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Research Prizes and Honors
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News and Information
APPLICATIONS FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FUND WANTED
The Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC) is seeking applications for start-up funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Central Texas-based entrepreneurs, inventors and businesses seeking early-stage investment in new, technology-based, private entrepreneurial entities that collaborate with a Texas public or private institution of higher education may qualify. Applications are due July 28, 2009.
Find more information at CenTex RCIC. Call 512-322-5677 or send e-mail.
QuotedUT Researchers in the News
[A sampling of recent quotes by university faculty members and researchers. To be included in this section, let the Research Alert know when you or a colleague have been quoted.]
Wired
July 2009
HEADLINE: Latin Tigre
(From a column about Cuba’s potential tech boom.)
If the US embargo ends, Cuba could become an Ireland-like high tech outsourcing resource. “They’ve got all the skills you need for software programming,” says Kenneth Flamm, professor of international affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Cubans, many of whom study English in school, would be particularly good at “localizing” US software for Latin American markets, Flamm says. Plus, Havana is only an hour’s flight from Miami, making it convenient for offshoring.
Research Opportunities
Important university research deadlines:
Awards and Grants
Limited Submissions
AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT
The University of Texas at Austin Stimulus Package Web page is online.
ARRA: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Recovery Act: Large Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing
Search Fed Connect with reference number: DE-FOA-0000112
Deadline: Aug. 13, 2009
Recovery Act – Early Career Research Program
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Aug. 3, 2009; Application, Sept. 1, 2009
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Observational Studies To Characterize The Determinants Of Exposure To Chemicals In The Environment For Early-Lifestage Age Groups
Deadline: Sept. 3, 2008
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Cancer Synergistic Idea Award
Deadlines: Pre-Application, Aug. 5, 2009; Invitation to submit proposal, Oct. 19, 2009; Proposal, Dec. 9, 2009
Computer Science Study Group (DARPA)
Deadline: Aug. 25, 2009
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Resource Core Alcohol Research Centers
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Nov. 2, 2009; Application, Dec. 2, 2009
Comprehensive Alcohol Research Centers
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Nov. 2, 2009; Application, Dec. 2, 2009
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems
Deadline: Sept. 17, 2009
Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities
Deadline: Sept. 17, 2009
Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics
Deadline: Sept. 17, 2009
ARTS, HUMANITIES AND CULTURE
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Research and Development Grants to individuals
Deadline: Inquiry form, Sept. 15, 2009
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Production and Presentation Grants for individuals and organizations
Deadlines: Inquiry form for individuals, Sept. 15, 2009; Inquiry form for organizations, Feb. 25, 2010
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Fellowships in Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, or Garden and Landscape Studies
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2009
National Endowment for the Humanities in the United States and the German Research Foundation
DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Project Grants
Deadline: Oct. 8, 2009
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Acoustical Society of America
Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics (Opens PDF; Download Adobe Reader.)
Deadline: Postmark, Sept. 1, 2009; in ASA office by Sept. 12, 2009
The John Merck Fund
John Merck Scholars Program in the Biology Of Developmental Disabilities In Children
Deadline: Preliminary proposal, Sept. 15, 2009; Invited Full Proposal, Jan. 15, 2010
Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging
Academic Research Grant Program to further scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for the elderly
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2009
Research Project
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