Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
December 9, 2002
Program Information
To receive program descriptions and
application forms for funding opportunities, please contact Beverly Page,
Information Specialist, Research and
Sponsored Programs, phone: (785)5325045, e-mail: bbpage@ksu.edu
Vol. 11, No. 43
issued a Request for Proposals for the
Kansas Department of Health and Environment in the area: Safe Drinking Water
Training and Materials.
Deadline: AES 12/18/02; Applications
12/30/2002
ARTS & HUMANITIES
43-4 Access to Space: The Evolution
of an Idea and a Technology History
Book Preparation (NASA)
GENERAL
43-1 Major Research Instrumentation
Program (MRI) (NSF)
The Major Research Instrumentation Program encourages the development and
acquisition of research instrumentation for
shared use across academic departments,
among research institutions, and in concert
with private sector partners. The MRI program assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation
that is, in general, too costly for support
through other NSF programs. An institution may submit up to three proposals to
the MRI program, with up to two for
instrument acquisition. In addition, an
institution may be included as a member
of a legally recognized consortium submitting a separate proposal. Please notify Ted
Knous, Associate Vice Provost for
Research, 532-6195, tknous@ksu.edu, by
December 20 if you are interested in submitting an MRI proposal. (NSF 01-171)
revised 11/12/02
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/
getpub.cfm?nsf01171
Deadline: Internal, 12/20/02; 1/23/2003
NASA Headquarters plans to issue a
Request for Offer (RFO) to complete a
scholarly book-length manuscript on the
history of the access to space. The NASA
History Office will administer this
project and manage professional review
and oversight of the final publication of
the work. The scope of work shall
include, but is not limited to the preparation of a book-length manuscript on
Access to Space: The Evolution of an
Idea and Technology. The goal of this
research project is to produce an approximate 500-page manuscript history of the
views of scientists, engineers, policymakers, enthusiasts, and the general public regarding the various methods
conceivable and available to put humans
and payloads into space. RFOW-08072
(FBO 11/20/02)
URL: http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/
eps/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=04
Deadline: 12/20/2002
EDUCATION
43-5 The GLOBE Program (NASA)
43-2 Communicating Research to
Public Audiences (NSF)
Communicating Research to Public Audiences is a component of the Informal Science Education program (ISE) in the
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and
Informal Education. ISE projects provide
rich and stimulating contexts and experiences for individuals of all ages, interests,
and backgrounds to increase their appreciation for, and understanding of, science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) in out-of-school settings.
Requests for up to $75,000 will be considered to support projects that communicate
to public audiences the process and results
of current research that is being supported
by any NSF directorate through informal
science education activities, such as media
presentations, exhibits, or youth-based
activities. NSF 03-509
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/
getpub?nsf03509
Deadline: Open
43-3 Safe Drinking Water Training
and Materials (KDHE)
Kansas Department of Administration has
NASA intends to issue a Cooperative
Agreement Notice (CAN) to solicit proposals to assume responsibility in assisting NASA in the management of the
GLOBE Program (www.globe.gov),
which includes both worldwide implementation and coordination in the United
States. The purpose of the GLOBE Program is to improve student achievement
in science and mathematics and enable
student involvement in providing
research-quality environmental observations that would otherwise be unavailable to the Earth science community.
GLOBE currently operates in the United
States and 97 other countries and
involves measurements in the study of
the atmosphere, biosphere, and the water
and energy cycle. Offerors may propose
to be the Worldwide Implementation
Organization or the GLOBE US Country
Coordinator, or both. CAN-02-OES-02
(FBO 09/26/02)
URL: http://research.hq.nasa.gov/
code_y/code_y.cfm
Deadline: 1/2/2003
43-6 Improving Institutional
Research (AIR)
The Association for Institutional
Research (AIR), with support from the
National Center for Educational Statistics
(NCES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), invites proposals for the
2003 grant program, Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of the
program are to provide professional
development opportunities to doctoral
students, institutional researchers, educators, and administrators and to foster the
use of federal databases for institutional
research in postsecondary education. The
grant program has four components: 1)
Dissertation fellowships; 2) Research
grants; 3) Senior fellow proposals; and 4)
The Data Policy Institute, which will be
held in the Washington D.C. area from
June 16-26, 2003. The Institute includes
hands-on instruction on the NSF and
NCES postsecondary databases and seminars on postsecondary education policy.
URL: http://airweb.org
Deadline: 1/15/2003
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCE
43-7 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Engineer Research and Development
Center (ERDC) (DOD)
The Vicksburg Consolidated Contracting
Office is issuing a Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) for the U.S. Army
Engineer Research and Development
Center (ERDC). Research interests
include the broad fields of hydraulics,
dredging, instrumentation, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle
mobility, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures,
aquatic plants, water quality, dredged
material, treatment of hazardous waste,
wetlands, physical/mechanical/chemical
properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer
science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance,
materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and
heritage conservation, and ecological processes. BAA-FY-2003 (FBO 11/25/02)
URL: http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/
contract/other.asp
Deadline: 9/30/03
43-8 Joint Interagency Program on
Phytoremediation Research (DoE)
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the Office of
Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), announces its interest in receiving
applications for research grants in the
Joint Interagency Program on Phytoreme-
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diation Research. The DOE is cooperating with the National Science Foundation,
the Office of Naval Research, and the
Strategic Environmental Research and
Development Program in this joint
announcement. The focus of the program
is on basic research projects that address
the fundamental mechanisms of interactions between plants, microorganisms,
and contaminant chemicals in soils, sediments and water (potentially marine, estuarine, or freshwater systems) that result in
the degradation, extraction, volatilization, or stabilization of the contaminant.
