Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
October 19, 2012
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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
39-2) 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/funding/bulletins/bul12/limits12/index.htm
GENERAL
39-1 2013 Office of Naval Research
Young Investigator Program (YIP)
(ONR)
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is
interested in receiving proposals for its
Young Investigator Program (YIP). ONR’s
Young Investigator Program (YIP) seeks
to identify and support academic scientists
and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-trackequivalent academic appointment and for
FY2013, have begun their first appointment on or after 01 November 2007, and
who show exceptional promise for doing
creative research. The objectives of this
program are to attract outstanding faculty
members of Institutions of Higher Education to the Department of the Navy’s
research program, to support their
research, and to encourage their teaching
and research careers. ONRBAA13-003
(GG 10/16/12)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/
Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities
Deadline: 1/4/2013
39-2 NIH Directors Early
Independence Awards (DP5) (NIH)
The NIH Director’s Early Independence
Vol. 21, No. 39
Award Program supports exceptional
investigators who wish to pursue independent research directly after completion of their terminal doctoral/research
degree or clinical residency, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period. Only up to two applications
per institution are allowed. RFA-RM-12018
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-12-018.html
Deadline: Internal 10/30/2012; Letters
of Intent 12/30/2012; Applications 1/
30/2013
39-3 Robert Penn Warren Center for
the Humanities - 2013/2014 William S.
Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
(Vanderbilt)
Diagnosis in Context: Culture, Politics,
and the Construction of Meaning – The
Robert Penn Warren Center for the
Humanities will host a year-long interdisciplinary faculty seminar to explore
the types of work that medical diagnoses
perform. Modern medicine typically
defines diagnosis as the act of identifying
or naming disease, with disease understood as a pathophysiological condition
that produces characteristic symptoms
and follows a predictable path. But such
straightforward statements hide more
than they reveal. Specifically, they have
unexplored the power of language and
labels to create imagined boundaries
between and among populations- boundaries that can affect the lived experience
of disease and disability as well as the
allocation of resources. Both the act and
the understanding of diagnosis invite
interdisciplinary discussion about how,
where, when and why diagnostic meanings are made. Working at the intersections of culture, literature, medicine, and
politics, scholars in the Warren Center
Fellows Program will study the production of diagnoses, the various meanings
ascribed to them across time and place,
and the work they do for individuals and
communities trying to navigate the elusive boundaries between health and disease. (TGA 10/12)
URL: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/
rpw_center/visitingfellowship.php
Deadline: 1/15/2013
39-4 U.S. Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command Broad Agency
Announcement for Extramural
Medical Research (USAMRAA)
The U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC) mission is to provide solutions to medical
problems of importance to the American
Warfighter at home and abroad. The
scope of this effort and the priorities
attached to specific projects are influenced by changes in military and civilian
medical science and technology, opera-
tional requirements, military threat
assessments, and national defense strategies. This announcement provides a general description of USAMRMC’s research
programs including research areas of
interest; general information; the evaluation and selection criteria; and proposal/
application preparation instructions.
Before submitting full proposal/applications, organizations are required to
explore USAMRCMC interest by submitting pre-proposal/pre-applications which
may be submitted at any time prior to the
BAA closing date. W81XWH-BAA-13-1
(GG 10/1/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/30/2013
39-5 Exploratory/Developmental
Bioengineering Research Grants
(EBRG) [R21] (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage
Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) applications
which establish the feasibility of technologies, techniques or methods that: 1)
explore a unique multidisciplinary
approach to a biomedical challenge; 2)
are high-risk but have a considerable payoff; and 3) develop data which can lead to
significant future research. An EBRG
application may propose hypothesisdriven, discovery-driven, developmental,
or design-directed research and is appropriate for evaluating unproven approaches
for which there is minimal or no preliminary data. PA-12-284 (NIHG 9/14/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-284.html
Deadline: 2/16/2013, 6/16/2013, 10/16/
2013
AGRICULTURE
39-6 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative: Foundational Program
(USDA)
The AFRI Foundational Program is
offered to support research grants in the
six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge critical for
solving current and future societal challenges. The six priority areas are: Plant
Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and
Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition,
and Health; Renewable Energy, Natural
Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural
Communities. Single-function Research
Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants are
expected to address one of the Program
Area Priorities. USDA-NIFA-AFRI003958 (GG 10/16/12)
URL: http://nifa.usda.gov/fo/
foundationalprogramafri.cfm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/15/2012 -
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11/26/2012; Integrated 5/22/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
39-7 Museums for America (IMLS)
The goal of the Museums for America
(MFA) program is to strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve the
public more effectively by supporting
high-priority activities that advance its
mission, plans, and strategic goals and
objectives. MFA grants can fund both
new and ongoing museum activities and
programs. Examples include planning,
managing and conserving collections,
improving public access, training, conducting programmatic research, school
and public programming, producing exhibitions, and integrating new or upgraded
technologies into operations. MFA-FY13
(GG 10/15/12)
URL: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/
detail.aspx?GrantId=11
Deadline: 1/15/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
39-8 NASA Space Technology
Research Fellowships - Fall 2013
(NASA)
This call for graduate student fellowship
applications, entitled NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF) –
Fall 2013 (NSTRF13), solicits applications from individuals pursuing or planning to pursue master’s (e.g., M.S.) or
doctoral (e.g., Ph.D.) degrees in relevant
space technology disciplines at accredited
U.S. universities. This call is open to students pursuing advanced degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM). Selected candidates will perform graduate student
research at their respective campuses and
at NASA Centers and/or at nonprofit U.S.
