Sabbatical Leave Fellowship Fund

ORA would like to remind 1999-2000 sabbaticants that applications to the Sabbatical Leave Fellowship fund are due on January 15. These research funds are intended to provide sabbaticants with funds to cover direct research costs associated with a program of work. Costs can include employment of research assistants, photocopying, computers, equipment, books, stationery, films and tapes, and travel. Applicants may request up to 10 per cent of academic base salary, to a maximum of $10,000.

Deadline: January 15

NSERC

Extended Hours

ORA is extending its office hours until 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, October 28 and 29 to assist those faculty members submitting applications to the upcoming NSERC competitions for research and equipment grants. Applications must be received by NSERC in Ottawa by November 2. ORA will undertake to forward all applications to NSERC which are received in ORA by noon on October 29.

Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology

Singapore-Ontario Joint Research Program

The Singapore-Ontario Joint Research Program supports research in the fields of: environmental and resource management technologies; biotechnologies; communications and information technologies; manufacturing and materials technologies. The aim of this program is to encourage technological cooperation through strategic alliances, at the individual level among research scientists and engineers, at the institutional level and between companies of both regions. The fund provides up to S$200,000 for the Singapore component of the project and Can$200,000 for the Ontario component. The funding can be augmented by industry and/or other organization. The duration of the funding is two years.

Deadline: October 28

SSHRC

Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI)

Faculty members who are submitting a letter of intent to SSHRC's MCRI program must submit a draft to ORA by November 15. MCRI provides large-scale funding of up to $2.5 million for up to five years to social science and humanities research projects. The main objective of the program is to strengthen Canadian research capacity in the social sciences and humanities, with emphasis on promoting high quality research and training in a collaborative environment.

Deadlines: Draft letters of intent due in ORA by November 15; letters of intent due at SSHRC by January 15

Deadline Dates

November 13

Association for Canadian Studies: Visiting Faculty Lecturer Program

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation: Research Grant Program (letter of intent due)

Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation: Research Development Fellowships; Research Grants

Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Fellowships; Henry Oscar Hopper Fellowship on Mental Health Services for Children; John Dewan Prize; Paul Christie Memorial Prize

mid-November

Association of Universities & Colleges of Canada (AUCC): Special Grants Program for Japanese Studies in Canada; Tanaka Fund Program for Japanese Language Studies

November 15

Canadian Anaesthetists' Society: MRC Fellowships

Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation: Swedish Institute Guest Scholarships

Foundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the United States of America: The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program

Harry Oppenheimer Institute for African Studies (University of Cape Town): Research Fellowship in African Studies; Visiting Associate in African Studies

NSERC: NATO Science Fellowships; Postdoctoral Fellowships

San Diego Foundation: Blasker Award for Environmental Science and Engineering

SSHRC: Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (draft letters of intent due in ORA; letter of intent due at SSHRC on January 15; full application due June 30)

Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford University): External Faculty Fellowships

University of British Columbia: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowships

November 21

Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research: Research Grants (full application due; preproposal due Sept. 15)

mid-/late November

Lithoprobe: Call for Applications for University Supporting Geoscience Projects

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) would like to remind faculty members of these research opportunities with upcoming deadlines. Deadlines listed are those of the granting agencies. Applications for external sources of funding (i.e., outside York) must be submitted to ORA before forwarding them to the agencies. To assist in meeting these deadlines, it is recommended that applications be submitted to ORA one to two weeks prior to the deadline dates.

For more information, please contact ORA at -55055 in S414 Ross Building (e-mail: research@yorku.ca).