Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 29, 2011
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GENERAL
16-1 Dear Colleague Letter for the
Science, Engineering and Education for
Sustainability (SEES) NSF-Wide
Investment Area (NSF)
Achieving a sustainable human future in
the face of both gradual and abrupt environmental change is one of the most significant challenges facing humanity. NSF
will contribute to addressing this challenge
by supporting the science and engineering
research needed to understand and overcome the barriers to sustainable human
well-being. In response to this global challenge, all eleven NSF Directorates and
Offices have joined together to support
Science, Engineering, and Education for
Sustainability (SEES). In FY 2011, NSF
plans to encourage interdisciplinary
research and education on energy sustainability, with a particular emphasis on the
socioeconomic and environmental implications. Potential areas of emphases
include the development of sustainable
energy technologies, development of techniques for effective and efficient use of
water resources, and research in transportation technology. A continued focus will
be placed on creating the necessary workforce to address sustainability challenges
and connecting elements of the SEES port-
Vol. 20, No. 16
folio. NSF 11-022
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11022/nsf11022.jsp
Deadline: VARIES
16-2 Aerospace Medicine, Clinical
Research, Human Performance
Research, and Expeditionary
Medicine (AFRL)
This is a 5-year, open-ended Broad
Agency Announcement to solicit white
papers for Aerospace Medicine, Clinical
Research, Human Performance
Research, and Expeditionary Medicine.
The technology research in the BAA will
be primarily focused in the following
research and technology areas: for Aerospace and Expeditionary Medicine and
Clinical Research: 1) Advanced Diagnostics; 2) Therapeutics; 3) Occupational
Toxicology; 4) Expeditionary Ground
Medicine and Aeromedical Evacuation;
5) Product Developmental Requirements; 6) General Acceleration and
Hypobaric Test and Evaluation; 7) Aircrew and Battlefield Airman Health and
Performance; and 8) Clinical and Translational Research. For Human Performance and Systems Integration: AFMS
human performance research is needed in
order to optimize warfighter effectiveness in all environments including, but
not limited to: hot and humid, cold and
dry, and high altitude. Effectiveness optimization includes, but is not limited to:
maintaining orientation and awareness
and detecting, preventing and mitigating
effects of adverse environments and
events on operator and maintainer performance. BAA-11-01-HPW (GG 12/16/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Open
16-3 Research Coordination
Networks (RCN) (NSF)
The goal of the RCN program is to
advance a field or create new directions
in research or education. Groups of
investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research,
training, and educational activities across
disciplinary, organizational, geographic
and international boundaries. RCN provides opportunities to foster new collaborations, including international
partnerships, and address interdisciplinary topics. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies,
collaborative technologies, and development of community standards for data
and meta-data are especially encouraged.
Proposed networking activities directed
to the RCN program should focus on a
theme to give coherence to the collaboration, such as a broad research question or
particular technologies or approaches.
Participating core programs in the directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO), for
Geosciences (GEO) and for Social,
Behavioral and Economic Sciences
(SBE), and offices of Cyberinfrastructure
(OCI) and of Polar Programs (OPP) will
accept general RCN proposals. These
directorates and offices are joined by
directorates for Education and Human
Resources (EHR), for Mathematics and
Physical Sciences (MPS), for Computer
and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE), and for Engineering (ENG),
and the Office of International Science
and Engineering (OISE) in participating
in the targeted Science, Engineering, and
Education for Sustainability (RCN-SEES)
track. BIO and EHR are alone participating in the Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE). Deadlines vary by
program. The earliest dates are 5/24/11
and 6/15/11 NSF 11-531
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11531/nsf11531.htm
Deadline: VARIES
16-4 Air Force Fiscal Year 2012
Young Investigator Research Program
(DOD)
The AFOSR's Young Investigator
Research Program (YIP) is to support scientists and engineers who have received
Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last
five years (on or after 1 May 2006) and
who show exceptional ability and promise
for conducting basic research. Proposals
addressing the research areas of interest
for the Air Force Research Laboratory
will be considered. BAA-AFOSR-201105 (GG 4/25/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 8/11/2011
AGRICULTURE
16-5 Supplemental and Alternative
Crops Competitive Grants Program
(USDA)
The goal of the Supplemental and Alternative Crops Competitive Grants Program
(SACC) is to significantly increase canola
crop production and/or acreage by developing and testing of superior germplasm,
methods of planting, cultivation, harvesting, and then transferring new knowledge
to producers (via Extension) as soon as
practicable. Priority will be given to
applications that provide evidence of
multi-state cooperation with a minimum
of three state cooperators and that utilize
existing expertise of land-grant colleges
and universities and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). USDA-NIFA-OP-003439
(GG 4/25/11)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/alt_crops.html
Deadline: 5/31/2011
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
16-6 Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical
Power Technology (Solar ADEPT)
(DOE)
ARPA-E's portion of the collaboration is
the Solar ADEPT program, which focuses
on integrating advanced power electronics into solar panels and solar farms to
extract and deliver energy more efficiently. Specifically, ARPA-E aims to
invest in key advances in magnetics,
