Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 30, 2011
Program Information
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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 (FB
37-1, 37-2) 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/
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GENERAL
37-1 Environmental Education
Subgrants Program (EPA)
This program, described in Issue 35, Number 2 of the Funding Bulletin, allows only
one submission per region per applicant
(although applicants may apply for other
regions). The internal deadline for our
region applications is October 8, 2011.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/pdf/
solNotice2011subgrants.htm
Deadline: Internal 10/8/2011; Applications 11/8/2011
37-2 Sustainable Energy Pathways
(SEP) (NSF)
Sustainable Energy Pathways is part of the
NSF-wide initiative on Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability
(SEES). The Sustainable Energy Pathways
solicitation calls for innovative, interdisciplinary basic research in science, engineering, and education by teams of researchers
for developing systems approaches to sustainable energy pathways based on a comprehensive understanding of the scientific,
technical, environmental, economic, and
societal issues. The SEP solicitation considers scalable approaches for sustainable
energy conversion to useful forms, as well
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as its storage, transmission, distribution,
and use. The following Topic Areas illustrate the broad scope of sustainable
energy interest areas of this solicitation:
Energy Harvesting & Conversion from
Renewable Resources; Sustainable
Energy Storage Solutions; Critical Elements & Materials for Sustainable
Energy; Nature-Inspired Processes for
Sustainable Energy Solutions; Reducing
Carbon Intensity from Energy Conversion & Use; Sustainable Energy Transmission & Distribution; Energy
Efficiency & Management. A minimum
of three investigators is required, the
Principal Investigator (PI) and two or
more co-PIs from the lead or participating institutions who are eligible to serve
as PI or co-PI on NSF proposals submitted through their respective institutions.
These investigators should represent
more than one scientific discipline in
order to ensure an interdisciplinary
approach to sustainable energy. Eligible
institutions may submit no more than
three (3) proposals as the lead organization in response to this solicitation for
FY 2012. NSF 11-590
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11590/nsf11590.htm
Deadline: Internal 11/1/2011; Deadline 2/1/2012
37-3 Visiting Lectureships 2012-2013
(ASF)
The American-Scandinavian Foundation
invites U.S. colleges and universities to
apply for funding to host a visiting lecturer from Norway or Sweden. The
awards are for appointments of one
semester, and should fall within the
2012-2013 academic year. Lectureships
should be in the area of contemporary
studies with an emphasis on one of five
areas: Public Policy; Conflict Resolution; Environmental Studies; Multiculturalism; and Healthcare. The award is
appropriate not just for Scandinavian
studies departments, but for any department or inter-disciplinary program with
an interest in incorporating a Scandinavian focus into its course offering.
URL: www.amscan.org
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/7/2011;
Proposals 2/3/2012
37-4 Research Fellowships for
Inquiry on Evolution and Human
Nature (Templeton)
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an
independent research institution in Princeton, New Jersey, with a visiting scholar
program. With support from the John
Templeton Foundation, the center is convening an interdisciplinary team of theologians and scientists to address
questions of nature and nurture raised by
the biological evolution of human
beings. The program welcomes proposals
to explore how new research in evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology is challenging and changing the
understanding of human nature and development, not least in relation to religion
and theological accounts of the human
condition. The program’s field of inquiry
encompasses these evolutionary and
human sciences, theological anthropology, practical theology, psychology of
religion, religious studies, and the history
and philosophy of science. (PND 9/23/11)
URL: http://www.ctinquiry.org/news/
newsstory.aspx?id=72&hide=true
Deadline: 11/30/2011
AGRICULTURE
37-5 Beginning Farmer Rancher
Development Program (USDA)
The BFRDP provides resources to support the development of educational outreach curricula, workshops, educational
teams, training, and technical assistance
programs to assist beginning farmers and
ranchers with entering, establishing,
building and managing successful farm
and ranch enterprises. USDA-NIFA-BFR003541 (GG 9/22/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/bfrdp.html
Deadline: 11/22/2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
37-6 Scholarly Editions and
Translations (NEH)
Scholarly Editions and Translations
grants support the preparation of editions
and translations of pre-existing texts and
documents that are currently inaccessible
or available in inadequate editions. These
grants support full-time or part-time
activities for periods of a minimum of one
year up to a maximum of three years.
Projects must be undertaken by a team of
at least one editor or translator and one
other staff member. Grants typically support editions and translations of significant literary, philosophical, and historical
materials, but other types of work, such as
musical notation, are also eligible.
20111208-RQ (GG 9/16/11)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/editions.html
Deadline: 12/8/2011
37-7 Collaborative Research (NEH)
Collaborative Research Grants support
interpretive research undertaken by a
team of two or more scholars, for fulltime or part-time activities for periods of
a minimum of one year up to a maximum
of three years. Support is available for
various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-
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related travel; field work; applications of
information technology; and technical
support and services. All grantees are
expected to communicate the results of
their work to the appropriate scholarly
and public audiences. 20111208-RZ (GG
9/16/110
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/collaborative.html
Deadline: 12/8/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
37-8 Collaborative Research Travel
Grants (BWF)
This award supports Ph.D. candidates,
postdoctoral fellows, and faculty
researchers traveling to laboratories
domestically or internationally to acquire
new research techniques, facilitate or
begin collaborations, or attend courses.
Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or are
studying for a Ph.D. in mathematics,
physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering and are interested
in investigating research opportunities in
the biological sciences.
URL: http://www.bwfund.org/
page.php?mode=privateview&pageID=4
88
Deadline: 12/1/2011
37-9 Software Infrastructure for
Sustained Innovation (NSF)
NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
program with the overarching goal of
transforming innovations in research and
education into sustained software
resources that are an integral part of the
cyberinfrastructure. The SI2 program
includes three classes of awards: 1) Scientific Software Elements (SSE); 2) Scientific Software Integration (SSI); and 3)
Scientific Software Innovation Institutes
(S212). This solicitation is focused on the
Scientific Software Innovation Institutes
(S2I2) class of awards. Two subclasses of
awards are planned for the S2I2 part of
this program: Conceptualization Awards,
which are planning awards aimed at organizing an interdisciplinary community
and understanding their software requirements and challenges, and Implementation Awards, which will be made to
implement community plans for software
infrastructure, such as those developed by
the conceptualization awards. Only S2I2
Conceptualization Awards will be made
in FY12. NSF 11-589 (GG 9/16/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11589/nsf11589.htm
Deadline: 12/14/2011
37-10 Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing: Scientific
Computation Application Partnerships
in Earth System Science (DOE)
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) and the Office of
Advanced Scientific Computing Research
(ASCR), U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) announces its interest in receiving
collaborative applications to the Scientific
Discovery through Advanced Computing
(SciDAC) program for SciDAC Scientific
Computation Application Partnerships in
Earth System Science in support of the
Office of Biological and Environmental
Research’s Earth System Modeling
research. Applications in response to this
FOA may focus on improving climate
system models or their components to
make them more accurate and computationally efficient. This may include
improved or new process representation
of the model physical and biogeochemical
components, or numerical formulations
for high resolution modeling. Examples
could include development of components or development of scale-aware
parameterizations for atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial or cryospheric systems.
High-resolution formulations could
include unstructured or adaptive grids, or
other innovative techniques for resolving
convection/eddy dynamics. Projects may
include focus on ESM component coupling and exchange. DE-FOA-0000588
(GG 9/19/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 12/5/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
37-11 Environmental Influences on
Stem Cells in Development, Health, and
Disease (R01) (NIEHS)
The goal of this initiative is to support
novel research directions leading to
understanding the potential of environmental exposures to alter function, proliferation, survival, and differentiation of
stem cells, including embryonic and adult
pluripotent and multipotent cells. RFAES-11-011 (NIHG 9/23/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-ES-11-011.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/28/2011;
Applications 11/28/2011
37-12 Development of novel and
emerging technologies for the accurate
detection and diagnosis of
polymicrobial infections in biomedical
laboratory animal models (SBIR [R 43/
R44]) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) seeks projects for rapid and sensitive detection of infectious agents as a key
requirement for microbial identification
in laboratory animal models. The diagnosis of polymicrobial infections has
become increasingly important in
enabling biological resource centers to
meet the needs for establishing pathogenfree biological resources for current and
future biomedical research needs. This
funding opportunity announcement
(FOA) encourages applications from
small business concerns for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects
that propose innovative research in the
areas of detection and identification of
infectious agents, including those
involved in vertical transmission of diseases into embryos and larvae and development of required reagents and
equipment. Companion FOAs are PA-11-
341, STTR R41/R42- Phase I, Phase II,
and Fast Track. PA-11-340 (NIHG 9/16/
11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-340.html
Deadline: 12/5/2011, 4/5/2012, 8/5/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
37-13 Mechanistic Pathways Linking
Psychosocial Stress and Behavior (R01)
(NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity
Network (OppNet) solicits Research
Project grant (R01) applications from
institutions and organizations that propose to investigate basic psychological,
social, and environmental mechanisms
and processes linking psychosocial stressors and behavior. This FOA will facilitate investigation of multiple and
potentially bidirectional pathways underlying the behavioral, environmental, and
psychosocial link(s) between psychosocial stressors and behaviors that may ultimately impact biological function, health,
and disease. Applicants are encouraged to
use innovative and integrative designs to
elucidate how psychological, social, and
psychosocial environmental factors
impact the processes by which stressors
become coupled with and influenced by
behaviors. Applications examining moderating factors such as individual demographic (age, gender/sex, ethnicity) and
psychological (vulnerabilities, resilience)
differences, risk factors, timing of exposure to stressors, and environments are
desirable. RFA-HL-12-037 (NIHG 9/23/
11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-12-037.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/19/2011;
Applications 12/19/2011
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
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Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
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