Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
May 4, 2012
Program Information
To receive program information, please
contact Beverly Page, Information Specialist, Research and Sponsored Programs, phone: (785)532-5045, e-mail:
bbpage@ksu.edu
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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
17-1) 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
17-1 Alliances for Graduate Education
and the Professoriate (AGEP) (NSF)
AGEP is committed to the national goal of
increasing the numbers of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and
other Pacific Islanders (URMs), including
URMs with disabilities entering and completing graduate education and postdoctoral training to levels representative of the
available pool of URMs. The AGEP program will support the development, implementation, study, and dissemination of
innovative models and standards of graduate education and postdoctoral training
that are designed to improve URM participation, preparation, and success. AGEP
projects must focus on URM U.S. citizens
in STEM graduate education, and/or postdoctoral training, and their preparation for
academic STEM careers at all types of
institutions of higher education. AGEP
intends to support the following types of
projects: AGEP-Transformation - Strategic
alliances of institutions and organizations
to develop, implement, and study innovative evidence-based models and standards
for STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM career
preparation that eliminate or mitigate neg-
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ative factors and promote positive practices for URMs. AGEP-Knowledge
Adoption and Translation (AGEP-KAT)
- Projects to expand the adoption (or
adaptation) of research findings and evidence-based strategies and practices
related to the participation and success of
URMs in STEM graduate education,
postdoctoral training, and academic
STEM careers at all types of institutions
of higher education. AGEP-Broadening
Participation Research in STEM Education (AGEP-BPR) - Investigator initiated
empirical research projects that seek to
create and study new theory-driven models and innovations related to the participation and success of URMs in STEM
graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM careers at all
types of institutions of higher education.
NSF 12-554
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12554/nsf12554.htm
Deadline: Internal Transformation 7/
28/2012; Proposals 9/28/2012; AGEPKAT, AGEP BPR Proposals 10/30/
2012
AGRICULTURE
17-2 Morris Animal Foundation
Grants (Morris)
Morris Animal Foundation is now
accepting proposals for Established
Investigator, First Award, Fellowship
Training and Pilot Study proposals relating to large companion animals (horses
and llamas/alpacas).
URL: http://
www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/forgrant-seekers/
Deadline: 7/18/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
17-3 Exploratory Research Grants
(Hagley)
These grants support one-week visits by
scholars who believe that their projects
will benefit from the Hagley Museum
and Library research collections, but
need the opportunity to explore them onsite to determine if a Henry Belin du
Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior
scholars with innovative projects that
seek to expand on existing scholarships.
Proposals must demonstrate which Hagley collections might be pertinent to the
project. (TGA 3/12)
URL: http://www.hagley.org/library/
center/grantsinaid.html
Deadline: 6/30/2012, 10/31/2012, 3/31/
2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
17-4 Data Infrastructure Building
Blocks (DIBBs) (NSF)
Science and engineering research and
education are increasingly digital and
increasingly data-intensive. Digital data
are not only the output of research but
their analysis provide input to new
hypotheses, enabling new scientific
insights, driving innovation and informing education. Therein lies one of the
major challenges of this scientific generation: how to develop, implement and support the new methods, management
structures and technologies to store and
manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future data sets and data
streams. NSF’s vision for a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century
Science and Engineering (CIF21) considers an integrated, scalable, and sustainable cyberinfrastructure as crucial for
innovation in science and engineering.
Data Infrastructure Building Blocks is an
integral part of the CIF21 portfolio and
seeks to provide support for the following
research activities: Conceptualization
Awards are planning awards aimed at further developing disciplinary and interdisciplinary communities’ understanding of
their data storage and management
requirements with the goal of developing
an initial prototype. Implementation
awards will support development and
implementation of technologies addressing a subset of elements of the data preservation and access lifecycle, including
acquisition; documentation; security and
integrity; storage; access, analysis and
dissemination; migration; and deaccession. Interoperability awards will develop
frameworks that provide consistency or
commonality of design across communities and implementation for data acquisition, management, preservation, sharing,
dissemination, etc. PIs and Co-PIs may
only apply to one of the three tracks,
although they may be senior personnel on
more than one. NSF 12-557
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12557/nsf12557.htm
Deadline: Conceptualizations 7/26/
2012, Implementation & Interoperability 8/30/2012
17-5 Enhancing Access to the Radio
Spectrum (EARS) (NSF)
The National Science Foundation’s Directorates for Mathematical and Physical
Sciences (MPS), Engineering (ENG),
Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE), and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) are
coordinating efforts to identify bold new
concepts with the potential to contribute
to significant improvements in the efficiency of radio spectrum utilization, and
in the ability for traditionally underserved
Americans to benefit from current and
future wireless-enabled goods and ser-
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vices. EARS seeks to fund innovative collaborative research that transcends the
traditional boundaries of existing programs, such as research that spans disciplines covered by two or more of the