Research and Development (R&D) laboratories. In addition to his or her faculty
advisor, each student will be matched
with a technically relevant and community engaged researcher who will serve as
the student’s professional mentor. Awards
resulting from this competitive selection
will be made in the form of training grants
to accredited U.S. universities. This solicitation has two phases. Phase A is the
application submission by the student.
For the student applicant who is selected
(Phase A selection), the accredited U.S.
university, where the student will be
enrolled for the fall 2013 term as a fulltime graduate student, must submit a
package (as specified in the NSTRF13
solicitation). The university submission
constitutes Phase B of the solicitation;
complete Phase B package submissions
will result in training grant awards.
NSTRF13 (GG 10/10/12)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: 12/4/2012
39-9 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
(NSF)
The goal of the CPS program is to
develop the core system science needed to
engineer complex cyber-physical systems upon which people can depend with
high confidence. The program aims to
foster a research community committed to
advancing research and education in CPS
and to transitioning CPS science and technology into engineering practice. By
abstracting from the particulars of specific systems and application domains,
the CPS program aims to reveal cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the
integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors. To
expedite and accelerate the realization of
cyber-physical systems in a wide range of
applications, the CPS program also supports the development of methods, tools,
and hardware and software components
based upon these cross-cutting principles, along with validation of the principles via prototypes and test beds. Three
types of research and education projects
will be considered, which differ in scope
and goals: Breakthrough projects must
offer a significant advance in fundamental
CPS science, engineering and/or technology that has the potential to change the
field, Synergy projects must demonstrate
innovation at the intersection of multiple
disciplines, to accomplish a clear goal
that requires an integrated perspective
spanning the disciplines. Frontiers
projects must address clearly identified
critical CPS challenges that cannot be
achieved by a set of smaller projects. NSF
13-502 (GG 10/4/12)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13502/nsf13502.htm
Deadline: 1/29/2013
39-10 Sedimentary Geology and
Paleobiology (NSF)
For the years 2013-2017, the Sedimentary
Geology and Paleobiology Program will
be sponsoring a two track opportunity that
will consist of the normal SGP competition (Track 1) and bi-annually, a new
track termed Earth-Life Transitions (ELT)
(Track 2). Track 1: Sedimentary Geology
and Paleobiology supports general studies
of: 1) the changing aspects of life, ecology, environments, and biogeography in
past geologic time based on fossil plants,
animals, and microbes; 2) all aspects of
the Earth’s sedimentary carapace insights into geological processes
recorded in its records and rich organic
and inorganic resources locked in rock
sequences; 3) the science of dating and
measuring the sequence of events and
rates of geological processes as manifested in Earth’s past sedimentary and
biological (fossil) record; 4) the geologic
record of the production, transportation,
and deposition of physical and chemical
sediments; and 5) understanding Earth’s
deep-time (pre-Holocene) climate systems. Track 2: In fiscal years 2013-2017,
the Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program is sponsoring a bi-annual
second track opportunity termed EarthLife Transitions (ELT) within the normal
programmatic spring competition. The
goals of the ELT track are: 1) to address
critical questions about Earth-Life inter-
actions in deep-time through the synergistic activities of multi-disciplinary science
and 2) to enable team-based interdisciplinary projects involving stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, proxy
development, calibration and application
studies, geochronology, and climate modeling at appropriately resolved scales of
time and space, to understand major
linked events of environmental, climate
and biotic change at a mechanistic level.
NSF 12-608
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12608/nsf12608.htm
Deadline: 1/17/2013, 7/18/2013; Track 2
2/22/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
39-11 Division of Integrative
Organismal Systems (NSF)
The Division of Integrative Organismal
Systems (IOS) supports research aimed at
understanding why organisms are structured the way they are and function as
they do. Proposals should focus on organisms as a fundamental unit of biological
organization. Areas of inquiry include,
but are not limited to, developmental biology and the evolution of developmental
processes, nervous system development,
structure, and function, physiological processes, functional morphology, symbioses, interactions of organisms with biotic
and abiotic environments, and animal
behavior. All investigator-initiated proposals to the core programs in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
must now be invited based on merit
review of preliminary proposals. There is
a single submission deadline with a limit
of 2 preliminary proposals per investigator per year as PI or co-PI in response to
this solicitation. NSF 13-506
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13506/nsf13506.htm
Deadline: Preliminary Proposals 1/18/
2013
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, Diana McElwain, Katie Small,
Rex Goff, Namrita Berry, Cecilia Scaler,
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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