Grant, Award and Fellowship Opportunities

for the Environment and Sustainability

Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2014

News & Events | Funding Opportunities | Resources

News & Events

UCLA Office of the Environment and Sustainability - Upcoming Events

Animals in 3 Dimensions - Sep 30
Environmental Graduate Student Networking Event - Oct 7
Public Land Alliance Network - Oct 18

UCLA Research Escalator - Upcoming Events

Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events in the fall to further develop and support your funding efforts. In the meantime, click

here to view previous event videos and presentation materials.

Research Development & Grant Writing News

Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.

Startup UCLA - Upcoming Events

Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.

UCLA Office of Intellectual Property - Upcoming Events

OIP-ISR hosts and co-sponsors seminars, conferences, and networking events designed to help guide UCLA inventors forming startups, protecting intellectual property, and developing collaborations with industry:

Launch of the Board of Directors of UCLA OIP-ISR - Sep 24
FirstFridays at OIP-ISR: "App Development Resources at UCLA" - Oct 3
SBIR Grants Program Workshop - Oct 9
VC 101: A Primer on Venture Capital - Oct 16
UCLA Advanced Materials Partnering Conference - Nov 5

Federal Opportunities | Non-Federal Opportunities | Foundation Opportunities | Limited Submissions

Federal Opportunities

Current NSF Opportunties:

Arctic Research Opportunities

Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH)

Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN)

Energy for Sustainability

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology

Environmental Sustainability

Integrated Earth Systems (IES)

NSF/DOE Partnership on Advanced Frontiers in Renewable Hydrogen Fuel Production via Solar Water Splitting Technologies 2014-2016

Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support

Other Federal Opportunities:

California Energy Commission - Bringing Energy Efficiency Solutions to California's Industrial, Agriculture and Water Sectors

California Energy Commission - Advancing Cleaner, Less Costly, More Reliable Distributed Generation to Enable Customer Solutions and Zero-Net Energy Communities

California Energy Commission - Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Readiness

Department of the Interior - Cooperative Landscape Conservation and Adaptive Science

Non-Federal Opportunities

Asian Cultural Council - Grants for Individuals

Conservation Leadership Programme - Future Conservationist Awards

D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia - Post-doctoral and Dissertation Fellowships

National Geographic - Conservation Trust Grants

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance - Sustainable Vision Grants

Royal Meteorological Society - Awards Program

St Andrews Prize for the Environment

Big Ideas@Berkeley - Information Technology for Society

Foundation Opportunities

Interested applicants: please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for information or assistance regarding these opportunities.

Levinson Foundation - Environmental Grants

McKnight Foundation - Grants to Restore the Water Quality and Resilience of the Mississippi River

Mott Foundation - Environmental Grants

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance - E-Team Program

Sony - Corporate Social Responsibility

Surdna Foundation - Sustainable Environments Program

Templeton Foundation - Core Funding Area Grants

Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - Professional Development Program

Xerox Foundation - Societal Grants

Limited Submission Opportunities

Please note: All Limited Submissions Opportunities are announced through our LSO newsletter. Please click here for archives of our most recent announcements.

The designation of a number (#xxx) below, provides detail about which newsletter features the applicable LSO announcement. For those LSOs without a number, it is likely that the internal process has not yet been announced.

To receive LSO announcements routinely, please subscribe to the Limited Submissions listserv. It is also advisable to promptly email [email protected] to indicate interest in applying.

Research & Funding Resources

UCLA Research Links

OVCR - Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

OCGA - Office of Contracts and Grants Administration - Proposal Preparation Guidelines

ORA - Office of Research Administration

OIP - Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research

CFRR - Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations

UCLA Graduate & Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database

UCLA Graduate Writing Center

UCLA Biomedical Library

New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding

Research Development & Grant-Writing News

UCLA Software Central

Find Funding

Grants.gov

SPIN Funding Opportunities

Pivot/COS

NEA - National Endowment for the Arts

NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities

NIH - National Institutes of Health

NSF - National Science Foundation

DOD - Department of Defense

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

DOED - Department of Education

DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services

DOE - Department of Energy

DOS - Department of State

This newsletter provides information about selected opportunities as a resource to the UCLA campus research community. Please be sure to carefully review any announcement before commencing an application.

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