Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
December 18, 2009
Program Information
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin (FB
45-1, 45-4, 45-9, 45-11) 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: http://www.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
bul09/limits09/index.htm
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January 8, 2010.
GENERAL
45-1 Robert Noyce Teacher
Scholarship Program (NSF)
The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship
Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to
become K-12 mathematics and science
teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track
provides funds to institutions of higher
education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM major and postbaccalaureate students holding STEM
degrees who earn a teaching credential
and commit to teaching in high-need K-12
school districts. The NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship
Track supports STEM professionals who
enroll as NSF Teaching Fellows in master’s degree programs leading to teacher
certification by providing academic
courses, professional development, and
salary supplements while they are fulfilling a four-year teaching commitment in a
high need school district.This track also
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supports the development of NSF Master
Teaching Fellows by providing professional development and salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and
science teachers to become Master
Teachers in high need school districts.
An institution, on its own or as a member
of a consortium, may submit no more
than one Noyce proposal per track. There
are two Noyce tracks in this solicitation:
the Noyce Teacher Scholarship Track
and the NSF Teaching Fellows/Master
Teaching Fellows Track. NSF 10-514
(GG12/11/09)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10514/nsf10514.htm
Deadline: Internal 1/9/2010; Letters of
Intent 2/9/2010; Proposals 3/10/2010
45-2 Programs to Increase Diversity
Among Individuals Engaged in
Health-Related Research (PRIDE)
(R25) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,
National Institutes of Health, solicits
Research Education (R25) grant applications from institutions/organizations that
propose to conduct Summer Institute
programs to enable faculty and scientists
from diverse backgrounds to further
develop their research skills and knowledge, enhancing their career development as faculty members or scientists.
This FOA runs in parallel with a separate
FOA that solicits the applications for a
Coordination Core (See RFA-HL-10028). T RFA-HL-10-019 (GG 12/14/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-10-019.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/5/2010;
Applications 2/4/2010
AGRICULTURE
45-3 Plant Feedstock Genomics for
Bioenergy (DOE)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office
of Science, and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), National Institute
of Food and Agriculture (NIFA),
announce their interest in receiving
applications for genomics-based research
that will lead to the improved use of biomass and plant feedstocks for the production of fuels such as ethanol or
renewable chemical feedstocks. Specifically, applications are sought for fundamental research on plants that will
improve biomass characteristics, biomass yield, or sustainability. Systems biology approaches to identify genetic
indicators enabling plants to be efficiently bred or manipulated, or research
that yields fundamental knowledge of the
structure, function and organization of
plant genomes leading to improved feed-
stock characterization and sustainability
are also encouraged. DE-FOA-0000223
(GG 12/11/09)
URL: http://genomicscience.energy.gov/
research/DOEUSDA/
Deadline: Preapplications 1/4/2010;
Applications 2/18/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
45-4 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Award (Dreyfus)
This award supports the research and
teaching careers of talented young faculty
in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at
an early stage in their careers. Criteria for
selection include an independent body of
scholarship attained within the first five
years of their appointment as independent
researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise
of continuing outstanding contributions to
both research and teaching. Nominees
must hold full-time tenure-track academic
appointment, and are normally expected
to have been appointed no earlier than
mid-year 2004. Institutions may submit
only one nomination annually.
URL: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/
camille_dreyfus_teacher_award.shtml
Deadline: Internal 12/24/2009; Nominations 2/11/2010
45-5 Nimbus (DARPA)
DARPA is soliciting innovative research
and development proposals on the underlying physics of lightning. Proposed
research should investigate innovative
approaches that enable revolutionary and
fundamental advances in atmospheric and
ionospheric science relating to lightning.
DARPA-BAA-10-18 (GG 12/16/09)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/
solicitations/baa10-18.htm
Deadline: Abstracts 1/20/2010; Proposals 2/26/2010
45-6 Information in a Photon (InPho)
(DARPA)
The Information in a Photon Broad
Agency Announcement seeks proposals
addressing the basic science and the associated unifying physical and mathematical principles that govern the information
capacity of optical photons, exploiting all
relevant physical degrees of freedom.
DARPA-BAA-10-19 (GG 12/16/09)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/
solicitations/baa10-19.htm
Deadline: Abstracts 1/28/2010; Proposals 3/15/2010
45-7 Recovery Act -- Innovative
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Materials and Processes for Advanced
Carbon Capture Technology (DOE)
ARPA-E aims to support the development
of high risk/high payoff applied science
and technology innovations that will have
a positive disruptive impact on the energy
landscape. The objective of this topic is to
fund high risk, high reward research
efforts that will revolutionize technologies that capture carbon dioxide from
coal-fired power plants, thereby preventing release into the atmosphere. ARPA-E
seeks to complement existing DOE
efforts in the field of carbon capture, led
by the Office of Fossil Energy and
National Energy Technology Laboratory,
by accelerating promising ideas from the
basic research stage towards large-scale
demonstrations and ultimately, commercialization. Areas of interest include: lowcost catalysts to enable systems with
superior thermodynamics that are not currently practical due to slow kinetics;
robust materials that resist degradation
from caustic contaminants in flue gas; and
advanced capture processes that dramatically reduce the parasitic energy penalties
and corresponding increase in the cost of
electricity required for carbon capture.
