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December 2006
Happy Holidays! As we approach our holiday break, some of you may use this time to begin preparing research proposals. Here are a few things to keep in mind when preparing a proposal for external funding: Make sure to plan ahead - think about how a grant would be part of your personal or professional long-range plan. Discuss your ideas with your dean, department chair or supervisor, and colleagues. Determine what others similar projects are being done by colleagues in your field - analyze their work to see if their work can help with your needs. Determine goals and objectives and always make sure these can be measured in some way. When looking for sources to fund your project, never react to deadlines! The budget can be a framework for your project, so make sure to think of everything you will need to make your project successful and be careful to give realistic costs. Ask yourself these questions when developing your proposal: Who will care about this work? How do I make my work accessible to others? Who will benefit from this work? Will my work better my community (either personal or professional)? Is my approach unique and creative? How will I evaluate or assess my findings or the final product? I would like to wish everyone in the Berry community a very happy holiday season and if you need assistance over the break with a proposal, or if you have a question, please do not hesitate to email or call. Amy
In this issue: National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities The Rockefeller Foundation American Society for 18th-Century Studies American Research Center in Egypt Council of American Overseas Research Centers American Antiquarian Society USDA - National Research Initiative American Educational Research Association	PLEASE REMEMBER: ALL TYPES OF EXTERNAL FUNDING REQUESTS, INCLUDING GRANTS, SUB-CONTRACTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS, MUST RECEIVE INSTITUTIONAL APPROVAL PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.
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Proposals Submitted September-November, 2006 Proposals Submitted September - November, 2006 Peter Lawler, Government and International Studies - National Endowment for the Humanities Bill Davin, Biology - Georgia Department of Natural Resources George Gallagher, Animal and Horticultural Sciences - Georgia Department of Transportation/University of Georgia Jeffrey Lidke and Harvey Hill, Religion and Philosophy - American Council of Learned Societies Jennifer Guay, Animal and Horticultural Sciences - United States Department of Agriculture, SARE Program Jay Daniels, Animal and Horticultural Sciences - United States Department of Agriculture, CSREES Program Proposals Awarded September - November, 2006 Julie Johnson-Pynne, Psychology- National Geographic Society Martin Cipollini, Biology - Georgia Forestry Commission Kris Carlisle, Music - Georgia Music Teachers Association
National Science Foundation - Upcoming Deadlines, January & February 2007 Cultural Anthropology Scholars Awards, January 1 Critical Zone Observatories, January 2 Cyber Trust, January 8 Research in Disabilities Education, January 8 (Letter of Intent) Ecological Biology, January 9 Ecosystem Science, January 9 Long Term Research in Environmental Biology, January 9 Population and Evolutionary Processes, January 9 Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories, January 9 Instrumentation for Materials Research, January 11 Behavioral Systems Cluster, January 12 Biomolecular Systems Cluster, January 12 Cellular Systems Cluster, January 12 Developmental Systems Cluster, January 12 Environmental and Structural Systems Cluster, January 12 Mathematical Biology, January 13 Cognitive Neuroscience, January 14 Cultural Anthropology, January 15 Geography and Regional Science, January 15 Linguistics, January 15 Perception, Action, and Cognition, January 15 Political Science, January 15 Social Psychology, January 15 Sociology, January 15 Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, January 16 Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology, January 16 Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences, January 18 Economics, January 18 Developmental and Learning Sciences, January 19 Program for Research and Education with Small Telescopes, January 20 Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Instrument Development, January 23 Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2007, January 23 Major Research Instrumentation Program, January 25 Ecology of Infectious Diseases, January 29 Science and Society, February 1 Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Cyberinfrastructure and Research Facilities, February 2 Innovation and Organizational Change, February 2 Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology, February 5 Science of Design, February 5 Human and Social Dynamics, February 7 Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems, February 7 Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society, February 7 Research in Disabilities Education, February 12 Biological Oceanography, February 15 Chemical Oceanography, February 15 Developing Global Scientists and Engineers, February 15 Dynamical Systems, February 15 Geography and Regional Science, February 15 Marine Geology and Geophysics, February 15 Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, February 15 Sociology, February 15 NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, February 16 (Letter of Intent, January 15) Interdisciplinary Grants in the Mathematical Sciences, February 19 International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops, February 20 National Endowment for the Humanities - Upcoming Deadlines We the People - Bookshelf on the "Pursuit of Happiness" As part of its We the People program, NEH is collaborating with the American Library Association (ALA) to present the We the People Bookshelf, a program that encourages young people to read classic books and explore themes in American history, culture, and ideas. School (K-12) and public libraries are