Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
June 8, 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
22-11) 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:
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GENERAL
22-1 Sloan Research Fellowships
(Sloan)
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to
stimulate fundamental research by earlycareer scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships
are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in
recognition of distinguished performance
and a unique potential to make substantial
contribution to their field. Candidates for
Sloan Research Fellowships are required
to: a) hold a PH. D. (or equivalent) in
chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer
science, economics, neuroscience, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, ocean sciences or in a related
interdisciplinary field; b) be members of
the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track of a
college or university in the United States
or Canada; and c) normally, be no more
than six years from completion of the most
recent Ph. D. or equivalent as of the year
of their nomination. No more than three
nominations may be made from a department. (TGA 6/12)
URL: http://www.sloan.org/fellowships
Deadline: Nominations 9/15/2012
22-2 Documenting Endangered
Vol. 21, No. 22
Languages (DEL) (NSF/NEH)
This funding partnership between the
National Science Foundation (NSF) and
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop
and advance knowledge concerning
endangered human languages. Made
urgent by the imminent death of roughly
half of the approximately 7000 currently
used languages, this effort aims to
exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure
for endangered language research. The
program supports projects that contribute
to data management and archiving, and
to the development of the next generation of researchers. NSF 11-554 (TGA 6/
12)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12816
Deadline: 9/15/2012
22-3 Army Research Laboratory
Broad Agency Announcement for
Basic and Applied Scientific Research
(DOD)
This Broad Agency Announcement
(BAA) sets forth research areas of interest to the Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) Directorates and Army Research
Office (ARO), for the competitive selection of basic research proposals.
Research proposals are sought from educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial organizations for
research in materials sciences; ballistics
and aeromechanics sciences; information
sciences; human sciences; survivability,
lethality, and vulnerability analysis and
assessment; chemistry; electronics; physics; environmental sciences; life sciences; mechanical sciences,
mathematical sciences, computing sciences and network sciences. W911NF12-R-0011 (GG 5/31/12)
URL: http://www.arl.army.mil/www/
default.cfm
Deadline: 3/31/2017
22-4 Research Fellowships
(Humboldt)
Humboldt Research Fellowships for
postdoctoral researchers are the instrument with which the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation enables highlyqualified scientists and scholars from
abroad who are just embarking on their
academic careers and who completed
their doctorates less than four years ago
to spend extended periods of research (624 months) in Germany. (TGA 5/12)
URL: http://www.humboldtfoundation.de/web/humboldt-fellowshippostdoc.html
Deadline: Open
AGRICULTURE
22-5 Modernizing Agricultural
Education and Training Systems
Program (MAETS) (USAID)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks applications from eligible institutions to
implement one part of an activity entitled
Modernizing Agricultural Education and
Training Systems Program. The successful applicant will be awarded a five-year
Leader with Associates (LWA) Cooperative Agreement with responsibility for
designing and implementing a worldwide
program of knowledge management and
agricultural education and training services development activities intended to
provide results in multiple countries and/
or regions. The nature of the program
lends itself to a consortium approach
involving multiple universities with experience with agricultural extension services
in conjunction with multiple NGO and/or
for-profit entities with experience implementing international rural development
field programs. USAID-WASHINGTONBFS-11-000003-RFA (GG 6/6/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 7/17/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
22-6 Innovation in Archives and
Documentary Editing (NARA)
The National Historical Publications and
Records Commission seeks projects that
are exploring innovative methods to
improve the preservation, public discovery, or use of historical records. Projects
may also focus on techniques and tools
that will improve the professional performance and effectiveness of those who
work with such records, such as archivists, documentary editors, and records
managers. Projects must anticipate results
that will affect more than a single institution or a single state. Projects may focus
on methods of working with records in
any format, including born-digital
records. Projects designed to publish historical records must focus on innovative
methods of presenting archival records as
primary sources. INNOVATION-201210
(GG 6/1/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 10/4/2012
22-7 Grants in Architecture and
Related Arts (Graham)
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
makes project-based grants to individuals
and organizations and produces public
programs to foster the development and
exchange of diverse and challenging ideas
about architecture and its role in the arts,
culture, and society. They support innovative, thought-provoking investigations in
architecture; architectural history, theory,
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and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban
studies; visual arts; and related fields of
inquiry. Their interest also extends to
work being done in the fine arts, humanities, and sciences that expands the boundaries of thinking about architecture and
space. (TGA 6/12)
URL: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/
grant_programs/
Deadline: Individuals 9/15/2012; Organizations 2/25/2013
22-8 Humanities Program (Delmas)
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
intends to further the humanities along a
broad front, supporting projects which
address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education
rooted in the great tradition of the past;
the formation of human beings according
to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals
derived from the past; and the ongoing
debate over how these ideals may best be
conceived and realized. Programs in the
following areas are eligible: history;
archaeology; literature; languages, both
classical and modern; philosophy, ethics;
comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those
aspects of the social sciences which share
the content and methods of humanistic
disciplines. (TGA 3/12)
URL: http://www.delmas.org/programs/
humanities.html
Deadline: Open
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
22-9 Cottrell Scholars Awards
(RCFSA)
The main goal of the CSA program is to
promote and support the university
scholar model. University scholars are
faculty members who have both excellent
research programs and excellent
approaches to student learning at the
undergraduate level. Desired outcomes of
the CSA program include: a) A culture
shift in Ph.D.- granting institutions
toward valuing the university scholar; b)
Increased attraction and retention of
undergraduates in science; c) Increased
undergraduates from Ph.D.-granting institutions pursuing graduate degrees. A key
objective of the program is to build a
community of outstanding scholar-educators who are dedicated to becoming leaders in both research and teaching and who
collectively have the potential to change
the way science is taught nationally.