DE-FOA-0000208 (GG12/15/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 1/15/2010
45-8 Recovery Act -- Electrofuels
(DOE)
ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make
liquid transportation fuels—without using
petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electric
energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. ARPA-E requests innovative
proposals which can utilize metabolic
engineering and synthetic biological
approaches for the efficient conversion of
carbon dioxide to liquid transportation
fuels. ARPA-E specifically seeks the
development of organisms capable of
extracting energy from hydrogen, from
reduced earth-abundant metal ions, from
robust, inexpensive, readily available
organic redox active species, or directly
from electric current. DE-FOA-0000206
(GG 12/15/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 1/15/2010
45-9 Geoscience Education (NSF)
In FY 2010 and FY 2012, the GeoEd program invites proposals in four main areas:
advancing public Earth system science literacy, particularly through strengthening
geoscience education in grades K-14 and
informal education settings; fostering
development and training of the diverse
scientific and technical workforce
required for 21st century geoscience
careers; utilizing modern technologies to
facilitate and increase access to geoscience education and/or develop innovative approaches for using geoscience
research activities and data for educational purposes; and, establishing regional
networks and alliances that bring together
scientists, formal and informal science
educators, as well as other stakeholders,
in support of improving Earth system science education and broadening participation in the geosciences. The GeoEd
Program accepts proposals for pilot or
proof-of-concept projects (Track 1) and
integrative collaborations (Track 2), as
well as for conferences or workshops
related to the mission of the program. An
organization may be the lead organization
on only one Track 2 proposal submitted.
NSF 10-512 (GG 12/8/09)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10512/nsf10512.htm
Deadline: Internal 1/8/2010; Proposals
3/8/2010
45-10 The Science of Terra and Aqua
(NASA)
This new program element solicits proposals to undertake significant studies
through the use of data and derived products from two of the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites, namely Terra and
Aqua, and their measurement sensors.
This solicitation offers investigators an
opportunity to conduct integrative
research projects using the new data and
products resulting from these satellites,
and to become involved in the utilization
of EOS data to provide answers to
NASA’s Earth Science Research questions.
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Notices of Intent; 1/28/2009
Proposals 3/25/2010
45-11 Federal Cyber Service:
Scholarship Service (NSF)
The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship
for Service (SFS) program seeks to
increase the number of qualified students
entering the fields of information assurance and computer security and to
increase the capacity of the United States
higher education enterprise to continue to
produce professionals in these fields to
meet the needs of our increasingly technological society. The SFS program is
composed of two tracks: The Scholarship
Track provides funding to colleges and
universities to award scholarships to students in the information assurance and
computer security fields. The Capacity
Building Track provides funds to improve
the quality and increase the production of
information assurance and computer
security professionals. Professional
development of information assurance
faculty and development of academic programs can be funded under this track. An
organization may submit one Scholarship
Track proposal and one Capacity Building Track proposal in response to this program solicitation. NSF 10-505 (GG 11/
18/09)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10505/nsf10505.htm
Deadline: Internal 12/23/2009; Proposals 2/2/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
port: 1) Bridging Grants; 2) Institutional
Core Facilities; and 3) Postdoctoral
awards. The purpose of this research is to
further the ability of Kansas researchers
to compete successfully for NIH funds. A
Bridging Grant provides interim support
to help a project in Cell and Development
Biology continue for an eligible investigator who has submitted a grant to NIH
that was approved on the basis of scientific merit, but fell short of the funding
range. Core Facility awards are for the
purpose of providing funds to institutional
core facilities that support the research
focus of the K-INBRE, Cell and Development Biology. Post-doctoral awards are
one-year mentored awards offered for the
purpose of facilitating applications to support 1) initiation of post-doctoral research
projects and 2) transition from the postdoctoral position to early investigator status.
EMAIL: hchapman@kumed.edu
Deadline: 2/1/2010
45-13 ARRA-Curriculum
Development Centers (HHS)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act authorizes assistance to institutions of higher education (or consortia
thereof) to establish or expand health
informatics education programs, including certification, undergraduate, and masters degree programs, for both health care
and information technology students to
ensure rapid and effective utilization and
development of health information technologies in the United States health care
infrastructure. This funding opportunity,
one component of the workforce program, will provide grants to institutions of
higher education (or consortia) to support
health information technology (health IT)
curriculum development. FOA-OC-HIT10-001 (GG 12/11/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/4/2010; 1/
14/2010
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,
Danielle Brunner, Rex Goff, Adassa Roe,
Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
45-12 K-INBRE Grants (KU/NIH)
Congressional Relations
K-INBRE is calling for proposals to sup-
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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