Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
October 15, 2010
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 President 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 (FB
39-7) 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.k-state.edu/research/funding/bulletins/bul10/limits10/index.htm
AGRICULTURE
39-1 Requests for Proposals (NPB)
Each year the National Pork Board solicits
research proposals dealing with pork production (environment, swine health) and
pork products (quality, safety & nutrition).
The National Pork Board is soliciting
research proposals dealing with: Environment, Swine Health, Animal Welfare, Pork
Safety—Pre-Harvest, Public Health,
Genomics, and Antimicrobial Use and
Resistance.
URL: http://www.pork.org/Research/499/
ResearchRFP.aspx
Deadline: 11/16/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
39-2 Sparks! Ignition Grants for
Libraries and Museums (IMLS)
The citizens and communities served by
libraries, archives, and museums now are
offered an increasing variety of choice for
information sources and services. In this
environment, cultural heritage organizations are challenged to response to changing user needs and expectations, and to
make more productive use of the money,
staff, and other resources they are given to
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serve their users. Innovation will be a
key determinant of their success. The
IMLS Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a new IMLS funding opportunity within the National
Leadership Grants program. These grants
encourage libraries, archives, and museums to challenge existing assumptions
about how they operate and the services
they provide. These small grants support
the deployment, testing, and evaluation
of promising and groundbreaking new
tools, products, services, or organizational practices. SPARKS-FY11 (GG 9/
9/10)
URL: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/
grants/SparksIgnition.shtm
Deadline: 11/15/2010
39-3 NEH/DFG Enriching Digital
Collections (NEH)
The National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) in the United States
and the German Research Foundation
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V.,
DFG) are working together to offer support for digitization projects in the
humanities. These grants provide funding for up to three years of development
in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot projects; the
addition of important materials to existing digitization projects; and the development of tools and infrastructure to
enhance the use of digitized resources
and support international digitization
work. Collaboration between U.S. and
German partners is a key requirement for
this grant category. 20101116-HG (GG
8/5/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/DFG_EDC.html
Deadline: 11/16/2010
39-4 Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Collections (NEH)
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
(SCHC) helps cultural institutions meet
the complex challenge of preserving
large and diverse holdings of humanities
materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and
prolong the useful life of collections.
Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country are
responsible for collections of books and
manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological
and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects that facilitate research,
strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the
humanities. To preserve and ensure continued access to such collections, institutions must implement preventive
conservation measures, which encompass managing relative humidity, temper-
ature, light and pollutants in collection
spaces providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections, and
safeguarding collections from theft and
from natural and man-made disasters.
NEH invites proposals that explore and
implement sustainable preservation measures that are designed to mitigate the
greatest risks to collections rather than to
meet prescriptive targets. 20101116-PF
(GG 7/28/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/SCHC.html
Deadline: 11/16/2010
EDUCATION
39-5 Research and Evaluation on
Education in Science and Engineering
(REESE) (NSF)
The goals of the REESE program are: 1)
to catalyze discovery and innovation at
the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation; 2) to stimulate the
field to produce high quality and robust
research results through the progress of
theory, method, and human resources; and
3) to coordinate and transform advances
in education, learning research, and evaluation. REESE pursues its mission by
developing an interdisciplinary research
portfolio focusing on core scientific questions about STEM learning in current and
emerging learning contexts, both formal
and informal, from childhood through
adulthood, and from before school
through to graduate school and beyond
into the workforce. REESE places particular importance upon the involvement of
young investigators in the projects, at
doctoral, postdoctoral, and early career
stages, as well as the involvement of
STEM disciplinary experts. In addition,
research questions related to educational
research methodology and evaluation are
central to the REESE activity. This solicitation calls for four types of proposals—
Pathways, Synthesis, Empirical Research,
and Large Empirical Research. NSF 10586 (GG 7/15/10)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10586/nsf10586.htm
Deadline: 11/15/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
39-6 Advanced Detector Research
Program (DOE)
The Office of High Energy Physics of the
Office of Science announces its interest in
receiving grant applications for support
under its Advanced Detector Research
Program. Applications should be from
investigators who are currently involved
in experimental high energy physics, and
should be submitted through a U.S. academic institution. The purpose of this pro-
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gram is to support the development of the
new detector technologies needed to perform future high energy physics experiments.DE-FOA-0000407 (GG 9/28/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/16/2010;
Applications 12/16/2010
39-7 Nanoelectronics for 2010 and
Beyond (NEB) (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF),
through its Directorates for Engineering,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and
