Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
August 31, 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
31-8, 31-10) 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/
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GENERAL
31-1 Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and
Program Evaluation (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) is issued by the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Cancer Institute
(NCI), National Institute on Aging (NIA),
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Office of
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
(OBSSR), at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). This announcement establishes an accelerated review/award process
to support time-sensitive research to evaluate a new policy or program expected to
influence obesity related behaviors (e.g.,
dietary intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight outcomes in
an effort to prevent or reduce obesity. This
FOA is intended to support research where
opportunities for empirical study are, by
their very nature, only available through
expedited review and funding. All applications to this FOA must demonstrate that
the evaluation of an obesity related policy
and /or program offers an uncommon and
scientifically compelling research opportunity that will only be available if the
research is initiated with minimum delay.
Vol. 21, No. 31
For these reasons, applications in
response to this time-sensitive FOA are
eligible for only one submission. PAR12-257 (NIHG 8/10/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-257.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/12/2012,
10/17/2012; Applications 10/10/2012,
11/14/2012
31-2 2013 NIH Director’s Pioneer
Award Program (DP1) (NIH)
The NIH Director’s Pioneer Award initiative complements NIH’s traditional,
investigator-initiated grant programs by
supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering
and possibly transforming approaches to
addressing major biomedical or behavioral challenges that have the potential to
produce an unusually high impact on a
broad area of biomedical or behavioral
research. To be considered pioneering,
the proposed research must reflect substantially different scientific directions
from those already being pursued in the
investigator’s research program or elsewhere. RFA-RM-12-015 (NIHG 8/10/
12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-12-015.html
Deadline: 10/9/2012
31-3 Fellowship Applications From
Artists and Scholars in the United
States and Canada (JSGMF)
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation provides fellowships for
advanced professionals in all fields—
including the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts—
except the performing arts. Last year, the
program awarded fellowships to one
hundred and eighty-one scholars, artists,
and scientists in the United States and
Canada. Often characterized as midcareer awards, the fellowships are intended
for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative
ability in the arts. The program seeks to
further the development of scholars and
artists by helping them engage in
research in any field of knowledge and
creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions. For this year’s
program, the foundation is only offering
fellowships to citizens and permanent
residents of the U.S. and Canada. (PND
8/10/12)
URL: http://www.gf.org/applicants
Deadline: 9/19/2012
31-4 Connecting Youth to the
Outdoors Grant Program (NEEF)
The National Environmental Education
Foundation in partnership with the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
the Bureau of Land Management, and the
US Forest Service, has announced a new
initiative that seeks to catalyze efforts to
increase the number of pre-K 12 youth,
particularly urban and/or undeserved
youth, who build a connection with the
public lands as places for recreating,
learning and volunteering. Proposed
projects should maximize hands-on outdoor engagement opportunities on public
lands, focused on the areas of education,
recreation and environmental stewardship.
URL: http://www.neefusa.org/grants/
connecting_youth
Deadline: 9/19/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
31-5 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), Faculty
Development Grant, Fiscal Year 2013
(NRC)
This program provides funding to support
nuclear science, engineering, and related
disciplines to develop a workforce capable of supporting the design, construction,
operation, and regulation of nuclear facilities and the safe handling of nuclear
materials. This announcement is for faculty development grants. The objectives
of the Faculty Development Program are
to attract and retain highly-qualified individuals in academic teaching careers. The
grants specifically target probationary,
tenure-track faculty during the first 6
years of their career and new faculty hires
in the following academic areas: Nuclear
Engineering, Health Physics, Radiochemistry, Probability Risk Assessment (Levels 2 & 3) and related disciplines. Grants
may include support for developing applications for research and amounts for initiating or continuing research projects in
their areas of expertise. Other areas might
include course development, equipment,
stipends, participation in professional
society meetings, and preparation of
papers, travel, and associated expenses.
The NRC may increase funds to the
extent that a portion of the award is
matched by the institution. The program
provides support to enable newer faculty
to enhance their careers as professors and
researchers in the university department
where employed. The research supported
by this announcement is intended to benefit the nuclear sector broadly. HR-FN0712-NED02 (GG 7/26/12)
URL: http://www07grants.com
Deadline: 10/5/2012
31-6 Computing and Communication
Foundations (CCF): Core Programs
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(NSF)
CISE’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports
research and education projects that
develop new knowledge in three core programs: The Algorithmic Foundations program; The Communications and
Information Foundations program; and
The Software and Hardware Foundations
program. Proposers are invited to submit
proposals in three project classes, which
are defined as follows: Small Projects—
up to $500,000 total budget with durations up to three years; Medium
Projects— $500,001 to $1,200,000 total
budget with durations up to four years;
and Large Projects—$1,200,001 to
$3,000,000 total budget with durations up
to five years. NSF 12-581(GG 7/10/12)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12581/nsf12581.htm
Deadline: Medium 10/9/2012; Large 11/
30/2012; Small 12/17/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
31-7 Research Grants & Fellowships
in Tourette Syndrome (TSA)
We are pleased to announce the opening
of our 2013 grant and fellowship program
to support the research into Tourette Syndrome (TS). Although there has been significant progress in TS research over the
years, there continues to be significant
gaps in our understanding of the disorder
and ability to treat affected individuals.
