The Institute is currently accepting applications for a variety of grant opportunities. Applicants should currently be working on issues bearing on security such as human rights, gender inequality, religious revivalism, unequal access to goods and services, military affairs, weapons proliferation and arms control, peace-building, environmental sustainability, economic inequality, migration, food supply, global finance, ethnicity, or nationalism. Through its fellowships, the SSRC seeks to nurture innovative research and collaboration across geographic regions and between the worlds of academia and practice. The fellowships will be awarded for a period of one to two years. Deadline for applications is January 12, 2001.
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The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, in collaboration with the Social Security Administration, is accepting grant applications for research on retirement issues by junior scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, including actuarial science, demography, economics, finance, gerontology, political science, psychology, public administration, public policy, social work, sociology, and statistics. Scholars with a doctorate or comparable professional certification are eligible for the competition, which carries a deadline of March 16. Some of the fellowships are for any area of biological sciences, while others specify fields such as cell biology, neurobiology, or developmental biology.