Scholars are required to attend at least
two annual Cottrell Scholar conferences
while the award is active. The annual conference seeks to promote community
among Cottrell Scholars and is held in
early July in Tucson, AZ. Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty members at
U.S. institutions whose primary appointment is in a Bachelor’s and Ph.D.-granting department of astronomy,
biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, or
physics, but not in a school of medicine or
engineering. (TGA 6/12)
URL: http://www.rescorp.org/grantsand-awards/cottrell-scholar-awards
Deadline: 8/1/12
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
22-10 Improving Diet and Physical
Activity Assessment (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Institutes
of Health encourages innovative research
to enhance the quality of measurements of
dietary intake and physical activity.
Applications submitted under this FOA
may include development of: Novel
assessment approaches; better methods to
evaluate instruments; assessment tools for
culturally diverse populations or various
age groups, including older adults;
improved technology or applications of
existing technology; statistical methods to
assess or correct for measurement errors
or biases; methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical
activity behavior through pattern analysis;
or integrated measurement of diet and
physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors. PAR12-198 (NIHG 6/8/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-198.html
Deadline: 2/5/13, 10/5/13
22-11 Advancing Digitization of
Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) (NSF)
This program seeks to enhance and
expand the national resource of digital
data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections
and to advance scientific knowledge by
improving access to digitized information
(including images) residing in vouchered
scientific collections across the United
States. The information associated with
various collections of organisms, such as
geographic, paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about
associated organisms, collector field
notes, and tissues and molecular data
extracted from the specimens, is a rich
resource providing the baseline from
which to further biodiversity research and
provide critical information about existing gaps in our knowledge of life on
earth. The national resource is structured
at three levels: a central coordinating
organization, a series of thematic networks based on an important research
theme, and the physical collections. Only
one TCN proposal may be submitted by
any one organization as the lead organization. NSF 12-565
URL: http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12565/
nsf12565.htm
Deadline: Internal 8/19/2012; Proposals 10/19/12
to increase economic literacy, the Board
of Trustees will give special attention to
proposals and projects with national
impact that address the following issues:
a) The Foundation has an abiding interest
in elevating the nation’s understanding of
the need for economic education. It will
support programs that raise various public’s participation in economic education
and/or create a demand for greater economic literacy; b) The application of new
strategies for teaching economics including on-line and web-based instruction is
of interest to the Foundation; c) Projects,
policy studies, or programs that encourage measurement of economic understanding more often and/or more
effectively are of specific interest; and d)
The large number of students at risk of
leaving school, and hence never effectively participation in the nation’s economic system are of concern to the
Foundation. (TGA 6/12)
URL: http://www.kazanjian.org/
Deadline: 9/15/2012, 2/15/2013
22-13 Senior Scientist Research Award
(K05) (NIH)
The purpose of the Senior Scientist
Research Award (K05) is intended to provide protected time for outstanding senior
scientists who have demonstrated a sustained high level of productivity conducting biomedical research relevant to the
scientific mission of the appropriate institute to focus on their research and to provide mentoring of new investigators. PA12-148 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/pa-12-148.html
Deadline: 6/12/2012, 10/12/2012, 2/12/
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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, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
SOCIAL SCIENCES
22-12 Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics
Foundation (Kazanjian)
While the Kazanjian Foundation maintains a vital interest in the overall efforts
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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