Computer Science for All (NSF)

• Date: 06 February 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30884
• Published date: 06 February 2020

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ February 6, 2020 Page 3

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Grants alert (cont.)

to state historical records advisory boards to: operate

state-based regrant programs that preserve historical

records and make them available online; provide

educational and outreach programs, workshops and

other activities that enhance citizen and student

engagement with historical records; offer scholarships,

training opportunities and other programs that support

institutional advancement among records repositories,

especially those in underserved communities;

collaborate on projects with other organizations to

address common problems or shared opportunities

within a state or among a consortium of state archives;

and hold or participate in meetings and public forums on

statewide or national archival issues.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# STATE-202006

Archives Collaboratives (NARA)

Scope: The National Archives and Records

Administration seeks applications for the Archives

Collaboratives announcement to support projects

that promote access to America’s historical records to

encourage understanding of our democracy, history and

culture.

Deadline: June 10, 2020.

Funds: Six awards of up to $100,000 are expected. A

cost share is required.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments.

Areas: NARA said the grant program will fund

Archives Collaboratives to share best practices, tools

and techniques; assess institutional strengths and

opportunities; and promote management structures for

long-term sustainability and growth.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# COLLABORATIVES-

202006

Linguistics Program—Doctoral Dissertation

Research Improvement Awards (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Linguistics Program—Doctoral

Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

announcement to support basic science in the domain

of human language, encompassing investigations of the

grammatical properties of individual human languages,

and of natural language in general.

Deadline: July 15, 2020.

Funds: $400,000 total for up to 35 awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities.

Areas: NSF said research areas include syntax,

linguistic semantics and pragmatics, morphology,

phonetics and phonology. The program encourages

projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or

theoretical perspective, and that address questions that

cross disciplinary boundaries, such as but not limited

to: what the psychological processes involved in the

production, perception and comprehension of language

are; what the computational properties of language and/

or the language processor that make fluent production,

incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible

are; and how the acoustic and physiological properties

of speech inform our theories of language and/or

language processing; among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-538

Computer Science for All (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Computer Science for All

announcement to provide all U.S. students with the

opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and

computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at

the pre-K–12 levels.

Deadline: April 13, 2020.

Funds: $20 million total for up to 27 awards of up to $2

million.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said funding assistance aims to provide

high school teachers with the preparation, professional

development and ongoing support they need to teach

rigorous computer science courses; pre-K–8 teachers

with the instructional materials and preparation they

need to integrate CS and CT into their teaching; and

schools and districts with the resources needed to

define and evaluate multigrade pathways in CS and CT.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-539

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Therapeutic Idea

Award (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s U.S. Army Medical

Research Acquisition Activity seeks applications for the

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Therapeutic Idea

Award announcement to support hypothesis-driven

therapeutic development and promote new ideas aimed

at drug or treatment discovery that are still in the early

stages of development.

Deadline: Pre-applications, March 27, 2020; proposals,

July 23, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $12.8 million for approximately 16

Therapeutic Idea Awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said it encourages applications submitted

by early-career investigators, as well as applications

that include meaningful and productive collaborations

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