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Department of Commerce
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
Deadline: Rolling/continuing deadline
Department of Defense
Military Medical Photonics Program
Deadline: May 15, 2013
FY13 - FY14 Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program: Military Specific HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program for PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) Funded Countries
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2014
Department of Education
Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for Individuals With Disabilities Program: Stepping-Up Technology Implementation
Deadline: March 18, 2013
Department of Energy
Advanced Reactor Research and Development
Deadline: April 16, 2013
Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration
Culturally Appropriate Interventions of Outreach, Access and Retention among Latino/a Populations
Deadline: March 18, 2013
Department of Justice
Intelligence Interviewing and Interrogation Research
Deadline: June 3, 2013
NASA
IceBridge Science Definition Team
Deadline: May 17, 2013
The Science of Terra and Aqua
Deadline: May 20, 2013
Origins of Solar Systems
Deadline: May 23, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine
Deadline: May 25, 2013
Influence of the Microbiome on Preterm Labor and Delivery
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, April 9; Application, May 9, 2013
High Impact Neuroscience Research Resource Grants
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, April 16; Application, May 16, 2013
Mechanistic Insights from Birth Cohorts
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, May 5; Application, June 5, 2013
National Science Foundation
Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum
Deadline: May 14, 2013
Cognitive Neuroscience
Deadline: Aug. 27, 2013
Water Sustainability and Climate
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2013
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2013
Algebra and Number Theory
Deadline: Oct. 11, 2013
Arts, Humanities and Culture
Society for Industrial Archeology
Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants
Deadline: March 1, 2013
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Wiener Laboratory Research Associateships (PDF)
Deadline: April 1, 2013
Other Funding Opportunities
BD Biosciences
Research Grants (fall award cycle)
Deadline: July 1, 2013
McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards
Deadline: April 1, 2013
Research Prizes and Honors
[Have you or a colleague won a research-related prize or honor? Let the Research Alert know.]
Two Professors Elected to National Academy of Engineering
  The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that two professors from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the prestigious academy.
Joseph J. Beaman Jr., a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Sharon L. Wood, chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, were elected to the academy.
Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature, and to the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”
Also elected were two alumni: Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp., and Gregory Deierlein, the John A. Blume Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering.
News and Information
Subvention Funding Available
 Applications for 2012-2013 Subventions are being accepted until funds run out. The university's subvention grants program provides a maximum award of $5,000. It is designed to assist faculty authors in the publication of scholarly books. Preference will be given to assistant and associate professors. Frequently, university and other scholarly presses demand that authors provide funds to underwrite the publication of scholarly monographs and books. Subvention awards provide financial assistance to faculty members when departments and deans are unable to provide needed support.
Please direct questions to Liza Scarborough, 471-2877.
Funding for another grant program, the Special Research Grants, has been depleted for the academic year.
Quoted-UT Researchers in the News
 (Paul Eastwick, assistant professor in the School of Human Ecology, urges online daters to meet potential matches as soon as possible.)
As with other world-changing technologies, part of the appeal of apps is speed.
"People should try to get to that face-to-face meeting as soon as they can," says psychologist Paul Eastwick, an assistant professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin. His research found that the wish list of traits when searching online for a romantic partner doesn't matter as much as you might think.
Once you've met in person, you stop using your wish list to evaluate the person, he says, citing a 2011 study he co-authored that was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"When you meet somebody you have a gut reaction to that person and that drives whether we pursue somebody romantically or not. Chemistry -- you can assess that in four minutes. That is the thing driving your responses," Eastwick says.
Research Project
 RESEARCHER: Varun Rai, assistant professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs and Department of Mechanical Engineering, principal investigator
AGENCY: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Department of Energy)
AMOUNT: $210,426
The objective of this effort is to perform data collection and analysis to improve the understanding of customer behavior, and its representation in distributed PV market penetration models. Accurately representing customer behavior in market penetration models is one of the challenges in modeling the distributed PV market. Existing models have very crude representations of customer behavior that are based on limited data sources. The project will focus on developing the data and methodologies to improve the representation of customer behavior in distributed PV models. The work will build on previous work which indicates that potential customers evaluate and respond to PV investment risk and returns in complex ways that are not well represented in market-penetration models.
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