Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 10, 2014
Program Information
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Limited submission programs have
sponsor restrictions on the number of
proposals that may be submitted by a
single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin or by
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GENERAL
1-1 Cyber-Innovation for
Sustainability Science and Engineering
(CyberSEES) (NSF)
The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability
Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)
program aims to advance interdisciplinary
research in which the science and engineering of sustainability are enabled by
new advances in computing, and where
computational innovation is grounded in
the context of sustainability problems.
Computational approaches play a central
role in understanding and advancing sustainability. CyberSEES supports research
on all sustainability topics that depend on
advances in computational areas including
optimization, modeling, simulation, prediction, and inference; large-scale data
management and analytics; advanced sensing techniques; human computer interaction and social computing; infrastructure
design, control and management; and
intelligent systems and decision-making.
Additionally, the widespread, intensive use
of computing technologies also introduces
sustainability challenges and motivates
new approaches across the lifecycle of
technology design and use. An individual
may appear as Principal Investigator (PI),
Co-PI, or Senior Personnel (or any other
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similar designation) in no more than two
proposals submitted in any one fiscal
year in response to this solicitation. NSF
14-531
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14531/nsf14531.htm
Deadline: 4/8/2014, 2/3/2015
1-2 Basic Mechanisms of Brain
Development for Substance Use and
Dependence (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research
Project Grant (R01) applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to
study the developing brain or brain areas
that play significant roles in mediating
emotional and motivated behavior and in
substance use and dependence. All stages
of brain development are of interest, but
a new emphasis of the current reissue of
this initiative is to support basic neuroscience research on fundamental mechanisms of brain development during
prepuberty and the adolescent period in
relation to the problems of substance
abuse and co-morbidity with psychiatric
disorders. Topics of interest pertaining to
brain development of this initiative
include, but are not limited to, the
euphoric properties of abused substances, actions of psychotherapeutic
agents, and their consequences on memory, cognitive and emotional processes.
An additional major goal of this initiative
is to understand how exposure to substances of abuse affects the cellular and
molecular mechanisms underlying nervous system development and neural circuit functions implicated in substance
use and addiction. PA-14-026 (NIHG 12/
13/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-026.html
Deadline: 2/5/2014, 6/5/2014, 10/5/2014
1-3 Pre-application for a Biomedical
Technology Research Resource (X02)
(NIH)
This announcement encourages preapplications for the creation of national
Biomedical Technology Research
Resources (BTRRs). These Resources
develop new or improved technology
driven by the needs of basic, translational, and clinical researchers. The
BTRRs are charged to make their technologies available the biomedical
research community, to train members of
this community in the use of the technologies, and to disseminate both the technologies and the Resource’s
experimental results broadly. A preapplication is a helpful first step toward
submitting a full BTRR application for a
new Resource, because the Resources
and corresponding full applications are
very complex. PAR-14-023 (NIHG 12/
13/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-14-023.html
Deadline: 2/3/2014, 5/15/2014, 12/16/
2014
1-4 Systems-Based Research for
Evaluating Ecological Impacts of
Manufactured Chemicals (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
seeking applications focusing on integrated, transdisciplinary research that
would advance scientific understanding
of potential for impacts to ecosystem
wellbeing associated with the use of manufactured chemicals. Specifically, the
RFA would solicit proposals for systemsbased research to develop and apply innovative metrics and modeling approaches
to improve evaluation of ecological resilience and impact analyses, and to support
environmental sustainability. Successful
proposals will translate emerging and
advanced methods, data, and computational tools to address complexity of these
systems and distill drivers of adverse outcomes to ecological organisms and populations. This solicitation provides the
opportunity for the submission of applications for projects that may involve human
subjects research. EPA-G2014-STAR-E1
URL: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2014/
2014_star_eco-impacts.html
Deadline: 3/4/2014
AGRICULTURE
1-5 AFRI Foundational Program
(USDA)
The United States of Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of
Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has released
the request for applications (RFA) for the
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
(AFRI) Foundational Program. The AFRI
Foundational Program addresses six priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge in fundamental and
applied food and agricultural sciences that
are critical for solving current and future
societal challenges. The six priority areas
include: plant health and production and
plant products; animal health and production and animal products; food safety,
nutrition and health; renewable energy,
natural resources and environment; agriculture systems and technology; and agriculture economics and rural communities.
The fiscal year 2014 RFA will feature two
new programs intended to address critical
and emerging issues. The Exploratory
Research Program (ERP) addresses new
challenges in food security, climate
change, environmental quality and natural
resources, nutrition, obesity, food safety,
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and thriving youth. The program seeks to
find innovative ideas that will position
U.S. agriculture at the global forefront.
The Critical Agriculture Research and
Extension (CARE) program seeks to
address critical problems that continue to
impede the efficient production and protection of plants and animals. Funded
projects will quickly yield solutions or
practices that can be rapidly implemented
by producers.
