Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
February 7, 2003
EDUCATION
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
GENERAL
6-1
Vol. 12, No. 6
FDA and USRG Spring Deadline
The University Small Research Grants
program which provides seed funding for
research projects, and the President’s Faculty Development Awards program which
assists with the costs of invited speakers
attending international conferences, have
announced Spring deadlines for projects
beginning after July 1, 2003.
URL: http://www.ksu.edu/research/
funding
Deadline: 3/10/2003
6-2 Quantitative Systems
Biotechnology (QSB) (NSF)
This Quantitative Systems Biotechnology
solicitation seeks innovative high-risk/
high-return proposals, which combine indepth analysis of large-scale cellular biological systems, or their representations,
with creative software tools for the development of computer models as well as
complementary quantitative experimental
approaches. Multidisciplinary proposals
are encouraged. NSF 03-517
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/
getpub?nsf03517
Deadline: 3/18/2003
6-3 Informal Science Education (ISE)
(NSF)
ISE activities provide rich and stimulating
opportunities outside formal school settings where individuals of all ages, interests, and backgrounds increase their
appreciation and understanding of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM). The outcome of all ISE projects
is an informed citizenry that has access to
the ideas of science and engineering and
understands their role in enhancing their
quality of life and the health, prosperity,
welfare, and security of the nation. All ISE
projects have as their primary audience the
informal learner- from young child to
senior citizen. Informal learning presumes
voluntary participation as opposed to the
mandatory participation of a credited
school activity. NSF 03-511
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/
getpub?nsf03511
Deadline: Preliminary Proposals 3/3/
2003, 8/15/2003; Proposals 5/30/2003,
11/17/2003
6-4
Education Research (ED)
The Education Department’s new Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
announces seven grant competitions to
conduct research to increase knowledge
and understanding of education. In addition to four programs described in the
January 6 Funding Bulletin, IES seeks
research on:
• Teacher Quality Research (CFDA
#84.305M)- Deadline: March 26 for
optional letters of intent, April 18 for
applications
• Effective Mathematics Education
Research which focuses in FY 2003 on
middle-school mathematics education
(CFDA #84.305K)- Deadline: March 6
for optional letters of intent, April 18 for
applications
• Social and Character Development
Research which will support evaluation
of the effectiveness of interventions
designed to promote positive social and
character development, increase positive
behaviors, and reduce antisocial behaviors among elementary school children.
(CFDA #84.305L)- Deadline: March 6
for optional letters of intent, April 25 for
applications. (FR 01/06/03)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/offices/IES/
funding.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/6/2003;
Applications 4/18/2003, 4/25/2003
6-5 National Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics
Education Digital Library (NSDL)
(NSF)
Building on work supported under the
multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative,
this program aims to establish a national
digital library that will constitute an
online network of learning environments
and resources for science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM)
education at all levels. In FY2003, the
program will accept proposals in three
tracks: 1) Collections projects are
expected to aggregate and manage a subset of the library’s content within a
coherent theme or specialty; 2) Services
projects are expected to develop services
which support users, collection providers, and the Core Integration effort and
which enhance the impact, efficiency,
and value of the library; 3) Targeted
Research projects are expected to explore
specific topics that have immediate
applicability to collections, services and
other aspects of the development of the
digital library. NSF 03-530
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/
getpub?nsf03530
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/12/2003;
Applications 4/21/2003
ICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCE
6-6 Geoscience Education (GeoEd)
(NSF)
The Geoscience Education Program considers proposals that integrate geoscience
research and education. Awards are
intended to facilitate the initiation or
piloting of highly innovative educational
activities by geoscience researchers and
educators when support may not otherwise be available. Awards are intended to
provide start-up or proof of concept funding to enable projects to reach a level of
maturity to compete for longer-term funding from other sources. Proposals may
target any educational level: 1) graduate
and postdoctoral education and training
(outside the framework of basic NSF
research grants); 2) undergraduate education; 3) elementary and secondary education; and 4) education outside the
classroom. NSF 03-515
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/
getpub?nsf03515
Deadline: 3/17/2003
6-7 Natural and Accelerated
Bioremediation Research Program
(DOE)
The Energy Department’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research is
inviting applications under the Natural
and Accelerated Bioremediation Research
(NABIR) program to provide the fundamental science to guide cost-effective
bioremediation and long-term stewardship of radionuclides and metals at hazardous waste sites. The focus of the
program is on strategies leading to longterm immobilization and stabilization—
not removal—of wastes to reduce risks to
people and the environment. Major program elements are: biogeochemistry;
biotransformation; community dynamics
and microbial ecology; biomolecular science and engineering; assessment; and
bioremediation and its societal implications and concerns. Notice 03-13 (FR 12/
06/02)
URL: http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/
grants/FR03-13.html
Deadline: 3/11/2003
6-8 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Cycle 5 (NASA)
NASA and the Chandra X-ray Center are
pleased to announce the release of the
Cycle 5 Call for Proposals (CfP). The CfP
invites scientists to participate in the
Chandra X-ray Observatory’s science
program with proposals for new observations, for archival research projects or for
theory/modeling projects in support of
understanding Chandra data.
URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/proposer
Deadline: 3/14/2003
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
6-9 Hepatitis C: Natural History,
Pathogenesis, Therapy and Prevention
(NIH)
The National Institutes of Health invite
grant applications for both basic and clinical research in the areas of pathogenesis,
natural history, therapy and prevention of
hepatitis C. The focus of the RFA is to
elucidate the mechanism(s) responsible
for the acute and chronic injury caused by
hepatitis C, define the factors that determine the course and long-term outcome
of chronic infection, including a search
for markers of fibrosis progression, and
establish the basis for resistance to the
current therapeutic regimens followed by
focused efforts to improve the response
rate with better and less toxic drugs. Since
the most effective way to prevent the liver
disease caused by hepatitis C is through
the development of a preventive vaccine,
this RFA also supports the submission of
applications that aim at generating a vaccine for hepatitis C. DK-03-011 (NIHG
01/10/03)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DK-03-011.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/11/2003,
Applications 4/15/2003
6-10 Interagency Announcement of
Opportunities in Metabolic
Engineering (NSF)
This announcement describes a collaborative effort among the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce,
Department of Defense, Department of
Energy, Environmental Protection
Agency, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes
of Health), and the National Science
Foundation. The intent of this interagency
announcement is to provide an opportunity for an interagency granting activity in
the area of metabolic engineering (ME).
Proposals are invited that address
enabling technologies useful for the study
of metabolic processes and metabolic
engineering. Three areas are of particular
interest: 1) Instrumentation, sensors, new
analytical tools, and new experimental
methods, which facilitate the study of
metabolic pathways, especially those
technologies that allow the examination
of individual cells; 2) Quantitative and
conceptual models integrated with experimental studies that better characterize the
regulation and integration of complex,
interacting metabolic pathways; and 3)
The use of bioinformatics to deduce the
structure, function, and regulation of
major metabolic pathways. NSF 03-516
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/
getpub?nsf03516
Deadline: 3/19/2003
6-11 Breast Cancer Research
Program (BCRP) Concept Award
Program (DOD)
The U.S. Army Medical Research and
Material Command through the Office of
the Congressionally Directed Medical
Research Programs (CDMRP) announce
the release of the Fiscal Year 2003 Breast
Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Concept Award Program Announcement. The
intent of the Concept Award is to fund the
exploration of an initial concept or theory
that could give rise to a testable hypothesis; thus, no preliminary data are required.
These awards are to encourage the exploration of untested, high-risk questions in
breast cancer and are not intended to support the next step in an already established research project. The Concept
Award should provide investigators that
have potentially insightful ideas from disciplines and fields outside breast cancer
with an entre to the breast cancer research
field. DAMD17-BC03-CONCEPT (FBO
01/31/03)
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil
Deadline: 3/10/2003
SOCIAL SCIENCES
6-12 New Pilot Research Grant
Program (NIH)
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is
seeking small grant (R03) applications to
stimulate and facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into aging
research, and encourage established
investigators to enter new targeted, high
priority areas in this research field. Priority areas are: 1) Improve Health and Quality of Life of Older People; 2) Understand
Healthy Aging Processes; 3) Reduce
Health Disparities Among Older Persons
and Populations; and 4) Enhance
Resources to Support High Quality
Research. PAR-03-056 (NIHG 1/17/03)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-03-056.html
Deadline: 3/17/2003, 7/15/2003, 11/17/
2003
6-13 Maintenance of Long Term
Behavioral Change (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health invite
applications for research projects that
examine biopsychosocial processes and
test interventions designed to achieve
long-term health behavior change and a
Resource Center to provide coordination
for this set of research projects. Past
research has typically focused on short
term behavioral change, yielding little
information on how change, once
achieved, is maintained over the long
term. This Request for Applications
(RFA) encourages investigators to expand
on the current theoretical base of change
processes and intervention models, as
well as to consider new conceptualizations from basic research in the social and
behavioral sciences. Applications must
focus on important health-related behaviors already demonstrated amenable to
short-term change, such as tobacco use,
exercise, eating habits, alcohol and drug
use, inoculation obtainment, disease
screening, stress reduction, adherence to
health care regimens, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk practices, bullying
and abuse of others, sun exposure, and
failure to use safety equipment. OB-03-
003 (NIHG 1/17/03)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-OB-03-003.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/11/2003,
Applications 4/11/2003
6-14 Drug Abuse and HIV Prevention
in Youth (NIH)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA) and the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) invite grant applications for the conduct of research on
drug abuse and HIV prevention in youth.
The major purpose of this RFA is to fill
the need for theory-driven and researchbased drug abuse-related HIV prevention
interventions that will be effective in
decreasing the incidence of HIV infection
and AIDS in youth. Youth is defined as
persons under the age of 21 years. DA03-012 (NIHG 1/17/03)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DA-03-012.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/14/2003;
Applications 4/14/2003
STUDENTS
6-15 Science and Technology Policy
Internship Program of the National
Academies (NA)
This Internship Program of the National
Academies—consisting of the National
Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—is
designed to engage graduate and postdoctoral students in science and technology
policy and to familiarize them with the
interactions among science, technology,
and government. As a result, students in
the fields of science, engineering, medicine, veterinary medicine, business, and
law develop essential skills different from
those attained in academia, which will
help them make the transition from being
a graduate student to a professional.
URL: http://national-academies.org/
internship
Deadline: Applications 3/1/2003, 6/1/
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
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Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
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Doan, Rex Goff, Dawn Caldwell, Cheryl
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Information Specialist & Editor
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Beverly Nichols, Secretary
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