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Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
July 29, 2011
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Vol. 20, No. 28
(NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21)
funding opportunity supports the development of new research activities in categorical program areas. The R21
mechanism is intended to encourage
exploratory and developmental research
projects by providing support for the
early and conceptual stages of these
projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the
development of novel techniques, agents,
methodologies, models, or applications
that could have a major impact on a field
of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical
research. NIH, AHRQ, CDC, FDA and
NIOSH are releasing Updated Electronic
Application Forms- ADOBE-FORMSB2. In addition, NIH is reissuing R01,
R03, and R21 parent announcements
with the new forms on July 22 and are
expiring the current parent R01, R03,
and R21 FOAs on January 8, 2012. Starting with Cycle II, 2012 and thereafter,
NHLBI will not accept any R21 applications in response to the NIH Exploratory
Development Research Grant Program.
(Parent R21.) PA-11-261 (NIHG 7/22/
11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-261.html
Deadline: 10/16/2011, 2/16/2012, 6/16/
2012
U.S. institutions of higher education that
is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary
research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide
rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. As defined by the DoD,
basic research is systematic study directed
toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without
scientific applications towards processes
or products in mind. ONRBAA11-026
(GG 7/21/11)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/
Contracts-Grants/FundingOpportunities/Broad-AgencyAnnouncements.aspx
Deadline: White Papers 9/15/2011; Proposals 11/10/2011
28-5 Social Media in Strategic
Communication (SMISC) (DARPA)
DARPA is soliciting innovative research
proposals in the area of social media in
strategic communication. Proposed
research should investigate innovative
approaches that enable revolutionary
advances in science, devices, or systems.
Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
DARPA-BAA-11-64 (GG 7/14/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/13/2011
28-3 NIH Small Research Grant
Program (Parent R03) (NIH)
GENERAL
28-1 Research Project Grant (Parent
R01) (NIH)
The Research Project Grant (R01) is an
award made to an institution/organization
to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the
named investigator(s) in areas representing
the specific interests and competencies of
the investigator(s). The R01 research plan
proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the stated program interests of one or more of the NIH
Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on
descriptions of their programs. NIH,
AHRQ, CDC, FDA and NIOSH are releasing Updated Electronic Application
Forms- ADOBE-FORMS-B2. In addition,
NIH is reissuing R01, R03, and R21 parent
announcements with the new forms on
July 22 and are expiring the current parent
R01, R03, and R21 FOAs on January 8,
2012. PA-11-260 (NIHG 7/22/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-260.html
Deadline: 10/5/2011, 2/5/2012, 6/5/2012
28-2 NIH Exploratory/Developmental
Research Grant Program (Parent R21)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Investigator-Initiated Small Research
Grant (R03) funding opportunity supports small research projects that can be
carried out in a short period of time with
limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different projects including pilot and feasibility studies;
secondary analysis of existing data;
small, self-contained research projects;
development of research methodology;
and development of new research technology. NIH, AHRQ, CDC, FDA and
NIOSH are releasing Updated Electronic
Application Forms- ADOBE-FORMSB2. In addition, NIH is reissuing R01,
R03, and R21 parent announcements
with the new forms on July 22 and are
expiring the current parent R01, R03,
and R21 FOAs on January 8, 2012. PA11-262 (NIHG 7/22/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-262.html
Deadline: 10/16/2011,2/16/2012, 6/16/
2012
28-4 Multidisciplinary University
Research Initiative (MURI) (DOD)
The MURI program supports basic
research in science and engineering at
AGRICULTURE
28-6 People’s Garden Grant Program
(USDA)
NIFA announces the availability of grant
funds and requests applications for the
People’s Garden Grant Program (PGGP)
for fiscal year 2011 to facilitate the creation of produce, recreation, and/or wildlife gardens in urban and rural areas,
which will provide opportunities for science-based informal education. This program is a joint initiative supported by
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service,
Animal and Plat Health Inspection Service, Food and Nutritional Service, Forest
Service, and Natural Resources-Conservation Service, in addition to NIFA. Successful applicants will provide microsubgrant support to smaller local projects.
USDA-NIFA-OP-003503 (GG 7/26/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/peoples_garden.html
Deadline: 8/26/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
28-7 Faculty Development Grant 2012
(NRC)
This Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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announcement is for faculty development
grants. The objectives of the Faculty
Development Program are to attract and
retain highly-qualified individuals in academic teaching careers. The grants specifically target probationary, tenure-track
faculty during the first 6 years of their
career and new faculty hires in the following academic areas: Nuclear Engineering, Health Physics, Radiochemistry and
related disciplines. Grants may include
support for developing applications for
research and amounts for initiating or
continuing research projects in their areas
of expertise. HR-FN-0711-NED02 (GG
7/22/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/22/2011
28-8 DoD FY2012 Defense University
Research Instrumentation Program
(DURIP) (DOD)
The Department of Defense (DoD)
announces the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense
University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), a part of the University
Research Initiative (URI). DURIP is
designed to improve the capabilities of
U.S institutions of higher education to
conduct research and to educate scientists
and engineers in areas important to
national defense, by providing funds for
the acquisition of research equipment.
