Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
August 5, 2011
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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
29-2, 29-3) 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
29-1 Innovation Corps Program (ICorps) (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
seeks to develop and nurture a national
innovation ecosystem that builds upon
fundamental research to guide the output
of scientific discoveries closer to the
development of technologies, products and
processes that benefit society. In order to
jumpstart a national innovation ecosystem,
NSF is establishing the NSF Innovation
Corps (NSF I-Corps). The NSF I-Corps’
purpose is to identify NSF-funded
researchers who will receive additional
support—in the form of mentoring and
funding—to accelerate innovation that can
attract subsequent third-party funding. The
purpose of the NSF I-Corps grant is to give
the project team access to resources to help
determine the readiness to transition technology developed by previously-funded or
currently-funded NSF projects. The outcome of the I-Corps projects will be threefold: 1) a clear go/no go decision regarding
viability of products and services, 2)
should the decision be to move the effort
forward, a transition plan to do so, and 3) a
technology demonstration for potential
partners. A PI is limited to one I-Corps
proposal during each submission window.
Vol. 20, No. 29
NSF 11-560
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11560/nsf11560.htm
Deadline: 9/9/2011, 12/15/2011, 3/15/
2012
29-2 Advancing Digitization of
Biological Collections (ADBC) (NSF)
This program seeks to enhance and
expand the national resource of digital
data documenting existing vouchered
biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized
information (including images) residing
in vouchered scientific collections across
the United States. The information associated with various collections of organisms, such as geographic,
paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution, environmental habitat data, phenology, information about associated
organisms, collector field notes, and tissues and molecular data extracted from
specimens, is a rich resource providing
the baseline from which to further biodiversity research and provide critical
information about existing gaps in our
knowledge of life on earth. The national
resource is structured at three levels: a
central coordinating organization, a
series of thematic networks based on an
important research theme, and the physical collections. Only one proposal may
be submitted by any one organization as
the lead organization. NSF 11-567
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11567/nsf11567.htm
Deadline: Internal 8/31/2011; Proposals 10/31/2011
29-3 Bridges to the Doctorate
Program (R25) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(NIGMS), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), encourages Research Education
Grant (R25) applications from institutions that propose to increase the pool of
master’s degree students from underrepresented backgrounds who go on to
research careers in the biomedical and
behavioral sciences, and who are trained
and available to participate in NIHfunded research. This initiative promotes
partnerships/consortia between colleges
or universities granting a terminal master’s degree with institutions that offer
the doctorate degree. The program
expects that the joint efforts of doctorate
degree-granting and master’s degreegranting institutions will foster the development of a well-integrated institutional
program that will provide students from
underrepresented groups with the necessary academic preparation and skills to
enable their transition and successful
completion of the Ph.D. degree in biomedical and behavioral sciences. Only
one application per institution is allowed.
PAR-11-279 (NIHG 7/29/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-11-279.html
Deadline: Internal 8/25/2011, 11/25/
2011; Applications 9/25/2011, 1/25/2012
29-4 Research/ Development and
Innovations (AFRL)
The Air Force Medical Support Agency
(AFMSA)/Modernization Directorate is
soliciting white papers for research in the
five following medical modernization
areas: Force Health Protection - Focus is
on prevention of injury and illness and the
early recognition or detection of emerging
threats. Key areas include: Bio-Surveillance; Bio agents of military relevance/
Infectious Diseases surveillance and identification; Occupational Toxicology,
emerging threats (pandemic response,
other environmental threats); and protective countermeasures. Enroute Care Focus is on continuum of care during
transport of patients from point of injury
to pint of definitive care. Operational
Medicine - Focus is on definitive patient
care/treatment in-garrison. Expeditionary
Medicine/In Garrison - Focus is on
improving expeditionary medical care
during contingency operations including
medical countermeasures against combat
and operational stressors to maximize
warrior health, performance and wellbeing. Human Performance: Focus is on
operational human performance in aerospace environments - fit and healthy
force; performance sustainment; occupational standards/selection; environmental
and occupational health; environmental
and metabolic stressors; nutrition’ diagnosis of cognitive performance degradation, and applied countermeasures;
assessment of cognitive demands in complex aerospace environments; fatigue
management; sensory protection and sustainment (audio, tactile, visual); vision
enhancement; medical team performance;
medical modeling and simulation; and
medical currency and competency. BAA11-03-HPW (GG 7/18/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: White Papers 8/31/2011
AGRICULTURE
29-5 Regional Agricultural IPM
Grants (EPA)
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP), in coordination with the EPA
Regional Offices, announces the availability of approximately $500,000 for
assistance agreements to further, through
research, development, monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations, or
studies, the adoption of Integrated Pest
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management (IPM) approach to managing pests by combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools in a
way that minimizes economic, health, and
environmental risks. EPA-OPP-11003(GG 8/3/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/19/2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
29-6 Music Research and
Preservation Projects (Grammy)
Funded by the Recording Academy, the
Grammy Foundation Grant Program
annually provides support for music
archiving and preservation efforts and for
scientific research projects related to the
impact of music on the human condition.
