Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 6, 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
13-1, 13-8) 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
13-1 Integrative Graduate Education
and Research Traineeship Program
(IGERT) (NSF)
The Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship (IGERT) program
has been developed to meet the challenges
of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and
engineers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and
personal skills. The program is intended to
establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment
for collaborative research that transcends
traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is
also intended to facilitate diversity in student participation and preparation, and to
contribute to a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and
engineering workforce. Only one submission per institution is allowed. NSF 11-533
URL: http://nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12759
Deadline: Internal 4/16/2012; Letter of
Intent 5/1/2012; Proposal 7/2/2012
13-2 Core Techniques and
Technologies for Advancing Big Data
Science & Engineering (BIGDATA)
Vol. 21, No. 13
(NSF)
The Core Techniques and Technologies
for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) solicitation aims to
advance the core scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing,
visualizing, and extracting useful information from large, diverse, distributed
and heterogeneous data sets so as to:
accelerate the progress of scientific discovery and innovation; lead to new fields
of inquiry that would not otherwise be
possible; encourage the development of
new data analytic tools and algorithms;
facilitate scalable, accessible, and sustainable data infrastructure; increase
understanding of human and social processes and interactions; and promote
economic growth and improved health
and quality of life. This solicitation
focuses on common interests in big data
research across the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF). NSF 12-499
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12499/nsf12499.htm
Deadline: Midscale Projects 6/13/2012,
Small Projects 7/11/2012
AGRICULTURE
13-3 National AgrAbility Program
(USDA)
AgrAbility increases the likelihood that
individuals with disabilities and their
families engaged in production agriculture (AgrAbility customers) become
more successful. The primary outcome is
enhanced quality of life for people with
disabilities in agriculture. The program
supports cooperative projects in which
State Cooperative Extension Services
(CES) based at either 1862 or 1890
Land-Grant Universities subcontract to
private, non-profit disability organizations. Measures of success may include
improvements in customers’ financial
stability or access to life activities and
the capacity of states and regions to
deliver services this population requires
in a timely and satisfying manner. To
address the specialized needs of AgrAbility’s customers, the program builds
service capacity on national, regional,
state, and local levels through education
and networking. In the absence of capacity, projects provide assistance to customers. The National AgrAbility Project
supports the state and regional projects in
developing their capacity to meet these
objectives. USDA-NIFA-SLBCD003740 (GG 3/29/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/agrability.html
Deadline: 5/17/2012
13-4 Specialty Crops (KDA)
The Kansas Department of Agriculture is
accepting applications for the 2012 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Funds
for the program are awarded to the agency
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Marketing Service. The
funds are in turn granted to projects and
organizations that promote the competitiveness of specialty crops. The Kansas
Department of Agriculture seeks to fund
projects that primarily fit into the following areas: Economic development—
Improving efficiency and reducing costs
of distribution systems, including projects
that seek to understand gaps in systems
and supply/demand issues related to specialty crops; Investing in specialty crop
research, including research on the feasibility of growing novel specialty crops
that aren’t currently produced (or are produced in very small quantities) in Kansas;
Controlling pests and disease, as well as
addressing issues such as pesticide drift
that affect specialty crops; and Regional
efforts to start incubator or community
kitchen projects to encourage the development of value-added products from
specialty crops. Education—Increasing
child and adult nutrition knowledge and
consumption of specialty crops; Developing materials to better educate specialty
crop producers and buyers on food safety
practices, including Good Agricultural
Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices;
and Projects that create awareness of
Kansas specialty crops for consumers.
Food Access/Food Security—Projects
that bring together local producers and
organizations that seek to improve access
to specialty crops.
URL: www.ksda.gov
Deadline: 5/18/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
13-5 Guest Artist Initiative Program
(SDCF)
The Stage Directors and Choreographers
Foundation, the not-for-profit foundation
affiliated with the Stage Directors and
Choreographers Society, has announced a
Call for Proposals for the SDCF Guest
Artist Initiative Program, a grant program
for colleges and universities to fund and
facilitate the hiring of professional stage
directors and choreographers as guest artists. To be eligible for this grant, the
project must be produced by a regionally
or nationally accredited college or university located in the U.S.; be mounted by
December 31, 2013; and be fully funded.
It is not required for the producing school
to have hired guest artists in the past.
Projects for which the guest artist has
already been selected are ineligible. (PND
3/23/12)
URL: http://www.sdcweb.org/foundation/
guest-artist-initiative/
Deadline: 5/14/2012
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
13-6 Rural Health and Safety
Education (USDA)
Rural Health and Safety Education
focuses on: 1) Individual and Family
Nutrition and Health Education providing
a) info on the value of good health at any
age; b) info to increase motivation to take
responsibility for their own health; c) info
about and access to nutrition and health
promotion and educational activities; and
d) training for volunteers and health services providers on nutrition and health
promotion and health care services in
cooperation with state, local and community partners. 2) Farm Safety Education
that provides info and training on safety
in the work place, including but not limited to: a) the prevention of occupational
injury and death rates; b) the prevention
of exposure to farm chemicals; and c) the
prevention of agricultural respiratory diseases and dermatitis. 3) Rural Health
Leadership Development Education.
