Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 25, 2014
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GENERAL
16-1 FY14 MASINT Emerging
Technologies Research (DoD)
Measurement and Signature Intelligence
(MASINT) is an intelligence discipline
that employs a broad range of scientific
developments to gather foreign intelligence. In our efforts to enhance this intelligence competency we are interested in
stimulating and supporting research that
creates new knowledge and capabilities, or
the transition of current capabilities, that
have the potential to enhance the following
areas: Remote assessment and detection of
weapons of mass destruction, specifically
nuclear and radiological weapons, as well
as chemical and biological weapons.
Remote assessment designed as weapons
as well as high-powered microwave
(HPM) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
weapons. Bioinformatics, the science of
collecting and analyzing complex biological data such as genetic codes, has become
an important part of many areas of biology.
Research should focus on how this science
promotes the extraction of useful results
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from large amounts of raw data as well as
how its intrinsic characteristics are applicable to many related research topics.
Telematics typically is any integrated use
of telecommunications and informatics,
also known as ICT (Information and
Communications Technology). Possible
telematics applications can track vehicles, trailers, and shipping containers.
Telematics is also used for relaying environmental conditions within vehicles,
trailers or shipping containers, fleet management, mobile data and mobile television, wireless vehicle safety
communications allowing vehicles to
communicate with those around it and
emergency warning system for vehicles.
Navy seeks White Papers only from the
most knowledgeable experts and universities in the field, with submissions
briefly describing expertise. NPS-BAA14-001 (GG 2/24/14)
URL: http://www.nps.edu/Research/
workingwithnps.html
Deadline: 9/30/2014
16-2 Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA)
Institutional Research Training Grant
(Parent T32) (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to
enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral
research training, including short-term
research training, and help ensure that a
diverse and highly trained workforce is
available to meet the needs of the
Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and
clinical research agenda. Research training programs will incorporate didactic,
research, and career development components to prepare individuals for careers
that will have a significant impact on the
health-related research needs of the
Nation. Programs proposing only shortterm research training should not apply
to this announcement, but rather to the
Kirschstein-NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant Program
(T35) exclusively reserved for predoctoral, short-term research training (see
PA-14-016). PA-14-015 (NIHG 12/6/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/pa-14-015.html
Deadline: 5/25/2014, 9/25/2014, 1/25/
2015
ENGINGEERING
16-3 Decision Frameworks for MultiHazard Resilient and Sustainable
Buildings (RSB)(NSF)
The goal of the Decision Frameworks for
Multi-Hazard Resilient and Sustainable
Buildings (RSB) solicitation is to
advance knowledge for new concepts for
multi-hazard resilient and sustainable
SFSE building systems using decision
frameworks for selection among alternative building system designs. Research
for multi-hazard resilient and sustainable
SFSE building systems supported under
the this solicitation must include the consideration of a rational decision framework, preferences, concepts for SFSE
systems, and design optimization methods for generating and choosing among
alternative SFSE systems. Multidisciplinary collaborations are essential for
this research. Proposals must broadly
integrate across the fields of architecture;
engineering; material, environmental,
social, behavioral, and economic sciences; and other disciplines necessary to
address the research scope. Research supported under this solicitation may include
computational, analytical, and/or experimental work. Research may also undertake the collection of new data or the use
of existing data, but the data must be integral to the decision framework. NSF 14557
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14557/nsf14557.htm
Deadline: 7/24/2014
16-4 Research Grant and Cooperative
Agreement Program (NRC)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates the nation’s civilian
use of by-product, source, and special
nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security,
and to protect the environment. The
NRC’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research (RES) furthers the agency’s regulatory mission by providing technical
advice, technical tools and information
for identifying and resolving safety
issues, making regulatory decisions, and
promulgating regulations and guidance.
RES awards support a discrete, specified,
circumscribed project to be performed by
named Principal Investigators (PIs) in
areas representing the investigators’ specific interests and competencies, based on
the mission of the NRC to conduct independent research and analyses, develop
technical bases for supporting realistic
safety decisions, and evaluate safety
issues involving current and new designs
and technologies related to nuclear power
and materials. Areas of interest include,
seismic and tsunami research, degradation of reactor component materials;
integrity of reactor component and structures; uncertainty characterization and
quantification of models and parameters
used in reactor component integrity
assessments; aging and durability of concrete, steel and composite structures;
structural integrity of nuclear power
plants structures; technical basis for
issues affecting voluntary consensus standards; severe accident research (particu-
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larly analyses with MELCOR and
MACCS); thermal-hydraulics research;
nuclear fuel performance research;
research to analyze post-accident equipment response and recovery; long term
behavior of spent fuel storage and disposal systems; probabilistic risk assessment; human reliability analysis; human
factors in advanced automation and/or
digital instrumentation and control; fire
safety research; or any other area relevant
to the mission of the NRC will be
accepted. NRC-HQ-60-14-FOA-0001
(GG 4/17/2014)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/
view-opportunity.html?oppId=254028
Deadline: 5/19/2014
16-5 Research Conference Grant and
Cooperative Agreement (NRC)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research (RES) furthers the agency’s regulatory mission by providing technical
advice, technical tools and information
for identifying and resolving safety
issues, making regulatory decisions, and
promulgating regulations and guidance.
