round people and their livestock in these countries. preliminary applications due by 5pm, 24 Public health and tropical medicine cover a May; invited full applications due by 5pm, wide range of health problems, including 27 July; second round preliminary communicable and non-communicable applications due by 5pm, 19 September; diseases. invited full applications for second round due by 5pm, 21 November 2016. Deadlines Applicants must be nationals or legal on: 24 May 2016, 19 September 2016. residents of a low- or middle-income country, Posted date: 08 Jan 16 and either be graduates in a subject relevant Award type: Senior fellowships, Travel for to public health or tropical medicine with a research purposes, Travel to conferences, PhD and at least five years' postdoctoral meetings etc., Equipment and materials, experience; or be medical graduates with a Directed grants for individual investigators, Networking/collaboration, Financial aid for higher qualification equivalent to membership postgraduate students, Clinical trials of the UK Royal College of Physicians; or be Award budget total: - recognised specialists within a relevant Website: research area and have at least five years’ http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomed research experience. ical-science/Funding- schemes/Fellowships/Public-health-and- Applicants who do not have a PhD but are tropical-medicine/WTD025884.htm educated to first degree or master’s level and Application form: have substantial research experience, may https://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/ also apply. Priority is given to researchers working overseas who wish to return to their Eligibility profile home country. In addition, applicants must be ------based at an eligible host institution in a low- Country of applicant institution: Lower- and middle-income country, and have an Middle-Income countries, Low Income appropriate sponsor who is a head of countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries department or equivalent and holds an established post for the duration of the Disciplines fellowship. ------Infectious Diseases; Non-Communicable Fellowships are tenable for up to five years Diseases; Population Studies; Immunity & and cover salary, research expenses, course Immunogenetics; Health Systems in fees, research management and support costs,
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Developing Countries; Public Health; Tropical Contact Details & Neglected Diseases ------Tel: +44 20 7611 5757 Email: [email protected]
NION SCIENTIFIC PRIZE International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
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Description: The International Union Against Tuberculosis Award budget total: - and Lung Disease invites nominations for the Website: http://www.theunion.org/what-we- Union scientific prize. This acknowledges do/awards/the-union-scientific-prize researchers at any stage of their career for work on lung health published in the last five Eligibility profile years. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award consists of a full fellowship to attend the Union World Conference on Lung Disciplines Health, US$2,000 and a certificate presented at ------the conference. Respiratory Medicine
Closing date: 24 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the The Union approximate deadline we expect. This call is 68 Boulevard Saint Michel repeated once a year. 75006 Paris Posted date: 08 Apr 15 Tel: +33 1 4432 0360 Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Fax: +33 143 299 087 meetings etc.
AREL STYBLO PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
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Description: The International Union Against Tuberculosis organisation for contributions to tuberculosis and Lung Disease invites nominations for the control over 10 years or more. Karel Styblo public health prize. This acknowledges a health worker or community
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The award consists of a full fellowship to attend the Union world conference on lung Eligibility profile health, US$ 2,000 and a certificate presented at ------the conference. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 24 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Tuberculosis approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 08 Apr 15 ------Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, The Union meetings etc. 68 Boulevard Saint Michel Award budget total: - 75006 Paris Website: http://www.theunion.org/what-we- Tel: +33 1 4432 0360 do/awards/the-karel-styblo-public-health- Fax: +33 1 4329 9087 prize
NION YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PRIZE International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
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Description: The International Union Against Tuberculosis Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, and Lung Disease invites nominations for the meetings etc., Young investigator awards Union young investigator prize. This Award budget total: - acknowledges a researcher for work in lung Website: http://www.theunion.org/what-we- health published in the past five years. do/awards/the-union-young-investigator- prize The applicant must be 35 years or younger at the time of publication. Eligibility profile ------The award consists of a full fellowship to Country of applicant institution: Any attend the Union world conference on lung health, US$2,000 and a certificate presented at Disciplines the conference. ------Respiratory Medicine Closing date: 24 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is The Union repeated once a year. 68 boulevard Saint Michel Posted date: 08 Apr 15 75006 Paris Tel: +33 1 4432 0360 Fax: +33 1 4329 9087
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OHN LAWSON PRIZE Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists J
Description: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Posted date: 28 Apr 15 Gynaecologists invites submissions for the Award type: Prizes John Lawson prize. This recognises the best Award amount max: £150 article on a topic of obstetrics or gynaecology Award budget total: - derived from work carried out in Africa Website: https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/careers- between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. training/awards-grants-prizes/john-lawson- Submissions may take the form of an original prize/ manuscript or reprint of a published article. Eligibility profile Candidates need not be fellows or members of ------the college. Country of applicant institution: Any
The prize is worth £150. Disciplines ------Closing date: 24 May 16 (Forecast) Obstetrics & Gynaecology Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Detail approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
NESCO INTERNATIONAL LITERACY PRIZES UNESCO
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Description: UNESCO invites nominations for its people in rural areas and out-of- international literacy prizes. These support school children, particularly girls and innovative efforts to promote literacy and women. non-formal education. The 2015 year’s theme is ‘literacy and the post-2015 agenda’. The call Nominations can be submitted by member includes two different prizes: states or by non-governmental organisations which maintains official partnership with • King Sejong literacy prize – gives UNESCO. Each government or non- special consideration to the government organisation may nominate a development and use of mother- maximum of three candidates for the tongue literacy education and Confucius prize and a maximum of two training; candidates for the King Sejong prize per year. • Confucius prize for literacy – gives Nominees can be either institutions, special consideration to literacy for organisations or individuals.
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Five prizes will be awarded in total: two in the King Sejong literacy prize category and Eligibility profile three in the Confucius prize for literacy ------category. Each award is worth US$20,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 25 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Literacy approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 23 Apr 15 ------Award type: Prizes UNESCO International Literacy Prizes Award amount max: $20,000 Secretariat Award budget total: - Section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Website: Development http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/th 7 Place de Fontenoy emes/education-building- 75352 Paris 07 SP blocks/literacy/literacy-prizes/ Tel: +33 1 4568 0859 Application form: Fax: +33 1 4568 5627 http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MUL Email: [email protected] TIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/ILP2015submissionfo rm-ENG_Final.doc
ESEARCH EFFECTIVENESS AWARD ESOMAR (World Association of Opinion and Marketing Research Professionals)
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Description: The European Society for Opinion and Market Deadline information: This call is repeated Research invites applications for its research once a year. effectiveness award. This rewards clients of Posted date: 11 Jan 16 research, in any market and in any field, who Award type: Prizes can prove the payback of their research Award amount max: €4,000 investment. The award places particular Award budget total: - emphasis on how research affects commercial Website: http://www.esomar.org/events-and- performance in a measurable way. awards/awards/research-effectiveness- award.php Joint entries from clients and agencies together are permissible. Agency-only Application form: submissions will not be accepted. https://www.esomar.org/events-and- awards/awards/research-effectiveness- The award is worth €4,000. award/research-effectiveness-award- submission.php
Closing date: 27 May 16
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Eligibility profile Disciplines ------Country of applicant institution: Any Sales & Marketing
OHN DOWNHAM AWARD ESOMAR (World Association of Opinion and Marketing Research Professionals) J
Description: ESOMAR, the World Association of Opinion standards-of-performance-in-market- and Marketing Research Professionals, invites research.php nominations for the John Downham award. Application form: This recognises outstanding achievement in http://www.esomar.org/events-and- contributing to the market research industry awards/awards/excellence-award-for- at an international level. Nominations can standards-of-performance-in-market- include encouragement or broadening the research/nomination.php#pagetop application of professional standards, innovative or rigorous methodological Eligibility profile approaches or adding credibility to the ------profession. Any individual or organisation, Country of applicant institution: Any member or non-member of ESOMAR, is eligible for the award, though nominations Disciplines must be submitted by ESOMAR members. ------The prize is worth €10,000. Consumer Behaviour; Sales & Marketing; Consumption & Consumer Theory Closing date: 29 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is ESOMAR repeated once a year. Eurocenter 2, 11th floor Posted date: 19 Feb 15 Barbara Strozzilaan 384 Award type: Prizes 1083 HN Amsterdam Award amount max: €10,000 Tel: +31 20 664 2141 Award budget total: - Fax: +31 20 664 2922 Website: http://www.esomar.org/events-and- Email: [email protected] awards/awards/excellence-award-for-
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IMICS INNOVATION AWARDS Materialise Group
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Description: The Materialise Group invites application for Posted date: 23 Feb 16 the Mimics innovation awards. These reward Award type: Prizes the most innovative research conducted with Award amount max: €5,000 the assistance of Mimics innovation software. Award amount min: - The awards will be selected based on the Award budget total: - following criteria; Website: http://biomedical.materialise.com/MIA • originality of work; Application form: • social impact; http://biomedical.materialise.com/MIA • role of the Materialise Mimics software; Eligibility profile ------• quality. Country of applicant institution: Any
Submissions from any research disciplines are Disciplines accepted. Researchers within universities, ------hospitals, medical device companies and Biomedical Engineering research centres who use Material Mimics software are encouraged to submit their Contact Details paper. ------
Materialise HQ Awards are worth up to €5,000. Technologielaan 15
3000 Leuven Closing date: 29 May 16 Tel: +32 1 639 6611 Deadline information: This call is repeated Email: [email protected] once a year.
OUNG RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD ESOMAR (World Association of Opinion and Marketing Research Professionals)
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Description: ESOMAR, the World Association of Opinion challenging global issues. Topics for this call and Marketing Research Professionals, invites are: applications for its young researcher of the year award. This encourages an investigator • different generations; under 30 years of age to develop an • the talent gap; innovative research solution to tackle • brands and authenticity; • sharing content.
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The winner will receive €2,500, a trophy and Application form: two free registrations for ESOMAR http://www.esomar.org/career- workshops. The winning paper will be development/young-researcher-of-the- published on the ESOMAR website. year/yra-submission-form.php
Closing date: 29 May 16 (Forecast) Eligibility profile Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Country of applicant institution: Any approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 20 Feb 15 ------Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Consumption & Consumer Theory; Sales & awards Marketing; Consumer Behaviour Award amount max: €2,500 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.esomar.org/career------development/young-researcher-of-the-year- Tel: +31 20 5897 849 award.php Email: [email protected]
EARNING TECHNOLOGIST OF THE YEAR AWARD Association for Learning Technology
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Description: The Association for Learning Technology approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites entries for its learning technologist of repeated once a year. the year award. This recognises excellent Posted date: 01 May 13 practice and outstanding achievement in the Award type: Prizes learning technology field. Award amount max: £1,000 Award amount min: £250 The award is open to individuals and teams Award budget total: - based anywhere in the world. Website: https://www.alt.ac.uk/get- involved/ltawards First, second and third prizes will be available in the individual and team categories, as Application form: follows: first prize £1,000, second prize £500 http://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/assets and third prize £250. One special award for _editor_uploads/lt2013award_rubric_final_v learners is also available, and includes free 1.doc attendance at ALT’s annual conference and Eligibility profile £500. ------
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines Interfaces; Science & Technology Education; ------Classroom Technology; Information Society Equal Educational Opportunity; Libraries & Information Science; Computer Science & Contact Detail Informatics; Education; Online, Distance & ------Open Learning incl. MOOCs; Information Email: [email protected] Systems; Human-Computer Interaction &
RITZKER DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP Biomedical Engineering Society
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Description: The Biomedical Engineering Society invites Award type: Prizes nominations for its distinguished lecturer Award amount max: $2,500 award. This award is intended to recognize an Award budget total: - individual’s outstanding achievements and Website: leadership in the science and practice of http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/pt/sp/awar biomedical engineering. The awardee is ds_pritzker expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the Application form: Society’s annual fall meeting and publish the http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/pt/sp/awar text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical ds_pritzker Engineering. The lecture should critically review a field of biomedical engineering and Eligibility profile offer a vision for its future. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award consists of a plaque, a cash prize of $1,500, complimentary registration for the Disciplines annual meeting and travel expenses of up to ------$1,000. Nominees may have achieved Diagnostic Sciences; Biomedical Engineering excellence in biomedical engineering by contributions within the setting of the Contact Details university, industry or government. All ------nominees should be BMES members. Awards BMES Closing date: 30 May 16 (Forecast) 8201 Corporate Drive Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Suite 1125 been announced by funder, but this is the Landover, MD 20785-2224 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 301 459 1999 repeated once a year. Fax: +1 301 459 2444 Posted date: 13 Apr 11 Email: [email protected]
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ITA SCHAFFER YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD Biomedical Engineering Society
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Description: The Biomedical Engineering Society invites Website: applications for the Rita Schaffer young http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/pt/sp/awar investigator award. This award seeks to ds_investigator stimulate research careers iin biomedical Application form: engineering. The award recipient will present http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/asset_mana a Rita Schaffer memorial lecture during the ger/get_file/31210?ver=153 BMES annual fall meeting. The award consists of a plaque, complimentary registration, Eligibility profile $1,000 cash prize and travel expenses up to ------$1,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
The awardee must be a member of BMES and Disciplines within five years of receiving their highest ------degree. Biomedical Engineering; Diagnostic Sciences
Closing date: 30 May 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Awards approximate deadline we expect. This call is BMES repeated once a year. 8201 Corporate Drive Posted date: 13 Apr 11 Suite 1125 Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, Landover, MD 20785-2224 meetings etc. Tel: +1 301 459 1999 Award amount max: $2,000 Fax: +1 301 459 2444 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
URT RICHTER AWARD International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Description: The International Society of manuscript must be a report of original, Psychoneuroendocrinology invites never-published research in basic or clinical applications for the Curt Richter award. This psychoneuroendocrinology. It may also be an honours distinguished young investigators in integrative comprehensive new discussion of the field of psychoneuroendocrinology. the author’s previously published findings.
Applicants must be 45 years of age or younger The award consists of an honourarium, an by the start of the calendar year. The award certificate, a plaque, a travel grant of
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up to US$1,000 to attend the meeting, Website: http://www.ispne.net/awards/curt- exemption from membership dues to the richter-award/ society for three years, and access to ScienceDirect and Scopus for one year. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 30 May 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Hormones & Endocrinology; Posted date: 08 Jan 15 Neuroendocrinology; Neuropsychology Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Contact Details Award budget total: ------Email: [email protected]
AVID SCOTT MITCHELL MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP State Library of New South Wales
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Description: The State Library of New South Wales invites Award type: Access to libraries, Directed applications for the David Scott Mitchell grants for individual investigators, Early- memorial fellowship. This supports the use of Career fellowships, Mid-Career fellowships, the Mitchell Library's collections for the study Predoctoral fellowships, Senior fellowships and research of Australian history in writing Award amount max: $12,000 and publication amongst scholars, researchers Award budget total: - and the wider community, including Website: internationally. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards/mitc hell.html Applicants must demonstrate a record of scholarly research and publication and Eligibility profile experience as historical and archival ------researchers. Country of applicant institution: Any
The fellowship is worth AU$12,000 over one Disciplines year. ------Australian History Closing date: 30 May 16 Deadline information: Applications are Contact Details invited between 2 May and 30 May 2016. ------This call is repeated once a year. Tel: +61 2 9273 1910 Posted date: 09 Feb 16 Email: [email protected]
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ISITING RESEARCHERS SUPPORT PROGRAMME GRANTS International Information Science Foundation
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Description: The International Information Science Country of applicant institution: United Arab Foundation invites applications for its visiting Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, research support programme grants. These Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, cover the travel expenses of young computer Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, China, scientists who visit Japan for research Christmas Island, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong purposes falling under information or Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, British Indian computer science. Supported activities Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic include giving presentations at international of, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Korea, conferences in Japan, or conducting research Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, at Japanese universities or research institutes. Republic of, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lao Visits should take place between 1 July 2014 People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Sri and 31 March 2015. Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Macao, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Scientists doing fundamental research, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, including graduate studies, in computer Occupied, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi science at a university or research institute are Arabia, Singapore, Syrian Arab Republic, eligible to apply, given that they are citizens Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, of a country other than Japan and under 40 Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, years of age. Vietnam, Yemen, All African Nations, All European Nations, All South American Grants are worth ¥200,000 for European and nations, All Oceanian nations, All North ¥170,000 for Australian and North American American nations applicants. Grant amounts for applicants from other areas vary. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Artificial Intelligence; Computer Graphics; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Control Systems; Database Management; been announced by funder, but this is the Sociology of Science & Technology; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Information Science; Computer Science & repeated once a year. Informatics; Information & Coding Theory; Posted date: 07 Apr 14 Theory of Computation; Information Systems; Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings Sociology; Computer Networks; Operating etc., Travel for research purposes, Young Systems; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; investigator awards Information Society; Software Engineering; Award amount max: ￥200,000 Software Development Practices; Libraries & Award budget total: - Information Science; Computer Engineering & Website: http://www.iisf.or.jp/subsidize- Hardware en.html Application form: Contact Details http://www.iisf.or.jp/word/AppliForm_engli ------sh.docx IISF Gloria III-805 Eligibility profile 1-10-7 ------
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Shibuya 150-0002 Shibuya-ku Tel: +81 3 5766 3642 Tokyo Email: [email protected]
ISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Biomedical Engineering Society
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Description: The Biomedical Engineering Society invites Posted date: 13 Apr 11 nominations for its distinguished achievement Award type: Prizes award. This award is intended to recognise Award amount max: $2,000 and honour a company, charitable foundation Award budget total: - or non-academic institution that has made Website: http://bmes.org/awards outstanding contributions to the advancement Application form: of biomedical engineering. http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/asset_mana ger/get_file/31210?ver=154 The president, chief executive officer or founder of the awarded organisation is Eligibility profile expected to deliver a plenary lecture at the ------BMES annual fall meeting and to publish the Country of applicant institution: Any text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Disciplines ------The award will consist of a plaque, Biomedical Engineering; Diagnostic Sciences complimentary registration, cash prize of US$1,000 and up to US$1,000 in travel Contact Details expenses. All nominees should be BMES ------members. Awards BMES Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) 8201 Corporate Drive Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Suite 1125 been announced by funder, but this is the Landover, MD 20785-2224 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Email: [email protected] repeated once a year.
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RANT FOR RESEARCH IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, MINERAL PHYSICS, OR CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY Mineralogical Society of America G
Description: The Mineralogical Society of America invites Application form: applications for its grant for research in http://grants.minsocam.org/ crystallography. The purpose is to support research in mineralogical crystallography, Eligibility profile particularly in the fields of mineralogy, crystal ------chemistry, petrology, mineral physics, Country of applicant institution: Any biomineralization, and geochemistry. Disciplines Young researchers and students between the ------ages 25 and 36 are eligible to apply. Chemistry; Metallurgy; Mineralogy; Crystallography; Petrology; Igneous & The grant is worth up to $5,000. Metamorphic Petrology; Mining Engineering; Earth Sciences; Materials Sciences; Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Geochemistry Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Mineralogical Society of America Posted date: 20 Apr 11 3635 Concorde Pkwy, Suite 500 Award type: Young investigator awards, Chantilly, VA 20151-1110 Directed grants for individual investigators Tel: +1 703 652 9950 Award amount max: $5,000 Fax: +1 703 652 9951 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Awards/Cry stallography_Award.html
RANTS FOR STUDENT RESEARCH IN MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY Mineralogical Society of America
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Description: The Mineralogical Society of America invites Students, including graduate and applications for its grants for student research undergraduate students, are eligible to apply. in mineralogy and petrology. The purpose is to support research in mineralogy and The grants are worth up to $5,000 each. petrology. Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast)
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 20 Apr 11 Earth Sciences; Igneous & Metamorphic Award type: Young investigator awards, Petrology; Mineralogy; Petrology Directed grants for individual investigators Award amount max: $5,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: MSA http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Awards/Mi 3635 Concorde Pkwy, Suite 500 n_Pet_Award.html Chantilly, VA 20151-1125 Application form: Tel: +1 703 652 9950 http://grants.minsocam.org/ Fax: +1 703 652 9951 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile ------
OSTGRADUATE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR WOMEN SCIENTISTS Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World
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Description: The Organization for Women in Science for undertake part of their research programme at the Developing World invites applications for a host institute in another developing country, its postgraduate training fellowships for for a minimum period of six months. women scientists. These enable women Applications from students in basic or pure scientists from sub-Saharan Africa and least sciences such as mathematics, physics and developed countries to pursue postgraduate chemistry are encouraged. training leading to a doctorate degree at a centre of excellence in the south outside their Full-time fellowships are offered for three own country. Fellowships support research in years and cover travel, a monthly allowance the natural, engineering and information for accommodation and meals, visa costs, a technology sciences. contribution towards medical insurance and attendance at international conferences. Women scientists from sub-Saharan Africa Sandwich fellowships are offered for a and least developed countries may apply. minimum period of six months and include Applicants should have at least an MSc or travel, accommodation and living expenses equivalent, or an outstanding BSc honours while at the host institution. degree in the natural sciences, engineering or information technology disciplines. The host Closing date: 31 May 16 institute must be located in a developing Deadline information: country other than the applicant’s home Posted date: 17 Feb 16 country. Applicants who wish to register as a Award type: Predoctoral training PhD student at their home institution may fellowships, Directed grants for individual
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investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, students Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Award budget total: - Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Website: http://owsd.ictp.it/career- Réunion, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, development/phd-fellowship Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Application form: Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, http://owsd.ictp.it/sites/default/files/2016_PG Chad, Togo, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Tanzania, _Application%20form.docx United Republic of, Uganda, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eligibility profile South Sudan ------Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, Disciplines Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, ------Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Congo, the Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences and Democratic Republic of the, Central African Engineering Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Contact Details Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, ------Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Email: [email protected] Kenya, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia,
OSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions
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Description: The African Network of Scientific and year. Fellowships cover fees, subsistence and Technological Institutions, with support from international travel. the German Academic Exchange Service, invites applications for its postgraduate Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) fellowships for staff members of ANSTI Deadline information: !! Call has not yet member institutions. These enable sub- been announced by funder, but this is the Saharan African nationals to undertake approximate deadline we expect. This call is postgraduate studies at institutions outside repeated once a year. their home country. Posted date: 31 Jul 14 Award type: Travel for research purposes, Applicants must be a maximum of 36 years of Predoctoral fellowships, Financial aid for age and possess a good bachelor’s degree. postgraduate students Award budget total: - The initial award covers one year. An Website: extension is possible for up to two years for http://www.ansti.org/index.php/fellowships master’s courses or more for PhD studies, Application form: upon successful completion of the previous http://anstigrants.unon.org/daad/real.php?i= 1
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Burkina African Network of Scientific and Faso, Benin, Congo, Cameroon, Egypt, Technological Institutions Ethiopia, Finland, United Kingdom, Ghana, ANSTI Unesco Nairobi Offices India, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, UN Gigiri Complex Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda, Sao Tome and UN Avenue Principe, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, P.O Box 30592-00100 Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Nairobi Africa, Zimbabwe Tel: +254 207 622 620 Fax: +254 207 622 750 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Any
LINICAL FELLOWSHIP European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology
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Description: The European Society for Paediatric Deadline information: This call is repeated Endocrinology invites applications for its once a year. clinical fellowship. This aims to promote the Posted date: 01 Jun 15 development of patient care, clinical Award type: Postdoctoral training management and clinical research in fellowships, Networking/collaboration, paediatric endocrinology through a training Directed grants for individual investigators programme in a European clinical centre. Award budget total: - Website: Applicants must be trained in paediatrics or http://www.eurospe.org/awards/awards_clini have started training in paediatric calfellow.html endocrinology. Host centres will be located in Application form: Europe. Applicants should be able to http://www.eurospe.org/awards/clinical/Can understand and speak the language of the didateForm.doc host centre country fluently. Eligibility profile
------The duration of the fellowship is decided on a Country of applicant institution: Any case-by-case basis, taking into account the candidate’s training needs, preferences and Disciplines possibilities, the availability of appropriate ------host centres, the evaluation of the applications Paediatrics; Hormones & Endocrinology and the financial resources available.