BAA-AFOSR-2011-07 (GG 7/21/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/20/2011
28-9 Partnerships for Research and
Education in Materials (PREM) (NSF)
The objective of PREM is to broaden participation and enhance diversity in materials research and education by stimulating
the development of formal, long-term,
multi-investigator, collaborative research
and education partnerships between
minority-serving colleges/universities and
the NSF Division of Materials Research
(DMR) supported centers, institutions,
and/or facilities. The limit on number of
proposals per organization is one. NSF
11-562
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11562/nsf11562.htm
Deadline: Internal 8/25/2011; Proposals
10/25/2011
28-10 Research Opportunities in
Fundamental Physics (NASA)
This NRA solicits fundamental physics
research proposals from U.S. investigators to participate in planned European
Space Agency (ESA) research activities
on the International Space Station (ISS).
These ESA activities are the Space Optical Clock (SOC) project, the Quantum
Weak Equivalence Principle (QWEP)
project, and the Atomic Clock Ensemble
in Space (ACES) project. Last century’s
major scientific insights represented by
the theories of general relativity and
quantum mechanics are known to be
mutually incompatible. The lack of a theory to unify all natural forces including
gravity indicates the incompleteness of
the Standard Model and General Relativity. In addition, there is clear evidence for
dark energy and dark matter from astrophysical observations. While NASA’s
Science Mission Directorate plans to
study dark matter and dark energy
through observational means, and to seek
clues to when General Relativity might
fail through studies of physics in the
strong gravity environment near black
holes, the establishment of a new physical
understanding beyond current known theories remains elusive. Nonetheless, the
new physics is expected to lead to breakdowns of the well-established theories
with verifiable experimental consequences. It is clear that laboratory physics
can contribute greatly to this quest for
new physics in the 21st century by utilizing carefully conceived experiments with
unprecedented resolution on the ISS, such
as the planned ESA SOC, QWEP, and
ACES projects.NNH11ZTT001N (GG 7/
14/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Step 1 9/7/2011; Step 2 11/4/
2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
28-11 Systems Developmental Biology
for Understanding Embryonic
Development and the Ontogeny of
Structural Birth Defects (RO1) (NIH)
The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) is to promote systems developmental biology. In the context of this FOA, systems developmental
biology is defined as research focused on
understanding how biological components work together to produce the complex biological phenomena encompassing
embryonic development. PAR-11-257
(NIHG 7/22/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-11-257.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/4/2011, 9/
4/2012; Applications 10/4/2011, 10/4/
2012
nary topics that will advance sustainability science, engineering and education as
an integrative approach to the challenges
of adapting to environmental, social and
cultural changes associated with growth
and development of human populations,
and attaining a sustainable energy future.
The limit on the number of proposals per
organization is one. NSF 11-564
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11564/nsf11564.htm
Deadline: Internal Deadline 8/19/2011;
Preliminary Proposals 10/19/2011; Proposals 5/15/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
28-13 Support for Research to Further
Social Change (SIF)
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation
was established to support research that
advances social change, including language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions.
The foundation specifically supports
research in the United States and its territories that focuses on social policy objectives; institutional and educational
practices; legislative and regulatory
changes; linguistic issues (e.g. literacy,
language loss and maintenance, language
policy, language and national security,
bilingualism, language and gender, language and law, language disabilities, language and health, language and
education, different language cultures);
and development of community capacity
and organization of previously unorganized groups. The foundation supports
projects that address institutional rather
than individual or behavioral change.
(PND 7/22/11)
URL: http://www.sifoundation.org/
?page_id=10
Deadline: Concept Papers 8/15/2011;
Proposals 11/15/2011
INTERNATIONAL
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
28-12 Partnerships for International
Research and Education (PIRE) (NSF)
Partnerships for International Research
and Education (PIRE), is an NSF-wide
program that supports international activities across all NSF supported disciplines.
The primary goal of PIRE is to support
high quality projects in which advances in
research and education could not occur
without international collaboration. PIRE
seeks to catalyze a higher level of international engagement in the U.S. science and
engineering community. International
partnerships are essential to addressing
critical science and engineering problems.
In the global context, U.S. researchers
and educators must be able to operate
effectively in teams with partners from
different nations and cultural backgrounds. This PIRE competition will
focus exclusively on the NSF-wide
investments area of Science, Engineering,
and Education for Sustainability (SEES).
The SEES effort focuses on interdiscipli-
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