invited to apply for fifteen thematically related books that embody the theme of the "Pursuit of Happiness." Activities might include, but are not limited to: prominent display of the Bookshelf to promote patron awareness; a program of readings based on the Bookshelf by local civic and business leaders; special story hours featuring one or more books and exploring how it (or they) illustrate the theme of the "Pursuit of Happiness"; a panel discussion with community leaders and teachers highlighting the "Pursuit of Happiness" theme and how the books express that theme; a book club for young readers based on the Bookshelf; ribbons or certificates to recognize young readers who read all the books in their age category; discussion of the books on local cable TV and/or radio programs; or the presentation of one of the books as a play, after which children are encouraged to discuss how the work illustrates the theme of the "Pursuit of Happiness." Successful applicants will receive fifteen classic hardcover books for young readers, all related to the "Pursuit of Happiness" theme. In addition, libraries will receive four of these books in Spanish translation, a bonus CD with traditional music featured in the Little House series of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and supplementary materials for programming, including bookplates, bookmarks, and posters. Deadline: February 1, 2007 The Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation seeks to promote the well-being of humanity by addressing the root causes of serious problems. The Foundation works to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization's benefits are more widely shared. The Foundation is one of the few institutions to conduct such work both within the United States and internationally and welcomes ideas about how to do this most effectively. The Foundation seeks high-impact ideas that have the potential to make a difference in the lives of large numbers of poor or vulnerable people and requires some results from such ideas to be measurable within three to five years. Areas of interest have included: food security, creativity and culture, globalization, health equity, working communities, Africa, North American transnational commuities, and Southeast Asia. Scholarly Residencies at the Bellagio Center Application deadline: March 1 , 2007 The Bellagio Study and Conference Center typically offers one-month residencies for no more than 12 scholars and scientists at a time. Priority is given to projects that align with the Foundation's mission to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization's benefits are shared more widely. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Fellowship - $500 Fellowship is available to faculty and independent scholars who are within the first five years of receipt of their Ph.D and advanced doctoral candidates with a demonstrable need for specific collections necessary for their dissertation also are encouraged to apply. Robert R. Palmer Research Travel Fellowship - $500 Supports documentary research related primarily to the history and culture of France. Richard H. Popkin Research Travel Fellowship - $250 Supplement costs for scholars to travel to collections in North America and abroad Theodore E.D. Braun Research Travel Fellowship - $500 1) Supports documentary research on Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan or (2) non-tenured persons working on Voltaire, or (3) to support researchers, regardless of rank, who are working in French literary studies. Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship - $500 Supports researchers whose projects necessitate work in archives, repositories, and special collections (public and private) in foreign countries and/or in the United States. Deadline: January 1, 2007 - must be member of ASECS American Research Center in Egypt The program is intended to fund research on economic, business, social, and policy issues important to station managers and other decision-makers in the U.S. commercial broadcast industry. Topics listed below typify the kinds of issues that are most frequently raised in discussions among broadcast managers; however, proposals may include any of a variety of other issues. Evolution of consumer media habits Impact of new technologies Local station identification and branding in a digital environment Consumer adoption of HD radio Effective uses of television and radio with other media forms Development of improved media audience metrics New audience measurement technologies Importance of television and radio broadcasting to local and national economies Digital television format options Provision and effectiveness of local news programming Impact of non-response on media research Training tomorrow's broadcasters Deadline: January 31, 2007 Council of American Overseas Research Centers: Fellowships for Advanced Multi-Country Research The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. CAORC member centers to which fellows may affiliate include the American Academy in Rome; the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman; the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (Tunisia and Morocco); the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies; the American Institute for Yemeni Studies; the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies; the American Institute of Indian Studies; the American Institute of Iranian Studies; the American Institute of Pakistan Studies; the American Research Center in Egypt; the American Research Institute in Turkey; the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; the Center for Khmer Studies, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; the Mexico-North Research Network, the Palestinian American Research Center; the West African Research Association (West African Region); and the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Given changing restrictions to many countries, applicants should contact CAORC before preparing a proposal. It is anticipated that approximately ten awards of up to $9,000 each will be given to scholars who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in