Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
October 14, 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
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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
posted Internal Deadlines: http://www.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
bul11/limits11/index.htm
GENERAL
39-1 Secure and Trustworthy
Cyberspace (SaTC) (NSF)
Cybersecurity is an important challenge in
today’s world. Corporations, agencies,
national infrastructure and individuals
have been victims of cyber-attacks.
Addressing this problem requires multidisciplinary expertise in human, statistical,
mathematical, computational, and computer sciences and ultimately the transition
of new concepts and technologies to practice. The SaTC program seeks proposals
that address cybersecurity from one or
more of three perspectives: Trustworthy
Computing Systems, Social, Behavioral
and Economics, and Transition to Practice,
as well as proposals that combine multiple
perspectives. NSF 12-503
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12503/nsf12503.htm
Deadline: Small Projects 1/11/2012,
Medium Projects 1/25/2012, Frontier
Projects 2/22/2012
39-2 Department of Defense Forensic
Research and Development Program
(Army)
DoD announces the Department of
Defense Forensic Research and Develop-
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ment Program which consists of those
DoD resources, assets, and processes that
provide forensic science analysis linking
persons, places, things, and events.
These linkages are made in both traditional law enforcement and medical purviews, as well as in the expeditionary
environment. Additionally, DoD Directive 5205.15E designates the Secretary of
the Army as the DoD Executive Agent
(EA) for Forensics for those forensic disciplines relating to DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), serology, firearms and tool
marks, latent prints, questioned documents, drug chemistry, and trace materials, as well as forensics relating to
medical disciplines such as forensic
pathology, forensic anthropology, forensic toxicology, and DNA analysis to
identify human remains. Proposals that
will assist the Army in achieving these
goals are solicited, particularly proposals
involving the development of equipment
that is portable, sustainable, and useful in
an expeditionary environment. W911NF12-R-0001 (GG 10/3/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 12/19/2011
39-4 Graph-theoretic Research in
Algorithms and the PHenomenology of
Social Networks (GRAPHS) (DARPA)
DARPA is seeking proposals that will
address mathematical research on large
networks and graphs with an emphasis on
results that are applicable to social networks and other networks of interest to
the DoD. The focus of the program will
be three broad areas, namely: i) The theoretical underpinnings of the basic mathematics and dynamics of large networks
and a framework for threat signature
detection and identification; ii) Polynomial and sub-polynomial algorithm creation and development for exact and
approximate solutions for DoD problems
of interest; iii) Graph and network techniques for other DoD networks of interest. DARPA-BAA-12-01 (GG 10/5/11)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/
Opportunities/Solicitations/
DARPA_Solicitations.aspx
Deadline: 12/15/2011
AGRICULTURE
39-5 Pork Research - 2012 (NPB)
39-3 Dear Colleague Letter:
Introducing Science Across Virtual
Institutes (SAVI) (NSF)
SAVI is an innovative concept to foster
interactions among scientists and educators around the globe based on the principle that excellence in STEM research
and education exists in many parts of the
world, and that scientific advances can
be accelerated by scientists, engineers,
and educators working together wherever
they are. SAVI focuses on interactions
between cohesive teams of researchers
across national borders and takes advantage of existing U.S. and foreign investments in frontier research by leveraging
complementary intellectual strengths and
sharing unique research infrastructures.
Virtual institutes will serve as research
hubs in which new ideas originate, multidisciplinary research is fostered, diversity is valued, and long-term professional
networks are developed between U.S.
researchers and students and their international counterparts. SAVI is not a
stand-alone program. SAVI proposals
can be submitted as a supplemental funding request to an existing award, or as a
full proposal to an existing active NSF
program that best fit the proposed subject
matter. Such full proposal should be submitted in accordance with the program’s
regular target or deadline dates. All NSF
research Directorates and Offices, except
for the Office of International Science
and Engineering (OISE), will accept
SAVI proposals.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11087/nsf11087.jsp
Deadline: Varies
The National Pork Board is soliciting
research proposals dealing with A) Environment; B) Swine Health and Foreign
Animal Disease Research; C) Animal
Welfare; D) Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest; F)
Pork Quality and H) Public Health and
Zoonotic Disease.
URL: www.pork.org/Research
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/15/2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
39-6 NEA Literature Translation
Fellowships, FY 2012 (NEA)
Through fellowships to published translators, the Arts Endowment supports
projects for the translation of specific
works of prose, poetry, or drama from
other languages into English. They
encourage translations of writers and of
work which are not well represented in
English translation. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary
excellence and value. Priority will be
given to projects that involve work that
has not previously been translated into
English. Competition for fellowships is
rigorous. 2012NEA03LFTP (GG 8/25/11)
URL: http://www.nea.gov
Deadline: 1/5/2012
EDUCATION
39-7 Education Research Grant
Program (AIR)
With support from the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES), and the
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National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), AIR operates this
research grant program that supports
research on a wide range of issues of critical importance to U.S. higher education.
