Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
May 11, 2012
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Vol. 21, No. 18
Nation’s surface water and groundwater
resources through research, education,
and extension activities. Funded projects
should lead to science-based decision
making and management practices that
improve the quality of the Nation’s surface water and groundwater resources in
agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds. USDA-NIFA-ICGP-003789 (GG
5/9/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/water_quality.html
Deadline: 6/28/2012
18-3 Farm Business Management
and Benchmarking Program (USDA)
Applications are being solicited for the
purpose of 1) improving the farm management knowledge and skills of agricultural producers; and 2) establishing and
maintaining a national, publicly available
farm financial management database.
The assistance provided by these programs, to the extent practicable, shall be
coordinated with and delivered in cooperation with similar services or assistance by other Federal Agencies or
programs supporting improved farm
management. USDA-NIFA-FBMB003771 (GG 5/4/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/fbmb.html
Deadline: 6/15/2012
address compelling research challenges in
failure resistant systems that are of paramount importance to industry, academia,
and society at large. New approaches in
the design of electronic circuits and systems are needed for products and services
that continue to operate correctly in the
presence of transient, permanent, or systematic failures. From large information
processing systems supporting communications and computation, to small embedded systems targeting medical and
automotive applications, whole industries are facing the challenge of improving the reliability of systems. A systemlevel cross-layer approach to reliability,
encompassing failure mechanisms of both
digital and analog components, has the
potential to deliver high reliability with
significantly lower power and performance overheads than current singlelayer techniques. By distributing reliability across the system design stack, crosslayer approaches can take advantage of
the information available at each level,
including even application-level knowledge, to efficiently tolerate errors, aging,
and variation. This will allow handling of
different physical effects at the most efficient stack layer, and can be adapted to
varying application needs, operating environments, and changing hardware state.
NSF 12-556
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12556/nsf12556.htm
Deadline: 7/26/2012
EDUCATION
AGRICULTURE
18-1 Integrated Research, Education,
and Extension Competitive Grants
Program—Methyl Bromide Transitions
(USDA)
This RFA solicits applications for the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension
Competitive Grants Program, Methyl Bromide Transitions (MBT). Methyl Bromide
has been a pest and disease control tactic
critical to agricultural, industrial, natural
resource or urban pest management systems for decades. The MBT program seeks
to solve critical agricultural issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of
research, education, and extension activities. It is designed to address immediate
needs, and the costs of transition that have
resulted from the loss of availability of
methyl bromide. USDA-NIFA-ICGP003790 (GG 5/9/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/methyl_bro_integrated.html
Deadline: 6/19/2012
18-2 National Integrated Water
Quality Program (USDA)
The goal of the National Integrated Water
Quality Program (NIWQP) is to contribute
to the improvement of the quality of our
18-4 Ronald E. McNair
Postbaccalaureate Achievement
Program (ED)
The McNair Program is a discretionary
grant program that awards grants to institutions of higher education for projects
designed to provide disadvantaged college students with effective preparation
for doctoral study. There are three competitive preference priorities: Competitive Preference Priority 1—Promoting
Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) Education; Competitive Preference Priority 2) improving
Productivity; and Competitive Preference Priority 3— Building Evidence of
Effectiveness. ED-GRANTS-050912001 (GG 5/9/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/8/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
18-5 Failure-Resistant Systems (FRS)
A Joint Initiative between NSF and
SRC (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have agreed to embark on a
new collaborative research program to
18-6 EarthScope (NSF)
EarthScope is an Earth science program
to explore the 4-dimensional structure of
the North American continent. The EarthScope Program provides a framework for
broad, integrated studies across the Earth
sciences, including research on fault
properties and the earthquake process,
strain transfer, magmatic and hydrous fluids in the crust and mantle, plate boundary processes, large-scale continental
deformation, continental structure and
evolution, and composition and structure
of the deep Earth. In addition, EarthScope
offers a centralized forum for Earth science education at all levels and an excellent opportunity to develop
cyberinfrastructure to integrate, distribute, and analyze diverse data sets. This
Solicitation calls for single or collaborative proposals to conduct scientific
research and/or education and outreach
activities within North America that make
use of capabilities and/or data provided
through the EarthScope Facility to further
the scientific and educational goals of
EarthScope. NSF 12-550
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12550/nsf12550.htm
Deadline: 7/16/2012
18-7 Frontiers in Earth System
A weekly publication of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
For further information, call 785-532-5045
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Dynamics (NSF)
Award (DoD)
The Earth is often characterized as
“dynamic” because its systems are variable over space and time, and they can
respond rapidly to multiple perturbations.
