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Special Announcements
- Novel Approaches for Assessing Exposure for School-Aged Children in Longitudinal Studies - This Request for Applications is cancelled until further notice.
- To ensure greater efficiency in its research and fellowship programs, EPA has decided to offer undergraduate fellowships through the Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program and graduate fellowships through the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. The graduate Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program will no longer be offered. Students interested in graduate funding should apply through the STAR fellowship program.
If you have questions please use the comment form or contact the fellowship hotline at 1-800-490-9194.
- EPA is awarding fellowships for both the 2008 and 2009 academic years from the pool of applications received from the 2008 Request for Applications (RFA). Those award recommendations have been made, recipients were notified, and the awards are being processed for both the 2008 and 2009 academic years. EPA will not issue a new RFA for the STAR Fellowship Program for the 2009 academic year. This decision allows the Agency to maintain a high quality program and maximize its efficiency, while continuing to make fellowships available to deserving students. EPA remains committed to the goal of developing and training the next generation of environmental professionals to help solve complex environmental problems. EPA expects the 2010 Academic Year STAR Fellowship RFA to open in the summer of 2009.
If you have questions please use the comment form or contact the fellowship hotline at 1-800-490-9194.
- Under the Climate Change and Allergic Airway Disease RFA, individual proposals do not have to address all of the listed sources of aeroallergens or both asthma and other allergies.
- The BAA RFA has been amended. Cycle 2 has been removed due to budget constraints however Cycle 1 and Cycle 3 are still in effect.
All Requests for Applications (RFAs) that are planned for 2008 and 2009 can be found below. This list is tentative pending the outcome of the applicable fiscal year appropriations. Please check back for updates or sign up for our list serve to get e-mail announcements when RFAs are posted.
STAR Requests for Applications invite research proposals from academic and non-profit institutions located in the U.S., And state and local governments. All forms necessary for completing an application are noted in the announcement and are available on this site (see below).
Click on the highlighted funding opportunities below to view the announcement on screen (HTML). Click on the following for standard STAR grant application forms and instructions -- Forms/Standard Instructions and additional Quality Systems Guidance for STAR Grants -- available in MS Word and PDF formats.
EPA Grants
- Health Effects of Near-Roadway Exposures to Air Pollution - Open: November 13, 2007 - Closing: January 15, 2008 - Closed
- Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality - Open: February 12, 2008 - Closing: May 8, 2008 - Closed
- Innovative and Integrative Approaches for Advancing Public Health Protection Through Water Infrastructure Sustainability - Open: April 30, 2008 - Closing: July 29, 2008 - Closed
Special Announcement
- Under the Climate Change and Allergic Airway Disease RFA, individual proposals do not have to address all of the listed sources of aeroallergens or both asthma and other allergies.
- Climate Change and Allergic Airway Disease - Open: July 1, 2008 - Closing:
October 1, 2008Extended to: October 22, 2008 - Adaptation for Future Air Quality Analysis and Decision Support Tools in Light of Global Change Impacts and Mitigation - Open: July 21, 2008 - Closing: October 21, 2008
- Forecasting Ecosystem Services from Wetland Condition Analyses - Open: August 1, 2008 - Closing: November 3, 2008
- Novel Approaches for Assessing Exposure for School-Aged Children in Longitudinal Studies - This Request for Applications is cancelled until further notice.
- Integrated Design, Modeling, and Monitoring of Geologic Sequestration of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide to Safeguard Sources of Drinking Wate - Open: October 3, 2008 - Closing: January 6, 2009
- Computational Toxicology Research Centers: in vitro and in silico Models of Developmental Toxicity Pathways - Opens October 2008
EPA and Research Partners
- Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (with NIEHS) - Opens: October 2008
- Enhancing Ecosystem Services from Agricultural Lands: Developing Tools for Quantification and Decision Support - Opens: January 2009
Special Announcement
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The BAA RFA has been amended. Cycle 2 has been removed due to budget constraints however Cycle 1 and Cycle 3 are still in effect.
- Broad Agency Announcement For Conferences, Workshops, And/Or Meetings - Open: December 4, 2007 - Closing Date for Cycle 1: January 7, 2008 - Closing Date for Cycle 3: December 9, 2008
- SBIR Phase I - HTML | PDF (64 pp, 179 K, about PDF) | MS Word - Open: March 20, 2008 - Closed: May 21, 2008 - Closed
Special Announcement
- To ensure greater efficiency in its research and fellowship
programs, EPA has decided to offer undergraduate fellowships
through the Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program
and graduate fellowships through the Science to Achieve
Results (STAR) program. The graduate Greater Research
Opportunities (GRO) program will no longer be offered.
Students interested in graduate funding should apply
through the STAR fellowship program.
If you have questions please use the comment form or contact the fellowship hotline at 1-800-490-9194. - EPA is awarding fellowships for both the 2008 and 2009 academic years from the pool of applications received from the 2008 Request for Applications (RFA). Those award recommendations have been made, recipients were notified, and the awards are being processed for both the 2008 and 2009 academic years. EPA will not issue a new RFA for the STAR Fellowship Program for the 2009 academic year. This decision allows the Agency to maintain a high quality program and maximize its efficiency, while continuing to make fellowships available to deserving students. EPA remains committed to the goal of developing and training the next generation of environmental professionals to help solve complex environmental problems. EPA expects the 2010 Academic Year STAR Fellowship RFA to open in the summer of 2009.
If you have questions please use the comment form or contact fellowship hotline at 1-800-490-9194.
- Fall 2009 EPA Greater Research Opportunities(GRO) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study - No longer offered
- Fall 2009 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study - Open: September 3, 2008 - Closing: December 11, 2008
Learn more about Fellowships
EPA Grants
- Community-based Cumulative Risk Assessment Research - Opens: November 2008
- Research for Outcomes and Accountability: Development of Novel Environmental Health Outcome Indicators - Opens: December 2008
- Targeted Measurements to Improve Air Pollution Emission Inventories - Opens: January 2009
- Air Research Centers - Opens June 2009
EPA and Research Partners
- 6th Annual P3 Awards: People Prosperity and the Planet - Open: September 22, 2008 - Closing: December 23, 2008
- Research on the Design of Policies for Pollution Control Using Market Mechanisms and Data Gathering for Dissertations on the Pollution Control Aspects of Environmental Economics - Opens: November 2008
- Nanotechnology Research Grants: Investigating Environmental Effects of Manufactured Nanomaterials: a Joint Research Solicitation - EPA, NSF & DOE - Opens: November 2008
- SBIR Phase I - Opens March 2009
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