Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 19, 2010
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proposals that may be submitted by a
single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
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Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin (FB
11-13) or by at least two months prior to
the sponsor deadline if you wish to submit to a limited submission program.
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GENERAL
11-1 Computing in the Cloud (CiC)
(NSF)
Cloud services represent a growing paradigm of on-demand access (as a service) to
computing, data and software utilities, an
abstraction of unlimited resources, and a
usage-based billing model where users
essentially rent virtual resources and pay
for what they use. It is anticipated that
cloud platforms and services will increasingly play a critical role in academic, government and industry sectors, and will thus
have widespread societal impact. NSF’s
goal is to provide the science and engineering communities with the opportunity
to leverage highly-scalable cloud computing and data-intensive computing and their
applications. This solicitation specifically
focuses on the use of Microsoft’s Windows
Azure platform as a complement to the
computational platforms that NSF has
made available to the research community
to date. CiC proposals may be submitted in
response to this solicitation, or as supplements to existing awards, or as EAGER
proposals. NSF 10-550
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10550/nsf10550.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/30/2010;
Proposals 6/15/2010
Vol. 19, No. 11
11-2 Transatlantic Cooperation in
Research (TransCoop) (Humbolt)
The Alexander von Humbolt Foundation
supports transatlantic research cooperative between German, American and/or
Canadian scholars in the humanities,
social sciences, and law. Funds can be
used: to 1) finance short-term research
visits lasting up to three months, 2) to
organize conferences and workshops, 3)
for material, equipment, and printing
costs, and 4) for a limited amount of
research assistance. Applications should
be submitted jointly by at least one German and one U.S. and/or Canadian
scholar. A Ph.D. is required of both
applicants.
URL: http://www.humboltfoundation.de/web/8175.html
Deadline: 4/30/2010, 10/31/2010
AGRICULTURE
11-3 Farmers Market Promotion
Program (USDA)
This year Farmers Market Promotion
Program will emphasize three priorities
during the 2010 grant period: 1) focus on
the recruitment and retention of new
farmers to participate at farmers markets
and other direct-to-consumer farm marketing outlets; 2) develop professional
expertise for farmers market managers,
farmers/vendors, boards and organizations to effectively mange and/or operate
farmers markets and other direct marketing enterprises; and 3) improve food
access in local, rural and underserved
communities to promote the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables from
local farms.
URL: http://www.ams.usda.gov/FMPP
Deadline: 4/15/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
11-4 Challenge Grants (NEH)
NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions
and organizations secure long-term
improvements in and support for their
humanities programs and resources.
Grants may be used to establish or
enhance endowments or spend-down
funds (that is, funds that are invested,
with both the income and the principal
being expended over a defined period of
years) that generate expendable earnings
to support ongoing program activities.
Funds may also be used for one-time
capital expenditures (such as construction and renovation, purchase of equipment, and acquisitions) that bring longterm benefits to the institution and to the
humanities more broadly. 20100505-CH
(GG 3/9/10)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/challenge.html
Deadline: 5/5/2010
EDUCATION
11-5 Foreign Language Assistance
Program--Local Educational Agencies
with Institutions of Higher Education
(ED)
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) provides grants to local
educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative model programs providing for the
establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students.
5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to
work in partnership with one or more
institutions of higher education to establish or expand articulated programs of
study in languages critical to U.S national
security in order to enable successful students, as they advance from elementary
school through secondary school and college, to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages. CFDA
84.293A (FR 3/15/10).
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/26/2010;
Applications 4/14/2010
11-6 Investing in Innovation Fund
(ED)
The Investing in Innovation Fund provides funding to support 1) local educational agencies (LEAs), and 2) nonprofit
organizations in partnership with (a) one
or more LEAs or (b) a consortium of
schools. The purpose of this program is to
provide competitive grants to applicants
with a record of improving student
achievement and attainment in order to
expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are
demonstrated to have an impact on
improving student achievement or student
growth, closing achievement gaps,
decreasing dropout rates, increasing high
school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.
Under this program, the Department is
awarding three types of grants: Scale-up
grants, Validation grants, and Development grants. CFDA 84.396 A, B, C (FR 3/
12/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/1/2010;
Applications 5/11/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
11-7 University Turbine Systems
Research (UTSR) Program (DOE)
The UTSR program addresses key technologies needed to enable the development of advanced turbines and turbinebased systems that will operate cleanly
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and efficiently when fueled with coalderived synthesis gas and hydrogen fuels.