The grant is intended to support independent research by faculty and practitioners.The program has two separate
purposes: 1) NSF and NCES support
grants aim to increase the number of
researchers using national datasets and
demonstrate the contribution that these
datasets make to the national base of
knowledge on higher education policy,
theory, and practice. 2) The NPEC funding supports grants that increase the
understanding and knowledge of a specific issue area identified by NPEC. This
year, the focus will be “Exploring Postsecondary Non-Degree Programs”.
URL: http://www.airweb.org/
?page=1626
Deadline: 1/6/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
39-8 Proposal Guidelines for
Brownfields Assessment Grants (EPA)
EPA’s Brownfields Program provides
funds to empower states, communities,
tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. EPA provides brownfields
funding for three types of grants: 1)
Brownfields Assessment Grants provides
funds to inventory, characterize, assess,
and conduct planning (including cleanup
planning) and community involvement
related to brownfield sites. 2) Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants; 3)
Brownfields Cleanup Grants. Under these
guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for
Assessment Grants only. EPA-OSWEROBLR-11-05 (GG 9/28/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 11/28/2011
39-9 Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing: Scientific
Computation Application Partnerships
in Earth System Science (DOE)
The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announces its
interest in receiving collaborative applications to the Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program
for SciDAC Scientific Computation
Application Partnerships in support of
BER’s Earth System Modeling research.
Projects are particularly encouraged in the
following: Development of physics and
dynamics for atmosphere, ocean or ice
sheets to run efficiently and accurately
using high resolution or unstructured
grids; and Development of efficient and
accurate schemes for simulating atmospheric or oceanic chemical or biogeochemical tracers. This FOA is
soliciting university-only, collaborativeonly applications, not lead applications.
DE-FOA-0000588 (GG 10/7/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 12/5/2011
39-10 Scientific Discovery Through
Advanced Computing: Nuclear Physics
(SciDAC) (DOE)
The primary goal of these projects will be
to enable and support research on current
high-profile computationally intensive
topics in theoretical nuclear physics of
direct relevance to the experimental
research programs at existing or approved
NP facilities. DE-FOA-0000581 (GG 10/
7/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 1/5/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
39-11 Long Term Research in
Environmental Biology (LTREB)
(NSF)
Through the LTREB program, the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) encourage the submission of proposals that generate extended
time series of biological and environmental data to address ecological and evolutionary processes and resolve important
issues in organismal and environmental
biology. Researchers must have collected
at least six years of previous data to qualify for funding, and these data must motivate the proposed research. The proposal
also must present a cohesive conceptual
rationale or framework for ten years of
research. Questions or hypotheses outlined in this conceptual framework must
guide an initial 5-year proposal as well as
a subsequent, abbreviated renewal.
Together, these will constitute a decadal
research plan appropriate to begin to
address critical and novel long-term questions in organismal and environmental
biology. The limit for proposals per PI is
2. NSF 12-501
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12501/nsf12501.htm
Deadline: Preliminary Proposals 1/10/
2012; Proposals 8/1/2012
significant fraction of the functional elements in the human and well-studied
model organism genomes, respectively,
and these catalogs are increasingly being
used by the research community to
expand on basic biological knowledge
and to interpret the results of diseasemapping studies. The purpose of this
FOA is to solicit applications for research
projects to apply high-throughput, costefficient approaches to greatly extend
these resources toward as complete catalogs as is feasible employing state-of-theart technologies. The funded projects will
participate in a single Research Network
that will be a consolidation of the existing
ENCODE and modENCODE Research
Consortia. RFA-HG-11-024 (NIHG 10/7/
11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HG-11-024.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/6/2011;
Applications 12/6/2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
39-14 Study of Prayer (SSRC)
The Social Science Research Council has
announced the launch of a major new
project and grants program entitled “New
Directions in the Study of Prayer.” The
project aims to generate innovative
research on practices of prayer and to foster the development of an interdisciplinary network of scholars engaged in the
study of prayer. The project invites proposals from scholars in all disciplines for
studies that will enhance knowledge of
the social, cultural, psychological, and
cognitive dimensions of prayer, and of its
origins, variations, and correlations in
human life. (PND 10/7/11)
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/
new-directions-in-the-study-of-prayer/
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/1/2011
39-12 The Sunflower Trails (SF)
The goal of this funding initiative from
the Sunflower Foundation is to improve
the health of students, families and communities by offering support to build new
or expanded public trails to increase the
opportunity for physical activity. The primary focus of this request for proposals is
on recreational walking trails, though
multi-use trails will also be considered.
This RFP also is designed to encourage
construction of trails of a length that will
increase the enjoyment and health benefit
from their use.
URL: http://
www.sunflowerfoundation.org
Deadline: 1/5/2012
39-13 Expanding the Encyclopedia of
DNA Elements (ENCODE) in the
Human and Model Organisms (U54)
(NHGRI)
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
(ENCODE) and modENCODE Projects
have, since their inception, cataloged a
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Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
Preaward Section
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Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
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Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
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Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
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Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
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