Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 20, 2005
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
15-1 National Biodefense Analysis and
Countermeasures Center Broad Agency
Announcement (DHS)
The National Biodefense Analysis and
Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is the
name of the proposed facility to be located
at the National Interagency Biodefense
Campus at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The
two program areas to be executed at
NBACC will be Biological Threat Characterization and Bioforensics Operations and
Research. The mission of NBACC is to
provide an integrated and responsive biosecurity enterprise for homeland security,
law enforcement, medical, and veterinary
communities. Specifically, NBACCs goals
are to (a) understand classical, engineered,
and emerging biological terrorism threats;
(b) develop deployable technologies and
systems in partnership with operational
end-users that protect the people, agriculture, and economy of the United States
against biological terrorism, and (c) provide the scientific basis and operational
capability to prevent technology surprise,
rapidly detect events, respond effectively,
and attribute use. W81XWH-BAA05-2
(FG 3/31/05)
URL: http://www.usamraa.army.mil
Deadline: 9/30/2005
Vol. 14, No. 15
15-3 Community Outreach
Partnership Centers Program (COPC)
(HUD)
The purpose of the Community Outreach
Partnership Centers (COPC) program is
to assist in establishing or carrying out
outreach and applied research activities
that address problems of urban areas.
The program also seeks to encourage
structural change, both within an institution and in the way the institution relates
to its neighbors. FR-4950-N-10 (FG 3/
22/05)
URL: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/
HUD/ODGMO/AT/FR-4950-N-10/
Grant.html
Deadline: 6/23/2005
15-4 Biological Databases and
Informatics (NSF)
The Biological Databases and Informatics (BD&I) program seeks to encourage
new approaches to the management,
analysis, and dissemination of biological
knowledge for the benefit of both the scientific community and the broader public. The BD&I program is especially
interested in the development of informatics tools and resources that have the
potential to advance all fields of biology
under the purview of the Directorate for
Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. An investigator can be
included in only one proposal as a principal investigator or a co-principal investigator per round of competition in
response to this solicitation. NSF 05-577
(Posted 3/22/05)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05577
Deadline: 7/11/2005
The Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide
activity that offers the National Science
Foundation’s most prestigious awards in
support of the early career-development
activities of those teacher-scholars who
most effectively integrate research and
education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities
should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to
research and education. NSF encourages
submission of CAREER proposals from
junior faculty members at all CAREEReligible organizations and especially
encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons
with disabilities to apply. NSF 05-579
(Posted 3/31/05)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05579
Deadline: 7/19/2005,7/20/2005,7/21/2005
EDUCATION
15-6 Teacher Professional Continuum
(TPC) (NSF)
The Teacher Professional Continuum
(TPC) program addresses critical issues
and infrastructure needs regarding the
recruitment, preparation, induction, retention, and life-long development of K-12
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) teachers. Its goals
are to improve the quality and coherence
of teacher learning experiences across the
continuum through research that informs
teaching practice and the development of
innovative resources for the professional
development of K-12 STEM teachers.
The program supports Research Studies,
Resources for Professional Development,
and Conferences and Symposia. NSF-05580 (Posted 3/31/05)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05580
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/31/2005
Applications 9/16/2005
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
15-7 EarthScope: Science, Education,
and Related Activities (NSF)
AGRICULTURE
15-2 Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Program
(NSF)
logical fitness, competitiveness or invasive characteristics of progeny between
GM crops and their compatible non-crop
or crop relatives; quality assurance criteria for e.g., molecular data derived from
use of microarray or fragment analysis
techniques. TBN25375 (FG 3/16/05)
URL: http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/
opportunities/businessopportunities.htm
Deadline: 5/16/2005
15-5 Genomic Approaches to Identify
and Characterize Potential Indicators
of Ecological Fitness in Crop and NonCrop Plants (EPA)
This solicitation calls for applications for
a three year cooperative agreement to
support the public purpose of developing
methods to identify potential molecular
indicators of ecological fitness of plants.
