Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
August 6, 2010
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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
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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
31-1 Instrument Development for
Biomedical Applications (R21) (HHS)
This funding opportunity announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Center for
Research Resources (NCRR), solicits
innovative applications for the development of new or improved instrumentation
for biomedical research. Projects should
propose tools that can be used by a wide
range of biomedical or clinical researchers,
and not limited to a specific organ or disease. RFA-RR-10-009 (NIHG 7/23/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RR-10-009.html
Deadline: 10/8/2010
31-2 Interface Between Computer
Science and Economics & Social
Sciences (NSF)
The histories and intellectual approaches
of social and economic science and computer science have been strongly influenced by the crosscurrents among them.
Worst-case computational complexity
analysis, so prevalent in computer science,
is a form of game-theoretic analysis—perhaps not surprising considering that one of
the founders of game theory, John von
Neumann, was also a pioneering figure in
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computer science. Game theory is widely
used in social and economic science.
Social and economic scientists use concepts that are linked to computer science.
For example, decision scientists and
economists consider the bounded rationality of individuals making economic
decisions; one aspect of bounded rationality is that economic agents may be
limited by their computational:
resources, for example in evaluating
complicated strategic situations. The
ubiquity of socio-technical networks has
led to new, more intimate ties between
these two fields. New kinds of interactions and transactions have been enabled
by such networks. Key features of these
new transactions include: parties who do
not know or trust each other, parties represented by software agents, and realtime adaptation, decision making, and
chain reactions by agents. Designing
decision mechanisms that can govern
these increasingly important types of
transactions in ways that meet criteria
such as fairness, revenue maximization,
or efficient resource use is a challenge
that requires the expertise of both social
and economic scientists and computer
scientists. This program seeks innovative
research at this interdisciplinary boundary, including both projects that use computational thinking for economic and
social decision problems and/or ideas
from economics and other social sciences for computing and communication
systems and multi-agents systems. NSF
10-583 (GG 7/6/10)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10583/nsf10583.htm
Deadline: 10/5/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
tional and new media; and new digital
modes of publication that facilitate the
dissemination of humanities scholarship
in advanced academic as well as informal
or formal educational settings at all academic levels. 20101005-HD (GG 8/5/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
Deadline: 10/5/2010
31-4 Picturing America School
Collaboration Projects (NEH)
Building on the national distribution of
Picturing America, the National Endowment for the Humanities invites proposals
for local and regional projects that foster
collaboration between K-12 teachers and
humanities scholars to encourage engagement with the rich resources of American
art to tell America’s story. Picturing
America School Collaboration Projects
grants are designed to help teachers incorporate Picturing America images into the
teaching of core subjects. The images in
Picturing American reflect a variety of
media spanning several centuries, ranging
from the work of early American Indian
artists to painters such as Mary Cassatt
and Jacob Lawrence, from photographers
such as Dorothea Lange to architects such
as Frank Lloyd Wright. These images will
help students better understand America’s
diverse people and places and connect
them to our nation’s travails and triumphs. This history is reflected in the
themes of Picturing America: Leadership,
Freedom and Equality, Democracy, Courage, Landscape, and Creativity and Ingenuity. 20101007-AP (GG 7/7/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/PASCP.html
Deadline: 10/7/2010
31-3 Digital Humanities Start-Up
Grants (NEH)
31-5 Archives - Basic Projects
(NARA)
The National Endowment for the
Humanities invites applications to the
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. By awarding relatively small
grants to support the planning stages,
NEH aims to encourage the development
of innovative projects that promise to
benefit the humanities. Proposals should
be for the planning or initial stages of
digital initiatives in any area of the
humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up
Grants may involve research that brings
new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital resources,
including libraries’ and museums; digital
assets; scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of
emerging technologies in specific fields
or disciplines of the humanities, or in
interdisciplinary collaborations involving
several fields or disciplines; innovative
uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both tradi-
The National Historical Publications and
Records Commission seeks proposals for
fundamental archival activities that promote the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage. Proposals
must demonstrate how the applicant
employs the best and most cost-effective
archival methods. Activities included
under Basic Projects may be any one or
combination or the following: 1) Basic
Processing, 2) Preservation Planning, 3)
Collections Development, and/or 4)
Establishing Archives. BASIC-201010
(GG 6/2/10)
URL: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/
Deadline: 10/7/2010
31-6 Historical Editing Fellowships
(NARA)
The National Historical Publications and
Records Commission seeks proposals
from active NHPRC-supported publica-
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tions projects to serve as a host institution
for a Historical documentary Editing Fellowship. Applicants should demonstrate
their ability to provide strong post-graduate training in documentary editing,
including document collection, accessioning, and control; selection; transcription;
annotation; proofreading; indexing; preparation of digital editions; and project
management. Staff at the host institution
will solicit applicants, select the best candidate, and arrange for their institution to
hire the fellow. The Commission provides
this funding to ensure that recent History
Ph.D.s or advanced graduate students
have exposure to historical editing techniques and careers. FELLOWSHIP201010 (GG 6/2/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 10/7/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
31-7 Collaborative Science,
Technology, and Applied Research
(CSTAR) Program (NOAA)
The CSTAR Program represents an
NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective transition from basic and applied
research to operations and services
through collaborative research between
operational forecasters and academic
institutions which have expertise in the
environmental sciences. These activities
will engage researchers and students in
applied research of interest to the operational meteorological community and will
improve the accuracy of forecasts and
warnings of environmental hazards by
applying scientific knowledge and information to operational products and services. The NOAA CSTAR Program is a
contributing element of the U.S. Weather
Research Program (USWRP). NOAANWS-NWSPO-2011-2002537 (GG 7/20/
10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 10/15/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
31-8 Current Sunflower Foundation
Funding Opportunities
The Sunflower Foundation currently
funds Bridge Grants (RFP 10-102) - to
provide transitional financial support for
new or expanded services for medical,
behavioral or dental care, Capacity Building Grants (RFP 10-103) - to develop or
strengthen an organization’s effectiveness, efficiency, quality, safety, impact
and sustainability, Sunflower Trails
Grants (RFP 10-104) - to help increase
physical activity by building communitybased and school-based walking and
multi-use trails.
