Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 22, 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 Provost for
Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
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guikema@ksu.edu, by the Internal due
date listed in the Funding Bulletin 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.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
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GENERAL
3-1 Shared Instrumentation Grant
Program (S10) (NIH)
The NCRR Shared Instrumentation Grant
(S10) program encourages applications
from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of
expensive, specialized, commercially
available instrumentation or an integrated
system that costs at least $100,000. The
maximum award is $600,000. Types of
instruments supported included confocal
and electron microscopes, biomedical
imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA
sequencers, biosensors, cell sorters, X-ray
diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers among others. To be eligible to apply,
thee or more NIH funded investigators
(Principal Investigators of active P01,
R01, U01, R35, R37, DP1, or DP2
research grants) who will be users of the
requested instruments must be identified.
PAR-10-082 (GG 1/12/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-082.html
Deadline: 3/23/2010
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cations from institutions/organizations
that propose to study research integrity
as it relates to collaborative interactions
and/or activities. The R21 exploration/
developmental mechanism will be used
to foster research where there are few
published data and where problem areas
that would benefit from further investigation could be identified. Applications
must address the influence of collaborative interaction and/or activities on
research integrity in at least one of the
following area that are of particular interest to the ORI and NIH: the clarification
of community norms and standards, the
effectiveness of self-regulation, the societal, organizational, group, or individual
factors that affect integrity in research,
both positively and negatively, or the
impacts of non-adherence to accepted
codes of conduct. RFA-RR-10-007 (GG
12/1/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RR-10-001.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/7/2010;
Applications 4/7/2010
AGRICULTURE
3-3 Strategic Agricultural Initiative
(SAI) Grant Program FY 2010 (EPA)
EPA Region 7 is seeking applications
from eligible organizations that will promote the transition to reduced-risk pest
management practices in agriculture to
protect human health and the environment. The SAI program focuses on
financial resources primarily on minor
agricultural crop production. The SAI
was developed as EPA’s outreach program to demonstrate and facilitate the
adoption of farm pest management practices that will enable growers to transition away from the use of high-risk
pesticides. The SAI encourages the
development of pest management practices and products that are less toxic,
effective and supports the implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act.
The in-field adoption by farmers of
potential low-risk integrated crop or pest
management tools and strategies is a priority. The program supports innovative
efforts that enable growers to decrease
reliance on agricultural chemicals while
maintaining economic viability. This can
be done by developing, demonstrating
and/or applying reduced-risk alternatives and ecologically-based integrated
approaches to pest management. EPAR7WWPD-10-001 (GG 1/13/10)
URL: http://www.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/12/2010
ARTS & HUMANITIES
3-2 Research on Integrity in
Collaborative Research (R21) (NIH)
This FOA encourages research grant appli-
3-4
NEA Literature Fellowships:
Creative Writing, FY 2011 (NEA)
A Poetry fellowship must be scheduled to
begin between January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2012, and may extend up to two
years. Fellowships in prose (fiction and
creative nonfiction) or poetry are available to published creative writers. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time
for writing, research, travel, and general
career advancement. This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships
in prose available in FY 2010 and fellowships in poetry available in FY 2011. Individuals may apply for only one each year.
Competition for fellowships is extremely
rigorous. Potential applicants should consider carefully whether their work will be
competitive at the national level.
2010NEA03LFCW (GG 1/12/10)
URL: http://www.nea.gov
Deadline: 3/4/2010
3-5 Summer Seminars and Institutes
(NEH)
These grants support faculty development
programs in the humanities for school
teachers and for college and university
teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and
Institutes may be as short as two weeks or
as long as six weeks. The duration of a
program should allow for a rigorous treatment of its topic. 20100302-FS (GG 12/
11/09)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/seminars.html
Deadline: 3/2/2010
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
3-6 Computer Science—Science,
Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (CS-STEM) Education
(DARPA)
DARPA is interested in proposals with
innovative new ideas to encourage students to major in CS-STEM and pursue
careers as engineers and scientists.
Increasing the number of graduates in
Computer Science in a key goal, but the
project will also be considered a success
if the number of graduates in the broader
STEM community is increased. The goal
of the CS-STEM Education project is to
develop a well-educated population of
college-level graduates in computer science, science, technology, engineering,
and/or mathematics. This may be accomplished by various means; however, proposals are expected to describe the model
to be used, which must include two basic
elements: Student Activities and Organizational Structure. Offerors must create
compelling activities, requiring STEM,
that are targeted to middle (grades 7, 8)
and high school (grades 9, 10, 11, 12) students. In part, this RA is soliciting proposals to provide continuity in two areas.
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First, the proposals should describe how
the proposed effort provides engaging,
challenging, age-appropriate activities.
