Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 29, 2010
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Vol. 19, No. 4
4-2 Major Research
Instrumentation Program: Instrument
Acquisition or Development (NSF)
The Major Research Instrumentation
Program (MRI) serves to increase access
to shared scientific and engineering
instruments for research and research
training in our Nation’s institutions of
higher education, museums, science centers, and not-for-profit organizations.
This program especially seeks to
improve the quality and expand the
scope of research and research training in
science and engineering, by providing
shared instrumentation that fosters the
integration of research and education in
research-intensive learning environments. Development and acquisition of
research instrumentation for shared interand/or intra-organizational use are
encouraged, as are development efforts
that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument development capacity at academic institutions.
The limit on number of proposals per
organization is 3. If three proposals are
submitted, at least one of the proposals
must be for instrument development (i.e.,
no more than two proposals may be for
instrument acquisition). NSF 10-529
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10529/nsf10529.htm
Deadline: Internal 2/21/2010; Proposals 4/21/2010
AGRICULTURE
GENERAL
4-1 Environmental Literacy Grants
for Informal/Nonformal Science
Education (DOC)
The goal of this funding opportunity is to
support projects that engage the public in
educational activities that utilize emerging
and/or advanced technologies and leverage
NOAA assets to improve understanding,
and stewardship of the local and global
environment. There is specific interest in
projects that use emerging and/or
advanced technologies to 1) facilitate outdoor experiences involving scientific
inquiry and exploration of the natural
world apart from formal K-12 curricula
and 2) visualize, display, and interpret data
to improve understanding and provide a
systems perspective of Earth’s dynamic
processes. This program has two priorities.
Priority 1 is for large-scale projects that
occur over a longer duration with regional
to national implementation. Priority 2 is
for small-scale projects that occur over a
shorter duration with local to regional
implementation. NOAA-SEC-OED-20102002248 (GG 1/26/10)
URL: http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/
funding_opps.html
Deadline: 2/16/2010
4-3 Integrated Pest Management:
Crops at Risk, Risk Avoidance and
Mitigation, and Methyl Bromide
Transitions Competitive Grants
Programs (USDA)
NIFA announces the availability of grant
funds and requests applications for the
following programs: 1) Integrated Pest
Management: Crops at Risk Competitive Grants Program (CAR); 2) Integrated Pest Management: Risk
Avoidance and Mitigation Competitive
Grants Program (RAMP); and the 3)
Integrated Pest Management: Methyl
Bromide Transitions Competitive Grants
Program (MBT). These are integrated
pest management (IPM) programs
designed to support integrated multifunctional/multidisciplinary agricultural
research, extension, and education activities that address complex pest management priorities in United States
agriculture. Two grant types are being
solicited this year: 1) research-based
integrated grants, including at least two
of three functions (research, education,
and extension); and 2) specific education-extension focused grants. USDANIFA-ICGP-002836 (GG 1/21/10)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/methyl_bro_integrated.html
Deadline: 3/22/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
4-4 Institutes for Advanced Topics in
the Digital Humanities (NEH)
These NEH grants support national or
regional (multistate) training programs
for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these
programs, NEH seeks to increase the
number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to
broadly disseminate knowledge about
advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The
projects may be a single opportunity or
offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few
days and held at multiple locations or as
long as six weeks at a single site. Today,
complex data- its form, manipulation, and
interpretation- are as important to humanities study as more traditional research
materials. 20100217-HT (GG 11/9/09)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/IATDH.html
Deadline: 2/17/2010
EDUCATION
4-5 Youth Science (YS) Cooperative
Outreach Agreement (COA) (DOD)
The purpose of the Youth Science (YS)
Cooperative Outreach Agreement (COA)
is to solicit offers to carry out the public
purpose of support and stimulation of science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) education and outreach in conjunction with the U.S. Department of
Defense and the U.S. Department of the
Army. The Army envisions the YS COA
will bring together government and a consortium of organizations working collaboratively to further STEM education and
outreach efforts nationwide. W911NF-10R-0002 (GG 1/26/10)
URL: http://www.arl.army.mil/www/
default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8
Deadline: 3/11/2010
4-6 Program for North American
Mobility in Higher Education (ED)
This program supports the formation of
educational consortia of United States
(U.S.), Canadian, and Mexican institutions. To meet this priority, the applicant
must propose a project that supports
cooperation in the coordination of curricula; the exchange of students, if pertinent
to grant activities; and the opening of education opportunities among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. CFDA 84.116N. (FR 1/
27/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 3/24/2010
4-7
United States (U.S.)- Brazil
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Higher Education Consortia Program
(ED)
The purpose of this program is to provide
grants or enter into cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education opportunities by focusing on problem
areas in postsecondary education or
approaches to improve postsecondary
education. This program supports the formation of educational consortia of U.S.