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Agriculture Systems & Technology earliest Letters of Intent 2/5/
2014
ARTS & HUMANITIES
1-6
Research Fellowships (Folger)
The Folger Shakespeare Library offers
residential research Fellowships to
encourage use of its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the
early modern period. Each year scholars
may compete for a limited number of
Long-term (six to nine months, application deadline NOV 1) and Short-term
(one to three months, application deadline
MAR 1) fellowships. Long-term Fellowships: Long-term Fellowships are supported by the funds from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Folger.
They seek highly talented, productive
scholars whose work will be significantly
advanced by a prolonged period of access
to the collection. Long-term Fellows are
selected by an external committee which
considers the following criteria in making
its selections: importance of the topic,
originality and sophistication of the
approach; feasibility of research objectives, and the applicant’s need for the
Folger collections. (TGA 12/13)
URL: http://www.folger.edu/Content/
Collection/Research-Fellowships/
Research-Fellowships.cfm
Deadline: 3/1/2013, 11/1/2014
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
1-7 Campus Cyberinfrastructure Infrastructure, Innovation and
Engineering Program (CC*IIE) (NSF)
The Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Infrastructure, Innovation and Engineering
(CC*IIE) program invests in improvements and re-engineering at the campus
level to support a range of data transfers
supporting computational science and
computer networks and systems research.
The program also supports Network Integration activities tied to achieving higher
levels of performance, reliability and predictability for science applications and
distributed research projects. CC*IIE
awards will be made in six areas: Data
Driven Networking Infrastructure for the
Campus and Researcher awards; Network
Design and Implementation for Small
Institutions awards; Network Integration
and Applied Innovation awards; Identity
and Access Management Integration
awards. Campus CI Engineer awards will
be made at up to $400,000 total for up to
2 years. Regional Coordination and Partnership in Advanced Networking awards
will be made at up to $150,000 for up to 2
years. NSF 14-521
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14521/nsf14521.htm
Deadline: 3/17/2014
1-8
Expeditions in Computing (NSF)
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
has created the Expeditions in Computing
(Expeditions) program to provide the
CISE research and education community
with the opportunity to pursue ambitious,
fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and
information. In planning Expeditions
projects, investigators are encouraged to
come together within or across departments or institutions to combine their creative talents in the identification of
compelling, transformative research agendas that promise disruptive innovations in
computing and information for many
years to come. An individual may participate in no more than one preliminary or
full proposal as PI, co-PI, or senior personnel. NSF 14-519 (GG 12/16/13)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14519/nsf14519.htm
Deadline: Preliminary Proposals 3/12/
2014; Proposals 12/10/2014
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/25/2014;
Applications 3/25/2014
1-10 Institutional Grants (Tinker)
The Foundation’s Institutional Grants
program has as its goal the creation of
effective policy changes to improve the
lives of Latin Americans. Taking into
account developments that have taken
place in Latin America over the last ten
years, the Foundation recently embarked
on an evaluation of its grantmaking
efforts. As a result of this strategic planning process, the Board of Directors has
identified five program areas in which
focused, expert research and innovation
has the potential to make significant positive impact. While they are similar in
theme to the previous funding for environmental policy, economic policy and
governance issues, each thematic program has been redefined and reoriented
with respect to specific priorities: 1)
Democratic Governance; 2) Education; 3)
Sustainable Resource Management; 3)
U.S. Policy toward Latin America*; 4)
Antarctica Science and Policy*. The latter
two programs areas have very limited
funding. Projects should have a strong
public policy component, offer innovative
solutions to problems facing these
regions, and incorporate new mechanisms
for addressing these programmatic areas.
Activities may include, but are not
restricted to, research projects, workshops
and conferences related to the Foundation’s areas of interest. (TGA 12/13)
URL: http://www.tinker.org/content/
institutional-grants-overview
Deadline: 3/1/2014, 9/15/2014
1-9 Using Social Media to
Understand and Address Substance
Abuse and Addiction (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) is part of a trans-NIH initiative
known as Collaborative Research on
Addiction (CRAN). The goal of this FOA
is to inspire and support research projects
investigating the role of social media in
risk behaviors associated with the use and
abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
(hereafter referred to as ATOD) and
projects using social media to ameliorate
such behaviors. Each research project
proposed in response to this FOA must be
focused on one of the two distinct areas:
1) observational research using social
media interactions as surveillance tools to
aid in the understanding of the epidemiology, risk factors, attitudes, and behaviors
associated with ATOD use and addiction,
or 2) intervention research measuring the
reach, engagement, and behavioral and
health impact of social media-based interventions for the screening, prevention,
and treatment, of ATOD use and addiction. Original research preliminary data
are not required but all projects are
expected to be supported by a strong
rationale that is based on integrating to
the extent possible the available relevant
information from various sources. A companion funding opportunity is RFA-CA14-009, R21 Exploratory/Developmental
Grant. RFA-CA-14-008 (NIHG 1/3/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-CA-14-008.html
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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