Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
June 10, 2011
Program Information
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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
at least two months prior to the sponsor
deadline if you wish to submit to a limited submission program. Currently
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GENERAL
21-1 Capacity Building for Sustainable
Communities (HUD)
This NOFA is part of a cross-agency collaboration between the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
known as the Partnership for Sustainable
Communities. HUD confers regularly with
these partners. The Capacity Building for
Sustainable Communities Program will
identify intermediary organizations that
can provide capacity building support for
communities engaged in planning efforts
that support community involvement and
integrate housing, land use, land cleanup
and preparation for reuse, economic and
workforce development, transportation,
and infrastructure investments. Each
grantee will be expected to deliver capacity building support to communities across
the United States. The first purpose of the
Program is to assemble a collection of
capacity building service providers to
work directly with the FY 2010 and FY
2011 HUD Sustainable Communities
Regional Planning and Community Challenge grant recipients, HUD Preferred Sustainability Status Communities, and EPA
Sustainable Community Technical Assistance recipients and Brownfield Area
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Wide Planning grant recipients and
enable them to fulfill their anticipated
outcomes. FR-5509-N-01 (GG 6/7/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 7/8/2011
21-2 Technology Development for
High-Throughput Functional
Genomics (RO1) (NIH)
NHGRI is soliciting grant applications to
develop new and improved technologies
for the efficient, comprehensive and
high-throughput identification, validation and characterization of all types of
sequence-based functional elements in
eukaryotic genomes. This FOA will use
the R01 (Research Project) grant mechanism and is being used in conjunction
with the FOAs with identical scientific
scopes, RFA-HG-11-014, that solicits
applications under the R21 Exploratory/
Developmental grant mechanism, and
RFA-HG-11-015, that solicits applications under the R43/R44 Small Business
Innovation Research grant mechanism.
RFA-HG-11-013 (NHIG 5/27/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HG-11-013.html
Deadline: Notices of Intent: 7/2/2011;
Proposals: 8/2/2011
21-3 Dear Colleague Letter for
Biological and Computing Shared
Principles (BCSP) (NSF)
The Biological Sciences (BIO) and Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorates invite
proposals that advance research focused
on principles shared between the two disciplines. Proposals that include sustained, synergistic collaborations,
leading to new advances in both disciplines, will be the most competitive. Proposals should address shared principles
that contribute to conceptual advances in
both biology and computing. This is not
a special competition or new program.
Proposals should be submitted to existing programs. NSF 11-057
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11057/nsf11057.jsp
Deadline: Varies
21-4 EPA School Integrated Pest
Management Grants (EPA)
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP) announces the availability of
assistance agreements to further through
research, development, monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations,
or studies the adoption of verifiable integrated pest management (IPM) by the
nation’s kindergarten to 12th grade public and tribal schools. IPM is a sustainable approach to managing pests that
combines biological, cultural, physical,
and chemical tools in a way that mini-
mizes economic, health, and environmental risks. A school IPM program uses
easily implemented strategies to reduce
sources of food, water, and shelter for
pests in school buildings and grounds.
Verifiable school IPM is an ongoing
activity that includes all of these documented elements: understanding pests;
setting action thresholds for key pests,
i.e., knowing when to take action against
key pests; monitoring for pests, their locations and populations; removing conditions that allow pest infestation; and using
one or more effective pest control methods including sanitation, structural maintenance, and nonchemical methods in
place of or in combination with pesticides. EPA-OPP-11-002 (GG 6/3/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 7/18/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
21-5 ROSES 11: New (Early Career)
Investigator Program in Earth Science
(NASA)
The New (Early Career) Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Science is designed
to encourage the integration of Earth system research and education/outreach by
scientists and engineers at the early stage
of their professional careers. The program
encourages scientists and engineers at
academic and/or research institutions to
develop a broader sense of responsibility
for effectively contributing to the
improvement of science education and
public science literacy; it provides an
opportunity for the investigators to
develop partnerships and/or enhance their
skills, knowledge, and ability to communicate the excitement, challenge, methods, and results of their work to teachers,
students, and the public. The Earth Science Division places particular emphasis
on the investigators’ ability to promote
and increase the use of space-based
remote sensing through the proposed
research and education projects. The
research Focus Areas appropriate for the
NIP are: Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems,
Climate Variability and Change, Water
and Energy Cycle, Atmospheric Composition, Weather, and Earth Surface and
Interior. NNH11ZDA001N-NIP (GG 6/9/
11)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 6/30/2011;
Applications 8/31/2011
21-6 Biotechnology, Biochemical, and
Biomass Engineering (NSF)
The Biotechnology, Biochemical, and
Biomass Engineering (BBBE) program
supports fundamental engineering
research that advances the understanding
of cellular and biomolecular processes (in
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vivo, in vitro, and/or ex vivo) and eventually leads to the development of enabling
technology and/or applications in support
of the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology,
and bioenergy industries, or with applications in health or the environment. Quantitative assessments of bioprocesses are
considered vital to successful research
projects in the BBE program. The program encourages proposals that address
emerging research areas and technologies
that effectively integrate knowledge and
practices from different disciplines, and
effectively incorporate ongoing research
into educational activities. PD-12-1491
(GG 6/8/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024
Deadline: Target Date 9/15/2011
21-7 Biosensing (NSF)
The Biosensing program supports fundamental research in engineering areas
related to: Novel sensitive, discriminative, low cost, and easy to operate biosensing systems; innovative ideas in the
development of novel biorecognition
strategies; multifunctional nanomaterials
and interfaces with predefined physical,
chemical, or biological characteristics for
biosensing applications; fundamental
study of bio-macromolecules confinement and orientation at the micro- and
nano-interfaces for biosensing applications; and molecular sensors capable of
monitoring biological structures interaction (protein-protein interactions, cell-tocell talk, interkingdom signaling, etc.)