Our grants are offered to investigators
from any discipline to support clinical and
scientific research aimed at unraveling the
mysteries of TS. Indeed research into TS
has traditionally attracted investigators
from all areas of biomedical science and
has led to discoveries that have broad
applicability. Areas of special interest for
2013 include: Experimental Therapeutics;
Neuropathology, Epidemiology, and Animal Models.
URL: http://tsa-usa.org/research.html
Deadline: Preproposals 9/3/2012; Proposals 11/5/2012
31-8 Investigators in the Pathogenesis
of Infectious Disease (BWF)
The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of
Infectious Disease program provides
opportunities for assistant professors to
bring multidisciplinary approaches to the
study of human infectious diseases. The
goal of the program is to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators still
early in their careers to study what happens at the points where human and
microbial systems connect. The program
supports research that sheds light on the
fundamentals that affect the outcomes of
this encounter: how colonization, infection, commensalism and other relationships play out at levels ranging from
molecular interactions to systemic ones.
Studies supported by the program may
have their roots in pathogen or host biology but the focus of the work should be
on the interplay of host and microbe. A
U.S. or Canadian institution including its
medical school, graduate schools, and all
affiliated hospitals and research institutes
may nominate up to two candidates. To
encourage applications from veterinarians, institutions that nominate a
researcher who holds the D.V.M. will be
allowed three nominations.
URL: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/75/
Infectious-Diseases/
Deadline: Internal 9/1/2012; Applications 11/1/2012
31-9 Award in the Microbiome and
Metabolic Changes in Diabetes and
Obesity (ADA)
The American Diabetes Association and
GlaxoSmithKline Award in the Microbiome and Metabolic Changes in Diabetes and Obesity are designed to support
basic, translational and clinical research
proposals focusing on the relationship
between the microbiome and metabolism,
including the role of the microbiome in
the predisposition to and progression of
obesity and diabetes. Specifically, these
grants would support research aimed at
understanding: 1) the impact of changes
in diet, lifestyle and/or therapeutics on
microbiome composition and function
and 2) the mechanistic pathways through
which microbiome composition and function may impact host metabolic function.
URL: http://professional.diabetes.org/
Diabetes_Research.aspx?cid=64376&typ
=18
Deadline: 9/4/2012
INTERNATIONAL
31-10 Summer Institutes for European
Student Leaders (DoS)
The Europe/Eurasia Branch of the Office
of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
invites proposal submissions for the
design and implementation of two Summer Institutes for European Student Leaders. The Institutes will take place over the
course of five weeks, beginning mid-June
2013. The Institutes should take place at
U.S. academic institutions and provide
groups of highly motivated undergraduate
students or recent high school graduates
from selected countries in Europe with indepth seminars on the topics detailed in
the RFGP. Each Institute should conclude
with a two or three day session in Washington, D.C. ECA welcomes applications
from accredited U.S. colleges and universities in the United States. Only one proposal per institution is allowed. ECA-AE-EUR-13-02-OY-B (GG 10/10/12)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/search/
search.do?oppId=191193&mode=VIEW
Deadline: Internal 9/4/2012; Applications 10/4/2012
magnitude of those costs is unclear. This
Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) encourages research on the economic costs of Alzheimer’s disease and
related dementias, including direct and
indirect costs to public and private health
care payers, families and other informal
caregivers, as well as labor market costs
from reduced productivity or labor force
participation. PA-12-255 (NIHG 8/10/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-255.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/5/2012;
Applications 10/5/2012, 2/5/2013, 6/5/
2013
31-12 International Multidisciplinary
Research on Topics of Pressing Global
Concern (SSRC)
The Social Science Research Council, the
Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and the American Council of
Learned Societies have announced the
annual Abe Fellowship Program competition. The Abe Fellowship is designed to
encourage international multidisciplinary
research on topics of pressing global concern. Applications for the program, which
provides research support to individuals,
are welcome from scholars and non-academic research professionals. The fellowship program committee seeks
applications for research explicitly
focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of
the United States and Japan into wider
disciplinary or theoretical debates. Applicants are invited to submit proposals for
research in the social sciences and related
disciplines relevant to any one or any
combination of the program’s threethemes – traditional and non-traditional
approaches to security and diplomacy,
global and regional economic issues, and
social and cultural issues. (PND 8/10/12)
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
abe-fellowship/
Deadline: 9/1/2012
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
SOCIAL SCIENCES
31-11 Estimating the Economic Costs
of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related
Dementias (R01) (NIH)
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of
dementia are widely believed to impose
great economic costs on society, but the
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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