The goals of the Frontiers in Earth System
Dynamics (FESD) program are to: 1) foster an inter-disciplinary and multi-scale
understanding of the interplay among and
within the various sub-systems of the
Earth, 2) catalyze research in areas poised
for a major advance, 3) improve data resolution and modeling capabilities to more
realistically simulate complex processes
and forecast disruptive or threshold
events, and 4) improve knowledge of the
resilience of the Earth and its subsystems.
NSF 12-547
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12547/nsf12547.htm
Deadline: 7/2/2012, 3/4/2013
The PRMRP Technology/Therapeutic
Development Award is a product-driven
award intended to provide support for the
translation of promising preclinical findings into products for clinical applications, including prevention, detection,
diagnosis, patient care, and/or quality of
life, in at least one of the Congressionally
directed FY12 PRMRP topic areas. Products in development should be responsive
to the health care needs of military service
members, veterans, and/or beneficiaries.
W81XWH-12-PRMP-TTDA (GG 3/29/
12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/26/2012
18-8 Second Generation Dark Matter
Experiments (DOE)
The Office of High Energy Physics
(OHEP) at the U. S. Department of
Energy’s Office of Science, announces
their interest in receiving new grant applications for support of experiments dedicated to the direct detection of dark
matter. Only those experiments qualifying
as second-generation experiments will be
considered, i.e., those with the capability
to improve by at least an order of magnitude our current knowledge of physical
dark matter parameters. DE-FOA0000597 (GG 3/7/12)
URL: https://www.fedconnect.net
Deadline: 7/6/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
18-9 Department of Defense Autism
Research Program Funding
Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2012
(DoD)
The vision of the Department of Defense
Autism Research Program (ARP) is to
improve the lives of individuals with
autism spectrum disorders (ASD) now.
This program is administered by the US
Army Medical Research and Material
Command through the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research
Programs (CDMRP). Idea Development
Award FY12 Areas of Interest are:
Improved sub-grouping of individuals
with ASD to inform the mechanisms, natural history, and response to treatment
(e.g., biomarkers, risk factors, sex ratio);
Identification of therapeutic targets,
excluding new gene discovery; Psychosocial research across the lifespan, including influences on brain function/structure;
Co-morbid conditions across the lifespan,
especially sleep disorders and gastrointestinal issues.
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/
arp.shtml
Deadline: Preapplications 6/30/2012
18-10 DoD Peer Reviewed Medical
Technology/Therapeutic Development
18-11 Short-Term Research Education
Program to Increase Diversity in
Health-Related Research (R25) (NIH)
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute, National Institutes of Health
invites Research Education (R25) applications to promote diversity in undergraduate and health professional participant
populations by providing short-term
research education support to stimulate
career development in cardiovascular,
pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep disorders research. The overall goal of the program is to provide research opportunities
for individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical science, including individuals from disadvantaged
backgrounds, individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, and
individuals with disabilities that will significantly contribute to a diverse research
workforce in the future. The research
opportunities should be of sufficient
depth to enable the participants, upon
completion of the program, to have a
thorough exposure to the principles
underlying the conduct of research, and
help prepare participants interested in
research to pursue competitive fellowships, or other research training or career
development awards. RFA-HL-13-020
(NIHG 4/6/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-hl-13-020.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/9/2012, 1/
7/2013, Applications 7/9/2012, 2/7/2013
18-12 NHLBI Systems Biology
Collaborations (R01) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
encourages Research Project Grant (R01)
applications from institutions/organizations that propose collaborative systems
biology research projects by multi-disciplinary teams to advance our understanding of normal physiology and
perturbations associated with heart, lung,
blood, and sleep (HLBS) diseases and
disorders. Multi-disciplinary expertise
across experimental and computational
domains is required, and the multi-PI
mechanism is allowed, as integration
across these domains is a critical element
of the proposed research plan. PAR-12138 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-138.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 8/14/2012,
12/14/2012, Applications 9/14/2012, 1/
14/2013
18-13 Secondary Analyses in Obesity,
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (R21) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) encourages R21 applications that propose to conduct secondary
analysis of existing data sets relevant to
diabetes and endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases and nutrition,
including obesity and eating disorders;
and kidney, urologic, and hematologic
diseases. The goal of this program is to
facilitate research that explores innovative hypotheses through the use of existing data sets. PA-12-125 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-125.html
Deadline: 6/16/2012, 10/16/2012, 2/16/
2013
SOCIAL SCIENCES
18-14 Law & Social Sciences (NSF)
The Law &Social Sciences Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems
of rules. The program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological.
Successful proposals describe research
that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law
or legal processes and human behavior.
Social scientific studies of law often
approach law as dynamic, made in multiple arenas, with the participation of multiple actors. NSF 12-507
URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504727
Deadline: 7/16/2012, 1/15/2013
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, 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
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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