Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 7, 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
Vol. 14, No. 1
research, and in some cases outreach,
priorities specific to the North Central,
Northeastern, Southern, and Western
regions of the country. USDAGRANTS-122804-001 (FG 12/28/04)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/pmap.html
Deadline: 2/28/2005
1-4 Integrated Organic Program
(USDA)
GENERAL
1-1 U.S. Army Research Office Broad
Agency Announcement for Solutions for
Physical Science and Technology
Chemical and Biological Defense
Program (DOD)
Army Research Office solicits proposals to
identify viable solutions to technology
gaps in the following chemical and biological science and technology capability
areas: Detection, Modeling and Simulation/Battlespace (MSB), Protection, and
Decontamination. W911NF-05-R-0003
(FG 12/17/04)
URL: http://www.fedgrants.gov
Deadline: White Papers 1/31/2005; Proposals 4/18/2005
AGRICULTURE
1-2 Biomass Research and
Development Initiative (USDA)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) and the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) jointly announce the availability of fiscal year 2005 (FY05) funds
and solicit applications for financial assistance addressing research, development,
and demonstration of biomass based products, bioenergy, biofuels, biopower, and
related processes. This funding opportunity is intended to promote greater innovation and development related to biomass,
and to support Federal policy calling for
greater use of biomass-based products,
feedstock production, and processing and
conversation. This years focus is on development and demonstration projects that
lead to greater commercialization. (Posted
FG 12/17/04)
URL: http://www.bioproductsbioenergy.gov
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/15/2005;
Applications 04/15/2005
1-3 Pest Management Alternatives
Program (USDA)
The Special Research Grants Program Pest Management Alternatives Research
(PMAP) supports projects that develop
and implement integrated pest management practices, tactics and systems for
specific pest problems while reducing
human and environmental risks. Potential
applicants should note that the PMAP
Request for Applications outlines
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
requests applications for the Integrated
Organic Program for fiscal year (FY)
2005 to solve critical organic agriculture
issues, priorities, or problems through
the integration of research, education,
and extension activities in two program
areas: 1) Organic Transitions Program
(ORG); and 2) Organic Agriculture
Research and Extension Initiative
(OREI). ORG funds the development
and implementation of research, extension and higher education programs to
improve the competitiveness of organic
producers. OREI funds research and
extension programs that enhance the
ability of producers and processors who
have already adopted organic standards
to grow and market high quality organic
food, feed, and fiber. USDA-GRANTS121704-001 (FG 12/17/04)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov
Deadline: 2/17/2005
1-5
Grain Sorghum Grants KGSC)
The Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission
is soliciting research and education proposals for FY 2006. New proposals will
be accepted in the following two areas:
1) Control of shattercane and other
grassy weeds in sorghum production systems. Proposals emphasizing introduction of herbicide tolerance in sorghum
through breeding or biotechnology will
be considered, as well as other creative
weed management approaches with a
high potential for success. Use of sorghum distillers’ grains from Kansas ethanol plants. Proposals focused on
processing, distribution and use of distillers’ grains for animal feeding or other
economically important purposes. Preference will be shown to proposals that
have a high probability of adding value
to distillers’ grains as a co-product for
ethanol production. AES/CES. Department.Heads@mail-h12-01.cc.ksu.edu
Deadline: AES Office 1/11/2005
BUSINESS
1-6
Employment Research (Upjohn)
Through its Grant Program, the Upjohn
Institute supports policy-relevant
research on issues related to employment
and unemployment. Grants made under
this program are expected to result in
research of a rigorous nature that is accessible and of interest to practitioners and
policymakers. The research is expected to
produce a book-length manuscript publishable by the Upjohn Institute. This year
the Institute is particularly seeking to fund
projects related to the effects of health
care costs on labor demand.
URL: http://www.upjohninstitute.org
Deadline: Pre-Applications 2/1/2005, 8/
2/2005
EDUCATION
1-7 Establishment of the
International School of Kabul (USAID)
The objective of this action is to solicit
proposals to establish an accredited international school in Kabul, Afghanistan
with an initial enrollment of up to seventy
students from grades one through twelve.
USAID expects that the school will eventually enroll up to 100 students. For the
initial phase of operations, it is necessary
that the successful bidder partner with an
existing school or educational organization with demonstrated capability to manage a viable school in Kabul. 306-05-005
APSO (FG 12/20/04)
URL: http://www.fedgrants.gov/
Applicants/AID
Deadline: 2/16/2005
1-8 Evaluative Research and
Evaluation Capacity Building (EREC)
and Research on Learning and
Education (ROLE) (NSF)
The Evaluative Research and Capacity
Building (EREC) program seeks proposals that offer unique approaches to evaluation practice in the generation of
knowledge for the science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
education community and for broad policy making within the research and education enterprise. The Research on Learning
and Education (ROLE) program seeks to
capitalize on important developments
across a wide range of fields related to
human learning and to STEM education.
