Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
June 15, 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 (FB
32-11) 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
23-1 Human Heredity and Health in
Africa (H3Africa): Ethical, Legal, and
Societal Issues (ELSI) Research
Program (U01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) encourages applications to study
the ethical, legal and societal issues (ELSI)
of human genome research in African populations. Of particular interest are projects
that propose focused bioethical, legal, and
social science analyses of new or emerging
issues. These applications should be for
small, self-contained research projects.
This FOA is complementary to the
H3Africa: Collaborative Centers (RFARM-11-008), the H3Africa: the Research
Projects (RFA-RM-12-004), and
H3Africa: Biorepository Grants (RFARM-12-003) FOAs that were released previously. RFA-RM-12-005 (GG 6/15/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-RM-12-005.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/29/2012;
Applications 10/29/2012
23-2 Climate and integrated
Assessment Modeling Studies (EPA)
This notice announces the availability of
funds and solicits proposals that advance
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the field of the economic and integrated
assessment modeling of climate change
through expert modeling comparisons
and studies. EPA expects that the field
will benefit from model comparison
studies and collaborations involving
domestic and international modelers
studying energy, economics, and greenhouse gases. These model comparisons
and modeling studies should benefit the
modeling community, stakeholders who
use model outputs, and the general public
by increasing the quality, transparency,
and understanding of models, input
datasets, and modeling assumptions.
EPA-OAR-CCD-12-07 (GG 6/13/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 7/27/2012
least one of the following Target Expertise Shortage Areas: 1) animal and plant
production; 2) forest resources; 3) agricultural educators and communicators; 4)
agricultural management and economics;
5) food science and human nutrition; 6)
sciences for agricultural biosecurity; and
7) training in integrative biosciences for
sustainable food and agricultural systems.
USDA-NIFA-HEP-003849 (GG 6/14/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/
graduateandpostgraduatefellowshipsserd
.cfm
Deadline: 8/15/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
23-5 Digital Humanities Start-up
Grants (NEH)
23-3 Advances in Biological
Informatics (ABI) (NSF)
The Advances in Biological Informatics
(ABI) program seeks to encourage new
approaches to the analysis and dissemination of biological knowledge for the
benefit of both the scientific community
and the broader public. The ABI program
is especially interested in the development of informatics tools and resources
that have the potential to advance—or
transform—research in biology supported by the Directorate for Biological
Sciences at the National Science Foundation. The ABI program accepts three
major types of proposals: Innovation
awards that seek to pioneer new
approaches to the application of informatics to biological problems, Development awards that seek to provide robust
cyberinfrastructure that will enable transformative biological research, and Sustaining awards that seek to support
ongoing operations and maintenance of
existing cyberinfrastructure that is critical for continued advancement of priority biological research. NSF 12-567
URL: http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12567/nsf12567.htm
Deadline: 9/10/2012
AGRICULTURE
23-4 Food and Agricultural Sciences
National Needs Graduate Fellowship
Grants (USDA)
This grant program supports: 1) training
students for Master’s and doctoral
degrees in food, agricultural and natural
resource sciences, and 2) Special International Study or Thesis/Dissertation
Research Travel Allowances for eligible
USDA NNF beneficiaries. Awards are
specifically intended to support traineeship programs that engage outstanding
students to pursue and complete their
degrees in USDA mission areas. Applications are being solicited from institutions that confer a graduate degree in at
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to
encourage innovations in the digital
humanities. Proposals should be for the
planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may
involve research that brings new
approaches or documents best practices in
the study of the digital humanities; planning and developing prototypes of new
digital tools for preserving, analyzing,
and making accessible digital resources,
including libraries’ and museums’ digital
assets; scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital
culture and its impact on society; scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and
impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the
humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines; innovative uses of technology for
public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
new digital modes of publication that
facilitate the dissemination of humanities
scholarship in advanced academic as well
as informal or formal educational settings
at all academic levels. 20120925-HD (GG
6/8/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/
digital-humanities-start-grants
Deadline: 9/25/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
23-6 Dear Colleague Letter - US
Ignite: The Next Steps (NSF)
The NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) program is now
in its 5th year. At this stage, the focus has
moved from developing and prototyping
GENI to using it. While GENI will continue to provide a national research and
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education resource for networking scientists and engineers for years to come, NSF
intends to further extend its usefulness
through the US Ignite Initiative by
encouraging the research community to
develop novel, public sector applications
that take advantage of ultra-fast softwaredefined networks and which have potential for significant societal impact. The
primary goal of the US Ignite is to break a
fundamental deadlock: there is insufficient investment in gigabit applications
that can take advantage of advanced network infrastructure because such infrastructure is rare and dispersed. And
conversely, there is a lack of broad availability of advanced broadband infrastructure for open experimentation and
innovation because there are few
advanced applications and services to justify it. US Ignite intends to break this
deadlock by providing incentives for
imagining, prototyping, and developing
public sector gigabit applications and by
leveraging and extending this network
testbed across US campuses and cities.