Contact Details Closing date: 31 May 16 ------Head of Endocrinology Unit and Institute
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Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Tel: +370 37 327 097 Eiveniu 2 Fax: +370 37 326 816 50009 Kaunas Email: [email protected]
ENTENNIAL SCHOLARSHIPS Royal Aeronautical Society
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Description: The Royal Aeronautical Society invites individual investigators, Financial aid for applications for its centennial scholarships. postgraduate students The scheme supports the future of aeronautics Award amount max: £5,000 by making financial awards that assist Award amount min: £1,000 individuals or organisations in activities that Award budget total: - will benefit and encourage careers or research, Website: http://aerosociety.com/Careers- including historical research, in the field of Education/centennial aeronautics, astronautics, aerospace and aviation management. Eligibility profile ------Awards are worth up to £5,000 per year, with Country of applicant institution: Any the average amount being £1,000 to £3,000. Disciplines Closing date: 31 May 16 ------Deadline information: This call is repeated Aerospace Engineering & Avionics once a year. Posted date: 05 Jan 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants to institutions, ------research groups etc, Directed grants for Tel: +44 20 7670 4312 Email: [email protected]
ARK MILLS AWARD American Nuclear Society
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Description: The American Nuclear Society invites submits the best original technical paper applications for its Mark Mills award. This is contributing to the advancement of science awarded to the graduate student author who and engineering related to the atomic nucleus.
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The paper should demonstrate originality and Posted date: 06 Apr 11 ingenuity and should be in a form suitable for Award type: Prizes publication. A thesis is not acceptable. A Award budget total: - paper already published or submitted for Website: http://www.ans.org/honors/va-mills publication is eligible if nominated by the Application form: faculty advisor. http://www.ans.org/honors/sd/mills- form.pdf To be eligible for the award, the student must have been registered in a graduate degree Eligibility profile program in a recognized institution of higher ------learning for one year prior to the award, and Country of applicant institution: Any the student's faculty advisor must make a certification of this fact on the nomination Disciplines form. Thus, this competition is open to a ------graduate student completing the work on Atomic Physics; Chemistry; Physics; which his or her paper is based from a Structural Biology minimum of four months prior to the award to a maximum of 16 months prior to the Contact Details award. An engraved plaque and a monetary ------award are given. Honors and Awards American Nuclear Society Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) 555 North Kensington Avenue Deadline information: !! Call has not yet La Grange Park, Illinois 60526 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 708 352 6611 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +1 708 352 0499 repeated once a year.
OHN VON NEUMANN THEORY PRIZE Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences J
Description: The Institute for Operations Research and the Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Management Sciences invites nominations for Deadline information: !! Call has not yet the John von Neumann theory prize. This been announced by funder, but this is the prize is awarded to a scholar, or scholars, who approximate deadline we expect. This call is have made fundamental, sustained repeated once a year. contributions to theory in operations research Posted date: 29 Mar 11 and the management sciences. Although the Award type: Prizes award is normally given to a single Award amount max: $5,000 individual, in the case of accumulated joint Award budget total: - work, the recipients can be multiple Website: http://www.informs.org/Recognize- individuals. The award consists of $5,000, a Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/John- medallion and a citation. von-Neumann-Theory-Prize
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Georgia Institute of Technology Disciplines School of Industrial & Systems Engineering ------315 Groseclose Management Information Systems; Pure Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 Mathematics; Calculus of Variations, Systems Tel: +1 404 894 9139 & Control Theories; Operations Research; Fax: +1 401 894 2301 Statistics; Business & Management Studies; Email: [email protected] Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Management Theory
INA ZINNES AWARD International Studies Association
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Description: The International Studies Association invites Eligibility profile nominations for the Dina Zinnes award. This ------award honors the best graduate student paper Country of applicant institution: Any presented at a section sponsored panel at the association's annual convention. The prize is Disciplines worth $100. ------Cultural Studies; Politics & International Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Studies; International Relations & Diplomacy; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Peace & Disarmament; Political Science been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Deadline: Contact Details submissions June 1; nominations to all ------award committee members August 1, ISA annually. University of Arizona Posted date: 05 May 11 324 Social Sciences Award type: Student awards, Prizes Tucson, AZ 85721 Award amount max: $100 Tel: +1 520 621 7715 Award budget total: - Fax: +1 520 621 5780 Website: http://www.isanet.org/awards- Email: [email protected] grants/zinnes.html
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NRICO GREPPI AWARD Italian Society for the Study of Headaches
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Description: The Italian Society for the Study of Headaches Website: invites applications for the Enrico Greppi http://www.sisc.it/04_premiborsestudio/enric award. This recognises the best unpublished o_greppi_award.php?id_liv1=4&id_liv2=11 paper addressing the clinical, epidemiological, &id_liv3=5 genetic, pathophysiological and therapeutic aspects of headache. The competition is open Eligibility profile to researchers of all nationalities. The winner ------will be invited to present the paper at the 4th Country of applicant institution: Any European Headache Migraine Trust International congress, to be held in Disciplines Copenhagen, Denmark on 18 to 21 September ------2014. The prize is worth €10,000. Headaches; Chronic Pain; Medical Genetics; Pain Management; Physiology; Cancer Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Genetics; Central Nervous System; Clinical Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Medicine; Human Biological Sciences; been announced by funder, but this is the Neurology; Epidemiology approximate deadline we expect. Posted date: 06 Feb 14 Contact Detail Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: €10,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ENRY CHARLES CHAPMAN VISITING FELLOWSHIP School of Advanced Study
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Description: The Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the overseas, providing the fellow has been School of Advanced Study invites associated with and contributed to the applications for the Henry Charles Chapman activities of the institute. visiting fellowship. The fellow will conduct research at the institute in the social sciences The fellowship is worth up to £4,000 and is or in recent history relating to the countries of tenable between three and 12 months. the Commonwealth but excluding Britain. Working space at the institute will be Members of academic staff of any university provided. may apply. Where the fellowship is awarded to a member of staff at the University of Closing date: 31 May 16 London, the research may be carried out Deadline information: This call is repeated every 2 years.
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Posted date: 20 Jan 16 Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Eligibility profile Senior fellowships, Access to libraries, ------Travel for research purposes, Mid-Career Country of applicant institution: Any fellowships Award amount max: £4,000 Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Modern History; Social Sciences http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/i nstitute-fellows Contact Detail Application form: ------http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/ Email: [email protected] files/files/Fellows/ICWS_VRF_Application.d ocx
ERNARD AND JOAN MARSHALL RESEARCH PRIZES British Society for Cardiovascular Research
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Description: The British Society for Cardiovascular Deadline information: This call is repeated Research invites applications for the Bernard once a year. and Joan Marshall research prizes. These Posted date: 08 Dec 15 recognise outstanding research in any area of Award type: Prizes, Young investigator cardiovascular biology or medicine. Two awards prizes are available: Award amount max: £4,000 Award amount min: £2,500 • the Bernard and Joan Marshall young Award budget total: - investigator prize, worth £2,500, for Website: nominees training for a higher degree http://www.bscr.org/Awards/default.html or those who have received their higher degree in the past three years; Eligibility profile ------• the Bernard and Joan Marshall Country of applicant institution: Any research excellence prize, £4,000, for Country of applicant institution: Any nominees who have received their
higher degree no more than 15 years Disciplines ago. ------
Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack); Nominations are welcomed from BSCR Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiology members in academia and the pharmaceutical industry. Contact Details
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REGORY KAVKA/UC IRVINE PRIZE IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY American Philosophical Association
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Description: The American Philosophical Association Deadline information: !! Call has not yet invites submissions for the Gregory been announced by funder, but this is the Kavka/UC Irvine prize in political approximate deadline we expect. This call is philosophy. The prize is awarded for the best repeated every 2 years. paper in a refereed journal, or an original Posted date: 13 Apr 12 book chapter or original essay published in a Award type: Prizes collection with a multiplicity of contributors, Award amount max: $500 in the field of political philosophy, broadly Award budget total: - understood. Website: http://www.apaonline.org/?kavka
Papers from any area of political philosophy Eligibility profile and political theory are welcome, including ------the history of political philosophy, rational Country of applicant institution: Any choice theory with implications drawn for political philosophy, and moral Disciplines theory/applied ethics in which direct links ------are made to political philosophy or public Politics & International Studies; History of policy. Papers for the 2013 award are eligible Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Moral if they were published for the first time (not Theory; Ethics; History; Philosophy reprinted) during 2010 or 2011. Contact Details The amount of the prize is US$500. A ------symposium in honour of the recipient of the American Philosophical Association Kavka Prize will be scheduled at the Pacific University of Delaware Division Meeting, to include panellists 31 Amstel Avenue commenting upon the ideas of the selected University of Delaware paper, followed by a response from the award Newark, DE 19716-4797 winner. The author must be a member in Tel: +1 302 831 1112 good standing of the APA. Fax: +1 302 831 8690 Email: [email protected] Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast)
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RINCE MAHIDOL AWARDS Prince Mahidol Award Foundation
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Description: The Prince Mahidol Award Foundation Application form: invites nominations for the Prince Mahidol http://www.princemahidolaward.org/upload awards. These are awarded for research into /files/Nomination%20form%20in%20Word- medicine or public health that contributes edit.doc directly to the betterment of society. Eligibility profile Individuals or institutions may be nominated. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Two awards, worth US$100,000 each, are available. Disciplines ------Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Medicine & Health Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. ------Nominations due by 12 midnight local time. Prince Mahidol Award Foundation This call is repeated once a year. 2nd Floor, Mahidol-Bumpen Building Posted date: 20 Apr 15 Siriraj Hospital Award type: Prizes 2 Prannok Road Award amount max: $100,000 Bangkoknoi Award budget total: - Bangkok 10700 Website: Tel: +662 418 2568 http://www.princemahidolaward.org/display Fax: +662 412 9717 -news.en.php?id=2015-02-05%2011:14:25 Email: [email protected]
HESIS PRIZE National Library of Israel
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Description: The International Institute for Jewish published in an appropriate scholarly genealogy, at the National Library of Israel, framework invites applications for its thesis prize. This recognises an approved master’s or doctoral The research may be conducted by a single thesis in the field of Jewish genealogy that has researcher or a group of researchers. not yet been published. The aim of the prize is Preference will be given to original research in to assist the recipients to have their work areas of broad interest to family historians
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and scholars working on Jewish genealogy and a range of related areas in the humanities Eligibility profile and social sciences. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The prize is worth US$2,000. Disciplines Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Cultural History; Jewish Studies been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 08 May 15 International Institute for Jewish Genealogy Award type: Prizes c/o National Library of Israel, Award amount max: $2,000 Edmond J. Safra Campus, Award budget total: - Givat Ram, POB 39151 Website: http://iijg.org/research/research- Jerusalem 91391 grants/ Tel: +972 5077 33481 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.iijg.org/Documents/Announcem ent.pdf
ATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES STUDENT AWARDS International Association for Mathematical Geosciences
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Description: The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences invites applications Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) for its mathematical geosciences student Deadline information: !! Call has not yet awards. These aim to encourage graduate been announced by funder, but this is the students and postdoctoral researchers approximate deadline we expect. This call is working in the field of mathematical methods repeated once a year. in the geosciences. Masters or PhD students Posted date: 02 Jun 14 wishing to use the award to conduct a period Award type: Student awards, Directed grants of research related to their thesis or newly for individual investigators qualified postdoctoral scientists within three Award budget total: $7,500 years of the completion of their PhD studies Website: may apply. Candidates should be http://iamg.org/component/content/article/2- undertaking research in geomathematics or uncategorised/169-mg-student-grants.html working in interdisciplinary fields with relevance to mathematical geoscienses. Application form: http://www.iamgmembers.org/studentforms/
use/research/form1.html Up to three awards are available. The award budget is US$7,500.
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Eligibility profile Contact Details ------Country of applicant institution: Any IAMG 5868 Westheimer Rd. 537 Disciplines Houston, TX 77057 ------Tel: +1 832 380 8833 Earth Sciences; Applied Mathematics; Email: [email protected] Geology
ATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH STUDENT AWARDS International Association for Mathematical Geosciences
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Description: The International Association for Award type: Directed grants for individual Mathematical Geosciences invites applications investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate for its natural resources research students students awards. These are intended to encourage Award budget total: $5,000 graduate students and postdocs working on Website: quantitative approaches in the fields of http://iamg.org/component/content/article/2- exploration, assessment, extraction and uncategorised/170-nrr-student-grants.html utilisation of a wide variety of natural Application form: resources. http://www.iamgmembers.org/studentforms/ use/research/form1.html Masters or PhD students wishing to use the award to conduct a period of research related Eligibility profile to their thesis or newly qualified postdoctoral ------scientists within three years of the completion Country of applicant institution: Any of their PhD studies may apply. Candidates should be undertaking research in the fields Disciplines of exploration, assessment, extraction and ------utilisation of a wide variety of natural Renewable Energy Engineering; Geology; Use resources. & Management of Natural Resources; Earth Sciences; Extractive Metallurgy; Materials Up to two awards are available, normally Sciences; Environmental Science; Metallurgy worth US$2,500. The budget is US$5,000. Contact Details ------Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet IAMG been announced by funder, but this is the 5868 Westheimer Rd. 537 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Houston, TX 77057 repeated once a year. Tel: +1 832 380 8833 Posted date: 02 Jun 14 Email: [email protected]
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SSAY COMPETITION Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies
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Description: The Foundation for Urban and Regional Award budget total: - Studies, together with the International Website: http://www.ijurr.org/news/furs- Journal of Urban and Regional Research and essay-competition-launch/ Wiley-Blackwell, invites submissions for its essay prize. This is awarded to the best essay Eligibility profile on urban and regional themes by young ------authors. Country of applicant institution: Any
PhD students or scholars who have completed Disciplines their PhD within a five-year period may ------apply. The essay must be unpublished and Urban, Rural & Regional Economics; Urban written in English, French, German, Italian, Planning & Policy; Urban & Regional Portuguese or Spanish. Geography; Urban Anthropology; Urban Sociology; Urban Design A prize of £1,000 is available. The winning essay may also be published in the Contact Details International Journal of Urban and Regional ------Research. FURS Essay competition Departamento de Ciência Política Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Universidade de São Paulo Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto been announced by funder, but this is the 315 approximate deadline we expect. This call is 2047 repeated once a year. São Paulo Posted date: 29 Jan 15 Tel: +55 11 3091 3780 Award type: Young investigator awards, Fax: +55 11 3091 2269 Prizes, Student awards Email: [email protected] Award amount max: £1,000
HAC AWARDS SCHEME – NEW SCHOLARS AWARD Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
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Description: The Society for the History of Alchemy and the history of chemistry or history of alchemy Chemistry invites applications for its new by new scholars. scholars award. This supports research into
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Applications are open to postgraduate Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings students, both master’s and doctoral students, etc., Directed grants for individual and those who have obtained a PhD within investigators, Access to libraries, Travel for five years of the year in which the application research purposes, Publish, edit, translate, is made. In addition, postgraduate students disseminate, Financial aid for postgraduate only may apply for the costs of travel to students conferences and accommodation, but only in Award amount max: £500 order to give a paper. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.ambix.org/grants/ Funding is worth up to £500 and covers research expenses, including travel, Eligibility profile accommodation, subsistence, the ------reproduction of documents and library fees. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the History of Science approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Detail Posted date: 14 May 15 ------Email: [email protected]
SB MOBILITY AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS European Society of Biomechanics
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Description: The European Society of Biomechanics invites Two awards, worth up to €4,000 each, are applications for its mobility award for young available for research visits of two to six researchers. This provides financial assistance months’ duration. Funding may be used for collaborative research in a foreign country towards travel costs, living expenses and as part of a PhD or early postdoctoral potential project related costs. research. Closing date: 31 May 16 Applicants must be either PhD students Deadline information: This call is repeated enrolled at a university or a research institute, once a year. or postdoctoral researchers with less than one Posted date: 28 Jan 16 year after receiving their PhD degree. Both the Award type: Travel for research purposes, applicant and the scientist responsible at the Directed grants for individual investigators, foreign lab must be ESB members in good Young investigator awards standing. The lab visit should be to another Award amount max: €4,000 country than where the student is enrolled for Award budget total: €8,000 his or her PhD studies or postdoctoral Website: research. http://www.esbiomech.org/?page_id=1687
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Eligibility profile Biomechanics; Biomechanical Engineering ------Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Detail ------Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------
REAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
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Description: The Breakthrough Prize in Life Science in Application form: Sciences Foundation invites nominations for https://breakthroughprize.org/?controller=Pa its breakthrough prize in life sciences. This ge&action=nominations recognises individual contributions to the field of life sciences, with special attention to Eligibility profile recent developments. In addition, one prize is ------available specifically for work contributing to Country of applicant institution: Any the understanding of Parkinson’s disease. Disciplines There are no age restrictions for nominees, but ------government officials as defined in Section Health Systems; Sports & Exercise Studies; 4946(c) are ineligible. Self-nominations are not Genetics & Systems Biology; Central Nervous allowed. System; Primary Care; Sports Medicine; Neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Human Up to six prizes, worth US$3 million each, are Biological Sciences; Clinical Medicine; available. Genomics; Psychology; Medical Genetics; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Ecology; Allied Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) Health Professions; Parkinson's Disease; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Environmental Science; Physiology; Medical been announced by funder, but this is the Research of Selected Fields; Medicine & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Health; Public Health, Health Services & repeated once a year. Primary Care; Neurology Posted date: 23 Jun 14 Award type: Prizes Contact Detail Award amount max: $3,000,000 ------Award budget total: - Email: Website: [email protected] https://breakthroughprize.org/?controller=Pa ge&action=news
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NIVERSITY TEACHERS GROUP RESEARCH PRESENTATION PRIZE British Orthodontic Society
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Description: The British Orthodontic Society invites Award amount max: £600 applications for the University Teachers Award amount min: £200 Group research presentation prize. This Award budget total: £1,200 recognises a presentation of a project that was Website: completed as part of a recent master’s course. http://www.bos.org.uk/Professionals- The presentation must be delivered at the Members/Awards-Prizes/Awards-and- UTG research session held at the British Prizes/UTG-Research-Presentation-Prize Orthodontic Conference. Eligibility profile Applicants must be members of the society in ------good standing. They should have completed a Country of applicant institution: Any UK university master’s programme or equivalent within 13 months of the Disciplines conference. ------Orthodontics A total of three prizes, worth £600, £400 and £200, are available. Contact Details ------Closing date: 31 May 16 (Forecast) BOS Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 12 Bridewell Place been announced by funder, but this is the London EC4V 6AP approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +44 20 7353 8680 repeated once a year. Fax: +44 20 7353 8682 Posted date: 13 Feb 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Prizes
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HD FELLOWSHIPS Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
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Description: The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds invites Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate applications for its PhD fellowships. These students, Predoctoral fellowships, Travel to allow junior scientists to pursue a PhD project conferences, meetings etc., Young in basic biomedical research at an investigator awards, Directed grants for internationally leading laboratory in Europe. individual investigators, Travel for research Research should aim to elucidate basic purposes biological phenomena of human life and Award budget total: - acquiring new scientific knowledge. Website: http://www.bifonds.de/fellowships- Applicants must be no older than 27 years old grants/phd-fellowships.html and should be European citizens working in Application form: Europe or overseas or non-European citizens http://www.bifonds.de/cgi- pursuing their PhD project in Europe. bin/onlineapplication/index.pl
Fellowships are granted for two years with Eligibility profile ------the possibility of renewal for a further year. Country of applicant institution: Any The basic monthly stipend is €1,550.
Additionally, awardees may receive a Disciplines country-related premium of between €200 and ------€1,700, €150 for personal insurance and Biological Sciences; Medicine & Health project related costs, and spouse, child and childcare allowance. Contact Details
------Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Boehringer Ingelheim Fund Deadline information: Applications are due Foundation for Basic Research in Medicine by 12 midnight CET. Deadlines on: 1 June Schusterstrasse 46-48 2016, 1 October 2016, 1 February 2017, and repeated annually. 55116 Mainz Posted date: 12 Feb 16 Email: [email protected]
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OBERT J MCNAMARA STUDENT PAPER AWARD Association for the Sociology of Religion R
Description: The Association for the Sociology of Religion Posted date: 29 Oct 13 invites nominations from members for the Award type: Prizes Robert J McNamara student paper award. Award amount max: $500 This recognises a currently enrolled graduate Website: student for authoring an outstanding paper in http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures the sociology of religion. All submissions -papers/robert-j-mcnamara-student-paper- must be in English and under 12,000 words in award/ length. Eligibility profile The award is worth US$500. The winner is ------encouraged to present the paper at the Country of applicant institution: Any association’s annual meeting and to submit it to the association’s journal for consideration Disciplines of publication. ------Sociology; Religion & Society; Theology & Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Religious Studies; Theology Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Detail approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
HARLES W SERBY COPD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS American Association for Respiratory Care
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Description: The American Association for Respiratory Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Care Foundation announces its Charles W Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Serby COPD research fellowship. This been announced by funder, but this is the fellowship has been established to promote approximate deadline we expect. This call is research and education in the area of chronic repeated once a year. obstructive pulmonary disease. No formal Posted date: 15 Dec 11 application is required; fellows are selected by Award type: Prizes, Early-Career ARCF trustees from researchers having high fellowships, Senior fellowships quality abstracts accepted at the AARC Award budget total: - international respiratory congress. The award Website: includes airfare, one night’s lodging and http://www.arcfoundation.org/awards/resear registration for the AARC international ch/ respiratory congress.
