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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources

September 30. Supports projects that have the potential to improve student learning in STEM through development of new curricular materials and methods of instruction, and development of new assessment tools to measure student learning. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replications of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings. IUSE: EHR also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development.

Award Ceiling: $3,000,000

Award Floor: $300,000

 Apply: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf17590

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Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) 

Open until January 8, 2020. This initiative encourages research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Investing in early childhood development is essential. Specific targeted areas of research include bio-behavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (e.g., physical and family environments) social (e.g., peers), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that test, evaluate, translate, and disseminate health promotion prevention and interventions conducted in traditional and non -traditional settings

Award Ceiling: Approx. $200,000

Award Floor:

Apply: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-18-169.html

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Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

Open until January 8, 2020. This initiative seeks applications that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males age 18 and older.

Award Ceiling: $200,000

Award Floor:

Apply: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-18-162.html

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PAR-19-071 

Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Department of Health and Human Services

National Institutes of Health

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications proposing new tests, animal models, techniques, etc. to advance research on Alzheimer's disease and its related dementias and which need additional preliminary data with broader dissemination to establish them for more general use in this research field. The priority topics will be announced through a series of Notices published subsequent to this FOA.

Closing Date for Applications: Nov 12, 2021

Award Floor: 

Award Ceiling: $200,000

Apply: https://www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?oppId=310376