Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 26, 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
12-4, 12-9) 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/
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index.htm
GENERAL
12-1 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative (AFRI) RFA (USDA)
USDA has just released its AFRI competitive grants program. This year the RFA is
in seven parts: Foundational Programs;
Childhood Obesity Prevention; Climate
Change; Global Food Security; Food
Safety; Sustainable Bioenergy; and the
Fellowships Grant Program which will be
released in April. Each major category has
numerous programs with deadlines that
range from April through mid-September.
Several programs have Letters of Intent
due April 14. (GG 3/22/10)
URL: http://nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/
afri_rfa.html
Deadline: First Letters of Intent 4/14/
2010, Last Applications 9/15/2010
12-2 Home and Family Based
Approaches for the Prevention or
Management of Overweight or Obesity
in Early Childhood (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) invites Research Project Grant
(R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose randomized clinical
trials testing novel home- or family-based
interventions for the prevention or man-
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agement of overweight in infancy and
early childhood. Tested interventions can
use behavioral (including dietary and
physical activity), environmental, or
other relevant approaches. Applications
should focus on infants and young children (to age six years) and emphasize the
role of home environments and the influence of family/extended family members
and parents (including guardians/substantial care-providers) within the child’s
home environment. This FOA will utilize
the research project (R01) grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of
identical scientific scope, PA-10-128,
that encourages applications under the
R21 mechanism. PA-10-127 (NIHG 3/
12/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-127.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/5/2010;
Applications 6/5/2010, 10/5/2010, 2/5/
2011
12-3 Transforming Biomedicine at
the Interface of the Life and Physical
Sciences (R01) (NIH)
The goal of this funding opportunity
announcement, issued by the National
Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, is to stimulate quantitative and physical scientists to work with
biomedical scientists to transform technological innovation and basic knowledge in the quantitative sciences into
new or improved devices or systems for
health care. PAR-10-141 (GG 3/18/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-141.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/18/2010,
4/18/2011; Applications 5/18/2010, 5/
18/2011
12-4 Team-Based Design in
Biomedical Engineering Education
(R25) (NIH)
This FOA, issued by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the Eunice K.
Shriver National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development
(NICHD), encourages applications from
institutions that propose to establish new
or to enhance existing team-based design
courses in undergraduate Biomedical
Engineering departments or programs.
This FOA targets undergraduate students at the senior level but may also
include junior undergraduates and firstyear graduate students. Courses that
address innovative and/or ground-breaking development, multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary training, and diversity
recruitment are especially encouraged.
Applicant institutions may submit only
one application per receipt date to this
FOA. PAR-10-140 (GG 3/18/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-140.html
Deadline: Internal 4/1/2010; Letters of
Intent 4/19/2010; Applications 5/18/
2010
12-5 Collaborative Research for
Molecular and Genomic Studies of
Behavior in Animal Models (R01)
(NIH)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), issued by the
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the Eunice Kennedy
Shriver National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD), is to
facilitate collaborative research, involving behavioral scientists and investigators
with expertise in molecular biology and/
or genomics, which addresses questions
about the mechanisms of behavior in animal models. Applications from multiple
PIs are encouraged. PA-10-125 (NIHG 3/
12/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-125.html
Deadline: 6/5/2010, 10/5/2010, 2/5/2011
12-6 Innovations in Biological
Imaging and Visualization (NSF)
The IBIV activity supports the development of novel approaches to the analysis
of biological research images through the
innovative Ideas Lab project development
and review process. The analysis and
visual representation of complex biological images present daunting challenges
across all scales of investigation, from
multispectral analysis of foliage or algal
bloom patterns in satellite images, to
automated specimen classification, and
tomographic reconstructions in structural
biology. The goal of this activity is to
identify opportunities for investment to
advance the state-of-the-art in biological
image analysis, data visualization,
archiving, and dissemination. Participants
selected through an open application process will engage in an intensive five-day
residential workshop to generate project
ideas through an innovative, real-time
review process. The single limit on number of proposals per PI applies to the preliminary proposal stage only. NSF 10-538
(GG 2/12/10)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10538/nsf10538.htm
Deadline: Preproposals 4/12/2010; Proposals 7/15/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
12-7 Fellowships (NEH)
Fellowships support individuals pursuing
advanced research that is of value to
humanities scholars, general audiences, or
both. Recipients have usually produced
articles, monographs, books, digital mate-
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rials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly
resources. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to
twelve months. Fellowships may not be
used for curricular or pedagogical tools,
methods, theories, or surveys; preparations or revision of textbooks; works in
