Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
February 21, 2012
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GENERAL
7-1 Project Global Officers (Project
GO) (IIE)
The Institute of International Education
(IIE), acting as the administrative agent of
the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO), is
announcing a new solicitation for Project
GO (Global Officers). The competition is
open both to new applicants and to applicants who currently host an existing
Project GO program. Applicants must
have at least one on-campus ROTC unit
and must have some current institutional
instructional capacity in a critical language
such as Arabic, Russian, Persian, or Chinese. As Project GO aims to improve its
model, it will build a proficiency-based
program to ensure the Department of
Defense maintains and sustains a Total
Force with a mix of language skills,
regional expertise, and cultural capabilities
to meet existing and emerging needs. The
current solicitation aims to increase the
number of ROTC students who achieve
intermediate and advanced proficiency in a
number of critical languages. Successful
applicants will explain how they will
develop a system of opportunities for
ROTC students to gain such proficiency
during the course of their undergraduate
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studies.
URL: www.ROTCProjectGO.org
Deadline: 4/12/2012
7-2 Conservation Fellowships and
Innovation Grants (TogetherGreen)
TogetherGreen, a conservation alliance
between the national Audobon Society
and Toyota, is accepting applications for
its 2012 class of Conservation Fellows
and Innovation grantees. The Conservation Fellowships program seeks to invest
in individuals who are committed to
empowering others and to creating positive environmental change in their communities and organizations. Applicants
must have at least six years of experience
in conservation, environmental education, policy or environmental issues, as
demonstrated through current and past
work experience, academic studies
related to the environment, and/or volunteer work; and have a current affiliation
(full - or part-time employment or equivalent volunteer commitment) with a conservation organization, business,
university, community-based organization, or other professional organization
whose goals and practices make a positive contribution to environmental conservation. Fellows receive a $10,000
grant to conduct a twelve-month conservation action project in their community,
as well as specialized training and support to help shape and implement their
projects. (PND 2/3/12)
URL: http://www.togethergreen.org/
Deadline: 3/5/2012
7-3 Pan-American Advanced
Studies Institutes Program (PASI)
(NSF)
The Pan-American Advanced Studies
Institutes (PASI) Program is a jointly
supported initiative between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National
Science Foundation (NSF). Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes are short
courses ranging in length from ten to
twenty-one days, involving lectures,
demonstrations, research seminars, and
discussions at the advanced graduate,
post-doctoral, and junior faculty level.
PASIs aim to disseminate advanced scientific and engineering knowledge and
stimulate training and cooperation
among researchers of the Americas in the
mathematical, physical, and biological
sciences, the geosciences, the computer
and information sciences, and the engineering fields. NSF 12-535
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12535/nsf12535.htm
Deadline: 4/24/2012
7-4 Decadal and Regional Climate
Prediction using Earth System Models
(EaSM) (NSF)
This interdisciplinary scientific challenge
calls for the development and application
of next-generation Earth System Models
that include coupled and interactive representations of such things as ocean and
atmospheric currents, human activities,
agricultural working lands and forests,
urban environments, biogeochemistry,
atmospheric chemistry, the water cycle
and land ice. This solicitation seeks to
attract scientists from the disciplines of
geosciences, social sciences, agricultural
and biological sciences, mathematics and
statistics, physics, and chemistry. The following are specific areas of interest to the
funding agencies for EaSM 2: 1)
Research that has the potential to dramatically improve predictive capabilities; 2)
Prediction and attribution studies; 3)
Research that addresses critical issues
linking relevant Earth system processes
over a variety of spatial and temporal
scales; 4) Research that examines the
relationships between climate variability
and change to human and natural environments from the human perspective; 5)
Development and applications of metrics, methods, and tools for testing and
evaluating climate and climate impact
predictions and their uncertainty characterization. An individual may appear as PI
or co-PI on only two proposals in
response to this solicitation. We encourage PIs and co-PIs to limit themselves to
one proposal submission. NSF 12-522
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12522/nsf12522.htm
Deadline: 5/11/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
7-5 History of Art Grants Program
(Kress)
The History of Art grant program supports scholarly projects that will enhance
the appreciation and understanding of
European art and architecture. Grants are
awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and
dissemination of scholarly databases,
documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and
publications, and technical and scientific
studies. (TGA 1/12)
URL: http://www.kressfoundation.org/
grants/default.aspx?id=142
Deadline: 4/15/2012, 10/15/2012, 1/15/
2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
7-6
Combating Terrorism (TSWG)
The Combating Terrorism Technology
Support Office (CTTSO) has posted a
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new Broad Agency Announcement
(BAA). Quad Charts and a one page technical approach are being requested for the
following areas: AA&C- Advanced Analytics and Concepts; CBRNC- Chemical,
Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Countermeasures; ED- Explosive Detection; EOD/LIC- Explosive Ordnance Disposals/Low-Intensity Conflict; IDDImprovised Device Defeat; ISF- Investigative Support and Forensics; IWS- Irregular Warfare Support Programs; IWSPIrregular Warfare Support Program; PPPersonnel Protection; PS- Physical Security; SCOS- Surveillance, Collection, and
Operations; TOS- Tactical Operations
Support; and TTD- Training technology
Development.
