Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
July 6, 2012
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GENERAL
Vol. 21, No. 26
tematic understanding of the forces of
nature and society, when applied inventively and wisely, can lead to a better
world for all. With its Basic Research
program area, the Foundation expands
that understanding by funding original,
high-quality research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 2)
Education—The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is unique among foundations in its
focus on science and technology. They
believe that the scholars and practitioners
in scientific and technical fields are chief
drivers of the nation’s prosperity. Grants
in the Science Education program area
promote access to the scientific enterprise, provide information about scientific and technical careers, and encourage
innovation to the structure of scientific
training. 3)Public Understanding of Science—in its Public Understanding of
Science program, the Foundation makes
grants that foster a better public understanding of the increasingly scientific
and technological environment in which
we live. 4) Performance and the Quality
of Life—The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
believes that a theory-based, empiricallytested understanding of the U.S. economy is essential to improving the American quality of life. The Foundation funds
grants for high-quality original research
that promise to broaden that understanding or use it to improve American Institutions. (TGA 5/12)
URL: http://www.sloan.org/program/
Deadline: Open
tal infrastructures and services for
humanities research. In order to encourage new approaches and develop innovative methods in any field of the
humanities, these grants provide funding
for up to three years in any of the following areas: developing innovative methods—as well as standards and best
practices—or building and merging digital collections that are important to the
American and German scholarly community for use in research; developing and
implementing generic tools, methods, and
techniques for accessing and processing
digital resources relevant to humanities
research; ensuring the completion and
long-term sustainability of existing digital
resources; creating new digital modes of
scholarly communication and publishing
that facilitate international cooperation
and dissemination of humanities scholarship; and developing models and case
studies for effectively managing digital
data generated in humanities research
projects. 20120927-HG (GG 7/2/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/
nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanitiesprogramhttp://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/
nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanitiesprogram
Deadline: 9/27/2012
AGRICULTURE
NSF seeks proposals to establish a networked set of Critical Zone Observatories
(CZOs) that will address pressing interdisciplinary scientific questions concerning geological, physical, chemical, and
biological processes and their couplings
that govern critical zone system dynamics. The CZOs are expected, collectively,
to 1) measure and quantify the significant
processes of the critical zone on appropriate time and space scales; 2) develop a
unifying theoretical framework that integrates new understanding of coupled
hydrological, geochemical, geomorphological, sedimentological and biological
processes; and 3) develop, couple and
validate system-level models to predict
how the critical zone responds to external
forces such as anthropogenic, climatic,
and/or tectonic processes. An overarching
goal of the critical zone observatory network, which will be comprised of USbased sites, is to offer scalable and transferable information that could enhance
the scale and scope of the knowledge
building and societal benefits that will
accrue beyond where the specific CZOs
are located. Any one institution may submit only one CZO proposal as Lead institution. NSF 12-575
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12575/nsf12575,htm
26-1 NIH Director’s Transformative
Research Awards (R01) (NIH)
26-3 Higher Education Multicultural
Scholars Program (USDA)
The NIH Director’s Transformative
Research Awards complements NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists
or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with
the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and
improved clinical approaches, or develop
transformative technologies. Little or no
preliminary data are expected. Projects
must clearly demonstrate the potential to
produce a major impact in a broad area of
biomedical or behavioral research. RFARM-12.017 (NIHG 6/29/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-12-017.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 8/2/2012;
Applications 9/21/2012
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announces the availability of grant funds and requests
applications for the Higher Education
Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP)
for fiscal year 2012 to conduct undergraduate and DVM scholarship programs
to meet national and international needs
for training food and agricultural scientists and professionals, or professionals
in rural economic, community and business development. USDA-NIFA-HEMS003871 (GG 7/2/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
msp/msp.html
Deadline: 8/29/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
26-2 Grants (Sloan)
26-4 NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital
Humanities Program (NEH)
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes
grants on six broad subject matters, known
within the Foundation as major program
areas. 1) Basic Research—The Foundation
believes that a carefully reasoned and sys-
The National Endowment for the
Humanities and the German Research
Foundation (DFG) are working together
to offer support for projects that contribute to developing and implementing digi-
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
26-5 Critical Zone Observatories
(CZO) (NSF)
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For further information, call 785-532-5045
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Deadline: Internal 11/5/2012; Proposals
2/5/2012
26-6 Land-Cover/Land-Use Change
(NASA)
The LCLUC program has a special place
in NASA Earth Science in developing
interdisciplinary approaches combining
aspects of physical, social and economic
science, with a high level of societal relevance, while using remote sensing tools,
methods, and data. This solicitation consists of two elements: Global mapping of
industrial forests from Landsat observations and Syntheses of LCLUC studies in
Eurasia.
