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Environmental Protection Agency Request for Applications
Recent research has found that the relationship between chemical pollutants and health effects is influenced by a multitude of external factors. Each person’s response is the combined cumulative result of interactions between different aspects of the environments they inhabit and engage with. Health outcomes are impacted by influences such as chemical and non-chemical stressors, the built, natural and social environments, inherent characteristics and policies or programs. The overall purpose of this RFA is to support research that will improve scientific understanding of these interactions and cumulative effects to better protect and promote human health and the environment.
EPA, through its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grants Program, is seeking applications for research investigating how pollution affects human health in the context of the total environment – built, natural and social. Specifically, interdisciplinary research projects are sought that will develop and test innovative methods to assess causal relationships and interactions between all of the major stressors and factors involved in a person’s life. Due to the complexity of the total environment research challenges, proposals that integrate diverse fields of disciplines are highly recommended.
This RFA is supported by EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) Research Program, which supports the development of science and tools to help communities make better decisions toward sustaining a healthy society and environment.
Environmental Protection Agency Request for Applications
The P3 Award competition is a two-phase team competition. For the first phase, interdisciplinary student teams submit proposals to compete for $15,000 grants for project ideas addressing environmental solutions for a sustainable future. Recipients use the funding to research and develop their design projects during the academic year. In the spring, teams submit their designs, reports and proposals to compete for P3 Phase II grant funding of up to $75,000 to further the project design, implement it in the field, and move it to the marketplace.
P3 was developed to foster progress toward the three pillars of sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of improved quality of life, economic prosperity and protection of the planet - people, prosperity and the planet. EPA offers the P3 competition in order to respond to the technical needs of the world while moving towards the goal of sustainability and supporting education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
This solicitation is seeking applications in the research areas of energy, built environment, materials and chemicals and water.
The P3 Student Design Competition is part of EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) Research Program, which supports the development of science and tools to help communities make better decisions toward sustaining a healthy society and environment.
