Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 12, 2010
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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
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Research, is the internal coordinator for
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin or by
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deadline if you wish to submit to a limited submission program. Currently
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GENERAL
10-1 Environmental Economics
Workshops, and Data Gathering for
Dissertation and Early Career Research
on the Pollution Control Aspects of
Environmental Economics (EPA)
The Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) National Center for Environmental
Economics (NCEE) is soliciting proposals
for Federal assistance for 1) sponsoring
Environmental Economics Workshops,
and for 2) research support for Data Gathering for Dissertation and Early Career
Research on the Pollution Control Aspects
of Environmental Economics. The NCEE
supports leading-edge research to stimulate the sound use of economics that fulfills EPA's mission to protect human health
and safeguard the natural environment.
NCEE and its predecessors have long
sponsored research to improve the data
and methods available to determine the
economic value of improved pollution
control and other aspects of environmental
economics. EPA-OPEI-NCEE-10-01 (GG
3/10/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/26/2010
10-2 Quantum Effects in Biological
Vol. 19, No. 10
Environments (QuBE) (DARPA)
DARPA is soliciting innovative research
proposals in the areas of quantum effects
in a biological environment. Proposed
research should establish beyond any
doubt that manifestly quantum effects
occur in biology, and demonstrate
through stimulation proof-of-concept
experiments that devices that exploit
these effects could be developed into biomimetic sensors. DARPA-BAA-10-40
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/
solicitations/solicit.htm
Deadline: Abstracts 4/8/2010; Proposals 5/3/2010
10-3 Ethics in Science, Mathematics,
and Engineering Online Resource
Center (Ethics Resource) (NSF)
The Ethics in Science, Mathematics, and
Engineering Online Resource Center
competition proposes to fund one award
to support a multidisciplinary team of
researchers who will create an online
resource center that develops, compiles,
and maintains resources related to ethics
in science, mathematics, and engineering. The research team's focus will be to
gather existing information, generate
new knowledge, and create interactive
tools that will help scientists and engineers incorporate ethical issues and reasoning into their pedagogy and research.
The online resource center should be creative, comprehensive, accessible, and
constantly evolving. NSF 10-547
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10547/nsf10547.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/30/2010;
Proposals 6/3/2010
10-4 Recovery Act Limited
Competition: The NIH Director's
ARRA Funded Pathfinder Award to
Promote Diversity in the Scientific
Workforce (DP4) (NIH)
This new FOA introduces a new research
grant program to encourage exceptionally creative individual scientists to
develop highly innovative and possibly
transforming approaches for promoting
diversity within the biomedical research
workforce. To be considered highly innovative, the proposed research must
reflect ideas substantially different from
those already being pursued or it must
apply existing research designs in new
and innovative ways to unambiguously
identify factors that will improve the
retention of students, postdocs and faculty from diverse backgrounds. Awardees must commit a major portion
(generally 30% or more) of their research
effort to activities supported by the
Director's Pathfinder Award and the proposed research must be endorsed by the
highest levels of institutional management. RFA-OD-10-013 (NIHG 3/5/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-OD-10-013.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/5/2010;
Applications 5/4/2010
AGRICULTURE
10-5 Community Outreach and
Assistance Partnership Program
(USDA)
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
(FCIC) and the Risk Management
Agency (RMA), announces the availability of funding for collaborative outreach
and assistance programs for limited
resource, socially disadvantaged and
other traditionally under-served farmers
and ranchers, who produce Priority Commodities. Recipients of awards must demonstrate non-financial benefits from a
partnership agreement and must agree to
the substantial involvement of RMA in
the project. CFDA 10.455 (FR 3/1/10)
URL: http://www.rma.usda.gov/
aboutrma/agreements/
Deadline: 4/15/2010
EDUCATION
10-6 Roses 2010: Opportunities in
Education and Public Outreach for
Earth and Space Sciences (NASA)
This Opportunities in Education and Public Outreach for Earth and Space Sciences
(EPOESS) solicitation is for project activities utilizing Science Mission Directorate
content supporting NASA education and
public outreach (E/PO) objectives. It
solicits proposals that address substantial
and substantive educational or outreach
needs or problems and offer solutions of
significant impact. NNH10ZDA001NEPOESS (GG 3/9/10)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Notice of Intent 4/2/2010;
Proposals 6/3/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
10-7 Fellowship/Scholarship Program
(DOE)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to award 5-year
cooperative agreements to accredited U.S.
Colleges and Universities to allow twoand four-year Universities to receive and
administer fellowship and scholarship
funding awarded by the U.S. Department
of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy
(DOE-NE) to selected students who will
be attending their Universities. Universities will be allocated the money for specific students selected by a separate DOENE program. These cooperative agreements will allow students from recipient
Universities to apply for DOE-NE fellow-
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ships and scholarships through separate
competitive Requests for Applications.
