Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
October 21, 2011
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Limited submission programs have
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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
40-1, 40-6) 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.k-state.edu/research/
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GENERAL
40-1 Superfund Hazardous Substance
Research and Training Program (P42)
(NIEHS)
The National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS) is announcing
the continuation of the Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program, referred to as Superfund Research
Program (SRP) Centers. SRP Center
grants will support problem-based, solution-oriented research Centers that consist
of multiple, integrated projects representing both the biomedical and non-biomedical disciplines; as well as cores tasked with
administrative, community engagement,
research translation, research support, and
training functions. The scope includes:1)
advanced techniques for the detection,
assessment, and evaluation of the effect on
human health of hazardous substances; 2)
methods to assess the risks to human
health presented by hazardous substances;
3) methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment; and
4) basic biological, chemical, and physical
methods to reduce the amount and toxicity
of hazardous substances. Only one application per institution will be accepted.
RFA-ES-12-003 (NIHG 10/14/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
Vol. 20, No. 40
rfa-files/RFA-ES-12-003.html
Deadline: Internal 12/11/2011; Letters
of Intent 3/11/2012; Applications 10/4/
2012
40-2 NIH Director’s Transformative
Research Awards (R01) (NIH)
The NIH Director’s Transformative
Research Awards complements NIH’s
traditional, investigator-initiated grant
programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing
groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional
research with the potential to create new
scientific paradigms. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must
clearly demonstrate potential to produce
a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. RFARM-11-006 (NIHG 9/23/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-11-006.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/12/2011;
Applications 1/12/2012
the colonial history of the Americas,
North and South, including all aspects of
the European, African, and Native American involvement. Regular John Carter
Brown Library Fellowships are available
for periods of two to four months and are
open to Americans and foreign nationals
who are engaged in pre- or post- doctoral,
or independent, research. The Library will
also receive applications for Long-Term
Fellowships, several of which are funded
by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and by the Reed Foundation
which has endowed the InterAmericas
Fellowship supporting research on the
history of the British West Indies and the
Caribbean Basin. The R. David Parsons
Fellowship supports the study of the history of exploration and discovery. (TGA
10/11)
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/
John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/
fr_resfellow2.html
Deadline: 12/15/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
AGRICULTURE
40-3 Secondary Education, Two-Year
Postsecondary Education, and
Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom
Challenge Grants Program (USDA)
The Secondary Education, Two-Year
Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge
Grants (SPECA) program seeks to: a)
promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in agriscience and agribusiness in
order to help ensure the existence in the
United States of a qualified workforce to
serve the food and agricultural sciences
system; and b) promote complementary
and synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher
education programs in the food and agricultural sciences in order to advance
excellence in education and encourage
more young Americans to pursue and
complete a baccalaureate or higher
degree in the food and agricultural sciences. USDA-NIFA-SAECP-003543
(GG 10/14/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/sec_challenge.html
Deadline: 1/20/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
40-4 Short-Term and Long-Term
Research Fellowships (Brown)
The John Carter Brown Library will
award forty Research Fellowships for the
year July 1, 2012-July 30, 2013. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter
Brown Library is reserved exclusively
for scholars whose work is centered on
40-5 Algorithms for Threat Detection
(ATD) (NSF)
The Division of Mathematical Sciences
(DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has formed a partnership with
the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
(DTRA) and the National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency (NGA) to develop
the next generation of mathematical and
statistical algorithms for the detection of
chemical agents, biological threats, and
threats inferred from geospatial information. This program solicits proposals from
the mathematical sciences community in
two main thrust areas: mathematical and
statistical techniques for genomics, and
mathematical and statistical techniques
for the analysis of data from sensor systems. NSF 12-502
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12502/nsf12502.htm#summary
Deadline: 1/10/2012, 1/10/2013
40-6 Network for Computational
Nanotechnology (NCN) A Competition
to Reconfigure the NCN (NSF)
NSF established the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) in 2002
at Purdue University as part of the
National Nanotechnology Initiative
(NNI). The NCN was established as a service facility to offer researchers the tools
to explore nanoscale phenomena through
theory, modeling, and simulation while
also developing enhancements to science
and engineering education. Through this
solicitation, NSF provides an opportunity
for the broader community to compete to
reconfigure the NCN. The configuration
of the new Network for Computational
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Nanotechnology will be restructured as a
stand alone Cyber Platform awardee,
which will provide computation, simulation and educational services to the nanoscience and engineering communities,
including the current nanoHUB tools and
educational materials. This platform will
be funded by one award to a single university. Linked to that platform will be
three new Nodes that will develop new
tools and content that will be delivered to
Cyber Platform for worldwide dissemination. NSF will fund the Cyber Platform
and these new Nodes through four separate awards, which will be joined through
their respective cooperative agreements to
constitute the new reconfigured NCN.
