Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
August 27, 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
32-5) 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
GENERAL
32-1 Kansas Statewide EPSCoR
Conference (KS)
The Kansas Statewide Conference,
Energy, Climate and the Future: The Role
of Kansas, will be held October 4, 2010,
7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m at the Adams
Alumni Center, University of Kansas.
Keynote speakers are George Crabtree,
Senior Scientist, Distinguished Fellow and
Associate Division Director in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National
Laboratory, and Linda Mearns, Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Executive Director
of the North American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program and Director
of the Institute for the Study of Society and
the Environment. The conference will also
feature research highlights and posters
from the current Kansas NSF EPSCoR
major initiative, Climate Change and
Renewable Energy. For information and to
register:
URL: http://www.nsfepscor.ku.edu/2010stateconference.html
Deadline: Registration 9/27/2010
32-2 NSF Day Workshop (KU)
The National Science Foundation has
Vol. 19, No. 32
planned an NSF Day workshop at KU on
Tuesday, October 5, the day following
the EPSCoR Conference.While primarily
designed for less experienced researchers, all are welcome. There will be representatives from the 7 NSF directorates
and also International Science and Engineering. For more information and to
register:
URL: http://www.rgs.ku.edu/nsf/
Deadline: Registration 9/27/2010
32-3 New Grant Challenges
Explorations (Gates)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is
now accepting grant proposals for Round
6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an
initiative to encourage innovative and
unconventional global health solutions.
Applicants can be at any experience
level, in any discipline, and from any
organization. Grant proposals are being
accepted online on the following topics:
The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to
Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication; Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies; Design new
Approaches to Cure HIV Infection; Create New Technologies to improve the
Health of Mothers and Newborns; Create
Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Diseases.
URL: http://www.grandchallenges.org/
Pages/default.aspx
Deadline: 11/2/2010
32-4 NIH Common Fund
Transformative Research Projects
Program (R01) (NIH)
Through the NIH Common Fund, the
National Institutes of Health invite transformative Research Project Grant (R01)
applications from institutions/organizations proposing groundbreaking exceptionally innovative, high risk, original
and/or unconventional research with the
potential to create new scientific paradigms or challenge existing ones.
Projects must clearly demonstrate potential to produce a major impact in a broad
area of biomedical or behavioral
research. RFA-RM-10-010 (NIHG 8/6/
10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-10-010.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/27/2010;
Applications 10/27/2010
32-5 ADVANCE: Increasing the
Participation and Advancement of
Women in Academic Science and
Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
(NSF)
The goal of the ADVANCE program is to
develop systemic approaches to increase
the representation and advancement of
women in academic science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM)
careers. In 2011-2012, this program will
support the following types of
ADVANCE Projects: Institutional Transformation (IT) awards are expected to
include innovative systemic organizational approaches to transform institutions
of higher education in ways that will
increase the participation and advancement of women in STEM academic
careers. IT-Catalyst awards (IT-Catalyst)
are designed to support historically
resource-challenged institutions in efforts
to conduct institutional self-assessment
activities, such as data collection and
analysis and policy review, in order to
identify specific issues in the recruitment,
retention and promotion of women faculty in STEM academics within an institution of higher education. Partnerships
for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) awards may focus on
one institution or organization, or they
may be a partnership between several
institutions and/or organizations. PAID
projects can focus on all STEM disciplines, several disciplines, or only one
discipline, including the social and behavioral sciences. Proposers may submit only
one Institutional Transformation proposal
or one IT-Catalyst proposal. There is no
limit on the number of PAID proposals
that can be submitted. NSF 10-593
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10593/nsf10593.htm
Deadline: Internal 9/4/2010; Letters of
Intent 10/4/2010; Proposals 11/7/2010
HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES
32-6 FY 2011 COBRE CCET Pilot
Project Competition (KS)
COBRE Pilot Project Awards are grants
that stimulate competitive extramural
research funding for tenure-track or tenured faculty members. The awards are to
be used to generate or strengthen existing
preliminary data to increase to competitiveness of NIH R01 applications. Proposed research must be related to cancer.
The relevance of the proposed research to
cancer should be stated clearly in the proposal and be reflected in the title of the
Pilot Project grant application. Joint
applications from several investigators
are highly encouraged. All applications
MUST utilize one or both of the COBRE
core facilities (Medicinal Chemistry or
High Throughput Screening).
URL: http://ccet.cobre.ku.edu
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/1/2010;
Proposals 9/13/2010
32-7 Mechanisms Mediating Changes
in Central Regulation of Bone Mass
(R01) (HHS)
This FOA issued by the National Institute
on Aging (NIA), solicits Research Project
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Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to investigate neural, neuroendocrine and/or
related integrative physiological mechanisms that mediate age dependent
changes in bone metabolism and health.