semiconductor switches, and charge storage, which could reduce power conversion costs by up to 50 percent for utilities
and 80 percent for homeowners. DEFOA-0000474 (GG 4/20/11)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Deadline: 5/19/2011
16-7 Plants Engineered to Replace Oil
(PETRO) (DOE)
The Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is an agency
within the Department of Energy (DOE)
that has funded the development and
deployment of transformational and disruptive energy technologies and systems
since 2009. Technologies for low-cost
production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available
energy captured by photosynthesis and
the inefficient processes used to convert
plant matter to fuel. PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from
sunlight and convert that energy directly
into fuels. ARPA-E seeks to fund technologies that optimize the biochemical processes of energy capture and conversion
to develop robust, farm-ready crops that
deliver more energy per acre with less
processing prior to the pump. DE-FOA0000470 (GG 4/20/11)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Deadline: 5/19/2011
16-8 High Energy Advanced Thermal
Storage (HEATS) (DOE)
ARPA-E seeks to develop revolutionary
cost-effective thermal energy storage
technologies in three focus areas: 1) high
temperature storage systems to deliver
solar electricity more efficiently around
the clock and allow nuclear and fossil
baseload resources the flexibility to meet
peak demand, 2) fuel produced from the
sun’s heat, and 3) HVAC systems that use
thermal storage to dramatically improve
the driving range of electric vehicles. DEFOA-0000471 (GG 4/20/11)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Deadline: 5/19/2011
16-9 Green Electricity Network
Integration (GENI) (DOE)
Recent advances in computation, networking, and grid monitoring have shed
light on potential ways to deliver electricity more efficiently and reliably. Today,
however, approximately one out of every
five electricity dollars is lost to power
outages and 30 percent of the grid’s hardware needs replacing. ARPA-E seeks to
fund innovative control software and
high-voltage hardware to reliably control
the grid network, specifically: 1) costoptimizing controls able to manage sporadically available sources, such as wind
and solar, alongside coal and nuclear, and
2) resilient power flow control hardware—or the energy equivalent of an
internet router—to enable automated,
real-time control of grid components. DEFOA-0000473 (GG 4/20/11)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Deadline: 5/19/2011
16-10 Development of New and
Improved Methods for the
Characterizations of Nanoparticles in
Environmental Media (EPA)
EPA/ORD/NRMRL will provide federal
financial assistance to a recipient organization to develop new and improved
existing methods for the characterization
of nanoparticles, in situ, in environmental
media. The recipient organization will
advance humankind's understanding of
nanoparticle fate, transport, and effects in
the environment. The primary beneficiary
of this project would be public environmental health professional and experts;
scientists and engineers in state and local
governments, academia, and other
research organizations involved with
research on the fate and transport of nanoparticles in the environment. A cooperative agreement is anticipated. EPA-ORDNRMRL-CI-11-02 (GG 3/29/11)
URL: http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/tech/
funding.html
Deadline: 5/30/2011
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
16-11 High-Throughput-Enabled
Structural Biology Partnerships (U01)
(NIH)
This FOA encourages applications to
establish partnerships between researchers interested in a biological problem of
significant scope and researchers providing high-throughput structure determination capabilities through the NIGMS
PSI:Biology network. Applicants to this
FOA should propose work to solve a substantial biological problem for which the
determination of many proteins structures
is necessary. The proteins should be amenable to high-throughput structure determination and/or should provide suitable
targets to motivate new technology development. Awardee principal investigators
will become part of the PSI:Biology Network Steering Committee and will work
jointly with other investigators and NIH
staff to manage the overall PSI:Biology
initiative. PAR-11-176 (NIHG 3/25/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-11-176.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/5/2011, 9/
5/2011; Applications 6/5/2011, 10/5/
2011
16-12 DoD FY11 Prostate Cancer
Exploration-Hypothesis Development
Award (DOD)
The Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award supports the exploration of
highly innovative, untested, potentially
high-gain concepts, theories, paradigms,
and/or methods that address an important
problem in prostate cancer. Results of
studies conducted through this award may
provide the scientific rationale upon
which a new hypothesis can be based, or
initial proof-of-principle of an innovative
hypothesis. This award is designed to provide investigators the opportunity to pursue serendipitous observation that may
reveal entirely new avenues for investigation. Presentation of preliminary data is
strongly discouraged. W81XWH-11PCRP-EHDA (GG 4/21/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/8/2011
16-13 DoD Breast Cancer Innovator
Award (DOD)
The Innovator Award supports visionary
individuals who have demonstrated creativity, innovative work, and leadership in
any field including, but not limited to,
breast cancer. The Innovator Award will
provide these individuals with the funding
and freedom to pursue their most novel,
visionary, high-risk ideas that could ultimately lead to the eradication of breast
cancer. Since the intent of the Innovator
Award mechanism is to recognize creative
and innovative individuals rather than
projects, the central feature of the award
is the innovative contribution that the
Principal Investigator (PI) can make the
eradication of breast cancer. The PI is
expected to have demonstrated success at
forming and leading effective partnerships and collaborations. W81XWH-11BCRP-INNOV (GG 4/19/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/21/2011
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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