Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
October 22, 2010
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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 President 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 (401) 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://
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GENERAL
40-1 NIH Director’s Early
Independence Awards (DP5) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) solicits applications for
the NIH Director’s Early Independence
Awards (DP5) from institutions/organizations that propose to appoint and support
exceptional, early career scientists directly
following the completion of their Ph.D. (or
equivalent) or M.D. (or equivalent) training into an independent academic research
position, thereby omitting the traditional
postdoctoral training period from their
career path. Applicant organizations may
submit up to two applications in response
to this FOA. RFA-RM-10-019 (NIHG 10/
8/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-10-019.html
Deadline: Internal 11/21/2010; Letters
of Intent 12/21/2010; Applications 1/21/
2011
40-2 Virtual Organizations as
Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) (NSF)
The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports
fundamental scientific research, particularly advances in social, organizational and
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design science understanding, directed at
advancing the understanding of how to
develop virtual organizations and under
what conditions virtual organizations can
enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include
(but are not limited to) individuals,
groups, organizations, and institutional
arrangement. Disciplinary perspectives
may include (but are not limited to)
anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision
and management sciences, economics,
engineering, organization theory, organization behavior, social and industrial
psychology, public administration, political science and sociology. Research
methods may span a broad variety of
qualitative and quantitative methods,
including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and
network analyses. NSF 11-501
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11501/nsf11501.htm
Deadline: 1/13/2011
40-3 RAPID Proposals for Analysis
of Climate Model Simulations for the
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (NSF)
The Climate and Large-scale Dynamics
(CLD) program is accepting proposals
for one-year projects to analyze climate
model simulations of present-day climate
prepared in anticipation of the Fifth
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC
AR5). The objective is to increase community-wide diagnostic research into the
behavior of the current generation of
coupled climate and earth system models
used for future climate simulations and
initialized climate predictions. Research
projects will be funded through the NSF
Rapid Response Research (RAPID)
award mechanism, which enables funding for fast-response research. NSF 11006
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11006/nsf11006.jsp
Deadline: 11/12/2010
40-4 Berlin Program For Advanced
German and European Studies (FUBerlin)
The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies promotes a
new generation of young North American scholars with specialized knowledge
of modern and contemporary Germany
and Europe. The Program supports
scholars in all social sciences and
humanities disciplines, including historians working on modern and contemporary German and European history.
Fellowships are awarded for doctoral
dissertation research as well as postdoc-
toral research which leads to completion
of a monograph. Following a model usually reserved for senior researchers at
institutes of advanced study, the Berlin
Program is a residential program which
offers a stimulating academic environment that combines research opportunities with intellectual and cultural
interactions. An integral part of the program is a biweekly interdisciplinary colloquium where fellows present their
work.
URL: http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/en/
bprogram/
Deadline: 12/1/2010
40-5 Social-Computational Systems
(SoCS) (NSF)
The Social-Computational Systems
(SoCS) program seeks to reveal new
understanding about the properties that
systems of people and computers together
possess, and to develop theoretical and
practical understandings of the purposeful
design of systems to facilitate socially
intelligent computing. By better characterizing, understanding, and eventually
designing for desired behaviors arising
from computationally mediated groups of
people at all scales, new forms of knowledge creation, new models of computation, new forms of culture, and new types
of interaction will result. Further, the
investigation of such systems and their
emergent behaviors and desired properties will inform the design of future systems. The SoCS program will support
research in socially intelligent computing
arising from human-computer partnerships that range in scale from a single person and computer to an Internet-scale
array of machines and people. NSF 10600
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10600/nsf10600.htm
Deadline: 11/23/2010
40-6 Effects of the Social
Environment on Health: Measurement,
Methods and Mechanisms (R01) (NIH)
(HHS)
This FOA, issued as part of the NIH Basic
Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet), solicits Research
Project Grant (R01) applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to
investigate structural, behavioral, sociocultural, environmental, cognitive, emotional, and/or biological mechanisms
through which the social environment
affects health outcomes. To address this
objective, applicants should propose
research studies that will: 1) deepen our
understanding of which aspects of social
environments affect health outcomes for
women and men at different stages of the
lifecourse and in different social, economic, geographic, racial and ethnic subpopulations; 2) lead to a clearer under-
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standing of mechanisms through which
social environments have such effects; or
3) improve measurement methods and/or
contribute to advances in analytic methods used in the study of social environments and health. RFA-DA-11-003
(NIHG 8/6/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DA-11-003.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/6/2010;
Applications 1/6/2011
AGRICULTURE
proposals to overcome traditional performance limitations—including bandwidth, sensitivity, power, and speed—by
exploiting the dynamics of mesoscale systems. The objective is to deliver devices
and architectures that will ultimately provide the Department of Defense with
unrivaled communication, sensing, and
computation, while simultaneously establishing well-defined problems to accelerate the transition to quantum engineering.
