Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
November 8, 2013
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Limited submission programs have
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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
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin (FB
40-5) 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
40-1 11th Annual P3 Awards: A
National Student Design Competition
for Sustainability Focusing on People,
Prosperity and the Planet (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of the P3-People,
Prosperity and the Planet Award Program,
is seeking applications proposing to
research, develop, and design solutions to
real world challenges involving the overall
sustainability of human society. The P3
Program supports science-based projects
and designs developed by interdisciplinary
student teams that benefit people by
improving their quality of life, promote
prosperity by developing local economies,
and protect the planet by conserving
resources and minimizing pollution. The
EPA offers the P3 competition in order to
respond to the technical needs of the world
while moving towards the goal of sustainability. Public nonprofit institutions/organizations and private nonprofit
institutions/organizations located in the
U.S. are eligible to apply to be the recipient of a grant to support teams of undergraduate and/or graduate students. (EPAG2014-P3-)
URL: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2014/
2014_p3.html
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Deadline: 12/17/2013
40-2 Bioenergy and Biomass
Conversion From Plant-Based
Research to Prototype Bio-Materials
(CPBR)
The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (CPBR) is a nonprofit organization that funds university
peer-reviewed research on a competitive
basis. CPBR facilitates research interactions among university and industry scientists. Member organizations include
universities, companies and trade associations. Industry sectors represented
include the seed, agrochemical, forestry,
energy, bio-materials, and other food and
non-food agricultural products industries. Preproposals are invited for
research that 1) is related to plant biotechnology and 2) addresses industrial
problems and opportunities related to
bioenergy and biomass conversion.
Funding for CPBR research for 2015
may come from the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) and/or other sources.
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/22/2013;
Preproposals 12/20/2013
40-3 National Robotics Initiative
(NRI) (NSF)
The goal of the National Robotics Initiative is to accelerate the development and
use of robots in the United States that
work beside, or cooperatively with, people. Innovative robotics research and
applications emphasizing the realization
of such co-robots acting in direct support
of and in a symbiotic relationship with
human partners is supported by multiple
agencies of the federal government
including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA), the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA). The purpose of this program is
the development of this next generation
of robotics, to advance the capability and
usability of such systems and artifacts,
and to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative application areas. It will address the entire life
cycle from fundamental research and
development to manufacturing and
deployment. Methods for the establishment and infusion of robotics in educational curricula and research to gain a
better understanding of the long term
social, behavioral and economic implications of co-robots across all areas of
human activity are important parts of this
initiative. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other
organizations is strongly encouraged to
establish better linkages between fundamental science and technology development, deployment and use. Only one
class of proposals will be considered in
response to this solicitation. As detailed
in the solicitation, appropriate scientific
areas of investigation may be related to
any of the participating funding organizations, but NIH and USDA will only fund
proposals no larger than a certain size.
NSF 14-500
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14500/nsf14500.htm
Deadline: 1/21/2014, 11/13/2014
ARTS & HUMANITIES
40-4 Collaborative Research (NEH)
Collaborative Research Grants support
interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars,
for full-time or part-time activities for
periods of one to three years. Support is
available for various combinations of
scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field work;
applications of information technology;
and technical support and services. All
grantees are expected to communicate the
results of their work to the appropriate
scholarly and public audiences. Eligible
projects include research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities; conferences on
topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research;
archaeological projects that include the
interpretation and communication of
results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work,
field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); and research that uses
the knowledge and perspectives of the
humanities and historical or philosophical
methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social
sciences. 20140107-RZ (GG 10/21/13)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
research/collaborative-research-grants
Deadline: 1/7/2014
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
40-5 Faculty Development in the
Space Sciences (FDSS) (NSF)
The Geospace Section of the Division of
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, to
ensure the health and vitality of solar and
space sciences on university teaching faculties, is pleased to offer awards for the
creation of new tenure-track faculty positions within the intellectual disciplines
which comprise the space sciences. The
aim of these awards is to integrate
research topics in solar and space physics
into basic physics, astronomy, electrical
engineering, geoscience, meteorology,
computer science, and applied mathematics programs, and to develop space physics graduate programs capable of training
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the next generation of leaders in this field.