the creative and performing arts, i.e.,
painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance
performance, etc.; doctoral dissertations
or theses. 20100504-FA (GG 1/19/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/fellowships.html
Deadline: 5/4/2010
EDUCATION
12-8 Transforming Undergraduate
Education in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (TUES)
(NSF)
The Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics (TUES) program seeks
to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) education for all undergraduate
students. This solicitation especially
encourages projects that have the potential to transform undergraduate STEM
education, for example, by bringing about
widespread adoption of classroom practices that embody understanding of how
students learn most effectively. Thus
transferability and dissemination are critical aspects for projects developing
instructional materials and methods and
should be considered throughout the
project’s lifetime. NSF 10-544 (GG 2/24/
10)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10544/nsf10544.htm
Deadline: 5/27/2010, 1/14/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
12-9 Instrumentation for Material
Research--Major Instrumentation
Projects (IMR-MIP) (NSF)
The Instrumentation for Materials
Research--Major Instrumentation Projects
(IMR-MIP) program in the Division of
Materials Research provides support for
the design and construction of major
instruments costing more than $4 million
but less than $20 million. While all types
of instrumentation are encouraged, in
FY2010, there will be an emphasis on
coherent light sources for R&D proposals. The program supports three types of
awards: Research and Development
(R&D), Conceptual and Engineering
Design (CED) awards, and Construction
(CNST) awards. An institution may submit at most one IMR-MIP proposal in a
given year. NSF 10-552
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10552/nsf10552.htm
Deadline: Internal 4/21/2010; Proposals 6/21/2010
12-10 Terrestrial Hydrology (NASA)
The NASA Terrestrial Hydrology program (THP) has the scientific objective to
use remote sensing to develop a predictive understanding of the role of water in
land-atmosphere interactions and to further the scientific basis of water resources
management. A current stress on interpretation of hydrological information derived
from satellites, or global circulation models (GCMs), is their native spatial resolution. The Terrestrial Hydrology program
solicits three types of research that deal
with or relate to the problem of nascent
coarse spatial scales. In particular, THP is
interested in developing science that will
further the use of future sensors for both
scientific and applied science uses.
NNH10ZDA001N-THP (GG 3/16/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 4/21/2010;
Proposals 6/15/2010
12-11 Advancing Uncertainty
Quantification (UQ) in Modeling,
Simulation, and Analysis of Complex
Systems (DOE)
The Office of Advancing Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of
Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), announces its interest in receiving
applications for research addressing the
mathematical and computational challenges of uncertainty quantification in the
modeling and simulation of complex natural and engineered systems. DE-FOA0000315 (GG 3/16/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/26/2010
12-12 NSF/FDA Scholar-in-Residence
at FDA (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have established the NSF/
FDA Scholar-in-Residence Program at
FDA. This program comprises an interagency partnership for the investigation
of scientific and engineering issues concerning emerging trends in medical
device technology. This solicitation features four flexible mechanisms for support of research at the FDA: 1) Faculty at
FDA; 2) Graduate Student Fellowships;
3) Postdoctoral Fellowships; and, 4)
Undergraduate Student Research Experiences. NSF 10-533
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10533/nsf10533.htm
Deadline: 4/27/2010, 3/15/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
12-13 Strategic Partnering to Evaluate
Cancer Signatures (SPECS II] (U01)
(NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Cancer
Institute (NCI), encourages the submission of grant applications for support of
the clinical application of multi-analyte
molecular signatures derived from comprehensive molecular annotation of
tumors. There is growing recognition in
the clinical cancer research community
that annotation of tumor specimens with
data that integrates information about
molecular alterations at the levels of
DNA, RNA, and protein provides not
only a more complete understanding of
tumor biology but also provides a significant opportunity for developing new clinical tools to improve cancer treatment.
The purpose of this initiative is to build
on recent demonstrations that molecular
signatures correlate with important clinical parameters in cancer. PAR-10-126
(NIHG 3/12/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-126.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/15/2010,
5/15/2011; Applications 6/15/2010, 6/15/
2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
12-14 Social Network Analysis and
Health (R01) (NIH)
This FOA encourages research that aims
to accomplish one or more specific goals:
1) generate new theories that would
enhance the capabilities and value of
Social Network Analysis (SNA); 2)
address fundamental questions about
social interactions and processes in social
networks; 3) address fundamental questions about social networks in relation to
health and health-related behaviors; 4)
develop innovative methodologies and
technologies to facilitate, improve, and
expand the capabilities of SNA. This
FOA will utilize the R01 grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of
identical scientific scope, PAR-10-146,
that encourages applications under the
R21 mechanism. PAR-10-145 (NIHG 3/
19/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-145.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/3/2010, 4/
11/2011; Applications 6/3/2010, 5/11/
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,
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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