Proposals outside of these specific interest areas are welcome. Projects submitted
to the Program must advance both engineering and life sciences. PD-12-7909
(GG 6/8/11)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503353
Deadline: Target Date 9/15/2011
21-8 Sloan Research Fellowships
(Sloan)
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to
stimulate fundamental research by earlycareer scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These fellowships are
awarded to researchers in recognition of
distinguished performance and a unique
potential to make substantial contributions to their field. Over the first 17 years
of the program, Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in physics, chemistry,
and mathematics. Additional fields were
added in subsequent years; neuroscience
in 1972, economics in 1980, computer
science in 1993, and computational and
evolutionary molecular biology in 2002.
Candidates are nominated by department
heads or other senior researchers. Direct
applications are not accepted. More than
one candidate from a department may be
nominated, but no more than three.
URL: http://www.sloan.org/fellowships
Deadline: 9/15/2011
21-9 Earth System Science Pathfinder
Program: Earth Venture-2
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Science Mission
Directorate (SMD) is releasing a NASA
Announcement of Opportunity
(NNH11ZDA012O), Earth Venture-2
(EV-2). Earth Venture is an element
within the Earth System Science Pathfinder (EESP) Program that conducts
Principal Investigator (PI)-led Earth Science investigations relevant to SMD’s
Earth Science Division. NASA expects to
select one EV-2 mission to proceed into
formulation and implementation. Launch
Readiness Date (LRD) is to occur no later
than April 30, 2017. The proposed missions must support the goals and objectives of the ESSP Program and the EV-2
element. NNH11ZDA012O
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 7/22/2011,
Proposals 9/15/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
21-10 New York Stem Cell Foundation
Invites Applications for Early Career
Investigator Awards (NYSCF)
The New York Stem Cell Foundation is
accepting funding applications from early
career investigators in the United States,
Canada, and the United Kingdom for
research that explores the therapeutic
potential of human stem cells. The Innovator Awards for Early Career Investigators program is designed to support
scientists in postdoctoral phase of their
careers. The initiative’s main goal is to
foster truly innovative science that is
likely to transform the field of stem cell
research and advance the understanding
and eventual use of stem cells for the
treatment of human disease. (PND 5/27/
11)
URL: http://www.nyscf.org/grants/
investigator-awards
Deadline: 7/8/2011
21-11 Strategies for the Protection of
Pregnant Women and Infants Against
Infectious Diseases (R01) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage
new and innovative mechanistic studies
of pathogens that impact placental function and fetal well-being, with the longterm goal of informing the development
of interventions against these pathogens
and reducing the burden of infectionrelated pregnancy loss and infant morbidity and morality. RFA-AI-11-036 (NIHG
5/27/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-11-036.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/13/2011;
Applications 10/13/2011
tissues. This initiative seeks to stimulate
basic and early-stage translational
research focused on development of novel
therapeutic strategies that address intoxication or infection of the brain and/or
neurons by select biodefense toxins and
pathogens. Responsive applications will
define and address a therapeutic need specific to a targeted neurotropic toxin or
pathogen; applications that focus on
development of novel or adjunctive technologies to facilitate transport of new or
existing therapeutics across the bloodbrain barrier or into affected neurons are
of particular interest. RFA-AI-11-027
(NIHG 5/27/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-11-027.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/23/2011,
Applications 10/24/2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
21-13 Establish a Poverty Research
Center Program (HHS)
ASPE plans to fund up to three (3) Poverty Research Centers. The Poverty
Research Center grants are for qualified
institutions to provide a focused national
and regional and/or state agenda expanding our understanding of the causes, consequences, and effects of inequality and
poverty and policies and programs to
remediate and alleviate poverty, inequality and their affects. It is anticipated that
investigators supported under the Poverty
Research Center will benefit from their
opportunity to conduct independent
research; that the grantee institution will
benefit from participation in the diverse
extramural programs of HHS and other
federal agencies; and that students will
benefit from exposure to and participation
in research and will be encouraged to pursue graduate studies and careers in the
social and behavioral sciences with a
focus on poverty and inequality. HS-11023 (GG 6/3/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 7/20/2011
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
21-12 Therapeutics for Neurotropic
Biodefense Toxins and Pathogens (R21/
R33) (NIH)
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support
research focused on development of therapeutic strategies that target select biodefense toxins or pathogens in neural
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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