RES will consider applications that support conferences/scientific meetings that
are relevant to the mission of the NRC. A
conference/scientific meeting is defined
as an open gathering, symposium, seminar, workshop or any other organized, formal meeting where persons assemble to
coordinate, exchange, and disseminate
information and/or explore or clarify a
defined subject, problem, or area of
knowledge. NRC-HQ-60-14-FOA-0002
(GG 4/17/2014)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/
view-opportunity.html?oppID=254031
Deadline: 5/19/2014
16-6 ROSES-14 Amendment 12:
Release of A.41, Advanced Information
Systems Technology (NASA)
Information technology advances to play
a critical role in collecting, handling, and
managing very large amounts of data and
information in space, in the air, and on the
ground. The objectives of the Advanced
Information Systems Technology (AIST)
program are to identify, develop, and
demonstrate advanced information system technologies that: reduce the risk,
cost, size, and development time for Earth
science space-based, airborne, and
ground-based information systems,
increase the accessibility and utility of
science date, and enable new observations
and information products.
NNH14ZDA001N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notice of Intent 5/21/2014;
Proposals 7/11/2014
16-7 Global Research Outreach
(GRO) (Samsung)
The GRO Program is SAMSUNG’s
(Samsung Electronics & affiliated Samsung companies) academic research collaboration platform. We annually invite
world-class university researchers to sub-
mit innovative research proposals to foster collaborative relationships. 2014 GRO
Program is seeking proposals from (12)
research themes. Under the research
themes, there are forty (40) special subjects this year. Each special subject has
detailed Call for Proposal on the GRO
homepage. We actively seek collaboration
on the special subjects, but we welcome
other subject submissions because innovation has no boundaries. GRO Research
Themes are: Sensor Technology, Machine
Learning & Recognition, Next Generation Web, Security, OLED Material,
Energy Harvesting, New Display, Next
Generation Computing, Big Data & Network, Functional Material, Next Generation Battery, and Design & Service.
URL: http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/
saithome/01_about/gro_overview.jsp
Deadline: 6/13/2014
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
16-8 Department of Defense Peer
Reviewed Cancer Research Program
(DOD)
This Department of Defense Peer
Reviewed Cancer Research Program
(PRCRP) program is administered by the
US Army Medical Research and Material
Command (USAMRMC) through the
Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). The
FY14 PRCRP Topic Areas are: blood
cancers; cancers related to radiation exposure (New for FY14); Colorectal cancer;
genetic cancer research; kidney cancer;
listeria vaccine for cancer; melanoma and
other skin cancers; mesothelioma; myeloproliferative disorders (New for FY14);
Neuroblastoma; Pancreatic cancer; and
Pediatric brain tumors.
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil
Deadline: Preapplications 6/10/2014
overall human health and well-being are
fundamental components of such programs and services. USDA-NIFA-RHSE004522 (GG 4/24/2014)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/rural_health.html
Deadline: 6/6/2014
SOCIAL SCIENCES
16-10 Healthy Habits: Timing for
Developing Sustainable Healthy
Behaviors in Children and Adolescents
(R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) seeks to encourage applications
that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health
behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to
age 21). Applications should target social
and cultural factors, including, but not
limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social
media, social networking, technology and
mass media. Topics to be addressed in this
announcement include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices;
identification of the appropriate stage of
influence for learning sustainable lifelong
health behaviors; the role of technology
and new media in promoting healthy
behavior; identification of factors that
support healthy behavior development in
vulnerable populations, identification of
barriers to healthy behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators
that are common to the development of a
range of habitual health behaviors. PA14-177 (NIHG 4/18/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-177.html
Deadline: 6/5/2014, 10/5/2014, 2/5/2015
16-9 Rural Health and Safety
Education (USDA)
Many individuals and families living in
rural areas and communities experience
disparities related to health and wellbeing. Negative health behaviors and
familial, occupational, and environmental risk factors underlie such chronic
health conditions as obesity, diabetes,
heart disease, agricultural respiratory diseases, traumatic brain injury, and vision/
hearing impairment. In addition, the
opportunity to receive health information,
or engage in health promotion activities is
often limited and, when available, may
not be appropriate for the diverse populations living in rural areas. Effective programs and services in the human sciences
are needed to promote rural health and
vitality by providing timely and adequate
health information and promotion opportunities to rural residents of all ages, with
consideration for health and life stage,
healthy living behaviors, health literacy,
health access and social opportunities for
individuals and families to engage in promotion of their own health and the health
of others. Health promotion and education in areas such as nutrition and physical activity, healthy and safe homes, and
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Rich Doan, Carmen Garcia,
Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Namrita Berry, Rex
Goff, Tim McDaniel, Cecilia Scaler, Sharon
Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Joel Anderson
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Petra Jardine, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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