Upcoming Deadline - WSU Rural Mental Health & Substance Abuse Research Seed Grants

The immediate objective of the RMHSAT program is to develop, modify, and implement evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for substance abuse and mental illness for use in rural areas of Washington state.

The program will fund up to two highly rated proposals up to a maximum of $25,000. Proposals must be submitted by May 1, 2011.
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Now Available: OGRD YouTube Channel

OGRD has created a YouTube channel with helpful tips and information in preparing proposal materials, eREX forms, proposal and award processing, and locating funding opportunities. The channel also provides trouble-shooting resources. To find out more, go to youtube.com/user/WSUOGRD

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Guidance on Submission of RAPID Proposals to ENG, CISE, and OISE on the 2011 Earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand

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Summary: CISE, ENG, and OISE will provide a number of small awards (average $50,000) for timely studies that require perishable field data from the above site. Subjects may include:
   • Tsunami generation: run-up and impact on the natural
      and built environments.
   • Geotechnical systems performance: site characterization &
      documentation of liquefaction, lateral spreading, landslides,
      soil/structure interaction…
   • Structural and nonstructural systems performance: buildings,
      bridges, industrial units, techniques for rapid assessment of
      buildings, sensor based tracking.
   • Critical infrastructure/lifeline systems performance: water
      & food supply, housing, wastewater, power, banking, healthcare…
   • Emergency preparedness, response and relief: sensor-based
      technology, imagery, robots, organizational process, warnings…

Recent Award Recipients

David Pietz (history) was awarded a $60,500 fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study School of Historical Studies. Pietz will spend the 2011–2012 academic year sustaining the writing of his project entitled "Engineering a State of Nature: Hydraulic Transformations of the Yellow River Valley, 1949–99." The project is a "multidisciplinary inquiry into the historical development and consequences of water scarcity in China, and will fundamentally revise our understanding of China's environmental transitions."

More information about IAS funding opportunities can be found at ias.edu/special.

In her project entitled "Contemporary and Traditional Musics of Thailand," Keri McCarthy (music) was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Thailand. The fellowship allows McCarthy to "teach oboe lessons, reed making, and Literature Courses I–II, and a music history course on the development of the American musical language." Additionally, McCarthy will collaborate with "four internationally-recognized Bangkok composers in creating a new body of repertoire for oboe duo based on Thai musical traditions and western performance practices."

To locate current Fulbright Fellowships, please visit fulbright.state.gov/grants.html.

Andrew Duff (anthropology) was awarded $5,000 from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management. The "Chaco Frontier Communities Project: Intensive Field Documentation of Archaeological Resources in Catron County, New Mexico" is part of a multi-year assistance agreement and will fund field work in west-central New Mexico that will be undertaken by WSU anthropology graduate students and a former anthropology undergraduate student.

For a listing of the Department of the Interior's grants, go to recovery.doi.gov/press/doi-funding-opportunities.
 

The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded $4,325 to William Lipe (anthropology) for his project called "Puebloan Cultural Landscapes of Central Cedar Mesa, Utah." The funds will support an anthropology graduate student's research on the preliminary characterization of the recently recognized Puebloan cultural landscape of central Cedar Mesa.

National Trust for Historic Preservation offers several types of financial assistance. Funding opportunities can be found at preservationnation.org/resources/find-funding.
 

Elizabeth Fussell (sociology) received a $29,433 subcontract from Princeton University, in collaboration on the National Institute of Health proposal entitled "Adversity and Resilience: Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Vulnerable Populations." This project will examine how a group of low-income parents from New Orleans—most of whom are single African American women—have coped with the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Current NIH Response Grants to Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies can be found at grants.nih.gov/grants/natural_disasters.htm.
 

Bryan Vila (criminal justice, WSU Spokane) was awarded $294,000 from the California Department of Justice for his project "PRÉCIS: Design for an Experimental Test of the Impact of Work-Related Fatigue on Police Officer Vehicle Collision Risk." The research will use "controlled laboratory experiments to assess the cumulative impact a police patrol officer's average work week has on the risk of his or her being involved in a traffic collision during routine vehicle operations—either on the job or during the drive home." Furthermore, this research will study the "interactions between fatigue and distraction load in emergency and non-emergency driving."

Information about DOJ grants and funding can be found at ncjrs.gov/fedgrant.html.
 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.9 billion (FY 2010), NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science, and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

NSF is a major funding source for the social sciences, including political science, psychology, sociology, and economics. NSF is the top funding agency for the College of Liberal Arts, totaling $5,948,498 in awarded funds over the past five years.


Resources for Faculty Applying to NSF

   • Contact the GFS team to set up an appointment discussing NSF prospects.
   • Visit the NSF website.
   • NSF timetable for proposal preparation and submission at WSU.
   • Dr. Stephen Russell's Write Winning Grants Seminar presented at WSU each fall.


NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG)

The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) (formerly the Division of Science Resources Statistics [SRS]), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible.

The following programs support dissertation research:

   • Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
   • Archaeology
   • Cultural Anthropology
   • Geography and Spatial Sciences
   • Linguistics
   • Physical Anthropology
   • Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
   • Decision, Risk & Management Science
   • Economics
   • Law & Social Science
   • Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics
   • Political Science
   • Science, Technology, and Society
   • Sociology
   • National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)
   • Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics
   • SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities
   • Science of Science and Innovation Policy

For a list of program officers, please visit the SBE Doctoral Dissertation Contact List.

Due dates vary across programs, with most occurring in the summer. Please consult the relevant program's website for more information.