July has two deadlines for junior faculty to consider

• The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be accepting proposals until July 23 for its Faculty Early Career Development Program which supports professional development for assistant professors currently without tenure, but whose appointments are tenure-track or the equivalent. Applicants must also have doctorates. The NSF typically awards 425 Faculty Early Career Development Program grants each year. Most of these grants offer more than $400,000 for five-year projects, except for grants to biological sciences faculty, which must have budget requests of $500,000 for their five-year projects. Award-winning proposals will successfully exemplify the role of teacher-scholar with research objectives that integrate furthering an educational concentration within a context of organizational mission. Career development planning should be omnipresent and creative in proposals. The July 23 deadline applies to applicants in the biological, computer, engineering, economic, environmental and life sciences. There is an earlier deadline, July 21, for applicants in other disciplines.

• Until July 10, the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky will be soliciting proposals from junior faculty with full-time academic appointments who have received their doctorates in the past seven years. The Center’s “Young Investigator Development Grants” program is going to recognize three proposals with grants of up to $7,500 each. The Center is looking for social science research regarding low-income populations — including child and family well being, and the economic status of disadvantaged and under-represented populations. Preference will be given to proposals that address poverty in the South.