Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 14, 2011
Vol. 20, No. 1
Program Information
1-2 Ethics Education in Science and
Engineering (EESE) (NSF)
To receive program information, please
contact Beverly Page, Information Specialist, Research and Sponsored Programs, phone: (785)532-5045, e-mail:
bbpage@ksu.edu
The Ethics Education in Science and
Engineering (EESE) program funds
research and educational projects that
improve ethics education in all fields of
science and engineering that NSF supports, with priority consideration given
to interdisciplinary, inter-institutional,
and international contexts. Although the
primary focus is on improving ethics
education for graduate students in NSFfunded fields, the proposed programs
may benefit advanced undergraduates as
well. An eligible organization, as defined
above, may submit only one proposal as
the lead organization. NSF 11-514
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11514/nsf11514.htm
Deadline: Internal 1/21/2010; Proposals 3/14/2011
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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 (FB
1-2) 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
1-1 Informatics Tools for HighThroughput Sequence Data Analysis
(U01) (NIH)
This FOA is intended to fund the further
development of existing computational
software tools for use with contemporary
DNA sequencing technology in order to
make those tools sufficiently robust, reliable, well-documented, and well-supported that they can be readily adopted by
any biological or biomedical research laboratory. Potential applications for such
tools include determination of sequence
quality, alignment, assembly, variant calling, interpretation of variants, or any other
application for which there is existing or
likely future demand by many investigators or clinicians who work with large
amounts of data from contemporary
sequencing instruments. Proposals for producing stand-alone tools or integrated
suites of programs for data processing or
analysis will be responsive to this FOA.
RFA-HG-10-018 (NIHG 12/20/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HG-10-018.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/3/2011;
Applications 3/3/2011
1-3 Research on Research Integrity
(R21) (NIH)
This FOA, issued by NIEHS, NIDCR,
and ORI, encourages applications for
research that will improve understanding of the basic mechanisms of research
integrity by bridging work in the laboratory and the field. This understanding
will advance several goals, including: the
identification of the optimal targets and
time points in the life course for Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) education and the identification of common
mechanisms of behavior changes related
to research integrity. This initiative seeks
to capitalize on emerging basic science to
accelerate the investigation of common
mechanisms that play a role in initiating
or maintaining research integrity and are
applicable across a broad range of
research-related behaviors. RFA-ES-11004 (NIHG 12/20/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-ES-11-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/5/2011;
Applications 3/4/2011
1-4 Shared Instrumentation Grant
Program (S10) (NIH)
The NCRR Shared Instrumentation
Grant (SIG) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported
investigators to purchase or upgrade a
single item of expensive, specialized,
commercially available instrumentation
or an integrated system that costs at least
$100,000. The maximum award is
$600,000. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron
microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass
spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell-sorters, X-ray diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers among
others. For eligibility, a major user group
of three or more investigators who are
Principal Investigators on active NIH
research grants with the following activity
codes, P01, R01, U01, R35, R37, DPI,
and DP2 must be identified. Once this eligibility requirement has been met, additional users with other types of active
NIH research grants (such as but not limited to R03, R21, R55, P30, P41, P50)
mechanisms can be added as major or
minor users. PAR-11-081 (NIHG 12/20/
10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-11-081.html
Deadline: 3/23/2011
1-5 Building Capacity to Reduce
Children’s Environmental Exposures
(EPA)
EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection is pleased to announce the release of
a solicitation for grant proposals to
address children’s environmental health
in underserved communities by building
capacity for these communities to reduce
environmental exposures in child-occupied settings, e.g., homes, schools, and
child care centers.
URL: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/
ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm
Deadline: 2/18/2011
AGRICULTURE
1-6 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative—Foundational Program
(USDA)
USDA's National Institute of Food and
Agriculture (NIFA) has released the first
request for applications (RFA) to the
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
(AFRI) funding opportunity to support
research, education and extension in fundamental and applied food and agricultural sciences. The newly released RFA is
for the AFRI Foundational Program.
Projects funded through this program
address the six AFRI priority areas to
continue building a foundation of knowledge in fundamental and applied food and
agricultural sciences critical for solving
current and future societal challenges.
The six priority areas include: plant health
and production and plant products; animal
health and production and animal products; food safety, nutrition and health;
renewable energy, natural resources and
environment; agriculture systems and
technology; and agriculture economics
and rural communities. The earliest deadlines are for Letters of Intent due February 22 for some programs.
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/afri
Deadline: VARIES
EDUCATION
1-7
International Research and
A weekly publication of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
For further information, call 785-532-5045
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Studies (IRS) Program (ED)
The IRS Program provides grants to eligible applicants to conduct research and
studies to improve and strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, area
studies, and other international fields.
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 3/1/2011
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
1-8 Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN)
(KS/EPSCoR)
The NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is
seeking pre-proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN). The 2011 CAN
opportunity includes up to $750,000 in
funding for three years, with 50% matching for every dollar request from NASA.
