Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
May 15, 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
19-1 NRL Wide Broad Agency
Announcement (DOD)
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is
the Navy’s corporate laboratory. NRL conducts basic and applied research for the
Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines. The basic research program
is driven by perceptions about future
requirements of the Navy. BAA-N0017301 (GG 5/8/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: N/A
19-2 Recovery and Reinvestment—
Major Research Instrumentation
Program (MRI-R2) (NSF)
NSF has announced a second MRI funding
program using America Reinvestment and
Recovery Act funds. The university may
submit only 2 proposals to acquire instrumentation under this solicitation, and a
third proposal if the third focuses on
instrumentation development. Proposals
may not be submitted which are already
pending with NSF or substantially similar
to those pending. In a small 1-3 page white
paper, please provide: 1) a description of
the instrumentation you wish to acquire or
develop; 2) The NSF-funded program
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either funded or pending that would be
positively impacted by this equipment—
keep in mind that this must be fully
developed and must be compelling in the
full proposal; 3) Why the KSU cost share
must be waived for your project, owing
to: a) how the equipment will enable cutting edge research activities at KSU; b)
how undergraduate research will be
enabled to allow undergraduates access
to cutting edge research at KSU; and c)
how your project will enable diversity in
cutting edge research at KSU. NSF 09561
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/
nsf09561/nsf09561.htm
Deadline: Internal 6/1/2009; Proposals 8/10/2009
19-3 Lindbergh Grant Projects
(Lindbergh)
Lindbergh Grants are the cornerstone of
the Foundation’s balance mission. International in scope and interdisciplinary in
nature, Lindbergh Grants combine innovative, yet practical, ideas using science/
technology to tackle serious environmental issues.
URL: http://
www.lindberghfoundation.org
Deadline: 6/11/2009
19-4 Basic Research Challenge
(BRC) Program (ONR)
The Basic Research Challenge (BRC)
program supports basic science and/or
engineering research within academia
and industry. The program is focused on
stimulating new, high-risk basic research
projects. The BRC for FY 2009 is for the
three topics listed below. The detailed
descriptions are intended to provide the
proposer a frame of reference and are not
meant to be restrictive to the possible
approaches to achieving the goals of the
topic and the program. Innovative ideas
addressing these research topics are
highly encouraged. White papers and full
proposals addressing the following BRC
topics are solicited: 1) Irreducible Uncertainty and the Limits of Predictability; 2)
Elastromeric Polymer-by-Design to Protect the Warfighter against Traumatic
Brain Injury by Diverting the Blast
Induced Shock Waves from the Head; 3)
DNA-based Molecular-scale Nanoelectronics Fabrication. ONRBAA09-017
(GG 2/19/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/9/2009
AGRICULTURE
19-5 Youth Farm Safety Education
and Certification Program (USDA)
The Youth Farm Safety Education and
Certification Program (YFSEC) sup-
ports 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
regulations 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
restrictions on youth employment in hazardous agricultural jobs. USDACSREES-SLBCD-002220 (GG 4/22/09)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/youth_farm.html
Deadline: 6/11/2009
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
19-6 Nuclear Explosion Monitoring
Research Development (DOE)
The NNSA and the AFRL invite proposals for research and development to
improve national capabilities to detect,
locate and identify nuclear explosions in
support of the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), the U.S. government agency responsible for operation
of the nuclear explosion monitoring systems. The NNSA Office of Nuclear Detonation Detection (NA-222) within the
Office of Nonproliferation Research and
Development (NA-22) has the responsibility to apply the broad base of U.S.
expertise that has been acquired in testing
nuclear weapons and support disciplines
to improve national capabilities to detect,
locate and identify nuclear explosions and
to provide cost-effective technologies,
algorithms, hardware, and software to
U.S. government agencies that are
responsible for nuclear explosion monitoring. The AFRL has the responsibility
to execute Department of Defense (DoD)
R&D related to nuclear explosion monitoring. DE-AR52-09NA29249A (GG 5/
11/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/15/2009
19-7 Special Grant Program in the
Chemical Sciences (Dreyfus)
The Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences supports innovative projects
in any area consistent with the Foundation’s broad objective to advance the
chemical sciences. The Foundation
encourages proposals that are judged
likely to significantly advance the chemical sciences. Examples of areas of interest
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include (but are not limited to): the
increase in public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the chemical sciences; innovative approaches to
chemistry education at all levels (K-12,
undergraduate, and graduate); and efforts
to make chemistry careers more attractive. Research proposals are not customarily considered. Aspects of proposals
that are important are: broad applicability
beyond the submitting institution; and
specific and detailed descriptions of the
chemistry associated with the proposal.