This vehicle establishes a mechanism for
the scholarship and/or fellowship funding
to be transferred to the Universities and
establishes the allowable costs for the
program. The fellowships and scholarships are focused on two-, four-year, and
graduate programs in science and engineering disciplines related to nuclear
energy, such as Nuclear Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Health Physics,
Nuclear Materials Science, Radiochemistry, Applied Nuclear Physics, Nuclear
Policy, Radiation Protection Technology,
Nuclear Power Technology, Nuclear
Maintenance Technology, and Nuclear
Engineering Technology. DE-FOA0000304 (GG 3/5/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/2/2011
10-8 Research in Innovative
Approaches to Fusion Energy Sciences
(DOE)
The Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) Program of the Office of Science (SC), U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE), announces
its interest in receiving grant applications
for innovative approaches to fusion
energy sciences. All individuals or groups
planning to submit applications for new
or renewal funding in Fiscal Year 2010
should submit in response to this FOA.
DE-FOA-0000286 (GG 3/2/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/30/2010
10-9 Alternatives to Conduct Energy
Less-Lethal Devices (DOJ)
Less-lethal devices employing conducted
energy (CED), such as the TASER, are
unique. They are the only devices available to law enforcement and corrections
officers today that can compel instantaneous compliance, absent the threat of use
of deadly force. With this solicitation, NIJ
seeks applications to develop, demonstrate, and test less-lethal devices that
provide the same capability but do not use
conducted energy, and which do not pose
an undue risk (ideally no risk) of injury to
the subject, bystanders, or the officer
involved. NIJ-2010-2410 (GG 2/4/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/22/2010
10-10 Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office-National Science Foundation
Academic Research Initiative (ARI)
(NSF)
In FY 2010, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will
invest, in partnership with the National
Science Foundation (NSF), in frontier
research at academic institutions. This
transformational research effort will be
focused on detection systems, individual
sensors or other research that is potentially relevant to the detection of nuclear
weapons, special nuclear material, radiation dispersal devices and related threats.
The joint DNDO-NSF efforts, in coordination with the efforts of other agencies,
seeks to advance fundamental knowledge
in new technologies for the detection of
nuclear threats and to develop intellectual
capacity in fields of relevance to longterm advances in nuclear detection capability. NSF 10-526 (GG1/18/10)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10526/nsf10526.htm
Deadline: 4/15/2010
of new theoretical approaches that will
improve our understanding of general
biological principles that account for phenomena that occur independently across
levels of biological organizations. NSF
10-525 (GG 1/18/10)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10525/nsf10525.htm
Deadline: 4/13/2010
SOCIAL SCIENCES
10-11 Energy Innovation - Fuels from
Sunlight (DOE)
10-14 Strategic Enhancement to
Mentoring Programs (DOJ)
The Department of Energy will launch
three Energy Innovation Hubs in FY2010:
Fuels from Sunlight, Energy Efficient
Building Systems Design, and Modeling
and Simulation for Nuclear Reactors. In a
new Research and Development structure
modeled on the Department's successful
Bioenergy Research Centers, each Hub
will comprise a highly comprise a highly
collaborative team, spanning multiple scientific, engineering, and where appropriate, economics, and public-policy
disciplines. By bringing together top talent across the full spectrum of Research
and Development performers, including
universities, private industry, non-profits,
and National Laboratories, each Hub is
expected to become a world-leading
Research and Development center in its
topical area. DE-FOA-0000214 (GG 12/
22/09)
URL: https://www.fedconnect.net/
FedConnect/
Deadline: 3/29/2010
While research indicates that quality mentoring is a promising delinquency prevention technique, certain program
characteristics and elements are moderators of its effectiveness. This solicitation
invites eligible applicants to propose evidence-based enhancements that are
among these moderators of program
effectiveness. The three strategies
include: 1) involving the parents in activities or services, 2) providing structured
activities and programs for the mentoring
matches, and 3) developing and implementing on-going training and support for
mentors. OJJDP-2010-2534 (GG 3/1/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/14/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
10-12 Common Pathogenic
Mechanisms of Lung Cancer and
COPD (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute and the
National Cancer Institute, solicits
Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations to
identify the fundamental etiopathogenetic commonalities between lung cancer
and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in order to characterize: a)
the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics that determine individual susceptibility; and b) the shared biochemical,
molecular, and immunological pathways
involved in the origin and progression of
the two diseases. RFA-HL-11-002 (NIHG
3/5/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-11-002.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/18/2010;
Applications 6/18/2010
10-15 Investigator Initiated Research
on Youth Settings (Grant)
The William T. Grant Foundation supports high-quality research designed to
enhance the understanding of how youth
settings work, how they affect youth
development, and how they can be
improved, as well as when, how, and
under what conditions research evidence
is used in policy and practice that affect
youth and how its use can be improved.
The foundation's current Action Topic is
improving the quality of the afterschool
programs. PND 2/12/10
URL: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/
funding_opportunities
Deadline: Letters of Inquiry 4/6/2010
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,
Danielle Brunner, Rex Goff, Adassa Roe,
Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
10-13 Advancing Theory in Biology
(ATB) (NSF)
The Biological Sciences Directorate
invites submission of proposals that
advance our conceptual and theoretical
understanding of living systems. The
Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
announcement supports the development
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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