Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
November 18, 2011
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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
44-1) 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:
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GENERAL
44-1 NIH Director’s Early
Independence Awards (DP5) (NIH)
The NIH Director’s Early Independence
Award Program supports exceptional
investigators who wish to pursue independent research directly after completion of
their terminal doctoral/research degree or
clinical residency, thereby foregoing the
traditional post-doctoral training period.
Exceptional graduate students or clinicians
nearing the completion of their PhD (or
equivalent) or for clinicians (MD or equivalent) the end of their medical residency
may contact appropriate Institutional scientific leaders to seek an appointment as
an independent research scientist. Alternatively, Institutions may actively recruit eligible junior scientists to apply for support
through this program. In either event, the
Institution will be expected to provide substantial support for the junior scientist. An
applicant organization may submit up to
two applications in response to this FOA.
RFA-RM-11-007 (NIHG 11/11/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-11-007.html
Deadline: Internal 12/1/2011; Letters of
Intent 12/30/2011; Applications 1/30/
2012
Vol. 20, No. 44
44-2 Dear Colleague Letter CREATIV: Creative Research Awards
for Transformative Interdisciplinary
Ventures (NSF)
CREATIV is a pilot grant mechanism
under the Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and
Education (INSPIRE) initiative, to support bold interdisciplinary projects in all
NSF-supported areas of science, engineering, and education research.
INSPIRE is aimed to encourage crossdisciplinary science. INSPIRE will help
to break down any disciplinary barriers
that may exist within NSF and encourage
its program managers to use new tools,
collaboration modes and techniques in
the merit-review process to widen the
pool of prospective discoveries that may
be hidden from or circumvented by traditional means. CREATIV is the first grant
award mechanism under INSPIRE, and
will be the only one launched in FY
2012. In brief, its distinguishing characteristics are: only internal merit review is
required; proposals must be interdisciplinary and potentially transformative;
requests may be up to $1,000,000 and up
to five years duration. In the future, further announcements will be made regarding INSPIRE activities to be launched in
FY 2013 and beyond. Proposals on any
NSF- supported topic will be accepted.
Before writing and submitting a CREATIV proposal, it is the principal investigators’ responsibility to obtain written
authorization to submit a CREATIV proposal by NSF program directors from at
least two intellectually distinct divisions
or programs. NSF 12-012
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12011/nsf12011.jsp
Deadline: 12/1/2011-6/15/2012
44-3 Smart Health and Wellbeing
(SHB) (NSF)
Through the Smart Health and Wellbeing
(SHB) Program, NSF seeks to address
fundamental technical and scientific
issues that would support much needed
transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive,
proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on wellbeing rather
than disease. The issues to be addressed
include, but are not limited to, sensor
technology, networking, information and
machine learning technology, modeling
cognitive processes, system and process
modeling, and social and economic
issues. Effective technology-based solutions must satisfy a multitude of constraints arising from clinical needs, social
interactions, cognitive limitations, barriers to behavioral changes, heterogeneity
of data, semantic mismatch and limitations of current cyberphysical systems.
The high degree of complexity and broad
range of the problems require multidisci-
plinary teams of scientists and engineers
to identify and address barriers limiting
quality of life, independence for chronically ill and elder individuals, and other
aspects of wellbeing. Fundamental technological advances are also needed to
understand the impediments that prevent
people from engaging in health-promoting life styles including diet and exercise
and from participating in their healthcare
decisions. NSF 12-512
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12512/nsf12512.htm
Deadline: Exploratory 2/6/2012; Integrative 2/21/2012
AGRICULTURE
44-4 Outreach and Assistance for
Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and
Ranchers (USDA)
This program will assist communitybased organizations, higher education
institutions and eligible tribal entities in
providing outreach and technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers
and ranchers. The overall goal of the
OASDFR Program is to assist socially
disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in a
linguistically appropriate manner in owning and operating farms, ranches and nonindustrial forest lands while increasing
their participation in agricultural programs provided by USDA. OAO-00004
(GG 11/3/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 12/12/2011
44-5 Biotechnology Risk Assessment
Grants Program (NIFA)
The purpose of the BRAG program is to
support the generation of new information
that will assist Federal regulatory agencies in making science-based decisions
about the effects of introducing into the
environment genetically engineered
organisms (GE), including plants, microorganisms (including fungi, bacteria, and
viruses), arthropods, fish, birds, mammals
and other animals excluding humans.
Investigations of effects on both managed
and natural environments are relevant.
The BRAG program accomplishes its
purpose by providing Federal regulatory
agencies with scientific information relevant to regulatory issues. USDA-NIFABRAP-003604 (GG 11/11/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/biotech_risk.html
Deadline: 2/1/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
44-6 America’s Historical and
Cultural Organizations (NEH)
NEH offers two categories of grants for
America’s Historical and Cultural Organi-
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zations: planning and implementation
grants. Planning grants are available for
projects that may need further development before applying for implementation.