URL: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/
special_grant_program_chemical.shtml
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/4/2009;
Proposals 11/12/2009
19-8 Joint Mathematics/ Computer
Science Institute (DOE)
The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of
Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), invites applications for research
under a unified management structure to
address key challenges where collaborative research in applied mathematics and
computer science efforts are required to
bridge the gap between large complex scientific applications software and nextgeneration hardware. The strategic vision
for the Advanced Scientific Computing
Research (ASCR) program in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science
includes a portfolio of high performance
computing resources to enable DOE and
the Nation’s world leadership in areas of
science important to the Department’s
mission. DE-PS02-09ER09-22 (GG 5/6/
09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/5/2009
19-9 Recovery Act- Demonstration of
Integrated Biorefinery Operations
(DOE)
The intent of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) will be to select
integrated biorefinery projects that have
the necessary technical and economic performance data that validates their readiness for the next level of scale-up. In
general, integrated biorefineries employ
various combinations of feedstocks and
conversion technologies to produce a
variety of products, with the main focus
on producing biofuels and bioproducts.
Co- or by-products can include additional
fuels, chemicals (or other materials), and
heat and power. For the purpose of this
FOA, the term integrated biorefineray is a
facility that uses an acceptable feedstock
(as defined in the FOA), to produce a biofuel or bioproduct as the primary product
(as defined in the FOA) and may produce
other products including additional fuels,
chemical (or other materials), and heat
and power as co-products. These integrated biorefineries would produce, as
their primary product, a liquid transportation fuel that supports, depending on topic
area, meeting the advanced, renewable or
advanced biofuels portion of the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007
(EISA) Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS)
or, depending on topic area, a bioproduct
that substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks and products. DE-FOA-0000096
(GG 5/6/09)
URL: http:/www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/29/2009;
Applications 6/30/2009
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
19-10 Fundamental Space BiologyAnimal Physiology (NASA)
This is a National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Research
Announcement (NRA) that solicits
hypothesis-driven Fundamental Space
Biology (FSB) research proposals that
will answer fundamental questions about
how physiological systems respond to
gravity, or to changes in gravity, using
animal (excluding single cell organisms
and cell culture) model specimens. Proposals are solicited by the Exploration
Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD)
Advanced Capabilities Division for investigations that address systematic and targeted molecular physiological effects of
acute and/or chronic exposure to gravitational changes. Research into the effects
across various gravity vector leads is also
solicited. NNH09ZTT003N (GG 5/11/09)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Notices of Intent 6/26/2009;
Proposals 8/26/2009
19-11 Breast Cancer Research Funding
(Komen)
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is excited to
announce the upcoming release of the
Investigator Initiated and Career Catalyst
Research grants for the 2009-2010
Research Program. Investigator-Initiated
Research (IIR)- IIR Grants provide up to
$600,000 over three years to stimulate
exploration of new ideas and novel
approaches in breast cancer research and
clinical practice that will lead to reductions in breast cancer incidence and mortality within the next decade. Special
emphasis will be given to studies seeking
to understand the basis for difference in
breast cancer outcomes and translating
research discoveries into clinical and public health practice to eliminate breast cancer disparities. Career Catalyst Research
(CCR) Grants- CCR Grants provide
unique opportunities for scientists in the
early stages of their career to achieve
research independence with an independent award of up to $450,000 over three
years. CCR investigators lead a research
project addressing an important question
in breast cancer research and complete a
self-defined career development plan with
support from a mentor committee.
URL: http://www.komengrantsaccess.org
Deadline: Preapplications 6/1/2009;
Applications 7/31/2009
communities develop and implement evidence-based, field-initiated demonstration
projects that promote child and youth
safety and to provide resources and expertise to help communities develop effective awareness strategies about youth
safety. OJJDP-2009-2232 (GG 5/7/09)
URL: https://grants.ojp.usdoj.gov
Deadline: 6/15/2009
19-13 OJJDP FY 09 Field Initiated
Research and Evaluation Program
(DOJ)
OJJDP is releasing this solicitation to
fund studies of promising and effective
strategies, programs, and methods to
assist states and local communities in
achieving and maintaining compliance
with the four core requirements of
OJJDP’s authorizing legislation, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
(JJDP) Act of 2002. OJJDP-2009-2233
(GG 5/8/09)
URL: https://grants.ojp.usdoj.gov
Deadline: 6/15/2009
19-14 Strategic Enhancement to
Mentoring Programs (OJJDP)
This solicitation invites eligible applicants to propose research and evidencebased enhancements to mentoring programs based on three strategies: 1)
involving the parents and family in activities and services; 2) delivering structured
activities and programs for the mentoring
matches; and 3) developing training and
support for mentors. Research studies and
evaluations of best practices have indicated that mentoring programs that provide multiple modes of treatment
addressing both individual and environmental characteristics tend to be the most
effective. (GG 5/6/09)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/15/2009
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
SOCIAL SCIENCES
19-12 Promoting Child and Youth
Safety: Community Initiatives and
Public Awareness (DOJ)
The purpose of this program is to help
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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