Global Media Awards (Posted: 8/12/08, Due: 9/1/08)
Awards & Grants :: Global Media Awards
Global Media Awards
The Population Institute’s Global Media Awards are designed to encourage greater media coverage of population and development issues.
The Global Media Awards honor those who have contributed to creating awareness of population problems through their outstanding journalistic endeavors. The awards serve to encourage editors, new directors, and journalists to acquire a more in-depth knowledge of population issues to stimulate high standards for journalism.
Guidelines
1. Entries may be made by any individual or organization from material appearing in print and/or electronic media.
2. Entries must be accompanied by a justification for nomination explaining why this particular entry merits a Media Award.
3. English translations must accompany entries in other languages.
4. Entries may be submitted for more than one category.
5. Eligible works must have been published or aired between September 1, 2007 and September 1, 2008.
6. Seven copies of the entry must be sent to Population Institute.
Categories
1. Best Combined Media Effort
2. Best News Service
3. Best Online News Service
4. Best Individual Reporting Effort
5. Best Magazine Article
6. Best Radio Show
7. Best TV Show
8. Best Editorial Cartoonist
9. Best Print Editorial Columnist
10. Best Broadcast Editorial Commentary
11. Best Online Commentary
12. Best Film
How to Submit
Entries must be sent to:
Global Media Awards Program
Population Institute
107 Second Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
For more information please contact: Jennie or Emily at (202) 544-3300 or e-mail: media@populationinstitute.org.
Deadline
Deadline for entries is September 1, 2008
NIH: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01) (Posted: 7/28/08, Due: 9/8/08)
Title: Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01)
Announcement Type
This is a reissue of PA-07-060.
Program Announcement (PA) Number: PAR-08-212
NOTICE: Applications submitted in response to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Federal assistance must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov) using the SF424 Research and Related (R&R) forms and the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
APPLICATIONS MAY NOT BE SUBMITTED IN PAPER FORMAT.
This FOA must be read in conjunction with the application guidelines included with this announcement in Grants.gov/Apply for Grants (hereafter called Grants.gov/Apply).
A registration process is necessary before submission and applicants are highly encouraged to start the process at least four (4)weeks prior to the grant submission date. See Section IV.
For Assistance downloading this or any Grants.gov application package, please contact Grants.gov Customer Support at http://grants.gov/CustomerSupport
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number(s)
93.393-93.396, 93.399, 93.213, 93.233, 93.837-93.839, 93.865, 93.121, 93.115, 93.853, 93.361, 93.866, 93.273, 93.173, 93.279, 93.286
Key Dates
Release/Posted Date: July 22, 2008
Opening Date: September 5, 2008
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): 30 days prior to standard application due dates
NOTE: On-time submission requires that applications be successfully submitted to Grants.gov no later than 5:00 p.m. local time (of the applicant institution/organization).
Application Due Date(s): Standard dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm
AIDS Application Due Date(s): Standard dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm#AIDS.
Peer Review Date(s): Standard dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm#reviewandaward
Council Review Date(s): Standard dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm#reviewandaward
Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s): Standard dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm#reviewandaward
Additional Information To Be Available Date (URL Activation Date): Not Applicable
Expiration Date: September 8, 2011
2010 General Social Survey (Posted: 7/23/08, Due: 9/1/08)
For the 2010 General Social Survey(GSS) funds are expected from the National Science Foundation(NSF) to support added supplements. Proposals for topics for these NSF-funded modules are solicited from the social science community. The program is described at:
Please note the submission deadline of October 1, 2008
In addition, the GSS expects to have space available on the survey for modules not funded by NSF. Those who want to fund a paid supplement on the 2010 GSS should consult the document at "Guidelines for Paid Supplements to the GSS.