URL: www.bids.tswg.gov
Deadline: Phase 1 3/9/2012
7-7 NSF Scholarships in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (S-STEM) (NSF)
This program makes grants to institutions
of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students
demonstrating financial need, enabling
them to enter the STEM workforce or
STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or
graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are
responsible for selecting scholarship
recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the
institution.The program does not make
scholarship awards directly to students;
students should contact their institution’s
Office of Financial Aid for this and other
scholarship opportunities. NSF 12-529
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12529/nsf12529.htm
Deadline: 8/14/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
7-8 Academic-Community
Partnership Conference Series (R31)
(NIH)
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) encourages
Research Conference Grant (R13) applications to conduct health disparitiesrelated meetings, workshops, and symposia. The purpose of the Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series is
to bring together academic institutions/
organizations and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of
Community-Based Participatory
Research (CBPR). The objectives of
meetings conducted as part of this award
will be to: 1) establish and/or enhance
academic-community partnerships; 2)
identify community-driven research priorities, and 3) develop long-term collaborative CBPR research agendas. Thus, it is
expected these partnerships will lead to
grant applications for the support of
CBPR projects designed to meet identified community needs. The areas of focus
for these partnerships may include one or
more of the following community-health
issues: infant mortality; Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS); fibroid tumors;
childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; health literacy; techniques for outreach and information dissemination;
pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; and violence prevention. Only one
application per institution is allowed.
PAR-12-102 (NIHG 2/10/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/par-12-102.html
Deadline: Internal 2/27/2012, 8/17/
2014; Applications 4/10/2012, 10/17/
2013
7-9 NIH Undergraduate Design
Challenge Focuses on Technology
Solutions in Health Care (NIBIB)
NIBIB solicits innovative diagnostic and
therapeutic devices and technology for
the underserved and disabled. A competition for undergraduate students to foster
the design and development of innovative
diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and
technologies to aid underserved populations and the disabled is being sponsored
by the National Institute of biomedical
Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB),
part of the National Institutes of Health.
One winning student team will be
selected for each of three challenge categories: diagnostic devices/methods; therapeutic devices/methods; and technology
to aid underserved populations and individuals with disabilities. Eligible team
candidates must be full time undergraduate students and U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Each winning team will
receive a $10,000 prize, to be distributed
among the team members. Winners will
be honored at an award ceremony during
the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) in
Atlanta, GA.
URL: http://debut.challenge.gov
Deadline: 5/26/2012
teer resources and educators for other
Medicare beneficiaries, and to build and
strengthen community coalitions of older
Americans and service providers. In 2011,
the SMP Program will include an estimated 54 project grants in all states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam
and the U.S. Virgin Islands. HHS-2012AOA-MP-1202 (GG 2/15/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/19/2012
7-11 Sober Truth on Preventing
Underage Drinking Act Grants
(SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is
accepting applications for fiscal year (FY)
2012 Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) grants. The
purpose of this program is to prevent and
reduce alcohol use among youth age 1220 in communities throughout the United
States. The STOP Act program was created to strengthen collaboration among
communities, the Federal Government,
and State, local and tribal governments; to
enhance intergovernmental cooperation
and coordination on the issue of alcohol
use among youth; to serve as a catalyst for
increased citizen participation and greater
collaboration among all sectors and organizations of a community that first demonstrates a long-term commitment to
reducing alcohol use among youth; to disseminate to communities timely information regarding state-of-the-art practices
and initiatives that have proven to be
effective in preventing and reducing alcohol use among youth; and to enhance, not
supplant, effective local community initiatives for preventing and reducing alcohol
use among youth. SP-12-003 (GG 2/3/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/29/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
7-10 Senior Medicare Patrol Projects
Empowering Seniors To Prevent
Health Care Fraud (AoA)
The Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) Office of Inspector
General estimates that Medicare loses billions of dollars each year due to errors,
fraud, and abuse. Beginning in 1997, the
AoA established twelve local demonstration projects designed to recruit and train
retired professionals, such as doctors,
nurses, teachers, lawyers, accountants,
and others to identify and report error,
fraud, and abuse. Implemented through
the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriation
Act of 1997 (Public Law 104-208), Senate Report 104-368 noted that “senior citizens are our best front line defense
against these losses, but they often don’t
have the information and experience
needed” to recognize and accurately
report cases of error, fraud, and abuse.
These projects have worked to test different models designed to train retirees in
local communities to serve as both volun-
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