Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 23, 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 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
36-1 2012/2013 Scandinavian Award
Competition (ASF)
Funding will be offered by the AmericanScandinavian Foundation to outstanding
American and Scandinavian students,
scholars, professionals and artists in its
2012/13 award program. Fellowships are
intended to support an academic year-long
stay, and priority is given to students at the
graduate level who need to spend time at
foreign academic or research institutions.
Grants of up to $5,000 are considered
more suitable for shorter research visits,
both on the graduate or post-doctoral level.
Funding is available to candidates in all
fields. Fellowships and grants are awarded
competitively, based on qualifications of
the applicants, the significance and feasibility of the projects, and the merit of pursuing the program overseas.
URL: www.amscan.org
Deadline: 11/1/2011
36-2 Collaborative Research Travel
Grants (BWF)
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Collaborative Research Travel Grants program
provides up to $15,000 in support for
Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral fellows,
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and faculty researchers from degreegranting institutions in the U.S. or Canada to travel either domestically or internationally to acquire a new research
technique, to facilitate a collaboration, or
to attend a laboratory/lecture course.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or be
studying for a Ph.D. in mathematics,
physics, chemistry, computer science,
statistics, or engineering and be interested in investigating research opportunities in the biological sciences. Biologists
interested in working with physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers,
chemists, statisticians, or computer scientists to incorporate their ideas and
approaches to answering biological questions are also eligible to apply. (PND 9/
16/11)
URL: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/481/
Collaborative-Research-Travel-Grants
Deadline: 12/1/2011
AGRICULTURE
36-3 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative: Sustainable Bioenergy
(NIFA)
The Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge
Area RFA focuses on the societal challenge to secure America’s energy future.
In the Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge
Area RFA, specific program areas are
designed to achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the National dependence on foreign oil through the
production of sustainable bioenergy.
Project types supported by AFRI within
this RFA include single-function
Research, multi-function Integrated
Research, Education, and/or Extension
Projects, and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants.
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-003536 (GG 9/21/
11)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/25/2011;
Applications 12/15/2011
36-4 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative: NIFA Fellowships Grant
Program (NIFA)
The AFRI NIFA Fellowship RFA
focuses on developing the next generation of scientists who will lead agriculture into the future by solving current
and future challenges facing our society.
The AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program targets talented, highly-motivated
doctoral candidates and postdoctoral
trainees that demonstrate remarkable
promise and the ability to increase the
number of gifted agricultural scientists in
the United States. The Program seeks to
develop the technical and academic competence of doctoral candidates and the
research independence and teaching cre-
dentials of postdoctoral scientists in the
food, forestry and agricultural sciences
that are within the NIFA’s challenge areas
through well-developed and highly interactive mentoring and training activities.
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-003538 (GG 9/21/
11)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/8/2011;
Applications 1/19/2012
36-5 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative: Agriculture and Natural
Resources Science for Climate
Variability and Change (NIFA)
The Agriculture and Natural Resources
Science for Climate Variability and
Change Challenge Area RFA focuses on
the societal challenge to adapt agroecosystems and natural resource systems to
climate variability and change and implement mitigation strategies in those systems. In the Agriculture and Natural
Resources Science for Climate Variability
and Change Challenge Area RFA, specific program areas are designed to
achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the use of energy, nitrogen, reducing
GHG emissions from practices, and water
in the production of food, feed, fiber, and
fuel and increase carbon sequestration.
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-003537 (GG 9/21/
11)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent Integrated
11/20/2011, Regional 11/28/2011; Applications 12/16/2011, 1/13/2012
EDUCATION
36-6 Discovery Research K-12 (NSF)
The Discovery Research K-12 program
(DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance
the learning and teaching of Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents. All DRK12 projects should be framed around a
research question or hypothesis that
addresses an important need or topic in
preK-12 STEM education. The emphasis
in DRK-12 is on research projects that
study the development, testing, deployment, effectiveness, and/or scale-up of
innovative resources, models and tools.
DRK-12 invites proposals that address
immediate challenges that are facing
preK-12 STEM education as well as those
that anticipate a radically different structure and function of pre-K 12 teaching
and learning. DRK-12 is particularly
interested in projects that hold promise
for identifying and developing the next
generation of STEM innovators (NSB,
2010). There are four strands described in
detail in the solicitation: 1) Assessment;
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2) Learning; 3) Teaching; 4) Scale-up.
NSF 11-588 (GG 9/16/11)
URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500047
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/17/2011;
Proposals 1/10/2012
36-7 National Academy of Education/
Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
(NAE)
A program of the National Academy of
Education and the Spencer Foundation,
the National Academy of Education/
Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
supports early career scholars working in
critical areas of education research. This
nonresidential postdoctoral fellowship
funds proposals that make significant
scholarly contributions to the field of education. The program also develops the
careers of its recipients through professional development activities involving
National Academy of Education members. Fellows take the equivalent of one
year’s teaching leave during the fellowship term. The fellowship program is
open to applicants who have received
their Ph.D., Ed.D., or equivalent research
degree between January 1, 2006, and
December 31, 2011. The proposed project
must be an education research project.
