Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
November 20, 2009
Program Information
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Limited Submissions
Limited submission programs have
sponsor restrictions on the number of
proposals that may be submitted by a
single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
Guikema, Associate Vice Provost for
Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
notify him at 785-532-6195, email:
guikema@ksu.edu, by the Internal due
date listed in the Funding Bulletin 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
GENERAL
42-1 The ONR Summer Faculty Team
(ONR)
The Office of Naval Research sponsors the
Summer Faculty Research Program for
U.S. citizens who hold teaching or
research appointments at U.S. colleges and
universities. These programs provide an
opportunity for science and engineering
faculty members to participate in research
of mutual interest to the faculty member
and professional peers at U.S. Navy laboratories. The Summer Faculty Research
Program is a 10 week program, beginning
in May 2010. Stipends range from $1400
to $1900 per week for the summer program. Each fellow will be reimbursed for
his/her personal travel for an optional preprogram visit to the sponsoring laboratory.
Relocation assistance is provided to qualifying fellows.
URL: http://www.asee.org/summer
Deadline: 12/4/2009
42-2 National Centers for Biomedical
Computing (U54) (NIH)
This FOA issued under the NIH Common
Fund solicits grant applications that propose to continue the NIH National Centers
for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) pro-
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gram. These Centers, in conjunction with
individual investigator awards, are creating a networked effort to build the computational infrastructure for biomedical
computing in the nation. The NCBC program is devoted to all facets of biomedical computing, from basic research in
computational science to providing the
tools and resources that biomedical and
behavioral researchers need to do their
work. In addition to carrying out fundamental research, it is expected that the
NCBC will play a major role in educating and training researchers to engage in
biomedical computing. RFA-RM-09-002
(NIHG 11/13/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-002.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/9/2009;
Applications 1/8/2010
AGRICULTURE
42-3 Youth Farm Safety Education
and Certification (USDA)
The Youth Farm Safety Education and
Certification Program (YFSEC) supports national efforts to deliver timely,
pertinent, and appropriate training to
youth seeking employment or already
employed in agricultural production. The
program has critical ties to the current
regulation for youth employment in agriculture, especially the exemptions provided in 29 CFR Part 570, subpart E-1
for youth under the age of 16 employed
in some agricultural occupations having
obtained certification. Significant
changes in agricultural production and in
the agricultural workforce since this regulation took effect in the early 1970’s
have encouraged the USDA to consider
training and certification innovations
along with developing appropriate training and restriction on youth employment
in hazardous agricultural jobs. USDANIFA-SLBCD-002673 (GG 11/9/09)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/youth_farm.html
Deadline: 1/21/2010
BUSINESS
42-4 Business and International
Education (BIE) Program (ED)
The BIE Program provides grants to
enhance international business education
programs and to expand the capacity of
the business community to engage in
international economic activities. Competitive Preference Priority 1: Applications that propose projects that provide
innovation and improvement of international education curricula to serve the
needs of the business community, including the development of new programs for
nontraditional, mid-career, or part-time
students. Competitive Preference Priority
2: Applications that propose projects to
internationalize curricula at junior and
community colleges, and at undergraduate and graduate schools of business.
CFDA 84.153A (FR 11/18/09)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 1/8/2010
EDUCATION
42-5 Undergraduate International
Studies and Foreign Language
Program (ED)
The Undergraduate International Studies
and Foreign Language (UISFL) program
provides grants to strengthen and improve
undergraduate instruction in international
studies and foreign languages. Applications must be from institutions of higher
education or combinations of these institutions that a) require entering students to
have successfully completed at least two
years of secondary school foreign language instruction; b) require each graduating student to earn two years of
postsecondary credit in a foreign language or to have demonstrated equivalent
competence in the foreign language; or c)
in the case of a two-year degree granting
institution, offer two years of postsecondary credit in a foreign language. CFDA
84.016A. (FR 11/17/2009)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 12/17/2009
42-6 Graduate Assistance in Areas of
National Need (GAANN) (ED)
This program provides fellowships in
areas of national need to assist graduate
students with excellent academic records
who demonstrate financial need and plan
to pursue the highest degree available in
their course of study at the institution. A
project must provide fellowships in one or
more of the following areas of national
need: Biology, Chemistry, Computer and
Information Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, Nursing, Physics, and Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and
Research. CFDA 84.200A. (FR 11/17/09)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 12/18/2009
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
42-7 Limits of Thermodynamic
Storage (LOTS) of Energy (DARPA)
DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals
to develop revolutionary new approaches
to portable energy sources. The Department of Defense (DoD) is critically
dependent on portable electronics and, by
extension, portable energy sources such
as batteries. However, the actual energy
output of state-of-the-art (SOA) battery
technologies, such as the BA5590 LiSO2
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primary and BB2590 Li-ion secondary
systems, fall short of their projected
energy capacity under load, limiting run
time of DoD electron systems to as little
as 20% of theoretical capability. The
DARPA Limits of Thermodynamic Storage (LOTS) of Energy program seeks to
address inefficiencies in energy extraction
by developing technologies that are capable of delivering the full expected run
time of a SOA portable energy source.
