Grants within NEIU:

• Committee on Organized Research;  grants for faculty research projects
• Research Communities
  
• McNair grants for students

Specific grants of potential interest to NEIU faculty:

• NIH AREA grant    Limited to smaller schools like NEIU.
• Special Recovery Act AREA.   Same as above, but with more funds available.  One time only opportunity, appls due Sept. 24
• Special AREA for Enhancing Developmental Biology Research at Undergraduate Institutions
  
• Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (for new faculty doing research on drug abuse)
• Community-Based Partnership for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control:  Research to Inform Policy
• Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series for research on health disparities
• Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy
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• Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
• Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
  
• Scholarships in sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
  
• Developmental and Learning Sciences
  

Other granting agencies:

• National Institutes of Health
• National Science Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  
• James S. McDonnell Foundation
  
• American Federation for Aging Research
• Dana
• MacArthur Foundation
• Social Science Research Council
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues