Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
July 9, 2010
Vol. 19, No. 27
Program Information
27-2 Triple Bottom Line Accounting
Competition (DOC)
To receive program information, please
contact Beverly Page, Information Specialist, Research and Sponsored Programs, phone: (785)532-5045, e-mail:
bbpage@ksu.edu
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) seeks applications to
research, develop, and disseminate metrics to enable policymakers and practitioners to more effectively understand how
to assess the triple bottom line (economic, environment, and social impacts)
of various economic development activities. EDA’s mission is to lead the Federal
economic development agenda by promoting innovation and competitiveness,
preparing American regions for growth
and success in the worldwide economy.
In large part, development practitioners’
and policymakers’ lack of utilization of
the triple bottom line concept is due to a
lack of research on how the concept
could be adapted from its original corporate focus to fit the needs of local governments. In order to rectify this, EDA
solicits applications from qualified
researchers to develop and disseminate
metrics for assessing the economic,
social, and environmental impacts of
development efforts on a regional economy. EDA07012010TBL
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 8/13/2010
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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
27-3, 27-10) 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
27-1 Defense University Research
Instrumentation Program (DURIP) For FORCE (DOD)
The Department of Defense (DoD)
announces the Fiscal Year 2011 Defense
University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), a part of the University
Research Initiative (URI). DURIP is
designed to improve the capabilities of
U.S. institutions of higher education to
conduct research and to educate scientists
and engineers in areas important to
national defense, by providing funds for
the acquisition of research equipment. This
announcement seeks proposals to purchase
instrumentation in support of research in
areas of interest to the DoD, including
areas of research supported by the administering agencies. A central purpose of the
DURIP is to provide equipment to enhance
research-related education. Therefore proposals must address the impact of the
equipment on the institution’s ability to
educate students, through research, in disciplines important to DoD missions.
AFOSR-BAA-2010-4 (GG 7/7/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/14/2010
27-3 Partnerships for Innovation
(PFI) (NSF)
One of the general goals of the Partnerships for Innovation Program (PFI) is to
stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the research and education enterprise into innovations that
create new wealth; build strong local,
regional, and national economies; and
improve the national well-being. Aligned
with this goal, the PFI competition for
FY 2011 funds will provide support for
innovation capacity building to sustained, dynamic interactive knowledgeenhancing partnership groups composed
of academic researchers and small business practitioners focused on intense
exploration, re-definition, and creation of
novel platforms for translating research
and moving it towards impact. The basic
organizational core of each proposed
knowledge-enhancing partnership group
must be composed of an academic lead
institution and, at a minimum, two small
businesses. Academic institutions are
limited to participation in only one proposal. One of the Co-PIs must be a
Senior Administrator (at the level of
dean or above in the reporting structure,
for example, Dean, Vice President for
Academic Research, Provost, etc.), who
has a demonstrated commitment to
knowledge transfer of university
research. NSF 10-581
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10581/nsf10581.htm
Deadline: Internal 8/1/2010; Letters of
Intent 10/1/2010; Proposals 12/4/2010
27-4 Grant Opportunities for
Academic Liaison with Industry
(GOALI) (NSF)
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) promotes university-industry partnerships by making
project funds or fellowships/traineeships
available to support an eclectic mix of
industry-university linkages. Special
interest is focused on affording the opportunity for: Faculty, postdoctoral fellows,
and students to conduct research and gain
experience in an industrial setting; Industrial scientists and engineers to bring
industry’s perspective and integrative
skills to academe; and Interdisciplinary
university-industry teams to conduct
research projects. This solicitation targets
high-risk/high-gain research with a focus
on fundamental research, new approaches
to solving generic problems, development
of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct
transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. GOALI seeks to fund
transformative research that lies beyond
that which industry would normally fund.
NSF 10-580
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10580/nsf10580.htm
Deadline: Varies
27-5 Career Awards at the Scientific
Interface
BWF’s Career Awards at the Scientific
Interface provide $500,000 to bridge
advanced postdoctoral training and the
first three years of faculty service. These
awards are intended to foster the early
career development of researchers with
backgrounds in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences and engineers
whose work addresses biological questions. These awards are open to U.S. and
Canadian citizens or permanent residents
as well as to U.S. temporary residents. In
previous years, candidates for this award
had to be nominated by a North American
degree-granting institution. This year, eligible candidates for this award may selfnominate by submitting a preproposal by
September 1, 2010.
URL: http://www.bwfund.org
Deadline: Preproposal 9/1/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
27-6 Teaching Development
Fellowships (NEH)
Teaching Development Fellowships
(TDF) support college and university
teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving their undergraduate
teaching. The program has three broad
goals: 1) to improve the quality of humanities education in the United States; 2) to
strengthen the link between research and
teaching in the humanities; and 3) to fos-
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ter excellence in undergraduate instruction. Projects must improve an existing
undergraduate course that has been taught
in at least THREE different terms prior to
the application deadline and will continue
to be taught by the applicant. The
research undertaken as a part of the
project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related
subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning.
Projects may in part entail the development of a language skill or the acquisition
of digital skills in order to carry out the
proposed research. 20100930-FW (GG 6/
30/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/td_fellowships.html
Deadline: 9/30/2010
27-7 Enduring Questions (NEH)
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports the development of a new
course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring
question. This course will encourage
undergraduates and teachers to grapple
with a fundamental question addressed by
the humanities, and to join together in a
deep and sustained program of reading in
order to encounter influential thinkers
over the centuries and into the present
day. What is an enduring question? The
following list is neither prescriptive nor
exhaustive but serves to illustrate. What is
the good life? What is good government?
Is there such a thing as a just war? What is
friendship? What is beauty? What is the
relationship between humans and the natural world? What is evil? Are there universals in human nature? What are the
origins of the universe? Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline,
field, or professions can lay an exclusive
claim. 20100915-AQ (GG 6/23/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
Deadline: 9/15/2010
EDUCATION
27-8 Teachers for a Competitive
Tomorrow (TCT): Programs for
Master’s Degrees in Science,
Technology, Engineering, Mathematics,
or Critical Foreign Language
Education (ED)
The purpose of the TCT program is to
enable partnerships served by eligible
recipients to develop and implement 2- or
3-year part-time master’s degree programs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or critical foreign
language education for teachers in order
to enhance the teachers’ content knowledge and pedagogical skills; or to develop
and implement programs for professionals in science technology, engineering,
mathematics, or critical foreign language
education that lead to a master’s degree in
teaching that results in teacher certification. ED-GRANTS-063010-002 (GG 6/
30/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 7/30/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
27-9 Early Career Research Program
(DOE)
The Office of Science of the Department
of Energy invites grant applications for
support under the Early Career Research
program in the following program areas:
Advanced Scientific Computing Research
(ASCR); Biological and Environmental
Research (BER); Basic Energy Sciences
(BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES);
High Energy Physics (HEP), and Nuclear
Physics (NP). The purpose of this program is to support the development of
individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to
stimulate research careers in the areas
supported by the DOE Office of Science.
DE-FOA-0000395 (GG 7/1/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 8/13/2010;
Applications 11/9/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
27-10 Career Awards for Medical
Scientists (CAMS) (BWF)
In response to the NIH’s K99/R00 Pathway to Independence program, BWF has
shifted the focus of the CABS program to
address the ongoing problem of increasing the number of physician scientists and
keeping them in research. The CAMS
program provides financial support to
bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship
training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of
basic biomedical, disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research.
Candidates must: be clinical fellows, residents, or postdoctoral researchers and
must have at least two years of research
experience at the time of application; hold
an M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., Pharm.D., or
equivalent clinical degree. U.S. or Canadian institutions—including affiliated
medical schools, graduate schools, and all
related hospitals and research institutes—
may nominate up to five candidates. BWF
encourages institutions to nominate
women and underrepresented minorities.
URL: http:www.bwfund.org/
page.php?mode=privateview&pageID=1
88
Deadline: Internal 8/1/2010; Nominations 10/1/2010
27-11 Identification and
Characterization of Molecular Targets
Within the mTOR Pathway With
Potential to Impact Healthspan and
Lifespan (R21) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Institute
on Aging and the National Cancer Institute encourages grant applications
focused on: 1) identifying novel targets
within the mTOR (mammalian target of
rapamysin) signaling network, the manipulation of which has the potential to promote healthy aging, i.e. extend health
span in the aged (NIA interest); and 2)
identifying and characterizing dietary
constituents that modulate the mTOR
pathway and promote cancer prevention
(NCI interest). Identification and characterization of targets can utilize a wide
range of approaches, including medicinal
chemistry, in vitro assays, and studies in
lower organisms or mammalian models.
PA-10-164
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-164.html
Deadline: 6/16/2010, 10/16/2010, 2/16/
2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
27-12 Dear Colleague Letter for Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Research
Related to the Gulf Oil Spill and Other
Disasters (NSF)
The consequences of the Gulf oil spill
seem likely to be broad and long-lasting.
There are local, state, regional, national,
and international aspects to the situation,
and an unusual confluence of biological,
geological, and human elements. This
Gulf oil spill is the latest in a series of
disasters that provide opportunities to
examine the ways in which people and
organizations anticipate, prepare for,
respond to, and emerge from disasters.
Events like these offer special opportunities to examine broad issues like resilience, adaptation, and vulnerability while
conducting scientifically sounds research
that provides fundamental new knowledge. The Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE)
encourages scholars to consider how the
Gulf oil spill and other disasters may provide an opportunity to pursue research
that will produce fundamental, theoryenhancing contributions to the social,
behavioral, and economic sciences. If a
research problem involves ephemeral data
so that data collection absolutely cannot
wait to begin until December, then the PI
should consider submitting a RAPID proposal. NSF 10-063
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10063/nsf10063.jsp
Deadline: Varies
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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