Site Migration!

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Find the new graduate funding site at http://ucsdgraduatefunding.wordpress.com/. The new site features a search function, tags, and categories. As always, your feedback is always appreciated.

See you at the new site!

China Scholarship Program Opportunity for UC Students

Chinese government scholarship program available for foreign, e.g. non-Chinese, undergraduate students, graduate students and “scholars” to study and conduct research in selected Chinese universities. See below for the program description and application forms (in both Chinese and English). More information can also be found at:
http://www.csc.edu.cn/Lianhua/b9284d4ed8144529bc880978a1b0c97a.shtml (Please note that you need to scroll down past the initial Chinese section to get to the English program description). While the amount of financial support is rather limited, this program may be of significant interest particularly to UC students planning to spend time in China.

* * The application deadline is April 15 for 2009/2010 academic year. * *

The application materials should be mailed to the addresses below, and applicants can contact the Education Offices directly if they have further questions.

Please read the Program_description.doc for more details (Please note that you need to scroll down past the initial Chinese section to get to the English program description).

Fill out both application_form1.pdf and application_form2.pdf and mail to the contacts listed below.

Northern California:
Ms. Yan Li, Consul
Education Office
Chinese Consulate in San Francisco
San Francisco，CA94115
1450 Laguana Street.
Phone contact: 415-674-2957

Southern California:
Education Office
Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles
443 Shatto Place
Los Angeles, CA90020
Phone contact: 213-807-8023

DoD Autism Research Program - Funding Opportunities

The Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) Defense Appropriations Act provides $8 million to the Department of Defense Autism Research Program (ARP) to support high-impact, innovative research to improve the lives of individuals with autism spectrum disorders now. This program is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). The Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) Department of Defense Autism Research Program (ARP) has released the following funding opportunities:

Submission Deadlines:

Clinical Trial Award
Pre-Application (Preproposal): March 17, 2009
Invited Proposal: July 22, 2009

Idea Award
Pre-Application (Preproposal): March 17, 2009
Invited Proposal: July 22, 2009

Concept Award
Pre-Application Letter of Intent: June 24, 2009
Proposal: July 15, 2009

For more information and instructions, please see the FY09 Autism Research Program (ARP) Announcement. Best of luck!

REMINDER: DoD Pre-Application Deadlines this week!

Pre-application deadlines for various DoD Funding Opportunities are this week! See below for application links and instructions.

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DoD_Consortium_Development_Award_Application_Instructions.doc---DoD_Idea_Development_Award.pdf (Pre-application deadline: March 2, 2009; Proposal deadline: June 2, 2009)

DoD_Idea_Development_Award_Application_Instructions.pdf---DOD_Collaborative_Translational_Research_Award.pdf (Pre-application deadline: March 2, 2009; Proposal deadline: June 2, 2009)

DoD_Collaborative_Translational_Research_Award_Application_Instructions.pdf
Labels: (OCRP), Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program

Joseph Naiman Graduate Fellowship

Joseph Naiman Graduate Fellowship - Mini Grants for Japanese Studies

Details:
The Program in Japanese Studies is pleased encouraging graduate students in Japanese Studies to apply for a Joseph Naiman Graduate Fellowship. These mini-grants are intended for summer and academic research for 2008-2009. Applicants can apply for up to $10,000 to support research and study on Japan.

Deadline: Friday, May 8, 2009
Award Amount: $10,000

Please submit: 4 sets of copies containing your CV, grant proposal, budget (rough estimate of how you plan to spend the money if awarded), two letters of recommendation from UCSD faculty, and other sources of funding (pending or committed. Please include any financial aid you are currently receiving or will receive)) by Friday, May, 8, 2009.

Mail proposals to:
UCSD, Program in Japanese Studies
9500 Gilman Drive #0104
La Jolla, CA 92093-0104

Contact:
Kinuko Kanda
(858) 534-3598
japan@ucsd.edu

NIH deadline coming up - IMPORTANT UPDATES!

For all graduate students who are planning to submit NIH/NRSA applications for the April 8th deadline, we need those forms to review 2 weeks PRIOR to the NIH deadline. That means you need to get them to me by tomorrow; Wednesday, March 25.

To view the forms you will need, please go here. You can also download and review the instructions from that page.