and Brazilian institutions. To meet this
priority, the applicant must propose a
project that supports cooperation in the
coordination of curricula; the exchange of
students, if pertinent to grant activities;
and the opening of education opportunities between the U.S. and Brazil. CFDA
84.116M (GG 1/22/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 3/25/2010
4-8 Teaching American History
Grant Program (ED)
The Teaching American History Grant
(TAH) Program supports projects that aim
to raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge, understanding,
and appreciation of traditional American
history. Grant awards assist local educational agencies (LEAs), in partnership
with entities that have extensive content
expertise, in developing, implementing,
documenting, evaluating, and disseminating innovative, cohesive models of professional development. Each applicant
LEA must propose to work in partnership
with one or more of the following: An
institution of higher education. A nonprofit history or humanities organization.
A library museum. CFDA 84.215X (FR
1/21/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: Notices of Intent 2/22/2010;
Applications 3/22/2010
4-9 Arts in Education Model
Development and Dissemination
Program (ED)
The Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) Program supports the enhancement,
expansion, documentation, evaluation,
and dissemination of innovative, cohesive
models that are based on research and
have demonstrated that they effectively—
1) Integrate standards-based arts education into the core elementary and middle
school curriculum; 2) strengthen standards-based arts instruction in these
grades; and 3) improve students’ academic performance, including their skills
in creating, performing, and responding to
the arts. Eligible Applicants are: 1) One
or more local educational agencies
(LEAs), including charter schools, that
may work in partnerships with one or
more of the following: A State or local
non-profit or governmental arts organization. A State educational agency (SEA) or
regional educational service agency. An
institution of higher education. A public
or private agency, institution, or organization, such as a community-or faith-based
organization. ED-GRANTS-011510-001
(GG 1/15/10)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 2/16/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
4-10 Regional and Global Climate
Modeling Program: Modes of Low
Frequency Variability in a Changing
Climate (DOE)
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE), announces its interest
in receiving applications for research
grants on the topic of Modes of Low Frequency Variability in a Changing Climate
under the Regional and Global Climate
Modeling (RGCM) program. Simulation
of global and large-scale features of climate change has improved considerably
over the past decade; nevertheless climate
and earth system models do not yet accurately simulate major modes of low frequency climate variability, e.g., the
Pacific Decadal Variability (PDV), Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), and
the North Atlantic Oscillation. How natural climate variability interacts and modulates future climate change is a topic of
intense debate in the research community.
High risk, high pay-off research ideas that
explore innovative new directions that
further the understanding of the modes of
low frequency variability are encouraged;
they should clearly describe how the proposed ideas have the potential to lead to
breakthroughs in modeling of climate at
global and regional scales. DE-FOA0000242 (GG 1/21/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 2/18/2010;
Applications 4/12/2010
4-11 Energy Innovation HubModeling and Simulation for Nuclear
Reactors (DOE)
The U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho
Operations Office is issuing this final
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for
the Energy Innovation Hub - Modeling
and Simulation for Nuclear Reactors program. The Hubs are designed to accelerate the current state-of the art energy
science and technology toward their fundamental limits and support high-risk,
high-reward research projects that produce revolutionary changes in how we
produce and use energy. Ideally, each Hub
will have a central location housing many
investigators, who will likely span multiple disciplines. DE-FOA-0000170 (GG 1/
20/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 2/1/2010;
Applications 3/1/2010
and diversity of individuals pursuing
graduate studies in all areas of biological
research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Support will
be provided to academic institutions to
establish innovative programs to engage
undergraduates in a year-round research
and mentoring activity. Particular emphasis will be placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically
underrepresented in science and engineering: African Americans, Alaska Natives,
American Indians, Hispanic Americans,
Native Hawaiians and other Pacific
Islanders, and persons with disabilities.
Only 1 proposal per organization is
allowed. NSF 10-531
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10531/nsf10531.htm
Deadline: Internal 2/26/2010; Proposals 4/26/2010, 3/1/2011
4-13 Human Brown Adipose Tissue:
Methods for Measurement of Mass and
Activity (R21) (NIH)
This FOA issued by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of
Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering,
National Institutes of Health, solicits
applications for Exploratory/Development Research Grants (R21) to develop
tools and methods capable of measuring
the mass of brown adipose tissue (BAT)
in human populations (e.g. amounts in
different depots, amounts mixed in with
WAT and muscle); to develop new tools
to modulate and measure the metabolic
activity of human BAT, or to develop
additional markers of human BAT tissue
mass or activity. RFA-DK-10-002 (NIHG
12/4/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DK-10-002.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/10/2010,
10/13/2010; Applications 3/10/2010, 11/
10/2010
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
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
4-12 Undergraduate Research and
Mentoring in the Biological Sciences
(URM) (NSF)
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
The goal of the Undergraduate Research
and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences
(URM) program is to increase the number
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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