Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 7, 2012
Program Information
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Vol. 21, No. 33
ment solutions. Applicants can be at any
experience level; in any discipline; and
from any organization. Two-page grant
proposals are being accepted online until
November 7, 2012 on the following topics: Labor Saving Innovations for
Women Smallholder Farmers; New
Approaches in Model Systems, Diagnostics, and Drugs for Specific Neglected
Tropical Diseases; New Approaches for
the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds; Aid is Working. Tell the World.
URL: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
Pages/home.aspx
Deadline: 11/7/2012
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
33-3, 33-8, 33-11) 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
Notice
33-1 USRG-FDA Grants (KSU)
The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs offers University Small Research
Grants (USRGs) and Faculty Development
Awards (FDAs) to faculty. USRGs support
research, scholarly activity and other creative efforts while FDAs provide support
for travel to international conferences or to
visit with grant program officers. Deadlines are the first Monday in October and
in March. A Q&A session will be offered
September 17 at 1:30. The location will be
emailed to all registrants. Register by
sending an email to: orsp@ksu.edu
URL: http://www.k-state.edu/research/
funding/fdausrg.htm
Deadline: Q&A 9/17/12, Proposals 10/1/
12
GENERAL
33-2 New Grand Challenges
Exploration Topics (Gates)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is
now accepting grant proposals for Round
10 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an
initiative to encourage innovative and
unconventional global health and develop-
33-3 Bridges to the Doctorate
Program (R25) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(NIGMS), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), encourages Research Education
Grant (R25) applications from institutions that propose to increase the pool of
master’s degree students from underrepresented backgrounds who go on to
research careers in the biomedical and
behavioral sciences, and who are trained
and available to participate in NIHfunded research. This initiative promotes
partnerships/consortia between colleges
or universities granting a terminal master’s degree with institutions that offer
the doctorate degree. The program
expects that the joint efforts of doctorate
degree-granting and master’s degreegranting institutions will foster the development of a well-integrated institutional
program that will provide students with
the necessary academic preparation and
skills to enable their transition and successful completion of the Ph.D. degree in
biomedical and behavioral sciences.
Only one application per institution is
allowed. PAR-12-276 (NIHG 8/31/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-276.html
Deadline: Internal 9/21/2012; Applications 10/26/2012
33-4 2013 NIH Director’s New
Innovator Award Program (DP2)
(NIH)
The NIH Director’s New Innovator
(DP2) Award initiative was created in
2007 to support a small number of early
stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly
innovative new research approaches that
have the potential to produce a major
impact on broad, important problems in
biomedical and behavioral research. The
New Innovator Awards complement
ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes
and Centers to fund early stage investigators through R01 grants, which continue
to be the major sources of NIH support
for early stage investigators. RFA-RM12-016 (NIHG 8/10/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-12-016.html
Deadline: 10/17/2012
AGRICULTURE
33-5 Small Grant Opportunity
(GPCAH)
The Great Plains Center for Agricultural
Health, University of Iowa, is pleased to
announce the availability of additional
funds for small grant projects for 20122013. We invite proposals for two types
of projects: basic and applied research
projects addressing agricultural safety and
health priority issues, needs, or gaps and
community partnering proposals from
community-based organizations and entities with special ability to engage in outreach, education, and translation of
evidence-based methods for preventing
agricultural injury and illness among agricultural workers
URL: http://www.publichealth.uiowa.edu/gpcah/
Deadline: 10/1/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
33-6 GRAMMY Foundation Grants
(GRAMMY)
The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program funds the following areas: 1) Scientific Research Projects to support research
on the impact of music on the human condition and 2) Archiving And Preservation
Projects to support efforts that advance
the archiving and preservation of the
music and recorded sound heritage of the
Americas. (PND 8/24/12)
URL: http://www.grammy.org/grammyfoundation/grants
Deadline: Letters of Inquiry 10/1/2012
33-7 American Research in the
Humanities in China (ACLS)
This program is open to scholars in the
humanities and related social sciences
who have received a Ph.D. or its equivalent by the time of application. Applicants
must submit a carefully formulated
research proposal that reflects an understanding of the present Chinese academic
and research environment. The proposal
should include a persuasive statement of
the need to conduct the research in China.
Support is offered to specialists in all
fields of the humanities and humanitiesrelated social sciences, and is not limited
to China scholars.
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/
arhc/
Deadline: 10/2/2012
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
33-8 Research Faculty Fellowship
Program (Microsoft)
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
grant recipients will be selected from
applicants from four regions: Latin America and the Caribbean; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the United States and
Canada; and Australia and New Zealand.
Microsoft Research selects a handful of
top early-career professors in the field of
computer science and provides them each
with a cash award. Microsoft Research
seeks nominees who are advancing computing research in novel directions with
the potential for high impact on the state
of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the
field.