at least one of the countries which host overseas research centers: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal/West Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Bank/Gaza Strip and Yemen, as well as in other countries unless subject to official security and/or travel restrictions or warnings. Research in Nepal is possible via the Center for South Asia Libraries. Fellows are required to obtain their own research permissions in countries that do not host centers. Deadline: January 12, 2007 American Antiquarian Society The American Antiquarian Society offers short-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable for one to three months each year. AAS also offers long-term fellowships, intended for scholars beyond the doctorate. The following short-term fellowships are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research. Candidates holding a recognized terminal degree appropriate to the area of proposed research, such as the master's degree in library science or M.F.A., are also eligible to apply. A single form is used to apply for short-term fellowships offered by the Society in each of the categories below; a link to obtaining application material follows the description of each of the fellowships the Society offers. Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships are for research on any topic supported by the collections. Further information The Legacy Fellowship, also for research on any topic supported by the collections Further information Stephen Botein Fellowships are for research in the history of the book in American culture. Further information The Joyce Tracy Fellowship is for research on newspapers and magazines or for projects using these resources as primary documentation. Further information AAS-Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowships are for research in literary history of America and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that can be supported by the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Further information AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowships are for research on projects related to the American eighteenth century. Further information American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship is for research on American prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or for projects using prints as primary documentation. Further information The Reese Fellowship supports research in American bibliography and projects in the history of the book in America. Further information The "Drawn to Art" Fellowship supports research on American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources. Further information Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships are for research on American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources. Further information The Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship is jointly funded by the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) and AAS. Application for this short-term fellowship is made through the DGfA. Scholars in American studies at the dissertation or habilitation research level at a university in Germany are eligible to apply. Application deadline: January 21, 2007 Further information Deadline for all fellowships (excluding Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship - see above): January 15, 2007 USDA: National Research Initiative National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants Program for fiscal year (FY) 2007 supports (1) high priority fundamental and mission-linked research of importance in the biological, environmental, physical, and social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, and the environment and (2) competitively awarded research, extension, and education grants addressing key issues of national and regional importance to agriculture, forestry, and related topics. Deadline: February 14, 2007 American Educational Research Association With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are: (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. Research topics may cover a wide range of policy- or practice-related issues that include but are not limited to: teachers and teaching, including supply, quality, and demand; policies and practices related to student achievement and assessment; policies and practices that influence student and parental attitudes; contextual factors (individual, curricular, and school related) in education; educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through career entry); at-risk students; early childhood education; US education in an international context; school finance; materials (curriculum) development, research and informal science education; undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics education; the supply (pipeline) of students taking mathematics and science courses; the quality of educational institutions; and methodological studies. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the project. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education. Deadline: January 5, 2007
Office of Faculty Research and Sponsored Programs P.O. Box 5006 Mount Berry, GA 30149 Phone: 706-238-5849 Fax: 706-238-5910 Staff: Donna Davin, Director 706-290-2163 ddavin@berry.edu Amy Summerlin, Grants Coordinator 706-238-5849 asummerlin@berry.edu http://www.berry.edu/academics/ services/Faculty_Research	The Office of Faculty Research and Sponsored Programs promotes externally-funded research. It is a central source of information on major government agencies, foundations, and corporations which support research and scholarship. We provide assistance to faculty members, administrators, and students from conceptual development and planning through implementation and management of funded projects. Assistance is provided in identifying potential extramural funding sources; developing proposal narratives and budgets; completing standardized application forms; assuring compliance with all applicable federal and state regulations; negotiating grant awards and contracts; and administering funded projects.

