The Harry C. Kelly Memorial Fund (Harry C. Kelly, former Provost and Vice Chancellor of NC State 1967-1974) was created in 1985 in support of international cooperation between the scientific and technical communities of Japan and the United States.  The Kelly Fund, a major endowment, is administered by the NC Japan Center to advance this mission and to work with scientific and engineering colleges at NC State vis-a-vis Japan.  The purpose of the Kelly Fund is to promote better cooperation between the scientific and technical communities of Japan and the United States, through support by way of scholarships and fellowships for exchange students in the sciences and engineering at NC State and for study of the Japanese language. Funding can be provided to support faculty travel to Japan as well as exchanges for joint research relating to technology, engineering and Japanese language programs.  For more information, please contact (ncjapancenter@ncsu.edu).  Requests will be reviewed by the NC Japan Center’s Academic Advisory Committee.  Requests should be submitted in writing (including a project description of no more than 500 words and budget justification) tointernational-affairs@ncsu.edu.

*update (July 28, 2020):* In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant travel restrictions, applications for Harry C. Kelly Memorial Fund support no longer require on-site cooperative activities. Remote research projects will be now be considered (must be in cooperation with a Japan-based research organization/institution).

Funded through an endowment provided to NC State by Arthur B. Moss, the Graduate School International Travel Grant program is designed to supplement departmental efforts to enable their doctoral candidates to make presentations at international professional conferences. The program is designed not only to give students valuable experience in making research presentations, but also to maintain and enhance NC State’s reputation internationally as one of this nation’s top research universities.

(Offered on a rolling basis)

Sight and Life has established a distinguished alliance consisting of academia, research partners, and funders working collectively to eliminate all forms of malnutrition. Together, we discover and implement sustainable solutions, grounded on solid scientific evidence, to improve the lives of those in most need. Our partnerships are based on the principles of mutual trust, transparency, accountability, and shared goals.

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Opportunity for collaboration between researchers under JPI HDHL and USDA/NIFA

The Joint Programming Initiative for a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI-HDHL - a consortium of European research agencies funding European country scientists on diet and health) and USDA/NIFA each have an interest in understanding the interaction of the human intestinal microbiome with food and nutrients and understanding links between diet and health. USDA/NIFA, under its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is offering support to U.S. researchers on the role of bioactive components of food in preventing inflammation or promoting gut health, and the role of the human gut microbiome on nutrient uptake, utilization and efficiency and their overall impacts on human health and well-being. USDA/NIFA AFRI applicants are free to collaborate with European potential colleagues with relevant interests involved with JPI HDHL if they wish. Below are links to JPI HDHL Intestinal Micriobiomics projects information – including project leader contact info for the second wave of projects (funded, but still to begin, sometime in 2018): http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/hdhl-intimic

And the first wave (funded in 2016) http://healthydietforhealthylife.eu/images/factsheets_2017/Research_Area_2.pdf

General:
1. This NSF-BSF program is not a “special” program with the NSF setting aside money for potential grants. Rather, it is an integral part of the regular NSF programs in these discipline, with no “special” funds. Clear understanding of it by the U.S. partner is essential before embarking on proposal writing.
Synopsis of Program:
2. The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) supports research aimed at understanding why organisms are structured the way they are and function the way they do. Proposals should focus on organisms as a fundamental unit of biological organization. Principal Investigators (PIs) are encouraged to apply systems approaches that will lead to conceptual and theoretical insights and predictions about emergent organismal properties. Areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, developmental biology and the evolution of developmental processes, nervous system development, structure, and function, physiological processes, functional morphology, symbioses, interactions of organisms with biotic and abiotic environments, and animal behavior.
A full description of the current program can be found in the solicitation on the NSF website. It is strongly advised for all potentials applicants (including Israelis) to read the document carefully: 
Program Areas:
Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by Behavioral Systems Cluster: 
Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by Developmental System Cluster: 
Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by Physiological and Structural Systems Cluster:  (Note that plant-microbial symbiosis proposals previously submitted to the Symbiosis, Defense, and Self-recognition (SDS) Program in the Physiological and Structural Systems Cluster of IOS are excluded from the current program).
Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by Neural Systems Cluster: 
Proposals are welcome in all areas of sciences supported by Plant Genome Research Program: 