Also, OGS will now require the NRSA assurance form, which can be found here.

Please email me if you have any questions. Best of luck!

Intel 2009-2010 PhD Fellowship Program

To see requirements for this award, please click on the following SURF link.

Part of the eligibility requirements for this award include being a a U.S. citizen, or someone from a controlled country. Students from embargoed countries are not eligible.

CONTROLLED
Albania
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Cambodia
China
Georgia
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Libya
Macau
Moldova
Mongolia
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

EMBARGOED
Burma (Myanmar)+
Cuba
Iran
North Korea
Sudan
Syria

Workshop: Grantwriting for the Sciences

GRANTWRITING FOR THE SCIENCES *
Thursday, February 5, 2009
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Garren Auditorium, Biomedical Sciences Building, SOM

Success in academe, particularly in a research institution, can often be correlated with success in grantwriting. CTD is providing this opportunity for graduate students, TAs, and postdoctoral fellows to explore the issues involved in effective grantwriting--what are the components that, if known and well-executed, can equate with success?

Peter Wagner, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering, will lead this session. Dr. Wagner has written on this topic for The Physiologist and will share copies of his article, "On writing a grant application: a personal view."

*Although this presentation is geared to grantwriting in the sciences, you may attend even if you are in another discipline. Several participants from other disciplines have indicated that the information provided has been very useful.

Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP)

The Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) Defense Appropriations Act provides $8 million to the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) to support innovative research to eradicate ovarian cancer. This program is administered by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). A summary of OCRP funding opportunities is provided below. Detailed descriptions of each of the funding mechanisms, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the FY09 OCRP Program Announcements. Each Program Announcement is available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website , the CDMRP website, and the CDMRP eReceipt Website .

As of 2007, proposals requesting funding from the CDMRP have been submitted through the Federal Government's single entry portal, Grants.gov, in compliance with Public Law 106-107. Individual program announcements and required forms can be found on the Grants.gov website. Pre-applications are required and must be submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website prior to proposal submission to Grants.gov.

To download the program announcements and application instructions, please click on the following:

DoD_Consortium_Development_Award.doc (Pre-application deadline: January 13, 2009; Proposal deadline: February 6, 2009)
DoD_Consortium_Development_Award_Application_Instructions.doc

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DoD_Idea_Development_Award.pdf (Pre-application deadline: March 2, 2009; Proposal deadline: June 2, 2009)
DoD_Idea_Development_Award_Application_Instructions.pdf

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DOD_Collaborative_Translational_Research_Award.pdf (Pre-application deadline: March 2, 2009; Proposal deadline: June 2, 2009)
DoD_Collaborative_Translational_Research_Award_Application_Instructions.pdf

CILAS 2009 Grant Competition – Applications due March 6

CILAS 2009 Grant Competition

The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the 2009 CILAS Grant Competition. Awards range from academic year and summer language fellowships to travel grants for pre-dissertation and dissertation research. A brief description of each grant can be found below. More detailed information and application instruction are available on the CILAS Fellowship and Grants website.

Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: AY-FLAS is an award offered to students that wish to improve their language skills in Brazilian Portuguese, Zapotec or advanced Spanish at UCSD. The award pays resident or non-resident fees, plus a $15,000 stipend to be paid in ten $1,500 installments throughout the academic year. Eligibility: All graduate students who are accepted for enrollment or who are enrolled in a program that requires modern foreign language training.

Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: This fellowship is for students who wish to enroll in intensive language programs at the beginning, intermediate, or advanced level. S-FLAS fellowships are broken down into two awards. The first award is a stipend in the amount of $2500. This can be used for any expenses incurred during the language program. The second award is paid directly to the sponsoring institution which covers tuition. This award is up to $4,000. Eligibility: All graduate students who are accepted for enrollment or who are enrolled in a program that requires modern foreign language training.

CILAS Dissertation Field Research Grants: The CILAS Dissertation Grants are for field research between June 2008 and May 2009. Awards range from $500 to $2000. The awards may be used for travel and research in Latin America or the Iberian Peninsula. Eligibility: All UCSD PhD graduate students in good standing are welcome to apply. Past recipients of CILAS field research grants are not eligible for this competition.

