Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 4, 2014
Program Information
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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
13-1, 13-2, 13-3, 13-9) 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/
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Notice
13-1 Cultivating Cultures for Ethical
STEM (CCE STEM) (NSF)
This program’s entry in last week’s Funding Bulletin (12-2) failed to include a
notice of limited submission and an internal deadline. An eligible organization may
submit only one proposal as the lead organization.)
Deadline: Internal 4/18/14; Proposals 6/
17/14
GENERAL
13-2 William T. Grant Scholars
Program (Grant)
The William T. Grant Scholars Program
supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have
demonstrated success in conducting highquality research and are seeking to further
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develop and broaden their expertise.
Candidates are nominated by a supporting institution and must submit five-year
research plans that demonstrate creativity, intellectual rigor, and a commitment
to continued professional development.
Applicants must: submit a project that is
consistent with the Foundation’s Current
Research Interests; address issues that
have compelling relevance for theory,
and policies or practices, affecting youth
ages 5 to 25 in the United States or a vulnerable subpopulation of those youth;
and have received their terminal degree
within seven years of submitting their
application. Major divisions of an institution (i.e., College of Arts & Sciences)
may nominate only one applicant each
year. (TGA 4/14)
URL: http://
www.wtgrantfoundation.org/
funding_opportunities/fellowships/
william_t__grant_scholars
Deadline: Internal 5/9/2014; Nominations 7/9/2014
13-3 NIH Blueprint Program for
Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity
through Undergraduate Research
Education Experiences (R25) (NIH)
The NIH Research Education Program
(R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The
goal of this NIH Blueprint R25 program
is to support educational activities that
enhance the diversity of the biomedical,
behavioral and clinical research workforce. To this end, this funding opportunity announcement encourages the
development of creative educational
activities with a primary focus on
Research Experiences, Courses for Skills
Development, and Mentoring Activities.
The fully integrated research experiences, courses for skills development,
and mentoring activities should prepare
undergraduate students from diverse
backgrounds nationally underrepresented
in biomedical and behavioral sciences to
enter Ph.D. degree programs in the neurosciences. To accomplish this goal, this
initiative will provide institutional
awards to develop neuroscience research
education programs consisting of collaborative partnerships integrated across different educational institution types. Each
collaborative research education partnership must have the following components: a) a research-intensive institution
that has an established neuroscience or
neuroscience-related program, b) partnership between institution(s) that have a
substantial enrollment of undergraduates
from populations nationally underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral
sciences, c) integrated curriculum/academic enhancement and research training
activities designed to increase participants’ preparation to enter doctoral programs in the neurosciences, and d) well-
described plans to provide early communication and interaction between participating students and graduate neuroscience
programs across the country. Only one
application per institution is allowed.
RFA-NS-14-010 (NIHG 3/28/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-NS-14-010.html
Deadline: Internal 4/18/2014; Letters of
Intent 4/28/2014; Applications 5/28/
2014
AGRICULTURE
13-4 United Sorghum Checkoff
Program Request for Pre-Proposals
(USCP)
The United Sorghum Checkoff Program
(USCP) is soliciting pre-proposals for targeted research and education in Strategic
Program Areas—Crop Improvement,
Renewables, High Value Markets. Preference will be given to proposals which
address the highlighted priority area that
the Sorghum Checkoff has identified as
the most important to current growth of
the U.S. sorghum industry. Preference
will also be given to any proposal which
can demonstrate direct commercialization
linkages, addresses business development plans, construct market development or impact analysis, and proposals
which involve a private industry partner.
Email: http://sorghumcheckoff.com
Deadline: Preproposals 5/1/2014
ARTS & HUMANITIES
13-5 Digital Projects for the Public
(NEH)
NEH’s Division of Public Programs supports activities that engage millions of
Americans in understanding significant
humanities works and ideas. At the center
of every NEH-funded public humanities
project is a core set of humanities ideas
developed by scholars, matched to imaginative formats that bring humanities ideas
alive for people of all ages and all walks
of life. The Digital Projects for the Public
program supports projects such as websites, mobile applications, games, and virtual environments that significantly
contribute to the public’s engagement
with humanities ideas. Projects must be
analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship in a discipline such as
history, religion, anthropology, jurisprudence, or art history. Digital Projects for
the Public grants support projects that are
largely created for digital platforms.
20140611-MD (GG 3/31/14)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/
digital-projects-the-public
Deadline: 6/11/2014
13-6 Bridging Cultures through Film
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
(NEH)
The Bridging Cultures through Film:
International Topics program supports
films that examine international themes
and subjects in the humanities. The films
are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring
countries and cultures outside of the
United States. The Division of Public Programs encourages innovative nonfiction
storytelling that presents multiple points
of view in creative formats. At the center
of every NEH-funded film is a core set of
humanities ideas developed by scholars,
matched to imaginative formats that bring
the humanities alive for people of all ages
and all walks of life. The proposed film
must be analytical and deeply grounded in
humanities scholarship. It may be as short
as thirty minutes or as long as a featurelength film. 20140611-TW (GG 3/31/14)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/
bridging-cultures-through-filminternational-topics
Deadline: 6/11/2014
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
13-7 Geomorphology and Land-use
Dynamics (NSF)
Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics
supports innovative research into processes that shape and modify landscapes
over a variety of length and time scales.
