Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
December 11, 2009
Program Information
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Limited Submissions
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 Provost for
Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
notify him at 785-532-6195, email:
guikema@ksu.edu, by the Internal due
date listed in the Funding Bulletin or by
at least two months prior to the sponsor
deadline if you wish to submit to a limited submission program. Currently
posted Internal Deadlines: http://www.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
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GENERAL
44-1 Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Program (YIP) (ONR)
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is
interested in receiving proposals for its
Young Investigator Program (YIP). ONR’s
Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and
engineers who have received Ph.D. or
equivalent degrees within the last five
years (on or after 01 November 2004 for
this FY10 competition) and who show
exceptional promise for doing creative
research. The objectives of this program
are to attract outstanding faculty members
of Institutions of Higher Education to the
Department of the Navy’s research program, to support their research, and to
encourage their teaching and research
careers. Proposals addressing research
areas as described in the ONR Science and
Technology (S&T) Department section of
ONR’s website at www.onr.navy.mil
which are of interest to ONR Program
Officers and Division Directors will be
considered. ONRBAA10-011 (GG 12/7/
09)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/
Contracts-Grants
Deadline: 1/29/2010
Vol. 18, No. 44
44-2 Development of New Tools for
Computational Analysis of Human
Microbiome Project Data (R01) (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health solicits
applications to develop new and
improved computational tools for the
analysis, interpretation and validation of
data generated from the Human Microbiome Program. This FOA will utilize
the NIH Research Project Grant (R01)
award mechanism and runs in parallel
with an FOA of identical scientific
scope, RFA-RM-09-021 that solicits
applications under the R21 mechanism.
RFA-RM-09-020 (NIHG 12/4/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-020.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/4/2010;
Applications 2/1/2010
44-3 Transdisciplinary Research in
Energetics and Cancer (U54) (NIH)
Through this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits applications for the centers for Transdisciplinary
Research on Energetics and Cancer
(TREC) in nutrition, physical activity,
energy balance, obesity, and cancer. The
TREC initiative is designed to foster collaboration across multiple disciplines
and encompasses projects that cover the
biology, genomics, and genetics of
energy balance to behavioral, socio-culture, and environmental influences upon
nutrition, physical activity, weight, energetics, and cancer risk. This initiative is
open to all qualified candidates regardless of whether or not they participated in
the previous issuance of the TREC Program. Applicants responding to this FOA
should establish transdisciplinary
research teams with the appropriate
breadth of expertise. TREC has two main
goals, which are: 1) to enhance knowledge of the current mechanisms underlying the association between energy
balance and carcinogenesis (from cellular, animal, or human models to genetics
and genomics and across the cancer continuum from causation and prevention);
and 2) to explore and integrate the etiology of obesity behavior and relevant
health behavior theories, with broad population impact at the social-environmental and policy levels for prevention and
control of obesity. Special focus on children, groups at high risk for obesity, and
cancer survivors is encouraged. RFACA-10-006 (GG 11/24/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-CA-10-006.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/26/2010;
Applications 2/26/2010
44-4 Predoctoral, Postdoctoral, and
Senior Fellowships (Smithsonian)
Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institu-
tion provide students and scholars with
opportunities to pursue independent
research projects in association with
members of the Smithsonian professional
research staff. Predoctoral fellowships
allow students to conduct research for
periods of three to twelve months. Applicants must have completed coursework
and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree, and must be engaged in dissertation research. (TGA 10/09)
URL: http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm#fofg
Deadline: 1/15/2010
AGRICULTURE
44-5 USAID/India University
Linkages—Agriculture (USAID)
The purpose of this announcement is to
provide advance notification to interested
parties of USAID/India’s intention to
issue an RFA for a university linkages—
agriculture activity. This advance notification provides prospective applicants
with lead time to identify key personnel
and technical specialists to include in
their applications. USAID/India has a
long history of working with U.S. land
grant universities to build the capacity of
Indian educational institutions and
research institutes for developing India’s
agricultural and rural economy. More
recently in 2008, as part of USAID/
India’s Partnerships for Innovation and
Knowledge in Agriculture (PIKA) program, two U.S. land grant universities are
partnering with Indian State Agriculture
Universities, private sector companies
and non-government organizations to
introduce new models of market-led agricultural development. USAID/India is
keen to continue supporting the Indian
agricultural higher education system by
developing new partnerships in the future
for sharing experience and learning to
introduce technological innovations and
latest scientific knowledge in order to
raise agricultural productivity and for
building a more efficient market-led agricultural system in India. USAID/India
intends to initiate a new program to build
the capacity of selected Indian agricultural universities. The proposed program,
intended to be lead by a university or consortium of universities, will pursue a public-private partnership model to leverage
resources from foundation, NGOs and
civil-society networks devoted to rural
training and education, and knowledgerich private agricultural companies (both
U.S. and Indian) and establish linkages
with an Indian agricultural university to
focus on capacity building in agricultural
education. Banaras Agricultural University (BHU) and its Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
has been selected as the Indian university
