Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 7, 2014
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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
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin or by
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Vol. 23, No. 9
Change, Sustainable Energy, Childhood
Obesity, and Food Safety. USDA-NIFAWAMS-004491 (GG 3/4/14)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/
womenandminoritiesinsciencetechnology
engineeringandmathematics.cfm
Deadline: 4/28/2014
9-2 Grant opportunities from the
Gates Foundation (Gates)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
and its funding partners in the Grand
Challenges family of grant programs are
inviting innovators to apply for a grant
opportunity. Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health
and development solutions, is now
accepting grant proposals for its latest
application round. Proposals are being
accepted online until May 6, 2014 on the
following topics: New Ways of Working
Together: Integrating Community-Based
Interventions; Explore New Ways to
Measure Fetal and Infant Brain Development; Innovations in Feedback &
Accountability Systems for Agriculture
Development; Inciting Healthy Behaviors: nudge, leapfrog, distrupt, reach;
Novel Enabling Tools and Models Supporting the Development of Interventions
for Severe Diarrhea and Enteric Dysfunction.
URL: http://www.grandchallenges.org/
Explorations
Deadline: 5/6/2014
GENERAL
ARTS & HUMANITIES
9-1 Women and Minorities in Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS)
(NIFA)
NIFA requests applications for the Women
and Minorities in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS) for FY 2014 to support
research and Extension activities that
increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas
who will pursue and complete a postsecondary degree in science, technology,
engineering or mathematics (STEM) disciplines. NIFA is soliciting applications for
the WAMS under the following areas:
STEM-related Priority Areas within the
2008 Farm Bill: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health
and Production and Animal Products;
Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health;
Renewable Energy, Natural Resources,
and Environment; Agricultural Systems
and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Similarly,
NIFA’s mission is to direct food and agricultural sciences research, education, and
Extension programs toward addressing
STEM-related Priority Areas in: Global
Food Security and Hunger, Climate
9-3
Challenge Grants (NEH)
NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions
and organizations secure long-term support for their humanities programs and
resources. Through these awards, many
organizations and institutions have been
able to increase their humanities capacity
and secure the permanent support of an
endowment. Grants may be used to
establish or enhance endowments or
spend-down funds that generate expendable earnings to support and enhance
ongoing program activities. Challenge
grants may also provide capital directly
supporting the procurement of long-lasting objects, such as acquisitions for
archives and collections, the purchase of
equipment, and the construction or renovation of facilities needed for humanities
activities. Funds spent directly must be
shown to bring long-term benefits to the
institution and to the humanities more
broadly. Grantee institutions may also
expend up to 10 percent of total grant
funds (federal funds plus matching
funds) to defray costs of fundraising to
meet the NEH challenge. Because of the
matching requirement, these NEH grants
also strengthen the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
challenge/challenge-grants
Deadline: 5/1/2014
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
9-4 FY 15 Communications and
Networking Discovery and Invention
(DoD)
The current evolution of naval warfighting from a platform-centric to a networkcentric paradigm depends on successfully
meeting the implied need for significantly
enhanced communications and networking capabilities of C2, sensor and weapon
systems. These systems are deployed on a
variety of platforms and users, both
manned and un manned, operating under
challenging battlefield conditions (lack of
infrastructure, mobility, spectrum, interference, multipath, atmospherics, size/
weight/power constraint, etc.) in different
environments (space, terrestrial and
undersea). The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Code
312 is to overcome these challenges by
developing measurable advances in technology that can directly enable and
enhance end -to-end connectivity and
quality-of -service for mission-critical
information exchange among such widely
dispersed naval, joint, and coalition
forces. The vision is to provide high
throughput, robust communications and
networking to ensure all warfighters—
from the operational command to the tactical edge—have access to the data, information, and resources necessary to make
timely, accurate decisions while performing their assigned missions or tasks.
ONRBAA 14-007 (GG 2/30/14)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/contractsgrants/funding-opportunities/broadagency-announcements.aspx
Deadline: 6/30/2014
9-5 Fiscal Year (FY) 14 Brownfields
Training, Research, and Technical
Assistance Grants Guidelines (EPA)
This notice announces the availability of
funds and solicits proposals from eligible
entities, including nonprofit organizations, to conduct research, or provide
technical assistance to communities facing brownfields cleanup and revitalization
challenges. Focus areas of this announcement include: 1) technical assistance to
environmental workforce development
and job training grantees, 2) technical
assistance on the integration of environmental justice and equitable development
for brownfields-impacted communities,
3) research on the benefits of brownfields
redevelopment, and 4) technical assis-
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tance on brownfields financing and economic development strategies to
brownfields-impacted communities. EPAOSWER-OBLR-14-02 (GG 2/20/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 4/18/2014
9-6 Special Grant Program in the
Chemical Sciences (Dreyfus)
The Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences provides funding for innovative projects in any area consistent with
the Foundation’s broad objective to
advance the chemical sciences. The program is open to institutions in the States,
Districts, and Territories of the United
States of America that have a focus in the
chemical sciences. Institutions include
schools, colleges and universities, as well
as other not-for-profit organizations, such
as scientific societies and science museums.(TGA 3/14)
URL: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/
special_grant_program_chemical.shtml
Deadline: Inquiry 6/5/2014
The AREA program (R15) will enable
qualified scientists to receive support for
research projects. These grants are
intended to create a research opportunity
for scientists at institutions that have not
previously been major recipients of NIH
grant awards. K-State is eligible to apply.