(PND 9/16/11)
URL: http://www.naeducation.org/
Deadline: 11/4/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
36-8 SciDAC: Scientific Computation
Application Partnerships in Materials
and Chemical Sciences (DOE)
The Office of Basic Energy Sciences
(BES) and the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Department of Energy (DOE) announce
their interest in receiving applications
from interdisciplinary teams to the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, for Scientific
Computation Application Partnerships in
the area of Materials and Chemical Sciences. BES supports fundamental
research to understand, predict, and ultimately control matter and energy at the
electronic, atomic, and molecular levels
in order to provide the foundation for new
energy technologies and to support DOE
missions in energy, environment, and
national security. The BES SciDAC Partnership portfolio will focus on the development of new algorithms and
computation approaches which could dramatically accelerate the discovery of new
materials and processes as well as provide
fundamental understanding and improvement of current materials and processes.
Implementing these new algorithms on
current and next generation massively
parallel computers requires a team
approach which includes materials and
chemical scientists, applied mathematicians and computer scientists. (GG 9/21/
11) DE-FOA-0000593
URL: http://grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 12/9/2011;
Applications 3/12/2012
36-9 ROSES-11 Amendment 26: A.35,
Earth Science Applications: Wildland
Fires (NASA)
Earth Science Applications: Wildland
Fires is specifically focused on applications addressing cross-cutting and multidisciplinary issues related to wildland
fires in support of management strategies
and actions, business practices, and policy
analysis and decisions. Projects must span
at least two of the Applied Sciences Program’s application themes. This solicitation will initially support one-year
feasibility studies of potential applications. NASA will then down-select and
continue support of a subset of these
applications in subsequent, three-year
projects. NNH11ZDA001N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 10/27/2011;
Proposals 12/16/2011
36-10 Scientific Discovery Through
Advanced Computing: Nuclear Physics
(SciDAC) (DOE)
The Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) and
the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Department of Energy (DOE) announce their
interest in receiving applications to the
Scientific Discovery through Advanced
Computing (SciDAC) program for SciDAC Scientific Computation Application
Partnerships in areas of particular relevance to the research goals of the DOE
Office of Nuclear Physics. The primary
goal of these projects will be to enable
and support research on current high profile computationally intensive topics in
theoretical nuclear physics of direct relevance to the experimental research programs at existing or approved NP
facilities. Research topics of interest and
the associated facilities include but are
not limited to the following: A) Heavy
Ion Collider Physics (HICP); B) Medium
Energy Nuclear Physics (MENP); C) Low
Energy Nuclear Physics (LENP). DEFOA-0000581 (GG 9/19/11)
URL: http://grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 10/30/2011;
Applications 1/5/2012
the problems confronting human exploration of space, or that translate into new
biological tools or applications on Earth.
NNH11ZTT002N (GG 9/16/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Notices of Intent 10/31/2011;
Proposals 1/6/2012
STUDENTS
36-12 2012 EPA Science to Achieve
Results (STAR) Fellowships For
Graduate Environmental Study (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
offering Graduate Fellowships for master’s and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study. Master’s level
students may receive support for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students may
be supported for a maximum of three
years, usable over a period of five years.
This Request for Applications (RFA)
solicits applications from students to perform graduate level investigation towards
protecting human health and the environment. Applications are welcomed from
students studying any academic discipline
to the extent that the particular topic of
proposed research is related to EPA’s mission. This includes students studying in
ecology, economics, engineering, modeling, the health sciences, physical sciences, earth sciences, exposure sciences,
social sciences, informational sciences,
mathematical and computer sciences, and
environmental sciences. Applications are
also welcomed from students who have
not traditionally participated in environmental conversations or research, including those that attend Minority Academic
Institutions (MAIs). EPA-F2012-STARA1-F5
URL: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2012/
2012_star_gradfellow.html
Deadline: 11/8/2011
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
36-11 Research Opportunities in Space
Biology (NASA)
This NASA Research Announcement
(NRA) solicits hypothesis driven research
proposals for both ground-based experiments and flight experiments in Space
Biology (SB). Utilizing 21st century biological tools (e.g., genetic, proteomic,
metabolomic) SC scientists will examine
and discover underlying mechanisms of
adaptation to changes resulting from the
space flight environment (e.g., altered
gravity, stress, radiation), and will determine cellular and organismal mechanisms
that regulate and sustain growth, metabolism, reproduction and development.
NASA intends to sponsor studies that will
result in new basic knowledge that will
provide a foundation on which other
NASA researchers and engineers can
build approaches and countermeasures to
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Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
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Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Rich Doan, Carmen Garcia,
Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, Sharon Zoeller
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Beverly Page
Development Director
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Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
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Research Compliance
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Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
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