Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 25, 2011
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Limited submission programs have
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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
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bul11/limits11/index.htm
GENERAL
11-1 ROSES 2011:Opportunities in
Education and Public Outreach for
Earth and Space Science (NASA)
This Opportunities in Education and Public Outreach for Earth and Space Science
solicitation is for project activities utilizing
Science Mission Directorate (SMD) content supporting NASA education and public outreach objectives. It solicits proposals
that address substantial and substantive
educational or outreach needs or problems
and offer solutions of significant impact.
NNH11ZDA001N-EPOESS (GG 3/22/11)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 4/8/2011;
Proposals 5/6/2011
11-2 Digging into Data Challenge
(NEH)
The advent of what has been called datadriven inquiry or cyberscholarship has
changed the nature of inquiry across many
disciplines, revealing new opportunities
for interdisciplinary collaboration on problems of common interest. The creation of
vast quantities of Internet-accessible digital data and the development of techniques
for large-scale data analysis have led to
remarkable new discoveries in genetics,
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astronomy, and other fields, and—importantly—connections between different
academic disciplines. The Digging into
Data Challenge seeks to discover how
these new research techniques might also
be applied to questions in the humanities
and social sciences. New techniques of
large-scale data analysis allow researchers to discover relationships, detect discrepancies, and perform computations on
so-called big data sets that are so large
that they can be processed only by using
computing resources and computational
methods that were developed and made
economically affordable within the past
few years. The four goals of the initiative
are: 1) to promote the development and
deployment of innovative research techniques in large-scale data analysis that
focus on applications for the humanities
and social sciences; 2) to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in the humanities, social sciences,
computer sciences, library, archive,
information sciences, and other fields,
around questions of text and data analysis; 3) to promote international collaboration among both researchers and
funders; and 4) to ensure efficient access
to and sharing of the materials for
research by working with data repositories that hold large digital collections.
The Digging into Data Challenge competition is sponsored by eight leading
funders from four countries (Canada, the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and
the United States). This competition is
open only to international research
projects. Each project represents a collaboration among 2-4 teams, each team
representing one of the competition’s
participating countries.
URL: http://www.diggingintodata.org
Deadline: 6/16/2011
EDUCATION
11-3 Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)-Comprehensive Program (ED)
The Comprehensive Program supports
innovative grants and cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education. It supports reforms, innovations,
and significant improvements of postsecondary education that respond to problems of national significance and serve
as national models. Competitive Preference Priorities are: 1) Increasing Postsecondary Success; 2) Enabling More DataBased Decision-Making; and 3) Improving Productivity. CFDA 84.116B (FR 3/
22/11)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/
fedregister
Deadline: 5/23/2011
11-4 National Professional
Development Program (ED)
The National Professional Development
Program will award grants to institutions
of higher education (in consortia with
State educational agencies or local educational agencies) to support professional
development activities that are designed
to improve classroom instruction for
English Learners and will assist educational personnel working with such children to meet high professional standards,
including standards for certification and
licensure as teachers who work in language instruction educational programs or
serve Els. CFDA 84.195N (FR 3/18/11)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 5/2/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
11-5 Theoretical Research in
Magnetic Fusion Energy Science
(DOE)
The Department of Energy announces its
interest in receiving grant applications for
theoretical research relevant to the U.S.
program in magnetic fusion energy sciences. The specific areas of interest are:
1) Magnetohydrodynamics; 2) Confinement and Transport; 3) Boundary Physics; 4) Plasma Heating, Non-inductive
Current Drive, and Energetic Particles; 5)
Atomic and Molecular Processes in Plasmas. DE-FOA-0000480 (GG 3/21/11)
URL: http://www.fedconnect.net/
FedConnect/?doc=DE-FOA0000480&agency=DOE
Deadline: Letters of Intent; Applications 5/26/2011
11-6 Extreme Event Impacts on Air
Quality and Water Quality with a
Changing Global Climate (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
seeking applications proposing the development of assessments, tools and techniques, and demonstration of innovative
technologies for providing information
and capacity to adequately prepare for climate-induced changes in extreme events
in the context of air and water quality
management. A goal of this RFA is to
seek a better understanding of the hazards
(the extreme events) and to establish ways
for climate scientists, impact assessment
modelers, air and water quality managers,
and other stakeholders to co-produce
information necessary to form sound policy in relation to extreme events and their
impact on air and water quality under a
changing climate. EPA-G2011-STAR-D2
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2011/
2011_star_extremeevent.html
Deadline: 4/18/2011
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
11-7 Enhancing Tumoricidal Activity
of Natural Killer (NK) Cells by Dietary
Components for Cancer Prevention
(R01) (NIH)
This funding opportunity announcement
(FOA) is designed to stimulate research
efforts aimed at establishing the physiological significance of dietary components in modulating the tumoricidal cell
activity of natural killer (NK) cells for
cancer prevention. PA-11-160 (NIHG 3/
18/11
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-160.html
Deadline: 6/5/2011, 10/5/2011, 2/5/2012
11-8 Improved Diagnostic
Capabilities for Select Biodefense and
Emerging Pathogens (R21/R33) (NIH)
The goal of this FOA is to support basic
to translational research focused on development of improved and/or field-appropriate diagnostic capabilities for select
biodefense and emerging pathogens.
