Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 8, 2011
Program Information
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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
13-2) 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/funding/bulletins/bul11/limits11/index.htm
GENERAL
13-1 Environmental Impact and
Mitigation of Oil Spills (EPA)
EPA is seeking applications proposing to
develop a research program, including an
effective community outreach program
component, to mitigate the impact of oil
spills. The research program must address
one or more of the following topics: 1)
development of cost-effective innovative
technologies to mitigate the impact of oil
spills; 2) development of effective oil dispersants, surface washing agents, bioremediation, and other mitigation measures
with low environmental impact; and 3)
investigation of the effects of oil spills and
application of dispersants/agents/measures on the environment. Applicants must
also submit a community outreach program plan, the objective of which is to help
impacted Gulf Coast communities effectively participate in the study and use its
results. (TGA 4/11)
URL: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2011/
2011_star_oilspill.html
Deadline: 6/22/2011
13-2 NCRR Science Education
Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25) (NIH)
NCRR encourages applications to its
Vol. 20, No. 13
SEPA program for the development and
evaluation of innovative research education programs to improve PreK-12
research career opportunities and the
community’s understanding of the health
science advances supported by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)funded clinical and basic research. SEPA
encourages dynamic partnerships
between biomedical and clinical
researchers and PreK-12 teachers and
schools and other interested organizations. Particular importance will be given
to applications that target PreK-12 and/or
ISE/media topics that may not be
addressed by existing curriculum, community-based or ISE/media activities. An
applicant organization or institution may
submit only one application. PAR-10206
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-10-206.html
Deadline: Internal 4/22/2011; Letters
of Intent 5/22/2011; Applications 6/22/
2011
ARTS & HUMANITIES
13-3 NCTE Research Foundation
Grant Program (NCTE)
The National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE) Research Foundation
supports projects related to the teaching
and learning of language and literacies.
The trustees seek proposals that reflect
the diverse interests among NCTE membership, including but not limited to proposals focusing on underrepresented
populations, equity pedagogies, curriculum changes and the effect the changes
have on students, school policies,
changes in teaching methods, student
interaction and learning, community literacy, home-school literacy relationships, after-school programs, student
literacy practices in and out of school,
and other relevant topics of study.
URL: http://www.ncte.org/grants/
research
Deadline: 6/20/2011
13-4 Preservation and Access
Education and Training Grants (NEH)
The Preservation and Access Education
and Training program is central to NEH’s
efforts to preserve and establish access to
cultural heritage collections. Preservation and Access Education and Training
grants help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as
effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants also support educational
programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservations
professionals, as well as projects that
introduce the staff of cultural institutions
to new information and advances in pres-
ervation and access practices. 20110630PE (GG 3/25/11)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/pet.html
Deadline: 6/30/2011
EDUCATION
13-5 Purposes and Values of
Education (Spencer)
The Spencer Foundation values education
for its contributions to civic, political, and
community life, for its role in advancing
social justice, for its capacity to open to
people worlds of cultural and artistic
excellence, and in the largest sense for its
contributions to “human flourishing.”
Questions at this less immediate but ultimately deeply practical level are often
posed by philosophers and social critics,
the best of whom show a lively interest in
and skilled use of findings from the social
sciences. One important aspects of such
inquiry is the question of the relationship
between public and political understandings of educational purposes and values,
on the one hand, and educational policies
and practices on the other. This is, of
course, a problem of “theory and practice” in education at the broad social level
which mirrors the issue of the relationship
between educational research and practice. Analytical, historical, and empirical
work that probes effectively and creatively into these issues can contribute
toward social decision-making that moves
education along constructive paths.
