Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
August 3, 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
30-3) 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
30-1 Grants for Conservation
Easements in Flint Hills of Kansas
(NECP)
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in cooperation with corporate and
government partners, is offering grants for
the permanent protection of tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of Kansas through the
Native Environment Conservation Plan.
Funding will facilitate perpetual conservation easements for up to ten thousand acres
in the Flint Hills. The objective is to support the protection and enhancement of
tallgrass prairies while promoting vegetative resilience and restoring habitats to
benefit the greater prairie chicken, grassland birds, migrating and nesting birds,
and other grassland dependent wildlife.
The initiative will work with landowners
to ensure that wildlife and environmental
benefits are guaranteed through permanent
easements held by the Kansas Land Trust.
All lands to be protected must be within
the Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Area
or the Heart of the Flint Hills. Priority for
funding will be directed to proposals to
protect the highest quality tallgrass prairie
in the Flint Hills. Eligible applicants
include individual landowners, nonprofit
501c organizations, educational institu-
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tions, Native American tribes, and state
or local units of governments (e.g., state
conservation agencies, counties, townships, cities, conservation districts, utility
districts, drainage districts, etc.). (PND
7/27/12)
URL: http://www.nfwf.org/Am/
Template.cfm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 8/31/2012
30-2 Instrument Development for
Biomedical Applications (R21) (NIH)
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), encourages innovative applications for the development
of new or improved instrumentation for
biomedical research. Projects should propose tools that can be used by a wide
range of biomedical or clinical researchers, and not limited to a specific organ or
disease. RFA-GM-130010 (NIHG 7/27/
12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-13-010.html
Deadline: 10/30/2012
30-3 Institutional Research and
Academic Career Development
Awards (IRACDA) (NIH)
The purpose of the Institutional Research
and Academic Career Development
Award (IRACDA) Program is to develop
a diverse group of highly trained biomedical and behavioral scientists to
address the Nation’s biomedical and
behavioral research needs. The program
promotes consortia between researchintensive institutions (RII) and partner
institutions that have a historical mission
and a demonstrated commitment to the
training, encouragement and assistance
to students from groups underrepresented
in the biomedical and behavioral
research enterprise of the nation. The
IRACDA program provides support for a
traditional mentored postdoctoral
research experience at an RII combined
with an opportunity to develop the academic skills, including teaching, through
workshops and through mentored teaching assignments of postdoctoral fellows
at a partner institution. Only one application per institution is allowed. PAR-12245 (NIHG 7/27/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-245.html
Deadline: Internal 8/24/2012; Applications 9/24/2012
AGRICULTURE
30-4 Pork Checkoff (NPB)
The Pork Checkoff Animal Welfare
Committee is requesting proposals on
issues impacting the welfare of swine.
All submitted projects should be multidisciplinary in their approach and should
include neuroscience, performance, physiology, and behavior when applicable.
Experimental designs must have all the
appropriate controls to be considered for
funding. Proposed methodologies need to
be described in detail and behavioral
methods and physiological assays used in
the study need to be validated. Proposals
need to also include power calculations to
validate the proposed sample size.
Projects that have cooperative arrangements with industry are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized. Housing of
gestating sows has been and continues to
be an important question for the swine
industry. Proposals for individual and
group housing systems will be accepted
with less emphasis on comparing group
housing to stall housing.
URL: http://www.pork.org
Deadline: 8/31/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
30-5 Project Grants to Mid-Career
Professionals in Preservation and
Related Fields (FCF)
The James Marston Fitch Charitable
Foundation provides mid-career grants to
professionals working in the fields of historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental
planning, decorative arts, architectural
design, and architectural history. Fitch
Mid-Career grants of up to $15,000 are
awarded annually to one or two midcareer professionals with at least ten years
of experience and an academic background, professional experience, and an
established identity in one or more of the
eligible fields. The foundation will consider proposals for research and/or execution of a preservation-related project in
any of the eligible fields. (PND 7/27/12)
URL: http://fitchfoundation.org/filter/
Grants
Deadline: 9/15/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
30-6 Advanced Computing Initiative
(ACI) (DoD)
The ACI is a DoD-sponsored computer
science research program initiated by the
NSA and the ARL-ARO. It focuses on
areas of strategic importance to U.S.
national security policy. IT seeks to
increase the Department’s intellectual
capital in the computer sciences and
improve its ability to address future challenges and build bridges between the
Department and the computer science
community. ACI brings together universities, research institutions, companies, and
individual scholars and supports multidisciplinary and cross-institutional projects
addressing specific topic areas deter-
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mined by the Department of Defense. The
ACI aims to promote research in specific
areas of computer science and to promote
a candid and constructive relationship
between DoD and the computer science
community. W911NF-12-R-0010 (GG 7/
13/12)
URL: http://www.arl.army.mil/www/
default.cfm?page=8
Deadline: 9/12/2012
30-7 Nuclear Education Curricula
Development Grant (NRC)
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the NRC Nuclear Education Grant
Program to support courses, studies, training, curricula, and disciplines pertaining
to nuclear safety, nuclear security, nuclear
environmental protection, and other fields
that the Commission determines to be
critical to the NRC’s regulatory mission.
