Deadline Dates

April 30

Canada Council: Walter Carson Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts

Hospital for Sick Children Foundation: New Investigators Grants Program

International Development Research Centre (IDRC): Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health Academic Fellowships (letter of intent due; full application is due June 30)

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation: Research Grants (letters of intent due; full applications due Sept. 30)

Science and Technology Foundation of Japan: Japan Prize

Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada: Major Research Grant for Biomedical Research into Intellectual Impairment

SSHRC: Canadian Tobacco Research Initiative Policy Research Grants (a strategic joint initiative with the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC)

von Humboldt (Alexander) Foundation: Wolfgang Paul Programme

York University (administered by ORA): SSHRC Conference Travel Grant

Early May

Canadian Agri-Food Research Council: Climate Change Funding Initiative in Agriculture

Change Foundation: Research Grants (letter of intent due; full application due early August)

Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CanFAR): Research Grants (up to $25,000)

McLean Foundation: Research Grants

Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Study and Conference Centre): Individual, Collaborative and Parallel Residencies; Workshops and Teams

May 1

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Awards at the Scientific Interface

Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation: Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Distinguished Scientist Award for Schizophrenia Research

Centre for Accounting Ethics (University of Waterloo): Research Grants

EJLB Foundation: Scholar Research Programme (letter of intent due; full application due in late September)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Special Programs: Information Visits

National Institutes of Health (U.S.): AIDS-related Grants

International Society of Arboriculture Research Trust: Hyland R. Johns Grant Program

NATO: Science Program (Cooperative Science and Technology related to 'Security-Related Civil Science')

Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE): Networks of Centres of Excellence Program (letter of intent due; full application due Oct. 2)

Research Corporation: Research Innovation Awards; Research Opportunity Awards

SSHRC: Aid to Occasional Research Conferences and International Congresses in Canada

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.: Regular Grants, Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships)

NSER/SSHRC/
Canadian Forest Service

Forest Research Partnerships Program

This strategic joint initiative is intended to support forestry-related, university-based research that will promote the sustainable development of forests, the forest industry, and the communities that depend on the forests. It is intended that the research will help integrate environmental, social and economic values, while allowing stakeholders to better understand the complexity of the ecosystem and the importance of this valuable natural resource. Projects are funded according to a matching funds formula; CFS/NSERC/SSHRC may contribute a maximum of two dollars for every dollar invested by the supporting organization(s). Grants can be made for up to three years.

Deadline: Applications may be submitted at anytime.

SSHRC/National Cancer Institute
of Canada (NCIC)

Canadian Tobacco Research Initiative Policy Research Grants

Deadline: April 30.

This joint initiative between SSHRC and NCIC is intended to stimulate research that will influence and guide policy decisions in tobacco control, or have a direct impact on policy decisions in tobacco control, to develop Canada's policy research capacity on tobacco control, and to develop effective public policy around important issues in tobacco control. There are two types of grants: (1) Annual Competitive Cycle Grants, offered on an annual basis, valued at up to $50,000/year for up to three years; and (2) Fast Track Grants, to take advantage of "fleeting opportunities", valued at $25,000 for one year.

Deadline: April 30 for (1) Annual Competitive Cycle Grants. (Note that applications may be submitted at anytime for (2) Fast Track Grants.)

Canada Council

Walter Carson Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts

The purpose of this award is to recognize the highest level of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement by a Canadian professional artist in dance, theatre or music. The prize is awarded on a four-year cycle - in dance, theatre, dance and music. The inaugural prize, to be awarded in 2001, will be in the field of dance. The award recipient will receive $50,000.

Deadline: April 30

(Note that candidates do not apply for the prize; they must be nominated by a member of the Canadian professional performing arts community.)

EJLB Foundation

Scholar Research Program

Up to $300,000/year for three years is available to support new faculty members to conduct research projects in all areas of neuroscience that pertain directly or indirectly to schizophrenia and mental disease.

Deadline: May 1 for letters of intent; late September for the full application

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).