Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
November 30, 2012
Program Information
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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
44-5) 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/bul12/limits12/index.htm
GENERAL
44-1 Kansas NASA EPSCoR Request
for Proposals (KNEP)
The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
(KNEP) is preparing to award Partnership
Development Grants (PDG) to Kansas
investigators, under the KNEP Research
Infrastructure Development (RID) program. These grants are intended to facilitate the development of beneficial and
promising NASA collaborations. The PDG
recipient is expected to initiate, develop,
and formalize a meaningful professional
relationship with a NASA researcher.
Given this expectation, it is vital investigators and students travel to a NASA center
if selected for an award. PDG awards are
competitive, with a strong emphasis on:
Addressing NASA and Kansas interests
(required); Developing new, sustained, and
meaningful NASA contacts (required);
Involving students, especially underrepresented and underserved Kansas undergraduates and graduate students, in the research
(required); strengthening collaboration
among academia, government agencies,
business, and industry; Exploring new and
unique R&D opportunities; Shared publications and future EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR grant submissions. The KNEP PDG
program cannot support proposals aug-
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menting existing funded research
projects.
Email: scott.miller@wichita.edu
Deadline: 12/20/2012
44-2 Plant Feedstock Genomics for
Bioenergy: A Joint Research Funding
Opportunity Announcement (DOE/
USDA)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office
of Science, Office of Biological and
Environmental Research (BER), and the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), announce their interest in
receiving applications for genomics
based research that will lead to the
improved use of biomass and plant feedstocks for the production of fuels such as
ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Specifically, applications are
sought for fundamental research on
plants that will improve biomass characteristics, biomass yield, or sustainability.
Systems biology approaches to identify
genetic indicators enabling plants to be
efficiently bred or manipulated, or
research to predict phenotype from
underlying genotype that could lead to
improved feedstock characterization and
sustainability are also encouraged. DEFOA-0000770 (GG 11/20/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 12/18/2012;
Applications 2/25/2013
44-3 Integrated NSF Support
Promoting Interdisciplinary Research
and Education (INSPIRE) (NSF)
The INSPIRE awards program was
established to address some of the most
complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines. It is intended to
encourage investigators to submit bold,
exceptional proposals that some may
consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process; it is not
intended for proposals that are more
appropriate for existing award mechanisms. INSPIRE is open to interdisciplinary proposals on any NSF-supported
topic, submitted by invitation only after a
preliminary inquiry process initiated by
submission of a required Letter of Intent.
In fiscal year 2013, INSPIRE provides
support through the following three pilot
grant mechanisms: INSPIRE Track 1.
This is essentially a continuation of the
pilot CREATIV mechanism from FY
2012, which was detailed for 2012 in
Dear Colleague Letter NSF 12-011;
INSPIRE Track 2. These are mid-scale
research awards at a larger scale than
Track 1, allowing for requests of up to
$3,000,000 over a duration of up to five
years. Expectations for cross-cutting
advances and for broader impacts are
greater than in Track 1, and the review
process includes external review; Director’s INSPIRE Awards are prestigious
individual awards to single-investigator
proposals that present ideas for interdisciplinary advances with unusually strong,
exciting transformative potential. NSF
13-518
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13518/nsf13518.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent Track 2 2/
20/2013, Track 1 3/29/2013; Proposals
Track 2 5/13/2013, Track 1 5/29/2013
44-4 First Awards (KU/EPSCoR)
Kansas NSF EPSCoR (KNE) helps Kansas build its research capacity and competitiveness in science and technology.
The First Award program helps early
career faculty become competitive for
funding from the research directorates at
the National Science Foundation by: 1)
encouraging early career faculty to submit
proposals to the NSF as soon as possible
after their first faculty appointment, and
2) by accelerating the pace of their
research and the quality of their subsequent proposals. Eligible to apply is any
individual tenure track faculty member at
Kansas State University, University of
Kansas, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University or
Washburn University who: is within the
first three years of his/her faculty appointment, has not previously received a First
Award of similar funding from another
EPSCoR or EPSCoR-like (Centers of
Biomedical Research Excellence,
COBRE) program in Kansas, is not currently nor has previously been a lead Principal Investigator of research grant
funded by a federal agency.