Space Science is interdisciplinary in
nature and the Faculty Development in
the Space Sciences awardees will be
expected to establish partnerships within
the university community. Institutions
may submit only one proposal in response
to this solicitation. NSF 14-506 (GG 10/
29/13)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14506/nsf14506.htm
Deadline: Internal 11/27/2013; Applications 1/27/2014, 8/31/2015
40-6 FY2014 Consolidated Innovative
Nuclear Research (DOE)
The Department of Energy’s (DOE)
Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) conducts
crosscutting nuclear energy research and
development (R&D) and associated infrastructure support activities to develop
innovative technologies that offer the
promise of dramatically improved performance for advanced reactors and fuel
cycle concepts while maximizing the
impact of DOE resources. NE strives to
promote integrated and collaborative
research conducted by national laboratory, university, industry, and international partners under the direction of NE’s
programs. This Funding Opportunity
Announcement addresses the competitive
portion of NE’s R&D portfolio as executed through the Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) and Nuclear
Energy Enabling Technologies Crosscutting Technology Development (NEET
CTD). NEUP supports key NE programrelated areas: Fuel Cycle Research and
Development, Reactor Concepts
Research, Development and Demonstration, and Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation. NEET CTD
supports national laboratory, university
and industry led crosscutting research in
the areas of reactor materials, advanced
sensors and instrumentation, and
advanced methods for manufacturing. An
academic PI cannot be included in more
than six pre-applications with no more
than three applications as the primary PI.
Additionally, a PI may have no more than
one IRP or three R&D projects funded at
any time, and may therefore not submit
more full applications than would be
allowed by these restrictions should these
applications be selected for funding. DEFOA-0000998 (GG 10/31/13)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/
search-grants.html?keywords=DE-FOA0000998
Deadline: Preapplications 12/2/2013;
Applications 4/3/2014
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
40-7 Long Term Research in
Environmental Biology (LTREB)
(NSF)
The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports
the generation of extended time series of
data to address important questions in
evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Research areas include,
but are not limited to, the effects of natu-
ral selection or other evolutionary processes on populations, communities, or
ecosystems; the effects of interspecific
interactions that vary over time and space;
population or community dynamics for
organisms that have extended life spans
and long turnover times; feedbacks
between ecological and evolutionary processes; pools of materials such as nutrients in soils that turn over at intermediate
to longer time scales; and external forcing
functions such as climatic cycles that
operate over long return intervals. The
Program intends to support decadal
projects. NSF 14-507
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14507/nsf14507.htm
Deadline: Preliminary Proposals 1/30/
2014; Proposals 8/1/2014
40-8 Blood and Vascular Systems
Response to Sepsis (R01) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit
applications to participate in Blood and
Vascular Systems Response to Sepsis
(BVSS) Program. The objective of this
initiative is to foster multi-disciplinary
research projects needed to unravel the
cellular and molecular mechanisms
underlying the development of severe
endothelial dysfunction that contributes to
sepsis-related coagulopathy and vascular
collapse. To accomplish this goal, the initiative will support research partnerships
to conduct multi-disciplinary research
needed to dissect the mechanisms of
blood and vascular systems in sepsis
pathogenesis. RFA-HL-14-028 (NIHG
11/1/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-14-028.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/6/2014;
Applications 2/6/2014
40-9 Analysis of Genome-Wide GeneEnvironment (G x E) Interactions
(R21) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to provide
support for research projects that involve
secondary data analyses of existing
genome-wide data from genome-wide
association studies or other large genomic
datasets for the purpose of identifying
gene-environment interactions. The ultimate objective of this funding opportunity
is the discovery of complex interplays of
genes and environmental factors in
human populations which may disclose
novel genetic susceptibilities to environmental exposures or a greater understanding of the role of environmental
exposures in the development, progression, and severity of complex human diseases. PAR-13-382 (NIHG 11/1/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-13-382.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/14/2014;
Applications 2/14/2014
ment in Research (PEER) Science program is now accepting proposals from
developing country researchers interested
in collaborating with their U.S. NSF
funded counterparts. PEER Science is a
partnership between the United States
Agency for International Development
(USAID) and the National Sciences
Foundation (NSF), intended to address
development challenges through international research collaboration. This competitive grants program allows scientists
in developing countries to apply for funds
to support research and capacity-building
activities in partnership with their NSFfunded collaborators on topics of importance to USAID. Furthermore, should a
PEER collaboration be selected for funding, the U.S. collaborator may then
request an international supplement from
NSF to defray the cost of this international partnership.
URL: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/
PGA/dsc/PGA_071743
Deadline: 1/13/2014
STUDENTS
40-11 AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant
Program (USDA)
The program goal is to develop the next
generation of research, education, and
extension professionals in the food and
agricultural sciences. The AFRI NIFA
Fellowships Grant Program is focused on
developing technical and functional competence for predoctoral students and the
research independence and teaching credentials of post-doctoral students in the
agriculture, forestry, and food sciences
that are within NIFA’s challenge and
foundational program areas through welldeveloped and highly interactive mentoring and training activities. USDA-NIFAAFRI-004368 (GG 10/29/13)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/12/2013;
Applications 2/20/2014
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, Namrita Berry, Rex
Goff, Tim McDaniel, Cecilia Scaler, Sharon
Zoeller
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Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Joel Anderson
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
INTERNATIONAL
40-10 Partnerships for Enhanced
Engagement in Research (PEER)
Science (USAID)
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Petra Jardine, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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