Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
May 9, 2014
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or a related field. Candidates’ most
recent Ph.D. (or equivalent) must have
been awarded on or after September 1,
2008. While Fellows are expected to be
at an early stage of their research careers,
there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates must be nominated by a
department head or other senior
researcher. More than one candidate
from a department may be nominated,
but no more than three.
URL: http://www.sloan.org/sloanresearch-fellowships/
Deadline: 9/15/2014
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
18-2, 18-4) 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: http://www.k-state.edu/research/
funding/bulletins/bul14/limits14/
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GENERAL
18-1 Sloan Research Fellowships
(Sloan)
Sloan Research Fellowships is by far the
oldest program of the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, although those who receive
the grants are among the youngest
researchers the Foundation assists. The
Sloan Research Fellowships were established to provide support and recognition
to scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were
endeavoring to set up laboratories and
establish their independent research
projects with little or no outside support.
Candidates must hold a tenure track (or
equivalent) position at a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in
the United States or Canada. Tenure track
faculty positions at the candidate’s institution must include a yearly teaching
requirement. Candidates must hold a Ph.D.
(or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology,
computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics,
18-2 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.
An Institution may submit one proposal
from each constituent school or college
that awards degrees in an eligible field.
NSF 12-529
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12529/nsf12529.htm
Deadline: Internal 6/14/2014; Proposals 8/12/2014
18-3 ACE Centers: Supporting
Science Solutions (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program,
announces the Request for Applications
(RFA), Air, Climate, and Energy (ACE)
Centers. EPA is seeking to support
research that will systematically inform
policy makers at state and local levels
regarding the deployment of innovative
approaches to enable implementation of
air pollution control strategies. This
research aims to achieve the greatest
public health benefits possible by reducing exposure to harmful air pollution.
This program features four main research
topics: Enhancing understanding of spatial and temporal differences in individual pollutants and pollutant mixtures
within and across different areas (including urban areas, or between urban, suburban, and rural areas) or geographic
regions; identifying and improving the
characterization of the most important
factors contributing to regional or city-tocity differences or similarities in air pollution and health impacts beyond topography and meteorology; improving the
ability to understand and project how
these contributing factors and differences
may change over the next one to several
decades; and advancing scientific knowledge and tools needed to develop robust
strategies for air pollution control to
improve public and environmental health
under a variety of conditions, including
consideration of approaches for addressing climate change preparedness. EPAG2014-STAR-J1
URL: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2014/2014star-ace.html
Deadline: 9/4/2014
AGRICULTURE
18-4 2014 Farmers Market Promotion
Program Grants (USDA)
The Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS) has announced the availability of
competitive grant funds in fiscal year
(FY) 2014 to be awarded through the
Farmers Market Promotion Program
(FMPP). The goals of FMPP grants are to
increase domestic consumption of and
access to locally and regionally produced
agricultural products, and to develop new
market opportunities for farm and ranch
operations serving local markets by
developing, improving, expanding, and
providing outreach, training, and technical assistance to, or assisting in the development, improvement, and expansion of
domestic farmers’ markets, roadside
stands, community-supported agriculture
programs, agritourism activities, and
other direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities. An applicant is limited
to no more than one grant in a grant-funding year. USDA-AMS-FMPP-2014 (GG
5/8/2014)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/viewopportunity.html?oppId=254875
Deadline: Internal 5/20/2014; Proposals
6/20/2014
18-5 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 and
conservation of our Nation’s water
resources through research, education,
and extension activities. Projects funded
through this program will work to solve
water resource problems by advancing
and disseminating the knowledge base
available to agricultural, rural, and urbanizing communities. Funded projects
should lead to science-based decision
making and management practices that
improve the quality and quantity of the
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Nation’s water resources in agricultural,
rural, and urbanizing watersheds. NIFA is
soliciting applications for the NIWQP
under the following areas: Farm, Landscape and Watershed Scale Projects; and
Synthesis Project. USDA-NIFA-ICGP004527 (GG 5/2/2014)
URL: http://nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/
water_quality.html
Deadline: 7/3/2014
ARTS & HUMANITIES
18-6 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 traditions of the past;
the formation of human beings according
to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals
derived from that 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 the methods of humanistic
disciplines. The Foundations welcomes
