Deadline Dates

Dec. 1

Bibliographical Society of America: Fellowship Program

Bickell (J.P.) Foundation: Medical Research Grants-in-Aid

Canada Council: Molson Prize; John G. Diefenbaker Award (drafts due in ORA Oct. 1)

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: Fellowships in Breast Cancer Research

Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB): E.A. Baker Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness (Fellowships, Research Fund for New Researchers)

Environmental Science and Technology Alliance Canada (ESTAC): Request for Research Proposals

Imperial Oil Limited: University Research Grants Program

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh): Fellowships

International Union Against Cancer: Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grants

Japan Foundation: Open Programs

John Templeton Foundation: Course Competition (preliminary application due; final application due early/mid-March)

National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC): Terry Fox New Frontiers Initiative

NATO: Cooperative Science and Technology (themes related to "Life Sciences" and "Environmental & Earth Sciences")

Rockefeller Foundation: Humanities Fellowships

Royal Society of Canada (in conjunction with the University of Toronto): Konrad Adenauer Research Award (full nomination due; deadline to notify ORA of nomination is Oct. 1)

Social Science Research Council (US): Vietnam Advanced Research Grants

University of Calgary - Gorbachev Foundation: Joint Trust Fund

Whitaker Foundation: Biomedical Engineering Research Grants (preliminary applications due; full application due Feb. 1)

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, D.C.): Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: Short-Term Grants

York University (administered by ORA): York Incentive Grant

Dec. 5

Health & Human Services (US Department of): Individual National Research Service Award

mid-December

American Institute for Cancer Research: Collaborative Research Grant; Investigator Initiated Research Grant; Matching Grant; Postdoctoral Awards

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: Research Grants; Scholar Awards; Scientific Awards

National Academy of Education (Stanford University): Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Rockefeller Foundation

Humanities Fellowships

The Rockefeller Foundation is seeking nine new institutions to host visiting scholars for eight to ten months. Of particular interest are programs that seek to understand global interactions of belief and value systems or to analyze the impact of the mobility of ideas and people on an increasingly global civil society. The Foundation will pay institutions up to $35,000 (US) in salary to the visiting scholar, plus $2,000 (US) towards travel, benefits, and relocation costs.

Deadline: Dec. 1.

York Seminar

in Advanced Research

Funds are available to support a forum in which a small group of distinguished scholars working in closely related fields can consult extensively on a particular theme. The seminar aims to foster, in an appropriate environment, informal yet deep disussion, exploration of the limits of specialized fields, and enduring professional and intellectual contacts. The recipients will receive $7,500, plus a graduate assistant to support the seminar during the 2000-2001 academic year.

Deadline: Nov. 30.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Interdisciplinary Health Research Teams

CIHR is offering up to $4 million during the 2000-2001 fiscal year to support teams of five or more researchers who will pool their expertise, different perspectives and resources to address or resolve an important health research issue. Teams invited to submit full proposals may be offered developmental grants of $5,000-$15,000 to assist in preparation of their proposals or in expanding their network of partners and programs of activities to consolidate the collaboration.

Deadline: Jan. 17 for letters of intent; June 5 for full proposals.

SSHRC

Community Alliances for Health Research (CAHR)

Up to $4 million in funding will be available in the 2000-2001 fiscal year to foster high-quality research of relevance to community groups and agencies, in the four themes of health research-biomedical, applied clinical, health services and systems, the social and cultural determinants of health and through partnership with researchers based in local universities, hospitals and other not-for-profit institutions.

Deadline: Jan. 17 for letters of intent; June 5 for full proposals.

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).