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/enus/collaboration/awards/msrff.aspx
Deadline: Internal 9/24/2012; Nominations 10/22/2012
33-9 Information and Intelligent
Systems (IIS): Core Programs (NSF)
CISE’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) supports research and
education projects that develop new
knowledge in three core programs: The
Human-Centered Computing program;
The Information Integration and Informatics program; and The Robust Intelligence program. IIS is also responsible for
managing the review process for proposals in Computer Graphics and Visualization; these proposals may be submitted to
any of the three core programs described
above. Proposers are invited to submit
proposals in three project classes: Small
Projects - up to $500,000 total budget
with durations up to three years; Medium
Projects - $500,001 to $1,200,000 total
budget with durations up to four years;
and Large Projects - $1,200,001 to
$3,000,000 total budget with durations up
to five years. NSF 12-580 (GG 7/10/12)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12580/nsf12580.htm
Deadline: Medium 10/9/2012; Large 11/
30/2012; Small 12/17/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
33-10 COBRE Pilot Project Request
for Proposals (KUMC)
The COBRE Phase III Application entitled Novel Approaches for the Control of
Microbial Pathogens at the University of
Kansas Medical Center is requesting
applications for up to $55,000 for pilot
projects. Research must fall within the
area of the central theme of the COBRE
program. The research theme is centered
on mechanisms inhibiting replication of
pathogenic microbes, with long-term goal
of controlling infectious diseases important in human health. Investigators should
not have received prior R01-type support
from the NIH or other institutions (such
as American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, NSF, DOD) or if the
investigator has R01-type support, the
research proposed for COBRE support
should have a different focus and specific
aims from the funded project. Eligible
participants include tenured and tenuretrack faculty at the PhD granting institutions in the state of Kansas. At least one
aim of the pilot project must use the existing flow cytometry core.
Email: ejenkins2@kumc.edu
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/1/2012;
Applications 10/15/2012
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
33-11 Obama Singh 21st Century
Knowledge Initiative (USIEF)
The United States-India Educational
Foundation (USIEF) announces an open
competition for the support of projects
through the Obama-Singh 21st Century
Knowledge Initiative (OSI). Announced
by the US and Indian governments, OSI
aims to strengthen collaboration and build
partnerships between American and
Indian institutions of higher education.
Accredited US post-secondary educational institutions may submit proposals
to support the program’s goals of encouraging mutual understanding, facilitating
educational reform, fostering economic
development, and engaging civil society
through academic cooperation with
Indian post secondary educational institutions. Exchange activities may include
but are not limited to curriculum design,
research collaboration, team teaching,
focused series of exchanges, and seminars, among other activities. Proposals in
the following fields are eligible: Energy;
Sustainable Development; Climate
Change; Environmental Studies; Education and Educational Reform; Public
Health; and Community Development
and Innovation. Note: USIEF will only
accept one proposal per institution. Institutions that have received an OSI grant in
the past are not eligible to apply again.
URL: www.usief.org.in
Deadline: Internal 10/1/2012; Proposals 11/1/2012
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/1/2012;
Applications 10/31/2012
STUDENTS
33-13 Awards for Undergraduate and
Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral
Fellows for Cancer-Research, Training,
and Travel (JCRC)
The Johnson Cancer Research Center at
K-State supports students and post-doctoral fellows of center affiliated faculty
researchers. Undergraduate students may
apply along with center-affiliated faculty
researchers for Cancer Research Awards.
Awardees work on research projects in
their mentors’ laboratories and receive
$1000 awards in late spring. Mentors also
receive $1000 per student for research
expenses. Graduate students and postdocs are eligible for Summer Stipends
and Travel Awards to present at professional meetings. Applications must be
submitted by faculty mentors.
URL: http://cancer.k-state.edu/awardprograms/
Deadline: 10/1/2012, 3/1/2013
33-14 Fellowships in The Humanities,
Arts, Sciences, and Professions (MSF)
The Michigan Society of Fellows was
founded for the purpose of promoting
academic and creative excellence in the
humanities, the arts, the social, physical,
and life sciences, and in the professions.
The Mellon Foundation awarded a grant
to add four Mellon Fellows annually in
the humanities, expanding the number of
fellowships awarded each year from four
to eight. The objective of the Society is to
provide financial and intellectual support
for individuals holding advanced degrees
in their fields, who are selected for their
outstanding achievement, professional
promise, and interdisciplinary interests.
URL: http://societyoffellows.umich.edu
Deadline: 10/2/2012
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
SOCIAL SCIENCES
33-12 Basic Behavioral Research on
Multisensory Processing (R21) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued as part of the NIH Basic
Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet), is intended to
support basic behavioral research projects
focused on two or more sensory modalities. This includes research examining
ways in which cognitive or affective processes interact with multisensory input to
influence basic behavioral targets. While
evidence suggests that sensory input is
processed interactively instead of additively, research is less developed regarding how different modalities are
integrated for perception and behavioral
or social outcomes. RFA-EY-13-001
(NIHG 8/31/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-EY-13-001.html
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, 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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