Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
October 8, 2010
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Limited submission programs have
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applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
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Research, is the internal coordinator for
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin (FB
38-2) or by at least two months prior to
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GENERAL
38-1 Competition in the Plant Sciences
(HHMI)
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI) and the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation (GBMF) will hold a new
national competition to select as many as
15 outstanding investigators for the Program in the Plant Sciences. This new initiative—the first of its type for either
organization—comes at a critical moment
for the nation and for the long-term health
of its research infrastructure in the plant
sciences. The purpose of the Program is to
provide at least five years of targeted support to academic researchers working in
the plant sciences in the United States in a
manner that a) increases fundamental
knowledge in plant biology, b) enables the
potential transformation of the field of
plant science, c) encourages top scientists
to enter the field, and d) attracts additional
support for the field. We believe our competition responds to very real challenges
faced by academic researchers in an era of
constrained research funding. We seek scientists of exceptional promise who have
led research laboratories for four years or
more. The applicant must have begun their
first faculty position as assistant professor
or equivalent no later than December 31,
Vol. 19, No. 38
2006 and be the principal investigator on
one or more active, national, peerreviewed research grants that provide at
least three years of support, such as a
National Science Foundation research
grant, or a grant from another federal
agency such as the Department of
Energy, the Department of Agriculture,
or the National Institutes of Health, or a
competitive research grant from a nonprofit organization. HHMI expects that
successful candidates will be among the
most outstanding in the nation, and we
encourage applications from scientists in
broad areas of the plant sciences, including biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, biostatistics, biophysics, cell
biology, chemical biology, computational
biology, developmental biology, ecology,
evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, organismal
biology, physiology, and structural biology.
URL: http://www.hhmi.org/research/
application/plant2011
Deadline: 11/9/2010
38-2 Greenwall Faculty Scholars
Program in Bioethics (Greenwall)
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program
in Bioethics is a career development
award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original
research that will help resolve important
policy and clinical moral dilemmas at the
intersection of ethics and the life sciences. This research will also put Faculty
Scholars in a position to help set public
policy and standards of clinical practice.
Only one applicant from an institution
will be considered; institutions are
requested to have an internal screening
and selection process.
URL: http://www.greenwallfsp.org
Deadline: Internal 10/15/2010; Applications 11/1/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
38-3 National Digital Newspaper
Program (NEH)
NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP
is creating a national, digital resource of
historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, from all
the states and U.S. territories. This
searchable database will be permanently
maintained at the Library of Congress
(LC) and be freely accessible via the
Internet. An accompanying national
newspaper directory of bibliographic and
holdings information on the website
directs users to newspaper titles available
in all types of formats. During the course
of its partnerships with NEH, LC will
also digitize and contribute to the NDNP
database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections.
NEH intends to support projects in all
states and U.S. territories, provided that
sufficient funds allocated for this purpose
are available. One organization within
each U.S. state or territory will receive an
award to collaborate with relevant state
partners in this effort. 20101102-PJ (GG
8/17/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/ndnp.html
Deadline: 1/13/11
EDUCATION
38-4 Discovery Research K-12 (DR K12) (NSF)
The Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12)
program seeks to enable significant
advances in student and teacher learning
of the STEM disciplines. Projects funded
under this solicitation begin with a
research question or hypothesis about
how to improve preK-12 STEM learning
and teaching and then develop, implement, and study effects of innovative educational resources, models, or
technologies. DR K-12 invites proposals
that meet a variety of educational needs,
from those that address immediate challenges facing preK-12 STEM education
to those that anticipate the future when
expectations, roles and resources are
likely to be aligned in different ways. DR
K-12 especially encourages proposals that
challenge existing assumptions about
learning and teaching within or across
STEM fields, envision needs of learners
in 10-15 years, and consider new and
innovative ways to support learning. The
DR K-12 program accepts proposals for
exploratory projects, full research and
development projects, and synthesis
projects, as well as for conferences and
workshops related to the mission of the
program. NSF 10-610
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10610/nsf10610.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/5/2010;
Proposals 1/6/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
38-5 Strategic Technologies (DARPA)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency’s DARPA Strategic Technology
Office (STO) is soliciting innovative proposals under this Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) for the performance of research, development, design,
and testing that directly supports the Strategic Technology Office (STO). This
includes Communication, Networks and
Electronic Warfare; Cyber; Energy and
Self-Sufficient Operations; Finding Difficult Targets; Recapturing Surprise; and
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Core Strategic Technologies. Proposed
research should investigate innovative
approaches that enable revolutionary
advances in science, devices, or systems.