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Application form: http://www.rcjournal.com/open_forum/ Contact Details ------Eligibility profile American Association for Respiratory Care ------Foundation Country of applicant institution: Any 9425 North MacArthur Blvd, Suite 100 Irving, TX 75063-4706 Disciplines Tel: +1 972 243 2272 ------Fax: +1 972 484 2720 Pathology; Respiratory Medicine; Email: [email protected] Pathogenesis; Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine
ONAGHAN/TRUDELL FELLOWSHIP FOR AEROSOL TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT American Association for Respiratory Care M
Description: The American Association for Respiratory Website: Care Foundation announces its http://www.arcfoundation.org/awards/resear Monaghan/Trudell fellowship for aerosol ch/ technique development. This fellowship is Application form: intended to support projects dealing with http://www.rcjournal.com/open_forum/ aerosol delivery issues. Projects may include modeling studies, in vitro studies, or clinical Eligibility profile studies. The focus should be on developing ------cost-effective approaches to aerosol delivery. Country of applicant institution: Any No formal application is required; fellows are selected by ARCF trustees from researchers Disciplines having high quality abstracts accepted at the ------AARC international respiratory congress. The Health Economics; Primary Care; Methods of award includes airfare, one night’s lodging Drug Delivery; Public Health, Health Services and registration for the AARC international & Primary Care; Diagnostic Sciences; Drug respiratory congress. Design; Respiratory Medicine; Clinical Medicine; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disease Models; Asthma Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. American Association for Respiratory Care Posted date: 15 Dec 11 Foundation Award type: Early-Career fellowships, 9425 North MacArthur Blvd, Suite 100 Senior fellowships, Prizes Irving, TX 75063-4706 Award budget total: - Tel: +1 972 243 2272
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Fax: +1 972 484 2720 Email: [email protected]
HILIPS RESPIRONICS FELLOWSHIP IN NON-INVASIVE RESPIRATORY CARE American Association for Respiratory Care
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Description: The American Association for Respiratory Application form: Care Foundation announces its Philips http://www.rcjournal.com/open_forum/ Respironics fellowship in non-invase respiratory care. This fellowship is designed Eligibility profile to foster projects dealing with non-invasive ------techniques to provide ventilatory support. Country of applicant institution: Any Projects can be device development, device evaluation, cost effectiveness analysis, or Disciplines education programs. No formal application is ------required; fellows are selected by ARCF Mechanical Engineering; Clinical Medicine; trustees from researchers having high quality Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; abstracts accepted at the AARC international Medical Devices; Aerospace Engineering & respiratory congress. The award includes Avionics; Respiratory Medicine; Human airfare, one night’s lodging and registration Biological Sciences; Physiology for the congress. Contact Details Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet American Association for Respiratory Care been announced by funder, but this is the Foundation approximate deadline we expect. This call is 9425 North MacArthur Blvd, Suite 100 repeated once a year. Irving, TX 75063-4706 Posted date: 15 Dec 11 Tel: +1 972 243 2272 Award type: Early-Career fellowships, Fax: +1 972 484 2720 Senior fellowships, Prizes Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.arcfoundation.org/awards/resear ch/
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HILIPS RESPIRONICS FELLOWSHIP IN MECHANICAL VENTILATION American Association for Respiratory Care
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Description: The American Association for Respiratory Application form: Care Foundation announces its Philips http://www.rcjournal.com/open_forum/ Respironics fellowship in mechanical ventilation. This fellowship is designed to Eligibility profile foster projects dealing with mechanical ------ventilation, especially outside of the intensive Country of applicant institution: Any care unit. Projects can be device development, device evaluation, cost effectiveness analysis, or education programs. No formal application Disciplines is required; fellows are selected by ARCF ------trustees from researchers having high quality Mechanical Engineering; Respiratory abstracts accepted at the AARC international Medicine; Physiology; Medical Devices; respiratory congress. The award includes Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Human airfare, one night’s lodging and registration Biological Sciences; Manufacturing & for the congress. Industrial Engineering
Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the American Respiratory Care Foundation approximate deadline we expect. This call is 9425 North MacArthur Blvd, Suite 100 repeated once a year. Irving, TX 75063-4706 Posted date: 15 Dec 11 Tel: +1 972 243 2272 Award type: Prizes, Early-Career Fax: +1 972 484 2720 fellowships, Senior fellowships Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.arcfoundation.org/awards/resear ch/
AREFUSION FELLOWSHIP IN NEONATAL AND PAEDIATRIC THERAPISTS American Association for Respiratory Care
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Description: The American Association for Respiratory paediatric critical care. Projects involving Care Foundation announces its CareFusion original research in mechanical ventilation fellowship in neonatal and paediatric issues using bench models, animal models, or therapists. This fellowship is designed to human subjects are encouraged. No formal foster projects in the field of neonatal and application is required; fellows are selected by
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ARCF trustees from researchers having high quality abstracts accepted at the AARC Eligibility profile international respiratory congress. The award ------includes airfare, one night’s lodging and Country of applicant institution: Any registration for the congress. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Physiology; Neonatal Disorders; Clinical been announced by funder, but this is the Medicine; Respiratory Medicine; Paediatrics approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 15 Dec 11 ------Award type: Prizes, Early-Career ARCF fellowships, Senior fellowships 9425 North MacArthur Blvd, Suite 100 Award budget total: - Irving, TX 75063-4706 Website: Tel: +1 972 243 2272 http://www.arcfoundation.org/awards/resear Fax: +1 972 484 2720 ch/ Email: [email protected] Application form: http://www.rcjournal.com/open_forum/
ILLIAM G LENNOX AWARD International League Against Epilepsy
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Description: The American Epilepsy Society invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nominations for the William G Lennox award. been announced by funder, but this is the This recognises members of the society, approximate deadline we expect. This call is usually at a senior level, who have a record of repeated once a year. lifetime contributions and accomplishments Posted date: 04 Apr 14 related to epilepsy. The aim is to advance and Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings disseminate knowledge concerning epilepsy etc., Prizes in all of its aspects - biological, clinical and Award budget total: - social - and to promote better care and Website: treatment for persons with epilepsy. http://www.aesnet.org/go/research/research- awards/distinguished-achievement-awards The award includes a US$10,000 honorarium, one night’s lodging at the annual conference, Application form: round trip economy airfare and scientific https://www.aesnet.org/sites/default/files/fil e_attach/NominationForm%20Updated%202 programme registration. 014.doc
Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast)
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Eligibility profile Diagnostic Sciences; Epilepsy & Seizures; ------Neurology; Clinical Medicine Country of applicant institution: Any Contact Details Disciplines ------Email: [email protected]
XTENDED DEADLINE: LICHTENBERG PROFESSORSHIPS VolkswagenStiftung – Volkswagen Foundation
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Description: The VolkswagenStiftung has extended the closing date for the Lichtenberg Closing date: 01 Jun 16 professorships. The previous deadline of 31 Deadline information: This call is repeated May has been extended to 1 June 2016. All once a year. other call details remain unchanged. Posted date: 22 Jun 15 Award type: Directed grants for individual These professorships offer young researchers investigators, Innovation grants, Young a tenure track option at a German university investigator awards of their choice, and an opportunity to Award amount max: €1,500,000 implement new teaching concepts and carry Award amount min: €800,000 out independent long term research in highly Award budget total: - innovative areas at the interface of disciplines. Website: There are no thematic restrictions. http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/en/fu nding/persons-and-structures/lichtenberg- Applicants may be researchers of any professorships.html Application form: nationality, however the host institution must https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/vwsant be a university based in Germany. Candidates rag/login.do?siteLanguage=en must have either obtained a PhD no more than four years ago and had a change of Eligibility profile academic environment and location, at the ------latest upon appointment to the professorship, Country of applicant institution: Any or obtained a PhD no more than seven years ago and be returnees or coming to Germany Disciplines from abroad, as well as had a change of ------academic environment within the last five Any years, at the latest upon appointment to the professorship Contact Details ------Up to seven professorships are available, each VolkswagenStiftung worth between €800,000 and €1.5 million for a Kastanienallee 35 period of five years. 30519 Hannover
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Tel: +49 511 8381 374 Email: [email protected] Fax: +49 511 8381 4374
IEPM FELLOWSHIP IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY University of Notre Dame
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Description: The Medieval Institute, in cooperation with Award type: Young investigator awards, the Société pour L'Étude de la Philosophie Directed grants for individual investigators, Médiévale, announce a yearly competition for Travel for research purposes, Access to a stipend to conduct research at the Medieval libraries Institute for a period of between one and four Award budget total: - months. The competition is open to young Website: scholars, age 35 or under, who are members of http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/funding/fundi the SIEPM and who have completed their ng.html doctorate or are in the final stages of research for their doctoral dissertations. The successful Eligibility profile candidate will be provided with up to €700 ------from the Société, plus US$1,700 per month Country of applicant institution: Any from the Medieval Institute for living expenses during the period of the scholar's Disciplines visit to Notre Dame ------History; Medieval History; Philosophy Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Medieval Institute repeated once a year. 715 Hesburgh Library Posted date: 24 Sep 12 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Email: [email protected]
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AS TURBINE AWARD American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Description: The American Society of Mechanical Application form: Engineers invites nominations for its gas https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ turbine award. This recognises an outstanding ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Honors%20Awa individual- or multiple-author contribution to rds/Literature-Nomination- the literature of combustion gas turbines or Form_Instructions.doc gas turbines thermally combined with nuclear or steam power plants. Eligibility profile ------Papers published anywhere in the world are Country of applicant institution: Any eligible. Disciplines The award includes a cash prize of US$1,000. ------Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; Energy Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Conversion; Mechanical Engineering; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Combustion & Fuel Engineering; been announced by funder, but this is the Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Renewable Energy Engineering; Engines & repeated once a year. Propulsion Posted date: 02 Jun 14 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award amount max: $1,000 ------Award budget total: - ASME Website: http://www.asme.org/about- Three Park Avenue asme/honors-awards/literature-awards/gas- New York, NY 10016-5990 turbine-award Tel: +1 498 928 16210 Email: [email protected]
AVID EDGE PRIZE Society for Social Studies of Science
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Description: Society for Social Studies of Science invites and 2012. Texts published in a language other nominations for the David Edge prize. The than English can be considered when an prize is awarded annually for the best article English translation is made available. in the area of science and technology studies by the 4S. The paper must have appeared in The author will receive an engraved plaque print or electronically between the years 2011 and a cash prize.
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Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the History of Science; History of Engineering & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Technology; Sociology of Science & repeated once a year. Technology; Sociology; History Posted date: 13 Mar 09 Award type: Prizes Contact Details Award budget total: ------Society for Social Studies of Science Website: Department of Sociology http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/edge Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Eligibility profile Tel: +1 225 578 5311 ------Fax: +1 225 578 5102 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME American Association for Respiratory Care
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Description: The American Association for Respiratory Closing date: 01 Jun 16 (Forecast) Care invites applications for its international Deadline information: !! Call has not yet fellowship programme. been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. Fellowships enable healthcare professionals Applications are accepted between 1 January from outside the United States to visit US and 1 June annually. This call is repeated counterparts to observe the practice of once a year. respiratory care as it is performed in a variety Posted date: 05 Aug 13 of settings, and visit the educational Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings programmes that teach it. The fellowship lasts etc., Travel for research purposes, for 18 days and includes visits to two cities in Predoctoral fellowships, Early-Career the United States and attendance at the AARC fellowships, Senior fellowships international respiratory congress. Expenses Award budget total: - incurred within the US, including food, Website: http://www.arcfoundation.org/international/ lodging, the conference registration and local fellows/info.cfm ground transportation, are included.
Application form: Healthcare professionals from outside the http://www.aarc.org/resources/international_ United States who have expressed a long-term fellows/apply.cfm commitment to the advancement of respiratory care or indicated a genuine interest in establishing respiratory care as an allied health profession are eligible.
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Eligibility profile Respiratory Medicine; Internal Medicine; ------Clinical Medicine Country of applicant institution: Canada, Mexico, All African Nations, All European Contact Details Nations, All Asian nations, All South ------American nations, All Oceanian nations, AARC Caribbean, Central America International Fellowships/City Host Program 9425 N MacArthur Blvd Suite 100 Disciplines Irving, TX 75063 ------Tel: +1 972 243 2272 Physiology; Human Biological Sciences; Fax: +1 972 484 2720 Primary Care; Asthma; Public Health, Health Email: [email protected] Services & Primary Care; Inflammation;
INGAPORE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE AWARD Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research
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Description: The Singapore Agency for Science, Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Technology and Research, in collaboration Deadline information: Deadlines on: 1 June with the National University of Singapore and 2016, 1 January 2017, and repeated annually. Nanyang Technological University, invites Posted date: 04 Jul 13 applications for the Singapore international Award type: Predoctoral training graduate award. This enables international fellowships, Directed grants for individual students to do their PhD training in a investigators, Predoctoral fellowships multidisciplinary environment in Singapore. Award budget total: - Training will be carried out in English and Website: http://www.singa.a-star.edu.sg/ students will be supervised by distinguished Application form: https://sms.a- and world-renowned researchers. star.edu.sg/applicant/Login.aspx
Applications are invited from all international Eligibility profile students with excellent academic ------undergraduate or master’s results. Good skills Country of applicant institution: Any in written and spoken English are also required. Disciplines ------
Petroleum Engineering; Manufacturing & The award includes a stipend of up to Industrial Engineering; Livestock & Animal SG$30,000 annually over four years, full Science; Universe Sciences; General tuition fees, a one-time SG$1,000 settling in Engineering; Agriculture; Earth Sciences; allowance, and a one-time airfare grant of up Mechanical Engineering; Oceanography; to SG$1,500. Up to 240 awards are available Physics; Diagnostic Sciences; Neuroscience; every year. Mining Engineering; Metallurgy; Food
Science; Environmental Science; Chemical
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Engineering; Electrical & Electronic Contact Details Engineering; Physical Sciences; Civil ------Engineering; Chemistry; Veterinary Medicine; A*STAR Graduate Academy Engineering; Materials Sciences; Biomedical A*STAR Engineering; Ceramics; Atmospheric Sciences; 20 Biopolis Way Biological Sciences; Computer Science & 08-01 Centros 138668 Informatics; Aerospace Engineering & Tel: +65 6626 6111 Avionics; Nuclear Physics; Allied Health Fax: +65 6777 1711 Professions
RANSLATION PRIZE European Society for Translation Studies
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Description: The European Society for Translation Studies Posted date: 05 Feb 16 invites applications for its translation prize. Award type: Prizes, Publish, edit, translate, This recognises a project to translate key texts disseminate in translation studies, including research on Award amount max: €2,000 interpreting and localisation. The prize should Award budget total: - be used to assist with the translation, editing Website: http://www.est- and publication of a book or group of articles. translationstudies.org/committees/translatio n_grant/index.html The prize may be paid to a translator, a group of translators, or an academic publisher or Eligibility profile journal and may be a translation from any ------language and into any language. The Country of applicant institution: Any translation must not have been published prior to the awarding of the prize, which will Disciplines take place six weeks after the application ------deadline, but must be published within two Translation Studies years of receiving the prize. Contact Details The prize is worth €2,000. ------Email: [email protected] Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year.
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TTA-UR-RAHMAN PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY TWAS
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Description: The World Academy of Sciences invites Eligibility profile nominations for its Atta-ur-Rahman prize in ------chemistry. This recognises an outstanding Country of applicant institution: Afghanistan, contribution to chemistry from a young Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina scientist who has been living and working in a Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, scientifically and technologically lagging Belize, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, country. Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Eligible candidates must be nationals of a Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eritrea, developing country who are under the age of Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, 40 and have been living and working in a Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea- scientifically and technologically lagging Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, country for a minimum of two years Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, immediately prior to their nomination. Kiribati, Comoros, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Lao People's Democratic The prize is worth US$4,000. Winners are Republic, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, invited to attend the TWAS general meeting Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritania, Maldives, and present a paper on their work. Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Closing date: 01 Jun 16 Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, Sao Deadline information: This call is repeated Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Chad, Togo, once a year. Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Tanzania, Posted date: 29 Feb 16 United Republic of, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, awards Zimbabwe, South Sudan Award amount max: $4,000 Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/atta-ur------rahman-prize-chemistry Chemistry
Application form: Contact Detail http://twas.org/sites/default/files/prize/af_att ------a-ur-rahmanprize.docx Email: [email protected]
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NR RAO PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TWAS
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Description: The World Academy of Sciences invites Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/cnr-rao- nominations for its CNR Rao prize for prize-scientific-research scientific research. This recognises an Application form: outstanding contribution to global science http://twas.org/sites/default/files/prize/nf_cn from a scientist from the developing world. rraoprize.docx
Eligible candidates must be nationals from the Eligibility profile developing world, especially scientists from ------the world's scientifically lagging and least Country of applicant institution: Lower- developed countries. Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries The prize is worth US$4,000. Disciplines Closing date: 01 Jun 16 ------Deadline information: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Posted date: 29 Feb 16 Bio/Medical Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $4,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Email: [email protected]
REEN TALENTS COMPETITION Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research G
Description: The German Federal Ministry of Education invited to return to Germany for up to three and Research (BMBF) invites applications for months, to conduct research and establish its green talents competition. This supports partnerships. young scientists, working on sustainable development, to visit Germany for a two- Applicants must be non-German citizens and week science forum followed by a fully reside outside Germany, be currently enrolled funded research stay for up to three months. in or have completed a master’s degree programme or higher with significantly above The winners will be able to visit Germany’s average grades, have a strong command of leading institutions, in order to gather English and be no more than 32 years of age. information and learn about the options for cooperation with German partners as part of a Both visits to Germany are fully financed by science forum and, in the following year, be the BMBF. 25 awards are available.
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Closing date: 02 Jun 16 (Forecast) Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Monaco, Moldova, Republic of, Madagascar, been announced by funder, but this is the Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of, approximate deadline we expect. Mali, Mauritania, Malta, Mauritius, Malawi, Applications due by 12 noon, CET. This call Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, is repeated once a year. Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Posted date: 21 Apr 15 Réunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Award type: Directed grants for individual Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sweden, Saint investigators, Networking/collaboration, Helena, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San Travel for research purposes, Young Marino, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and investigator awards, Personal development Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Award budget total: - Turkey, Tanzania, United Republic of, Website: Ukraine, Uganda, Holy See (Vatican City http://www.greentalents.de/1080.php State), Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Application form: Zimbabwe, All Asian nations, All South http://greentalents.de/application/index.php/ American nations, All Oceanian nations, All login/signup_before.html North American nations, South Sudan,
Montenegro Eligibility profile
------Disciplines Country of applicant institution: Andorra, ------Albania, Armenia, Angola, Austria, Renewable Energy Engineering; Waste Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Recycling, Reduction & Recovery; Sustainable Belgium, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Burundi, Development & Resource Use; Energy Benin, Botswana, Belarus, Congo, the Conservation & Efficiency Democratic Republic of the, Central African
Republic, Congo, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Contact Details Cameroon, Serbia, Cape Verde, Cyprus, ------Czech Republic, Djibouti, Denmark, Algeria, BMBF Estonia, Egypt, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Project Management Agency Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR) United Kingdom, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, European and International Cooperation Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guinea- Tel: +49 228 3821 1906 Bissau, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Email: [email protected] Italy, Kenya, Comoros, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania,
ETER AND PATRICIA GRUBER INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD IN NEUROSCIENCE Society for Neuroscience P
Description: The Society for Neuroscience and the Peter nominations for the Peter and Patricia Gruber and Patricia Gruber Foundation invite international research award in neuroscience.
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This recognises two young neuroscientists for Eligibility profile outstanding research and educational pursuit ------in an international setting. Country of applicant institution: United States Country of applicant institution: Antigua and Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and Barbuda, Anguilla, Bonaire, Aruba, Barbados, research associates may apply. US citizens Bermuda, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa and permanent residents must be studying or Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, working at an institution outside the US. Non- Grenada, Greenland, Guadeloupe, US citizens and permanent residents must be Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint studying or working in the US. Kitts and Nevis, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Montserrat, Mexico, Nicaragua, The award includes a US$25,000 prize, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Turks and complimentary registration for the SfN annual Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint meeting and two nights’ accommodation. Vincent and the Grenadines, Virgin Islands, British, All African Nations, All European Closing date: 03 Jun 16 (Forecast) Nations, All Asian nations, All South Deadline information: !! Call has not yet American nations, All Oceanian nations, been announced by funder, but this is the Caribbean, Central America, Curaçao, Sint approximate deadline we expect. This call is Maarten, St Eustatius, Saba repeated once a year. Posted date: 15 Mar 13 Disciplines Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $25,000 Cognitive Processes; Psychology; Social Award budget total: - Problems; Neuroscience; Physiology; Website: http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- Neuropsychology Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- Fellowships/Young-Scientists- Contact Details Achievements-and-Research/Peter-and------Patricia-Gruber-International-Research- SfN Award 1121 14th St, NW Application form: Suite 1010 http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- Washington DC 20005 Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- Tel: +1 202 962 4000 Fellowships/Nomination-Site Email: [email protected]
IMON DENTITH MEMORIAL PRIZE Raymond Williams Society
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Description: The Raymond Williams Society invites encourage a new generation of scholars in this applications for the Simon Dentith memorial area, especially those grounded in discourses prize. This recognises work grounded in the and approaches arising from the work of tradition of cultural materialism and aims to Raymond Williams.
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Anyone studying for a higher degree in the Award budget total: - UK or elsewhere, or who graduated no earlier Website: http://raymondwilliams.co.uk/the- than 31 July 2013, may apply. simon-dentith-memorial-prize/
The prize is worth £100, plus a year’s Eligibility profile subscription to the society. The winning entry ------may also be considered for publication in Key Country of applicant institution: Any Words. Disciplines Closing date: 03 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Cultural Studies been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 12 Feb 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Student awards, Prizes Award amount max: £100
ONALD B LINDSLEY PRIZE IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE Society for Neuroscience
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Description: The Society for Neuroscience invites approximate deadline we expect. This call is nominations for the Donald B Lindsley prize repeated once a year. in behavioural neuroscience. The prize Posted date: 15 Mar 13 recognizes meritorious research in the area of Award type: Prizes behavioural neuroscience. Award amount max: $2,500 Award budget total: - The prize is awarded each year at the SfN Website: http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- annual meeting for an outstanding PhD thesis Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- in the general area of behavioural Fellowships/Young-Scientists- neuroscience submitted and approved during Achievements-and-Research/Donald-B- the previous calendar year. Lindsley-Prize-in-Behavioral-Neuroscience
The prize includes US$2,500, plus economy Application form: airfare, two nights’ hotel accommodation and http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- complimentary conference registration. Funding/Individual-Prizes-and- Fellowships/Nomination-Site
Eligibility profile Closing date: 05 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Psychology; Neuropsychology; Physiology; Tel: +1 202 962 4000 Social Problems; Cognitive Processes; Email: [email protected] Neuroscience
ELLOWSHIPS European Institutes for Advanced Study
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Description: The European Institutes for Advanced Study 43 fellowship positions will be available for invites applications for its fellowship the academic year 2016-2017 – 21 junior programme. This enables researchers to positions and 22 senior positions. Each undertake 10-month residencies in one of the institute offers a living allowance of 16 participating EURIAS institutes: Berlin, approximately €26,000 for a junior fellowship Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, and approximately €38,000 for a senior Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, fellowship as well as accommodation, a Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, research budget and coverage of travel Wassenaar and Zürich. Fellowships are expenses. mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to Closing date: 05 Jun 16 (Forecast) scholars in life and exact sciences, provided Deadline information: !! Call has not yet that their proposed research project does not been announced by funder, but this is the require laboratory facilities and that it approximate deadline we expect. interfaces with humanities and social sciences. Applications due by 12 noon GMT. This call is repeated once a year. At the time of the application, researchers Posted date: 23 Apr 15 must hold a doctoral degree plus two years of Award type: Early-Career fellowships, full-time research experience after the degree. Senior fellowships, Young investigator Exception is made for law scholars who are awards eligible with a master’s degree plus six years Award budget total: - of full-time research experience after the Website: http://www.2016-2017.eurias- degree. fp.eu/call-applications Application form: http://www.2016- 2017.eurias- Researchers from all countries are eligible to fp.eu/user/register?destination=%3Cfront%3 apply however one cannot apply to an E institute located in his or her country of residence. Exception is made for applicants Eligibility profile who have spent no more than 12 months in ------their country of residence during the last three Country of applicant institution: Any years prior to the application.
