Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 10. 2010
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
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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Notice
34-1 USRG and FDA Proposals (KSU)
Proposals for the University Small
Research Grants (USRG) Program and the
President’s Faculty Development Awards
(FDA) Program are due Monday, October
4, 2010. USRGs are seed grants to support
early research, scholarly activity and other
creative efforts. FDAs provide support to
travel to international meetings, to participate in foreign exchanges and to meet with
program officers of potential external
sponsors. There will be a Question and
Answer session Thursday, September 16,
in the K-State Union Big 12 Room. To register, please RSVP to Caron at
orsp@ksu.edu.
URL: http://www.k-state.edu/research/
funding/fdausrg.htm
Deadline: Q&A 9/16/2010; Proposals 10/
4/2010
GENERAL
34-2 Emerging Frontiers in Research
and Innovation 2011 (EFRI-2011) (NSF)
The Directorate for Engineering at the
National Science Foundation has established the Office of Emerging Frontiers in
Vol. 19, No. 34
Research and Innovation (EFRI) to serve
a critical role in focusing on important
emerging areas in a timely manner. The
EFRI Office is launching a new funding
opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of
researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering
research. For this solicitation, we will
consider proposals that aim to investigate
emerging frontiers in the following two
specific research areas: 1) Engineering
New Technologies Based on Multicellular and Interkingdom Signaling (MIKS),
and 2) Mind, Machines, and Motor Control (M3C). NSF 10-596
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10596/nsf10596.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/4/2010;
Preliminary Proposals 11/8/2010; Proposals 4/1/2011
34-3 Modeling the Scientific
Workforce (U01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(NIGMS), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), solicits applications that propose
to develop computational models of the
dynamics of the scientific workforce in
the United States. These models may be
used to inform program development and
management, identify questions that
need additional research, and guide the
collection and analysis of the data to
answer these questions. RFA-GM-11007 (NIHG 8/27/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-11-007.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/4/2010;
Applications 11/4/2010
34-4 Exceptional, Unconventional
Research Enabling Knowledge
Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01) (NIH)
This FOA solicits Research Project
Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations proposing exceptionally innovative research on novel
hypotheses or difficult problems, solutions to which would have an extremely
high impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research that is germane to the mission of one or more of the participating
NIH Institutes. This FOA is for support
of new projects, not continuation of
projects that have already been initiated.
It does not support pilot projects, i.e.,
projects of limited scope that are
designed primarily to generate data that
will enable the PD/PI to seek other funding. RFA-GM-11-003 (NIHG 8/20/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-11-003.html
Deadline: 10/21/2010
34-5 Transforming STEM Learning
(TSL) (NSF)
TSL combines interests and resources of
separate programs in the Division of
Research on Learning in Formal and
Informal Settings (DRL) to explore the
opportunities and challenges implied by
innovative visions of the future for STEM
learning. The TSL program invites interdisciplinary teams of STEM content specialists, experts in relevant technologies,
STEM formal and informal education
specialists, researchers with expertise in
the learning sciences, and specialists in
education research and evaluation methods to submit proposals for research
projects that 1) Study efficacy of existing
prototypes for innovations like virtual
schools, special STEM schools, and educational programs that combine opportunities of formal and informal learning
resources in their communities; or 2)
Design and conduct exploratory development of new potentially transformative
models for STEM learning environments. NSF 10-602
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10602/nsf10602.htm
Deadline: 3/11/2011
34-6 Development of Assays for HighThroughput Screening for use in Probe
and Pre-therapeutic Discovery (R01)
(NIH)
This FOA, issued by the National Institutes of Health, encourages Research
Project Grant (R01) applications from
institutions/organizations that propose the
development of assays for high throughput screening (HTS) relevant to processes
and diseases specific to its mission with
the intent of using them to screen for
small molecule compounds that show
desired properties as probes for use in
advancing knowledge about the relevant
target, identifying new targets, or serving
as pre-therapeutic leads. Assays may
involve targets indirectly related to disease, but which might provide insight into
the biology of relevant diseases. Other
targets might be associated with rare and
neglected diseases, an area of increasing
focus for the NIH. PA-10-213 (NIHG 6/
10/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-213.html
Deadline: 10/5/2010, 2/5/2011, 6/5/2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
34-7 Collaborative Research Grants
(NEH)
Collaborative Research Grants support
original research undertaken by a team of
two or more scholars, for full-time or
part-time activities for periods of at least
one year up to a maximum of three years.
Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and
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research assistants; projects-related
travel; field work; applications of information technology; and technical support
and services.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/Collaborative.html
Deadline: 10/28/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
34-8 Cognitive radio Low-energy
signal Analysis Sensor ICs (CLASIC)
(DARPA)
The goal of CLASIC is to enable monolithic, high performance, ultra high
energy efficiency, signal recognition integrated circuits (ICs) for next-generation
military microsystems in areas such as
cognitive communication, radar and electronic warfare. DARPA-BAA-10-77 (GG
8/31/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Abstracts 10/1/2010; Proposals 12/10/2010
34-9 Multidisciplinary University
Research Initiative (MURI) (DOD)
The DoD Multidisciplinary University
Research Initiative (MURI), one element
of the University Research Initiative
(URI), is sponsored by the DoD research
offices: the Office of Naval Research
(ONR), the Army Research Office
(ARO), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The MURI program supports basic science and/or
engineering research at U.S. institutions
of higher education that is of potential
interest to DoD. The program is focused
on multi disciplinary research efforts that
intersect more than one traditional science
and engineering discipline to address scientific issues of interest to the DoD. As
defined by the DoD, basic research is systematic study directed toward greater
knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of
observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in
mind. It includes all scientific study and
experimentation directed toward increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding in those fields of the physical,
engineering, environmental, and life sciences related to long-term national security needs. ONRBAA10-026 (GG 8/5/10)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil
Deadline: White Papers 9/30/2010;
Proposals 12/7/2010
34-10 Computer Science Study Group
(CSSG) (DARPA)
DARPA is soliciting innovative research
proposals in the broad area of computer
science. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable
revolutionary advances in science,
devices, or systems. Specifically excluded
is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state
of practice. This RA is to solicit interested
participants to join the Computer Science
Study Group (CSSG). The objective of
the CSSG is to rapidly identify ideas in
the field of computer science that will
provide revolutionary advances, rather
than incremental benefit, to the Department of Defense (DoD). An eligible participant must be a junior faculty member
at a U.S. Institution of Higher Education.
Participants should be no more than seven
years beyond receiving a doctoral degree,
pretenure junior faculty, with demonstrated exceptional potential for world
class contributions to the field of computer science. Each participant shall have
intense research interest in a computer
science topic of relevance to DoD and
demonstrate novel ideas that lead to fundamental advances rather than incremental work in the field. DARPA-RA-10-76
(GG 7/2/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 10/15/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
34-11 Biomarkers of Alcohol
Consumption and Alcohol-induced
Tissue Injury (SBIR [R43/R4]) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) solicits Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) grant applications from
small business concerns (SBCs) that propose to stimulate the discovery and development of biomarkers of alcohol
consumption, biomarkers for early detection of alcohol-induced organ damage,
and biomarkers of fetal alcohol exposure.
Approaches using high throughput technologies leading to the discovery of biomarker signatures are encouraged. Proposals leading to rapid translation of candidates to marketable clinically useful
biomarker assays are also encouraged.
This FOA will utilize the SBIR (R43/
R44) grant mechanisms for Phase 1,
Phase 2, and Fast-Track applications and
runs in parallel with FOA RFA-AA-11005, which solicits applications under the
Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) (R41) grant mechanism. RFAAA-11-004 (NIHG 8/27/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AA-11-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/2/2010;
Applications 11/2/2010
34-12 Revolutionary Genome
Sequencing Technologies--The $1000
Genome (R01) (NIH)
The National Human Genome Research
Institute (NHGRI) solicits R01 grant
applications to develop novel technologies that will enable extremely low-cost,
high quality DNA sequencing. The goal
of this initiative is to reduce the cost of
sequencing a mammalian-sized genome
to approximately $1000. Applicants may
propose to develop full-scale sequencing
systems or to investigate challenges
underlying key system components.
Exploration of methods other than those
currently being pursued as potential
$1,000 genome technologies are encouraged. High-risk/high-payoff applications
are appropriate to achieve the goals of this
FOA by approximately 2014. RFA-HG10-012 (NIHG 8/27/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HG-10-012.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/19/2010;
Applications 10/19/2010
34-13 The Central Processing of Taste
Information (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the national Institute on
Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of
Health, encourages Research Project
Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations studying the role of
the central nervous system in the processing of taste information and the perception of taste quality. The purpose of this
FOA is to foster basic and clinical
research on the central mechanisms
underlying the perception of taste quality.
A broad range of experimental
approaches is encouraged. The NIDCD
encourages applications from investigators who are conducting research outside
the field of gustation and who are using
methodological approaches that have not
been typically applied to but which would
greatly promote scientific progress within
the field. The NIDCD also encourages
applications from new investigators in the
early stages of establishing an independent research program. PA-10-201 (NIHG
5/211/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-201.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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