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La búsqueda y captación de fondos externos constituye una gestión muy importante para financiar el fortalecimiento de los programas graduados y el desarrollo de innovaciones. Mediante este blog compartiremos con ustedes información acerca de fuentes de fondos pertinentes a las prioridades de los programas, así como de estrategias para el desarrollo de propuestas exitosas, y noticias de proyectos que han obtenido fondos externos. Esperamos que la información sea del interés de ustedes, y de utilidad para sus iniciativas en obtener fondos externos.  Agradeceremos sus ideas para mejorar este blog. John Mark Esposito, estudiante doctoral del Programa de Inglés como Segundo Idioma, está trabajando conmigo este año académico como asistente en el área de fondos externos, y se encuentra en la oficina 443. Él es autor de este blog.

Dra. Sandra A. Macksoud López
Directora Asociada Asuntos Académicos
sandra.macksoud1@upr.edu
Oficina: NEP 442, extensión 4318

Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Target Date:  July 15, 2012

July 15, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Target Date:  January 15, 2013

January 15, Annually Thereafter

SYNOPSIS

DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children’s and adolescents’ development and learning.  Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as citizens…More

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program–Short-Term Projects and Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Projects

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Applications for New Awards

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program–Short-Term Projects and Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Projects

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2012. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.021A and 84.021B.

Dates: Applications Available: February 23, 2012.

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 23, 2012.

Full Text of Announcement I. Funding Opportunity Description Purpose of Program: The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged…More

Elmer’s and Kids In Need Foundation Announce K-12 Teacher Grant Program

Approximately two hundred and fifty grants of up to $500 each will be awarded to accredited K-12 teachers in the United States for classroom projects to be completed during the 2012-13 school year….More

Posted on February 14, 2012
Deadline: TBA

Cyberlearning: Transforming Education

Full Proposal Target Date: March 16, 2012

Capacity-Building Projects (CAPs)

Program Guidelines: NSF 11-587
Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to

• better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology;

• better use technology for collecting, analyzing, …More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503581&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Applications for New Awards; Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program

    Overview Information: Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions
(HSI) Program Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal
year (FY) 2012.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.031S.

DATES:
    Applications Available: February 14, 2012. Deadline for Transmittal
of Applications: March 15, 2012. Deadline for Intergovernmental Review:
May 14, 2012.

Full Text of Announcement

I. Funding Opportunity Description

Purpose of Program

    The HSI Program provides grants to assist HSIs to expand
educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of,
Hispanic students. The HSI Program grants also enable HSIs to expand
and enhance their academic offerings, program quality, and
institutional stability.

General Background

    In 2008, the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) was amended by the
Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEA). The HEOA made a number
of changes to the HSI program. The regulations for the HSI Program in
34 part 606 have not been updated since before the HEA was amended by
the HEOA. Therefore, we encourage applicants to carefully read this
notice, which references the statutory provisions when the
corresponding regulatory provisions for this program have not been
updated.
    For example, section 501 of the HEOA amended section 503(b) of the
HEA to include, among the authorized activities under the HSI Program--
    (1) Activities to improve student services, including innovative
and customized instruction courses designed to help retain students and
move the students into core courses;
    (2) Articulation agreements and student support programs designed
to facilitate the transfer of students from 2-year to 4-year
institutions; and
    (3) Providing education, counseling services, or financial
information designed to improve the financial and economic literacy of
students or their families.
    (4) The list of authorized activities in section 503(b) of the HEA
was also amended to use the term ``distance education technologies'' in
place of ``distance learning academic instruction capabilities.''
Therefore, notwithstanding the description of authorized activities in
Sec.  606.10, applicants may include these activities in their
proposals under this competition.

...More

Foundations, Corporations Promote White House Effort to Improve Math, Science Teacher Education

The White House has announced a plan to invest up to $100 million over ten years to improve math and science education in the United States, the Associated Press reports…More

Nominations of Young Volunteers Invited for Gloria Barron Prize

Twenty young people in the United States between the ages of 8 and 18 will receive awards of $2,500 in recognition of their service on behalf of their communities and/or the environment….More

Posted on February 9, 2012
Deadline: April 30, 2012

Transforming STEM Learning (TSL)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 9, 2012

Program Guidelines: NSF 10-602
TSL combines interests and resources of separate programs in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) to explore the opportunities and challenges implied by innovative visions of the future for STEM learning.  The TSL program invites interdisciplinary teams of STEM content specialists, experts in relevant technologies, STEM formal and informal education specialists, researchers with expertise in the learning sciences, and specialists in education research …

More at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503571&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Fellowship Program

The fellowship will give one dynamic leader the opportunity over a year to leverage the Ms. Foundation’s resources and support while developing solutions to critical issues faced by women….MORE
Deadline: April 30, 2012
Posted: February 9, 2012

Foundations, Corporations Promote White House Effort to Improve Math, Science Teacher Education

The White House has announced a plan to invest up to $100 million over ten years to help improve math and science education in the United States…. More»