This opportunity, a partnership between NSF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides $300,000 to $600,000 grants to proposals that research obstacles to agriculture in the developing world. Eligible applicants include academic institutions, non-profit research organizations or consortia led by an eligible organization. Successful BREAD proposals will connect the proposed research to real-life application in the developing world. (See Reference 3—click on Program 09-556). BREAD has funded past research on genes that will increase wheat yield during droughts and how to improve soil fertility in the Amazon basin (See reference 3—Click on BREAD Program/See Press Release)
To ensure that the U.S. maintains a globally-educated science and engineering workforce, this program provides grants of $87,500 for international research experiences for students and doctoral researchers. Academic institutions, professional societies or consortia of applicants can submit to provide as many students as possible a research experience with a foreign team collaborator. For doctoral students, faculty advisers can submit proposals for research conducted abroad with the collaboration of a host country institution. (See Reference 3 and click on Program 04-036). Auburn University recently received this grant for a U.S.-India research program to promote improved quality of life through engineering technologies (See Reference 3 and click on Developing Global Scientists and Engineers. Choose "What has Been Funded")
Students receiving the grants to this program get a $5,000 stipend and a roundtrip airline ticket to institutes in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan. Eligible students are U.S. citizens who are enrolled in a research-oriented Master's or Ph.D. degree program at a U.S. institution in the fields of science and engineering research and education. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to both the scientific community and the society and culture of the host country. (See Reference 3. Click on program 08-603)
This program grants $2,000,000 to $8,000,000 for five-year projects to accredited U.S. universities that awarded at least one Ph.D. in a science or engineering field since 2006. The goal of PIRE is to fund new models of international research and collaboration through creative proposals that enhance research excellence, lead to a diverse U.S. science and engineering workforce and develop international partnerships that strengthens U.S. international engagement. (See Reference 3 and click on program 09-505). Previously-funded partnerships have researched the children of immigrant schools and resource protection in Pacific Latin America (See Reference 3 and click on program title; Click on PIRE 2005 awards)