Grant, Award and Fellowship Opportunities 
for Equity, Diversity and Health Disparities

 
News & Events    |     Funding Opportunities     |     Resources
News & EventsNews
Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts.
 
Click here for previous event videos and presentation materials.
 
Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.
 
OIP-ISR hosts and co-sponsor seminars, conferences, and networking events designed to help guide UCLA inventors forming startups, protecting intellectual property, and developing collaborations with industry.
 
In a world where a growing number of people lack food, water and sources of energy, providing these resources has become a challenge. To find new answers, the NSF has funded 17 grants, totaling $1.2 million, to support workshops on the interactions of food, energy and water, or FEW. Additionally, $6.4 million will supplement existing grants, enabling scientists to conduct additional research.
 
Civil engineering infrastructure is aging and deteriorating, an issue, remediation of which involves huge maintenance and replacement costs. At the same time, due to the growth of the population/transportation, the need for infrastructure keeps increasing. These aspects need to be balances within the context of sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions allocated to the construction community
 
Interested leading experts in construction materials from academia, industry, and governmental agencies should submit an abstract paper if they want to present at the conference by September 30, 2015. The conference will take place March 17-18, 2016.
Center for Education Innovation in Life Sciences (CEILS) creates a collaborative community of instructors committed to advancing teaching excellence, assessment, diversity, and scholarship, resulting in the enhancement of student learning experiences in the life sciences at UCLA.


The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge ("SLA") is pleased to announce our first call for proposals for research grants in furtherance of achieving the goals of 100-percent renewable energy, 100-percent locally sourced water, and enhanced ecosystem health and human health and well-being by 2050 in Los Angeles County as described in detail in the Sustainable LA Five-Year Work Plan ("Work Plan"). The purpose of these grants is to fund research identified in the Work Plan, and to catalyze new lines of research and new collaborations across campus. Deadline is October 26 2015
You have an opportunity to submit and/or vote for ideas to reduce compliance burden related to grants and contracts through an on-line survey initiated by the Federal Government. 
 
To participate, log in to the website established for grantee responses and register. You can vote for existing ideas by clicking the "UP" arrow above the number of votes for each entry. Clicking the "DOWN" arrow reduces the number of votes. Please note that
 votes cannot be changed, and exercise caution when clicking. You can also submit new ideas of your own.
 
Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.
 
View upcoming events hosted by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute by following the link above.
UCLA has recently acquired institutional membership with NCFDD, which is an organization that provides professional development and mentoring opportunities for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs. Members have access to various webinars, slides and transcripts of workshops, and the organization's online career center as well as numerous other professional resources.  For more information regarding the benefits of NCFDD membership, as well as information about registering as a member, visit the above link. 
The Office of Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs (ICCA) is pleased to announced two funding opportunities, including a new opportunity to bring outstanding scholars to Campus to promote interdisciplinary and cross campus education, research, and service at UCLA. In addition to the Visiting Speaker funding, ICCA will also be accepting proposals for its Symposia, Workshop, and Planning Meeting funding opportunity. These opportunities are open to all UCLA faculty members in the regular professor series and are due October 30 2015. Details as follows:
UCLA OIP-ISR wants to help you license research tools you've created to assist in conducting your research. This usually results in money going right back to your lab! See the flyer for more information


At SCCSC 2015, we have assembled an exciting group of speakers from a variety of companies, who will discuss how they utilize computation in their respective positions in industry. The talks will cover a wide range of topics yet will remain geared towards a general science audience. This conference allows students the opportunity not only to learn how computation is being used in industry, but also to broaden their understanding of other fields in science and engineering. Conference takes place October 20 2015. Click the above link to register. 

Federal Opportunities
Upcoming NIH Opportunities:
Other Federal Opportunities:
ideas42 - Intimate Partner Violence   
(OCGA internal application deadline is October 12, 2015 - submit proposals to proposals@research.ucla.edu)
Foundation Opportunities
Interested applicants: please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for information or assistance regarding these opportunities.
No CFRR related foundation opportunities are available at this time.
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 limitedsubmissions@conet.ucla.edu to indicate interest in applying.

Building Population Health Research Capacity in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands (U24)
Research and Funding Resources

This newsletter provides summarized 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. 

UCLA OVCR Research Enhancement Office | sritargetedopportunities@conet.ucla.edu | http://www.ovcr.ucla.edu/
2248 Murphy Hall
Box 951405
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1405