projects that cross the boundaries between
humanistic disciplines and explore the
connections between the humanities and
other areas of scholarship. (TGA 5/14)
URL: http://delmas.org
Deadline: 8/1/2014, 11/1/2014, 2/1/2015,
5/1/2015
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
18-7 Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office: Academic Research Initiative
(ARI) (DHS)
The ARI Program has two primary objectives: 1) Engage the academic community
to advance fundamental knowledge for
nuclear and radiological threat detection,
nuclear forensics and related sciences
with emphasis on fundamental research to
solve long-term, high-risk challenges and
2) Develop human capital for the nuclear
science and engineering profession. Further, the program works to sustain a longterm commitment to basic research in this
field and coordinates research efforts
across the federal government. The ARI
program seeks novel cross-cutting
research that will enhance the nation’s
ability to detect and interdict nuclear or
radiological material outside of regulatory
control, and otherwise help prevent
nuclear or radiological attacks. This
year’s Solicitation topics will emphasize
original early-stage research which demonstrates quantifiable improvements over
existing methods. DHS-14-DN-077-ARI001 (GG 5/8/2014)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/viewopportunity.html?oppId=254879
Deadline: 6/13/2014
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
18-8 Prostate Cancer Research
Program (DOD)
The Prostate Cancer Research Program’s
(PCRP’s) FY14 mission is to find and
fund research that will lead to the elimination of death from prostate cancer and
enhance the well-being of men experiencing the impact of the disease. Applicants
are strongly encouraged to propose
research that addresses the Overarching
Challenges and Focus Areas: 1) Develop
better tools for early detection of clinically relevant disease; 2) Distinguish
aggressive from indolent disease in men
newly diagnosed with prostate cancer; 3)
Develop effective treatments and address
mechanisms of resistance for men with
high-risk or metastatic prostate cancer; 4)
Develop strategies to optimize physical
and mental health of men with prostate
cancer. Focus areas are: 1) Biomarker
Development; 2) Genetics; 3) Imaging; 4)
Mechanisms of Resistance; 5) Survivorship and Palliative Care; 6) Therapy; and
7) Tumor and Microenvironment Biology.
Funding is available for Idea Development Awards and Synergistic Idea Development Awards.
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil
Deadline: 6/12/2014
18-9 Environmental Contributors to
Autism Spectrum Disorder (R21)
(NIH) (HHS)
The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate
and foster research to 1) identify environmental contributors to risk and expression
of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and
2) understand how environmental factors
impact the underlying biologic processes
implicated in ASD. The R21 grant mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects
by providing support for the early and
conceptual stages of these projects. A
range of approaches are being encouraged
by this FOA, from basic mechanistic
studies using in vitro and in vivo model
systems to studies that add new data collection activities and/or make use of
extant data or biospecimens in existing
human studies. There is a companion RFP
for the R01 grant mechanism. PAR-14202 (NIHG 5/2/2014)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-14-202.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 7/26/2014,
7/26/2015; Applications 8/26/2014, 8/26/
2015
advance. Thus, the research conducted at
these Centers will entail substantial risk,
balanced by outstanding scientific and
management plans and very high potential payoff. A CEGS will focus on the
development of novel technological or
computational methods for the production
or analysis of comprehensive data sets, or
on a particular genome-scale biomedical
problem, or on other ways to develop and
use genomic approaches for understanding biological systems and/or significantly furthering the application of
genomic knowledge, data and methods
towards clinical applications. PAR-14195 (NIHG 5/2/2014)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-14-195.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/2/2014, 4/
20/2015; Applications 7/2/2014, 5/20/
2015
INTERNATIONAL
18-11 Fellowship Competition (AIIS)
The American Institute of Indian Studies
is a cooperative, non-profit organization
of seventy-eight American colleges and
universities that supports the advancement of knowledge and understanding of
India, its people, and culture. AIIS welcomes applicants from a wide variety of
disciplines. In addition to applicants in
the Humanities and Social Science AIIS
encourages applicants in the fields such as
Development Studies, Natural Resources
Management, Public Health, and
Regional Planning. Applications to conduct research in India may be made in the
following categories: Junior Research
Fellowships for dissertation research,
Senior Research Fellowships, Senior
Scholarly/Professional Development Fellowships, and Senior Performing and Creative Arts Fellowships.
URL: http://www.indiastudies.org/
Deadline: 7/1/2014
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
18-10 Centers of Excellence in
Genomic Science (CEGS) (RM1) (NIH)
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
The Centers of Excellence in Genomic
Sciences (CEGS) program establishes
academic Centers for advanced genome
research. Each CEGS grant supports a
multi-investigator, interdisciplinary team
to develop innovative genomic
approaches to address a particular biomedical problem. A CEGS project will
address a critical issue in genomic science
or genomic medicine, proposing a solution that would be a very substantial
Development Director
Beverly Page
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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