As part of NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR areas of research. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes--but is not limited to--the SBE or EHR areas of research. Click here for more information. 

Evaluating the Effectiveness of State, Local and Tribal Responses to Violence Committed Against Indian Women Living in Tribal Communities
Deadline: April 22, 2013
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding that evaluate the effectiveness of state, tribal, and local programs designed to respond to crimes committed against Native American women living in tribal communities. This program furthers the Department's mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels. Click here to read more. 

Research on Firearms and Violence
Deadline: May 2, 2013
(National Institute of Justice)
This solicitation seeks applications for research on firearms and violence such as, but not limited to, the effects of criminal justice interventions on reducing gun violence, improving data systems for studying gun violence, illicit gun markets, and the effects of firearm policies and legislation on public safety. Click here for more information. 

Obesity Policy Evaluation Research (R01)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to evaluate large scale policy or programs that are expected to influence obesity related behaviors (e.g., dietary intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight outcomes in an effort to prevent or reduce obesity. Click here for more information. 

Mechanistic Insights from Birth Cohorts (R01)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support novel research on how prenatal exposures contribute to the etiology of chronic diseases and health conditions later in life. The goal of this FOA is to stimulate research by leveraging existing birth cohorts to address targeted mechanistic questions regarding the normal and abnormal developmental origins of organ systems and/or diseases of interest to the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Click here for more information. 

Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence
Deadline: April 22, 2013
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation related to violence against women in the areas of teen dating violence, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. Research proposed may be focused at the Federal, State, local, tribal, juvenile justice policy and/or practice level. Click here for more information. 

Disorders of Human Communication: Effectiveness, Outcomes and Health Services Research (R01)
Deadline: February 5, June 5, October 5, 2013
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support effectiveness, outcomes and health services research in the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) mission areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. Click here for more information. 

School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors, and Weight Outcomes (R21)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is issued by the National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). The FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R21) applications that propose to: (1) foster multidisciplinary research that will evaluate how policies (federal, state and school district levels) can influence school physical activity and nutrition environments, youths obesogenic behaviors (e.g., nutrition and physical activity behaviors), and weight outcomes; (2) understand how schools are implementing these policies and examine multi-level influences on adoption and implementation at various levels (e.g., federal, state, school district, and school); and (3) understand the synergistic or counteractive effect of school nutrition and physical activity polices on the home and community environment and body weight. Click here for more information. 

 

AGESW Gerontological Social Work Pre-Dissertation Initiative
Deadline: May 1, 2013
The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW), along with support from the Gerontological Association (GSA), will provide support for a cohort of ten social work doctoral students who have completed the first year of doctoral studies. The goal of this program is to support dissertation and career development in gerontological social work research and education. Recipients will receive more than ten hours of programming delivered by nationally recognized experts in gerontological social work research and teaching designed to prepare participants for an academic career in gerontological social work. The Program will be delivered at the 2013 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference in New Orleans. Awardees will be selected by the AGESW Pre-Dissertation Advisory Council. Click here for more information.