Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
July 11, 2014
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GENERAL
26-1 Interdisciplinary Research in
Hazards and Disasters (Hazards SEES)
(NSF)
Hazards SEES is a program involving
multiple NSF Directorates and Offices that
seeks to: 1) advance understanding of the
fundamental processes associated with
specific natural hazards and technological
hazards linked to natural phenomena, and
their interactions; 2) better understand the
causes, interdependences, impacts, and
cumulative effects of these hazards on
individuals, the natural and built environment, and society as a whole; and 3)
improve capabilities for forecasting or predicting hazards, mitigating their effects,
and enhancing the capacity to respond to
and recover from resultant disasters. NSF
14-581 (GG 7/10/14)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14581/nsf14581.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/26/2014;
Proposals 11/28/2014
Vol. 23, No. 26
26-2 Military Families Learning
Network (USDA)
The Military Families Learning Network (MFLN) Competitive Grant Program will develop an efficient and
effective platform to 1) accomplish
workforce development including professional development and 2) build
capacity at the local level to meet the
needs of military families and the individuals who serve them. USDA NIFA
and the OSD seek to implement a highquality learning platform that engages
military family support professionals by
connecting them to research and educational programming in order to identify
and make use of research-and evidencebased information, educational and curriculum materials, and programming
activities and efforts of the highest quality. USDA-NIFA-EXCA-004573 (GG 7/
10/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/web/
grants/viewopportunity.html?oppId=259270
Deadline: 8/8/2014
26-3 Air Pollution Monitoring for
Communities (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
seeking applications proposing research
on empowering communities and individuals to take action to avoid air pollution exposure, using low-cost portable air
pollution sensors. Specifically of interest
is research on using low-cost portable
sensors to understand and avoid air pollution exposure, on the ways communities and individuals interact with air
pollution sensors and their data, on methods for understanding and managing the
quality of data from air pollution sensors,
and on how sensors and sensor networks
compare to existing state-of-the-art air
quality monitoring methods. One of
ACE’s research goals is to assess human
and ecosystem exposures and effects
caused by air pollutants and climate
change. ACE research also wants to provide data and tools that can help prevent
and reduce air pollutant emissions in
ways that are sustainable, innovative and
cost effective.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2014/
2014-star-air-pollution-monitoring.html
Deadline: 10/7/2014
undergraduates and teachers to join
together in a deep and sustained program
of reading in order to encounter influential ideas, works, and thinkers over the
centuries. What is an enduring question?
The following list is neither prescriptive
nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate. Are
there universals in human nature? What is
the source of moral authority? What is
evil? Can war be just? How do we differ
from other animals? Is peace possible?
What is worth dying for? What is the
value of education? Can greed be good?
What is good government? What is
progress? Am I my brother’s keeper?
20140911-AQ (GG 7/7/14)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
education/enduring-questions
Deadline: 9/11/2014
26-5 Mid-Career Professionals in
Preservation and Related Fields
(JMFCF)
The James Marston Fitch Charitable
Foundation provides mid-career grants to
professionals working in the fields of historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental
planning, decorative arts, architectural
design, and architectural history. Fitch
Mid-Career grants are awarded annually
to one or two mid-career professionals
with at least ten years of experience as
well as an academic background, professional experience, and an established
identity in one or more of the eligible
fields. The foundation will consider proposals for research and/or execution of a
preservation-related project in any of the
eligible fields. Grants are awarded only to
individuals. The foundation does not fund
university-sponsored research projects or
dissertation research. (PND 5/16/2014)
URL: http://fitchfoundation.org
Deadline: 10/15/2014
26-6 Digital Humanities Start-up
Grants (NEH)
The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
program awards relatively small grants to
support the planning stages of innovative
projects that promise to benefit the
humanities. Proposals should be for the
planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities.
