Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 16, 2011
Program Information
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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
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
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ARTS AND HUMANITIES
35-1 Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Collections (NEH)
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
(SCHC) helps cultural institutions meet
the complex challenge of preserving large
and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting
preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful
life of collections. Libraries, archives,
museums, and historical organizations
across the country are responsible for collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving
images, archaeological and ethnographic
artifacts, art, and historical objects that
facilitate research, strengthen teaching,
and provide opportunities for life-long
learning in the humanities. To preserve and
ensure continued access to such collections, institutions must implement preventive conservation measures, which
encompass managing relative humidity,
temperature, light and pollutants in collection spaces; providing protective storage
enclosures and systems for collections;
and safeguarding collections from theft
and from natural and man-made disasters.
To help institutions develop sound preventive conservation projects, NEH encour-
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ages collaborative and interdisciplinary
planning, which is important for identifying sustainable strategies. 20111201-PF
(GG 9/9/11)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/SCHC.html
Deadline: 12/1/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
35-2 Environmental Education SubGrants Program (EPA)
The EPA, Office of Environmental Education, is announcing a Request for proposals for support of the Environmental
Education Sub-grants Program for 2011.
This is a new announcement that has not
previously been distributed. The Environmental Education Sub-grants Program is a competitive grant program that
supports EPA’s efforts to increase public
awareness and knowledge about environmental issues and provide participants in
EE grant-funded projects the skills necessary to make informed environmental
decisions and to take responsible actions
toward the environment. This RFP sets
forth the process that will be used to
select a grant recipient (the Prime) who
will develop and implement a project to
make sub-awards to organizations to
meet the specified expected environmental and educational results of the program. EPA plans to award one agreement
for approximately $150,000 in each of
EPA’s ten Regions under this RFP. EPAEE-11-03
URL: http://www.epa/gov/enviroed/pdf/
solNotice2011subgrants.htm
Deadline: 11/8/2011
35-3 Geophysics (MPS)
The Geophysics Program supports basic
research in the physics of the solid earth
to explore its composition, structure, and
processes. Laboratory, field, theoretical,
and computational studies are supported.
Topics include seismicity, seismic wave
propagation, and the nature and occurrence of earthquakes; the earth’s magnetic, gravity, and electrical fields; the
earth’s thermal structure; and geodynamics. Supported research also includes
geophysical studies of active deformation, including geodesy, and studies of
the properties and behavior of earth
materials in support of geophysical
observation and theory. NSF 09-539 (GG
6/23/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/
nsf09539/nsf09539.htm
Deadline: 12/5/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
35-4 Lung Cancer Research Program
Concept Reward (USAMRAA)
The vision of the FY11 Lung Cancer
Research Program (LCRP) is to eradicate
deaths from lung cancer to better the
health and welfare of the military and the
American public. As such, the LCRP will
support and integrate research from multiple disciplines for early detection, diagnosis, prevention, cure, and control of lung
cancer. The Concept Award supports the
exploration of highly innovative,
untested, potentially high-gain concepts,
theories, paradigms, and/or methods that
address an important problem in lung cancer. The Concept Award is not intended to
support a logical progression of an
already established research project but,
instead, allow Principal Investigators the
opportunity to pursue serendipitous
observation and new ideas. W81XWH11-LCRP-CA (GG 9/12/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: Preapplications 10/19/2011;
Applications 11/9/2011
35-5 Understanding Mechanisms of
Terminal Erythroid Maturation (R01)
(NIHLBI)
This FOA encourages applications that
propose hypothesis-driven research to
study development of erythroid precursors into mature red blood cells. The aim
of this program is to support research
efforts to improve our understanding of
the molecular mechanisms regulating late
stages of erythroid maturation. These
studies are needed to identify novel therapeutic targets for use in erythropoietinresistant anemias characterized by defects
in late-stage erythroid maturation. RFAHL-12-033 (NIHG 9/2/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HL-12-033.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/3/2012;
Applications 2/1/2012
35-6 Division of Environmental
Biology (core programs) (DEB) (NSF)
The Division of Environmental Biology
(DEB) supports fundamental research on
populations, species, communities, and
ecosystems. Scientific emphases range
across many evolutionary and ecological
patterns and processes at all spatial and
temporal scales. Areas of research include
biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics,
molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem structure, function and
services, conservation biology, global
change, and biogeochemical cycles.
Research on organismal origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and evolutionary history may incorporate field,
laboratory, or collection-based
approaches; observational or manipulative experiments; synthesis activities; as
well as theoretical approaches involving
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analytical, statistical, or computational
modeling. In a given year, an individual
may participate as a PI, co-PI, or lead
senior investigator of a subaward on no
more than two preliminary proposals submitted in response to this solicitation.