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Step One 12/1/2012, Step
Two 6/1/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
26-7 International Collaborations in
Organismal Biology Between US and
Israeli Investigators (ICOB) (NSF)
The National Science Foundation is partnering with the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) to
support collaborative research between
US and Israeli investigators in areas of
biology supported by the NSF Division of
Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS).
The Division of Integrative Organismal
Systems supports research aimed at an
integrative understanding of organisms.
The goal is to predict why organism are
structured the way they are, and function
as they do.The overriding objective of
IOS is to support research to understand
the fundamental nature of life by understanding the emergent properties of
organisms. Understanding these emergent
systems properties of organisms requires
integrative, interdisciplinary approaches.
The Division encourages proposals that
include analyses across multiple levels of
biological organization, from molecular
through ecological, theoretical as well as
advanced computational techniques, and
interdisciplinary collaborations involving
scientists from all areas of biology,
behavioral science, physical science,
mathematics, engineering, and computer
science. (GG 6/29/12) NSF 12-577
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12577/nsf12577.htm
Deadline: Preliminary Proposals 9/4/
2012; Proposals 12/3/2012
26-8 Early Career Fellowships—
Cancer Research (Runyon)
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research
Foundation seeks to accelerate breakthroughs in research by providing the best
young scientists with funds to pursue
innovative cancer research. The Fellowship Award is designed to provide early
career scientists with resources to further
hone their cancer research skills and
explore their own ideas while working
with mentors in top universities and cancer research centers. The foundation
encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer
and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. (PND 6/
29/12)
URL: http://www.damonrunyon.org/
for_scientists/more/fellowship_award
Deadline: 8/15/2012, 3/15/2013
26-9 Biomarkers for Early Detection
of Hematopoietic Malignancies (R01)
(NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement, issued by the National Cancer Institute, encourages research projects for the
development and validation of biomarkers for: a) early detection, prediction of
progression, and recurrence of hematopoietic malignancies, especially in highrisk individuals; and b) for risk assessment of primary and secondary hematopoietic malignancies. This FOA also
encourages the development and
improvement of specific technologies and
methods for quantitative detection of
novel biomarkers associated with hematopoietic malignancies. PA-12-221 (NIHG
6/29/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-221.html
Deadline: 10/5/2012, 2/5/2013, 6/5/2012
Population Aging (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) invites research on the macroeconomics of aging—the impact of population aging on the macroeconomy and in
turn how macroeconomic factors impact
health and well-being. Beyond the fiscal
costs of health and long-term care and
public pensions, population aging could
have profound effects on economic wellbeing through impacts on multiple sectors
of the economy, including factor markets,
trade, capital flows, technological change,
and ultimately, economic growth. Examination of these issues—particularly in
open economies in which it is not sufficient to aggregate up from individual or
household behaviors—will require complex modeling of sectors and flows and
international transactions. PAR-12-186
(NIHG 5/18/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-186.html
Deadline: 10/3/2012, 10/3/2013
26-10 Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
in Underserved Communities (R01)
(NIH)
The overall objective is to build the evidence base and accelerate the implementation and translation of evidence- or
practice-based interventions into practice
in rural communities. To accomplish this
objective, NHLBI invites applications
that will plan and execute well-designed
controlled trials that maximize the opportunities available in rural communities to
reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors.
The long-term goal is to foster sustainable
interventions and scientific research that
will lead to reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in high-risk rural
populations. RFA-HL-13-013 (NIHG 3/
30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-13-013.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/11/2012,
Applications 1/11/2013
26-11 Broad Agency Announcement
(BAA) for the Naval Medical Research
and Development Center-Frederick
(DOD)
The Director, Naval Medical Research
and Development Center-Frederick
(NAVMEDRSCHDEVCTR-Frederick) is
interested in receiving proposals for innovative approaches in infectious disease
research, non-communicable disease
research, and combat casualty care
research. N62645-BAA-12-1 (GG 1/19/
12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 12/31/2012
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, 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
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Congressional Relations
26-12 Macroeconomic Aspects of
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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