The program encourages research that
investigates quantitatively the coupling
and feedback among such processes, their
rates, and their relative roles, especially in
the contexts of variation in climatic, biologic, and tectonic influences and in light
of changes due to human impact. NSF 14550 (GG 4/2/14)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14550/nsf14550.htm
Deadline: 7/16/2014, 1/16/2014
13-8 Technology Incubator for Wind
Energy Innovations (DOE)
The Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy (EERE)’s Wind & Water Power
Technologies Office (WWPTO) seeks to
fund R&D in technology approaches and
solutions that are not currently represented in the Offices Multi-Year Program
Plan and/or existing project portfolio in a
meaningful or significant way. This Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) represents an opportunity to
support novel and non-incremental technology approaches and to ultimately facilitate identification and future inclusion of
highly promising, emerging technology
approaches into the Office’s Multi-Year
Program Plans and future program portfolios. The FOA will accept applications for
any and all ideas that have a significant
potential to advance the mission of the
Wind Program. DE-FOA-0000978 (GG
4/2/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: Concept Paper 4/28/2014;
Applications 5/30/2014
13-9 Pathway to Stop Diabetes
Research Awards (ADA)
The American Diabetes Association’s
Pathway to Stop Diabetes will transform
diabetes research by identifying brilliant
scientists and providing them with the
resources needed for breakthrough discoveries. Initiator Awards, for post-doctoral talent on the cusp of their research
careers, provide the means to establish
independent careers, hire staff and —
most importantly — focus completely on
conducting their innovative research. The
two-part funding is designed to support
the transition from trainee to independent
investigator. Accelerator Awards, for scientists early in their careers and for scientists interested in applying their expertise
in a new field, provide the freedom to
continue their work undistracted. This in
turn will help to accelerate their research
in those potentially novel areas that hold
high promise for a breakthrough in the
fight to Stop Diabetes. Institutions may
nominate a maximum of one investigator
per grant cycle. The nomination can be in
either Pathway award type: Initiator or
Accelerator.
URL: http://www.diabetes.org/pathway/
Deadline: Internal 5/1/2014; Applications 7/1/2014
13-10 Biology of Manual Therapies
(R01) (NIH)
This FOA encourages research grant
applications (R01) from institutions/organizations that propose to investigate the
basic science and mechanisms of action
underlying the neurophysiological (especially the central nervous system
responses), immunological, endocrinological and/or biomechanical consequences of manual therapies, such as
spinal manipulation, mobilization and
massage therapy. PA-14-168 (NIHG 3/28/
14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-168.html
Deadline: 6/5/2014, 10/5/2014, 2/5/2014
and research development. W81XWH14-BCRP-BREAKTHROUGH12
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: Preapplications 5/14/2014;
Applications 5/28/2014
SOCIAL SCIENCES
13-12 OJJDP FY 2014 High-Risk
Youth Mentoring Research (DOJ)
Mentoring has been shown to be an effective intervention for youth; however,
more research is needed to understand
how youth at high risk for delinquency
are best supported through mentoring.
The High-Risk Youth Mentoring
Research program will support research
and evaluations to further examine how
certain characteristics, components, and
practices of mentoring programs can best
support youth who are at particularly high
risk for delinquency. A recent systematic
review suggests that mentoring programs
can have a positive effect on reducing
delinquency for high-risk youth; however,
it is less clear what key features, program
design, and theories and processes were
involved in the mentoring programs. For
example, a youth’s risk profile may lead
to mentors reporting challenges and may
contribute to match closures. Understanding not just the impact of a program, but
the key programmatic elements of that
program design is important to advancing
effective, evidence-based practice in mentoring. This program will support
research that investigates how a mentoring program’s design, underlying conceptual and theoretical framework, and key
program elements may moderate and
mediate mentoring program effectiveness
for youth at high risk for delinquency.
OJJDP-2014-3788 (GG 3/24/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 5/12/2014
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
13-11 DoD Breast Cancer
Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2
(DoD)
The BCRP seeks to accelerate highimpact research with clinical relevance,
encourage innovation and stimulate creativity, and facilitate productive collaborations. The critical components of this
award mechanism are: Impact: Research
supported by the Breakthrough Award
will have the potential for a major impact
and accelerate progress toward ending
breast cancer. The impact may be nearterm or long-term, but must be significant
and move beyond an incremental
advancement. Applications must articulate the pathway to making a clinical
impact for individuals with, or at risk for,
breast cancer, even if clinical impact is
not an immediate outcome. Research
Scope: Research proposed under this
award mechanism may be small- to largescale projects, at different stages of idea
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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