Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 9, 2012
Program Information
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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
10-2) 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:
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GENERAL
10-1 Rural Jobs and Innovation
Accelerator Challenge (DOC)
The Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator
Challenge offers funding from 4 agencies,
including the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, the Appalachian Regional
Commission, and the Delta Regional
Authority. Funding will be awarded in
approximately 20 regions through a competitive inter-agency grant process. In
addition, the Rural Jobs and Innovation
Accelerator Challenge leverages existing
technical assistance resources from 9 federal agencies and bureaus to promote economic growth in rural regions and
accelerate innovation-fueled job creation
and global competitiveness. This opportunity will support customized solutions targeted to address the gaps and opportunities
specific for individual regions by strengthening linkages to self-identified, highpotential industry clusters such as renewable energy, natural resources, food production, rural tourism, and advanced
manufacturing. JIAC2012RURAL (GG 3/
2/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/9/2012
Vol. 21, No. 10
ARTS & HUMANITITES
10-2 Challenge Grants (NEH)
NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions
and organizations secure long-term
improvements in and support for their
humanities programs and resources.
Through these awards, many organizations and institutions have been able to
increase their humanities capacity and
secure the permanent support of an
endowment. Grants may be used to
establish or enhance endowments or
spend-down funds that generate expendable earnings to support ongoing program activities. Challenge grants may
also provide capital directly supporting
the procurement of long-lasting objects,
such as acquisitions for archives and collections, the purchase of equipment, and
the construction or renovation of facilities needed for humanities activities.
controlled by, other federal entities in
their projects. Institutions may apply for
only one NEH challenge grant in a calendar year20120502-CH (GG 2/29/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/challenge.html
Deadline: Internal 3/31/12; Applications 5/2/12
10-3 Research Grants (Truman)
The Harry S. Truman Library Institute
for National and International Affairs is
the private, non-profit partner of the
Harry S. Truman Library. The Institute’s
purpose is to foster the Truman Library
as a center for research and as a provider
of educational and public programs.
Research Grants are awarded biannually
and are intended to enable graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and other
researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to
use its collections. Awards are to offset
expenses incurred for this purpose only.
(TGA 1/12)
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
grants
Deadline: 4/1/2012, 10/1/2012
EDUCATION
10-4 Institute of Education Sciences
(IES): Education Research Program
(ED)
The central purpose of the Institute’s
research grant programs is to provide
parents, educators, students, researchers,
policymakers, and the general public
with reliable and valid information about
education practices that support learning
and improve academic achievement and
access to education opportunities for all
students. In carrying out its grant programs, the Institute provides support for
programs of research in areas of demon-
strated national need. Applications are
available for the Education Research,
Education Research Training, Research
on Statistical and Research Methodology
in Education, Evaluation of State and
Local Education Programs and Policies,
Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships,
Special Education Research, Special Education Research Training, and the Accelerating the Academic Achievement of
Students with Disabilities Research Initiative competitions. ED-GRANTS-030612002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, 009,
010, 011 (GG 3/6/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 6/1/2012, 9/20/2012
10-5 Training and Information for
Parents of Children with Disabilities:
Parent Training and Information
Centers (Ed)
The purpose of this program is to ensure
that parents of children with disabilities
receive training and information to help
improve results for their children. Parent
Training and Information Centers (PTIs)
will provide parents of children with disabilities with the training and information
they need to enable them to participate
cooperatively and effectively in helping
their children to: a) Meet developmental
and functional goals and the challenging
academic achievement standards that
have been established for all children; and
b) Be prepared to lead productive, independent adult lives to the maximum
extent possible. ED-GRANTS-022712003 (GG 2/27/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/27/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
10-6 ARPA-E Open Funding
Opportunity (DOE)
The mission of ARPA-E is to identify and
fund research to translate science into
breakthrough energy technologies that are
too risky for the private sector and that, if
successfully developed, will create the
foundation for entirely new industries.
Successful projects will address at least
one of ARPA-E’s two Mission Areas: 1)
Enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the
development of energy technologies that
result in: a. reductions of imports of
energy from foreign sources; b. reductions of energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; and c.
