Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 28, 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
36-2) 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/bul12/limits12/index.htm
GENERAL
36-1 2013 PTT Grants (DOI)
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) advances the
application of science and technology to
historic preservation. Working in the fields
of archeology, architecture, landscape
architecture and materials conservation,
the Center accomplishes its mission
through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships. The PTT
Grants program funds projects that
develop new technologies or adapt existing technologies to preserve cultural
resources. Projects may include, but are
not limited to: laboratory or field research
that explores or assesses novel or adaptive
methods; training activities, including
workshops, and course or curriculum
development that promote the use of new
or adaptive technologies; documentation
using new methods; manuscript or website
development that disseminates innovative
preservation technologies; and meetings
that convene experts to discuss the use of
technologies to address preservation problems. DOI-NPS-NCPT-2013 (GG 9/25/12)
URL: http://www.ncptt.nps.gov
Deadline: 11/1/2012
Vol. 21, No. 36
36-2 Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics Talent
Expansion Program (STEP) (NSF)
The Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or
permanent residents) receiving associate
or baccalaureate degrees in established or
emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited
that provide for full implementation
efforts at academic institutions. Type 2
proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or
baccalaureate degree attainment in
STEM. An institution that awards baccalaureate degrees is allowed to submit
only one Type 1 proposal, or to be part of
only one consortium submitting a Type 1
proposal. NSF 11-550
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5488
Deadline: Internal 10/10/2012; Proposals 12/10/2012
36-3 Fellowships at the Huntington
(Huntington)
The Huntington is an independent
research center with holdings in British
and American history, literature, art, history of science and medicine. The
Library collections range chronologically
from the eleventh century to the present.
The Burndy Library consists of some
67,000 rare books and reference volumes
in the history of science and technology,
as well as an important collection of scientific instruments. Within the general
fields listed above there are many areas
of special strength, including: Middle
Ages, Renaissance, 19th and 20th century literature, British drama, Colonial
American paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library. In
the library of the Botanical Gardens is a
broad collection of reference works in
botany, horticulture, and gardening.
(TGA 9/12)
URL: http://www.huntington.org/
huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566
Deadline: 11/30/2012
36-4 Resident Scholar Fellowships
(SAR)
The School for Advanced Research
(SAR) awards approximately six Resident Scholar Fellowships each year to
scholars who have completed their
research and analysis and who need time
to think and write about topics important
to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their
research from anthropology or from
related fields such as history, sociology,
art, and philosophy. Both humanistically
and scientifically oriented scholars are
encouraged to apply. (TGA 9/12)
URL: http://sarweb.org/
index.php?resident_scholars
Deadline: 11/1/2012
36-5 NSF Science, Engineering and
Education for Sustainability Fellows
(NSF)
Through the SEES Fellows Program,
NSF seeks to advance science, engineering, and education to inform the societal
actions needed for environmental and
economic sustainability and human wellbeing while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. The
Program’s emphasis is to facilitate investigations that cross traditional disciplinary
boundaries and address issues of sustainability through a systems approach, building bridges between academic inquiry,
economic growth, and societal needs. The
Fellow’s proposed investigation must be
interdisciplinary and allow him/her to
obtain research experiences beyond his/
her current core disciplinary expertise.
Fellows are required to develop a research
partnership(s) that will advance and
broaden the impact/scope of the proposed
research, and present a plan for their own
professional development in the area of
sustainability science and engineering.
Only one submission per P.I. NSF 12-601
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12601/nsf12601.htm
Deadline: 11/26/2012, 11/21/2013
ARTS & HUMANITIES
36-6 Getty Scholar Grants (GETTY)
Getty Scholar grants are for established
scholars, artists, or writers who have
attained distinction their fields. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research
Institute, where they pursue their own
projects free from academic obligations,
make use of Getty collections, join their
colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted
to an annual theme, and participate in the
intellectual life of the Getty. Applications
are welcome from researchers of all
nationalities who are working in the arts,
humanities, or social sciences. (TGA 9/
12)
URL: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/
funding/residential/getty_scholars.html
Deadline: 11/1/2012
36-7 Fellowships in Painting,
Sculpture, and The History of Art and
Architecture (Howard)
The Howard Foundation awards a limited
number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields. The
Foundation targets its support specifically
to early mid-career individuals, those who
have achieved recognition for at least one
major project. Approximately ten fellow-
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ships will be awarded in April 2013 for
2013-2014 in the fields of Painting,
Sculpture, and the History of Art and
Architecture. Howard Fellowships are
intended primarily to provide artists and
scholars with time to complete their work.