It supports research across a continuum
that includes: 1) the biological basis of
human learning; 2) behavioral, cognitive,
affective and social aspects of STEM
learning; 3) STEM learning in formal and
informal educational settings; 4) STEM
Policy research; and 5) The diffusion of
STEM innovations. NSF 05-529 (Posted
12/3/04)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/
getpub.cfm?nsf05529
Deadline: Letters of Intent ROLE 1/14/
2005, EREC 3/31/2005; Applications
ROLE 3/4/2005, EREC 5/15/2005
1-9
Early Reading First Program
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This program supports local efforts to
enhance the oral language, cognitive, and
early reading skills of preschool-age children, especially those from low-income
families, through strategies, materials,
and professional development that are
grounded in scientifically based reading
research. CFDA #84.359A/B (FR 12/23/
04)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/
fedregister/index.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/7/2005;
Applications 5/2/2005
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
1-10 Grants for the Department-Level
Reform of Undergraduate Engineering
Education (NSF)
The Grants for the Department-Level
Reform of Undergraduate Engineering
Education solicitation provides an opportunity for institutions to compete for planning and implementation grants to assist
departmental and larger units in: engaging
faculty in the scholarship of learning and
teaching on a department wide basis;
developing, implementing, assessing and
disseminating comprehensive plans to
reformulate, streamline and update engineering degree programs; developing,
implementing, assessing department wide
transformational change of student learning experiences; incorporating service
learning opportunities into engineering
programs; meeting the emerging workforce and educational needs of U.S.
industry, and; incorporating methods for
integration of research and teaching.
Institutions can submit a maximum of one
planning grant proposal and one implementation grant proposal. Please contact
Jim Guikema, 532-6195, email
guikema@ksu.edu, by January 31, 2005,
if you wish to apply. NSF 05-531 (Posted
12/8/04)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/
getpub.cfm?nsf05531
Deadline: Internal 1/31/2005; 3/11/2005
1-11 Summer Undergraduate
Research Fellowships (SURF)
Gaithersburg and Boulder Programs
(DOC)
The National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) announces that the
2005 Summer Undergraduate Research
Fellowships (SURF) Gaithersburg and
Boulder programs are soliciting applications for financial assistance for FY 2005.
The SURF program is soliciting applications in the areas of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing
Engineering, Chemical Science and Technology, Physics, Materials Science and
Engineering, Building and Fire Research,
and Information Technology. The NIST
SURF Gaithersburg and Boulder Program
Directors will work with appropriate
department chairs, outreach coordinators,
and directors of multi-disciplinary academic organizations to identify outstanding undergraduates (including graduating
seniors) who would benefit from off-cam-
pus summer research in a world-class scientific environment. (FR 12/27/04)
URL: http://www.surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm
Deadline: 2/15/2005
1-12 Transportation and Climate
Change Research (DOT)
The U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT) Research and Special Programs
Administration (RSPA) is soliciting white
papers on original scientific and policy
research on the potential links between
transportation and climate change strategies that address the challenges posed by
these links. The research solicited under
this BAA will support the U.S. DOT in
understanding the addressing transportation-related GHG emissions, examine
innovation in the transportation planning
and decision-making processes pertinent
to climate change on the transportation
sector. DTRS56-05-BAA-0001 (FBO 12/
22/04)
URL: http://www.rspa.dot.gov
Deadline: 1/31/2005
1-13 Research to Innovative
Approaches to High Energy Density
Physics in Fusion Energy Sciences
(DOE)
The Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
(OFES) of the Office of Science (SC),
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
announces its interest in receiving grant
applications for research in innovative
approaches to high energy density physics
in fusion energy sciences. The OFES has
a broad program of science-based
research to develop the knowledge base
needed for an economically and environmentally attractive fusion energy source
in the long term. The physics of matter at
high energy densities is an emerging field
that cuts across many areas of science.
DE-FG01-05ER05-07 (FG 12/9/04)
URL: http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/
FAPN05-07.html
Deadline: 2/3/2005
1-14 Precision Measurement Grants
(DOC)
The Precision Management Grants Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks
applications for financial assistance for
FY 2005. This Program solicits proposals
for significant research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants. NIST
sponsors these grants and cooperative
agreements primarily to encourage basic,
measurement-related research in universities and colleges and other research laboratories and to foster contacts between
NIST scientists and those faculty members of academic institutions and other
researchers who are actively engaged in
such work. 2005-PMGP-01 (FG 12/20/
04)
URL: http://www.fedgrants.gov/
Applicants/DOC/NIST
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/4/2005;
Applications 5/6/2005
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
1-15 Department of Defense Breast
Cancer Research (DOD)
The Department of Defense announces
two FY04 Breast Cancer Research Program funding opportunities. The Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research
Program (BCRP) intends to offer the
Concept Award again this year. Concept
Awards are intended to fund an initial
concept or theory that could give rise to a
testable hypothesis within breast cancer
research. The Congressionally Directed
Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
plans to solicit electronic submissions for
short (one-page) Concept Award proposals. Era of Hope Scholar Awards are
intended for exceptionally talented, earlycareer scientists who have demonstrated
that they are the best and the brightest in
their field(s) through extraordinary creativity, vision and productivity, and who
have shown a strong potential for leadership in the breast cancer research community as well as a vision for the eradication
of breast cancer.
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil
Deadline: 2/1/2005, 2/10/2005
SOCIAL SCIENCES
1-16 Youth Violence Prevention
through Community-Level Change
(HHS)
The purpose of this program is to
announce the availability of fiscal year
2005 funds for a cooperative agreement to
assess the efficacy or effectiveness of
interventions designed to change community characteristics and social processes to
reduce rates of youth violence perpetration and victimization. Priority will be
given to the evaluation of primary prevention interventions and programs that focus
on the social and economic environment
(relationships among people and settings)
and/or the physical environment, over
those that focus on criminal justice
responses (e.g. community policing,
arrest strategies). CE05-020 (FR 12/30/
04)
URL: http://www.cdc.gov
Deadline: Letter of Intent: 1/31/2005
Application: 3/30/2005
R.W. Trewyn, Vice Provost for Research &
Dean of the Graduate School
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice Provost, Graduate Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Carole Lovin, Rich Doan, Jean
Sommer, Carmen Garcia, 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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