RFA-AI-11-024 (NIHG 3/18/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-11-024.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/14/2011;
Applications 7/14/2011
11-9 Nutrition and Diet in the
Causation, Prevention, and
Management of Heart Failure (R01)
(NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
encourages submission of investigatorinitiated research applications on the role
of nutrition and diet in the causation, prevention, and treatment of cardiomyopathies and heart failure. Mechanistic,
translational, and applied interdisciplinary research applications with rigorous
hypothesis-testing designs for projects in
humans or animals are of interest. The
overall goal is to develop a satisfactory
science base for rational nutritional management of patients in various stages of
heart failure and for preventive
approaches in high-risk individuals. PA11-165 (NIHG 3/18/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-165.html
Deadline: 6/5/2011, 10/5/2011, 2/5/2012
11-10 Advancing Theory in Biology
(ATB) (NSF)
The Biological Sciences Directorate
invites submission of proposals that
advance our conceptual and theoretical
understanding of living systems. The
Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
solicitation supports the development of
new theoretical approaches that will
improve our understanding of general
biological principles that account for phenomena that occur independently across
levels of biological organizations. This is
the final year that a separate competition
will be held for Advancing Theory in
Biology. After this year, the Biological
Sciences Directorate will continue to support the development of new theoretical
approaches to account for phenomena at
different levels of biological organizations through proposals submitted to
existing core programs in the Directorate.
NSF 11-523
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11523/nsf11523.htm
Deadline: 4/13/2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
11-11 Exploring Drugs of Abuse and
Transgenerational Phenotypes (R01)
(NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to support
research investigating whether or not
exposure to drugs of abuse leads to
behavioral, molecular, physiological or
other phenotypic effects in subsequent
generations. Applicants should focus on a
drug of abuse. Applications focused
solely on the effects of alcohol will not be
responsive to this FOA. RFA-DA-12-006
(NIHG 3/18/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DA-12-006.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/29/2011;
Applications 7/29/2011
11-12 Strategic Social Interaction
Modules (SSIM) (DOD)
DARPA is soliciting proposals for innovative research into the identification of
and training in social interaction skills
warfighters can apply to effect successful
outcomes in social encounters with
strangers in unfamiliar and hostile environments and in enhancing the warfighters’ human dynamics proficiencies during
such encounters. The proposed research
should investigate innovative approaches
that enable revolutionary advances in
social science, training, or validation.
Specifically excluded is research that
results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
DARPA-BAA-11-32 (GG 3/22/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 5/10/2011
11-13 Family and Interpersonal
Relationships in an Aging Context
(R01) (NIH)
The National Institute on Aging invites
researchers to submit innovative
R01research grant applications on aging
and the family. The objective of this
research program is to expand understanding of the role of families and interpersonal relationships in the health and
wellbeing of older people. This will be
accomplished through increasing scientific knowledge on the effects of family
and interpersonal relationships on behavioral and social processes of relevance to
aging; and on how these processes change
over the life course and across cohorts. A
broad range of methods and approaches
are encouraged. PA-11-128 (NIHG 2/25/
11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-128.html
Deadline: 6/5/2011, 10/5/2011, 2/5/2012
11-14 Encouraging Innovation: FieldInitiated Programs (DOJ)
Bureau of Justice Assistance is seeking
proposals from eligible organizations to
develop and implement new and innovative strategies that better enable local
criminal justice systems to prevent and
respond to emerging and chronic crime
problems that affect many communities in
the United States. Proposals must aim to
address a gap in the current base of
knowledge about responding to and preventing crime and be developed or implemented in a way that allows other
communities or organizations to learn
from and potentially replicate the
approach. For a proposal to be considered
innovative, it must: 1) propose a strategy
or response that has not been implemented previously; 2) propose a new
modification to an existing strategy or
response that has not been implemented
previously; or 3) propose a new approach
to delivering evidence-based strategies or
responses that has not been implemented
previously. BJA-2011-2946 (GG 2/24/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/21/2011
11-15 NIJ Visiting Fellows Program
(DOJ)
NIJ seeks proposals for important
research work and scholarship as part of
the 2011 NIJ Visiting Fellows Program.
Awards made under the NIJ Visiting Fellows Program will bring leading researchers and others into residency at NIJ to
make important scholarly contributions in
their chosen fields of criminology or
criminal justice research and to work with
the NIJ Director and staff to help shape
the direction of NIJ’s research programs.
NIJ will also recruit Partnership Fellows—a Research Fellow and a Policy
Fellow who will work together on a joint
research project. NIJ-2011-2829 (GG 1/
26/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/28/2011
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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