The discovery that leptin, secreted by adipocytes, regulates bone mass through a
central relay involving serotonergic neurons has generated considerable interest
and raised many additional questions
about the identity of neural mediator(s)
linking the brain to skeletal physiology as
well as the potential involvement of other
factors whether they be neural/hypothalamic factors (Serotonin, TSH and FSH,
ephrins, dynorphins, endocannabiniods/
receptors) or other factors such as ACTH,
as well as distant tissues/organs such as
adipose tissue) in regulating bone mass as
well as distant tissues/organs. In addition,
recent reports indicate that direct innervations are important in mechanical load
sensing and bone remodeling. Furthermore, in view of the well documented
age-related changes in neuroendocrine
activity, this emerging field of research
will significantly reshape our understanding of mechanisms modulating agerelated changes in bone mass (increase or
decrease in bone mass and/or the etiology
of osteoporosis). We are interested in
studies to identify and characterize agerelated changes in these factors that serve
to integrate activity influencing bone
mass as well as integrative cross talk
mechanisms (neural, endocrine, immune
or novel) that coordinate these signaling
pathways. RFA-AG-11-006 (NIHG 8/6/
10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AG-11-006.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/14/2010;
10/14/2010
32-8 Awards for Cancer-Relevant
Research and Training (KSU)
The Johnson Center for Basic Cancer
Research supports and enhances cancerrelated research and training at K-State.
Faculty performing cancer-relevant
research are invited to become affiliated
researchers and apply for various awards.
Innovative Research Awards provide seed
money to gather preliminary data crucial
for future major grant proposals. Faculty
Equipment Awards provide funds for new
equipment. Travel Awards are provided to
affiliates in modest amounts for travel to
learn new scientific techniques or visit
collaborators at other institutions. Awards
for graduate student travel and summer
stipends are also available.
URL: http://cancer.k-state.edu/awardprograms
Deadline: 10/1/2010 and 3/1/2011
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
32-9 International Incentive Grants
(KSU)
The primary purpose of the International
Incentive Grants is to promote the internationalization of the university. This
covers a broad area, but it is anticipated
that the majority of proposals will fall into
the following broad categories: 1) Incorporation of global perspectives/components into curriculum or campus
program(s), including bringing international visitors/lectures to K-State; 2)
Development of global learning opportunities, including study abroad courses
and/or internship programs with companies or partner universities overseas; 3)
International research/teaching, including organizing international workshops
and conferences, and planning visits to
initiate collaborative research/teaching.
URL: http://www.k-state.edu/oip/grants/
index.html
Deadline: 9/1/2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES
32-10 Biobehavioral Research Awards
for Innovative New Scientists
(BRAINS) (R01) (NIH)
The Biobehavioral Research Awards for
Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS)
award is intended to support the research
and research career development of outstanding scientists who are in the early,
formative stages of their careers and who
plan to make a long term career commitment to research in specific mission areas
of the NIMH. This award seeks to assist
these individuals in launching an innovative clinical, translational, basic or services research program that holds the
potential to profoundly transform the
understanding, diagnosis, treatment, or
prevention of mental disorders. Each year
the BRAINS program will focus on a specific area of research and/or research
career development need. For FY 2011,
the BRAINS program will focus on the
research priorities and gap areas identified in the NIMH Strategic Plan. RFAMH-11-050 (NIHG 8/6/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-MH-11-050.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/20/2010;
Applications 10/19/2010
32-11 Subjective Well-being: Advances
in Measurement and Applications to
Aging (R01) (NIH)
This NIH Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) issued by the
National Institute on Aging and the
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, solicits Research
Project Grant (R01) applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to
advance the application of well-being
measurement to the integrated study of
experienced and evaluative well-being in
aging-relevant contexts. This FOA is
intended to capitalize on recent advances
in a) approaches to measurement of both
experience well-being (e.g. reports of
momentary positive and rewarding, or
negative and distressing states) and evaluative well-being (e.g., cognitive judgments of overall life satisfaction or
dissatisfaction); b) understanding of psychological changes associated with aging
that might impact these experiences and
evaluations; and c) global interest in well-
being measurement as a critical index of
the success or failure of economic, social
and health policies. This FOA solicits
applications from interdisciplinary teams
including behavioral scientists, psychologists, sociologists, biomedical researchers, economists and population scientists
to explore which aspects of experienced
and evaluative well-being, time use, and
context promote or impede healthy aging;
to enhance measurement of these factors
in both laboratory and survey environments; and to identify modifiable factors
in individuals or societies that might be
potential targets for intervention. RFAAG-11-003 (NIHG 6/25/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AG-11-003.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/3/2010;
Applications 11/3/2010
STUDENTS
32-12 Awards for Undergraduate and
Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral
Fellows for Cancer-Relevant Research,
Training, and Travel (KSU)
The Johnson Center for Basic Cancer
Research at K-State supports students and
post-doctoral fellows wishing to participate in cancer-related laboratory research.
Undergraduate students are encouraged to
apply along with cancer center-affiliated
faculty researchers for Cancer Research
Awards. Student winners work on real
research projects in their mentors’ laboratories and receive $1,000 awards in late
spring. Mentors also receive $1,000 per
student for research expenses. Graduate
students and post-doctoral fellows working with affiliated researchers may apply
via their faculty mentors for Travel
Awards to attend professional meetings or
workshops. Faculty may also apply for
summer stipends for their graduate students.
URL: http://cancer.k-state.edu/awardprograms
Deadline: Biannually 10/1/2010 and 3/
1/2011
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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