Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
February 28, 2014
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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
8-1) 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:
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GENERAL
8-1 Nanotechnology Undergraduate
Education (NUE) in Engineering (NSF)
This solicitation aims at introducing
nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate
engineering education. The focus of the
FY 2014 competition is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to
devices and systems and/or on the societal,
ethical, economic and/or environmental
issues relevant to nanotechnology. Recognizing disciplinary differences and priorities, NSF’s investment in research and
development in undergraduate STEM education encompasses a range of approaches.
These approaches include: experiential
learning, assessment/metrics of learning
and practice, scholarships, foundational
education research, professional development/institutional change, formal and
informal learning environments, and
undergraduate disciplinary research. Both
individually and integrated in a range of
combinations, these approaches can lead to
outcomes including: developing the STEM
and STEM-related workforce, advancing
science, broadening participation in
STEM, educating a STEM-literate populace, improving K-12 STEM education,
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encouraging life-long learning, and
building capacity in higher education.
Only 1 proposal may be submitted by a
US academic institution as the lead institution with the following exception: A
US academic institution may submit a
second proposal if it is focused on the
societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology. NSF 14-541
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/
nsf14541/nsf14541.htm
Deadline: Internal 3/27/2014; Proposals 5/27/2014
formalize a meaningful professional relationship with a NASA researcher. Given
this expectation, it is vital investigators
and students travel to a NASA center if
selected for an award. Ideally the faculty
member, student, and research host
become co-participants in a promising
research effort. Indeed, the PDG award
should lead to sustained collaboration,
joint publications, and, most important,
future grant proposals. The KNEP PDG
program cannot support proposals augmenting existing funded or well-established research projects.
Email: scott.miller@wichita.edu
Deadline: 3/28/2014
8-2 Seed Research Initiation (SRI)
Grant (KS/NASA)
With the support from NASA and the
Kansas Board of Regents – the Kansas
NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is preparing to award a Seed Research Initiation (SRI) grant under the KNEP
Research Infrastructure Development
(RID) program. SRI grants are designed
to assist investigators in starting research
projects having a high probability for
sustained growth and value to NASA and
Kansas. A successful SRI grant leads to
productive collaborations, joint publications, and additional grant awards. A
direct impact on state economic development is also extremely desirable. Ultimately, the goal is to form infrastructure
development goals. Awards are competitive, with a strong emphasis on: Addressing NASA and Kansas interests
(required); Developing new, meaningful,
and sustained collaborations (in Kansas
and with NASA); Involving U.S. students, especially underrepresented and
underserved Kansas undergraduate and
graduate students, in research (required);
Strengthening collaboration among
industry, government agencies, and academia; Exploring new and unique R&D
opportunities; Generating publications
and future EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR
grant submissions; and Contributing to
Kansas’ economic development. The
KNEP SRI program cannot support proposals augmenting existing funded or
well-established research projects.
Email: scott.miller@wichita.edu
Deadline: 4/4/2014
8-3 Partnership Development Grant
(PDG) (KS/NASA)
With support from NASA and the Kansas Board of Regents - the Kansas NASA
EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is preparing
to award Partnership Development
Grants (PDG) to Kansas investigators,
under the KNEP Research Infrastructure
Development (RID) program. These
grants are intended to facilitate the development of beneficial and promising
NASA collaborations. The PDG recipient is expected to initiative, develop, and
AGRICULTURE
8-4 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative: Water for Agriculture
Challenge Area (USDA)
In FY 2014, NIFA initiates a new challenge area to address critical water
resources issues such as drought, excess
soil moisture, flooding, quality and others
in an agricultural context. Current
drought conditions in the west, as well as
drought conditions across the country in
recent years, make the initiation of this
new challenge area particularly timely.
Continued significant variations from the
historical rate of water supply, demand
and quality are projected to have major
impacts on agricultural, forest, and rangeland production systems. This new program area within AFRI will be
coordinated with and leverage efforts in
the Agricultural Production and Climate
Change and Sustainable Bioenergy challenge areas, and help solve critical water
problems in agricultural, rural and urbanizing areas across the United States. The
program will focus on developing solutions for water management that link
food, water, climate, energy, and environmental issues. Funding will be used to
develop management practices, technologies, and tools for farmers, ranchers, forest owners and managers, public
decision-makers, public and private managers and citizens to improve water
resource quantity and quality. NIFA’s
approach will link social, economic, and
behavioral sciences with traditional biophysical sciences and engineering to
address regional scale issues with shared
hydrological processes, and meteorological and basin characteristics. USDANIFA-AFRI-004468 (GG 2/24/14)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/17/2014;
Applications 8/13/2014
ARTS & HUMANITIES
8-5 Arts in Education Model
Development and Dissemination
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Program (ED)
The Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) program supports the enhancement,
expansion, documentation, evaluation,
and dissemination of innovative, cohesive
models that are based on research and
have demonstrated that they effectively—
1) integrate standards- based arts education into the core elementary and middle
school curriculum; 2) strengthen standards-based arts instruction in these
grades; and 3) improve students’ academic performance, including their skills
in creating, performing, and responding to
the arts. Projects funded through the
AEMDD program are intended to
increase the amount of nationally available information on effective models for
arts education that integrate the arts with
standards-based education programs. EDGRANTS-022514-001 (GG 2/25/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/27/2014;
Applications 4/28/2014
EDUCATION
8-6 See entry 8-1 for an
interdisciplinary opportunity that
includes Education. See also 8-5.