4. The program will accept full proposals and the pre-proposal stage has been canceled.
5. Applications must be written jointly by an Israeli and a U.S. scientist from a U.S. research institution.
6. The NSF accepts applications only from U.S. scientist and submission to the NSF should be made by the U.S. PI alone (the Israeli does not appear as a formal co-PI on the application). However, in the collaborative applications, the role of the Israeli partner(s) must be described. Furthermore, it should be clearly explained why the contribution of the Israeli PI to the research project is important/essential.
7. If awarded a grant, the Israeli scientist will receive a grant from the BSF, while the U.S. scientist will receive a grant from the NSF.
8. The size of the BSF grant to the Israeli is expected to be up to 70,000$/year for experimental programs and up to $40,000/year for theoretical or computer based program. If more than a single Israeli group is involved in the research, the budget may be increased by up to 50%.
9. BSF will follow the decision by the U.S. funding agency regarding the length of the project.
10. We have put together a presentation with tips for Israeli scientists who wish to submit to the NSF-BSF. You can download the presentation here.

Please see the attached pdf for more information. 

BSF-NSF_IOS_Call.pdf

General:
1. This NSF-BSF program is not a “special” program with the NSF setting aside money for potential grants. Rather, it is an integral part of the regular NSF programs in these discipline, with no “special” funds. Clear understanding of it by the U.S. partner is essential before embarking on proposal writing.
Synopsis of Program:

2. The NSF-BSF joint funding program with the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) of the NSF, supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patterns and processes at all spatial and temporal scales. Areas of research include biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics, molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem structure, function and services, conservation biology, global change, and biogeochemical cycles. Research on organismal origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and evolutionary history may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative experiments; synthesis activities; as well as theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling.
A full description of the current program can be found on the NSF website. It is strongly advised for all potentials applicants (including Israelis) to read the document carefully: 
 

Program Areas:

Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by the Ecosystem Science Cluster: 

Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by the Evolutionary Processes Cluster: 

Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by the Population and Community Ecology Cluster: 

Proposals are welcome in all areas of science supported by the Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster:

4. The program will accept full proposals and the pre-proposal stage has been canceled.
5. Applications must be written jointly by an Israeli and a U.S. scientist from a U.S. research institution.
6. The NSF accepts applications only from U.S. scientist and submission to the NSF should be made by the U.S. PI alone (the Israeli does not appear as a formal co-PI on the application). However, in the collaborative applications, the role of the Israeli partner(s) must be described. Furthermore, it should be clearly explained why the contribution of the Israeli PI to the research project is important/essential.
7. If awarded a grant, the Israeli scientist will receive a grant from the BSF, while the U.S. scientist will receive a grant from the NSF.
8. The size of the BSF grant to the Israeli is expected to be up to 70,000$/year for experimental programs and up to $40,000/year for theoretical or computer based program. If more than a single Israeli group is involved in the research, the budget may be increased by up to 50%.
9. BSF will follow the decision by the U.S. funding agency regarding the length of the project.
10. We have put together a presentation with tips for Israeli scientists who wish to submit to the NSF-BSF. You can download the presentation here.

Please see the attached pdf for more information. 

BSF-NSF_Environmental_Biology_Call.pdf

The BARD Graduate Student Fellowship

Purpose: To enable Ph.D. students in one country (the United States or Israel) to travel to the other country (Israel or the United States) in order to acquire new skills and techniques in their field of study. The exchange will promote collaboration between scientists of both countries and expose the student to the ongoing research in the other county in the area of his/her present and future research.

Award period: Two to six months.

Award amount: $1500 per month and $2000 to cover travel costs.

Submission date: Yearly, by mid January.