DARPA-BAA-10-83 (GG 9/9/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/7/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
38-6 Extramural Medical Research
(DOD)
The U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC) mission is to provide solutions to medical
problems of importance to the American
Warfighter at home and abroad. The
scope of this effort and the priorities
attached to specific projects are influenced by changes in military and civilian
medical science and technology, operational requirements, military threat
assessments, and national defense strategies. The extramural research and development program plays a vital role in the
fulfillment of the objectives established
by the Command. W81XWH-BAA-11-1
(GG 10/1/10)
URL: https://mrmc.detrick.army.mil
Deadline: 9/30/2011
38-7 Resource Related Research
Projects for Development of Animal
Models and Related Materials (R24)
(NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Center
for Research Resources (NCRR)
(National Institutes of Health) encourages
Resource Related Research Project grant
applications (R24) aimed at developing,
characterizing or improving animal models of human diseases or improving diagnosis and control of diseases of laboratory
animals. This FOA applies only to R24
grant applications for potential support by
the Division of Comparative Medicine,
NCRR. The animal models and related
materials to be developed must address
the research interests of two or more the
categorical NIH Institutes and Centers.
PAR-10-289 (NIHG 10/1/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-289.html
Deadline: 10/27/2010, 1/25/2011, 5/25/
2011
38-8 Mechanistic Research on CAM
Natural Products (R01) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Center
for Complementary and Alternative medicine (NCCAM) in collaboration with the
Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), at
the National Institutes of Health, invites
Research Project Grant (R01) applications to study the potential mechanisms of
action of promising CAM natural products (NPs). Natural products are widely
used by Americans for health purposes.
Knowledge about the active components,
their molecular and cellular targets, as
well as markers of potential beneficial or
harmful biological effects are critical
pieces of preliminary information needed
to insure maximally informative clinical
efficacy studies on these products.
Research on the development of
improved methodology for the isolation
and characterization of constituents of
natural products and on their determination in the natural matrix will also be supported under this initiative. RFA-AT-11001 (NIHG 8/27/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AT-11-001.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/1/2010, 2/
1/2011; Applications 12/1/2010, 3/1/
2010
38-9 Identification of ImmuneMediated Causes of Sensorineural
Hearing Loss (R21/R23)
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage
submission of milestone-driven interdisciplinary Exploratory/Developmental
Phased Innovation (R21/R23) research
proposals designed to further our understanding of the mechanism, etiology, and
pathophysiology of immune mediated
sensorineural hearing loss (IMSNHL).
Applications considered responsive
include studies of 1) ear organ-specific
autoimmune sensorineural hearing lossi.e. autoimmune inner ear disease
(AIED), 2) sudden sensorineural hearing
loss attributable to AIED, as well as 3)
sensorineural hearing loss associated with
systematic autoimmune disease. Proposals primarily involving human subjects/
tissues will be given highest priority. The
human health goal of this FOA is the ultimate translation of the research findings
into clinical biomarkers, new diagnostic
tests with high sensitivity, specificity and
positive predictive value, and the development of therapies that preserve natural
hearing. RFA-DC-11-002 (NIHG 8/20/
10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DC-11-002.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/8/11;
Applications: 2/8/11
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
38-11 Fulbright-Hays Faculty
Research Abroad Fellowship Program
(ED)
The Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research
Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program provides opportunities to faculty members of
institutions of higher education (IHEs) to
engage in research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The priority is: a research project that focuses on
one or more of the following geographic
areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia
and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the
Near East, Central, and Eastern Europe
and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere
(excluding the United States and its territories). CFDA 84.019A (FR 10/1/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 11/16/2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES
38-12 Children, Youth and Families at
Risk Sustainable Community Projects
(USDA)
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (NIFA),
USDA announces the Children, Youth,
and Families at Risk (CYFAR) funding
program to improve the quality and quantity of comprehensive community-based
programs for at-risk children, youth, and
families supported by the Cooperative
Extension System. The CYFAR program
mission is to marshal resources of the
Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension
Systems to develop and deliver educational programs that equip limited
resource families and youth who are atrisk for not meeting basic human needs
with the skills they need to lead positive,
productive, contributing lives. USDANIFA-SLBCD-003353
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov
Deadline: 11/10/2010
38-10 Aging Studies in the Pulmonary
System (R01) (NIH)
The National Institute on Aging (NIA)
and the National Heart Lung and Blood
Institute (NHLBI) invite research project
grant applications that explore age-associated changes in pulmonary physiology,
pathology and function, and their relationship to respiratory conditions and diseases that occur commonly in older
populations. The goal of this FOA is to
support basic, clinical and translational
research to address physiological mechanisms underlying progressive functional
declines in the pulmonary system. This
research will likely enhance our basic
understanding of molecular and cellular
aspects of pulmonary aging, which may
translate into improvement in the prevention and management of pulmonary diseases in older persons. Projects involving
in vitro studies, animal models, and/or
human subjects are of significant interest
to NIA and NHLBI. PA-10-179 (NIHG 4/
30/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-179.html
Deadline: 10/5/2010, 2/5/2011, 6/5/2011
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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