Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
February 9, 2009
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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 (FB
5-4) 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.k-state.edu/research/funding/bulletins/bul09/limits09/index.htm
GENERAL
5-1 Foundations of Data and Visual
Analytics (FODAVA) (NSF)
With this solicitation, the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) invite research
proposals whose outcomes will enable
data stakeholders to detect the expected
and discover the unexpected in massive
data sets. Proposals should focus on creating fundamental research advances that
will be widely applicable across scientific,
engineering, commercial, and governmental domains that utilize visualization and
analytics to gain insight and derive knowledge from massive, often streaming,
dynamic, ambiguous and possibly conflicting, data sets. Research activities proposed
should emphasize novel data transformations, while also demonstrating research
relevance to visual analytics systems by
including a research component in areas
such as, but not limited to, visualization,
human-computer interaction, and cognitive psychology. An individual may appear
as PI, co-PI, Senior Personnel, or Consultant on no more than two FODAVA-Partner
proposals submitted to any annual
FODAVA competition. (NSF 09-525)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/
nsf09525/nsf09525.htm
Vol. 18, No. 5
Deadline: 4/2/2009
AGRICULTURE
5-2 Biomass Research and
Development Initiative (DOE/USDA)
The objectives of this Initiative are to
develop: technologies and processes necessary for abundant commercial production of biofuels at prices competitive
with fossil fuels; high-value biobased
products to enhance the economic viability of biofuels and power; to serve as
substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks and products; and to enhance the
value of coproducts produced using the
technologies and processes; and a diversity of economically and environmentally sustainable domestic sources of
renewable biomass for conversion of
biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products. (GG 1/30/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 3/6/2009;
Applications 6/11/2009
ARTS & HUMANITIES
5-3 Landmarks of American
History and Culture: Workshops for
Community College Faculty and
School Teachers (NEH)
As part of NEH’s We the People program, the Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a
series of one-week residence-based
workshops for a national audience of
community college educators and a
series for school teachers. The workshops use historic sites to address central
themes and issues in American history,
government, literature, art history, and
other related subjects in the humanities.
URL: http://www.neh.gov
Deadline: 3/17/2009
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCE
5-4 Nanotechnology Undergraduate
Education (NUE) in Engineering
(NSF)
This Solicitation aims at introducing
nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate
engineering education. The focus of this
year’s competition is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to
devices and systems and/or on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to
nanotechnology. Only one proposal may
be submitted by a US academic institution, College/Department of Engineering or College/Department of
Engineering Technology as the lead institution with the following exception: A US
academic institution may submit a second
proposal as the lead institution, only if it
is focused on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology. NSF 09-533
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/
nsf09533/nsf09533.html
Deadline: Internal 2/28/2009; Proposal
4/29/2009
5-5 Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office-National Science Foundation
Academic Research Initiative (ARI)
(NSF)
In FY 2009, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will
invest, in partnership with the National
Science Foundation (NSF), in frontier
research at academic institutions. This
transformational research effort will be
focused on detection systems, individual
sensors or other research that is potentially relevant to the detection of nuclear
weapons, special nuclear material, radiation dispersal devices and related threats.
The joint DNDO-NSF effort, in coordination with the efforts of other agencies,
seeks to advance fundamental knowledge
in new technologies for the detection of
nuclear threats and to develop intellectual
capacity in fields relevant to long-term
advances in nuclear detection capability.
An individual researcher may not be
named as a participant on more than one
proposal submitted to this solicitation.
NSF 09-532
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/
nsf09532/nsf09532.html
Deadline: 4/27/2009
5-6 Collaboration in Mathematical
Geosciences (CMG) (NSF)
The purpose of the Collaboration in
Mathematical Geosciences (CMG) activity is to enable collaborative research at
the intersection of mathematical sciences
and geosciences, and to encourage crossdisciplinary education. Projects should
fall within one of three broad themes: 1)
mathematical and statistical modeling of
complex geosystems, 2) understanding
and quantifying uncertainty in geosystems, or 3) analyzing large/complex geoscience data sets. Research groups must
include at least one mathematical/statistical scientist and at least one geoscientist.
Proposals that address problems with relevance to global change and sustainability
are especially encouraged. NSF 09-520
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/
nsf09520/nsf09520.htm
Deadline: 3/10/2009, 2/22/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCE
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5-7 DOD Peer Reviewed Medical
Research (DOD)
The FY09 Peer Reviewed Medical
Research Program (PRMRP) is soliciting
research applications across the following
19 congressionally-directed topic areas:
alcoholism research; autoimmune diseases; blood cancer; childhood asthma;
drug abuse; epilepsy; kidney cancer; listeria vaccine for infectious diseases and
cancer; lupus; mesothelioma; molecular
signatures in tumors; neuroblastoma;
osteoporosis and related bone disease;
Paget’s disease; pediatric cancer; polycystic kidney disease; social work research;
tinnitus; and West Nile virus vaccine.
Applications submitted to the FY09
PRMRP must address one of these topic
areas.