As part of its We the People program, NEH is collaborating with the American Library Association (ALA) to present the We the People Bookshelf, a program that encourages young people to read classic books and explore themes in American history, culture, and ideas. School (K-12) and public libraries are invited to apply for fifteen thematically related books that embody the theme of the "Pursuit of Happiness."

Successful applicants will receive fifteen classic hardcover books for young readers, all related to the "Pursuit of Happiness" theme. In addition, libraries will receive four of these books in Spanish translation, a bonus CD with traditional music featured in the Little House series of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and supplementary materials for programming, including bookplates, bookmarks, and posters.

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Fellowship - $500
Fellowship is available to faculty and independent scholars who are within the first five years of receipt of their Ph.D and advanced doctoral candidates with a demonstrable need for specific collections necessary for their dissertation also are encouraged to apply.

Robert R. Palmer Research Travel Fellowship - $500
Supports documentary research related primarily to the history and culture of France.

Richard H. Popkin Research Travel Fellowship - $250
Supplement costs for scholars to travel to collections in North America and abroad

Theodore E.D. Braun Research Travel Fellowship - $500
1) Supports documentary research on Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan or (2) non-tenured persons working on Voltaire, or (3) to support researchers, regardless of rank, who are working in French literary studies.

Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship - $500
Supports researchers whose projects necessitate work in archives, repositories, and special collections (public and private) in foreign countries and/or in the United States.

Deadline: January 1, 2007 - must be member of ASECS

American Research Center in Egypt

The program is intended to fund research on economic, business, social, and policy issues important to station managers and other decision-makers in the U.S. commercial broadcast industry.

Topics listed below typify the kinds of issues that are most frequently raised in discussions among broadcast managers; however, proposals may include any of a variety of other issues.

Evolution of consumer media habits
Impact of new technologies
Local station identification and branding in a digital environment
Consumer adoption of HD radio
Effective uses of television and radio with other media forms
Development of improved media audience metrics
New audience measurement technologies
Importance of television and radio broadcasting to local and national economies
Digital television format options
Provision and effectiveness of local news programming
Impact of non-response on media research
Training tomorrow's broadcasters

Deadline: January 31, 2007

Council of American Overseas Research Centers: Fellowships for Advanced Multi-Country Research

The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. CAORC member centers to which fellows may affiliate include the American Academy in Rome; the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman; the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (Tunisia and Morocco); the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies; the American Institute for Yemeni Studies; the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies; the American Institute of Indian Studies; the American Institute of Iranian Studies; the American Institute of Pakistan Studies; the American Research Center in Egypt; the American Research Institute in Turkey; the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; the Center for Khmer Studies, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; the Mexico-North Research Network, the Palestinian American Research Center; the West African Research Association (West African Region); and the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Given changing restrictions to many countries, applicants should contact CAORC before preparing a proposal. It is anticipated that approximately ten awards of up to $9,000 each will be given to scholars who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in at least one of the countries which host overseas research centers: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal/West Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Bank/Gaza Strip and Yemen, as well as in other countries unless subject to official security and/or travel restrictions or warnings. Research in Nepal is possible via the Center for South Asia Libraries. Fellows are required to obtain their own research permissions in countries that do not host centers.

Deadline: January 12, 2007

American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society offers short-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable for one to three months each year. AAS also offers long-term fellowships, intended for scholars beyond the doctorate. The following short-term fellowships are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research. Candidates holding a recognized terminal degree appropriate to the area of proposed research, such as the master's degree in library science or M.F.A., are also eligible to apply. A single form is used to apply for short-term fellowships offered by the Society in each of the categories below; a link to obtaining application material follows the description of each of the fellowships the Society offers.

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships are for research on any topic supported by the collections.
Further information
The Legacy Fellowship, also for research on any topic supported by the collections
Further information
Stephen Botein Fellowships are for research in the history of the book in American culture.
Further information
The Joyce Tracy Fellowship is for research on newspapers and magazines or for projects using these resources as primary documentation.
Further information
AAS-Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowships are for research in literary history of America and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that can be supported by the collections of the American Antiquarian Society.
Further information
AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowships are for research on projects related to the American eighteenth century.
Further information
American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship is for research on American prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or for projects using prints as primary documentation.
Further information
The Reese Fellowship supports research in American bibliography and projects in the history of the book in America.
Further information
The "Drawn to Art" Fellowship supports research on American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources.
Further information
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships are for research on American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources.
Further information
The Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship is jointly funded by the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) and AAS. Application for this short-term fellowship is made through the DGfA. Scholars in American studies at the dissertation or habilitation research level at a university in Germany are eligible to apply.
Application deadline: January 21, 2007
Further information

Deadline for all fellowships (excluding Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship - see above): January 15, 2007

USDA: National Research Initiative

National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants Program for fiscal year (FY) 2007 supports (1) high priority fundamental and mission-linked research of importance in the biological, environmental, physical, and social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, and the environment and (2) competitively awarded research, extension, and education grants addressing key issues of national and regional importance to agriculture, forestry, and related topics.

Deadline: February 14, 2007

American Educational Research Association

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are: (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. Research topics may cover a wide range of policy- or practice-related issues that include but are not limited to: teachers and teaching, including supply, quality, and demand; policies and practices related to student achievement and assessment; policies and practices that influence student and parental attitudes; contextual factors (individual, curricular, and school related) in education; educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through career entry); at-risk students; early childhood education; US education in an international context; school finance; materials (curriculum) development, research and informal science education; undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics education; the supply (pipeline) of students taking mathematics and science courses; the quality of educational institutions; and methodological studies. Researchers must include the analysis of data from at least one NSF or NCES data set in the project. Additional large-scale nationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.

Deadline: January 5, 2007