The CAN efforts must: 1) Contribute to
and promote the development of research
capability in NASA EPSCoR jurisdictions (e.g., Kansas) in areas of strategic
importance to the NASA mission; 2)
Improve the capability of the NASA EPSCoR jurisdiction to gain support from
sources outside the NASA EPSCoR program; 3) Develop partnerships between
NASA research assets, academic institutions, and industry; 4) Contribute to the
overall research infrastructure, science
and technology capabilities, higher education, and economic development of
NASA EPSCoR jurisdiction; and 5) Work
in close coordination with the Space
Grant consortium in the jurisdiction to
improve the environment for science,
technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) education.
URL: http://www.NASAinKansas.org
Deadline: Preproposals 1/21/2011
1-9 Special Program Announcement
for 2011 Office of Naval Research
(DOD)
The Office of Naval Research seeks full
proposals aimed at understanding and
controlling the development of largescale flow structures in hot, supersonic,
shock-containing jet plumes and their
contribution to near-field (within 20 nozzle diameters of the jet axis) and far-field
(greater than 100 jet diameters) noise.
Research areas of interest include: analytical and computational approaches, correlation between flow interactions and noise
radiation, advanced diagnostics and
experiments, and advanced noise control
design methodologies and devices. 11SN-0005 (GG 12/10/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 2/25/2011
1-10 FY 2011 Vehicle Technologies
Program (DOE)
The Department of Energy’s (DOE)
National Energy Technology Laboratory
(NETL), on behalf of the DOE Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE), Vehicle Technologies (VT) Program, is issuing a Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) entitled FY2011
Vehicle Technologies Program Wide
Broad Agency Announcement. The mission of the VT program is to develop
more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly technologies for highway
transportation vehicles (cars and trucks)
that will meet or exceed performance
expectations and environmental requirements, and enable America to use significantly less petroleum and reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. DEFOA-0000239 (GG 12/16/10)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 2/28/2011
1-11 FY11 Environmental Workforce
Development and Job Training Grant
(EPA)
This notice announces the availability of
funds and solicits proposals from eligible
entities, including non-profit organizations, to deliver environmental workforce
development and job training programs
focused on hazardous and solid waste
management, assessment, and cleanupassociated activities. While Environmental Workforce Development and Job
Training Grants focus on hazardous and
solid waste remediation and health and
safety, including required core training in
HAZWOPER, applicants may design
their own curriculums by choosing what
types of supplemental environmental
training they want to provide. This supplemental training must include the following three additional training courses:
1) innovative and alternative treatment
technologies (e.g., the training in the
preparation of sites for renewable energy
installation, phytoremediation, etc.); 2)
leaking underground storage tank prevention; and 3) training related to solid waste
management, assessment, and/or cleanup
(e.g., construction and demolition debris
recycling, landfill closure, electronics
recycling, etc.) EPA-OSWER-OBLR-1101
URL: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields
Deadline: 3/18/2011
SOCIAL SCIENCES
research results. RFA-HG-11-004 (NIHG
12/20/10)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HG-11-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/10/2011;
Applications 3/10/2011
1-13 Long Term MCH Training:
LEND (HRSA)
The purpose of the Maternal and Child
Health Leadership Education in Neurodevelopment and Other Related Disabilities
(LEND) program is to improve the health
of infants, children, and adolescents who
have, or are at risk for developing, neurodevelopmental and other related disabilities by preparing trainees from a wide
variety of professional disciplines to
assume leadership roles and to ensure
high levels of interdisciplinary clinical
competence. LEND program objectives
include the following: 1) advancing the
knowledge and skills of the full range of
child health professionals to improve
health care delivery systems for children
with development disabilities; 2) providing high-quality interdisciplinary education to health professionals which
emphasizes the integration of services
supported by State, local agencies, organizations, private providers and communities; 3) providing a wide range of health
professional with the skills needed to foster a community-based partnership of
health resources and community leadership; and 4) promoting innovative practice models that enhance cultural
competency, partnerships among disciplines, and family-centered approaches to
care. In addition, institutions applying for
a LEND grant in this competition must
demonstrate that proposed interdisciplinary training opportunities in autism will
increase diagnosis of or rule out individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
or other developmental disabilities.
HRSA-11-036 (GG 1218/10)
URL: https://grants.hrsa.gov/
webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=9ECFBA4F2390-4CDD-B5C8-5490129DEF07
Deadline: 2/14/2011
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
1-12 Ethical, Legal, and Social
Implications of Returning Research
Results to Genomic Research
Participants (R21) (NIH)
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate
analytical research on the normative and
legal issues involved in deciding whether,
when, and how to offer to return individual research results to participants in
genomic research studies (especially
whole exome or whole genome sequencing studies) or to individuals who have
provided samples or data for genomic
repositories (such as biobanks or databases such as dbGaP). This FOA is aimed
primarily at sole investigators or small
teams of investigators who propose modest legal and normative research projects.
This FOA is complimentary to FOA
RFA-HG-003 (R01), which invites applications that propose empirical research to
develop a preliminary evidence base to
inform decision-making about returning
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Rich Doan, Carmen Garcia,
Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, Sharon Zoeller
Preaward Section
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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