Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
November 9, 2012
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and simulation; data analytics and datadriven discovery; real-time sensing;
cross-cutting knowledge development;
and synthesis of applicable models and
theory. NSF 12-610 (GG 9/19/12)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12610/nsf12610.htm
Deadline: 2/14/2013
42-2 Roses 2012: Topical Workshops,
Symposia, and Conferences (NASA)
This program element solicits proposals
for topical workshops, symposia, conferences, and other scientific/technical
meetings that advance the goals and
objectives of only the following SMD
Divisions: Earth Sciences, Heliophysics,
and Planetary Science. Proposals are not
limited to traditional in-person meetings
of scientists but may also include
requests for support of other methods of
bringing together members of the scientific communities relevant to NASA,
such as on-line discussion forums and
web-based collaboration portals, especially in support of a traditional event.
Proposals for multiple related events
should be well justified. This solicitation
is directed at scientific and technical
events of interest to SMD, not education,
public outreach, or administrative (nonscientific, nontechnical) conferences.
NNH12ZDA001N-TWSC (GG 3/14/12)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: 3/31/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
GENERAL
42-1 Interdisciplinary Research in
Hazards and Disasters (Hazards SEES)
(NSF)
42-3 Camille Dreyfus TeacherScholar Awards Program (Dreyfus)
The overarching goal of Hazards SEES is
to catalyze well-integrated interdisciplinary research efforts in hazards-related science and engineering in order to improve
the understanding of natural hazards and
technological hazards linked to natural
phenomena, mitigate their effects, and to
better prepare for, respond to, and recover
from disasters. Hazards SEES seeks
research projects that will productively
cross the boundaries of the atmospheric
and geospace, earth, and ocean sciences;
computer and information science; cyberinfrastructure; engineering; mathematics
and statistics; and social, economic, and
behavioral sciences. Successful proposals
will integrate across these multiple disciplines to promote research that advances
new paradigms that contribute to creating
a society resilient to hazards. Hazards
SEES intends to transform hazards and
disaster research by fostering the development of interdisciplinary research that
allows for appropriately targeted data collection, integration, and management;
modeling (including predictive models for
real-time decision making); visualization
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Awards Program supports the research
and teaching careers of talented young
faculty in the chemical sciences. Based
on institutional nominations, the program
provides discretionary funding to faculty
at an early stage in their careers. Criteria
for selection include an independent
body of scholarship attained within the
first five years of their appointment as
independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing
outstanding contributions to both
research and teaching. The program is
open to academic institutions in the
States, Districts, and Territories of the
United States of America that grant a
bachelor’s or higher degree in the chemical sciences, including biochemistry,
materials chemistry, and chemical engineering. Institutions may make only one
nomination annually. (TGA 11/12)
URL: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/
camille_dreyfus_teacher_award.shtml
Deadline: Internal 12/10/2012; Nominations 2/10/2013
42-4 Software Infrastructure for
Sustained Innovation - S2I2 (SI2-S2I2)
(NSF)
NSF’s vision of a Cyberinfrastructure
Framework for 21st Century Science and
Engineering (CIF21) identifies advancing new computational infrastructure as a
priority for driving innovation in science
and engineering. Software is an integral
enabler of computation, experiment and
theory and a central component of the
new computational infrastructure. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways
opened by the development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is
also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant
enhancement of researchers’ capabilities.