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Disciplines EURIAS ------RFIEA Foundation Any; Humanities; Social Sciences 190 avenue de France 75013 Paris Contact Email: [email protected] ------
SSAY PRIZE IN LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT American Philosophical Association
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Description: The American Philosophical Association Award budget total: - invites nominations for the prize in Latin Website: American thought. This is awarded to the http://www.apaonline.org/?latin_american author of the best unpublished philosophical Application form: essay in Latin American thought. http://www.apaonline.org/?page=latin_sub
Eligible essays must be in English and contain Eligibility profile original arguments and broach philosophical ------topics clearly related to the specific Country of applicant institution: Any experiences of Hispanic Americans and Latinos. Authors must be members of the association. Disciplines ------The prize is worth US$500. Disadvantaged & Minority Groups; History; Philosophy; Portuguese Language; Politics & Closing date: 05 Jun 16 (Forecast) Economics of Latin America & the Caribbean; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Creole Languages; Spanish Language; Latin been announced by funder, but this is the American & Caribbean History; North approximate deadline we expect. This call is American Studies; Latin American & repeated once a year. Caribbean Studies Posted date: 10 Sep 14 Award type: Publish, edit, translate, Contact Detail disseminate, Prizes ------Award amount max: $500 Email: [email protected]
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ADR/COLGATE ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD International Association for Dental Research
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Description: The International Association for Dental Nominees must be members of the IADR oral Research invites nominations for its Colgate health research group. Dental hygienist oral health research award. This recognises nominees must be graduates of an accredited research by a member of the IADR oral health dental hygiene programme. research group, with preference given to dental hygienists. Submissions must represent The award is worth US$2,000 and is intended original research in the area of oral health. to provide travel and other support related to This includes a broad array of basic, clinical attending the IADR annual meeting and and applied studies related to: participating in the oral health research group activities. • strategies for the prevention of oral disease and promotion of wellness; Closing date: 06 Jun 16 • outcomes of primary and secondary Deadline information: preventive care; Posted date: 11 Aug 15 • interdisciplinary approaches to Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, integrating oral health into general meetings etc. health; Award amount max: $2,000 • clinical efficacy of professional and Award budget total: - personal oral hygiene measures; Website: http://www.iadr.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pag • methods to improve health outcomes eid=3436 of compromised patients;
• the dental hygiene process of care; Eligibility profile • self-care strategies; ------• disease-prevention and health Country of applicant institution: Any promotion focused curricular models; • science transfer methods; Disciplines • ethics and quality assurance; ------• alternative patterns for practice; Dentistry • clinical decision-making; • issues related to the conduct of Contact Details research. ------Email: [email protected]
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ENTRES OF EXCELLENCE Danmarks Grundforskningsfond - Danish National Research Foundation
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Description: The Danish National Research Foundation size of grants vary, but can be granted for up invites outline proposals for its call for centres to 10 years. of excellence. These aim to strengthen Danish research by providing the best possible Closing date: 06 Jun 16 working conditions and organisational set-up Deadline information: Outline proposals for selected researchers across the areas of due by 12 noon. humanities, life sciences, natural sciences, Posted date: 18 Jan 16 social sciences and technical sciences. Centres Award type: Research centres, Travel to of excellence consist of units based at research conferences, meetings etc., Financial aid for institutions sharing a common idea or vision, postgraduate students, Directed grants for and an overall and clearly defined set of individual investigators, research objectives. The foundation welcomes Networking/collaboration, Equipment and outstanding research of a high international materials, Travel for research purposes standard. Award budget total: - Website: http://dg.dk/2015/10/30/niende- Applications may be for proposed centres ansoegningsrunde-til-centers-of-excellence- whose research idea is ambitious and original, opslaget-er-ude-nu/ whose proposed leader has a high standing in Application form: http://dg.dk/filer/CoE/Ansoegningsrunder/C the international scientific community, who oE9/CoE-Round9-Application-Form.docx include high-quality personnel aiming to establish a creative and dynamic international Eligibility profile research environment, and whose focus, ------structure and size is not feasible within Country of applicant institution: Denmark conventional funding. Centres are encouraged Country of applicant institution: Any to collaborate with leading international researchers, and to include employees and Disciplines visitors from abroad. ------
Humanities; Physical Sciences and Grants may cover expenses for salaries, PhD Engineering; Social Sciences; Bio/Medical students, postdoctoral staff, visiting staff, technical and administrative staff, travel costs Contact Details and conferences, operational costs and ------equipment and overhead. Salaries for Tel: +45 3318 1958 permanent staff are generally not funded. The Email: [email protected]
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OSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AWARD American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its repeated once a year. postdoctoral fellow award. This is given to an Posted date: 09 Apr 15 individual who has demonstrated excellence Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, in their research work during a postdoctoral meetings etc. period and shows exceptional promise in Award budget total: - future contributions to pharmaceutical Website: sciences. The award is based on the scientific http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ merits of an abstract submission to the annual Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ AAPS meeting and recommendations of Application form: mentoring scientists. http://abstracts.aaps.org/aaps2015/login.asp
The award is open to both members and non- Eligibility profile members of AAPS. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The award recipient will receive US$1,500 for travel expenses and a complimentary AAPS Disciplines ------annual meeting registration. There are three Pharmacy & Pharmacology awards available each year.
Contact Details Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected]
RADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN ANALYSIS AND PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Nominees must be students in their final year Scientists invites nominations for its graduate of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree student research award in analysis and and will be selected on the basis of submitted pharmaceutical quality. This recognises abstracts and summaries. excellence in graduate education in the fields of pharmaceutics, bioanalytical chemistry and Each student selected to participate in the pharmaceutical analysis. symposium will receive a cash award of US$250, complimentary annual meeting
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registration and a reimbursement of travel Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic and onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site US$1,500 for international. _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM- GRAD%20APQ.doc Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Country of applicant institution: Any repeated once a year. Posted date: 10 Apr 15 Disciplines Award type: Prizes, Student awards, Travel ------to conferences, meetings etc. Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Analytical Award budget total: - Chemistry Website: http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ Contact Detail Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ ------Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/
RADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT INTERFACE American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its graduate repeated once a year. student research award in drug discovery and Posted date: 19 May 15 development interface. This recognises Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, excellence in graduate education in the fields meetings etc., Student awards of drug discovery and development interface. Award budget total: - Website: Nominees must be students in their final year http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree. Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ Application form: Each award provides US$250, complimentary http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ annual meeting registration, and Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C reimbursement of travel expenses of up to onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site US$1,000 for domestic travel and US$1,500 for _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM- GRAD%20DDDI.doc international travel.
Eligibility profile Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Country of applicant institution: Any been announced by funder, but this is the
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Pharmaceutical Drugs; Drug Design Email: [email protected]
RADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS IN PHARMACOKINETICS, PHARMACODYNAMICS, DRUG METABOLISM, CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY G AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its graduate repeated once a year. student research awards in pharmacokinetics, Posted date: 13 Apr 15 pharmacodynamics, drug metabolism, clinical Award type: Prizes, Student awards, Travel pharmacology and translational research. to conferences, meetings etc. These recognises excellence in graduate Award budget total: - education in the fields of pharmacokinetics, Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ pharmacodynamics, drug metabolism, clinical Application form: pharmacology and translational research, as http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ well as pharmacology, toxicology and other Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C related disciplines. onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM-GSS- Nominees must be students in their final year PPDM-CPTR.doc of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree. Eligibility profile They will be selected on the basis of ------submitted abstracts and summaries. Country of applicant institution: Any
Each winner will receive a cash award of Disciplines US$250, complimentary annual meeting ------registration and a reimbursement of travel Pharmacy & Pharmacology expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic and
US$1,500 for international travel. Contact Details
------Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Email: [email protected] Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the
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IPID-BASED DRUG DELIVERY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Posted date: 15 Apr 15 Scientists invites nominations for its lipid- Award type: Student awards, Travel to based drug delivery graduate student award. conferences, meetings etc., Prizes This recognises research into the application Award budget total: - of lipid excipients in development of novel Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ and effective drug delivery systems. The Application form: award focuses on recent significant http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ contributions brought about by innovative Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C research to elucidating the role of lipids in onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site drug delivery. _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM%20LB DD_Graduate_Student%20Award%20updat Nominees must be students in their final year e%20final(1).doc of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree. The applicant must be an AAPS member. Eligibility profile ------
Country of applicant institution: Any The winner will receive US$1,000, complimentary annual meeting registration and reimbursement of travel expenses up to Disciplines ------US$1,000 for domestic and up to US$1,500 for Methods of Drug Delivery; Pharmaceutical international travel. Drugs; Lipids
Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 703 243 2800 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
IPID-BASED DRUG DELIVERY OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical of novel and effective drug delivery systems. Scientists invites applications for its lipid- The award focuses on recent significant based drug delivery outstanding research contributions of highly innovative research to award. This acknowledges research into the elucidate the role of lipids in drug delivery. application of lipid excipients in development Scientists of all backgrounds working in
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industry, government, research institutes, or Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, universities, including postdoctoral fellows meetings etc. may apply. Award budget total: - Website: The applicant must be an AAPS member in http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ good standing. Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ Application form: The winner will receive a cash award of http://abstracts.aaps.org/aaps2015/login.asp US$10,000, complimentary registration for the AAPS annual meeting and reimbursement of Eligibility profile travel expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic ------travel or US$1,500 for international travel. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Methods of Drug Delivery; Drug Design approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Details Posted date: 09 Apr 15 ------Email: [email protected]
ACR MARGARET FOTI AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CANCER RESEARCH American Association for Cancer Research A
Description: The American Association for Cancer anywhere in the world. Self-nominations are Research invites nominations for the Margaret not accepted. Foti award for leadership and extraordinary achievements in cancer research. This The award includes a cash prize of US$10,000, recognises an individual whose leadership and support for the winner and a guest to and achievements in cancer research or in attend the AACR annual meeting. support of cancer research have made a major impact on the field. Such achievements Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) include contributions to the acceleration of Deadline information: !! Call has not yet progress in cancer research, raising national been announced by funder, but this is the or international awareness of cancer research, approximate deadline we expect. This call is or other demonstrations of a sustained repeated once a year. commitment to the conquest of cancer. Posted date: 29 Jul 13 Award type: Prizes Candidacy is open to all cancer researchers Award budget total: - who are affiliated with any institution Website: involved in cancer research, cancer medicine http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/ or cancer-related biomedical science Awards- Detail.aspx?ItemId=11#.VS0cABeJKi4
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Application form: Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Lung Cancer; https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ Nursing; Chemotherapy; Breast Cancer; Brain Cancer; Cancer Immunology; Gynaecological Eligibility profile Cancers; Molecularly Targeted Therapy; ------Oncology Nursing; Leukaemia & Other Blood Country of applicant institution: Any Cancers
Disciplines Contact Details ------Cancer Cell Biology; Cancer Studies & AACR Oncology; Melanoma & Other Skin Cancers; 17th Floor, 615 Chestnut St Prostate & Testicular Cancers; Diagnostic Philadelphia, PA 19106-4404 Sciences; Carcinogenesis; Physiology; Email: [email protected] Colorectal, Pancreatic & Stomach Cancers; Non-cancerous Tumours; Human Biological
RADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS IN MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Posted date: 13 Apr 15 Scientists invites nominations for its graduate Award type: Prizes, Student awards, Travel student research awards in manufacturing to conferences, meetings etc. science and engineering. These recognise Award budget total: - excellence in graduate education in the fields Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ of manufacturing science and engineering. Application form: http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ Nominees must be students in their final year Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree. onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site They will be selected on the basis of _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM- submitted abstracts and summaries. GRAD%20MSE%20w-sponsor.doc
Each winner will receive a cash award of Eligibility profile US$250, complimentary annual meeting ------registration and a reimbursement of travel Country of applicant institution: Any expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic and US$1,500 for international travel. Disciplines ------
Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Engineering Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Detail approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
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RADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS IN FORMULATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its graduate repeated once a year. student research awards in formulation Posted date: 13 Apr 15 design and development. These recognise Award type: Prizes, Student awards, Travel excellence in graduate education in the fields to conferences, meetings etc. of formulation design and development areas, Award budget total: - including pre-formulation, biopharmaceutics, Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ formulation strategies and technologies, and Application form: manufacturing process optimization. http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C Nominees must be students in their final year onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree. _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM- They will be selected on the basis of GRAD%20FDD%20w-sponsor.doc submitted abstracts and summaries. Eligibility profile ------Each winner will receive a cash award of Country of applicant institution: Any US$250, complimentary annual meeting registration and a reimbursement of travel Disciplines expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic and ------US$1,500 for international travel. Drug Design; Pharmaceutical Drugs
Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Detail Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected]
RADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AWARDS IN PHYSICAL PHARMACY AND BIOPHARMACEUTICALS American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical the fields of physical pharmacy and Scientists invites nominations for its graduate biopharmaceuticals. student research awards in physical pharmacy and biopharmaceuticals. These Nominees must be students in their final year recognise excellence in graduate education in of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree.
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They will be selected on the basis of Application form: submitted abstracts and summaries. http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C Each winner will receive a cash award of onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site US$250, complimentary annual meeting _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM- registration and a reimbursement of travel GRAD%20PPB%20w-sponsor.doc expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic and US$1,500 for international travel. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Disciplines approximate deadline we expect. This call is ------repeated once a year. Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Drug Design Posted date: 13 Apr 15 Award type: Prizes, Student awards, Travel Contact Detail to conferences, meetings etc. ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/
NNOVATION IN NANOTECHNOLOGY AWARD American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Website: Scientists invites applications for its http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Annual_ innovation in nanotechnology award. This Meeting___Exposition_Awards/ recognises and promotes the achievement of an individual demonstrating innovation in the Eligibility profile area of nanotechnology as applied to drug ------and device development. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Nanomedicine; Drug Design; Nanotechnology approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Contact Detail Posted date: 14 Apr 15 ------Award type: Prizes Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
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RADUATE STUDENT AWARD IN QUALITY BY DESIGN AND PRODUCT PERFORMANCE American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Award type: Prizes, Student awards Scientists invites nominations for its graduate Award amount max: $500 student award in quality by design and Award budget total: - product performance. This aims to promote Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ the fostering of multidisciplinary Application form: collaborations, the advancement of science http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ and risk-based approaches and technologies, Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C and the development of strategies that link onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site critical quality attributes throughout the _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15- product life cycle. QBD_FG_Award_Final%20updated.doc
Candidates may be of any nationality and Eligibility profile must be students in their final year of ------graduate studies leading to a PhD. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award has a value of US$500. Disciplines ------Quality Control & Management; Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Pharmaceutical Drugs been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Detail repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 15 Apr 15 Email: [email protected]
CULAR DRUG DELIVERY AND DISPOSITION FOCUS GROUP GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER AWARD American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists O
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical Applicants must be enrolled as a full time Scientists invites applications for its ocular graduate student and be the primary drug delivery and disposition focus group contributor to the presented poster. graduate student poster award. This recognises a graduate student presenting The winner will receive complimentary outstanding work making significant annual meeting registration and contribution in the ocular drug delivery and reimbursement of travel expenses up to disposition field.
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US$1,000 for domestic and US$1,500 for _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20ODDD%20 international travel. FG%20Graduate%20Student%20Award%20E dited%20Version%203-14.doc Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Country of applicant institution: Any repeated once a year. Posted date: 13 Apr 15 Disciplines Award type: Student awards, Travel to ------conferences, meetings etc., Prizes Methods of Drug Delivery Award budget total: - Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ Email: [email protected] Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site
RADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD IN BIOTECHNOLOGY American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
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Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its graduate repeated once a year. student research award in biotechnology. This Posted date: 10 Apr 15 recognises excellence in graduate education in Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, the fields of biotechnology. meetings etc., Student awards Award budget total: - Nominees must be students in their final year Website: http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/ of graduate studies leading to a PhD degree. Application form: They will be selected on the basis of http://www.aaps.org/uploadedFiles/Content/ submitted abstracts and summaries. Meetings_and_Professional_Development/C onference_Mini_Sites/Workshops_Mini_Site Each student selected to participate in the _Template(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)/15%20AM- symposium will receive a cash award of GRAD%20BIOTEC.doc US$250, complimentary annual meeting Eligibility profile registration and reimbursement of travel ------expenses up to US$1,000 for domestic and up Country of applicant institution: Any to US$1,500 for international travel.