They are not intended for publication subsidies, for equipment purchase, for preparation of exhibits, or to support
institutional programs. (TGA 9/12)
URL: http://brown.edu/Divisions/
Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/
Deadline: 11/1/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
36-8 Expeditions in Training,
Research, and Education for
Mathematics and Statistics through
Quantitative Explorations of Data
(EXTREEMS-QED) (NSF)
The long-range goal of EXTREEMSQED is to support efforts to educate the
next generation of mathematics and statistics undergraduate students to confront
new challenges in computational and
data-enabled science and engineering
(CDS&E). EXTREEMS-QED projects
must enhance the knowledge and skills of
most, if not all, the institution’s mathematics and statistics majors through training that incorporates computational tools
for analysis of large data sets and for
modeling and simulation of complex systems. Funded activities are expected to
provide opportunities for undergraduate
research and hands-on experiences centered on CDS&E; result in significant
changes to the undergraduate mathematics and statistics curriculum; have broad
institutional support and department-wide
commitment that encourage collaborations within and across disciplines; and
include professional development activities for faculty or for K-12 teachers. NSF
12-606
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12606/nsf12606.htm
Deadline: 12/14/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
36-9 Research Answers to NCI’s
Provocative Questions - Group A (R01)
(NIH)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) issued by the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) is to support research projects designed to use
sound and innovative research strategies
to solve specific problems and paradoxes
in cancer research identified by the NCI
Provocative Questions initiative. These
problems and paradoxes phrased as questions are not intended to represent the full
range of NCI’s priorities in cancer
research. Rather, they are meant to challenge cancer researchers to think about
and elucidate specific problems in key
areas of cancer research that are deemed
important but have not received sufficient
attention.In the previous issuance, there
were two PQs FOAs, each covering the
entire set of identified PQs and utilizing,
respectively, the R01 (RFA-CA-11-011)
and R21 (RFA-CA-11-012) funding
mechanisms. The current reissuance of
the PQ Program involves an updated set
of 24 PQs. In order to facilitate the peer
review process, the new/updated PQs
have been divided into four groups related
by themes resulting in four R01 FOAs
and four R21 FOAs. Group A-D RFACA-12-015-22 (NIHG 9/21/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-CA-12-015.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/4/2012, 5/
20/2013; Applications 12/4/2012, 6/20/
2012
formatics, and computational biology, to
address business opportunities in key
industry sectors including biomedical,
biomanufacturing, and sustainable agriculture. NSF 12-592
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12592/nsf12592.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/20/2012;
Proposals 12/20/2012
36-10 Development and Use of Adverse
Outcome Pathways that Predict
Adverse Developmental Neurotoxicity
(EPA)
This FOA will use the NIH Small
Research Grant (R03) award mechanism
and seeks to facilitate the entry of beginning investigators into the field of behavioral science research related to drug
abuse. To be appropriate for a B/START
award, research must be primarily
focused on behavioral processes and
research questions. PAR-12-251 (NIHG
7/27/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-251.html
Deadline: 10/16/2012, 2/16/2013, 6/16/
2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to
Achieve Results (STAR) program, is
seeking applications proposing research
that will identify and/or provide a better
understanding of adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) that lead to developmental
neurotoxicity (DNT). Such research
should advance the state of knowledge by
linking key events along the continuum
from exposure to adverse outcomes,
including windows of susceptibility, and
ultimately resulting in AOP-based data
and models for chemical testing that will
allow risk assessors to predict DNT. EPA
is particularly interested in funding
research projects that focus on endocrine
signaling pathways that alter neurodevelopment, but will accept research proposals that address other AOPs.
URL: http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2012/
2012_star_neurotox.html
Deadline: 12/12/2012
SMALL BUSINESS
36-11 Small Business Technology
Transfer Program Phase 1 Solicitation
FY -2013 (NSF)
The Small Business Technology Transfer
program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening
the role of small business concerns in
meeting Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial
application of federally supported
research results, and fostering and
encouraging participation by socially and
economically disadvantaged and womenowned small businesses. The Small Business Technology Transfer Program
(STTR) requires researchers at universities and other non-profit research institutions to play a significant intellectual role
in the conduct of each STTR project.
These researchers, by joining forces with
a small company, can spin-off their commercially promising ideas while they
remain primarily employed at the
research institution. The STTR research
topic for this solicitation is Enhancing the
Bioeconomy using emerging Biological
Technologies (EBBT). Proposals must
use a biologically-based approach, such
as synthetic biology, systems biology,
metabolic engineering, proteomics, bioin-
SOCIAL SCIENCES
36-12 Behavioral Science Track Award
for Rapid Transition (B/START) (R03)
(NIH)
STUDENTS
36-13 Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grants in the Directorate
for Biological Sciences (DDIG) (NSF)
The National Science Foundation awards
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement
Grants in selected areas of the biological
sciences. These grants provide partial
support of doctoral dissertation research
to improve the overall quality of research.
Allowed are costs for doctoral candidates
to participate in scientific meetings, to
conduct research in specialized facilities
or field settings, and to expand an existing
body of dissertation research. NSF 12590
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12590/nsf12590.htm
Deadline: 11/8/2012
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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