to initiate this program. With its different
institutes, interdisciplinary centers department, it is intended that the proposed pro-
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gram will facilitate BHU in becoming a
“Center of Excellence” for new multidisciplinary approaches to improving agriculture education. 386-10-050 (GG 11/23/
09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: N/A
ARTS & HUMANITIES
44-6 Residencies for Writers,
Composers, and Artists (MacDowell)
The MacDowell Colony provides time,
space, and an inspiring environment to
artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of
exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for
up to eight weeks. The Colony accepts
applicants from artists working in the following disciplines: architecture, film/
video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and
visual arts. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence, which the Colony defines in a pluralistic and inclusive
way. (TGA 10/09)
URL: http:///www.macdowellcolony.org
Deadline: 1/15/2010, 4/15/2010, 9/15/
2010
44-7 Houghton Library: Visiting
Fellowships (Harvard)
Houghton Library is the principal rare
book and manuscript library of Harvard
College. The library’s holdings are particularly strong in the following areas: European, English, American, and South
American literature, including the country’s pre-eminent collection of American
literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion;
history of science; music; printing and
graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows
will also have access to collections in
Widener Library as well as to other libraries at the University. (TGA 10/09)
URL: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/
houghton/public_programs/
visiting_fellowships.cfm
Deadline: 1/15/2010
EDUCATION
44-8 Research Fellowships Program
(ED)
The purpose of the Research Fellowships
Program is to build research capacity by
providing support to enable highly qualified individuals, including those who are
individuals with disabilities, to conduct
research on the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities. Fellows must conduct original research in an area
authorized by section 204 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act).
Section 204 authorizes research designed
to maximize the full inclusion and integration of individuals with disabilities,
especially individuals with the severe disabilities, into society, by fostering
improvements in the areas of employment, independent living, family, support,
and economic and social-sufficiency, and
to improve the effectiveness of services
authorized under the Act. CFDA
84.133F-1 (FR 12/1/09)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 2/1/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
44-9 Advanced Detector Research
Program (DOE)
The Office of High Energy Physics of the
Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department
of Energy, announces its interest in
receiving grant applications for support
under its Advanced Detector Research
Program. Applications should be from
investigators who are currently involved
in experimental high energy physics, and
should be submitted through a U.S. academic institution. The purpose of this program is to support the development of the
new detector technologies needed to perform future high energy physics experiments. DE-FOA-0000163 (GG 12/4/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/5/2010;
Applications 2/1/2010
44-10 Solicitation for the Office of
Science Financial Assistance Program
(DOE)
The Office of Science of the Department
of Energy announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program
areas: Advanced Scientific Computing,
Biological and Environmental Research,
Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion Energy
Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear
Physics, and Workforce Development for
Teachers and Scientists. DE-FOA0000178 (GG 12/04/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/30/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
44-12 Membrane Protein Production
for Structure Determination (R01)
(NIH)
This FOA solicits applications to develop
innovative methods for membrane protein
production so that the rate of membrane
protein structure determination may be
enhanced. Methods development for
expression, solubilization, stabilization,
purification, characterization, crystallization, and isotopic labeling of membrane
proteins to enable the determination of the
their structures by electron microscope, xray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry, and
other biophysical techniques are emphasized. RFA-RM-09-012 (NIHG 12/4/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-012.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/11/2010;
Applications 2/11/2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES
44-13 Youth Purpose Research Awards
(Stanford)
The Stanford Center on Adolescence supports young scholars pursuing research
related to youth purpose. The center
defines purpose as a stable and generalized intention to accomplish something
that is at once meaningful to the self and
of intended consequence beyond self.
Grants will be given for dissertation, postdoctoral, and early faculty career research
that sheds light on adolescent intention,
involvement with beyond-the-self causes,
and topics that lead to the development of
purpose, function of purpose in a youth’s
life, and supports for and challenges to
purpose.
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/
adolescent.ctr/researchawards
Deadline: 1/15/2010
44-11 Advanced Research Projects
Agency Funding (DOE)
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
announced today that a second round of
funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects that will
be made available through the Department’s Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). At an event
today with Commerce Secretary Gary
Locke, Secretary Chu announced $100
million in Recovery Act funding will be
made available to accelerate innovation in
green technology, increase America’s
competitiveness and create jobs. Areas of
focus included under today’s funding
opportunity are: 1) Electrofuels, 2) Innovative Materials & Processes for
Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies
(IMPACCT) and 3) Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation
(BEEST). DE-FOA-0000178 (GG 12/04/
09)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Deadline: 1/15/2009
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,
Danielle Brunner, Rex Goff, Adassa Roe,
Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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