Contact Details Closing date: 10 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Biotechnology been announced by funder, but this is the
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RADUATE STUDENT AWARD IN QUALITY-BY-DESIGN AND PRODUCT PERFORMANCE American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists G
Description: The American Association of Pharmaceutical approximate deadline we expect. This call is Scientists invites nominations for its graduate repeated once a year. student award in quality-by-design and Posted date: 04 Apr 14 product performance. This recognises a Award type: Prizes, Student awards graduate student for contributions to quality- Award amount max: $1,000 by-design and product performance in the Award budget total: - field of pharmaceutical sciences. The aim is Website: provide a scientific forum that creates and http://www.aaps.org/About_AAPS/Graduate fosters multidisciplinary collaborations _Student_Awards/ leading to enhanced product performance consistent with predefined objectives for Eligibility profile greater patient benefit, and to leverage, ------advance and accelerate science- and risk- Country of applicant institution: Any based approaches and technologies and develop strategies that link the critical quality Disciplines attributes, product, process and patient ------throughout the product life cycle. Medicinal Chemistry; Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Chemistry; Pharmaceutical Applicants must be in the final year of Drugs; Pharmacokinetics; Pharmacy & graduate studies leading to a doctoral degree. Pharmacology
The award includes US$1,000. Contact Details ------Closing date: 11 Jun 16 (Forecast) AAPS Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 2107 Wilson Blvd, Suite 700 been announced by funder, but this is the Arlington, VA 22201-3046 Tel: +1 703 243 2800 Email: [email protected]
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ANIEL H EFRON RESEARCH AWARD American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Description: The American College of Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Neuropsychopharmacology invites awards nominations for the Daniel H Efron research Award budget total: - award. The award will be presented to an Website: individual on the basis of outstanding basic http://www.acnp.org/programs/awards.aspx research contributions to Application form: neuropsychopharmacology. The contributions http://www.acnp.org/membership/efron.aspx may be preclinical or work that emphasises the interface between basic and clinical Eligibility profile research. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Recipient must be 50 years of age or younger as of 31 December 2013. Any scientist Disciplines worldwide may nominate an individual for ------this award. Nomination of women and Psychiatry; Public Health, Health Services & minorities is highly encouraged. Primary Care; Diagnostic Sciences; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Neuropsychology; Primary The award consists of a monetary award. Care; Psychology; Neuropharmacology; Recipients who are not members may also be Clinical Medicine; Neurology; Translational reimbursed for their expenses to attend the Medicine annual meeting. Contact Details Closing date: 12 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ACNP Executive Office been announced by funder, but this is the 5034A Thouroughbred Lane approximate deadline we expect. This call is Brentwood, TN 37027 repeated once a year. Tel: +1 615 324 2360 Posted date: 22 Apr 13 Fax: +1 615 523 1715 Email: [email protected]
OEL ELKES RESEARCH AWARD American College of Neuropsychopharmacology J
Description: The American College of clinical contribution to Neuropsychopharmacology invites neuropsychopharmacology. The contribution nominations for the Joel Elkes research award. may be based on a single discovery or a The award will be presented to a young cumulative body of work. Of particular scientist in recognition of an outstanding interest are contributions which further
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understanding of self-regulatory processes as Application form: they affect mental function and behaviour in https://www.conferenceabstracts.com/cfp2/lo disease and well-being. gin.asp?EventKey=ZIOLQIRX
Recipient must be 50 years of age or younger Eligibility profile as of 31 December 2013. Any scientist ------worldwide may nominate an individual for Country of applicant institution: Any this award. Nomination of women and minorities is highly encouraged. Disciplines ------The award consists of a monetary award. Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Primary Care; Recipients who are not members may also be Clinical Medicine; Public Health, Health reimbursed for their expenses to attend the Services & Primary Care; Neurology; annual meeting. Neuropsychology; Diagnostic Sciences; Psychology; Psychiatry; Neuropharmacology Closing date: 12 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Contact Details been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is ACNP Executive Office repeated once a year. 5034A Thouroughbred Lane Posted date: 19 Apr 13 Brentwood, TN 37027 Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Tel: +1 615 324 2360 awards Fax: +1 615 523 1715 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.acnp.org/programs/awards.aspx
ULIUS AXELROD MENTORSHIP AWARD American College of Neuropsychopharmacology J
Description: The American College of Closing date: 12 Jun 16 (Forecast) Neuropsychopharmacology invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nominations for the Julius Axelrod been announced by funder, but this is the mentorship award. This is awarded to an approximate deadline we expect. This call is ACNP member who has made an outstanding repeated once a year. contribution to neuropharmacology by Posted date: 22 Apr 13 mentoring and developing young scientists Award type: Prizes into leaders in the field. Award budget total: - Website: Any scientist may nominate an ACNP http://www.acnp.org/programs/awards.aspx member. Application form: https://www.conferenceabstracts.com/cfp2/lo The award consists of a monetary award. gin.asp?EventKey=ZIOLQIRX
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------ACNP Executive Office Disciplines 5034A Thouroughbred Lane ------Brentwood, TN 37027 Ethology & Comparative Psychology; Social Tel: +1 615 324 2360 Aspects of Mental Health; Psychology; Fax: +1 615 523 1715 Biological Sciences; Neuroscience; Medicine & Email: [email protected] Health; Mental Health; Social Problems; Experimental Psychology
ANDELA RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS Mandela Rhodes Foundation
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Description: The Mandela Rhodes Foundation invites approximate deadline we expect. applications for its scholarship programme. Applications are due by mid-June of each This offers young Africans, who exhibit year. Institutions set their own internal academic prowess as well as broader deadlines. This call is repeated once a year. leadership potential, the opportunity to Posted date: 29 Apr 13 pursue their postgraduate degree at a Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate recognised South-African university or students, Travel for research purposes, tertiary institution. The foundation is looking Personal development, Travel to for individuals that reflect in their character a conferences, meetings etc. commitment to the principles of education, Award budget total: - reconciliation, leadership and Website: http://mandelarhodes.org/the- entrepreneurship. scholarship/ Application form: African honours and master’s students under http://www.mandelarhodes.org/documents/S cholarships_application_form_2013.pdf the age of 30 may apply. The scholarship provides full funding for up to two years. Eligibility profile This includes funds for tuition, ------accommodation, meals, a book allowance, and Country of applicant institution: All African a travel allowance. Other than financial Nations assistance, the scholarship also provides a series of leaderships workshops, access to Disciplines peer-monitoring and access to the community ------of Mandela Rhodes scholars. Any
Closing date: 12 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the The Mandela Rhodes Foundation
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P.O Box 15897 Fax: +27 21 423 6448 Vlaeberg 8018 Email: [email protected] Tel: +27 21 424 3346
APAN INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG AGRICULTURAL RESEARCHERS Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries J
Description: The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Application form: Research Council, the Ministry of http://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp/english/young/ Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and the pdf/Form1-2014.pdf Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences invite candidates for the Eligibility profile Japan international award for young ------agricultural researchers. Country of applicant institution: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, This recognises outstanding performance in Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and related Bhutan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, China, industry in developing countries. Christmas Island, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, British Indian Candidates must be non-Japanese researchers Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Republic under 40 years of age, and must belong to a of, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Korea, non-Japanese research institute or university. Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, They must be engaged in research and Republic of, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lao development in a relevant field. People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Macao, Up to three awards, worth US$5,000 each, are Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, available. No more than one researcher per Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, institution may be recommended. Occupied, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syrian Arab Republic, Closing date: 13 Jun 16 (Forecast) Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, been announced by funder, but this is the Vietnam, Yemen, All African Nations, All approximate deadline we expect. This call is European Nations, All South American repeated once a year. nations, All Oceanian nations, Caribbean, All Posted date: 25 Apr 14 North American nations Award type: Prizes, Young investigator awards Disciplines Award amount max: $5,000 ------Award amount min: - Forest Engineering; Food Security; Award budget total: $15,000 Agriculture; Agriculture, Drainage & Website: Irrigation; Sustainable Agriculture; Built http://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp/english/young/y Environment & Spatial Planning; Rural i2014_index.html
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Planning & Policy; Agricultural Production Manufacturing & Processing; Food Science; Systems; Food Systems; Aquaculture Soil Sciences Engineering; Forest Economics; Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Science; Poverty; Forest Contact Details Management; Farm Management; Meat & ------Meat Products; Forest Ecology; Fisheries JIRCAS Science; Social Work & Social Policy; Forestry 1-1 Ohwashi, Tsukuba City Science (Silvology); Agroforestry; Food Ibaraki 305-8686 Email: [email protected]
RADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD Association for Africanist Anthropology
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Description: The Association for Africanist Anthropology approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites nominations for its graduate student repeated once a year. paper award. The award will be presented to Posted date: 08 Mar 11 the best graduate student paper in Africanist Award type: Prizes anthropology presented during the annual Award amount max: $350 meetings of the AAA. Contributions from all Award budget total: - sub-fields of anthropology are welcome. Website: Special emphasis seeks to highlight emerging http://www.aaanet.org/sections/afaa/?page_i perspectives with the promise to develop as a d=8 major contribution to the fields of Africanist anthropology, African studies, or African Eligibility profile diaspora studies. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Nominees must not have completed their PhD at the time of nomination, and all award Disciplines recipients must be members of the association. ------The award consists of a $350 prize. African Studies; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Anthropology; Immigrants & Closing date: 14 Jun 16 (Forecast) Migrants; Middle Eastern Studies Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details ------Email: [email protected]
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REDERICK W LANCASTER PRIZE Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
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Description: The Institute for Operations Research and the Eligibility profile Management Sciences invites nominations for ------the Frederick W Lancaster prize. This prize is Country of applicant institution: Any awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management Disciplines sciences published in English. To be eligible ------for the award, a paper, book, or group of Management Information Systems; Electrical books must have been published in English in & Electronic Engineering; Management one of the preceding three years and have Theory; Statistics; Pure Mathematics; Business appeared in the open literature. & Management Studies; Calculus of Variations, Systems & Control Theories; The prize consists of US$5,000 and a Operations Research commemorative medallion. Contact Details Closing date: 14 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet University of Maryland-College Park been announced by funder, but this is the Robert H Smith School of Business approximate deadline we expect. This call is Van Munching Hall repeated once a year. College Park, MD 20742-1815 Posted date: 01 Apr 11 Tel: +1 301 405 2241 Award type: Prizes Fax: +1 301 405 8655 Award amount max: $5,000 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.informs.org/Recognize- Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes- Awards/Frederick-W.-Lanchester-Prize
OSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN STUDYING COMPLEX SYSTEMS James S McDonnell Foundation
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Description: The James S McDonnell Foundation invites skills and experience that will further their applications for its postdoctoral fellowship pursuit of careers in complex systems science. awards in studying complex systems. These fellowships provide students in the final Awards are worth up to US$200,000 for a stages of completing a PhD with an period of two or three years. opportunity to seek potential postdoctoral research opportunities to obtain additional Closing date: 14 Jun 16 (Forecast)
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Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Disciplines been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Earth Sciences; Statistics; Chemistry; Applications due by 3.59pm CST. This call is Computer Science & Informatics; Pure repeated once a year. Mathematics; Government & Governance Posted date: 03 Apr 13 Studies; Applied Mathematics; Systematics; Award type: Predoctoral training Epidemiology; Physical Sciences and fellowships, Predoctoral fellowships Engineering; Climate & Atmospheric Models; Award amount max: $200,000 Physics; Complex Physical Systems; Large Award budget total: - Scale Complex IT Systems; Biological Website: Sciences; Economic Development; http://www.jsmf.org/apply/fellowship/index. Environmental Science; Demography php Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.jsmf.org/apply/fellowship/apply James S McDonnell Foundation .php 1034 South Brentwood Boulevard
Suite 1850 Eligibility profile St Louis, MO 63117-1284 ------Tel: +1 314 721 1532 Country of applicant institution: Any Email: [email protected]
PPENDORF AND SCIENCE PRIZE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY Eppendorf AG
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Description: Eppendorf and Science magazine invite Closing date: 15 Jun 16 applications for their neurobiology research Deadline information: This call is repeated prize. This recognises neurobiological once a year. research based on methods of molecular and Posted date: 20 Nov 15 cell biology conducted during the past three Award type: Young investigator awards, years. Prizes Award budget total: - Neurobiologists with an advanced degree Website: received in the last ten years who are not http://corporate.eppendorf.com/en/company/ older than 35 years, may apply. scientific-awards/global-award/ Application form: https://aaas.secure- The winner will receive US$25,000, a platform.com/a/ complimentary subscription to Science and Eppendorf products worth US$1,000. The Eligibility profile ------finalists will receive Eppendorf products Country of applicant institution: Any worth US$1,000 and a five-year subscription to Science and Science Online.
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Disciplines Eppendorf and Science Prize for ------Neurobiology Neurobiology; Cell & Developmental Biology Room 1049B 1200 New York Avenue NW Contact Details Washington DC 20005 ------Email: [email protected]
ROQUEST DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Description: The American Society for Information Science Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings and Technology invites applications for the etc., Prizes ProQuest doctoral dissertation award. This Award amount max: $1,500 recognises outstanding recent doctoral Award budget total: $1,500 candidates whose research contributes Website: significantly to an understanding of some http://www.asis.org/awards/proquestdocdiss aspect of information science. The award is ertation.html intended to encourage participation of new Application form: PhDs in the activities of a professional http://www.softconf.com/asist2/ProQuestDo association by providing a forum for cDissert/cgi- presentation of their research and assisting bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=basicSubmit them with travel support. Eligibility profile Participation is limited to those who have ------completed their doctorates since May of the Country of applicant institution: Any year preceding that in which the award will be made. Disciplines ------
Information Science The award is worth US$1,000 and an additional US$500 will be awarded to Contact Details contribute to travel and other expenses to ------attend the ASIS&T annual meeting. ASIS&T
8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) Silver Spring MD 20910 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 301 495 0900 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +1 301 495 0810 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 05 Dec 14
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ERGER MEMORIAL PRIZE American Philosophical Association
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Description: The American Philosophical Association approximate deadline we expect. This call is invites nominations for the Berger memorial repeated every 2 years. prize. The prize is awarded for an outstanding Posted date: 20 Mar 13 published article in philosophy of law by a Award type: Prizes member of the association. Articles published Award amount max: $500 in 2012 or 2013 are eligible for consideration Award budget total: - for the 2015 prize. Website: http://www.apaonline.org/?berger
Submitted articles may have been published Eligibility profile in philosophy serials, law reviews, political ------science serials, serials in other related fields or Country of applicant institution: Any regularly published anthologies. Disciplines Nominations may be made by the author, the ------editor, another APA member or any other Law; Political Philosophy; Jurisprudence & individual. Judicial Interpretation; Politics & International Studies; Philosophy The amount awarded is US$500. Contact Details Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the
OLBERG PRIZE Ludvig Holbergs Minnefond – Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund
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Description: The Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund invites positions at universities and other research nominations for the Holberg prize. This institutions, including academies, may submit recognises contributions to research in nominations. humanities, social science, law or theology, either within these fields or through The prize is worth NOK4.5 million. interdisciplinary work. Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Nominees must have had a decisive influence Deadline information: This call is repeated on international research. Scholars holding once a year.
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Posted date: 10 Sep 15 ------Award type: Prizes Country of applicant institution: Any Award amount max: kr4,500,000 Award budget total: kr4,500,000 Disciplines Website: ------http://www.holbergprisen.no/en/about- Social Sciences; Humanities holberg-prize Application form: Contact Details http://www.holbergprisen.no/en/nomination ------_form.html Tel: +47 5558 6992 Email: [email protected] Eligibility profile
BRO RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP International Brain Research Organization
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Description: The International Brain Research Website: http://ibro.info/professional- Organization invites applications for its development/funding-programmes/research- research fellowships. Grants support fellowships/ postdoctoral training in a laboratory abroad for applicants under the age of 45. Applicants Eligibility profile coming from the US or Canada will not be ------considered; however, research fellowships at Country of applicant institution: Mexico, All universities and research institutions within African Nations, All European Nations, All the US and Canada do have the possibility of Asian nations, All South American nations, being funded. Fellowships last for one year All Oceanian nations, Caribbean, Central and are worth €35,000 each. America
Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Clinical Medicine; Diagnostic Sciences; approximate deadline we expect. Central Nervous System; Neurology; Applications due by midnight CET. This call Neuroscience is repeated once a year. Posted date: 11 Oct 13 Contact Details Award type: Postdoctoral training ------fellowships, Young investigator awards Email: [email protected] Award amount max: €35,000 Award budget total: -
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OUSHANG POURSHARIATI IRANIAN STUDIES BOOK AWARD University of Arizona
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Description: The University of Arizona's Middle East Award type: Prizes Studies Association invites nominations for Award amount max: $2,000 the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian studies Award budget total: - book award. The aim of the award is to Website: recognise outstanding publishing in Iranian http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/awards/housh studies. The subject matter must deal with ang-pourshariati-book.html Iran and the work must seek to advance knowledge and scholarship on Iranian Eligibility profile society, culture and history from ancient times ------to the present, and as expressed by literature, Country of applicant institution: Any philosophy, social studies, art, science and other disciplines. Disciplines ------Books must be non-fiction scholarly Anthropology; Cultural Studies; Middle monographs based on original research Eastern History; Middle Eastern Studies; published in, or translated into, English Social & Cultural Anthropology; Politics & between 1 May 2011 and 30 April 2012. Works Economics of the Middle East; Ethnography & not eligible include edited collections and Ethnology; African Studies compilations, proceedings of symposia, new editions of previously published books, Contact Details bibliographies, dictionaries and textbooks. ------The award consists of a certificate and Pourshariati Book Award US$2,000. Middle East Studies Association 1219 N Santa Rita Avenue Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) University of Arizona Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tuscon, AZ 85721 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 520 626 4753 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +1 520 626 9095 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 02 Apr 12
Y ZAMRIK PRESSURE VESSEL AND PIPING MEDAL American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Description: The American Society of Mechanical Zamrik pressure vessel and piping medal. The Engineers invites nominations for the SY medal is bestowed for outstanding
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contributions in the field of pressure vessel rds/Achievement_Nomination_Form_Instruc and piping technology including research, tions.doc development, teaching and significant advancements of the state-of-the-art. Eligibility profile ------The award is worth US$4,000. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Submarines & Undersea Workstations; repeated once a year. Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Posted date: 22 May 14 Mechanical Engineering; Petroleum Award type: Prizes Engineering Award amount max: $4,000 Website: http://www.asme.org/about- Contact Details asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/s------y--zamrik-pvp-medal Tel: +1 416 207 600 ext. 6383 Application form: Email: [email protected] https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Honors%20Awa
IRAC MEDAL Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Description: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Website: http://www.ictp.it/about- Theoretical Physics invites nominations for ictp/prizes-awards/the-dirac-medal.aspx the Dirac medal. This recognises scientists Application form: who have made significant contributions to http://www.ictp.it/media/556065/diracnomin theoretical physics. The Dirac medal is not ationform.docx awarded to Nobel laureates, Fields medallists, or Wolf Foundation prizewinners. The Eligibility profile medallists will receive US$5,000. ------Country of applicant institution: Any Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Disciplines once a year. ------Posted date: 24 Jun 13 Theoretical Physics; Physics Award type: Prizes Award amount max: $5,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------ICTP
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Strada Costiera 11 Fax: +39 040 2240 410 34151 Trieste Email: [email protected] Tel: +39 040 2240 111
HD GRANTS Osk Huttunen Foundation - Osk Huttusen säätiö
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Description: The Osk Huttunen Foundation invites Award amount max: - applications for its PhD grants. These support Award amount min: €38,800 doctoral studies and research at universities Award budget total: - outside of Finland. Priority is given to studies Website: at the most prestigious universities in the UK, http://www.oskhuttusensaatio.net/apuraha.h although other foreign institutions and tml universities may be considered. Eligibility profile Applicants should be Finnish citizens with a ------master’s level qualification. Applicants must Country of applicant institution: Any not be older than 26. Disciplines Grants are worth €19,900 per year. Additional ------funding may be awarded to cover tuition fees Any or family expenses, worth €3,200 per year. Grants are awarded for two years with a Contact Details possibility for a one-year extension. ------Osk Huttunen Foundation Closing date: 15 Jun 16 P.O Box 4 Deadline information: Applications are Vuorikatu 3 invited between 15 May and 15 June 2016. 00014 Helsingin yliopisto This call is repeated once a year. Tel: +358 2 9412 2102 Posted date: 29 Sep 15 Email: [email protected] Award type: Thesis/Dissertation funding, Directed grants for individual investigators, Young investigator awards
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STEOLOGY RESEARCHER GRANTS Osteology Foundation
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Description: The Osteology Foundation invites Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its osteology research grants. investigators, Young investigator awards, These support research on oral and Directed grants to institutions, research maxillofacial tissue regeneration. groups etc Award amount max: SFr.100,000 Applications are open to advanced Award budget total: - researchers in the field of oral tissue Website: regeneration and young researchers currently http://www.osteology.org/grants/researcher- undergoing postgraduate education or within grants/ three years thereafter. Eligibility profile Grants for advanced researchers are worth up ------to CHF100,000 each for projects lasting up to Country of applicant institution: Any two years. Grants for young researchers are worth up to CHF30,000 each for projects Disciplines lasting up to one year. ------Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Osteoporosis & Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Other Bone Diseases Deadline information: Deadlines on: 15 June 2016, 1 December 2016, and repeated Contact Details annually. ------Posted date: 23 Feb 15 Tel: +41 41 368 4445 Email: [email protected]
VOLUTIONARILY DISTINCT AND GLOBALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES FELLOWSHIPS Zoological Society of London E
Description: The Zoological Society of London invites online modules in relevant topics, and receive applications for its evolutionary distinct and one-to-one support from a scientific advisor globally endangered species fellowships. based at the society or a partner organisation. These enable early-career conservationists to carry out applied research or conservation Early career conservation biologists or projects on a local, poorly-known EDGE wildlife managers with less than 10 years species, such as mammal, amphibian or coral experience may apply. Applicants should be EDGE or ED-DD species. Fellows will attend nationals and residents of the country in two regional training courses, undertake which the proposed focal species occurs.
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Priority is given to projects focusing on Eligibility profile species where limited research has been done, ------or that currently receives little or no Country of applicant institution: Albania, conservation attention. In addition, Armenia, Bolivia, Bhutan, Belize, Congo, Côte applications are favoured from areas where d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, conservation capacity is most needed and Egypt, Fiji, Micronesia, Federated States of, where support is most likely to have a large Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, impact. As such, projects in developed Honduras, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Kiribati, Lao countries are unlikely to be funded. People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Morocco, Moldova, Republic of, Fellowships are worth up to £8,000 each over Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nigeria, two years. Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Senegal, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syrian been announced by funder, but this is the Arab Republic, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, repeated once a year. Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Lower- Posted date: 28 Apr 15 Middle-Income countries, Low Income Award type: Networking/collaboration, countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries, Directed grants for individual investigators, Kosovo, South Sudan Early-Career fellowships, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Disciplines Postdoctoral training fellowships ------Award amount max: £8,000 Environmental Conservation & Biodiversity; Award budget total: - Wildlife Management; Animal Ecology & Website: Habitats; Endangered Species; Migratory http://www.edgeofexistence.org/conservatio Animals & Birds n/become_fellow.php Application form: Contact Detail http://www.edgeofexistence.org/downloads/ ------EDGE_Fellowship_App_Form_2015.doc Email: [email protected]
ELODI AWARD Multidisciplinary European Low Dose Initiative
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Description: The Multidisciplinary European Low Dose field and stimulate young researchers to Initiative invites applications for the MELODI publish in this area. award. This recognises young researchers active in the field of low dose ionising Applicants must be under 35 years of age and radiation. The goal is to raise attention to the have proven experience in the field with at least one major publication in an
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internationally known peer-reviewed Website: http://www.melodi- scientific journal. online.eu/index.html
The award is worth €4,000. Part of the award Eligibility profile will be expected to fund the winner’s ------participation at one international conference. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Disciplines Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Radiobiology; Radiation, Health Effects; Posted date: 22 Feb 16 Radiation & Matter; Radiotherapy Award type: Young investigator awards, Prizes Contact Detail Award amount max: €4,000 ------Award budget total: - Email: [email protected]
OUNG INNOVATOR IN TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH AWARD International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
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Description: The International Union Against Tuberculosis Town, South Africa, between 2 and 6 and Lung Disease and Otsuka SA invite December 2015. applications for its young innovator in tuberculosis research award. This aims to Closing date: 15 Jun 16 (Forecast) recognise young scientists who have Deadline information: !! Call has not yet demonstrated a commitment to advancing been announced by funder, but this is the innovative thinking in tuberculosis research. approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Applicants must be clinicians or researchers Posted date: 08 Apr 15 who have completed their post graduate Award type: Young investigator awards, training before 30 June 2010 and who have Travel to conferences, meetings etc., Prizes successfully completed an innovative Award budget total: - demonstration project in tuberculosis control, Website: http://www.theunion.org/what-we- management and care, including operational do/awards/the-union-otsuka-young- and clinical research. This research may be innovator-in-tb-research-award published or unpublished. Eligibility profile ------The winner will receive full sponsorship to Country of applicant institution: Any attend an international training programme on tuberculosis control strategies and to Disciplines present their research at the Union world ------conference of lung health to be held in Cape Tuberculosis
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Contact Details 75006 Paris ------Tel: +33 1 4432 0360 The Union Fax: +33 1 4329 9087 68 boulevard Saint Michel
REAT GRANT FOR THROMBOSIS RESEARCHERS European Society of Cardiology
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Description: The European Society of Cardiology’s Website: Working Group on Thrombosis invites https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines-&- applications for its great grant for thrombosis Education/Career-development/Grants-and- researchers. This enables young scientists, fellowships aged 35 years or under, to gain training in basic research techniques in the field of Eligibility profile atherothrombosis at well-known high quality ------research laboratories. Country of applicant institution: Any
Two grants, worth up to €12,000 over six Disciplines months, are available annually. ------Cardiology; Blood Diseases Closing date: 15 Jun 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 22 Jul 15 ESC Award type: Young investigator awards, European Heart House Directed grants for individual investigators, 2035 Route des Colles Personal development BP 179 - Les Templiers Award amount max: €12,000 FR-06903 Sophia Antipolis Award budget total: €24,000 Tel: +334 9294 7600 Fax: +33 4 92 94 76 01
RADUATE TRAINING IN DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS Susan G Komen for the Cure
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Description: Susan G Komen for the Cure invites pre- disparities research grants. These aim to applications for its graduate training in establish or sustain a training programme for
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graduate students who are seeking careers Deadline information: !! Call has not yet dedicated to understanding and eliminating been announced by funder, but this is the disparities in breast cancer outcomes across approximate deadline we expect. This call is population groups. The programme should repeated once a year. empower the students with the skills and Posted date: 07 May 15 knowledge necessary to effectively explore Award type: Directed grants for individual the causes of differential breast cancer investigators, Equipment and materials, outcomes and interventions to reduce and Travel to conferences, meetings etc., eliminate such disparities. Studentship allocations Award amount max: $405,000 The principal applicant must have a doctoral Award budget total: - degree and a full-time faculty appointment Website: with an accredited non-profit institution or http://ww5.komen.org/ResearchGrants/Fund organisation. A minimum of three trainees, ingOpportunities.html each of which must be enrolled in a master’s Application form: http://proposalcentral.altum.com or doctoral degree programme, must be identified for the grant. Trainees from Eligibility profile populations affected by disparities in breast ------cancer outcomes are strongly preferred. There Country of applicant institution: Any are no citizenship requirements.
Disciplines Each grant is worth up to US$135,000 per year ------for up to three years. Funding may be used to Breast Cancer cover trainee stipends, mentors’ salaries, training materials, travel to annual trainee Contact Detail meeting and other associated training costs. ------Indirect costs are not allowed. Tel: +1 866 921 9678
Closing date: 17 Jun 16 (Forecast)
WARTZ PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE Society for Neuroscience
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Description: The Society for Neuroscience invites nominations for the Swartz prize for Nominees do not need to be society members theoretical and computational neuroscience. but the nominations must be made or This honours an individual whose activities endorsed by a current society member. have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or The award includes a cash prize worth computational methods in neuroscience or US$25,000. The recipient will also receive who has made a particularly noteworthy in complimentary registration, economy airfare theoretical or computational neuroscience.