NSF 11-573 (GG 8/26/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11573/nsf11573.htm
Deadline: Preliminary Proposal 1/9/
2012, Proposals 8/2/2012
35-7 Gamete Quality in Natural and
Assisted Reproduction (R01) (NIH)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), issued by the
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS),
and the Office of Dietary Supplements
(ODS), is to encourage applications from
the scientific community to support outstanding research in the area of female
and male gamete quality. For both natural
and assisted reproduction, a focal point of
the initiative is on the production, identification, and use of healthy gametes. In
this regard, the identification and validation of biomarkers that assess gamete
quality is critical. Additional areas of
interest are the impact of nutrition, environmental exposures, disease states, and
aging on oocyte and sperm quality. PA11-326 (NIHG 9/2/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-326.html
Deadline: 10/5/2011, 2/5/2012, 6/5/2012
Caucuses, and contemporary issues are
particularly welcome. (TGA 9/11)
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org
Deadline: 12/1/2011
35-10 AmeriCorps State and National
Grant Competitions (CNCS)
The purpose of CNCS is to maximize the
power of service and volunteering to
improve lives in communities across the
country. In the Edward M. Kennedy Serve
America Act, Congress directed CNCS to
focus national services in areas where services can make a major impact, including
education, energy conservation, health,
economic opportunity for economically
vulnerable individuals, increasing service
by and for veterans, and providing disaster services. CNCS is carrying out Congress’ intent by targeting AmeriCorps
funding in these six focus areas. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations engaged in evidence-based
interventions that utilize AmeriCorps
members to strengthen communities. An
AmeriCorps member is an individual who
is enrolled in an approved national service
position and engages in community service. Members may receive a living
allowance and other benefits while serving. CNCS-GRANTS-08312011-002
(GG 9/1/11)
URL: http://www.nationalservice.gov/
for_organizations/funding/
nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=91
Deadline: 1/18/2012
35-11 AmeriCorps State and National
Planning 2012 CNCS)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
35-8 Robert Wood Johnson Health
Policy Fellowships (RWJF)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Policy Fellows program provides
the nation’s most comprehensive experience at the nexus of health science, policy, and politics in Washington D.C. The
fellowship is an outstanding opportunity
for exceptional mid-career health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and health
care policy. The fellowship is a residential
experience in Washington D.C., with
additional support for continued health
policy leadership development activities.
(TGA 8/7/11)
URL: http://
www.healthpolicyfellows.org/
fellowship_info.php
Deadline: 11/10/2011
35-9 Kennan Institute: Title VIII
Research Scholarships (WWICS)
Title VIII Research Scholarships lasting
three to nine months are available to academic participants in the early stages of
their career (before tenure) or scholars
whose careers have been interrupted or
delayed. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. Research proposals examining the
countries of Central Eurasia are eligible.
Those proposals related to regional Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Belarus, the
The purpose of planning grants is to support the development of AmeriCorps programs that will engage AmeriCorps
members in evidence based interventions
to solve community problems. Planning
grant recipients are expected to be better
prepared to compete for an AmeriCorps
program grant in the following grant
cycle. Planning grants may not be used to
support AmeriCorps members. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who is
enrolled in an approved national services
position and engages in community service. The purpose of CNCS is to maximize the power of service and
volunteering to improve lives in communities across the country. In the Edawrd M
Kennedy Service America Act, Congress
directed CNCS to focus national service
in areas where service can make a major
impact, including education, energy conservation, health, economic opportunity
for economically vulnerable individuals,
increasing service by and for veterans,
and providing disaster services. CNCS is
carrying out Congresses’ intent by targeting this AmeriCorps Planning Grant funding in the focus areas of Veterans and
Military Families. CNCS-GRANTS08302011-001 (GG 9/1/11)
URL: http://www.nationalservice.gov/
for_organizations/funding/
nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=92
Deadline: 1/18/2012
35-12 Small Business Innovation
Research Program Phase I Solicitation
FY-2012 (SBIR) (NSF)
The Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) Program stimulates technological
innovation in the private sector by
strengthening the role of small business
concerns in meeting Federal research and
development needs, increasing the commercial application of federally supported
research results, and fostering and
encouraging participation by socially and
economically disadvantaged and womenowned small businesses. NSF has formulated broad solicitation topics for SBIR
that conform to the high-technology
investment sector’s interests. The four
broad topics are: Biological and Chemical
Technologies (BC); Education Applications (EA); Electronics, Information and
Communication Technologies (EI); and
Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials,
and Manufacturing (NM). NSF 11-577
(NIHG 8/19/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11577/nsf11577.htm
Deadline: 12/2/2011
STUDENTS
35-13 Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grants in the Directorate
for Biological Sciences (Bio)
The National Science Foundation awards
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement
Grants in selected areas of the biological
sciences. These grants provide partial
support of doctoral dissertation research
to improve the overall quality of research.
Allowed are costs for doctoral candidates
to participate in scientific meetings, to
conduct research in specialized facilities
or field settings, and to expand an existing
body of dissertation research. (GG 8/10/
11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11569/nsf11569.htm
Deadline: 11/10/2011
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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