Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 28, 2014
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single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
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Research, is the internal coordinator for
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin (FB
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GENERAL
12-1 National Science Foundation
Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
(NSF)
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development of bold, new, potentially
transformative, and scalable models for
STEM graduate training that ensure that
graduate students develop the skills,
knowledge, and competencies needed to
pursue a range of STEM careers. The NRT
program initially has one priority research
theme - Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (DESE); in addition, proposals are
encouraged on any other crosscutting,
interdisciplinary theme. In either case, proposals should identify the alignment of
project research themes with national
research priorities and the need for innovative approaches to train graduate students
in those areas. NRT projects should
develop evidence-based, sustainable
approaches and practices that substantially improve STEM graduate education
for NRT trainees and for STEM graduate
students broadly at an institution. NRT
emphasizes the development of competen-
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cies for both research and researchrelated careers. Strategic collaborations
with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government
agencies, museums, and academic partners that enhance research quality and
impacts and that facilitate development
of technical and transferable professional
skills are encouraged. Creation of sustainable programmatic capacity at institutions is an expected outcome.
Proposals accordingly are expected to
describe how institutions will support the
continuation and institutional-level scaling of effective training elements after
award closure. An institution can submit
2 applications, one of which must be in
DESE. NSF 14-548
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14548/nsf14548.htm
Deadline: Internal 4/20/2014; Letters
of Intent 5/20/2014; Proposals 6/24/
2014
related to the sources of perturbations that
propagate upward from the lower atmosphere as well as to solar radiation and
particle inputs from above. The activities
within this program combine observations, theory and modeling. NSF 14-545
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14545/nsf14545.htm
Deadline: 7/17/2014
12-4 Scalable Nanomanufacturing
(SNM) (NSF)
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
announces a fourth year of a program on
collaborative research and education in
the area of scalable nanomanufacturing,
including the long-term societal implications of the large-scale implementation of
nanomanufacturing innovations. This
program is in response to and is a component of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Signature Initiative: Sustainable
Nanomanufacturing - Creating the Industries of the Future. Although many nanofabrication techniques have demonstrated
the ability to fabricate small quantities of
nanomaterials, nanostructures and nanodevices for characterization and evaluation purposes, the emphasis of the
scalable nanomanufacturing program is
on research to overcome the key scientific
and technological barriers that prevent the
production of useful nanomaterials, nanostructures, devices and systems at an
industrially relevant scale, reliably, and at
low cost and within environmental, health
and safety guidelines. Competitive proposals will incorporate three elements in
their research plans: A persuasive case
that the nanomaterials, nanostructures,
devices or systems to be produced have or
are likely to have sufficient demand to
justify eventual scale-up; A clearly identified set of research issues for science and
engineering solutions that must be
addressed to enable the production of
high quality nano-enabled products at low
cost; and a compelling research plan with
clear research objectives and approaches
to overcome the identified research
issues. The mode of support is Nanoscale
Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT).
NSF 14-544
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14544/nsf14544.htm
Deadline: 6/19/2014
12-3 Coupling, Energetics, and
Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
(CEDAR) (NSF)
12-5 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
(NSF/DHS/DOT)
CEDAR is a broad-based, communityguided, upper atmospheric research program. The goal is to understand the
behavior of atmospheric regions from the
middle atmosphere upward through the
thermosphere and ionosphere into the
exosphere in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional
and global scales. These processes are
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and
depend upon, the seamless integration of
computational algorithms and physical
components. Advances in CPS will
enable capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability that will far exceed the simple
embedded systems of today. CPS technology will transform the way people inter-
12-2 Cultivating Cultures for Ethical
STEM (CCE STEM) (NSF)
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM
(CCE STEM) funds research projects
that identify factors that are efficacious
in the formation of ethical STEM
researchers in all the fields of science
and engineering that NSF supports. CCE
STEM solicits proposals for research that
explores the following: ‘What constitutes
ethical STEM research and practice?
Which cultural and institutional contexts
promote ethical STEM research and
practice and why?’ Do certain labs have
a ‘culture of academic integrity’? What
practices contribute to the establishment
and maintenance of ethical cultures and
how can these practices be transferred,
extended to, and integrated into other
research and learning settings? Successful proposals will include a comparative
dimension, either between or within
institutional settings that differ along
these or other factors. NSF 14-546
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14546/nsf14546.htm
Deadline: 6/17/2014, 2/17/2015, 2/16/
2016
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act with engineered systems—just as the
Internet has transformed the way people
interact with information. New smart CPS
will drive innovation and competition in
sectors such as agriculture, energy, transportation, building design and automation, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Despite significant inroads into CPS technology in recent years, we do not yet have
a mature science to support systems engineering of high-confidence CPS, and the
consequences are profound. Traditional
analysis tools are unable to cope with the
full complexity of CPS or adequately predict system behavior. The goal of the CPS
program is to develop the core system science needed to engineer complex cyberphysical systems upon which people can
depend with high confidence. In 2014,
NSF is working closely with multiple
agencies of the federal government,
including the U.S. Department of Homeland (DHS) and U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) to identify basic
research needs in CPS common across
multiple application domains, along with
opportunities for accelerated transition to
practice. NSF 14-542
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14542/nsf14542.htm
Deadline: 6/2/2014, 12/15/2014
HEALTH & LIFES SCIENCES
12-6 AKC Canine Health Foundation
2014 Special Emphasis Request for
Proposals (CHF)
This Special Emphasis Request for Proposals supports Development of an Accurate Diagnostic Assay for Canine
Hypothyroidism to support veterinarians
in improving diagnosis of canine
hypothyroidism. It also supports an Epilepsy Research Initiative. In response to
donor concern, the AKC Canine Health
Foundation is launching a major, two
phase research effort to better classify disease, understand the underlying mechanisms that predispose dogs to epilepsy,
and finally to introduce new drugs into
the canine epilepsy treatment pipeline.