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
8-7 Measurement Science and
Engineering (MSE) Research Grant
Programs (NIST)
NIST is soliciting applications for financial assistance for Fiscal Year 2014 under
the following programs: 1) the Material
Measurement Laboratory; 2) the Physical
Measurement Laboratory; 3) the Engineering Laboratory; 4) Fire Research; 5)
the Information Technology Laboratory;
6) the NIST Center for Neutron Research;
7) the Center for Nano scale Science and
Technology; 8) the Office of Special Programs; and 9) the Associate Director for
Laboratory Programs. 2014-NIST-MSE01 (GG 2/24/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 6/1/2014
8-8 Bioenergy Technologies
Incubator (DOE)
The Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy (EERE) will issue, on
behalf of the Bioenergy Technologies
Office (BETO), a Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) entitled Bioenergy Technologies Incubator. BETO’s
mission is to engage in research and
development and demonstration at
increasing scale activities to transform
renewable biomass resources into commercially viable, high-performance biofuels, and bioproducts and biopower that
enable biofuel production. To accomplish
this mission, BETO develops a strategic
plan, or multi-year program plan, to identify the technical challenges and barriers
that need to be overcome. However,
BETO recognizes that there may be novel
and potentially disruptive ideas that do
not necessarily align well with BETO’s
current multi-year program plan yet still
meet the goals and mission of BETO. The
Bioenergy Incubator Program is intended
to identify these potentially impactful
technologies and solutions that are not
meaningfully addressed in BETO’s strategic plan or project portfolio. It is NOT
intended to fund projects that are incremental improvements to current products
or processes or for established work in
BETO’s strategic plan or current portfolio. The purpose of this Notice to provide
potential applicants advance notice that
the BETO intends to issue a FOA titled
Bioenergy Technologies Incubator. DEFOA-0000974 (GG 2/24/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: Concept Papers 3/31/2014;
Applications 5/23/2014
8-9 ROSES 2014: Emerging Worlds
(NASA)
The Emerging Worlds program solicits
research proposals to conduct scientific
investigations related to understanding
the formation and early evolution of our
Solar System. It covers the physics and
chemistry of events and materials that are
relevant to the formation of planets, satellites, and minor bodies, including dust,
and to the early history of these bodies.
NNH14ZDA001N-EW (GG 2/25/14)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Step 1 Proposals 3/31/2014
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
8-10 Pediatric Research Project
(Gerber)
The mission of the Gerber Foundation is
to enhance the quality of life of infants
and young children in nutrition, care, and
development. The foundation is accepting
concept papers for health and/or nutritionrelated research projects with the potential to make a significant impact on issues
affecting infants and young children from
birth to three years of age.The foundation
awards grants for research projects
focused on issues faced by care providers
that, when implemented, will improve
health, nutrition, and/or developmental
outcomes for infants and young children.
(PND 12/13/13)
URL: http://www.gerberfoundation.org/
pd-research/research-awards/
application-process
Deadline: Concept Papers 6/1/2014
gram seeks to advance knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and
culture in various societal contexts. The
Fellowship places particular emphasis on
crime, violence, and the administration of
criminal justice in diverse cultural contexts within the United States. Prospective
Fellows from all academic disciplines are
welcome to apply. However, Prospective
Fellows should: 1) Possess a terminal
degree in their respective field; 2) Have
received a terminal degree within the six
years prior to September 30, 2014; and 3)
Not have been awarded tenure by September 30, 2014. NIJ-2014-3763 (GG 2/
25/14)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 5/12/2014
8-13 Post-Ph.D Research Grants
(Wenner-Gren)
Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded
to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research
projects. The program contributes to the
Foundation’s overall mission to support
basic research in anthropology and to
ensure that the discipline continues to be a
source of vibrant and significant work
that furthers our understanding of humanity’s cultural and biological origins,
development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a
clear link to anthropological theory and
debates, and promises to make a solid
contribution to advancing these ideas.
The Foundation particularly welcomes
proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative
approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two
or more subfields. (TGA 2/14)
URL: http://www.wennergren.org/
programs/post-phd-research-grants
Deadline: 5/1/2014, 11/1/2014
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
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
8-11 See entry 8-1 for an
interdisciplinary opportunity that
includes Social Sciences
8-12 NIJ FY 14 W.E.B. Du Bois
Fellowship for Research on Race,
Gender, Culture, and Crime (DOJ)
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship
for Research on Race, Gender, Culture,
and Crime FY 2014. The Fellowship pro-
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