Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
June 3, 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
notify him at 785-532-6195, email:
guikema@ksu.edu, by the Internal due
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
posted Internal Deadlines: http://www.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
bul11/limits11/index.htm
GENERAL
20-1 Research Fellowships (Humboldt
Foundation)
Humboldt Research Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers are the instrument
with which the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad who are just
embarking on their academic careers and
who completed their doctorates less than
four years ago to spend extended periods
of research (6-24 months) in Germany.
Research projects are carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research
institutions in Germany. Candidates
choose their own research projects and
their host in Germany and prepare their
own research plan. Details of the research
project and the time schedule must be
agreed upon with the prospective host in
advance.
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/
humboldt-fellowship-postdoc.html
Deadline: Open
AGRICULTURE
20-2 Rangeland Research Program
Vol. 20, No. 20
(USDA)
The goal of Rangeland Research Program (RRP) is to contribute to the
improvement of U.S. rangeland
resources and the ecosystem services
they provide by supporting the development of new and emerging rangeland science methodologies which specifically
address the interrelationships between
multiple disciplines. The primary purpose of RRP is to provide U.S. agricultural producers, rural landowners, and
land managers with integrated science
strategies to make informed land management decisions with an emphasis on
enhancing the restoration and sustainable
integrity of U.S. rangelands. USDANIFA-OP-003451 (GG 5/25/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/rangelands.html
Deadline: 7/6/2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
20-3 Bridging Cultures
Implementation Grants (NEH)
The Bridging Cultures initiative encourages projects that explore the ways in
which cultures from around the globe, as
well as the myriad subcultures within
America’s borders, have influenced
American society. With the aim of revitalizing intellectual and civic life through
the humanities, NEH welcomes projects
that expand both scholarly and public
discussion of diverse countries, peoples,
and cultural and intellectual traditions
worldwide. As part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, NEH welcomes proposals to implement a national or regional
program for broad and diverse public
audiences on one of two humanities
themes: “Civility and Democracy” or
“The Muslim world and the Humanities.” 20110802-MW (GG 5/26/11)
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/
BridgingCulturesImplementation.html
Deadline: 8/2/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCE
20-4 Earth Science Applications:
Water Resources (NASA)
The objective of this solicitation is to
select applied research and applications
projects in the area of water resources
with a focus on drought-related topics
and drought management solutions. Successful projects will advance organizations’ use and application of Earth
science observations and models in decision-making associated with water
resource management for drought. The
projects should include all relevant
NASA satellite mission observations and
can include data products from non-
NASA satellites, including foreign satellites and commercial products, if used in
conjunction with some NASA capabilities. NNH10ZDA001N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 7/1/2011;
Proposals 9/30/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
20-5 DOD Autism Idea Development
Award (DOD)
THE ARP Idea Development Award supports the development of innovative,
high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of ASD and that ultimately will
lead to improved outcomes for individuals with autism. Important aspects of the
Idea Development Award are: Impact:
The proposed research is expected to
make an important and original contribution to advancing the understanding of
ASD and lead ultimately to improved outcomes for individuals with ASD. Innovation: Research deemed innovative may
represent a new paradigm, challenge
existing paradigms, look at existing problems from new perspectives, or exhibit
other uniquely creative qualities.
Research may be innovative in study concept, research methods or technology, or
adaptations of existing methods or techologies. W81XWH-11-ARP-IDA (GG 5/
25/11)
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/
arp.shtml
Deadline: Preapplications 7/20/2011;
Applications 11/30/2011
20-6 DOD Autism Pilot Award (DOD)
The ARP Pilot Award supports conceptually innovative, high-risk/high-reward
research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements
that will drive the field of ASD forward.
Research projects should include a testable hypothesis based on a strong scientific rationale. This award is not intended
to support the continuation of existing
studies or the next logical extension and/
or incremental step. The Pilot Award
emphasizes untested, novel, innovative
and potentially groundbreaking concepts,
theories, paradigms, and/or methods.
