Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 30, 2012
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Limited submission programs have
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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
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GENERAL
12-1 Biomass Research and
Development Initiative (DOE)
This FOA is a joint effort between the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) and
the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for
fiscal year (FY) 2012 BRDI which
requires that funded projects integrate all
three legislatively mandated technical
areas. These areas include: A) Feedstocks
Development: Research, development, and
demonstration activities regarding feedstocks and feedstock logistics (including
harvest, handling, transport, preprocessing, and storage) relevant to production of
raw materials for conversion to biofuels
and biobased products. B) Biofuels and
Biobased Products Development Research, development, and demonstration (R,D,&D) activities to support: i)
Development of diverse cost-effective
technologies for the use of cellulosic biomass in the production of biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products; and ii)
Product diversification through technologies relevant to the production of a range
of biobased products (including chemicals,
animal feeds, and cogeneration power) that
potentially can increase the feasibility of
fuel production in a biorefinery. C) Biofuels and Biobased Products Development
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Analysis - The intent of this section and
integrating Technical Areas A, B, and C
is to apply systems evaluation methods
that can be used to optimize system performance and market potential and to
quantify the projected impact on sustainability; therefore, successful applications will consider the life-cycle (cradleto-grave) impacts including environmental, social, and economic implications
that are attributable to the project. Successful projects should include these sustainability data in engineering process
models and be used over the life of the
project to improve the system and quantify sustainability impacts. DE-FOA0000657
URL: https://www.fedconnect.net/
fedconnect?doc=DE-FOA0000657&agency=DOE
Deadline: Preapplications 4/24/2012
12-2 Social Science Weather
Research (DOC)
This research funding opportunity is
being jointly issued by the U.S. Weather
Research Program, Weather and Air
Quality, and the National Weather Service. It seeks to stimulate research and
develop collaborations between social
and physical scientists that can help build
a Weather Ready Nation. This Research
will help to better understand human
behavior and positively affect decisionmaking during weather-related events
and the formulation and communication
of forecast uncertainty, or forecast confidence. The results of this research are
expected to improve the communication
within the weather community and to the
public to invoke a response that will help
protect life and property during dangerous weather events. NOAA-OAROWAQ-2012-2003256 (GG 3/22/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/27/2012
EDUCATION
12-3 Preparation of Special
Education, Early Intervention, and
Related Services Leadership Personnel
(ED)
The purpose of the Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and
Related Services Leadership Personnel
priority is to support programs that prepare special education, early intervention, and related services personnel at the
graduate level who are well-qualified for,
and can act effectively in, leadership
positions in universities, SEAs, LAs,
LEAs, EIS programs or schools. This
priority supports two types of programs:
Type A programs are designed to prepare
special education, early intervention, or
related services personnel to serve as
higher education faculty. Type A pro-
grams culminate in a doctoral degree or
provide postdoctoral learning opportunities. Type B programs are designed to prepare special education or early
intervention administrators. EDGRANTS-032212-001 (GG 3/22/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/7/2012
12-4 Field-Initiated Research and
Evaluation Program
(DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice's FieldInitiated Research and Evaluation (FIRE)
program supports methodologically rigorous research and evaluation studies that
inform policy and practice consistent with
the Department of Justice's mission.
OJJDP is focusing this year's FIRE program solicitation on funding studies of
school-based practices, environment, and
achievement that relate to reducing student victimization and the risk of delinquency. The goal of this year's FIRE
program is to foster new and ongoing rigorous, scientific research and evaluation
that has practical applications for the
development of effective school programs, policies, and strategies that will
foster positive youth development and
reduce the risk of victimization and delinquency. OJJDP-2012-3246 (GG 3/21/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/7/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCE
12-5 Scientific Collaborations at
Extreme-Scale (DOE)
The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Department of Energy,
invites applications for research and
development that represents transformational advances in scientific collaboration
systems and distributed data systems
addressing the fundamental challenges
related to extreme-scale science collaborations. Scientific grand challenges in the
next decade in areas such as combustion
modeling, climate science, energy generation, bio-remediation processes, and
material structure aging will usher in the
era of extreme-scale science. Increasingly
these challenges may only be solved by
multi-disciplinary teams working with
unique scientific instruments, exascale
class computers, and/or handling extreme
amounts of data. To meet these challenges
these teams will need a distributed science environment that promotes scientific
collaboration and resource sharing. The
focus of this announcement is on transformative approaches to understanding and/
or enabling scientific collaborations at a
scale not possible with today's knowledge
or using current Internet-based services
and tools. DE-FOA-0000695 (GG 3/20/
12)
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URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/27/2012
12-6 Measurements and Modeling for
Quantifying Air Quality and Climatic
Impacts of Residential Biomass or Coal
Combustion for Cooking, Heating and