USDA-NIFA-RHSE-003744 (GG 4/5/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/rural_health.html
Deadline: 5/15/2012
13-7 DoD Peer Reviewed Medical
Discovery Award (DOD)
The intent of the PRMRP Discovery
Award is to support innovative, untested,
high-risk/potentially high-reward concepts, theories, paradigms, and/or methods. Studies supported by this award are
expected to lay the groundwork for future
avenues of scientific investigation. The
proposed research project should include
a well-formulated, testable hypothesis
based on strong scientific rationale and
study design. W81XWH-12-PRMRP-DA
(GG 3/29/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 5/9/2012;
Applications 5/24/2012
13-8 Cancer Target Discovery and
Development (CTDD) Network (U01)
(NCI)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) and the Cancer
Target Discovery and Development
(CTDD) initiative is to promote innovative research on high throughput
approaches to the discovery and characterization of new cancer targets and their
modulators. Projects resulting from this
FOA are expected to bridge the gap
between the enormous volumes of data
generated by the comprehensive molecular characterizations of many cancer subtypes and the ability to use these data for
the development of human cancer therapeutics and associated response markers.
Applicants must propose research
projects focused on high-throughput identification and/or characterization of
potential targets for cancer therapy, and/or
the identification of small molecules that
modulate validated cancer targets. A single institute may submit up to two applications. RFA-CA-12-006 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/rfa-ca-12-006.html
Deadline: Internal 4/30/2012; Letters of
Intent 5/21/2012; Applications 6/21/
2012
13-9 Toward an Improved
Understanding of HDL Function (R01)
(NIH)
This FOA encourages grant applications
that propose to develop, validate, and
standardize assays to measure HDL function and biomarkers for HDL function
and to identify new pathways and potential HDL targets in the relationship to
HDL function. Innovative methods to
determine HDL functional properties
such as in vivo reverse cholesterol transport (RCT), anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antithrombotic activities, and
biomarkers for HDL function are encouraged. Projects that will explore HDL
novel functional pathways and therapeutics related to HDL function are also
encouraged. PA-12-143 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/pa-12-143.html
Deadline: 6/5/2012
13-10 Early Detection and Prevention
of Mild Cognitive Impairment (R01)
(NIH)
The National Institute of Nursing
Research (NINR) seeks to stimulate
research into technologies that have the
greatest future impact for pre-symptomatic detection and preventive treatment
and management of age- or treatmentrelated mild cognitive impairment (MCI),
including those occurring in the setting of
Life Limiting Illnesses (LLI). It is anticipated that findings from this research can
improve our ability to identify at risk individuals and prevent or delay further neurodegeneration. RFA-NR-12-010 (NIHG
3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-NR-12-010.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/21/2012;
Applications 5/21/2012
SMALL BUSINESS
13-11 Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) Phase I Program
Solicitation (EPA)
The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) invites small business firms to submit research proposals under this Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Solicitation. This year’s solicitation has
seven topics grouped into five general
areas: Safe and Sustainable Water
Resources; Chemical Safety for Sustainability; Sustainable and Healthy Communities; Air/Climate/Energy.The proposed
research must directly pertain to EPA’s
environmental mission and must be
responsive to EPA program interests
included in the topic descriptions in this
solicitation.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2013/
2013_sbir_phase1.html
Deadline: 5/3/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
13-12 Research on Domestic
Radicalization (DOJ)
NIJ seeks proposals for funding research
to support Federal, State, local, and tribal
criminal justice agencies in meeting the
challenges posed by domestic radicalization to violence. Proposals should
develop and analyze information and data
that have clear implications for criminal
justice in the following focus areas: 1)
Empirical Evaluation of Theories of
Domestic Radicalization; 2) Examination
of Radicalization Processes for Individuals; 3) Comparative Analysis of Violent
Extremists, Organized Criminals, Gangs,
Hate Groups and/or Cults; and 4) Influence of Community and Other Policing
Strategies on Domestic Radicalization to
Violence. NIJ-2012-3163 (GG 3/23/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/29/2012
13-13 Service-Learning Projects (State
Farm)
The State Farm Youth Advisory Board, a
philanthropic program of State Farm, is
accepting applications for youth service
learning projects designed to create sustainable local change in communities
across the United States and Canada.
Projects must be designed to address the
root cause of the following issues: access
to higher education/closing the achievement gap, financial literacy, community
safety and natural disaster preparedness,
social health and wellness, and environmental responsibility. Applicant organizations must be a K-12 public or charter
school, or institution of higher education.
(PND 3/30/12)
URL: http://www.statefarmyab.com/
Deadline: 5/4/2012
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, 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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