Utilizing the X590 form factor—BA5590
for primary or BB2590 for secondary
energy sources—as a common initial
goal, the LOTS of Energy program seeks
to aggressively improve the performance
of portable energy sources for the DoD.
DARPA-BAA-10-15 (GG 11/18/09)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/
solicitations/solicit.htm
Deadline: Abstract 12/10/2009; Proposals 1/20/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
42-8 Defense Medical Research and
Development Program (DMRDP)
(DOD)
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Health Affairs, Defense Health Program
Medical Research and Development
Office is soliciting proposals for the
Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) Applied
Research and Advanced Technology
Development Awards to be funded beginning in fiscal year 2010. The goal of the
DMRDP is to advance the state of medical science in the those areas of most
pressing need and relevance to today’s
battlefield experience, for example in the
areas of psychological health and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to the capability needs of the Joint Force Health
Protection (JFHP) Concept of Operations
(CONOPS), as delineated in the tasks
described in this announcement. The
objectives of the DMRDP are to discover
and explore innovative approaches to protect, support, and advance the health and
welfare of military personnel, families,
and communities; to accelerate the transition of medical technologies into
deployed products; and to accelerate the
translation of advances in knowledge into
new standards of care for injury prevention, treatment of casualties, rehabilitation, and training systems that can be
applied in Theater or in the clinical facilities of the Military Health Systems
(MHS). W81XWH-10-DMRDP-BRA
URL: http://www.usamraa.army.mil/
dmrdp.cfm
Deadline: Preproposals 12/10/2009;
Proposals 2/17/2009
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
42-9 Near East and South Asia
Undergraduate Exchange Program
(DOS)
The principal objective of the Near East
and South Asia Undergraduate Exchange
Program (herein referred to as the “NESA
UGRAD”) is to provide a substantive
exchange experience at a U.S. college or
university to a diverse group of emerging
student leaders from underrepresented
sectors in the Middle East, North Africa,
and South Asia. In this context, the recipient organization should ensure that participants are able to enroll full-time in
courses at U.S. institutions alongside U.S.
peers, and provide the participants with
opportunities to understand the U.S. and
U.S. citizens inside and outside the classroom. ECA/A/E/NEA-10-02 (FR 11/5/
2009)
URL: http://exchanges.state.gov/grants/
open2.html
Deadline: 1/5/2010
42-10 The Benjamin Franklin
Transatlantic Fellows Summer
Institute (Europe and Eurasia) and the
Benjamin Franklin Summer Institute
With Asia (Central and South Asia)
(DOS)
The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth
Programs Division, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
announces an open competition for two
grants for summer institutes for youth.
Institutions may submit proposals to provide a three-to-four week U.S.-based
institute for one of the two institute
options in the summer of 2010 for up to
45 teenagers aged 16-18. One institutethe Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute- is for participants
from Europe, the European countries of
Eurasia, and the United States. The other
institute-the Benjamin Franklin Summer
Institute with Asia-is for participants from
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the United
States. Both institutes will focus on leadership development, critical thinking,
diplomacy, community activism, and the
media as ways that young adults can unite
around their common goals. Support for
individual or small group follow-on
projects in the home communities of the
exchange alumni will complete the program. ECA/PE/G/PY-10-03 (FR 11/5/
2009)
URL: http://exchanges.state.gov/grants/
open2.html
Deadline: 1/16/2010
SMALL BUSINESS
42-11 Bioengineering Nanotechnology
Initiative (STTR [R41/R42]) (NIH)
Nanotechnology is the understanding and
control of matter at dimensions between
approximately 1 and 100 nanometers,
where unique phenomena enable novel
applications. Encompassing nanoscale
science, engineering, and technology,
nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale. The purpose of this
trans-NIH Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate
Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) grant applications that employ
nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for
treating diseases. This FOA will utilize
the STTR (R41/R42) grant mechanisms
for Phase I, Phase II, and Fast-Track
applications and runs in parallel with a
FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-09267, that encourages applications under
the Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) (R43/R44) grant mechanisms.
PA-09-266 (NIHG 10/2/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-09-266.html
Deadline: 12/5/2009, 4/5/2010, 8/5/2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES
42-12 Learn and Serve America
Summer of Service FY10 (CNCS)
Summer of Service grants will support
collaborative efforts to implement community-based service-learning projects
during the summer months. Programs will
engage middle school students (students
who will be enrolled in grades 6 through 9
in the school year following the end of the
summer) in community-based servicelearning projects that are intensive, structured, supervised, and designed to produce identifiable improvements to the
community. This opportunity should provide youth, particularly those from disadvantaged circumstances, with servicelearning experiences that will motivate
them to become more civically engaged
and aspire to obtain higher education.
Program participants must complete at
least 100 hours of service within the summer program. For this competition, service activities should address
environmental and/or disaster preparedness issues relevant to the community
served. CNCS-GRANTS-111709-001
(GG 11/17/09)
URL: http://www.nationalservice.gov/
for_organizations/funding/
Deadline: 12/10/2009
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
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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