20140911-HD (GG 7/7/14)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/
digital-humanities-start-grants
Deadline: 9/11/2014
ARTS & HUMANITIES
26-4 Enduring Questions (NEH)
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the
preparation of a new course on a fundamental concern of human life as
addressed by the humanities. This question-driven course would encourage
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
26-7 Mathematical Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
(MSPRF) (NSF)
The purpose of the Mathematical Sci-
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ences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
(MSPRF) is to support future leaders in
mathematics and statistics by facilitating
their participation in postdoctoral
research environments that will have
maximal impact on their future scientific
development. There are two options for
awardees: Research Fellowship and
Research Instructorship. Awards will support research in areas of mathematics and
statistics, including applications to other
disciplines. (NSF 14-582)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14582/nsf14582.htm
Deadline: 10/15/2014
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
26-8 Development of Novel
Therapeutics for Select Anaerobic
Protozoa (R21/R33) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit
applications to support early stage translational research focused on the development of novel therapeutics against select
anaerobic protozoal pathogens. RFA-AI14-015 (NIHG 7/3/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-14-015.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/30/2014;
Applications 10/30/14
26-9 Advancing Research in Voice
Disorders (R21) (HHS)
The National Institute on Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders
(NIDCD) uses the Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) to
support the development of novel ideas,
technologies, or methodologies at an
early stage of development which have
the potential to break new ground or
extend toward new directions or applications. This FOA invites R21 grant applications focused on advancing our
scientific knowledge of the human larynx
and human voice production in health and
disease and optimal ways to prevent,
evaluate, diagnose and clinically manage
voice disorders. This FOA is for R21s
only and encourages a range of research
inclusive of basic, clinical, and translational. PA-14-235 (NIHG 5/23/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-235.html
Deadline: 10/16/2014, 2/16/2014, 6/16/
2015
26-10 DoD Autism Idea Development
Award (DoD)
The ARP Idea Development Award supports the development of innovative,
high-risk/high-reward research that could
lead to critical discoveries or major
advancements that will accelerate
progress in improving outcomes for individuals with autism. This award mechanism is designed to support innovative
ideas with the potential to yield impactful
data and new avenues of investigation.
Past experimental research in the ASD
research field or in other developmental
disorders is crucial to the FY14 ARP Idea
Development Award and will be evalu-
ated. W81XWH-14-ARP-IDA (GG 4/25/
14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 10/7/2014
INTERNATIONAL
26-11 Saudi American Educational and
Cultural Initiative Grant (DoS)
Saudi-American Educational and Cultural
Initiative Grants support innovative forms
of collaboration between Saudi and U.S.
non-governmental and community organizations, universities, entrepreneurs, cultural organizations and qualified
individuals to expand the diversity of
activities in the U.S.-Saudi partnership
and develop the next generation of leaders, especially among youth, young professionals and women, to promote mutual
understanding and respect through longterm partnership and cooperation between
our two countries. The Embassy is especially interested in identifying and supporting U.S-Saudi partnerships that
include a focus on the development of
exchanges, projects and partnerships
between U.S. and Saudi youth or women;
or that involve the development of professional linkages in business, healthcare or
media, including social media; or that
build on Saudi efforts to modernize and
build a knowledge-based economy; or
that expand Saudi-U.S. educational partnerships; or that are submitted by or
involve alumni of exchange programs
sponsored by the U.S. or Saudi governments. S-SA-800-14-GR-006 (GG 7/1/
14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/30/2015
SOCIAL SCIENCES
26-12 Science of Science and
Innovation Policy (NSF)
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research
designed to advance the scientific basis of
science and innovation policy. Research
funded by the program thus develops,
improves and expands models, analytical
tools, data and metrics that can be applied
in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals
may develop behavioral and analytical
conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad
array of SciSIP challenges, including the
relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to
analyze science and technology data, and
to convey the information to a variety of
audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and
engineering data, metrics and indicators
reflecting current discovery, particularly
proposals that demonstrate the viability of
collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations. PD-09-7626 (GG 7/8/14)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084
Deadline: 9/9/2014
26-13 Documenting Endangered
Languages (DEL) (NSF)
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. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the
digital recording, documenting, and
archiving of endangered languages,
including the preparation of lexicons,
grammars, text samples, and databases.
Funding will be available in the form of
one- to three-year senior research grants
as well as fellowships for up to twelve
months and doctoral dissertation research
improvement grants for up to 24 months.
NSF 14-580
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14580/nsf14580.htm
Deadline: 10/6/2014, 9/15/2015
26-14 Epidemiology and Prevention in
Alcohol Research (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) encourages the submission of
investigator-initiated research grant applications to support research investigating
the epidemiology of alcohol use, alcoholrelated harms, and alcohol use disorders
and the prevention of underage drinking,
alcohol-related harms, and alcohol use
disorders. PA-14-190 (NIHG 4/25/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-190.html
Deadline: 10/5/2014, 2/5/2015, 6/5/2015
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
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Joel Anderson
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
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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