NSF is currently emphasizing the development of public sector gigabit applications in areas of national priority—
advanced manufacturing, clean energy
and transportation, cyber learning, health
IT, and public safety/emergency preparedness. Prior to submitting an EAGER
proposal or supplemental funding request,
however, a two-page summary must be
submitted by email to usignite@nsf.gov.
NSF 12-085
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12085/nsf12085.jsp
Deadline: N/A
23-7 SunShot Solar Energy Evolution
and Diffusion Studies (SEEDS) (DOE)
Through the Solar Energy Evolution and
Diffusion Studies (SEEDS) Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the
Department of Energy will invest up to $9
million over three years to support
research on solar energy innovation
dynamics and technology adoption patterns. SEEDS supports the development
of a diversity of analytical, numerical, and
computational tools and methods; implementation of pilot test strategies for modifying current business and policy
practices; and assessment of pilot tests
outcomes for impact and scalability.
Through SEEDS, the Department of
Energy seeks to launch a series of systematic investigations that will result in viable methods for dramatically
transforming the operations of solar
researchers, manufacturers, developers,
installers, and policymakers. DE-FOA0000740 (GG 6/13/12)
URL: http://eere-exchange.energy.gov/
default.aspx
Deadline: Concept Papers 7/13/2012
23-8 Resilient Extreme-Scale Solvers
(RX-Solvers) (DOE)
Advanced Scientific Computing Research
(ASCR), Office of Science (SC), US
Department of Energy (DOE), invites
applications for basic research in Resilient Extreme-Scale Solvers (RX-Solvers)
that demonstrably advances the state of
science and practice for scalable, resilient,
extreme-scale numerical algorithms, to
enable scientific discovery on the supercomputers expected to come online in the
next 5-10 years and lay the foundation for
research in numerical algorithms for
extreme-scale scientific computing. DEFOA-0000742 (GG 6/8/12)
URL: https://www.fedconnect.net
Deadline: 8/13/2012
23-9 FY 2013 Research Opportunities
in High Energy Physics (DOE)
The Office of High Energy Physics at the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of
Science invites new grant applications for
support of research programs in highenergy physics. The HEP program
focuses on three scientific frontiers: The
Energy Frontier, where powerful accelerators are used to create new particles,
reveal their interactions, and investigate
fundamental forces; The Intensity Frontier, where intense particle beams and
highly sensitive detectors are used to
purse alternate pathways to investigate
fundamental forces and particle interactions by studying events that occur rarely
in nature; and The Cosmic Frontier,
where non-accelerator-based experiments and telescopes are used to make
measurements of naturally occurring phenomena that will offer new insight and
information about the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and other phenomena to
understand fundamental properties of
matter and energy. DE-FOA-0000733
(GG 6/8/12)
URL: https://www.fedconnect.net
Deadline: Letters of Intent 7/16/2012;
Applications 9/10/2012
23-10 Focused Research Groups in the
Mathematical Sciences (FRG) (NSF)
The purpose of the FRG activity is to
allow groups of researchers to respond to
recognized scientific needs of pressing
importance, to take advantage of current
scientific opportunities, or to prepare the
ground for anticipated significant scientific developments in the mathematical
sciences. Groups may include, in addition
to mathematicians and statisticians,
researchers from other science and engineering disciplines appropriate to the proposed research. The activity supports
projects for which the collective effort by
a group of researchers is necessary to
reach the scientific goals. Projects should
be scientifically focused and well-delineated. It is not the intent of this activity to
provide general support for infrastructure.
Projects should also be timely, limited in
duration to up to three years, and substantial in their scope and impact. NSF 12566
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12566/nsf12566.htm
Deadline: 9/21/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
(NIH)
This FOA issued by the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research
Infrastructure Programs (ORIP), Office of
the Director, National Institutes of Health,
solicits applications from biomedical
research institutions that propose to renovate, repair, or improve individual animal
resources. Support can be requested to
alter and renovate (A&R) the animal
facilities, as well as to improve the animal
care equipment in the facility. Only one
application per institution is allowed.
RFA-OD-12-008 (NIHG 6/8/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-OD-12-008.html
Deadline: Internal 6/30/2012; Applications 8/7/2012 23
23-12 CVM Vet-LRN Veterinary
Diagnostic Laboratory Program (U18) (FDA)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Veterinary Laboratory Response Network (Vet-LRN) Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Cooperative
Agreement Program (U18) is to solicit
applications from institutions/ organizations for inclusion into its Veterinary
Diagnostic Cooperative Agreement Program. The Vet-LRN cooperative agreements are intended to provide increased
sample analyses in the event of animal
food or drug related illnesses or other
large-scale animal food/feed emergency
events requiring surge capacity testing of
implicated diagnostic or animal food samples. Numbers of samples and scheduling
of samples will be done by the Vet-LRN
Program Office (VPO) at the Center for
Veterinary Medicine in coordination with
State/Local lab authorities. PA-12-194
(NIHG 6/8/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-194.html
Deadline: 7/2/2012, 4/15/2013
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, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, 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
23-11 Developing and Improving
Institutional Animal Resources (G20)
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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