Funding Opportunities For Students: PhD Fellowship Program (Microsoft)
(Oct 9) A two-year fellowship for PhD students at North American universities pursuing research aligned to the research topics carried out by Microsoft Research. Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital (CHOP) (Nov 2) This is a competitive program whose goal is to increase the diversity of the community of scholars devoted to academic research. Successful candidates will receive mentored scholarly and research training as well as courses and workshops to enhance their research success skills and prepare them for a faculty position in a major university or in other sectors of the economy such as industry, government or nonprofit organizations. Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program (DoE) (Nov 15) The SCGSR program supports supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist for a period of 3 to 12 consecutive months—with the goal of preparing graduate students for scientific and technical careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission. For Faculty: Space Environment Exploitation (DARPA) (Sept 24) The Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of high spatial and temporal resolution predictive/assimilative modeling and simulation of the near-earth space environment. Imaging – Science Track Award for Research Transition (NIH, R03) (Nov 16) This FOA encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications to facilitate the entry of investigators to the area of neuroimaging, including both new investigators and established investigators seeking to adopt neuroimaging methodologies in their research programs, to enable the conduct of small “proof of concept” studies. The R03 is intended to support research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. Formal Methods in the Field (NSF) (Jan 15, 2019) This program aims to bring together researchers in formal methods with researchers in other areas of computer and information science and engineering to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for designing and implementing correct-by-construction systems and applications with provable guarantees. Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (NSF) (Proposals Accepted Anytime) The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (IIBR) solicitation supports new and innovative research in biological informatics, instrumentation and associated methods, as well as multidisciplinary approaches to these broad themes that address needs in basic biological research. Cyberinfrastructure for Biological Research (NSF) (Proposals accepted anytime) Biological processes at all scales from molecules to ecosystems are determined through the encoding, exchange, and interpretation of information. Advances in the biological sciences are enabled by our capacity to acquire, manage, represent, and analyze biological information through the use of modern instrumentation and computational tools. | 