Outcomes supported by this assistance
agreement are: 1) Improved risk assessment of plant products of agricultural
biotechnology, by providing: indicators
of potential unintended or unexpected
effects of plant genetic engineering and
of gene flow between genetically modified (GM) crops and their compatible
non-crop relatives; e.g., effects on flowering, pollen production and functionality, outcrossing potential, seed
production or germination, vegetative
biomass, over-wintering, vernalization
requirements, disease or insect resistance
or other factors that may impact the eco-
EarthScope is an Earth science program
to explore the 4-dimensional structure of
the North American continent. The EarthScope Program provides a framework for
broad, integrated studies across the Earth
sciences, including research on fault
properties and the earthquake process,
strain transfer, magmatic and hydrous fluids in the crust and mantle, plate boundary processes, large-scale continental
deformation, continental structure and
evolution, and composition and structure
of the deep-Earth. In addition, EarthScope
offers a centralized forum for Earth science education at all levels and an excellent opportunity to develop
cyberinfrastructure to integrate, distribute, and analyze diverse data sets. NSF
04-589 (Posted 5/26/04)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/
pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf04589
Deadline: 7/16/2005
15-8 Community Development Work
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Study (CDWS) (HUD)
The Community Development Work
Study Program (CDWSP) funds two-year
grants to accredited institutions of higher
education, Area Planning Organizations
(APO’S), and states applying on behalf of
institutions to provide assistance to economically disadvantaged and minority
graduate students who participate in a
community development work study program. FR-4950-N-08 (FG 3/22/05)
URL: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/
HUD/ODGMO/AT/FR-4950-N-08/
Grant.html
Deadline: 5/18/2005
15-9 Youthbuild (HUD)
The purposes of the Youthbuild Program
are to: 1) Provide economically disadvantaged young adults with opportunities to
obtain an educational experience that will
enhance their employment skills, as a
means to achieving self sufficiency; 2)
Foster the development of leadership
skills and commitment to community; 3)
Expand the supply of permanent affordable housing for homeless and low and
very low income persons by providing
implementation grants for carrying out a
Youthbuild program; 4) Provide disadvantaged young adults with meaningful
on-site training experiences in housing
construction and rehabilitation that will
enable them to render a service to their
communities by helping to meet the housing needs of homeless persons and lowincome families; and 5) Give to the greatest extent possible, job training, employment, contracting and other economic
opportunities to low-income young
adults. FR-4950-N-04 (FG 3/22/05)
URL: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/
HUD/ODGMO/AT/FR-4950-N-04/
Grant.html
Deadline: 6/21/2005
15-10 Announcement of Opportunity
for Discovery Program Missions and
Missions of Opportunity (NASA)
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Science Mission
Directorate (SMD) intends to release an
Announcement of Opportunity (AO) in
April to solicit proposals for investigations through the Discovery Program. The
Discovery missions meet the goals of
planetary system(s) exploration encompassing the scientific objectives of the
NASA Solar System Division (excluding
Mars) and the search for extrasolar planetary element of the NASA Universe Division. (FG 3/17/05)
URL: http://discovery.larc.nasa.gov/
discovery/
Deadline: N/A
SOCIAL SCIENCES
15-11 Election Policy Research (EAC)
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is currently seeking qualified
sources to conduct research and development to support EAC’s policy research
agenda. The Help America Vote Act of
2002 (HAVA) directs the EAC to conduct
studies on a variety of election administration topics for the purpose of developing information and guidance to assist the
States in implementing HAVA. EAC is
interested in receiving capabilities statements from parties interested in bidding
on any of this work. EAC-RFP-05-02
(FBO 4/8/05)
URL: http://www.eac.gov/docs/
sources%20sought.doc
Deadline: 4/30/2005
15-12 FY 2005 Research Options for
DCHA/PVC-ASHA (USAID)
DCHA/PVC-ASHA is a center of learning in organizational development, promoting sustainable, effective and
accountable local non-governmental
organizations (NGO’s). Learning is
accomplished through a number of mechanisms, most notably: demonstration
grants to test various priorities in organizational development; technical assistance to missions and other USAID
operating units to address NGO strengthening issues within a broader implementation context; analysis of past evaluation
and other documents that may have been
prepared prior to the current office focus
on organizational development but which
may shed light on lessons learned; and
original research that specifically targets
topics where answers to do not appear
readily available through other means.
The purpose of this APS is to outline key
PVC-ASHA research topics and to solicit
interest from U.S. PVOs and other nonprofit organizations in providing research
information, either based on past and/or
current field experience or on primary
research as part of this APS. AIDGRANTS-040405-001 (FG 4/4/05)
URL: http://www.usaid.gov/business/
Deadline: 5/31/2005
institutional settings. RFA-AG-05-009
(NIHG 3/25/05)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AG-05-009.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/1/2005;
Applications 6/23/2005
STUDENTS
15-15 Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant (DDRG) (HUD)
The purpose of the DDRG program is to
enable Ph.D. candidates enrolled at
accredited institutions of higher education
recognized by the U.S. Department of
Education to complete their research and
dissertations on policy-relevant housing
and urban development issues. The FY
2005 DDRG program seeks to fund
research studies that may impact federal
problem solving and policy making and
that are relevant to HUD’s policy priorities and annual goals and objectives. FR4950-N-07B (FG 3/22/05)
URL: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/
HUD/ODGMO/AT/FR-4950-N-07B/
Grant.html
Deadline: 5/18/2005
15-16 Early Doctoral Student Research
Grant (EDSRG) (HUD)
The purpose of the EDSRG program is to
enable doctoral students enrolled at
accredited institutions of higher education
recognized by the U.S. Department of
Education to cultivate their research skills
through the preparation of research manuscripts that focus on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues. FR4950-N-07 (FG 3/22/05)
URL: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/
HUD/ODGMO/AT/FR-4950-N-07/
Grant.html
Deadline: 5/18/2005
15-13 Institutional Strengthening in
Southern Sudan (USAID)
The goal of this cooperative agreement is
to increase the institutional capacities of
civil society organizations (CSOs) that
support marginalized groups composed of
women, youth, orphans or the disabled in
6 pre-selected regions in Southern Sudan.
RFA623-A-05-015 (FG 4/1/05)
URL: http://www.usaid.gov/business/
Deadline: 5/6/2005
R.W. Trewyn, Vice Provost for Research &
Dean of the Graduate School
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice Provost, Graduate Research
15-14 Developmental Research on
Elder Mistreatment (NIH)
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
NIA announces the availability of Exploratory/Developmental awards (R21) to initiate the systematic scientific study of
Elder Mistreatment. This RFA will
address initial scientific stages for understanding Elder Mistreatment in community and institutional settings. These
research priority areas include: 1) innovative methods for estimating incidence; 2)
standardization of definitions and measurement; 3) elaboration of risk factors; 4)
methods of clinical and psychosocial
identification of Elder Mistreatment; and
5) identification of Elder Mistreatment in
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Carole Lovin, Rich Doan, Carmen Garcia, Dorothy Doan, Rex Goff, Dawn
Caldwell, Leah Matteson
Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Research Compliance Officer
Alissa Ross, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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