Tinker Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant: The Tinker Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant awards are for pre-dissertation field research for travel outside the United States (i.e. to Spain, Portugal, Brazil or Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America), for a minimum of 4 weeks and a maximum of 4 months between June 2009 and May 2010. Awards range from $500 to $1,500.

Eligibility: All UCSD graduate students conducting pre-dissertation research.

There will be a mandatory informational session on Friday, February 13 at 2:00 pm in the Deutz Room in the Institute of the Americas Complex.

**Applications are due no later than Friday, March 6 by 4:00 pm.**

Please contact Erin Burgoon CILAS Grants Coordinator, with any questions.

Google Scholarship for future Computer Scientists

The Google Scholarship program is currently accepting applications from students studying computer science or computer engineering who are juniors or seniors in college or pursuing a Master's or PhD. We have received few applications so far, and have $200,000 in scholarship funds to award this year.

Individual scholarships are for $10,000. Selected students will be invited to an all-expenses paid trip to the Google Headquarters in California in spring 2010.

How to apply: For more information AND to apply, please go to http://scholarships.hispanicfund.org/google.

Application Deadline: March 15, 2009

Eligibility Requirements:
Must be of Hispanic background
Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident residing in the United States
Must be studying full-time in the United States or Puerto Rico
Must have a minimum GPA of a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale
Must demonstrate financial need
Must be a junior or senior undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in computer science or computer engineering for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Selected students will benefit from:
· Scholarship is $10,000 to cover tuition and fees
· An all-expenses paid trip to the Google Headquarters in California in spring 2010
· The opportunity to win a trip to Washington, D.C.
- Network with influential leaders and executives
- Learn career skills through workshops and mentoring
- Attend the Annual Hispanic College Fund Scholarship Awards Gala

If you have any questions, please contact Auri Duarte.

UCSD Graduate Students in the Press

Read about UCSD graduate students making waves in the research world at This Week at UCSD!

Postdoctoral Opportunity - National Research Council of the National Academies

As you know, the National Research Council of the National Academies sponsors a number of awards for postdoctoral and senior researchers at federal laboratories. These awards provide generous stipends ($42,000 - $72,000 per year for recent Ph.D. recipients and higher for additional experience), and the opportunity to do independent research in some of the best-equipped and staffed laboratories in the country.

Detailed program information, including instructions on how to apply online and a list of participating laboratories, is available on the NRC Research Associateship Programs Web site at:
www.national-academies.org/rap

Questions should be directed to the NRC at 202-334-2760 (phone) or rap@nas.edu.

There will be four review cycles annually. Upcoming deadline dates are:

November 1, 2008
February 1, 2009
May 1, 2009
August 1, 2009

Applicants should begin a dialogue with prospective Advisers at the lab as early as possible, before their anticipated application deadline.

Pacific Rim Research Grant UCSD Internal Deadline - January 9

Hello to all those who may be applying for a grant in the UCSD Pacific Rim Research Project (PRRP). The UCSD internal deadline will be January 9, 2009 - NO EXCEPTIONS!

To see the call for proposals, a sample of an approved budget, and for general information on the PRRP, please visit http://www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/.

**I will be out of the office from December 25 until January 12, so please plan accordingly and ask your questions early!**

Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship - Internal Deadline Now Set!

For those applying for the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship, the UCSD internal deadline has now been set! Please turn in ALL application materials and copies to the Office of Graduate Studies by January 12, 2009.

**There will be no exceptions to this deadline, so please plan accordingly!!**

2009 IICAS Human Rights Fellowship

University of California Human Rights Fellowship Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, UC San Diego
The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies is pleased to announce the annual competition for student fellowships with human rights organizations. Fellows will receive $3,500 each. The fellowship is available to students from several U.C. campuses. Registered students at U.C. Berkeley, Hastings College of the Law, U.C. Santa Cruz, U.C. Irvine, and U.C. San Diego are eligible. Two fellowships in Social Documentary are available for registered students at U.C. Santa Cruz.

Award Amount: $3,500
Award Duration: May - September (along with a conference in November)
How to Apply: See the application instructions
Deadline to apply: Monday, March 9, 2009

For more information and application procedures, please visit the IICAS 2009 Human Rights Fellowship page.