In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain
this critical mode of scientific progress,
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. SI2 is a long-term
investment focused on catalyzing new
thinking, paradigms, and practices in
developing and using software to understand natural, human, and engineered systems. Education at all levels will play an
important role in integrating such a
dynamic cyberinfrastructure into the fabric of how science and engineering is
done. The SI2 program includes three
classes of awards: 1. Scientific Software
Elements (SSE); 2. Scientific Software
Integration (SSI); and 3. Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2
awards will focus on the establishment of
long-term hubs of excellence in software
infrastructure and technologies that will
serve a research community of substantial
size and disciplinary breadth. 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. In FY13, the only S2I2
Awards that will be made will be Conceptualization Awards. NSF 13-511
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13511/nsf13511.htm
Deadline: 2/4/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
42-5 Division of Molecular and
Cellular Biosciences: Investigatorinitiated research projects (MCB)
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(NSF)
The Division of Molecular and Cellular
Biosciences (MCB) supports quantitative,
predictive, and theory-driven fundamental research and related activities designed
to promote understanding of complex living systems at the molecular, subcellular,
and cellular levels. MCB is soliciting proposals for hypothesis-driven and discovery research and related activities in four
core clusters: Molecular Biophysics; Cellular Dynamics and Function; Genetic
Mechanisms; and Systems and Synthetic
Biology. MCB gives high priority to
research projects that use theory, methods, and technologies from physical sciences, mathematics, computational
sciences, and engineering to address
major biological questions. Research supported by MCB uses a range of experimental approaches—including in vivo, in
vitro and in silico strategies—and a broad
spectrum of model and non-model organisms, especially microbes and plants. NSF
13-510
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13510/nsf13510.htm
Deadline: 1/30/2013, 11/15/2013
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
42-6 Short-Term Travel Grants
(IREX)
The Short-Term Travel Grants Program
(STG) supports postdoctoral scholars and
professionals to conduct independent or
collaborative research in Eastern Europe
and Eurasia. With its flexible format and
quick turnaround time, this program
meets an important need for the scholarly
and policy communities, and makes a
direct impact on the formation of U.S.
foreign policy through the support of policy-relevant, open-source research on current regional issues of importance to the
United States. Eligible Countries of
Research are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. (TGA 11/12)
URL: http://www.irex.org/application/
short-term-travel-grants-stg-application
Deadline: 2/6/2013
SOCIAL SCIENCES
42-7 Autism Research (Simons)
The mission of the Simons Foundation
Autism Research Initiative is to improve
the diagnosis and treatment of autism
spectrum disorders by funding, catalyzing, and driving research of the greatest quality. The program is seeking
applications for SFARI awards from individuals who will conduct bold, imaginative, rigorous, and relevant research.
Applications are invited for the following
types of awards: SFARI Pilot Awards are
intended for innovative, high-impact pro-
posals requesting support for small-scale
projects or early-stage experiments that
will build on preliminary data or a prior
track record and lead to competitive
applications for funding by SFARI or
other organizations. Investigators new to
the field of autism are encouraged to
apply for pilot awards. SFARI Research
Awards are designed for investigators
with demonstrated expertise conducting
compelling high-impact research on an
experimental hypothesis for which, in
most cases, preliminary data have already
been gathered. The foundation also will
consider projects focused on a central
hypothesis where success depends on
close collaboration between two or more
labs. (PND 11/9/12)
URL: http://sfari.org/funding/grants/
2013-rfa
Deadline: 11/30/2012
toral students to earn up to four years of
financial support along with outstanding
benefits and opportunities while pursuing
degrees in fields of study that utilize high
performance computing technology to
solve complex problems in science and
engineering. The DOE CSGF is open to
U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens
who are planning full-time, uninterrupted
study toward a Ph. D. at an accredited
U.S. university. Senior undergraduate and
first-year doctoral students (at the time of
application) in engineering and in the
physical, computer, mathematical or life
sciences are eligible to apply.
URL: https://www.krellinst.org/doecsgf/
application/
Deadline: 1/8/2013
42-8 Ethical Issues in Research on
HIV/AIDS and its Co-morbidities
(R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) invites applications addressing
ethical issues in research relevant to populations with HIV and associated co-morbidities, and populations at high risk of
HIV acquisition. The bioethics projects
supported through this program
announcement will focus on at least one
of the following three goals: 1) Development of the empirical knowledge base for
human subjects protection and ethics
standards in HIV/AIDS research; 2)
Development of conceptual bioethics
approaches to advance scholarship on difficult ethical challenges in HIV/AIDS
research; 3) Supporting the integration of
bioethics work with ongoing research in
HIV/AIDS. PAR-12-244 (NIHG 7/27/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-244.html
Deadline: 1/7/2013, 1/7/2014, 1/7/2015
STUDENTS
42-9 Earth and Space Science
Fellowship (NESSF) Program (NASA)
NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and
Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2013-2014 academic year.
This call for fellowship proposals solicits
applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing
Master of Science (M. Sc.) or Doctoral
(Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines. The purpose
of NESSF is to ensure continued training
of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals. Awards resulting from the
competitive selection will be made in the
form of training grants to the respective
universities. NESSF13
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: 2/1/2013
42-10 Computational Science
Graduate Fellowship (DOE)
This is an exciting opportunity for doc-
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Research
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Preaward Section
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Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
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