The new content development Node areas
will be: NanoBIO - Create integrated
computational tools to simulate biological
phenomena across length scales, for the
design of devices and systems; NanoMFG
- Computation and simulation software to
address the challenges of scaling up
nanoscale in manufacturing; and NanoEngineered Electronic Device Simulation
Node (NEEDS) - Computation and simulation tools to facilitate the development
of nanoelectronic-based circuits, devices,
and systems. An organization may submit
only one cyber platform proposal and up
to three Node proposals. An investigator
may serve as PI or co-PI on only one proposal, either the Cyber Platform or one of
the Node proposals. NSF 12-504
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12504/nsf12504.htm
Deadline: Internal 11/4/2011; Letters of
Intent 12/16/2011; Proposals 1/17/2012
40-7 Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing: Computational
High Energy Physics (DOE)
Scientific Discovery through Advanced
Computing: Computational High Energy
Physics—The specific areas of interest
under this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) are Cosmic Frontier Scientific Simulations (CFSS), Lattice Gauge Theory Research (LGTR), and
Accelerator Science Modeling and Simulation (ASMS). DE-FOA-0000580 (GG
10/7/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 1/9/2012
40-8 Computational and DataEnabled Science and Engineering in
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
(NSF)
Growing out of scientific computation
and the explosion in production of digital
and observational data, Computational
and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering is clearly emerging as a distinct intellectual and technological discipline lying
at the interface of mathematics, statistics,
computational science, core sciences and
engineering disciplines. CDS&E, broadly
interpreted, now affects virtually every
area of science and technology, revolutionizing the way science and engineering
are done. In partnership with the Office of
Cyberinfrastructure, the CDS&E program
in DMS supports fundamental research at
the core of this emerging discipline. The
emphasis will be on mathematical, statistical, computational, and algorithmic
developments, as well as their applications in advancing modern cyberinfrastructure and scientific discovery. PD-118069 (GG 9/14/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504687
Deadline: 1/23/2012, 12/10/2012
40-9 Geoinformatics (GI) (NSF)
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
will consider proposals for the development of cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences (Geoinformatics). EAR seeks the
development and implementation of
enabling information technology with
impacts that extend beyond an individual
investigator or small group of investigators and that facilitates the next generation of geosciences research. Proposals to
this solicitation may seek support for
community-driven development and
implementation of databases; tools for
data integration, interoperability, and
visualization; software development and
code hardening; and data-intensive/new
computing methodologies that support the
enhancement of geosciences research and
education activities. Collaboration with
computational scientists and the development of public/private partnerships are
strongly encouraged. NSF 11-581 (GG 8/
26/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11581/nsf11581.htm
Deadline: 1/13/2012, 7/1/2013
40-10 Broadening Participation
Research Initiation Grants in
Engineering 2012 (BRIGE) (NSF)
To address the need to enhance diversity
in its programs, the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) at the National Science
Foundation is offering research initiation
grants under the Broadening Participation
Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
program, BRIGE. ENG offers this
BRIGE funding opportunity to all beginning engineers with the intent of increasing the diversity of researchers in the
engineering disciplines. The goal of the
BRIGE solicitation is to increase the
number of proposals to the Directorate for
Engineering from individuals who can
serve as role models and mentors for an
increasingly diverse engineering student
population who will become the workforce of the future. BRIGE aims to support innovative research and diversity
plans that contribute to recruiting and
retaining a broad representation of engineering researchers especially those from
groups that are underrepresented in the
engineering population. The limit on the
number of proposals per PI is one. NSF11-576
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11576/nsf11576.htm
Deadline: 1/20/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
40-11 Policy Fellowships (SRCD)
Society for Research in Child Development is seeking applications for Policy
Fellowships for the 2012-2013 term.
There are currently two types of Fellowships: Congressional and Executive
Branch. Both Fellowships provide opportunities for researchers to come to Washington, DC and use developmental
science outside of the academic setting to
inform public policy. These Fellowships
are open to doctoral scientists from any
discipline relevant to child development,
and both early and mid-career professionals are encouraged to apply. The goals of
the Fellowships are: 1) to contribute to the
effective use of scientific knowledge
about child development in the formation
of public policy; 2) to educate the scientific community about the development of
public policy; and 3) to establish a more
effective liasison between developmental
scientists and the Federal policy-making
mechanisms. (TGA 10/11)
URL: http://tinyurl.com/3axp4ee
Deadline: 12/15/2011
40-12 Children Youth and Families AtRisk Sustainable Community Project
(CYFAR) (USDA)
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA announces the
Children, Youth, and Families at Risk
(CYFAR) funding program to improve
the quality and quantity of comprehensive
community-based programs for at-risk
children, youth, and families supported by
the Cooperative Extension System. The
CYFAR program mission is to marshal
resources of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems to develop and
deliver educational programs that equip
limited resource families and youth who
are at-risk for not meeting basic human
needs with the skills they need to lead
positive, productive, contributing lives.
USDA-NIFA-SLBCD-003544 (GG 10/
14/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/cyfar_scp.html
Deadline: 2/1/2011
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,
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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