W81XWH-11-ARP-PA (GG 5/25/11)
URL: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/
arp.shtml
Deadline: Preapplications 7/20/2011;
Applications 11/9/2011
INTERNATIONAL
20-7 Afghanistan Agricultural
Extension Project (USDA)
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture announces the availability of
funds and requests applications for the
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Afghanistan Agricultural Extension
Project (AAEP). NIFA is requesting
applications from land-grant universities
to assist Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL)
as they attempt to deliver more effective,
demand-driven extension services to producers and other rural clientele in selected
areas of the country. The project will
focus on professional development training for extension staff, primarily at the
provincial and district levels, in order to
increase extension’s ability to meet
farmer’s needs and ultimately build public confidence in MAIS’s capacity to provide critical services. USDA-NIFAEXCA-003453 (GG 6/1/11)
URL: http://www.grants.gov
Deadline: 7/15/2011
20-8 International Research in
Homeland Security Science &
Technology Mission Areas (DHS)
The Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) Science and Technology Directorate is soliciting applications for international research projects aligned with the
mission and requirements of DHS S&T.
These projects should be designed to augment and complement, through international research and collaboration, the
depth and breadth of homeland security
science and technology research being
managed by the DS S&T Directorate
including, but not limited to: Evaluation
of novel tools for or approaches to confronting homeland security challenges;
Basic research to provide data, understandings, or models that support S&T
efforts or policy decisions; and S&T and
operations research evaluations to support
revolutionary improvements in DHSs
mission and is component agencies’ operations. DHS-11-ST-108-002 (GG 6/1/11)
URL: http://www.grants.gov
Deadline: 9/22/2011
SMALL BUSINESS
20-9 New Technology for Proteomics
and Glycomics (STTR [R41/R42])
(NIH)
This funding opportunity announcement
(FOA) encourages Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) grant applications from small business concerns
(SBCs) that propose the development of
broadly applicable research tools that
address the core technical challenges in
proteomics and glycomics. This includes
but is not restricted to robotics, sample
preparation and pre-fractionation, analytical separations, gel and array imaging,
quantitation, mass spectrometry, intelligent automated data acquisition, and
improved informatics technologies. PA11-214 (NIHG 5/20/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-214.html
Deadline: 8/5/2011, 12/5/2011, 4/5/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
20-10 Project Awards (Sage)
The Foundation’s awards are restricted to
support for basic social science research
within its announced programs. Currently,
the Foundation is pursuing five principle
areas: 1) A program of research on the
Future of Work concerned principally
with the causes and consequences of
changes in the quality of low-wage work
in the United States and other advanced
economies; 2) A program of research on
current U.S. Immigration aimed at discovering how well immigrants and their
children are adapting socially, politically,
and economically to life in the United
States, particularly as they move beyond
the traditional immigrant gateway cities;
3) A program on Cultural Contact concerned with understanding and improving
relations between racial and ethic groups
in schools, workplaces, neighborhoods,
and other key institutional settings; 4) A
program on Social Inequality, focused on
the social effects of rising economic inequality, with particular attention to the
ways in which the U.S. political and educational systems have responded to growing economic disparities and 5) A
program of research on Behavioral Economics which incorporates the insights of
psychology and other social sciences into
the study of economic behavior. (TGA 5/
11)
URL: http://www.russellsage.org/how-toapply/apply-project-awards
Deadline: 8/15/2011, 3/15/2012
doctoral students to undertake significant
data-gathering projects and to conduct
field research in settings away from their
campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of
their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the
proposed data and methodology to be
used in addressing the question. NSF 11547
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11547/nsf11547.htm
Deadline: Varies
20-13 Early Care and Education
Research Scholars: Child Care
Research Scholars (ACF)
The Administrative for Children and
Families is considering funding Child
Care Research Scholars grants to support
dissertation research on child care policy
issues. These grants are meant to build
capacity in the field to focus research on
questions that inform child care subsidy
policy decision-making and to foster
mentoring relationships between faculty
members and high quality doctoral students. HHS-2011-ACF-OPRE-YE-0159
(GG 4/8/11)
URL: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/
open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-OPREYE-0159
Deadline: 6/14/2011
STUDENTS
20-11 Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant Program (HUD)
The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation
Research Grant (DDRG) program is to
enable doctoral candidates enrolled at the
institutions of higher education accredited
by a national or regional accrediting
agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to complete their dissertations on policy-relevant housing and
urban development issues. The FY 2011
DDRG program seeks to fund research
studies that may impact federal problem
solving and policymaking and that are relevant to HUD policy priorities and annual
goals and objectives. FR-5500-N-23 (GG
5/19/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/search/
search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=95554
Deadline: 7/14/2011
20-12 SBE Doctoral Dissertation
Research Improvement Grants (SBE
DDRIG) (SBE)
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and
Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award
grants to doctoral students to improve the
quality of dissertation research. These
grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student’s university. Additionally, these grants allow
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