This planning can include the identification and refinement of the project’s main
humanities ideas and questions, consultation with scholars, preliminary audience
evaluation, preliminary design of the proposed interpretive formats, beta testing of
digital formats, development of complementary programming, research, or the
drafting of interpretive materials. Implementation grants support the final preparation of a project for presentation to the
public. 20120111-GE (GG 10/27/11)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/AHCO.htm
Deadline: 1/11/2012
44-7 Humanities Program (Delmas)
The Foundation intends to further the
humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns
of the historical studia humanitatis: a
humanistic education rooted in the great
traditions of the past; the formation of
human beings according to cultural,
moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from
that past; and the ongoing debate over
how these ideals may best be conceived
and realized. Programs in the following
areas are eligible: history; archaeology;
literature; languages, both classical and
modern; philosophy, ethics; comparative
religion; the history, criticism, and theory
of the arts; and those aspects of the social
sciences which share the content and
methods of humanistic disciplines. The
Foundation welcomes projects that cross
the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explores the connection
between the humanities and other areas of
scholarship.
URL: http://www.delmas.org/programs/
humanities.html
Deadline: Letters of Inquiry Open
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
44-8 Opportunities for Promoting
Understanding through Synthesis
(OPUS) (BIO)
All four clusters within the Division of
Environmental Biology (Population and
Community Ecology, Ecosystem Science,
Evolutionary Processes and Systematic
Biology and Biodiversity Inventories)
encourage the submission of proposals
aimed at synthesizing a body of related
research projects conducted by a single
individual or a group of investigators over
an extended period. OPUS proposals will
often be appropriately submitted in midto-late career, but will also be appropriate
early enough in a career to produce
unique, integrated insight useful both to
the scientific community and to the development of the investigator’s future work.
In cases where multiple scientists have
worked collaboratively, an OPUS award
will provide support for collaboration on
a synthesis. NSF 12-506
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12506/nsf12506.htm
Deadline: 8/1/2012
44-9 U.S. Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command Broad Agency
Announcement for Extramural
Medical Research (USAMRAA)
The U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC) mission is to provide solutions to medical
problems of importance to the American
warfighter at home and abroad. The extramural research and development program
plays a vital role in the fulfillment of the
objectives established by the USAMRMC.This announcement provides a general description of USAMRMC’s research
programs, including research areas of
interest; general information; the evaluation and selection criteria; and proposal/
application preparation instructions.
Projects funded under this announcement
must be for basic and applied research
and that part of development not related
to the development of a specific system or
hardware procurement. W81XWH-BAA12-1 (GG 10/1/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/30/2012
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
44-10 Multi-Country Research
Fellowship (CAORC)
The Council of American Overseas
Research Centers Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced regional
or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and
scholars who have already earned their
Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or
cross-regional research. Applicants are
eligible to apply as individuals or in
teams. Scholars must carry out research in
two or more countries outside the United
States, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. (TGA 10/11)
URL: http://www.delmas.org/programs/
humanities.html
Deadline: 1/17/2012
the area of type 1 diabetes, the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the
National Institute of Nursing Research
(NINR) invite applications for the establishment of institutional research training
programs to develop a cadre of diverse
and highly trained behavioral scientists
who will conduct research relevant to
improved clinical management and quality of life for patients with type 1 diabetes. Training grant (T32) awards will be
made to eligible institutions to provide a
program to prepare predoctoral and postdoctoral behavioral scientists, selected by
the institution, for behavioral research
careers in type 1 diabetes. At each stage
of training, supervision and mentorship
will include both a diabetologist and a
behavioral scientist as a way to maximize
the relevance of the training to type 1 diabetes and encourage a multi-disciplinary
approach to research. RFA-DK-11-027
(NIHG 11/4/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DK-11-027.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/2/2012;
Applications 3/2/2012
44-13 Science, Technology, and Society
(STS) (NSF)
STS considers proposals for scientific
research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use
diverse methods including social science,
historical, and philosophical methods.
Successful proposals will be transferrable
(i.e., generate results that provide insights
for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems
and issues at the interface of science,
technology and society, such as those
having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy. NSF 12-509 (GG 11/2/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12509/nsf12509.htm
Deadline: 2/1/2012, 8/1/2012
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
SOCIAL SCIENCES
44-11 Implications of the Economic
Downturn for Health, Wealth, and
Work at Older Ages (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) invites research on the implications of exogenous shocks, such as those
produced by the recent economic downturn, for health, economic circumstances,
and planning throughout the life-cycle.
PA-12-009 (NIHG 11/11/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-009.html
Deadline: 2/5/2012, 6/5/2012, 10/5/2012
44-12 Diabetes Research Training for
Behavioral Scientists (T32) (NIH)
To foster the development of a diverse
and highly trained workforce of behavioral scientists to assume leadership roles
related to the Nation’s research efforts in
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,
Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, 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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