Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
December 7, 2012
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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 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/
bul12/limits12/index.htm
GENERAL
45-1 Seed Research Inititation (SRI)
Grant (KNEP)
With support from NASA and the Kansas
Board of Regents - the Kansas NASA
EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is preparing to
award a Seed Research Initiation (SRI)
grant under the KNEP Research Infrastructure Development (RID) program.
SRI grants are designed to assist investigators in starting research projects having a
high probability for sustained growth and
value to NASA and Kansas. A successful
SRI grant leads to productive collaborations, joint publications, and additional
grant awards. A direct impact on state economic development is also extremely
desirable. PDG awards are competitive,
with a strong emphasis on: Addressing
NASA and Kansas interests (required);
Developing new, meaningful, and sustained collaborations (in Kansas and with
NASA); Involving US-students, especially
underrepresented and underserved Kansas
undergraduate and graduate students, in
research (required); Strengthening collaboration among academia, government agencies, business, and industry; Exploring
new and unique R&D opportunities; Generating publications and future EPSCoR
and non-EPSCoR grant submissions; and
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Contributing to Kansas’ economic development.
Email: scott.miller@wichita.edu
Deadline: 2/1/2013
45-2 Five Star/Urban Waters
Restoration Program (EPA)
The Five Star/Urban Waters Restoration
Program seeks to develop community
capacity to sustain local natural
resources for future generations by providing modest financial assistance to
diverse local partnerships for wetland,
forest, riparian and coastal habitat restoration with a particular focus on urban
waters and watersheds.
URL: www.nfwf.org/fivestar
Deadline: 2/7/2013
ARTS & HUMANITIES
45-3 National Leadership Grants for
Libraries (IMLS)
National Leadership Grants support
projects that address challenges faced by
the museum, library, and/or archive
fields and that have the potential to
advance practice in those fields. Successful proposals will seek innovative
responses to the challenge(s) identified
in the proposals, and will have national
impact. For FY2013, IMLS continues to
pursue its commitment to early learning
by seeking proposals addressing learners
from ages 0-8 and their parents and caregivers. Library applicants are encouraged
to partner with community organizations
to address at least one of the challenges
identified by the Campaign for Grade
Level Reading including school readiness, summer reading loss, and chronic
school absence. NLG-LIBRARIESFY13 (GG 12/3/12)
URL: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/
detail.aspx?GrantId=14
Deadline: 2/1/2013
45-4 NEA Literature Fellowships:
Prose, FY 2014 (NEA)
The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry
to published creative writers that enable
recipients to set aside time for writing,
research, travel, and general career
advancement. Applications are reviewed
through an anonymous process in which
the only criteria for review are artistic
excellence and artistic merit. The NEA
Literature Fellowships program operates
on a two-year cycle with fellowships in
prose and poetry available in alternating
years. For FY 2014, which is covered by
these guidelines, fellowships in prose
(fiction and creative nonfiction) are
available. Fellowships in poetry will be
offered in FY 2015 and guidelines will
be available in the fall of 2013. You may
apply only once each year. Competition
for fellowships is extremely rigorous.
2013NEA03LFCW (GG 11/30/12)
URL: http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/
Lit/index.html
Deadline: 2/28/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
45-5 Young Faculty Award (YFA)
(DoD)
This RA solicits ground-breaking singleinvestigator proposals from junior faculty
at universities and their equivalent at nonprofit research institutions for research
and development in the specific areas of
Science, Mathematics and Engineering of
interest to DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) and Defense Sciences Office (DSO). DARPA-RA-13-08
(GG 12/5/12)
URL: http://www.darpa.mil/
Opportunities/Solicitations/
DARPA_Solicitations.aspx
Deadline: 1/21/2013
45-6 Collaboration Grants for
Mathematicians (Simons)
The Simons Foundation, which works to
advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, is accepting applications for grants to
mathematicians interested in collaborating with peers.The goal of the program is
to support the mathematical marketplace
by substantially increasing collaborative
contacts in the community of mathematicians working in the United States. The
foundation will make a large number of
grants to accomplished, active researchers
who do not otherwise have access to substantial research funding that supports
travel and visitors. Collaboration Grants
provide $7,000 a year for a period of five
years. The foundation will award $5,000 a
year for collaboration, travel, and
research expenses, plus $1,000 a year in
discretionary funds for the awardee’s
department to enhance the research atmosphere within the department. The foundation will also pay $1,000 a year in
indirect costs to the awardee’s institution.
The foundation anticipates making up to
one hundred and forty awards a year. To
be eligible to apply, an individual must
have a tenure-track or tenured position, or
be a professor emeritus, at a United States
institution of higher education; have a
current record of active research and publication in high-quality journals; and not
hold any other grants of over $3,000 a
year that allow for support for travel or
visitors during the Collaboration Grant
award period. (PND 11/30/12)
URL: https://simonsfoundation.org/
funding/funding-opportunities/
Deadline: 1/31/2013
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45-7 Physics of Information (FQS)
The Foundational Questions Institute
(FQXi) is a grantmaking nonprofit organization whose goal is to catalyze, support, and disseminate research that
investigates questions at the foundations
of physics and cosmology—particularly
new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality—
but is unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources. The current RFP
targets research regarding the physics of
information both in physics and also in
related fields, including cosmology, astrophysics, mathematics, computer science,
complex systems, biology, and neuroscience. Funded research will address the
gap between research and technological
progress on information science on one
side and active study of the true physical
nature of information on the other. It will
also bring the research community
together to focus on developing a common understanding of the different types
of information and the roles they play.