It is anticipated that investigators supported under the AREA program will
benefit from the opportunity to conduct
independent research; that the grantee
institution will benefit from a research
environment strengthened through AREA
grants and furthered by participation in
the diverse extramural programs of the
NIH; and that students at recipient institutions will benefit from exposure to and
participation in scientific research in the
biomedical and behavioral sciences.
Companion Funding Opportunities are
PA-14-142, R01 Research Project Grant
and PA-14-141, R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant. PA-14-140
(NIHG 3/7/14)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-14-140.html
Deadline: 6/25/2014, 10/25/2014, 2/25/
2015
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
9-7 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative - Childhood Obesity
Prevention (USDA)
The FY 2014 AFRI Childhood Obesity
Prevention RFA calls for a focus on
behavioral and environmental approaches
to obesity prevention in children, but the
particular issues to be addressed and how
to address them will be developed by the
investigator(s). The Childhood Obesity
Prevention RFA focuses on the societal
challenge to end child obesity. In the
Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge
Area RFA, specific program areas are
designed to achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and
adolescents. Project types supported by
AFRI within this RFA include multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and
Extension projects and FASE grants.
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-004492
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/17/2014;
Applications 6/19/2014
9-8 Community Partnerships to
Advance Research (CPAR) (R15)
(NIH)
This funding opportunity announcement
encourages researchers to partner with
communities using Community Engaged
Research (CEnR) methodologies that will
enhance relationships leading to better
interventions and positive health outcomes. To partner with a community
entity on health issues that is of mutual
concern, such as but not limited to: Interventions/programs for health promotion/
prevention; Interventions/programs leading to self-management in chronic conditions; Programs that target self or
symptom management; and Examine
ways to enhance or implement sustainable
health programs in community settings.
9-9 Research Opportunities for
Flight Experiments in Space Biology
(NASA)
This NASA Research Announcement
(NRA) solicits hypothesis-driven spaceflight research in Space Biology (SB) to
be conducted on ISS. NASA SB experiments have one or more of the following
primary goals: 1) to effectively use microgravity and the other characteristics of the
space environment to enhance our understanding of basic biological processes; 2)
to develop the scientific and technological
foundations for a safe, productive human
presence in space for extended periods
and in preparation for exploration; and 3)
to apply this knowledge and technology
to improve our nation’s competitiveness,
education, and the quality of life on Earth.
NASA SB experiments will be designed
to discover how space flight affects a
diverse group of microorganisms, plants,
and animals; study the effects of gravity
(g) across the g-spectrum, i.e., from
micro- to hyper-gravity; and characterize
the biological effects of radiation, magnetic fields, and the interaction among
species in the unusual environments of
space and spacecraft. In this NRA, selection preference will be given to proposals
developed by teams of investigators that
provide a multifaceted, integrated project
to understand some aspect of adaptation
to space by biological systems.
NNH14ZTT002N (GG 2/28/14)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
external/
Deadline: Step 1 3/28/2014
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
9-10 Fulbright Scholar Program
(CIES)
The core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
provides approximately 800 teaching and/
or research grants to U.S. faculty and
experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
Grants are available in over 125 countries
worldwide. Grant lengths vary in duration: applicants can propose projects for a
period of two to 12 months, as specified
in the award description. In addition, flexible options may be available.
URL: http://www.cies.org/program/corefulbright-us-scholar-program
Deadline: 8/1/2014
SOCIAL SCIENCES
9-11 NIJ FY 14 Research and
Evaluation on Firearms and Violence
(NIJ)
This solicitation seeks applications for
research on firearms and violence such as,
but not limited to, gun violence prevention programs based on general prevention theory, the effects of criminal justice
interventions on reducing gun violence,
improving data systems for studying gun
violence, illicit gun markets, and the
effects of firearm policies and legislation
on public safety. NIJ-2014-3746 (GG 3/5/
14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 6/3/2014
9-12 NIJ FY Building and Enhancing
Criminal Justice ResearcherPractitioner Partnerships (NIJ)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking applications for funding criminal justice research and evaluation that includes
a researcher-practitioner partnership component. This program furthers the Department’s mission by sponsoring research to
provide objective, independent, evidencebased knowledge and tools to meet the
challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the state and local levels. NIJ2014-3724 (GG 2/28/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 5/28/2014
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
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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