URL: http://www.akcchf.org/research/
application-process/program-area-rfps/
Deadline: 5/13/2014
12-7 Feed and Feed Systems Research
for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus
and Delta Coronavirus (NPB)
A special Request for Proposals has been
issued by the National Pork Board. Key
feed research priorities for PEDv and
SdCV are 1) Conduct feed or feedstuff
contamination risk assessments at all
steps within the feed processing and
delivery chain. 2) Demonstrate virus survivability in feed and feed ingredients to
include the following variables: feed and
feed components, storage time and temperature, processing procedure and time
(meal or pellet), and moisture content. 3)
Investigate effectiveness and cost of feed
or feed ingredient treatments that could be
used to mitigate viral survival. 4) Develop
a viral dose-infection curve showing viral
dose by time and by temperature for both
pelleted and milled feed. 5) Develop diag-
nostic procedures for determining potential live virus contamination of feed or
feedstuffs.
URL: http://www.pork.org
Deadline: 4/2/2014
12-8 Modeling Immunity for
Biodefense (U19) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) solicits applications from single
institutions, or consortia of institutions, to
participate in a network of research
groups developing computational models
of immunity to infectious diseases other
than HIV/AIDS. Applications are sought
to develop, refine and validate computational models of immune responses 1)
during or following infection, and/or 2)
before and after vaccination against an
infectious disease, through an iterative
approach involving computational studies
and immunological experimentation.
RFA-AI-14-028 (NIHG 3/21/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-14-028.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/18/2014;
Applications 7/18/2014
SOCIAL SCIENCES
12-9 BJA FY 14 Visiting Fellows
Program (DOJ)
The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s mission is to provide leadership and services
through grant administration and criminal
justice policy development to support
local, state, and tribal justice strategies to
achieve safer communities. To address
emerging issues and build capacity to
improve the administration of criminal
justice, BJA launched the BJA Visiting
Fellows Program in FY2012. The intent is
to leverage state, local, or tribal subjectmatter expertise to assess areas of need
and to develop strategies, tools, and policies in collaboration with BJA staff for
the benefit of the criminal justice field.
By hosting up to five Fellows with FY
2014 funds, BJA will collaborate with
practitioners and researchers to build
capacity to address gaps in priority and
emerging issues in the criminal justice
field. BJA encourages potential applicants from a broad range of disciplines to
consider how their work in areas related
to crime and justice might support work
in the BJA Visiting Fellows Program’s
priority issue areas. BJA-2014-3841 (GG
3/27/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 6/14/2014
mentoring has been shown to be an effective intervention for youth, more research
is needed to understand how the unique
needs of youth who have incarcerated
parents are best supported through mentoring. Under this demonstration program, practitioners and researchers must
partner to enhance existing mentoring
programs to serve children of incarcerated
parents and evaluate the new approach.
OJJDP-2014-3794 (GG 3/25/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 5/27/2014
12-11 Translational Research to Help
Older Adults Maintain their Health
and Independence in the Community
(R21) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) invites applications using the R21
award mechanism for translational
research that moves evidence-based
research findings toward the development
of new interventions, programs, policies,
practices, and tools that can be used by
organizations in the community to help
older adults remain healthy and independent, productively engaged, and living in
their own homes and communities. The
goal of this FOA is to support translational research involving collaborations
between academic research centers and
community-based organizations with
expertise serving or engaging older adults
(such as city and state health departments,
city/town leadership councils, educational
institutions, workplaces, Area Agencies
on Aging, and organizations funded or
assisted by the Corporation for National
and Community Service) that will
enhance our understanding of practical
tools, techniques, programs and policies
that communities across the nation can
use to more effectively respond to needs
of the aging population. PA-14-159
(NIHG 3/21/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-159.html
Deadline: 6/16/2014, 10/16/2014, 2/16/
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
12-10 Practitioner-Researcher
Partnership Mentoring Children
(DOJ)
This demonstration program will support
a practitioner-researcher partnership to
develop and evaluate new mentoring
practices to serve the needs of youth
whose parents are incarcerated. Research
has shown that having an incarcerated
parent can present individual and environmental risks for the child and increase the
likelihood of negative outcomes. While
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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