participating NSF directorates. NSF 12546
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12546/nsf12546.htm
Deadline: 6/14/2012
17-6 FY 13 Communications and
Networking Discovery and Invention
(DOD)
The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the Office of
Naval Research (ONR) Code 312 is to
support the FORCEnet vision by developing measurable advances in technology
that can directly enable and enhance endto-end connectivity and quality-of-service
for mission-critical information exchange
among such widely dispersed naval, joint,
and coalition forces. The vision is to provide high throughput robust communications and networking to ensure all
warfighters—from the operational command to the tactical edge—have access to
information, knowledge, and decisionmaking necessary to perform their
assigned tasks. ONRBAA12-007 (GG 2/
7/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/29/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
17-7 Alcohol Abuse, Sleep Disorders
and Circadian Rhythms (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA), encourages Research Project
Grant (R01) applications proposing to
conduct mechanistic studies in humans
and animal models on the relationships
between alcohol abuse, circadian rhythms
and sleep disorders. A Companion Funding Opportunity is PA-12-178, R21
Exploratory/Developmental Grant. PA12-177 (NIHG 4/27/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-177.html
Deadline: 6/5/2012, 10/5/2012, 2/5/2013
17-8 NCI Small Grants Program for
Cancer Research (NCI Omnibus R03)
(NCI)
This funding opportunity announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Cancer
Institute (NCI), of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) supports small research
projects on cancer that can be carried out
in a short period of time with limited
resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including
pilot and feasibility studies; secondary
analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of
research methodology; and development
of new research technology. Companion
FOA is PAR-12-145, R21 Exploratory/
Developmental Grant. PAR-12-144
(NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-144.html
Deadline: 6/16/2012, 10/16/2012, 2/16/
2013
17-9 Pilot and Feasibility Clinical
Research Studies in Digestive Diseases
and Nutrition (R21) (NIDDK)
This FOA issued by the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK), the National Cancer
Institute, and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) of the National Institutes
of Health encourages pilot and feasibility
clinical and epidemiological research
studies of new therapies or means of
health promotion and prevention of digestive and liver diseases and nutritional disorders associated with digestive and liver
diseases. PA-12-139 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-12-139.html
Deadline: 6/16/2012, 10/16/2012, 2/16/
2013
INTERNATIONAL
Grant Competition (Fulbright)
Fulbright U.S. Student Grants fund one
academic year abroad and support study/
research in more than 140 different countries. Over 1700 grants will be available
in the upcoming competition cycle. Fulbright awards can be used for research,
one-year Masters degrees abroad or work
as an English Teaching Assistant in the
host country. Eligible students in the
upcoming competition will be U.S. citizens in any major who have earned their
baccalaureate degree before Fall 2013 but
not yet completed their PhD. Dissertation
or thesis research abroad is possible. The
campus deadline will be September 17th,
2012 for currently enrolled K-State students. Interested students may make an
appointment to meet with Jim Hohenbary,
Fulbright Program Adviser, in Eisenhower 112 (call 532-6904 or e-mail jimlth@ksu.edu) to meet and discuss the
opportunity further.
URL: http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/
Fulbright-US-Student-Program
Deadline: 9/17/2012
17-10 Fulbright U.S. Scholar ProgramCore Program for Faculty and
Professionals (CIES)
17-13 Collegiate Inventors
Competition: A Program of Invent
Now (IN)
The core Fulbright Scholar Program
sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals
abroad each year. Grantees lecture and
conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the
United States Department of State,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs. (TGA 5/12)
URL: http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/
us_awards/
Deadline: 8/1/2012
You’ve invented or discovered something
that has a good chance of impacting the
world. We’ve been recognizing inventors
like you for the past 21 years through the
Collegiate Inventors Competition. If you
are a finalist, we will bring you to the
U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington DC where you will have your idea
evaluated by some of the most important
and influential inventors and invention
experts in the nation. You’ll also meet
other top young inventors from around
the country, have your idea showcased on
a national stage and compete for over
$100,000 in prizes including a $15,000
top prize for Graduate students and
$12.500 prize for Undergraduate students.
URL: www.invent.org/collegiate
Deadline: 6/15/2012
17-11 Fulbright Scholar Program to
Haiti (CIES)
CIES is pleased to announce that the Haiti
program is active for the 2013-14 awards
cycle, after over a decade of hiatus. 201314 Fulbright opportunities to Haiti
include: Rebuilding Higher Education—
Applications are sought in all appropriate
disciplines with a preference for Education; this is a teaching and research
project affiliated with the Interuniversity
Institute for Research and Development
to engage in a national assessment of
higher education institutions. Science and
technology—Applicants in the fields of
Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy are
encouraged to apply. Business Development—Partner with the Centre de Formation et d’Encadrement Technique to assist
in the implementation of training programs for small entrepreneurs. Activities
include curriculum design, development
of a marketing and finance plan, and
training seminars.
URL: http://catalog.cies.org/
Deadline: 8/1/2012
STUDENTS
17-12 The Fulbright U.S. Student
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
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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