If you have any questions about either program, please contact Tom W. Smith, GSS Director, smitht@norc.uchicago.edu
Nominations Are Being Accepted for the AAAS Scientific Freedom & Responsibility Award (Posted: 7/21/08, Due: 9/1/08)
THE DEADLINE FOR THIS IMPORTANT AWARD IS SEPTEMBER 1, 2008. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Deborah Runkle at 202.326.6794
The award is given to scientists or engineers or their associations whose exemplary actions have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility. Such achievements can include: acting to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; focusing public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates; or establishing important new precedents in carrying out the social responsibilities or in defending the professional freedom of scientists and engineers.
To submit a nomination:
- Send the names, addresses, phone number, and e-mail of both the nominator and the nominee.
- A summary of the action(s) that form the basis for the nomination (about 250 words).
- A longer statement (no more than three pages) providing additional details of the action(s) for which the candidate is nominated.
- The candidate's vita or short biography (no more than three pages).
- Any documentation (books, articles, or other materials) that elucidates the significance of the nominee's achievement may also be submitted. (All materials become property of AAAS.)
Phone calls or e-mail inquiries from persons wishing to make a nomination are welcome, in order to give these individuals guidance before they begin the nomination process.
Deborah Runkle
Senior Program Associate
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1200 New York Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202.326.6794
Fax: 202.289.4950
E-mail: drunkle@aaas.org
This prestigious award has been given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1980. The successful candidate receives a plaque and $5000 and is honored at a lovely ceremony at the AAAS Annual Meeting (next February in Chicago).
The 2007 award was given to James Hanson who defended the integrity of science by defending the rights and responsibilities of scientists, especially those employed by the government, to report honestly and accurately the findings of their scientific studies. When this nationally recognized climate scientist tried to speak out and warn about his research that showed dangerous levels of global warming and the role of humans in this climate change, higher government officials tried to prevent or alter his presentations. Despite threats of action against him, he continued to not only speak out about climate change but also to defend the rights of other government scientists to speak and write without censorship. school boards tried to introduce "intelligent design" (ID) into science classrooms as an alternative to evolutionary science, collectively and singly they fought back, helping to ensure that, at a time when quality K-12 science education is needed more than ever, non-scientific ideas will not enter our classrooms disguised as scientific thinking and methods. The winners were: Dr. Eugenie Scott is the director of the National Center for Science Education), an organization established to defeat the efforts of creationists and ID advocates to have religious ideas of creation inserted into public school curricula in the guise of an alternate scientific theory of natural phenomena; the eight teachers of the science department at the Dover High School who refused to read a statement supporting ID to their students, although directed to do so by the district's superintendent; and Dr. Wesley McCoy, the chair of the science department at North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, Georgia who publicly opposed his school board's decision to place a sticker in high school biology texts stating that evolution was "a theory not a fact.
The NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), which established guidelines for the safe conduct of recombinant DNA research, thus alleviating the concerns of the public regarding this new technology. In recent years, the RAC has registered and reviewed all NIH-funded trials of gene therapy.
The RAC model of diverse committee membership and open meetings has ensured a public voice in the review of the safety and ethics of gene therapy research among academic and industrial investigators.
While some of the awardees have risked their freedom and even physical safety by their actions, others are honored for activities that demonstrate their devotion to the values most honored in the scientific community.
Additionally, although some award winners are distinguished scientists or scholars, this is not a requirement for award selection.
Any help you can provide in spreading the word about the AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award would be appreciated.
Research on Causal Factors and Interventions that Promote and Support the Careers of Women in Biomedical and Behavioral Science and Engineering (R01) (Posted: 7/14/08, Due: Priority 9/22/08)
* Purpose. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support research on: 1) causal factors explaining the current patterns observed in the careers of women in biomedical and behavioral science and engineering and variation across different subgroups and 2) the efficacy of programs designed to support the careers of women in these disciplines. Causal factors include individual characteristics, family and economic circumstances, disciplinary culture or practices, and features of the broader social and cultural context. Research on variation among underrepresented minority women and socioeconomically disadvantaged women is encouraged.
* Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) award mechanism.
* Budget and Project Period. Direct costs are limited to $250,000 per year for a four (4) year period. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.
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