Most importantly, the research supported
by the program should have significant
implications for our understanding of the
major questions across many scientific
disciplines and address the deep or ultimate nature of reality. (PND 11/30/12)
URL: http://fqxi.org/grants/large/initial
Deadline: Initial Proposals 1/16/2013
45-8 Academia-Industry
Collaboration (AIC)-Synchrophasor
Engineering Education Program
(DOE)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funded synchrophasor
deployment projects that have created a
quantum increase in the quantity of highspeed, time-synchronized measurements
available for the United States bulk electric power system. However, there are a
limited number of professionals,
researchers and students that have the
knowledge and expertise to understand
and analyze the data that will be generated. One of the reasons for this is that
university affiliated researchers, professors and their students have not been able
to obtain production-grade synchrophasor
data. To rectify this problem, the Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy
Technology Laboratory (NETL), on
behalf of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), is issuing a Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) to: 1) enable university researchers and students to gain
access to and conduct research using synchrophasor data collected from utility distribution systems, and 2) enable
universities to create a successful curriculum and training program that will produce a knowledgeable and skilled
workforce in disciplines that will meet the
current and future workforce needs of
electricity industry. DE-FOA-0000767
(GG 11/30/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 1/15/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
45-9 COBRE CCET Pilot Project
Competition (KU/COBRE)
45-11 Technology Development for
Protein Modeling (R01) (NIH)
This COBRE grant promotes and supports two cores, Medicinal Chemistry and
High Throughout Screening, and in each
year will also support Pilot Project
research awards that utilize one or both of
the core facilities. COBRE Pilot Project
Awards are grants that stimulate competitive extramural research funding for tenure-track or tenured faculty members. Up
to two (2) awards of up to $62,500 direct
costs per year for two years (24 months)
will be awarded, depending on reviews
and the availability of funds. The awards
are to be used to generate or strengthen
existing preliminary data to increase the
competitiveness of NIH R01 applications.
Proposed research must be related to cancer. The relevance of the proposed
research to cancer should be stated and
justified clearly in the proposal and be
reflected in the title of the Pilot Project
grant application. Joint applications from
several investigators are highly encouraged. All applications MUST utilize one
or both of the COBRE core facilities.
URL: http://ccet.cobre.ku.edu/
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/31/2013;
Proposals 2/28/2013
This FOA issued by the National Institute
of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS),
National Institutes of Health, encourages
grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to develop novel
technologies that will significantly
improve the accuracy of comparative
modeling methods for protein structure
prediction. PAR-13-033 (NIHG 11/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-13-033.html
Deadline: 2/5/2013, 6/5/2013, 10/5/2013
45-10 K-INBRE Grants (K-INBRE)
The incentives and Awards Committee for
the K-INBRE is calling for proposals to
support: Bridging Grants: A Bridging
Grant provides interim support to help a
project in Cell and Developmental Biology continue for an eligible investigator
who has submitted a grant to NIH that
was approved on the basis of scientific
merit, but fell short of the funding range
(applications with a score of 4.5 or higher
will be triaged). These funds should assist
in providing data needed to resubmit a
revised application to NIH. Institutional
Core Facilities: Core Facility awards are
for the purpose of providing funds to
institutional core facilities that support the
research focus of the K-INBRE, Cell and
Developmental Biology. Partnerships for
Translational Research Training: Partnership awards are one-year awards offered
for the purpose of facilitating the initiation of clinical/basic science research
projects directed toward a translational
goal. The awards are meant to support
technical assistant salaries together with
other research project requirements with
the goal of exchanging information, data
and technical expertise in a close partnership arrangement. Postdoctoral Awards:
Post-doctoral awards are one year mentored awards offered for the purpose of
facilitating applications to support 1) initiation of post-doctoral research projects
and 2) transition from the post-doctoral
position to early investigator status. The
awards are meant only for partial salary
support during early or late stages of the
post-doctoral experience. The purpose of
this research support is to further the ability of Kansas researchers to compete successfully for NIH funds.
URL: http://www.kumc.edu/kinbre/
Deadline: 2/1/2013
SOCIAL SCIENCES
45-12 Building Community and
Capacity for Data-Intensive Research
in the Social, Behavioral, and
Economic Sciences and in Education
and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/
EHR) (NSF)
As part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure
Framework for 21st Century Science and
Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources (EHR),
and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek
to enable research communities to
develop visions, teams, and capabilities
dedicated to creating new, large-scale,
next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR
areas of research. Successful proposals
will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by
enabling new types of data-intensive
research. Investigators should think
broadly and create a vision that extends
intellectually across multiple disciplines
and that includes—but is not limited to—
the SBE or EHR areas of research. NSF
13-519
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13519/nsf13519.htm
Deadline: 2/27/2013
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, Diana McElwain, Katie Small,
Rex Goff, Namrita Berry, Cecilia Scaler,
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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