Examples of eligible projects include the
study of the effects of music on mood,
cognition, and healing, as well as the
medical and occupational well-being of
music professionals and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to
projects with strong methodological
design as well as those addressing an
important research question. (PND 7/22/
11)
URL: http://www.grammy.org/grammyfoundation/grants
Deadline: Letters of Inquiry 10/3/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
29-7 Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing: Scientific
Computation Application Partnerships
in Fusion Energy Science (DOE)
The Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
(FES) and the office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the
office of Science (SC), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) announce their interest
in receiving Cooperative Agreement
applications from interdisciplinary teams
to the Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, for Scientific Computation Application partnerships in the area of fusion
energy sciences. The FES SciDAC portfolio focuses on the development and
application of high physics fidelity simulation codes that can advance the fundamental science of magnetically confined
plasmas by fully exploiting leadership
class computing resources and contribute
to the FES goal of developing the predictive capability needed for a sustainable
fusion energy source. The specific areas
of interest under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) are: 1) Edge
Physics, 2) Multiscale Integrated Modeling, and 3) Material Science. DE-FOA0000571 (GG 8/3/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 9/9/2011;
Applications 10/26/2011
29-8 Intel Science and Technology
Centers (Intel)
Intel Science and Technology Centers
(ISTCs) are Intel-funded, jointly-led
research collaborations between Intel and
the U.S. academic community. Each ISTC
will be centered at a leading U.S. university and will focus on a specific technology area or discipline, bringing together a
community of top researchers from across
academia. Each ISTC will be funded by
Intel for five years (three years with an
Intel option to renew for up to two additional years.) Intel will expect and
encourage the participating schools to
seek and secure matching grants from
federal and/or state government agencies,
such as the NSF or DARPA, to fund additional research within an ISTC focus area.
Intel is expanding the ISTC program by
openly inviting researchers from across
the U.S. academic community to submit
ideas by September 2nd. Principal investigators may submit a two page abstract
outlining a potential topic and research
scope for consideration by Intel Labs.
URL: http://techresearch.intel.com/
newsdetail.aspx?Id=27
Deadline: Abstracts 9/2/2011
29-9 University Transportation
Centers program Open Competition
2011 (DOT)
The Research and Innovation Technology Administration (RITA) of the U.S.
Department of Transportation (US DOT)
plans to competitively select ten Tier 1
University Transportation Centers
(UTCs), two Tier 1 Transit-Focused
UTCs, and ten Regional UTCs. The purpose of the centers is to advance U.S.
technology and expertise in the many disciplines comprising transportation
through mechanisms of research, education and technology transfer; and to provide a critical transportation knowledge
base outside the US DOT and address
vital workforce needs for the next generation of transportation leaders. A UTC
may be a single university or a consortium of two or more universities. Each
Center is required to obtain matching
funds from non-federal sources in an
amount at least equal to the US DOT
grant amount. UTCOPENCOMP2011
(GG 7/26/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 10/26/2011
29-10 Biomedical Engineering (NSF)
The mission of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) program is to provide opportunities to develop novel ideas into
discovery-level and transformative
projects that integrate engineering and life
science principles in solving biomedical
problems that serve humanity in the longterm. The Biomedical Engineering
(BME) program supports fundamental
research in the following BME themes:
Neural engineering and Cellular biomechanics. The BME projects must be at the
interface of engineering and life sciences,
and advance both engineering and life sciences. PD-12-5345 (GG 6/8/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501023
Deadline: 9/15/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
29-11 DOD FY11 Breast Cancer
Research program Impact Award
(DOD)
The FY11 Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Impact Award supports
unique research projects or ideas (from
small-to large-scale) that specifically
focus on scientific and clinical breast cancer issues, which, if successfully
addressed, could ultimately revolutionize
the understanding, prevention, and/or
treatment of breast cancer and make
major advances towards the goal of eradicating the disease. The BCRP particularly
encourages applications that focus on
poorly understood issues that are of critical significance in breast cancer, such as
those related to susceptibility, recurrence,
or metastasis. The proposed work must be
based on sound overall research and fully
supported by preliminary data and/or published reports. The most important aspect
of the Impact Award is the potential of the
proposed research to have a radical, revolutionary impact on an area of paramount
importance in breast cancer. W81XWH11-BCRP-IMPT (GG 7/25/11)
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/
2010/11bcrppreann.shtml
Deadline: Preapplications 9/20/2011
29-12 Host-Targeted Interventions as
Therapeutics for Infectious Diseases
(R21/R33) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit grant
applications with the goal of stimulating
innovation in the discovery and development of therapeutics that target hostencoded functions required for infection,
replication, spread and/or pathogenesis by
one or more NIAID Category A, B, or C
priority pathogens. RFA-AI-11-032
(NIHG 7/22/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-11-032.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/31/2011;
Applications 11/30/2011
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Research
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Preaward Section
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Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
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Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, Sharon Zoeller
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Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
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