URL: http://www.nsfepscor.ku.edu/
Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/17/2012;
Proposals 2/11/2013
EDUCATION
44-5 NSF Scholarships in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (S-STEM) (NSF)
This program makes grants to institutions
of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented students
demonstrating financial need, enabling
them to enter the STEM workforce or
STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or
graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines. Grantee institutions are
responsible for selecting scholarship
recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the
institution. The program does not make
scholarship awards directly to students;
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students should contact their institution’s
Office of Financial Aid for this and other
scholarship opportunities. An Institution
may submit one proposal from each constituent school or college that awards
degrees in an eligible field. NSF 12-529
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12529/nsf12529.htm
Deadline: Internal 6/13/2013; Proposals 8/13/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
44-6 Integrated Earth Systems (IES)
(NSF)
Integrated Earth Systems (IES) is a program in the Division of Earth Sciences
(EAR) that focuses on the continental,
terrestrial and deep Earth subsystems of
the whole Earth system. The overall goal
of the program is to provide opportunity
for collaborative, multidisciplinary
research into the operation, dynamics and
complexity of Earth systems at a budgetary scale between that of a typical project
in the EAR Division’s disciplinary programs and larger scale initiatives at the
Directorate or Foundation level. Specifically, IES will provide research opportunities for the study of Earth systems from
the core of the Earth to the top of the critical zone with a specific focus on subsystems that include continental,
terrestrial and deep Earth subsystems at
all temporal and spatial scales (NROES,
2012). IES will provide opportunities to
focus on Earth systems connected to topics which include (but are not limited to)
the continents; the terrestrial, surficial
Earth systems including physical, chemical and biotic dimensions; linkages
among tectonics, climate, landscape
change, topography and geochemical
cycles including core and mantle processes. NSF 12-613
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12613/nsf12613.htm
Deadline: 11/14/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
44-7 Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA)
Institutional Predoctoral Training
Program in Systems Developmental
Biology (T32) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy
Shriver National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD)
encourages applications for predoctoral
NRSA T32s to provide research training
in systems biology of developmental biology and/or structural birth defects
research. PAR-13-019 (NIHG 11/9/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-13-019.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/25/2013,
4/25/2014; Applications 5/25/2013, 5/
25/2014
SOCIAL SCIENCES
44-8 AmeriCorps State and National
Grant Competitions (CNCS)
This AmeriCorps State and National
Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity
Notice will focus grant making for fiscal
year 2013 in six areas identified by the
Serve America Act (SAA): • Disaster Services, • Economic Opportunity, • Education, • Environmental Stewardship, •
Healthy Futures, • Veterans and Military
Families. In order to maximize the impact
of the public investment in national service, CNCS will fund programs that can
demonstrate community impact and solve
community problems using an evidencebased or evidence-informed approach
(e.g. performance data, research, theory
of change). CNCS111612 (GG 11/16/12)
URL: http://www.americorps.gov/
for_organizations/funding/
Deadline: 2/6/2013
44-9 Science of Science and
Innovation Policy (SCISIP) (NSF)
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research
designed to advance the scientific basis of
science and innovation policy. Research
funded by the program thus develops,
improves and expands models, analytical
tools, data and metrics that can be applied
in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals
may develop behavioral and analytical
conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad
array of SciSIP challenges, including the
relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to
analyze science and technology data, and
to convey the information to a variety of
audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and
engineering data, metrics and indicators
reflecting current discovery, particularly
proposals that demonstrate the viability of
collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations. PD 09-7626
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084
Deadline: 9/9/2013
44-10 Model Demonstration Projects
on Promoting Reentry Success through
Continuity of Educational
Opportunities (ED)
The purpose of the PRSCEO program is
to demonstrate the benefits of implementing a reentry education model, as
described in the U.S. Department of Education November 2012 publication entitled A Reentry Education Model,
Supporting Education and Career
Advancement for Low-Skill Individuals
in Corrections. This Reentry Education
Model is focused on: 1) Supporting individuals, especially low-skilled adults, in
their transition from correctional institutions into the community by strengthening and aligning educational services
provided in those settings; 2) establishing
a strong program infrastructure to support
and improve education services in correc-
tional institutions; 3) ensuring that education is well integrated into correctional
institutions by making it a critical component of the intake and pre-release processes, and by aligning it with support
and employment services; and 4) encouraging individuals in correctional institutions to identify and achieve education
and career goals, recognizing that their
education paths are not linear or uniform.
ED-GRANTS-112012-001 (GG 11/20/
12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 12/26/2012
44-11 Fellowships (CISAC)
The Center for International Security and
Cooperation (CISAC) is an interdisciplinary community dedicated to producing
policy-relevant scholarly research on
international security problems, to teaching and training the next generation of
security specialists, and to influencing
policymaking in international security.
The Center serves as a forum for scholars,
practitioners and security professionals to
understand complex international problems and explore innovative solutions in a
collegial and collaborative environment.
CISAC’s fellowship program is an integral part of this mission. Through the
Center’s annual fellowship competition, a
small number of scholars are selected to
spend the academic year engaged in
research and writing on campus. (TGA
11/12)
URL: http://cisac.stanford.edu/
fellowships/
Deadline: 2/1/2013
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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