The NRC Nuclear Education Grant Program’s primary purpose is supporting and
developing the educational infrastructure
necessary to allow the Nation to safely
advance its nuclear energy initiatives. The
NRC currently encourages curriculum
development in the following technical
areas: Nuclear Engineering; Radiochemistry and Radiobiology; Health Physics;
Materials and Mechanical Engineering;
Reliability and Risk Analysis; Electrical
Engineering; Safeguards and Security;
Human Factors and Human Reliability;
Fire Protection Engineering; Nuclear
Waste; and Computational Methods. HRFN-0712-EDU7 (GG 7/26/12)
URL: http://www07grants.com
Deadline: 10/1/2012
30-8 Scholarship and Fellowship
Education Grant (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
scholarships and fellowships. As a condition for scholarships or fellowships,
recipients must demonstrate satisfactory
academic progress in their fields of study,
as determined by criteria contained in this
announcement and as established by the
NRC. Consequently, NRC requires scholarship and fellowship recipients to serve
six (6) months in nuclear-related employment for each full or partial year of academic support. The employment may be
with NRC, other Federal agencies, State
agencies, Department of Energy laboratories, nuclear-related industry, or academia
in the recipients’ sponsored fields of
study. NRC may waive, in whole or in
part, the service obligation, upon determination that compliance by the individual
is impractical. HR-FN-0712-NED01 (GG
7/26/12)
URL: http://www07grants.gov
Deadline: 10/5/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
30-9 Healthy Habits for Life Grant
Program (BCBS)
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation is inviting applications
from K-12 schools in Kansas for Healthy
Habits for Life, a grant program designed
to address childhood obesity. The program will provide funding to assist
schools in promoting healthy lifestyle
choices to their students. The foundation
is seeking programs that will help Kansas
youth reduce their cardiovascular risk,
increase their physical activity, and/or
learn healthy eating habits. School nurses,
physical education teachers, health or
family and consumer science teachers,
principals, and other administrators are
encouraged to apply. (PND 7/27/12)
URL: http://www.bcbsks.com/AboutUs/
Foundation/healthy_habits.htm
Deadline: 10/15/2012
30-10 Crew Health and Performance in
Space Exploration (NASA/NSBRI)
A National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Research
Announcement (NRA), entitled, Research
and Technology Development to Support
Crew Health and Performance in Space
Exploration Missions, has been released
which jointly solicits ground-based, analog definition and flight definition proposals for the NASA Human Research
Program (HRP) and the National Space
Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).
Proposals are solicited by NASA in the
areas of Sensorimotor Impairment and
Space Motion Sickness; Epidemiological
Evidence of Spaceflight Induced Cardiovascular Disease; Computational Models
of Cephalad Fluid Shifts; Spaceflight Biochemical Profile; Maintenance and Regulation of Team Function and Performance
over Extended Durations; and Development of Safety and Efficiency Metrics for
Human-Automation Systems. NASA is
also soliciting investigations or technologies lasting no more than one year that
provide innovative approaches to any of
the defined risks contained in the Integrated Research Plan (http:humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov) of the Human
Research Program. Proposals are solicited
by NSBRI in the areas of Cardiovascular
Alterations; Human Factors and Performance; Musculoskeletal Alterations;
Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Factors; Sensorimotor Adaptation; and Smart
Medical Systems and Technology.
NNJ12ZSA002N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Step 1 9/4/2012
SMALL BUSINESS
30-11 2013 DOE SBIR/STTR Phase 1
Release 1 Topics (DOE)
Topics for the FY13 SBIR/STTR Phase 1
Release 1 Funding Opportunity
Announcement have been issued. The
DOE program offices participating in this
solicitation include: Office of Advanced
Scientific Computing Research, Office of
Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office
of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation,
Office of High Energy Physics and Office
of Nuclear Physics.
URL: http://science.energy.gov/sbir/
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/4/2012;
Applications 10/16/2012
30-12 Small Business Innovation
Research Program - Phase 1 (USDA)
Objectives of the SBIR program include
stimulating technological innovation in
the private sector, strengthening the role
of small businesses in meeting Federal
research and development needs, increasing private sector commercialization of
innovations derived from USDA-supported research and development efforts
and fostering and encouraging participation by women-owned and socially and
economically disadvantaged small business firms in technological innovation.
USDA-NIFA-SBIR-003848 (GG 6/15/
12)
URL: http://nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/
sbir_rfa.html
Deadline: 9/6/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
30-13 Secondary Analyses and
Archiving of Social and Behavioral
Datasets in Aging (R03) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit oneyear R03 applications for 1) secondary
analysis of data on aging in the areas of
psychology, behavioral genetics, economics, demography or 2) archiving and dissemination of data sets. RFA-AG-13-004
(NIHG 7/27/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/3/2012;
Applications 10/19/2012
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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