DARPA-BAA-11-07 (GG 10/8/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Abstracts 11/10/2010; Proposals 12/15/2010
40-7 Bioenergy, Environment (CPBR)
The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology
Research, Inc. (CPBR), is issuing the
Request for Preproposals for its 2012
competitions. Preproposals are invited for
research that 1) is related to plant biotechnology and 2) addresses industrial problems and opportunities related to
bioenergy and/or the environment. Funding for CPBR research for 2010 may
come from the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) and/or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The following research needs and issues have
been identified by CPBR member companies and sponsoring agency representatives: Agrochemicals, Biomass
Conversion, Energy Crop Production,
Enabling Biotechnologies, Environmental
Issues, Forest Products, and Seeds.
Email: cpittman@cpbr.org
Deadline: Notice of Intent 11/5/2010;
Preproposals 12/1/2010; Proposals 6/
18/2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
40-8 Scholars-In-Residence Program
(NYPL)
The Schomburg Center residency program assists scholars and professionals
whose research on the black experience
can benefit from extended access to the
Center’s resources. Fellowships funded
by the Center will allow recipients to
spend six months or a year in residence
with access to resources at the Schomburg
Center and other research units of The
New York Public Library. The ScholarsIn-Residence Program is designed to 1)
encourage research and writing on the
history, literature, and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, 2)
to promote and facilitate interaction
among the participants including fellows
funded by other sources, and 3) facilitate
the dissemination of the researchers’ findings through lectures, publications, and
the ongoing Schomburg Center Colloquium and Seminar Series.
URL: http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/
64/node/131
Deadline: 12/1/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
40-9 MesoDynamic Architectures
(Meso) (DARPA)
40-10 The Nuclear Science and
Security Consortium (NNSA)
The intent of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to award a five
year cooperative agreement to a consortium of accredited U.S. Colleges and Universities to allow them to receive and
administer faculty and student research
fellowship and scholarship funding
awarded by the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA), Office of Nonproliferation and Verification Research
and Development (NA-22). The envisioned cooperative agreement will be
awarded to a consortium made up of Universities which will include the participation of the National Laboratories as either
a team/consortium member or as a subcontractor. The consortium includes student and early career research fellowships
and has a long-term vision to build expertise in nonproliferation and nuclear security. DE-FOA-0000365 (GG 9/23/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 11/29/2010
40-11 Accelerating Innovation
Research (AIR) (NSF)
To accelerate the process of innovation,
NSF is undertaking two related, new
activities. The first will encourage the
translation of the numerous, technologically-promising, fundamental discoveries
made by NSF researchers, while drawing
upon and building the entrepreneurial
spirit of the researchers and students. The
second activity will foster connections
between an existing NSF innovation
research alliance (including consortia
such as Engineering Research Centers
(ERC), Industry University Cooperative
Research Centers (I/UCRC), Partnerships for Innovation (PFI), Science and
Technology Centers (STC), Nanoscale
Science and Engineering Centers
(NSEC), Materials Research Science and
Engineering Centers (MRSEC) grantees)
and other institutions, whose complementary focus will spur the development of
discoveries into innovative technologies
through collaboration. Both of these
activities are designed to strengthen the
U.S. innovation ecosystem. NSF 10-608
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10608/nsf10608.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/1/2010;
Proposals 2/1/2011
40-12 BSF Travel Grants Program and
Workshop Program (BSF)
The U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation is announcing the availability of
funds for two of our grant programs: 1)
travel grants program for young scientists
(The Prof. R. Rahamimoff Program)
offers funds for short scientific trips by
young American or Israeli scientists to the
other country. 2) The BSF Workshop Program offers funds for joint applications
from U.S. and Israeli co-PIs to organize
and conduct a workshop that is focused
on bringing together Israeli, American
and Palestinian scientists for the purpose
of facilitating the development of partnership research programs
URL: http://www.bsf.org.il/
ElectronicSubmission/
GatewayFormsAndGuidelines.aspx
Deadline: 12/1/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
40-13 Basic Research on SelfRegulation (R21) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the NIH Basic
Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet) solicits exploratory/developmental (R21) research
applications examining basic mechanisms
of self-regulation. The intent of this FOA
is to advance research on basic processes
and mechanisms of self-regulation, capitalizing on recent advances in methods
and theory from the psychological (social,
personality, developmental), economic,
neuroscience, sociocultural, and other
behavioral and social science literatures.
RFA-AG-11-010 (NIHG 8/13/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AG-11-010.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/6/2010;
Applications 1/6/2011
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, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, 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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