URL: http://www.spencer.org/
content.cfm/purposes-and-values-ofeducation
Deadline: 4/29/2011, 7/8/2011, 12/3/2011
13-6 Institutional Grants for Youth
and Science Ed (AHF)
The American Honda Foundation’s mission is to help meet the needs of American society in the areas of youth and
scientific education by awarding grants to
nonprofits, while strategically assisting
communities in deriving long-term benefits. The American Honda Foundation
engages in grant making that reflects the
basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of
Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking,
scientific, humanistic and innovative. The
Foundation supports youth education with
a specific focus on the STEM (science,
technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment. (TGA 2/11)
URL: http://corporate.honda.com/
america/philanthropy.aspx?id=ahf
Deadline: 5/1/2011, 8/1/2011, 11/1/2011,
2/1/2012
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
13-7 CISE Computing Research
Infrastructure (CRI) (NSF)
The CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program drives discovery
and learning in the computing disciplines
by supporting the creation, enhancement
and operation of world-class computing
research infrastructure. The CRI program
supports two classes of awards: 1) Institutional Infrastructure (II) awards support
the creation of new computing research
infrastructure or the enhancement of
existing computing research infrastructure to enable world-class research and
education opportunities at the awardee
and collaborating institutions. 2) Community Infrastructure (CI) awards support
the planning for computing research
infrastructure, the creation of new computing infrastructure, or the enhancement
of existing computing research infrastructure to enable world-class research and
education opportunities for broadly-based
communities of researchers and educators
that extend well beyond the awardee institutions. NSF 11-536
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11536/nsf11536.htm
Deadline: 10/25/2011, 10/23/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
13-8 Breast Cancer Research Grants
(Avon)
The Avon Foundation for Women’s breast
cancer research programs focus on efforts
aimed at understanding the causes of and
prevention of breast cancer. The foundation’s current research priority areas are
understanding the causes of breast cancer
and research to develop new preventative
strategies; understanding the role of
endogenous and exogenous environmental factors in the development of breast
cancer; understanding whether viruses or
infectious agents play a role in breast cancer; validation of markers/biomarkers of
breast cancer risk or that signal different
breast states such as parous/nulliparous
(the foundation does not support discovery research; instead, it directs its funds to
validation, translation, or clinical application of markers); development of clinically applicable assays or diagnostic tests
that are predictive of breast cancer risk or
that can be used to monitor changes in
breast health over time; and understanding how parity and breastfeeding alter
breast cancer risk. PND 4/1/11
URL: http://www.avonfoundation.org/
breast-cancer-crusade
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/6/2011
13-9 Short Term Research Career
Enhancement Opportunities for
Established Veterinarians (K18) (NIH)
Awards under this FOA will provide a
short-term, specialized research career
opportunity for established veterinarians
(DVM, VMD or equivalent) with an
interest in comparative medicine and
translation research. The term of the
award may range from 6-24 months.
Awardees are expected to be at the Associated or Full Professor level (or equivalent in a non-academic setting). The focus
is to support the research career enhancement for established veterinarian
researchers (DVM, VMD or equivalent)
using animal models in translational
research. The intent of this FOA is to provide grantees with protected time to
achieve a shift in the focus of their
research direction or to learn new
research techniques and/or procedures
relevant to their ongoing research projects
and to the NCRR mission. RFA-RR-11002 (NIHG 4/1/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
RFa-files/RFA-RR-11-002.html
Deadline: 6/14/2011
13-10 Developmental Pharmacology
(R01) (NIH)
This FOA encourages Research Project
Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to
encourage multidisciplinary, investigatorinitiated basic and translational research
in developmental pharmacology with particular emphasis on the role of ontogeny
on drug metabolizing enzymes, transporters, receptors and signaling pathways
activity across developmental periods
from fetal life to adolescence. PAR-11057 (NIHG 12/3/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-11-057.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/15/2011;
Applications 6/5/2011
13-11 Research in Prevention and
Treatment of Noise-Induced Hearing
Loss (NIHL) (ONR)
The Office of Naval Research, Warfighter
Protection and Applications Division of
the Warfighter Performance Department
(Code 342) is soliciting white papers (preproposals) and proposals in the following
topic areas within the NIHL Program: 1)
Capability to preserve and restore hearing. a. Studies of hair cell regeneration; b.
Prevention and/or treatment of hair cell
loss. 2) Capability to identify individual/
population susceptibility to noise-induced
hearing loss/tinnitus; 3) Development of
tools and methodologies that rapidly
assess changes in hearing thresholds and
recommend the most effective individual
mitigation/treatment strategies; 4)
Advanced training tools for the audiologist and service member that demonstrate
hearing loss and tinnitus, and that promote the correct use of hearing protection; 5) Surgical and nonsurgical
approaches to the treatment of combatrelated middle and inner ear trauma; 6)
Basic research elucidating the etiology of
tinnitus; 7) Development of prototype
technologies or specification for prototype development to monitor/reduce individual noise exposure, either through
passive/electronic hearing devices or
noise exposure reduction. ONRBAA11018 (GG 3/17/11)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/
Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities
Deadline: 7/3/2011
13-12 Developing High-Throughput
Assays for Predictive Modeling of
Reproductive and Developmental
Toxicity Modulated Through the
Endocrine System or Pertinent
Pathways in Humans and Species
Relevant to Ecological Risk Assessment
(EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is seeking applications for
research in development of high-throughput assays for use in analyzing chemicals
or mixtures of chemicals to explain how
exposure can be casually related to
adverse, apical outcomes related to development and reproduction. Theses applications can address toxicity modulated by
chemical effects on the endocrine system
or via a variety of other pathways. Assay
systems of interest are those relevant to
humans and other species relevant to
human health and/or ecological risk
assessment. In addition to regular awards,
this solicitation includes the opportunity
for early career projects. EPA-G2011STAR-E1
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2011/
2011_star_comptox.html
Deadline: 5/5/2011
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
13-13 European Union-United States
Atlantis Program (ED)
The purpose of this program is to provide
grants or enter into cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education opportunities. The absolute priority
supports the formation of educational
consortia between EU and U.S. institutions. To meet this priority, the applicant
must propose a project that encourages
cooperation in the coordination of curricula; the exchange of students, if pertinent
to grant activities; and the opening of educational opportunities between the U.S.
and countries in the EU. CFDA 84.116J
(FR 4/1/11)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 5/24/2011
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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