URL: http://
www.sunflowerfoundation.org/
applying_for_a_grant-open_rfps.php
Deadline: 10/28/2010
31-9 Climate Change and Health:
Assessing and Modeling Population
Vulnerability to Climate Change (R21)
(NIH)
This FOA encourages research applications to examine the differential risk factors of populations that lead to or are
associated with increased vulnerability to
exposures, diseases and other adverse
health outcomes related to climate
change. Applications may involve either
applied research studies that address specific hypotheses about risk factors or population characteristics associated with
increased vulnerability, or research
projects to develop general models or
methods for identifying and characterizing population vulnerability to climate
change. Applications are anticipated to
involve a multidisciplinary research team,
including experts in health sciences and
climatology as well as geography, modeling, statistics, demography, and social and
behavioral sciences as appropriate. PAR10-235 (NIHG 7/23/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-235.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 8/28/2010,
4/24/2011; Applications 9/28/2010, 5/24/
2011
31-10 Nutrition and Alcohol-Related
Health Outcomes (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
encourages Research Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations
that propose to examine associations
between nutrition and alcohol-related
health outcomes in humans and animal
models. The goal of this program
announcement is to stimulate a broad
range of research on the role of nutrition
in the development, prevention, and treatment of a variety of alcohol-related health
outcomes including alcohol dependence
and psychiatric co-morbidities, chronic
and acute disease, and organ function and
damage. Study designs may include biomedical research, epidemiologic
approaches, and intervention studies. This
FOA will utilize the NIG Research
Project Grant (R01) award mechanism
and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-10-240 and PA
10-241 that encourage applications under
the R03 and R21 mechanisms, respectively. PA-10-239 (NIHG 7/30/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-239.html
Deadline: 10/5/2010, 2/5/2011, 6/5/2011
determination of unique and biologically
significant membrane proteins by x-ray
diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR), electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, and other biophysical techniques are encouraged. PA-10-228 (NIHG
7/9/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-228.html
Deadline: 10/5/2010, 2/5/2011, 6/5/2011
31-12 Biology of Manual Therapies
(R01) (NIH) (HHS)
This FOA issued by National Center for
Complementary and Alternative medicine
(NCCAM) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), encourages research grant
applications (R01) from institutions/organizations that propose to investigate the
basic science and mechanisms of action
underlying the biomechanical, immunological, endocrinological and/or neurophysiological consequences of manual
therapies, such as spinal manipulation,
mobilization and massage therapy. PA10-209 (NIHG 5/28/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-209.html
Deadline: 10/5/2010, 2/5/2011, 6/5/2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
31-13 USIP Grants (USIP)
The U.S. Institute of Peace announces its
Annual Grant Competition, which offers
support for research, education and training, and the dissemination of information
on international peace and conflict resolution. The Annual Grant Competition is
open to any project that falls within the
Institute’s broad mandate of international
conflict resolution. FR 5/17/10
URL: http://www.usip.org/grantsfellowships/annual-grant-competition
Deadline: 10/1/2010
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
31-11 Structural Biology of Membrane
Proteins (R01) (NIH)
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
This FOA issued by the National Institutes of Health, encourages grant applications from institutions/organizations that
propose to develop research and methods
to enhance the rate of membrane protein
structure determination and to determine
specific membrane protein structures.
Innovative methods for expression, oligomerization, solubilization, stabilization,
purification, characterization, crystallization, isotopic labeling, and structure
Development Director
Beverly Page
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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