Computer & Information Science & Engineering, together with the semiconductor
industry’s Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) plan to jointly support innovative research and education activities
on the topic of Nanoelectronics for 2020
and Beyond (NEB). An academic institution may submit no more than two proposals on which it is the lead organization
in response to this solicitation. NSF 10614
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10614/nsf10614.htm
Deadline: Internal 11/19/2010; Proposals 1/19/2011
39-8 Small Business Technology
Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation
FY-2011 (STTR) (NSF)
The Small Business Technology Transfer
Program (STTR) requires researchers at
universities and other research institutions
to play a significant intellectual role in the
conduct of each STTR project. These university-based researchers, by joining
forces with a small company, can spin-off
their commercially promising ideas while
they remain primarily employed at the
research institution. In recent years, digital gaming has grown exponentially in its
ability to entertain via digital worlds,
knowledge dissemination, and in skill
development. Today digitally experienced
persons learn differently, presenting new
business opportunities for small business
entrepreneurs. In this NSF STTR solicitation, the topic is exclusively focused on
“Digital Gaming in Education”. NSF 10590 (GG 8/4/10)
URL: http:www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10590/nsf10590.htm
Deadline: 11/17/2010
39-9 Research Networks in the
Mathematical Sciences (RNMS) (NSF)
The Research Networks in the Mathematical Sciences (RNMS) Program creates an
award mechanism that supports researchers in ways that are intermediate in scale,
scope, and duration to existing individual
investigator awards and research institute
awards. The RNMS Program recognizes
that, over the past quarter century, mathematical research has become increasingly
collaborative and interactive, because
effectively overcoming core scientific
challenges frequently requires the sharing
of ideas and expertise. A Research Network is not a substitute for existing funding mechanisms. In particular, it is
intended to complement (rather than
replace) individual investigator awards by
providing additional layers of interaction.
Through the involvement of postdoctoral
researchers and students and the promotion of international collaborations, the
RNMS will not only focus on problems at
the frontier of the mathematical sciences
but also lead to robust and diverse training of the next generation of mathematicians and statisticians. NSF 10-584
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10584/nsf10584.htm
Deadline: 11/9/2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES
39-10 Scientific Meetings for Creating
Interdisciplinary Research Teams in
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
Research (R13) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) solicits Research Conference
Grant (R13) applications for scientific
meetings aimed at building interdisciplinary research teams in basic behavioral
and social science research (b-BSSR).
Applicants must propose developmental
activities (i.e., meetings/workshops) that
will build the capacity of interdisciplinary
teams to accelerate, expand, and/or
strengthen fundamental knowledge in BBSSR as relevant to the Nation’s health
and well-being. Proposed interdisciplinary teams must include at least one
investigator from the basic social and/or
behavioral sciences, and must include
investigators from at least one additional
discipline. RFA-CA-10-017 (NIHG 8/27/
10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-CA-10-017.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/14/2010
Applications 12/14/2010
STUDENTS
39-11 Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
(Wilson)
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowships are designed to
encourage original and significant study
of ethical or religious values in all fields
of the humanities and social sciences, and
particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in
these fields complete their dissertation
work in a timely manner. In addition to
topics in religious studies or in ethics
(philosophical or religious), dissertations
appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship
competition might explore the ethical
implications of foreign policy, the values
influencing political decisions, the moral
codes of other cultures, and religious or
ethical issues reflected in history or literature.
URL: http://www.woodrow.org/
newcombe
Deadline: 11/15/2010
39-12 EPA Science To Achieve Results
(STAR) Fellowships For Graduate
Environmental Study (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
offering Graduate Fellowships for master’s and doctoral level studies in environmental fields of study.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2011/
2011_star_gradfellow.html
Deadline: 11/5/2010
39-13 Graduate Research Fellowship
Program (GRFP) (NSF)
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Program (GRFP) program recognizes and
supports outstanding graduate students
who are pursuing research-based master’s
and doctoral degrees in fields within
NSF’s mission. The GRFP provides three
years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant
achievements in science and engineering
research. The ranks of NSF Fellows
include individuals who have made transformative breakthroughs in science and
engineering research and have become
leaders in their chosen careers and Nobel
laureates. NSF 10-604
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10604/nsf10604.htm
Deadline: 11/15/2010
39-14 East Asia and Pacific Summer
Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students
(EAPSI) (NSF)
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering: 1) firsthand research experiences in Australia,
China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan; 2) an introduction to
the science, science policy, and scientific
infrastructure of the respective location
and 3) an orientation to the society, culture and language. NSF 10-591
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10591/nsf10591.htm
Deadline: 11/10/2010
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,
Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, 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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