Deadline Dates

Nov. 1

Alzheimer Society of Canada: Claude P. Beaubien Award of Excellence

Associated Medical Services, Inc. (through the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine): Bioethics Grant-in-Aid; Grant-in-Aid ; Postdoctoral Fellowships

Canada Council: Killam Prizes

Canadian Heritage (Department of): Canadian Studies and Youth Programs

Centre for Jewish Studies (York University): Research Grants in Canadian Jewish Studies

Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.): Research Grants; Project Grants; Summer Fellowships

French (John Douglas) Alzheimer's Foundation: Fellowship

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): DAAD-Leo Baeck Institute Grants; Information Visits; Research Grants for Recent PhDs and PhD Candidates; Study Visit Research Grants for Faculty

Health and Human Services (U.S. Department of): Competing Continuation, Supplemental and Revised Grants

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada: Junior Personnel Awards (Research Fellowship); Scientific Fellowships in Prevention Research; Stroke Investigator Award; Women's Heart Disease and Stroke Foundation Fellowship Award

International Society of Arboriculture Research Trust: John Z. Duling Grant

Medical Research Council (MRC): Research Personnel Programs (Centennial Fellowships, Fellowships)

National Institute of Nutrition: Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

NATO: Science Program: Cooperative Science and Technology (related to "Physical and Engineering Science")

NSERC: Equipment Grants; Research Grants; Space, Astronomy and Relativity Project Research Grants (full application due; advance material due September 15); University Faculty Awards

SSHRC: Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences in Canada and International Congresses in Canada; Federalism and Federations Program (Aid to Research Conferences)

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

York University (administered by ORA): Mariano A. Elia Research Fund; Research Development Fellowship; Specific Research Grant

Nov. 5

Calgary Institute for the Humanities: Postdoctoral Fellowships

Nov. 12

Association for Canadian Studies: Visiting Faculty Lecturer Programme

Ontario Mental Health Foundation: Fellowships; John Dewan Prize; Henry Oscar Hopper Fellowship on Mental Health Services for Children (full application due; interested applicants must contact Executive Director by August 31); Paul Christie Memorial Prize

Research Development Fellowship

The Research Development Fellowship is to provide faculty members with a period of time during which his/her teaching or professional responsibilities and service commitments are reduced or eliminated thereby enabling the individual to devote more time and energy to a particular project. The Administration shall offer, on a competitive basis, up to four Research Development Fellowships from a fund consisting of the equivalent of twelve course directorships.

Deadline: Nov. 1 to Dean's Office for ranking; Nov. 15 to ORA.

SSHRC

Major Collaborative Research Initiatives

SSHRC provides support for major collaborative research initiatives of up to $2.5 million over five years with the objective of strengthening Canadian research capacity in the social sciences and humanities, with emphasis on promoting high quality research and training in a collaborative environment. The specific objectives of the program are to: * promote collaborative research (including research networks), that meets international standards of excellence, as a central mode of research activity in the social sciences and humanities; * provide opportunities for training students and young researchers in a collaborative research environment; * strengthen collaborative research activity in the social sciences and humanities both within and between disciplines, increase collaboration with the other sciences, and promote the development of partnerships between universities and private and public sector groups; * foster unique opportunities to collaborate in international research activities involving many research interests and agencies; and * involve postsecondary institutions in long-term commitments for the development of unique large-scale research initiatives.

Deadline: Nov. 15 draft letters of intent must be submitted to ORA; Jan. 17 to SSHRC.

Sabbatical Leave Fellowship

These funds are to provide sabbaticants with assistance in covering direct research costs associated with a program of work. Costs can include employment of research assistants, photocopying, computer equipment, books, stationery, films and tapes, local and non-local travel. Applicants going on sabbatical in 2000-2001, may request up to 10 per cent of academic base salary to a maximum of $10,000 on any one grant.

Deadline: Jan. 15.

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).