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/
prmrp.htm
Deadline: Preapplications 3/19/2009;
Applications 4/16/2009
5-8 DOD Autism Research Program
(DOD)
The Fiscal Year 2009 Department of
Defense Autism Research Program
(ARP) funds research to improve the lives
of individuals with autism spectrum disorders. The FY09 ARP encourages proposals that specifically address critical
needs of the Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD) community in the following areas:
Co-morbidity: (e.g., manifestations such
as disorders [gastrointestinal, sleep,
behavioral, speech/language], psychiatric,
seizures, immune dysfunction, motor and
sensory deficits, metabolic dysfunction,
and effects of ASD on intellectual ability); Predictors for Treatment Outcomes:
Identification of biomarkers, clinical
characteristics, or other phenotypic markers that predict outcomes of a treatment,
or populations that will or will not
respond to a treatment (traditional or
complementary and alternative). (GG 2/1/
09)
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil
Deadline: Preapplications 3/17/2009;
Applications 7/22/2009
5-9 NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology
Consortium Research Hubs (NIH)
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NHLBI) invites applications to
participate in the NHLBI Progenitor Cell
Biology Consortium. The goal of the
Consortium is to identify and characterize
progenitor cell lineages, to direct the differentiation of stem and progenitor cells
to desired cell fates, and to develop new
strategies to address the unique challenges presented by the transplantation of
these cells. The Consortium will assemble
clusters of synergistic research projects,
each with a multi-disciplinary team of
Principal Investigators, to establish virtual Research Hubs focused on progenitor
cell biology. The Consortium will also
contain core research support facilities
and skills development components.
Research Hub applications must consist
of a cluster of two to four synergistic
applications, each of which must derive
from a separate R03 application funded
through RFA-HL-08-012. Applicants
must submit only one application as PI/
PD; participation in additional applications as co-investigator is permitted provided they are scientifically distinct. Only
one Lead PI/PD application, and only two
U01 applications in total, may be derived
from any R03 application. RFA-HL-09004 (NIHG 1/30/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-09-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/1/2009;
Applications 5/1/2009
INTERNATIONAL/ MULTICULTURAL
5-10 European Union-United States
Atlantis Program (ED)
The purpose of the program is to provide
grants to or enter into cooperative agreements with eligible applicants to improve
postsecondary education. This invitational priority is designed to support the
formation of educational consortia of
American and European institutions to
support cooperation in the coordination of
curricula, the exchange of students, and
the opening of educational opportunities
between the United States and the European Union (EU). This priority relates to
the purpose of the European UnionUnited States Atlantis Program to develop
and implement undergraduate joint or
dual degree programs, or short-term
exchange programs. ED-GRANTS122208-001 (GG 12/22/08)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/
fedregister
Deadline: 3/23/2009
SOCIAL SCIENCES
5-11 Grants to Reduce Domestic
Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual
Assault, and Stalking on Campus
(DOJ)
The United States Department of Justice,
Office on Violence Against Women
(OVW) is pleased to announce that it is
seeking applications for the Grants to
Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on
Campus Program (Campus Program).
The Campus Program is designed to
encourage institutions of higher education
to adopt comprehensive, coordinated
responses to domestic violence, dating
violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The
OVW Campus Program strengthens oncampus victim services, security, and
investigative strategies to prevent and
prosecute violent crimes against women
on campuses. OVW-2009-2061 (GG 2/2/
09)
http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/open-solicitations.htm
Deadline: 3/11/2009
5-12 Research on Integrity in
Collaborative Research (R21) (NIH)
This FOA issued by NCRR (NIH) and
ORI encourages grant applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to
study research integrity as it relates to collaborative interactions and/or activities.
The R21 exploratory/developmental
mechanism will be used to foster research
where there are few published data and
where problem areas that would benefit
from further investigation could be identified. Applications must address the influence of collaborative interactions and/or
activities on research integrity in at least
one of the following areas: the clarification of community norms and standards,
the effectiveness of self-regulation, the
societal, organizational, group, or individual factors that affect integrity in research,
both positively and negatively, or the
impacts of non-adherence to accepted
codes of conduct. RFA-RR-09-004
(NIHG 10/31/08)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/17/2009;
Applications 3/17/2009
5-13 Collaborative Study of
Suicidality and Mental Health in the
U.S. Army (U01) (NIH)
The high rates of mental health and
behavioral adjustment problems among
recent U.S. military combat veterans, and
the increasing rates of suicide among
Army soldiers, are of growing concern.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH), in collaboration
with the U.S. Army, solicits cooperative
research project grant (U01) applications
aimed at conducting an epidemiologic
study of mental health, psychological
resilience, suicide risk, suicide-related
behaviors, and suicide deaths in the U.S.
Army. The U.S. Army and NIMH will
fund one application submitted in
response to this FOA. RFA-MH-09-140
(NIHG 1/9/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-MH-09-140.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/3/2009;
Applications 4/3/2009
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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
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Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
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Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
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