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travel and accommodation for the society’s 427e75f4e24f9d3fdbb321fddf6815b768689e59 annual meeting. c65f372221d1210a9e3c27ee31ebfae03462a203c 08ca0ff1f9a50552a30d1 Closing date: 17 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. This call is Country of applicant institution: Any repeated once a year. Posted date: 15 Apr 14 Disciplines Award type: Travel to conferences, meetings ------etc., Prizes Neuroscience; Central Nervous System; Award amount max: $25,000 Diagnostic Sciences; Clinical Medicine Award budget total: - Website: http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and- Contact Details Funding/Individual-Prizes-and------Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and- SfN Career-Awards/Swartz-Prize-for-Theoretical- 1121 14th Street and-Computational-Neuroscience Suite 1010 Application form: Washington, DC 20005 http://ebiz.sfn.org/sso/login.aspx?vi=9&vt=9 Tel: +1 202 962 4000 79efafe806885c2c39d73e8e93964affa02d8fb8e Email: [email protected] ac3d25834cc9c0d861db2f4b94967764f16aae0d 5982ea06e99b89d0ce4cdbf806eb036bc36a9a44
ELLOWSHIPS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Academy of Social Sciences
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Description: The Academy of Social Sciences invites charitable bodies may be considered under nominations for its fellowships in social specified criteria and circumstances. science. These contribute towards research in any area, discipline or interdisciplinary field Closing date: 17 Jun 16 of social science. Deadline information: This call is repeated 2 times a year. Wholly overseas based social scientists who Posted date: 06 Jan 16 identify with UK social science and whose Award type: Senior fellowships, Mid-Career work is internationally recognised may be fellowships, Early-Career fellowships, nominated. Nominations from Postdoctoral training fellowships communicators, individuals who are putting Award budget total: - social science into practice and are working in Website: the public, commercial or voluntary sectors as https://www.acss.org.uk/membership/makin well as contributions to the development of g-nomination-fellow/ the social sciences by people funding research in government, research councils and
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Application form: Disciplines https://www.acss.org.uk/membership/makin ------g-nomination-fellow/ Social Sciences
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AGC DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARD National Association for Gifted Children
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Description: The National Association for Gifted Children Website: invites nominations for its doctoral student http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=695 award. The award is presented to doctoral Application form: students who have demonstrated exemplary https://www.conferenceabstracts.com/cfp2/lo work in research, publications and gin.asp?EventKey=JMTQRKXS educational service, as well as their potential for future scholarship. University faculty Eligibility profile members are invited to nominate candidates ------for this award. Nominees must be enrolled in Country of applicant institution: Any a doctoral-level training programme focusing on the education of the gifted and talented, or Disciplines have been graduated from such a programme ------since January 2013. Social Work & Social Policy; Education; School Standards & Tables; Curriculum & A maximum of five prizes, each including a Pedagogy Theory; Gifted & Talented cheque and one-year membership, will be Education; Equal Educational Opportunity; awarded. Schools Policy & Politics
Closing date: 21 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the NAGC approximate deadline we expect. This call is 1707 L Street, NW repeated once a year. Suite 550 Posted date: 19 Apr 13 Washington, DC 20036 Award type: Prizes Tel: +1 202 785 4268 Award budget total: - Fax: +1 202 785 4248 Email: [email protected]
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AGC MASTERS' AND SPECIALISTS' AWARD National Association for Gifted Children
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Description: The National Association for Gifted Children Award type: Prizes invites nominations for its masters' and Award budget total: - specialists' award for exceptional Website: contributions to gifted and talented education. http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=696 NAGC presents a maximum of three awards Application form: to those who have demonstrated at least four https://www.conferenceabstracts.com/cfp2/lo of the following areas: teaching; writing; gin.asp?EventKey=JMTQRKXS advocacy; curriculum development; community service in gifted education; juried Eligibility profile presentations (local, state, or national); ------facilitating the social and emotional Country of applicant institution: Any development of gifted and talented students; mentoring and tutoring of children and Disciplines adolescents; publication of papers in juried or ------non-juried publications; participation in Schools Policy & Politics; Social Work & Social graduate student research colloquia; teacher Policy; Gifted & Talented Education; in-service or parent workshops. Educational Evaluation & Assessment; Equal Educational Opportunity; Alternative The award must be given within a year of the Education; Education; Curriculum & candidate's graduation. Pedagogy Theory
The award consists of a cheque and one-year’s Contact Details NAGC membership. ------NAGC Closing date: 21 Jun 16 (Forecast) 1331 H Street NW, Suite 1001 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Washington, DC 20005 been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +1 202 785 4268 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Fax: +1 202 785 4248 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected] Posted date: 09 Apr 13
AYED FUTURE ENERGY PRIZES Mubadala Development Company Z
Description: The Mubadala Development Company invites organisations and schools who have made applications for the Zayed future energy significant contributions to advance the fields prizes. These recognise individuals,
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of renewable energy and sustainability. The approximate deadline we expect. This call is following award categories are available: repeated once a year. Posted date: 11 Feb 15 • large corporation recognition award Award type: Prizes with no monetary component, for Award amount max: $1,500,000 corporations whose revenue exceeds Award amount min: $100,000 US$100m per year; Award budget total: $4,000,000 • small and medium-sized enterprise Website: award, worth US$1.5m; http://www.zayedfutureenergyprize.com/ • non-profit organisation award, worth US$1.5m; Eligibility profile ------• lifetime achievement award, worth Country of applicant institution: Any US$500,000 for an individual;
• global high school, which divides Disciplines US$500,000 equally between five ------schools, one from the Americas, one Climate Change & Global Warming; from Europe, one from Africa, one Renewable Energy Engineering; Sustainable from Oceania and one from Asia. Development & Resource Use; Use &
Management of Natural Resources The prize fund for this call is US$4 million.
Contact Details Closing date: 22 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Tel: +971 2 653 6043 been announced by funder, but this is the Fax: +971 2 653 6002 Email: [email protected]
ALARIA CHAMPIONS OF THE AMERICAS AWARD Pan American Health Organization
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Description: The Pan American Health Organization, in be evaluated on the basis of achievements in association with the Pan American Health and the following areas: Education Foundation and the George Washington University Center for Global • capacity building - exhibits use of best Health, invites nominations for the malaria practices and contributes to the champions of the Americas award. This development of trained health award recognises the use of innovative workers and infrastructure to help approaches to overcome the challenges of reduce the burden of malaria; malaria in the Americas. Candidates should • innovation - demonstrates the use of demonstrate accomplishments or best creative and effective strategies to practices in malaria diagnostic testing, increase the quality and uptake of treatment and surveillance. Nominations will services;
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• collaboration - fosters partnerships Application form: with stakeholders within and across http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=co sectors to fortify and broaden the m_docman&task=doc_download&gid=17389 scope and reach of activities; &Itemid= • impact - demonstrates measurable contribution to decreasing malaria- Eligibility profile related morbidity and mortality in the ------community, country, region or globe. Country of applicant institution: Any
Legally established organisations or Disciplines collaborations may be nominated. Activities ------should be ongoing or completed within one Screening for Diseases; Biological Sciences; year of the closing date for applications. The Social Work & Social Policy; Primary Care; top three nominees will be invited to General Practice & Family Health; Public participate in a regional event for the Health; Physiology; Health Systems, commemoration of Malaria Day in the Administration; Infection Agents & Americas, to be held on 8 November 2012. Pathogens; Social Policy; Preventive Medicine; The overall winner will receive US$2,500, a Health Systems, Governance; Diagnostic commemorative plaque and the opportunity Sciences; Disease Control; Social Services to participate in three capacity-building Delivery; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Health trainings for malaria prevention and control. Disparities; Malaria; Health Promotion; Social Programmes; Infectious Diseases; Public Closing date: 22 Jun 16 (Forecast) Health, Health Services & Primary Care Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the Contact Details approximate deadline we expect. Deadline ------time: 11.59pm EST. This call is repeated once PAHO a year. Regional Office of WHO Posted date: 23 May 12 525 Twenty-third Street, NW Award type: Prizes, Innovation grants, Washington, DC 20037 Networking/collaboration Tel: +1 202 974 3000 Award amount max: $2,500 Fax: +1 202 974 3663 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.paho.org/campeonesmalaria/?lan g=en#
TERNBERG CLINICAL AWARD Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
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Description: The Royal College of Speech and Language innovative work that is new to a location and Therapists invites nominations for the of demonstrable benefit to the service, the Sternberg clinical award. This recognises
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clients and the profession of speech and Website: language therapy. http://www.rcslt.org/about/honours_grants- awards/honours The work should have been launched and Application form: evaluated within the previous three years. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLLB7LB Nominations should be submitted by a certified RCSLT member. Eligibility profile ------Two awards, worth £1,000 each, are available. Country of applicant institution: Any
Closing date: 24 Jun 16 (Forecast) Disciplines Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Speech & Language Therapy; Speech approximate deadline we expect. This call is Pathology & Disorders; Speech Science repeated once a year. Posted date: 16 Jun 15 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: £1,000 Tel: +44 20 7378 3007 Award budget total: £2,000 Email: [email protected]
EBC/T-BASE COMMUNICATIONS SCHOLARSHIPS Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians
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Description: The Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians Applicants must be studying, or planning to and T-Base Communications invite study, a postsecondary programme in applications for their scholarships. These Canada. Canadian citizens or permanent recognise outstanding blind, deaf-blind and residents studying abroad and paying fees to partially sighted postsecondary students in a Canadian institution are also eligible. Canada, and enable them to continue their academic education. The following Applicants need not be AEBC members, scholarships are available: though each scholarship includes a year’s free membership to AEBC. • two Jennifer Laura Eve Wilson memorial scholarships, worth Closing date: 26 Jun 16 (Forecast) CA$1,000 each; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet • one T-Base Communications been announced by funder, but this is the scholarship, worth CA$2,000, approximate deadline we expect. This call is designed to help students pursue their repeated once a year. educational endeavours in any Posted date: 11 Jun 15 discipline. Award type: Directed grants for individual investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Student awards
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Award amount max: $2,000 Eligibility profile Award amount min: $1,000 ------Award budget total: $4,000 Country of applicant institution: Canada Website: Country of applicant institution: Any http://www.blindcanadians.ca/news/bb/2015- 05-2015-aebc-t-base-scholarship-program- Disciplines application-deadline-june-26th-2015 ------Application form: Any http://www.blindcanadians.ca/sites/aebc/file s/docs/bb/2891/2015%20AEBC%20Scholarshi Contact Detail p%20Program%20------%20Application%20Form.doc Email: [email protected]
TUDENT CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE AWARDS International Association for Landscape Ecology UK
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Description: The International Association for Landscape Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Ecology UK invites applications for its students, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. student conferences registration fee awards. Award budget total: - These enable students to attend the Website: http://iale.org.uk/students association’s annual conference on seascape Application form: ecology: connecting land, sea and society. http://iale.org.uk/sites/default/files/ialeUK20 15-SCRFA.docx Students who are registered or intend to join the association as members may apply. Eligibility profile ------Seven awards are available to cover Country of applicant institution: Any registration fees only. Disciplines Closing date: 26 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Landscape Ecology; Ecology been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 02 Jun 15 Email: [email protected]
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ONGARIRO NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEMORIAL AWARD Project Tongariro
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Description: The Project Tongariro invites applications for Award budget total: - the Tongariro Natural History Society Website: memorial award. This enables researchers to http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/admission/ study the flora, fauna, geology, volcanology, scholarships-bursaries-awards/other- weather and natural and human history of scholarships/search-results/search- Tongariro National Park. results_home.cfm?scholarship_id=633&hide _back=1&page=award_display Previous awards have supported researchers in studying a variety of topics, including Eligibility profile heather, bats, skinks, kiwi, stoats, visitor stats, ------geology, lahars, botany and climate. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award is open to any applicant and is Disciplines worth up to NZ$2,000. ------Zoology; Volcanology; Botany; Geology; Closing date: 28 Jun 16 Weather & Weather Systems; Recreation, Deadline information: Applications are Leisure & Tourism Geography; Recreation, invited between 28 March and 28 June 2016. Leisure & Tourism Policy This call is repeated once a year. Posted date: 04 Feb 16 Contact Details Award type: Directed grants for individual ------investigators, Thesis/Dissertation funding Project Tongariro Award amount max: $2,000 Email: [email protected]
OMING SOON: CLINICAL RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS National Health and Medical Research Council
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Description: The National Health and Medical Research These scholarships provide support to Council will shortly be inviting applications combined MBBS and PhS students, and for its clinical research postgraduate medical or dental graduates undertaking a scholarships. Applications for this call will postgraduate degree in any relevant health- open on 27 April and close on 29 June 2016. related discipline, including the social and The following information is subject to change behavioural sciences. and refers to the previous call. For this year, electromagnetic energy research has been identified as a special interest area of
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OMING SOON: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS C National Health and Medical Research Council
Description: The National Health and Medical Research Full-time PhD scholarships are awarded from Council will shortly be inviting applications one to three years and full-time master’s for its public health and health services scholarships are awarded for one to two postgraduate research scholarships. years. Applications for this call will open between 27 April and 29 June 2016. The following Stipends are worth either AU$25,850 or information is subject of change, and refers to AU$33,318 or AU$38,488 per year, depending the previous call. on the applicant’s credentials. Additional allowances include up to AU$2,250 per year These encourage graduates to obtain formal for travel and consumables, AU$500 for thesis training in public health research in any presentation costs and AU$1,385 for costs for relevant health-related discipline including relocation within Australia. the social and behavioural sciences, health policy, health services, epidemiology and Closing date: 29 Jun 16 health economics. For this year, Deadline information: Applications are electromagnetic energy research has been invited between 27 April and 5pm AEST, 29 identified as a special interest area of the June 2016. This call is repeated once a year. NHMRC and thus encourages applicants Posted date: 15 Oct 15 wishing to build capacity in research Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate knowledge to ascertain health effects of students, Directed grants for individual electromagnetic emissions. investigators, Travel for research purposes, Travel to conferences, meetings etc. Each Applicant must be an Australian citizen Award amount max: $115,464 or permanent resident, or a New Zealand Award budget total: - citizen with special category visa status and Website: must be based in Australia for at least 80 per http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/schol cent of the duration of the award. Moreover, ars/index.htm#a Application form: the following applicants are eligible: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/research-
grants-management-system-rgms • Australian citizens who have already
completed a degree in an area Eligibility profile applicable to public health research at ------the time of application; Country of applicant institution: Any • Australian citizens who are medical or dental graduates currently registered Disciplines to practice within Australia; ------• health related graduates in areas Public Health, Health Services & Primary applicable to public health who are Care from overseas; • medical or dental graduates from Contact Details overseas who are currently registered ------to practice in Australia. NHMRC GPO Box 1421 Canberra ACT 2601
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Tel: +61 2 6217 9451 Email: [email protected]
NESCO/CHINA GREAT WALL CO-SPONSORED FELLOWSHIPS UNESCO
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Description: UNESCO and the People's Republic of China china-the-great-wall-co-sponsored- invites applications for their Great Wall co- fellowships-programme/ sponsored fellowships. These enable senior Application form: advanced students to pursue higher studies or http://portal.unesco.org/en/files/29473/123201 undertake individual research in China. 79559UNESCO_Fellowships_Application_fo rm_%28Eng._Fr._Spa%29.pdf/UNESCO%2B Applicants must hold at least a bachelor’s Fellowships%2BApplication%2Bform%2B% degree, be no more than 45 years of age and in 28Eng.%2BFr.%2BSpa%29.pdf good health. Eligibility profile Scholarships are granted for one year. ------Funding includes a monthly allowance of Country of applicant institution: Angola, ¥1,700 for general scholars and ¥2,000 for Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, senior scholars. To this is added US$150 from Bhutan, Botswana, Congo, the Democratic UNESCO. Additionally, students will receive Republic of the, Central African Republic, a one-off settlement subsidy worth ¥1,000 for Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook Islands, scholars staying in China less than one year Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Eritrea, and ¥1,500 for scholars staying for a year or Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, more. Certain fees, insurance, accommodation Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, and travel costs will also be covered. India, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Closing date: 29 Jun 16 (Forecast) Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Korea, Republic of, Kazakhstan, Lao People's been announced by funder, but this is the Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Liberia, approximate deadline we expect. This call is Lesotho, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Mali, repeated once a year. Mongolia, Mauritius, Malawi, Malaysia, Posted date: 08 May 14 Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Award type: Travel for research purposes, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Directed grants for individual investigators, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Rwanda, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Networking/collaboration, Young Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, Chad, investigator awards, Predoctoral Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, fellowships, Personal development Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Award budget total: - Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Website: Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe http://www.unesco.org/new/en/fellowships/ programmes/unescopeoples-republic-of-
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Disciplines Genomics; Libraries & Information Science; ------History of Science; Sensors & Transducers; Philosophy; Neuroscience; Open Access & Chemistry; Russian Language; History of Scholarly Publishing; Networking Protocols; Architecture; Cultural Studies; Metallurgy; Museums & Curation; Modern Languages & Education; Universe Sciences; Public Health, Linguistics; Circuits & Systems; Health Services & Primary Care; Mechanical Anthropology; Materials Sciences; Medicine & Engineering; Archaeology of Mediterranean & Health; Food Science; Psychology of Classical Archaeology; Control Systems; Language Acquisition; Electrical & Electronic European Studies; Jurisprudence & Judicial Engineering; Eastern European Languages; Interpretation; Sports Medicine; Medical Network Infrastructure; Visual Arts; Earth Research of Selected Fields; Portuguese Sciences; 3D Printing & Additive Language; Medical Genetics; Spanish Manufacturing; Business & Management Language; Aerodynamics; Asian Studies; Studies; Communication & Media Studies; Allied Health Professions; German Language; North American Studies; Ecology; African Studies; Information Systems; Communication Studies; Arts & Media Computer Engineering & Hardware; Education; Biological Sciences; Science & Nanotechnology; Literary Criticism; Dutch Technology Education; History; Language; Nanometrology; Music; Fibre Nanoelectromechanical Systems; Psychology; Optic Networks; Satellite Communications; Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; Creative Writing; Media Studies; Linguistics; Area Studies; Performing Arts Management & Internet & Mobile Technology; Religious Administration; Physiology; Engineering; Studies; Theology & Religious Studies; Microelectronics; French Language; Physical Design; Performing Arts; General Geography; Geography; Microwave & Engineering; Digital & Computer Art; Music Millimetrewave Communications; Art Criticism; Photonics & Optical Criticism; Integrated Circuits; Human Communication; Computer Science & Biological Sciences; Environmental Science; Informatics; Creole Languages; Aerospace History of Engineering & Technology; Engineering & Avionics; Marine Biology; Scandinavian Languages; Central European Humanities; Classics; Business Intelligence; Languages; Physical Sciences; Botany; Middle Eastern Studies; Applied Electronics; Distributed & Cloud Computing; Arts; Physics; Performing Arts, Criticism Atmospheric Sciences; British & Irish Studies; Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory; Contact Details Sociology of Science & Technology; Health ------Systems; Law; English Language & Literature; UNESCO History of Art; Italian Language; Geology; 7 Place de Fontenoy Genetics & Systems Biology; Nanoelectronics; 75352 Paris 07 SP Food Chemistry; Archaeology; Sports & Tel: +33 1 4568 5503 Exercise Studies; Zoology; Biotechnology; Email: [email protected] Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Oceanography;
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OMING SOON: ABORIGINAL OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP C National Health and Medical Research Council
Description: The National Health and Medical Research • medical or dental graduates from Council will shortly be inviting applications overseas who are currently registered for its Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to practice in Australia. health research postgraduate scholarships. Applications for this call will open on 27 April Full-time PhD scholarships last from one to and close on 29 June 2016. The following three years and full-time master’s information is subject to change and refers to scholarships last from one to two years. the previous call. Stipends are worth either AU$25,850 or AU$38,488 per year, depending on the This provides support for research training or applicant’s credentials. Additional allowances training leading to research in areas of health include up to AU$2,250 per year for travel particularly relevant to Aboriginal or Torres and consumables, AU$500 for thesis Strait Islanders. The award allows each presentation costs and AU$1,385 for costs for successful applicant to enrol in a postgraduate relocation within Australia. degree at a fully accredited Australian institution. Particular weight will be given to Closing date: 29 Jun 16 prior experience of indigenous culture and Deadline information: Applications are health and proposed projects must be in an invited between 27 April and 5pm AEST, 29 area of significance to Aboriginal or Torres June 2016. This call is repeated once a year. Strait Islander health. Applicants will be Posted date: 15 Oct 15 required to demonstrate active engagement Award type: Directed grants for individual with the Indigenous community. investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate students, Travel for research purposes, Each applicant must be an Australian citizen Travel to conferences, meetings etc. or permanent resident, or a New Zealand Award amount max: $115,464 citizen with special category visa status and Award budget total: - must be based in Australia for at least 80 per Website: cent of the duration of the award. Moreover, http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply/schol the following applicants are eligible: ars/index.htm Application form: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/research- • Australian citizens who have already grants-management-system-rgms completed a health related degree or a
degree in an area applicable to public Eligibility profile health research at the time of ------submission of the application; Country of applicant institution: Any • Australian citizens who are medical or dental graduates currently registered Disciplines to practice within Australia; ------• health related graduates and Medicine & Health; Aboriginal & Torres Strait graduates in areas applicable to public Islander People; Health of Minority Groups health who are from overseas;
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Contact Details Canberra ACT 2601 ------Tel: +61 2 6217 9451 NHMRC Email: [email protected] GPO Box 1421
FRICA PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING INNOVATION Royal Academy of Engineering
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Description: The Royal Academy of Engineering invites grants, Networking/collaboration, entries for its Africa prize for engineering Technology innovation/development innovation. This prize encourages engineers Award amount max: £25,000 from all disciplines in sub-Saharan Africa to Award amount min: £10,000 apply their skills to develop scalable solutions Award budget total: £55,000 to local challenges, highlighting the Website: importance of engineering as an enabler of http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/africa/defaul improved quality of life and economic t.htm development. Application form: https://grants.raeng.org.uk/sys/funds.aspx Candidates must be individuals or groups of no more than three people. Each individual Eligibility profile candidate or team leader must be a citizen ------and resident of a sub-Saharan African Country of applicant institution: Angola, country. Candidates must be affiliated with a Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, research institution or university. Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte Shortlisted candidates receive d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, commercialisation support through a six- Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, month training and mentoring period. Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Following this period, one finalist receives a Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, prize worth £25,000, and three runners-up Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, receive £10,000 each. Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Closing date: 29 Jun 16 (Forecast) Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Sao Tome and Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Principe, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, been announced by funder, but this is the United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, approximate deadline we expect. Entries due Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan by 12 midnight. This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 21 Apr 15 ------Award type: Prizes, Directed grants for Engineering individual investigators, Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Innovation
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Contact Details Email: [email protected] ------Tel: +44 20 7766 0612
OINT RCSED/SOMS SHANGHAI HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY FELLOWSHIP Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh J