Lighting (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, as part of its Science to Achieve
Results (STAR) program, is seeking
applications proposing research on quantifying, via field measurements and modeling, the improvements in climate and
ambient and indoor air quality, and the
subsequent impacts on health and welfare, resulting from ongoing, planned, or
potential interventions in cooking, heating, or lighting practices. This research
should focus on communities in the
developing world and on Indian tribes and
Alaska Native groups. (EPA-G2012STAR-E1, EPA-G2012-STAR-E2)
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2012/
2012_star_cook_heat_light.html
Deadline: 6/19/2012
12-7 CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary
Faculty Program in Quantum
Information Science (NSF)
The CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty
Program in Quantum Information Science
is designed to promote research in the
area of Quantum Information Science
(QIS) by providing resources to allow
QIS researchers and researchers from the
CISE or MPS disciplines to actively
engage in joint research efforts, addressing problems at the interface between the
mathematical and physical sciences and
computer and information sciences
through long-term visits by faculty to a
host institution. The scholar must be in a
tenured faculty position at the associate or
full professor level in his or her US home
institution and must be prepared to spend
a minimum of one contiguous semester
with the host's group. Scholar and host
must be from substantially different environments, such that the collaborative
activity represents a broadening of experience and a bone fide change in the
research direction. Scholar and host must
also be from different institutions, so that
the interaction with the host research
group represents a full immersion and not
a part-time activity. There is a limit of one
proposal per P.I. NSF 12-540
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12540/nsf12540.htm
Deadline: 6/1/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
12-8 Research to Assist Informal
Caregivers in Assessing and Managing
Symptoms in Individuals with
Alzheimer's Disease (R01) (NIH)
The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement is to develop tools and
techniques for informal caregivers to
assess adverse symptoms in individuals
with Alzheimer's Disease and related
dementias, and to develop interventions
to improve the management of these
symptoms. RFA-NR-12-011 (NIHG 3/23/
12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-NR-12-011.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/21/2012;
Applications 5/21/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
12-9 Fellowships for Advanced Social
Science Research on Japan (NEH)
The Fellowship Program for Advanced
Social Science Research on Japan is a
joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship
Commission (JUSFC) and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Awards
support research on modern Japanese
society and political economy, Japan's
international relations, and U.S.-Japan
relations. The program encourages innovative research that puts these subjects in
wider regional and global contexts and is
comparative and contemporary in nature.
Research should contribute to scholarly
knowledge or to the general public’s
understanding of issues of concern to
Japan and the United States. Appropriate
disciplines for the research include
anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics,
political science, psychology, public
administration, and sociology. 20120501FO (GG 2/24/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/fellowships-japan.html
Deadline: 5/1/2012
12-10 Violent Victimization Among
Racial and Ethnic Minorities (DOJ)
NIJ seeks proposals for research on the
violent victimization experiences of racial
and ethnic minorities. NIJ’s goal is to
advance the body of research on this topic
by examining the causes and correlates of
differential victimization rates among
these diverse populations, including
demographic and socioeconomic risk factors. The research should take into
account the argument that there is no single cause of violent victimization. Rather,
it should consider multiple risk factors
that contribute to racial/ethnic minorities
victimization, including individual, situational, family, school, peer, and community factors. NIJ-2012-3165 (GG 3/15/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/29/2012
12-11 Our Shared Past (SSRC)
The British Council and the SSRC are
pleased to announce the launch of Our
Shared Past, a collaborative grants program to encourage new approaches to
world history curriculum and curricular
content design in Europe, the Middle
East, North Africa, and North America.
Our Shared Past grants will promote the
development of international scholarly
communities committed to analyzing history curriculum and reframing the teaching of world history through the
identification of new scholarship and the
development of new curricular content
that illust5rate shared cultural, economic,
military, religious, social, and scientific
networks and practices as well as shared
global norms and values that inform
world history and society. The project
will encourage both the synthesis of existing scholarship on these topics, and the
exploration of concrete ways that this
reframing can be successfully introduced
into teaching curriculum in European,
Middle Eastern, North African, or North
American contexts.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
our-shared-past/
Deadline: 5/31/2012
12-12 NIMHD Social, Behavioral,
Health Services, and Policy Research
on Minority Health and Health
Disparities (RO1) (NIH)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to solicit innovative social, behavioral, health services,
and policy research that can directly and
demonstrably contribute to the elimination of health disparities. Projects may
involve primary data collection or secondary analysis of existing datasets.
Projects that examine understudied health
conditions; examine the effectiveness of
interventions, services, or policies for
multiple health disparity populations;
and/or directly measure the impact of
project activities on levels of health disparities are particularly encouraged. RFAMD-12-003 (NIHG 2/17/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-MD-12-003.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/4/2012;
Applications 6/4/2012
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
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