improvement in the energy efficiency of
all economic sectors; and 2. Ensure that
the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying
advanced energy technologies. ARPA-E
funds technology-focused applied
research to create real-world solutions to
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important problems in energy creation,
distribution and use and, as such, will not
support basic research, defined as a systematic study directed toward fuller
knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of
observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in
mind. DE-FOA-0000670 (GG 3/2/12)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/30/2012;
Concept Papers 4/12/2012
10-7 ROSES 2011: Carbon
Monitoring System Program (NASA)
This solicitation requests proposals for
additional Carbon Monitoring System
(CMS) work to be conducted primarily by
external organizations. This new work is
intended to build upon the lessons learned
in the pilot studies and scoping efforts and
to further integrate NASA products and
capabilities with those of other U.S. agencies and international entities. NASA
seeks scientific and technical experts to
shape and contribute to the next phase of
development of a CMS—proposals offering both the development of specific next
steps and the execution of the necessary
tasks. NNH11ZDA001N-CMS (GG 3/2/
12)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: 4/20/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
10-8 Collaborations for
Macromolecular Interactions in Cells
(R01) (NIH)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to establish
inter-disciplinary collaborative projects to
advance studies of macromolecular interactions and their relationship to function
in cells. These collaborations are
designed to integrate additional research
strategies into NIGMS’ research base of
laboratories specializing in macromolecular function in living systems. Grantees
may use this funding opportunity to: i)
complement each other’s capabilities (for
example, in biochemistry, genetics, chemistry, or pharmacology), where the innovation is in the biology rather than in the
technology; ii) apply proven technologies
that are technically challenging, expensive, or not yet widely used in cell biology and allied fields (for example, mass
spectrometry, high-throughput screening);
iii) develop, pilot, evaluate, and/or apply
emerging technologies (for example,
superresolution light microscopy); iv)
carry out feasibility studies or upstream
research and development of new technological concepts that are unproven, but
potentially useful for study of macromolecular interactions. RFA-GM-13-004
(NIHG 3/2/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-13-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/14/2012;
Applications 6/14/2012
10-9 Small Business Alzheimer’s
Disease Research (SBIR[R43/R44])
(NIH)
On February 7, 2012, Secretary of Health
and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
announced that $50 million would be
directed immediately to boost Alzheimer’s research in FY2012 in response to
President Obama signing the National
Alzheimer’s Project Act. This increased
funding will likely cover a range of
projects, including basic science on the
biology and genetics of Alzheimer’s disease as well as translational and clinical
research in development and testing of
therapies. The purpose of this funding
opportunity announcement is to solicit
Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) applications from eligible small
business concerns in the area of Alzheimer’s disease. RFA-OD-12-003 (NIHG
3/2/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-OD-12-003.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/30/2012;
Applications 4/30/2012
10-10 Patton Trust Research Grants
(KCALSI)
The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute is pleased to issue a Request for Proposal for Patton Trust Research Grants to
be submitted to the KCALSI for funding
consideration. This RFP serves to stimulate the development and submission of
major multidisciplinary research proposals from investigators in the life sciences
to government or private agencies.
KCALSI’s approach for achieving this
goal is to support research development
grants capable of generating critical preliminary data needed to develop competitive proposals for submission to external
agencies. Patton Trust Research grant
proposals must be specifically focused on
the genetic basis of diseases that predominately affect children and clearly identify
how the research team intends to generate
critical preliminary data needed for future
proposal submissions to external agencies.
URL: http://www.kclifesciences.org/
programs/research-grant-program/
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/30/2012;
Applications 4/30/2012
10-11 DoD Peer Reviewed Medical
Investigator-Initiated Research Award
(DOD)
The PRMRP Investigator-Initiated
Research Award (IIRA) is intended to
support studies that will make an important contribution toward research and/or
patient care for a disease or condition
related to at least one of the Congressionally directed FY12 PRMRP topic areas.
Research projects may focus on any phase
of research from basic laboratory research
through translational research, including
preclinical studies in animal models and
human subjects, as well as correlative
studies associated with an existing clinical trial. The rationale for a research idea
may be derived from a laboratory discovery, population-based studies, or a clinician’s first-hand knowledge of patients
and anecdotal data. The FY12 PRMRP
topic areas are: Arthritis, Composite Tissue Transplantation, Drug Abuse, Dystonia, Epilepsy, Food Allergies, Fragile X
Syndrome, Hereditary Angioedema,
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Interstitial
Cystitis, Listeria Vaccine for Infectious
Disease, Lupus, Malaria, Nanomedicine
for Drug Delivery Science, Neuroblastoma, Osteoporosis and Related Bone
Disease, Paget’s Disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis, Scleroderma, Tinnitus, and
Tuberculosis.W81XWH-12-PRMRPIIRA (GG 2/28/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Preapplications 4/10/2012;
Applications 7/31/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
10-12 Understanding the Acquisition,
Interpretation, and Use of Research
Evidence in Policy and Practice
(Grant)
The William T. Grant Foundation seeks to
fund high-quality empirical research with
the goal of improving the lives of youth
between the ages of 8 and 25 in the
United States. To that end, the foundation
has released its fourth Request for Proposals on Understanding the Acquisition,
Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice. The purpose
of the RFP is to help increase the understanding of how research evidence is
acquired, interpreted, and used in policy
and practice that affect youth. The foundation encourages interdisciplinary
projects, and welcomes applications from
researchers in various fields and disciplines such as anthropology, communications, economics, education, family
studies, human development, organizational studies, political sciences, prevention research, psychology, public
administration, public policy, public
health, social work, and sociology. (PND
3/2/12)
URL: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org
Deadline: Letters of Inquiry 4/3/2012,
8/1/2012
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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