Description: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh fellowships, Travel for research purposes, and the Scottish Oral and Maxillofacial Early-Career fellowships Society invite applications for their joint head Award amount max: £3,000 and neck oncology fellowship. This enables a Award budget total: - member to undertake a short visit between Website: http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/fellows- four to six weeks to the Shanghai Jiatong members/awards-and- University to conduct head and neck grants/fellowships/travelling- oncology research. fellowships.aspx
Members and fellows of the college and Eligibility profile SOMS may apply. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The fellowship provides up to £3,000 to cover costs for a visit lasting from four to six weeks. Disciplines ------Closing date: 29 Jun 16 Surgery & Intensive Care; Throat, Head & Deadline information: This call is repeated Neck Cancers once a year. Posted date: 19 Jan 16 Contact Detail Award type: Mid-Career fellowships, ------Postdoctoral training fellowships, Senior Email: [email protected]
NTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS International Federation of University Women
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Description: The International Federation of University study and training. These enable women who Women invites applications for its are enrolled in a PhD programme to conduct international fellowships and grants to research in any branch of learning. The women graduates for postgraduate research, following awards are available:
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national headquarters. Each headquarters • CFUW A Vibert Douglas fellowship - may submit a maximum of three nominations. worth between CA$8,000 and Work must be conducted between 1 January CA$10,000 and requires eight to 2015 and 15 March 2016. twelve months’ work in any country other than that in which the applicant Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) was educated or habitually resides; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet • Ida Smedley Maclean fellowships - been announced by funder, but this is the worth between CHF8,000 and approximate deadline we expect. This call is CHF10,000 and requires eight to repeated every 2 years. twelve months’ work in any country Posted date: 11 Apr 14 other than that in which the applicant Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, Early- was educated or habitually resides; Career fellowships, Directed grants for • funds for women graduates individual investigators, Financial aid for fellowship - worth £2,500 and is postgraduate students reserved for applicants wishing to Award amount max: SFr.10,000 Award budget total: - study or undertake research in Great Website: http://www.ifuw.org/what-we- Britain; do/grants-fellowships/grants-fellowships- • Dorothy Leet grant - worth CHF4,000 two/ and is reserved for women graduates Application form: http://www.ifuw.org/wp- from countries with a comparatively content/uploads/2014/01/2014_01_22_Applica low per capita income and for those tion_Form.docx who either wish to work as experts in these countries or whose research is of Eligibility profile value to such countries; ------• Winifred Cullis grant - worth Country of applicant institution: Any CHF4,000 and requires at least two months’ work in a country other than Disciplines that in which the applicant was ------educated or habitually resides; Any • Daphne Purves grant - worth CHF4,000 and requires at least two Contact Details months’ work in a country other than ------that in which the applicant was IFUW educated or habitually resides. 10 Rue du Lac 1207 Geneva Women who have completed at least the first Tel: +41 22 731 2380 year of a PhD programme and who are IFUW Email: +41 22 738 0440 members or affiliated with member Email: [email protected] organisations, may apply through their
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EWCOMB CLEVELAND PRIZE American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Description: The American Association for the Posted date: 26 Feb 15 Advancement of Science invites nominations Award type: Prizes, Travel to conferences, for the Newcomb Cleveland prize. This meetings etc. recognises an author or authors of a paper Award amount max: $25,000 published in the research articles or reports Award budget total: - sections of Science magazine. Website: http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/newc Each contest starts with the first issue of June omb/index.shtml and ends with the last issue of the following May. Papers should include original research Eligibility profile data, theory or synthesis, contribute to basic ------knowledge or introduce a technical Country of applicant institution: Any achievement, and be the first publication of the author’s own work. Self-nominations are Disciplines not accepted. ------Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and The winner receives US$25,000, and Engineering; Social Sciences complimentary registration, travel and accommodation expenses to attend the Contact Details association’s annual meeting. ------Science Editorial Office Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) 1200 New York Avenue NW Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Room 1044 been announced by funder, but this is the Washington DC 20005 approximate deadline we expect. This call is Tel: +1 202 326 6560 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
CHACHTER AWARD British Pharmacological Society
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Description: The British Pharmacological Society invites Students must be members of the society, and applications for the Schachter award. This supervisors must be early-career or full enables postgraduates to visit a laboratory in members. order to learn a technique that cannot be conducted at their home institute in the field The award is worth up to £1,850. of pharmacology. Closing date: 30 Jun 16
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Deadline information: Deadlines on: 14 userfiles/bps/file/Prizes/Schachter%20Award February 2016, 30 June 2016. (5).docx Posted date: 29 Feb 16 Award type: Travel for research purposes, Eligibility profile Personal development, Access to ------laboratories, telescopes etc., Student awards Country of applicant institution: Any Award amount max: £1,850 Award budget total: - Disciplines Website: ------https://www.bps.ac.uk/membership- Pharmacy & Pharmacology awards/support-for-student- members/schachter-award Contact Details Application form: ------http://www.bps.ac.uk/SpringboardWebApp/ Email: [email protected]
REDA BAGE FELLOWSHIP Australian Federation of Graduate Women
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Description: The Australian Federation of University Application form: Women’s Fellowships Fund in Queensland http://www.fellowshipsfund.com.au/_literat invites applications for the Freda Bage ure_3298/Application_form fellowship. This supports female graduates in conducting PhD studies in any discipline. Eligibility profile ------The fellowship is tenable for up to three years Country of applicant institution: Any and the annual value of the fellowship is equivalent to an Australian postgraduate Disciplines award, worth approximately AU$26,288 in ------2016, plus 10 per cent. Any
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Applications due by ------5pm EST. This call is repeated once a year. Australian Federation of Graduate Women Posted date: 05 Feb 16 Fellowship Fund Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, P.O Box 1355 Financial aid for postgraduate students, Milton Grants - undirected Queensland 4064 Award budget total: - Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.fellowshipsfund.com.au/general -information
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OMMEMORATIVE FELLOWSHIPS Australian Federation of Graduate Women
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Description: The Australian Federation of Graduate Application form: Women’s Fellowships fund invites http://www.fellowshipsfund.com.au/_literat applications for the Queensland ure_3298/Application_form commemorative fellowships. These assist female graduates with formal postgraduate Eligibility profile studies consistent with the aims of the ------Fellowships Fund. Country of applicant institution: Any
Fellowships are equivalent to an Australian Disciplines postgraduate award, worth approximately ------AU$26,288 in 2016, plus 10 per cent for a Any duration of one year. Contact Details Closing date: 30 Jun 16 ------Deadline information: Applications due by Australian Federation of Graduate Women 5pm EST. This call is repeated once a year. Fellowship Fund Posted date: 05 Feb 16 P.O Box 1355 Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Milton students, Predoctoral fellowships, Grants - Queensland 4064 undirected Email: [email protected] Award budget total: - Website: http://www.fellowshipsfund.com.au/general -information
U PRÉ GRANTS Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
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Description: The Multiple Sclerosis International University departments must nominate a Federation invites nominations for the Du Pré candidate. Individuals, preferably young grants. These enable young researchers from researchers from emerging countries, who are emerging countries to undertake short visits directly involved in a special MS research to other MS research centres either to learn project, are eligible for nomination. more from each other or to carry out parts of joint research projects. The aim is to The duration of visits is generally between encourage cross-fertilisation of skills through two and six months. About 10 grants are collaborative research projects. provided, each of which usually ranges from
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£2,000 to £4,000. The maximum sum available awards-grants-and-fellowships/du-pre- is £5,000. Funds are intended to contribute grants/ towards travel and living costs or to top-up an Application form: http://www.msif.org/wp- existing grant in order to extend a visit. content/uploads/2015/04/Du-pre-application- form1.docx Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Eligibility profile been announced by funder, but this is the ------approximate deadline we expect. Country of applicant institution: Any Posted date: 23 Jun 15 Award type: Networking/collaboration, Disciplines Directed grants for individual investigators, ------Travel for research purposes, Young Multiple Sclerosis investigator awards Award amount max: £5,000 Contact Details Award budget total: ------Website: http://www.msif.org/about- Email: [email protected] us/global-research-collaboration/research-
AX BENTELE AWARD FOR ENGINE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION Society of Automotive Engineers
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Description: The Society of Automotive Engineers invites Deadline information: !! Call has not yet nominations for the Max Bentele award for been announced by funder, but this is the technology innovation. This award annually approximate deadline we expect. This call is recognizes an SAE member whose work has repeated once a year. furthered innovation in the manufacture, Posted date: 09 Aug 07 design and improvement of engine Award type: Prizes technology for ground, air or space vehicles. Award amount max: $2,000 The award is designated for engineers under Award budget total: - the age of 35 who have made a major Website: contribution through a new idea, concept, http://www.sae.org/news/awards/list/bentele innovation or application which provides a / recognized improvement in engine Application form: technology and which has been verified https://shop.sae.org/news/awards/list/bentele through proof of concept demonstrations. /app-bentele.shtml
Eligibility profile The award includes a medal and a $2,000 ------honorarium, which is presented at the awards Country of applicant institution: Any ceremony during the SAE world congress.
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast)
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Disciplines Contact Details ------Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering; SAE World Headquarters Aerospace Engineering & Avionics; 400 Commonwealth Drive Automotive Engineering; Engines & Warrendale, PA 15096-0001 USA Propulsion; Mechanical Engineering Tel: +1 724 776 4841 Fax: +1 724 776 0790 Email: [email protected]
CDONALD FELLOWSHIPS Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
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Description: The Multiple Sclerosis International Website: http://www.msif.org/about- Federation invites nominations for its us/global-research-collaboration/research- McDonald fellowships. These enable young awards-grants-and-fellowships/mcdonald- researchers from emerging countries to travel fellowships/ to an established research institution to work Application form: http://www.msif.org/wp- with leading researchers in multiple sclerosis, content/uploads/2014/09/2015_McDonald_Fel with a view to returning to their own country lowship_nomination_form.doc to establish a programme of MS research involving the application of the newly learned Eligibility profile techniques. Applications in the areas of ------symptom relief, rehabilitation and palliative Country of applicant institution: Lower- care are encouraged. Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Nominees must be a citizen of an emerging country and under the age of 35 years at the Disciplines time of application. ------Palliative Nursing; Counselling & Talking The fellowship consists of a two-year grant of Therapies; Multiple Sclerosis; Neurology; around £30,000 per year to cover travel and Nursing; Hospice & Palliative Care; Primary living costs, and an additional contribution of Care; Public Health, Health Services & £2,000 per year to the host institution. Primary Care; Clinical Medicine
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Contact Details Deadline information: This call is repeated ------once a year. Multiple Sclerosis International Federation Posted date: 03 Nov 14 3rd Floor Skyline House Award type: Early-Career fellowships, 200 Union Street Travel for research purposes, Young London SE1 0LX investigator awards Tel: +44 20 7620 1911 Award budget total: -
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RADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Description: The Society for Industrial and Organizational approximate deadline we expect. This call is Psychology invites applications for its repeated once a year. graduate student scholarships programme. Posted date: 09 May 13 This scholarship programme recognises Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, achievement in a graduate career and is Thesis/Dissertation funding intended to assist doctoral students in the Award amount max: $3,500 field of industrial and organisational Award budget total: - psychology with the cost of carrying out their Website: dissertation work. http://www.siop.org/SIOPAwards/gradstude ntscholarship.aspx Applicants must be student affiliates of SIOP Application form: and be enrolled on a full-time doctoral http://www.siop.org/awardsonline/main.asp programme in industrial-organisational x psychology or a closely related field, at a Eligibility profile regionally accredited university or college. ------Applicants who have defended their Country of applicant institution: Any dissertations are ineligible.
Disciplines The highest ranking student will receive the ------Lee Hakel graduate student scholarship, Organisational Behaviour; Sociology; which awards US$3,500. The second highest Employment & Unemployment Studies; ranked student will receive the Mary L Organisational Theory; Industrial & Tenopyr scholarship, which awards US$3,000. Occupational Psychology; Social Work & In addition, two scholarships of US$3,000 Social Policy; Psychology; Violence & Violent each will be awarded. Crime
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Contact Details Deadline information: !! Call has not yet ------been announced by funder, but this is the Email: [email protected]
ESLIE W JOYCE AND PAUL W THAYER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN I-O PSYCHOLOGY Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology L
Description: The Society for Industrial and Organizational W Joyce and Paul W Thayer graduate Psychology invites applications for its Leslie fellowship in I-O psychology. This fellowship
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provides financial support to a doctoral Website: student in industrial-organizational http://www.siop.org/SIOPAwards/joyce_tha psychology who is specialising in training and yer.aspx development, or selection and placement. Application form: http://www.siop.org/awardsonline/main.asp Applicants must be PhD students specialising x in training and development or selection and placement. Applicants must also be Eligibility profile committed to a practitioner career and should ------have some experience in an applied setting Country of applicant institution: Any relevant to industrial-organisational psychology. The fellowship provides an award of US$10,000. Disciplines ------Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Vocational & Technical Education & Training; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Industrial & Occupational Psychology; been announced by funder, but this is the Sociology; Organisational Behaviour; approximate deadline we expect. This call is Psychology; Violence & Violent Crime; repeated once a year. Organisational Theory; Employment & Posted date: 14 May 13 Unemployment Studies; Social Work & Social Award type: Predoctoral fellowships Policy Award amount max: $10,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details ------Email: [email protected]
LISE/EUGENE GARFIELD DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMPETITION Association for Library and Information Science Education
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Description: The Association for Library and Information registration and personal ALISE membership Science Education invites proposals for the for a year. Eugene Garfield doctoral dissertation competition. This recognises outstanding Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) dissertations completed between 1 June 2013 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet and 30 May 2014 which deal with substantive been announced by funder, but this is the issues related to library and information approximate deadline we expect. This call is science. Applicants must be doctoral students repeated once a year. who have recently graduated in any field of Posted date: 15 May 14 study, or who will have completed their Award type: Prizes dissertations by the deadline. Winners will Award amount max: $500 receive US$500, plus 2015 conference Award budget total: $1,000
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Website: http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId Disciplines =55538 ------Application form: Computer Science & Informatics; Information https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi Science; Libraries & Information Science ?key=12061673.gXYGhTDksW6bvCTz Contact Details Eligibility profile ------Email: [email protected] Country of applicant institution: Any
ACCI PHD FELLOWSHIPS University of Ghana
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Description: The University of Ghana, through its West research scientist in a national research Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, invites institute or university in their home country. applications for its WACCI PhD fellowships. A good knowledge of English is required. This scheme is designed to train plant breeders who will make their careers breeding The fellowships are tenable for four years, new cultivars of food crops. Coursework and consisting of one year of academic study at research will focus on the following West the University of Ghana and three years of Africa food crops: thesis research at the students’ research station or universities in their home countries. • cereals: maize, rice, sorghum and Students return in the last six months of the millet; final year to complete and submit their theses. • roots and tubers: cassava and sweet The fellowship will provide a stipend to cover potato; reasonable personal living expenses, • legumes: cowpea and groundnut; including return airfare. • vegetables: tomato and pepper. Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) The geographic focus of study will be West Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Africa, with initial emphasis on Ghana, been announced by funder, but this is the Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. approximate deadline we expect. This call is Applicants from Cameroon and Senegal may repeated once a year. also be considered. Applicants must hold a Posted date: 31 Jul 13 master’s degree in plant breeding, plant Award type: Predoctoral fellowships, genetics, plant pathology, horticulture, crop Financial aid for postgraduate students, science, applied entomology, applied Thesis/Dissertation funding, Directed grants nematology or an equivalent degree. for individual investigators Award budget total: - Applicants should be under the age of 40 and Website: http://www.wacci.edu.gh must hold a position as an agricultural
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Application form: Agriculture; Plant Genome & Genetics; Tree http://www.wacci.edu.gh/images/pdfs/wacci Selection & Breeding; Grains & Cereals; _application_form.pdf Horticultural & Crop Production; Plant Diseases & Pathology Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Burkina ------Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, WACCI Sierra Leone, Senegal University of Ghana P.O Box LG 25 Disciplines Legon ------Accra Biological Sciences; Botany; Fruits & Tel: +233 302 520 605 Vegetables; Plant Selection & Breeding; Fax: +233 302 520 604 Entomology; Nematology; Horticultural Crop Email: [email protected] Growth; Plant Development & Reproduction; Forest Health, Pests & Diseases; Food Science;
RONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARDS BBVA Foundation
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Description: The BBVA Foundation invites nominations Candidates may be one or more persons of for its frontiers of knowledge awards. These any nationality. Agencies and organisations in recognise research and creative work that the public and not-for-profit private sector are contributes to an improved understanding of also eligible for climate change and the natural, social and artificial or development cooperation awards. technological worlds and technological Organisations and institutions are eligible to innovations and developments. Awards will nominate. Organisations may nominate more be made in eight categories: than one candidate but each candidate may only be nominated for one category. • basic sciences, including physics, chemistry and mathematics; Awards are worth €400,000. In the event of an • biomedicine; award being shared by more than one person, • ecology and conservation biology; its monetary amount will be divided equally • information and communication among all recipients. technologies; • economics, finance and management; Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) • contemporary music; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet • climate change; been announced by funder, but this is the • development cooperation. approximate deadline we expect. Nominations due by 11pm GMT. This call is repeated once a year.
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Posted date: 10 Feb 15 Country of applicant institution: Any Award type: Prizes Award amount max: €400,000 Disciplines Award budget total: ------Website: Development Studies; Economics & http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsite Econometrics; Music; Physical Sciences and s/premios/fronteras/index.jsp Engineering; Climate Change & Global Application form: Warming; Bio/Medical; Business & http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsite Management Studies s/premios/fronteras/nominacion/formulario_ paso0.jsp Contact Details ------Eligibility profile Email: [email protected] ------
AYMOND A KATZELL AWARD IN I-O PSYCHOLOGY Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Description: The Society for Industrial and Organizational Website: Psychology invites applications for the http://www.siop.org/SIOPAwards/katzell_a Raymond A Katzell award in I-O psychology. ward.aspx This award recognises a member whose Application form: research has made a major and widespread http://www.siop.org/awardsonline/main.asp impact on society. The work shown to the x general public must be research based, and its application clearly demonstrated. The work Eligibility profile must have an impact on society’s wellbeing. ------Country of applicant institution: Any The nominee must be a member of SIOP, preferably with a degree in psychology. Disciplines ------The award recipient will receive US$3,000. Psychology; Organisational Theory; Industrial & Occupational Psychology; Violence & Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Violent Crime; Organisational Behaviour; Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Vocational & Technical Education & Training; been announced by funder, but this is the Social Work & Social Policy; Employment & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Unemployment Studies; Sociology repeated once a year. Posted date: 16 May 13 Contact Details Award type: Prizes ------Award amount max: $3,000 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
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U-TWAS YOUNG SCIENTISTS NATIONAL AWARDS TWAS
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Description: The World Academy of Sciences, in approximate deadline we expect. This call is collaboration with the Africa Union, invites repeated once a year. applications for the AU-TWAS young Posted date: 21 Apr 15 scientists national awards. These offer support Award type: Prizes, Young investigator to African countries to institute awards for awards, Innovation grants, Technology young African scientists in the following innovation/development fields: Award amount max: $5,000 Award amount min: - • life and earth sciences; Award budget total: $140,000 • basic science, technology and Website: http://twas.org/opportunity/au- innovation. twas-young-scientist-national-awards
Eligibility profile National science academies, scientific research ------councils and high-level research organisations Country of applicant institution: Burkina in eligible African countries may apply. Each Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, candidate should be no more than 40 years of Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, age at the time of winning the prize, hold at Sudan, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe least a master’s degree, have a strong publication record and have lived and worked Disciplines for the past three years in Benin, Burkina ------Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Bio/Medical; Physical Sciences and Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Engineering South Africa, Sudan or Zimbabwe. Women scientists are particularly encouraged to Contact Details apply. ------
AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards Each participating country may apply for two ICTP Campus US$5,000 prizes, one for each of the above Strada Costiere 11 topics of study. 34151 Trieste
Tel: +39 040 2240 387 Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Fax: +39 40 2240 7387 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Email: [email protected] been announced by funder, but this is the
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OMING SOON: YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME Velux Foundations
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Description: The Villum Foundation, within the Velux Posted date: 27 Jan 16 foundations, will shortly be inviting Award type: Directed grants for individual applications for its young investigator investigators, Young investigator awards programme. The call is expected to open on 1 Award amount max: kr10,000,000 April with a closing date of 30 June 2016. The Award budget total: - following information is subject to change. Website: http://veluxfoundations.dk/en/teknisk-og- This programme aims to fund especially naturvidenskabelig-forskning/young- talented up-and-coming researchers in science investigators and technology with ambitions of creating their own, independent research identity. Eligibility profile ------Applicants should at the time of application Country of applicant institution: Any be an experienced postdoctoral researcher, assistant professor or associate professor of no Disciplines more than two years' standing. ------Physical Sciences and Engineering Grants are worth between DKK7 million and DKK10m to cover a research period of five Contact Details years. ------Velux Fondene Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Tobaksvejen 10 Deadline information: Applications are 2860 Søborg invited between 1 April and 30 June 2016. Tel: +45 3957 0957 This call is repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
ARCONI PRIZE Marconi Society
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Description: The Marconi Society invites nominations for Learned societies and academies of all the Marconi prize. This recognises individuals countries, as well as individuals in who have made a significant contribution to universities, industry and public life, may the advancement of communications for the submit nominations. benefit of mankind, through scientific or technological discoveries or innovations. The prize is worth US$100,000.
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Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Eligibility profile Deadline information: Nominations may be ------submitted at any time but preferably by 30 Country of applicant institution: Any June, to be considered for the award to be given out the following year. This call is Disciplines repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 12 Feb 15 Data Communications; Internet & Mobile Award type: Prizes Technology; Communication Studies Award amount max: $100,000 Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: ------http://www.marconisociety.org/fellows/selec Marconi Society tioncriteria.html P.O Box 777 Mountain View CA 94042-0777 Email: [email protected]
AUL BARAN YOUNG SCHOLARS AWARD Marconi Society
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Description: The Marconi Society invites nominations for Awardees will receive a US$4,000 cash the Paul Baran young scholars award. This prize and an additional US$1,000 in recognises outstanding young scientists and expenses to attend the annual award engineers who have demonstrated ceremony. exceptional capabilities and potential in the internet and telecommunication sciences. Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Candidates must: been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is • be nominated by a faculty member, repeated once a year. department chair or manager with Posted date: 12 Feb 15 whom they are closely associated and Award type: Student awards, Young who can verify relevant investigator awards, Travel to conferences, accomplishments and potential for meetings etc. future achievement; Award amount max: $5,000 • be a student or recent graduate at the Award budget total: - time the nomination is submitted; Website: http://www.marconisociety.org/youngschola • have been born in 1987 or later; rs/selectioncriteria.html • be actively engaged in research in a Application form: field related to information and http://www.marconisociety.org/youngschola communications science, and have rs/nominationform.html already made a significant contribution to one or more projects.