Developing turbine technology to operate
on coal-derived synthesis gas and hydrogen is critical to the development of coal
based power generation technologies such
as integrated gasification combined cycle
(IGCC) and the deployment of IGCC
power plants that capture and sequester
carbon dioxide. The Advanced Turbine
Program in an investment in secure U.S.
electric power production that is clean,
efficient, affordable, and fuel-flexible,
and will make possible the continued use
of coal; our Nation’s largest domestic fossil energy resource. DE-FOA-0000248
(GG 3/15/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 4/28/2010
11-8 Broad Agency Announcement
Microsystems Technology Office
(DARPA)
The Microsystems Technology Office’s
(MTO) mission is to exploit breakthroughs in materials, devices, circuits,
and mathematics to develop beyond leading edge Microsystems components with
revolutionary performances and functionality to enable new platform capability for
the Department of Defense. To execute
this mission, MTO supports revolutionary
research in electronics, photonics,
MEMS, algorithms, and combined Microsystems technology to deliver new capabilities to sense, communicate, energize,
actuate, and process data and information
for the war fighter. MTO regularly publishes Broad Agency Announcements
requesting responses to specific program
topics. This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being
addressed by ongoing MTO programs or
other published BAA solicitations. This
BAA is primarily, but not solely, intended
for early stage research that may lead to
larger, focused, MTO programs in the
future. DARPA-BAA-10-35 (GG 3/2/10)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/mto/
solicitations/index.html
Deadline: 3/1/2011
11-9 Theoretical Research in
Magnetic Fusion Energy Science
(DOE)
The Fusion Energy Science (FES) program of the Office of Science (SC), U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE), announces
its interest in receiving grant applications
for theoretical research relevant to the
U.S. program in magnetic fusion energy
sciences. The specific areas of interest
are: 1) Magnetohydrodynamics; 2) Confinement and Transport; 3) Boundary
Physics; 4) Plasma Heating, Non-Inductive Current Drive, and Energetic Particles; 5) Innovative Magnetic
Confinement Concepts; 6.) Atomic and
Molecular Processes in Plasmas. In this
FOA, priority will be given to work that is
in support of developing an understanding
of the edge or boundary plasma in tokamaks. Developing a predictive understanding of the plasma edge in a tokamak
is a critical research need for the magnetic
fusion energy sciences program, since the
edge appears to determine many of the
properties and the performance of tokamak plasmas. DE-FOA-0000252 (GG 1/
28/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/5/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
11-10 Dimensions of Biodiversity
(NSF)
The Dimensions of Biodiversity initiative
seeks to characterize biodiversity on
Earth by using integrative, innovative
approaches to fill rapidly the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the
diversity of life on Earth. This campaign
will take a broad view of biodiversity, and
in its initial phase will focus on the integration of genetic, taxonomic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity.
Successful proposals should integrate
these three dimensions to understand
interactions and feedbacks among them.
NSF 10-548
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10548/nsf10548.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/7/2010;
Proposals 6/8/2010
11-11 DoD Breast Cancer Innovator
Award (DOD)
The Innovator Award supports visionary
individuals who have demonstrated creativity, innovative work, and leadership in
any field including, but not limited to,
breast cancer. These individuals will have
the most potential for future groundbreaking achievements in breast cancer.
The Innovator Award will provide these
individuals with the funding and freedom
to pursue their most novel, visionary,
high-risk ideas that could ultimately lead
to the whole eradication of breast cancer.
W81XWH-10-BCRP-INNOV (GG 2/16/
10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/7/2010
11-12 DoD Breast Cancer Era of Hope
Scholar Award (DOD)
Centers (P30) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of
Health, solicits grant applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to
establish core centers that are part of an
integrated program of nutrition and/or
obesity research. The purpose of this Centers program is to bring together, on a
cooperative basis, basic science and clinical investigators to enhance the effectiveness of their research related to nutrition
and/or obesity. Applicants may submit
only one application. RFA-DK-10-003
(NIHG 1/29/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DK-10-003.html
Deadline: Internal 4/15/10; Letters of
Intent 5/25/2010; Applications 6/22/
2010
11-14 DoD Multiple Sclerosis Concept
Award (DOD)
The intent of this award mechanism is to
support the exploration of a highly innovative new concept or untested theory that
addresses an important problem relevant
to MS. Innovation and novelty of the concept are the most important aspects of this
award mechanism. W81XWH-10-MSRPCA (GG 1/21/10)
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/
msrp.htm
Deadline: Preapplications 3/25/2010;
Applications 4/8/2010
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
The Era of Hope Scholar Award supports
individuals who are early in their careers
and have high potential for innovation in
breast cancer research. These individuals
should be exceptionally talented scientists
who have demonstrated that they are the
“best and brightest” in their field(s)
through extraordinary creativity, vision,
and productivity. They also should exhibit
strong potential for leadership in the
breast cancer research community, and be
able to articulate a vision for the eradication of breast cancer. Individuals should
challenge current dogma and demonstrate
an ability to look beyond traditional and
convention. W81XWH-10-BCRP-EOHS
(GG 2/16/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/7/2010
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
11-13 Nutrition Obesity Research
Congressional Relations
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
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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