For students from middle school through
high school these activities should excite
students about CS-STEM related majors
and careers. Activities beyond high
school may include such things as scholarships contingent upon CS-STEM major
declaration, internship possibilities and/or
cooperative education programs in a CSSTEM field, etc. DARPA-RA-10-03 (GG
1/12/10)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/solicit/
solicit_open.asp
Deadline: 3/1/2010
3-7 Atmospheric CO2 Observations
from Space (NASA)
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)
satellite failed to reach orbit during its
launch February 2009. This mission was
designed to obtain highly precise and
accurate column average abundances of
atmospheric CO2 on a global basis with a
16-day repeat cycle. The goal for these
data was to make much improved inferences of the sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2 compared to what is
available with the currently existing data
sets. NASA is committed to the advancing the science behind the design of OCO
in order to be prepared to maximize the
use of data from a potential OCO reflight.
To that end, NASA is soliciting a call for
proposals to improve our understanding
of how global atmospheric observations
of atmospheric CO2 can be used to quantify fluxes of CO2 between the atmosphere and biosphere. NNH09ZDA001N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: 3/1/2010
3-8 Proactive Recruitment in
Introductory Science and Mathematics
(PRISM) (NSF)
The goal of the program in Proactive
Recruitment in Introductory Science and
Mathematics is to strengthen the nation’s
scientific competitiveness by increasing
the numbers of well-prepared, successful
U.S. undergraduate majors and minors in
science and mathematics. The program
will fund innovative, potentially transformational partnerships between the mathematical sciences and other science or
engineering disciplines that widen the
cross-section of the mathematical sciences to which freshman and sophomore
students are exposed and that provide
these students increased opportunities for
research experiences involving the mathematical sciences. Proposals must include
a Principal Investigator from a department of mathematical sciences and at
least one co-Principal Investigator from
another science or engineering department in the submitting institution. NSF
10-511 (GG 12/8/09)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10511/nsf10511.htm
Deadline: 3/8/2010
3-9 Broadening Participation
Research Initiation Grants in
Engineering (BRIDGE)
The Directorate for Engineering (ENG) at
the National Science Foundation offers a
research initiation grant funding opportunity with the goal of broadening participation to all engineers including members
from underrepresented groups and persons with disabilities in the engineering
disciplines. These grants are intended to
increase the diversity of researchers in
engineering disciplines to initiate research
programs early in their careers, including
those from underrepresented groups,
engineers at minority serving institutions,
and persons with disabilities. The limit on
number of proposals per PI is one. NSF
10-509 (GG 11/20/09)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10509/nsf10509.htm
Deadline: 2/25/2010
3-10 Software Development for
Cyberinfrastructure (NSF)
The purpose of the Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) program is to develop, deploy, and sustain a
set of reusable and expandable software
components and systems that benefit a
broad set of science and engineering
applications. SDCI is a continuation of
the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) in
an expanded context appropriate to the
current expanded vision of cyberinfrastructure. This program supports software
development across five major software
areas: system software and tools for High
Performance Computing (HPC) environments; software promoting NSF’s strategic vision for digital data; network
software to support distributed software,
software in the form of middleware capabilities and services, and cybersecurity.
An individual may be the PI, or co-PI, or
senior personnel in no more than two proposals that respond to this solicitation.
NSF 10-508 (GG 11/20/09)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/
nsf10508/nsf10508.htm
Deadline: 2/26/2010
URL: http://cancer.k-state.edu/awardprograms
Deadline: 3/1/2010, 10/1/2010
3-12 Obesity Policy Research:
Evaluation and Measures (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Institutes
of Health and the National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, CDC, encourages Research
Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to: 1) conduct evaluation research on
obesity-related natural experiments
(defined here as community and other
population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical
activity behavior), and/or 2) develop and/
or validate relevant community-level
measures (instruments and methodologies
to asses the food and physical activity
environments at the community level).
The overarching goal of this FOA is to
inform public policy and research relevant to diet and physical activity behavior, and weight and health outcomes of
Americans. This FOA will utilize the
research project (R01) grant mechanism,
and runs in parallel with two other FOAs
of identical scientific scope, PA-10-028
and PA-10-029 that encourages applications under the NIH Exploratory/Development (R21) and NIH Small Research
(R03) grant mechanisms. PA-10-027
(NIHG 11/20/09)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-10-027.html
Deadline: 2/5/2010, 6/5/2010, 10/5/2010
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
3-11 Awards for Cancer-Relevant
Research and Training (KSU)
The Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic
Cancer Research at K-State strives to support and enhance cancer-related research
and training at K-State. Faculty performing cancer-relevant research are invited to
become affiliated researchers and apply
for various cancer center awards. Innovative Research Awards provide seed
money to gather preliminary data crucial
for future major grant proposals. Faculty
Equipment Awards provide funds for new
equipment. Travel Awards are provided in
modest amounts to affiliates who wish to
travel to learn new scientific techniques
or visit collaborators at other institutions.
Travel awards for graduate students and
post-doctoral fellows, and summer stipends for graduate students, are also
available. Faculty may also apply for
summer stipends for their graduate students.
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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