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Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Tel: +1 925 872 4328 Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------5G, Wireless & Mobile Networks; Communication Studies; Internet & Mobile Technology
O-FUNDED PHD SCHOLARSHIP Livestock Emissions & Abatement Research Network
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Description: The Livestock Emissions and Abatement Deadline information: Research Network invites expressions of Posted date: 24 Feb 16 interest for its co-funded doctoral scholarship. Award type: Directed grants for individual This enables a doctoral student from a investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate developing country to benefit from having students, Networking/collaboration, Travel supervision from a researcher based at an for research purposes institution in New Zealand and to complete a Award amount max: $55,000 PhD in an area of research aligned with Award budget total: - livestock greenhouse gas emissions Website: mitigation. http://www.livestockemissions.net/phd.html Application form: Applicants must be enrolled or in the process http://www.livestockemissions.net/user/file/ of enrolling for a PhD in an area aligned with 66/2016_LEARN_PhD_EOI.doc livestock greenhouse gas emissions mitigation Eligibility profile in their home country or in New Zealand and ------must have identified a supervisor in a New Country of applicant institution: New Zealand research organisation. Applicants Zealand, Lower-Middle-Income countries, must also be registered members of the Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income LEARN network and be resident in a countries developing country.
Disciplines The scholarship is for a minimum of 12 ------months and maximum period of three years. Livestock & Animal Science The scholarship is worth up to NZ$15,000 per year to be spend on living expenses in New Contact Details Zealand, NZ$5,000 for travel expenses and ------insurances, and NZ$5,000 for research costs. Email: [email protected]
Closing date: 30 Jun 16
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OSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Livestock Emissions & Abatement Research Network
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Description: The Livestock Emissions and Abatement Deadline information: Applications accepted Research Network invites applications for its any time, but are assessed on 30 January, 30 postdoctoral fellowship. This enables an April, 30 July and 30 October annually. emerging researcher from a developing Posted date: 24 Feb 16 country to undertake a research project in Award type: Networking/collaboration, New Zealand while being mentored by a New Travel for research purposes, Directed grants Zealand researcher. The aim is to build for individual investigators, Early-Career applicants capabilities so that they can help fellowships increase the level of scientific skill across their Award amount max: $110,000 home organisations and country, as well as Award budget total: - build closer relationships with New Zealand. Website: http://www.livestockemissions.net/postdoct Applicants must be resident in a developing oral.html country, have gained their PhD within the last Application form: http://www.livestockemissions.net/user/file/ five years and be employed in an area of 3/LEARN%20Postdoctoral%20fellowship%2 research related to livestock greenhouse gas 0Expression%20of%20Interest%20FINAL%2 emissions. They must also have the support of 0NZAGRC.doc their employer when applying for the fellowship and have a mentor in a New Eligibility profile Zealand research organisation. ------Country of applicant institution: Lower- Applicants must be proficient in English. Middle-Income countries, Low Income countries, Upper-Middle-Income countries Funding may be awarded for a period between one and two years. Exceptions might Disciplines be made for shorter periods. The fellowship ------consists of a living allowance of up to Livestock & Animal Science NZ$50,000 per year, up to NZ$5,000 to cover travel and insurance expenses and up to Contact Details NZ$5,000 to assist with research costs. ------Email: [email protected] Closing date: 30 Jun 16
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ARDSHIP GRANT Society for Applied Microbiology
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Description: The Society for Applied Microbiology invites Website: http://www.sfam.org.uk/en/grants-- applications for its hardship grant. This assists awards/supporting-microbiology/hardship- members of the society studying towards a grant/index.cfm doctoral degree in applied microbiology. The Application form: supervisor of the doctoral student must also http://www.sfam.org.uk/download.cfm?doci be a society member. Eligible persons will d=3CE02123-5A55-4C50-891B623CDF236AA0 normally be working, taking time out to study or be self-funded. Eligibility profile ------The funds will be used to contribute towards Country of applicant institution: Any university fees and are worth up to £3,000 per year for a maximum of three years. Disciplines ------Microbiology Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Deadline information: This call is repeated Contact Details once a year. ------Posted date: 20 Nov 15 SfAM Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate Bedford Heights students, Directed grants for individual Brickhill Drive investigators Bedford MK41 7PH Award amount max: £9,000 Tel: +44 1234 326 661 Award budget total: - Fax: +44 1234 326 678 Email: [email protected]
AHATHIR SCIENCE AWARD Academy of Sciences Malaysia
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Description: The Academy of Sciences Malaysia invites The award consists of MYR1 million, a gold nominations for the Mahathir science award. medal, and a certificate. This recognises a breakthrough in pioneering tropical research. Research should be in Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) tropical medicine, tropical agriculture, Deadline information: !! Call has not yet tropical architecture or tropical natural been announced by funder, but this is the resources. Any scientist, institution or approximate deadline we expect. This call is organisation may be nominated. repeated once a year. Posted date: 07 Apr 14
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Award type: Prizes Change; Chemical Engineering; Organic & Award budget total: - Alternative Agriculture; Architectural Website: http://www.msa- Restoration; Earth Sciences; Biological foundation.org/index.php?option=com_cont Sciences; Civil Engineering; Environmental ent&view=article&id=61&Itemid=54 Conservation & Biodiversity; Public Health, Application form: http://www.msa- Health Services & Primary Care; Animal foundation.org/images/pdf/2014%20MSA%2 Ecology & Habitats; Environmental Science; 0Nomination%20Form.pdf Architectural Engineering; Infectious Diseases; Agricultural Ecology; Eligibility profile Environmental Management; Primary Care; ------Earthquake Engineering; Forest Engineering; Country of applicant institution: Any Environmental Engineering; Infection Agents & Pathogens; Physiology Disciplines ------Contact Details Tropical & Neglected Diseases; Geotechnical ------Engineering; Tropical Zones; Transportation Academy of Sciences Malaysia Engineering; Architecture, Built Environment 902-4 Jalan Tun Ismail & Planning; Agriculture in Developing 50480 Kuala Lumpur Countries; Diagnostic Sciences; Politics & Tel: +60 3 2694 9898 International Studies; Ecosystem Function; +60 3 2694 5858 Use & Management of Natural Resources; Email: [email protected] Agriculture; Architecture; Agricultural Engineering; Ecological Impacts of Climate
SSAY PRIZE FOR CULTURAL HISTORIANS International Society for Cultural History
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Description: The International Society for Cultural History Applicants must be preparing for their PhD, invites proposals for its essay prize for or must have completed their PhD in the last cultural historians. five years.
This recognises an original, unpublished The prize is worth €350. article on cultural history. The prize aims to encourage scholars in their early career. Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Articles written in English, on any aspect of been announced by funder, but this is the cultural history, on any historical period or approximate deadline we expect. This call is geographical area will be accepted. repeated once a year. Posted date: 04 Jun 15 Award type: Prizes Award amount max: €350
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Award budget total: - Contact Details Website: http://www.culthist.org/isch-essay------prize/ ISCH University of Oslo Eligibility profile Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental ------Languages Country of applicant institution: Any P.O Box 1010 Blindern N-0315 Oslo Disciplines Email: [email protected] ------Cultural History
AROLINE CLAPHAM IELTS MASTER’S AWARD University of Cambridge
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Description: The University of Cambridge, under the Award budget total: - Cambridge English Language Assessment Website: and in collaboration with IELTS Australia and http://www.ielts.org/researchers/grants_and_ the British Council, invites submissions for awards/ielts_masters_award.aspx the Caroline Clapham IELTS master’s award. This is awarded for the master’s-level Eligibility profile dissertation or thesis in English that makes ------the most significant contribution to the field of Country of applicant institution: Any language testing. Disciplines Submissions must be supported by a letter ------from the applicant’s supervisor and First Language Education; Education; English dissertations must have been submitted and Language & Literature; Foreign Languages approved in 2015. Education; English Language; Educational Evaluation & Assessment; English as a Second The award is worth £1,000. Language; Linguistics; Psychology of Language Acquisition Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Deadline information: Extracts and Contact Details references due 30 June; full copies of ------shortlisted dissertations due 31 August 2015. Cambridge English Language Assessment This call is repeated once a year. 1 Hills Road Posted date: 14 Dec 15 Cambridge Award type: Prizes CB1 2EU Award amount max: £1,000 Email: [email protected]
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ANCELOT M BERKELEY NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST PRIZE FOR MERITORIOUS WORK IN ASTRONOMY American Astronomical Society L
Description: The American Astronomical Society invites Posted date: 16 Apr 13 nominations for the Lancelot M Berkeley Award type: Prizes New York Community Trust prize for Award budget total: - meritorious work in astronomy. This is Website: http://aas.org/about/grants-and- awarded for highly meritorious work in prizes/lancelot-m-berkeley-new-york- advancing the science of astronomy during community-trust-prize-meritorious-work the previous year. Application form: http://aas.org/files/resources/aas_prize_nomi The prize may be shared by up to three nation_form.pdf individuals. The work being recognised must have been published in a peer-reviewed Eligibility profile journal in the calendar year prior to the AAS ------prize nomination deadline. Nominators must Country of applicant institution: Any be members of the society. Disciplines The award includes US$7,500 and travel ------expenses to attend an AAS meeting to present Physics; Universe Sciences the prize lecture. Contact Details Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet McDonald Observatory been announced by funder, but this is the 1 University Station approximate deadline we expect. This call is Austin TX 78712 repeated once a year. Email: [email protected]
ORMAN BORLAUG AWARD FOR FIELD RESEARCH AND APPLICATION World Food Prize Foundation
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Description: The World Food Prize Foundation, with an clearly demonstrated intellectual courage, endowment from the Rockefeller Foundation, stamina and determination in the fight to invites nominations for the Norman Borlaug eliminate global hunger and poverty. The award for field research and application. This award honours an individual who is working is awarded for an exceptional, science-based closely and directly in the field or at the achievement in international agriculture and production or processing level with farmers, food production by an individual who has animal herders, fishers or others in rural
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communities, in any discipline or enterprise ons/the_borlaug_field_award_online_nomin across the entire food production, processing ation_form/ and distribution chain. Eligibility profile Nominees must be under the age of 40 on 16 ------October of the year in which the award is Country of applicant institution: Any presented. Nominations must be submitted in English. Disciplines ------The award is worth US$10,000. Food Security; Poverty; Food Systems; Soil Sciences; Politics & International Studies; Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Agriculture; Agriculture in Developing Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Countries; Farm Management; Social Work & been announced by funder, but this is the Social Policy; Agriculture, Drainage & approximate deadline we expect. This call is Irrigation; Food Manufacturing & Processing; repeated once a year. Meat & Meat Products; Rural Planning & Posted date: 10 Apr 14 Policy; Agriculture, Veterinary & Food Award type: Prizes, Young investigator Science; Sustainable Agriculture; Built awards Environment & Spatial Planning; Food Award amount max: $10,000 Science; Fisheries Science; Agricultural Award budget total: - Production Systems Website: http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/nominati Contact Details ons/the_borlaug_field_award_nomination_p ------rocedure/ Tel: +1 515 245 3783 Application form: Email: [email protected] http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/nominati
OSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS Catholic Academic Exchange Service – Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst
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Description: The Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD) invites applications for its Students from a developing country in Africa, postgraduate scholarship programme to Asia, the Middle East or Latin America who study at a German university. The following already have a first degree and wish to pursue scholarships are available: a master’s course or a PhD in Germany, may • S1 scholarships – for scholars applying apply. In rare cases, KAAD also considers from their home countries for studies applications from students who already have in Germany; a PhD and who would like to come to • S2 scholarships – for scholars who Germany for a short research period. have already started to study at a Preference is given to applicants from the German university. following focus countries: Ghana, Ethiopia,
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Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Website: http://kaad.de/1/scholarships/ Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Eligibility profile the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, China, ------Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Country of applicant institution: Bangladesh, Bolivia, and Brazil. Applications from other Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, countries are only considered in exceptional Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, cases. Eligible candidates should possess Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Cambodia, German language skills and should not be Lebanon, Myanmar, Mexico, Peru, older than 30 years for master’s scholarships Philippines, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, or 35 for PhD scholarships. KAAD has a Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tanzania, preference for Catholic applicants. United Republic of, Uganda, Vietnam
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Disciplines Deadline information: Applications for the ------September selection are due by the end of Any June; applications for the March selection are due by the end of November the Contact Details previous year. Deadlines on: 30 June 2016, 30 ------November 2016, and repeated annually. KAAD Posted date: 12 Nov 14 Hausdorffstr. 151 Award type: Young investigator awards, 53129 Bonn Directed grants for individual investigators, Tel: +49 228 917 580 Financial aid for postgraduate students, Fax: +49 228 917 5858 Travel for research purposes Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
OSTGRADUATE BURSARIES Royal Photographic Society
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Description: The Royal Photographic Society invites Closing date: 30 Jun 16 applications for its postgraduate bursaries. Deadline information: This call is repeated These enable postgraduate students to once a year. undertake study or research in photography, Posted date: 25 Feb 16 including digital and traditional photographic Award type: Financial aid for postgraduate media, the art and science of photography and students, Directed grants for individual image-based written work. investigators Award amount max: £3,500 Applicants may be studying in the UK or Award budget total: - abroad. Website: http://www.rps.org/learning/project- The bursary is worth £3,500. funding/rps-postgraduate
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Application form: Disciplines http://www.rps.org/learning/project------funding/rps-postgraduate/postgraduate-form Photography & other Lens-based Art; Digital & Computer Art Eligibility profile ------Contact Details Country of applicant institution: Any ------Tel: +44 1225 325 770 Email: [email protected]
NESCO-EQUATORIAL GUINEA INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN THE LIFE SCIENCES UNESCO U
Description: UNESCO invites nominations for the Award amount min: $100,000 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea international Award budget total: $300,000 prize for research in the life sciences. This Website: recognises scientific research projects and http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural- activities of an individual, institution or non- sciences/science-technology/basic- governmental organisation working in the life sciences/life-sciences/international-prize-for- sciences, which have led to an improvement research-in-the-life-sciences/ in the quality of human life. Application form: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MUL Nominations must be made by non- TIMEDIA/HQ/SC/pdf/Prize_Life_Sciences_ governmental organisations, maintaining UNESCO_Nomination_Form_2015_EN.docx official relations with UNESCO and active in relevant fields covered by the prize, or the Eligibility profile governments of UNESCO member states, in ------consultation with their respective national Country of applicant institution: Any commissions. Disciplines ------The prize is worth US$300,000 and may be Bio/Medical divided equally between a maximum of three laureates. Contact Details
------Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Secretariat of the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the International Prize for Research in the Life approximate deadline we expect. This call is Sciences repeated once a year. Natural Sciences Sector Posted date: 27 Apr 15 UNESCO Award type: Prizes 1 rue Miollis Award amount max: - 75732 Paris Cedex 15
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DUCATIONAL SUPPORT FUND Society for Underwater Technology
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Description: applications due by 12 midnight, 29 July The Society for Underwater Technology 2016. This call is repeated once a year. invites applications for its educational Posted date: 20 Aug 15 support fund. This supports high calibre Award type: Directed grants for individual postgraduate students who are either starting investigators, Financial aid for postgraduate or continuing a degree related to one area of students, Personal development marine science, underwater technology or Award amount max: £4,000 offshore engineering. Award budget total: - Website: http://www.sut.org/educational- Master’s students who have been accepted on support-fund/ a one-year course of study related to the society’s area of interest may apply. MRes Eligibility profile course students may also apply but must ------prove they are not being fully funded by an Country of applicant institution: Any EPSRC grant. Students based anywhere in the world may apply for study at any course in Disciplines the world approved by the society. PhD ------studies are not eligible. Marine Engineering
Awards are worth up to £4,000 for a full Contact Details academic year. ------SUT 1 Fetter Lane Closing date: 30 Jun 16 London EC4A 1BR Deadline information: Requests for Tel: +44 20 3440 5535 application forms due by 30 June; Fax: +44 20 3440 5980 Email: [email protected]
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OUNG SCIENTIST RESEARCH AWARD Commonwealth Forestry Association
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Description: The Commonwealth Forestry Association Website: http://www.cfa- invites applications for its young scientist international.org/youth/ysra.php research award. This supports students Application form: http://www.cfa- undertaking forest-related research in pursuit international.org/userfiles/files/YSRA%20A of an academic qualification. pplication%20Form(2).doc
Candidates may be CFA individual members Eligibility profile of at least six-months’ standing of any ------nationality, but must be up to 35 years. Country of applicant institution: Any
The award is worth up to £500. Funds are Disciplines provided to the candidate’s academic ------institution. Forestry Science (Silvology)
Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Contact Details Deadline information: Deadlines on: 30 June ------2016, 31 December 2016, and repeated The Crib annually. Dinchope Posted date: 21 Jan 16 Craven Arms Award type: Student awards, Young Shropshire SY7 9JJ investigator awards, Directed grants for Tel: +44 158 867 2868 individual investigators Fax: +44 870 011 6645 Award amount max: £500 Email: [email protected] Award budget total: -
ORDON SIGNY FELLOWSHIPS World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Description: The World Association of Societies of Any young pathologist who has completed Pathology and Laboratory Medicine invites his or her training in anatomical or clinical applications for the Gordon Signy pathology or one of their branches prior to the fellowships. These enable a young beginning of their proposed fellowship pathologist, particularly one from a training, and who has completed training no developing country, to travel to another more than 10 years prior to the application country to learn laboratory techniques which deadline may apply. They must reside in their will be of advantage when they return home. country of birth or permanent residence.
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Training must be in a country other than the Application form: applicant's own. http://www.waspalm.org/uploads/content_fil es/files/2016ApplicationForm_ml.docx Two fellowships, each worth up to CA$7,500, are available. Eligibility profile ------Closing date: 30 Jun 16 Country of applicant institution: Any Deadline information: This call is repeated once a year. Disciplines Posted date: 17 Dec 15 ------Award type: Personal development, Early- Pathology; Diagnostic Sciences Career fellowships, Postdoctoral training fellowships, Travel for research purposes, Contact Details Young investigator awards ------Award amount max: $7,500 310-4 rue Cataraqui Street Award budget total: - Kingston, Ontario K7K 1Z7 Website: http://www.waspalm.org/wpf- Tel: +1 613 531 9210 gordon-signy/fellowships---application.php Email: [email protected]
FRICA FARMER ORGANISATION AWARDS Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
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Description: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Applicant organisations must be registered invites applications for the Africa farmer and resident in Africa and must have been in organisation awards. These aim to enhance active operation for at least two years. image, credibility, competitiveness and aspiration among farmer organisations in The awards are due to be held in Malawi from Africa to promote peer learning and 12 to 13 November, 2014. networking. Farming organisations may apply within one of the following award Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) categories: Deadline information: !! Call has not yet been announced by funder, but this is the • governance and accountability; approximate deadline we expect. • income diversity; Applications due by 5pm. This call is • female and youth participation; repeated once a year. • advocacy; Posted date: 11 Jun 14 • market access; Award type: Development (Africa/Caribbean), Prizes • Africa farmer organisation of the year. Award budget total: -
Website: http://agra- alliance.org/opportunities/
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Application form: Land Planning; Economics & Econometrics; http://www.africagrowth.com/AGRA/afoya_r Built Environment & Spatial Planning; eg_english.pdf Industrial Relations; Labour Economics; Rural Planning & Policy; Food Science; Production Eligibility profile Management; Sociology; Sales & Marketing; ------Social Programmes; Sustainable Agriculture Country of applicant institution: All African Nations Contact Details ------Disciplines Africagrowth Institute ------Tel: +27 21 914 6778 Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises; Social Fax: +27 21 914 4438 Work & Social Policy; Agriculture; Business & Email: [email protected] Management Studies; Farm Management; Land Use Planning & Policy; Agricultural
AURICE BERMAN PRIZE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE British Orthodontic Society
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Description: The British Orthodontic Society invites intents Award budget total: - to submit for the Maurice Berman prize for Website: clinical excellence. This recognises case http://www.bos.org.uk/Professionals- reports that include full diagnostic, treatment Members/Awards-Prizes/Awards-and- progress, finish and post-treatment records Prizes/Maurice-Berman-Prize-for-Clinical- related to orthodontia. Excellence Application form: Applicants must be members of the society in http://www.bos.org.uk/Portals/0/Public/docs/ good standing with at least 10 years clinical Awards%20and%20Prizes/berman- experience since gaining their orthodontic templateandentryform2014-2.docx qualification. Case studies should not have been previously published, and should be Eligibility profile made available for publication in the Journal ------of Orthodontics or other BOS publication Country of applicant institution: Any upon its success. Disciplines Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) ------Deadline information: !! Call has not yet Orthodontics been announced by funder, but this is the approximate deadline we expect. This call is Contact Details repeated once a year. ------Posted date: 13 Feb 15 BOS Award type: Prizes 12 Bridewell Place
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London EC4V 6AP Fax: +44 20 7353 8682 Tel: +44 20 7353 8680 Email: [email protected]
NBEV-BAILLET LATOUR GRANT FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH InBev-Baillet Latour Fonds
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Description: The National Fund for Scientific Research Award type: Directed grants for individual invites applications for the Inbev-Baillet investigators, Young investigator awards, Latour grant for medical research (GMR). This Equipment and materials enables a young investigator of any Award amount max: €750,000 nationality to conduct medical research in Award budget total: - Belgium. In 2016 the topic is infectious Website: http://www1.frs- diseases. fnrs.be/en/index.php/sponsorship- prizes/prix/biomedical-sciences Applicants must hold a full-time position and Application form: a salary secured for at least five years beyond http://www.inbevbailletlatour.com/media/mi the beginning of the GMR and conduct their sc_media/GMR%202016%20Application%20f research in a Belgian university or university orm.pdf hospital. They must hold a PhD awarded no more than 15 years before the deadline for Eligibility profile ------application. Country of applicant institution: Any
The grant is worth up to €150,000 per year for three years, with a possible extension for two Disciplines ------years. Grants may cover costs of personnel Infectious Diseases with the exception of the PI’s salary, consumables and equipment. Contact Details
------Closing date: 30 Jun 16 (Forecast) Brouwerijplein 1 Deadline information: !! Call has not yet 3000 Leuven been announced by funder, but this is the Tel: +32 1627 6159 approximate deadline we expect. This call is repeated once a year. Fax: +32 1650 6159 Posted date: 29 May 15 Email: [email protected]
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