Contaminants of interest include organic
pollutants, radionuclides and metals. DEFG01-03ER03-04
URL: http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/
grants/Fr03-04.html
Deadline: 1/15/2003
43-9 Information Technology for
Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (C4I)
Applications (AFRL)
The Information Directorate, Systems
Concepts and Applications Branch of the
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL),
Rome Research Site, is soliciting white
papers under this announcement for innovative technologies to support Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) applications. Of particular interest are technologies that can significantly reduce the
time between information technology
availability and its employment into the
research and development programs that
support legacy and new military electronic systems. Also of interest are commercial technologies that can improve the
functionality, performance, reliability,
longevity, and usability of these new and
legacy military electronic systems. BAA03-02-IFKA (FBO 11/29/02)
URL: http://www.afrl.af.mil
Deadline: 1/15/2003
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
43-10 Application of Exploratory/
Developmental Technologies to NIAIDFunded Research (NIH)
The National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID) solicits
exploratory/developmental (R21) grant
applications that facilitate the application
of innovative/emerging technologies or
established state-of-the-art technologies
to augment NIAID funded research
projects related to the study of infectious
diseases (bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic), HIV/AIDS, basic immunology, and
immune mediated conditions (autoimmunity, asthma, allergy, organ/tissue transplant rejection). Studies focused on
biodefense research are not eligible for
this announcement. PAS-02-160 (NIHG
08/30/03)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAS-02-160.html
Deadline: 1/2/2003, 5/1/2003, 9/1/2003
43-11 Genomes to Life (DOE)
The Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announces its
interest in receiving applications for
research in the following areas that support the Genomes to Life research program: 1) Technologies and strategies to
image individual proteins and multi-protein complexes in microbes and to image
complex microbial communities; 2) Technologies for the high-throughout synthesis of proteins and their biological
characterization; 3) Molecular tags to
identify individual proteins and to characterize multi-protein complexes in microbial cells; 4) High resolution, quantitative
microbial cells; 5) New genomic strategies and technologies for studying complex microbial communities; 6) Pathway
inference in prokaryotes; 7) Implications
for society, the law, education, and technology transfer; and 8) Other novel and
innovative technologies and research
strategies to address the core goals of the
Genomes to Life research program. DEFG01-03ER03-05
URL: http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/
grants/Fr03-05.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/7/2003,
Applications 4/22/2003
43-12 Role of Sleep and SleepDisordered Breathing in Metabolic
Syndrome (NIH)
The goal of this Request for Applications
(RFA) is to elucidate the relationship of
sleep deprivation and sleep-disordered
breathing (SDB) to characteristics of the
metabolic syndrome including obesity,
high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, insulin
resistance, and vascular inflammation.
Specific objectives include identifying the
pathophysiological mechanisms and
genetic risk factors liking sleep deprivation and SDB to these characteristics. HL03-008 (NIHG 10/18/02)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-03-008.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/13/2003,
Applications 2/11/2003
43-13 Strengthening the Organization
Capacity of Safety Net Providers (SF)
The Sunflower Foundation, whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for improving
the health of Kansas, has issued a new
Request for Proposals to provide funding
for strengthening the organizational
capacity of providers of care for the
state’s most vulnerable populations. Typically these are safety net providers that
deliver the majority of their health care
services to the uninsured, those covered
by Medicaid and other vulnerable clients,
providing care regardless of their
patients’ ability to pay for those services.
While the applicant must be a provider
organization, funding provides for consultant services in development of strategic planning, governance, fund
development, management, client management services, and evaluation.
URL: http://
www.sunflowerfoundation.org
Deadline: 12/31/2002
SOCIAL SCIENCES
43-14 Research in Broadcasting (NAB)
The National Association of Broadcasters
makes grants for research in broadcasting
to stimulate interest in broadcast research,
especially research on economic, business, social or policy issues of importance
to the U.S. commercial broadcast industry. The agenda is not simply the relationship between broadcasting and the public,
but also the creation and maintenance of
competitive and efficient industry structures and practices. The competition is
open to all full-time academic personnel
and graduate students.
URL: http://www.nab.org/research/
grants/grants.asp
Deadline: 1/27/2003
43-15 Economic Evaluation of Drug
Abuse Treatment and Prevention
Services for HIV/AIDS (NIH)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA) encourages research on the economics of HIV/AIDS services that are utilized in conjunction with drug abuse
treatment and/or prevention services.
Research to achieve these goals must
involve an economic component concerned with the economic behavior of
consumers, providers, government agencies, and third party payers. Applications
are sought that would employ the methods of economic analysis to pressing
problems in the financing and delivery of
HIV/AIDS services and drug abuse treatment and/or prevention services. PA-02164 (NIHG 09/13/02)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-02-164.html
Deadline: 1/2/2003, 5/1/2003, 9/1/2003
R.W. Trewyn, Vice Provost for Research &
Dean of the Graduate School
Ted Knous, Associate Vice Provost, Tech
Transfer and Research
Caron Boyce, Secretary
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice Provost, Graduate Research
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Lisa Duer, Carole Lovin, Rich
Doan, Rex Goff, Dawn Caldwell, Cheryl
Brooks
Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Research Compliance Officer
Beverly Nichols, Secretary
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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