Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 2, 2012
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GENERAL
9-1 Grant Challenges Explorations
(Gates)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for new grant
opportunities: Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative
and unconventional global health and
development solutions, is now accepting
grant proposals for its latest application
round. Applicants can be at any experience
level; in any discipline; and from any organization; including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research
institutions, non-profit organizations and
for profit companies. Proposals are being
accepted on the following topics: New
Approaches for the Interrogation of Antimalarial Compounds; Aid is working. Tell
the World; Design New Approaches to
Optimize Immunization Systems; Explore
New Solutions in Global Health Priority
Areas; and Protect Crop Plants from Biotic
Stresses From Field to Market.
URL: www.grandchallenges.org/
explorations
Deadline: 5/15/2012
Vol. 21, No. 9
9-2 Advancements in Sustainable
Algal Production (ASAP) (DOE)
The U.S. Department of Energy is
requesting applications to support outdoor phototrophic algae research and
development in two areas: 1) nutrient
and water use in algal production systems and 2) the development of algal
technology testbed facilities. This
research will support the Biomass Program’s goals to model pathways for significant (>1 billion gallons per year)
volumes of cost-competitive algal biofuels by 2022. DE-FOA-0000615 (GG 2/
24/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/18/2012
AGRICULTURE
9-3 Organic Transitions Program
(USDA)
The overall goal of the Organic Transitions Program (ORG) is to support the
development and implementation of
research, extension and higher education
programs to improve the competitiveness
of organic livestock and crop producers,
as well as those who are adopting organic
practices. In FY 2012, ORG will focus
on environmental services provided by
organic farming systems that support soil
conservation and contribute to climate
change mitigation. Practices and systems
to be addressed include those associated
with organic crops, organic animal production (including dairy), and organic
systems integrating plant and animal production. USDA-NIFA-ICGP-003691
(GG 2/29/12)
URL: http://nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/
organic_trans_icgp.html
Deadline: 4/25/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
9-4
Fellowships (NEH)
Fellowships support individuals pursuing
advanced research that is of value to
humanities scholars, general audiences,
or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports,
translations, editions, or other scholarly
resources in the humanities. Projects may
be at any stage of development.
20120501-FA (GG 2/24/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/fellowships.html
Deadline: 5/1/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
9-5 Campus Cyberinfrastructure Network Infrastructure and
Engineering Program (CC-NIE) (NSF)
The “Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CCNIE)” program invests in improvements
and re-engineering at the campus level to
leverage dynamic network services to
support a range of scientific data transfers
and movement. The program also supports Network Integration activities tied
to achieving higher levels of performance, reliability and predictability for
science applications and distributed
research projects. Two types of CC-NIE
awards will be made. Data Driven Networking and Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher awards will be
supported at up to $500,000 total for up to
2 years. Network Integration and Applied
Innovation awards will be supported at up
to $1,000,000 total for up to 2 years. NSF
12-541
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12541/nsf12541.htm
Deadline: 5/30/2012
9-6 Bridging Research Interactions
through Collaborative Development
Grants in Energy (BRIDGE) (DOE)
Bridging Research Interactions through
Collaborative Development Grants in
Energy (BRIDGE) is a new program that
intends to support the SunShot Initiative
by increasing the depth and breadth of
expertise being applied to PV and CSP
technology challenges. The BRIDGE program will employ a two-part linking
approach to effectively develop U.S.
capability in PV and CSP device and system design. First, BRIDGE will support
the development of new Collaborative
Research Teams (CRTs) of researchers
who share coherent scientific goals and
diverse but complementary theoretical,
computational and/or experimental
approaches. In addition, BRIDGE will
encourage CRTs to explore opportunities
to leverage existing DOE assets and
expertise housed within the DOE Basic
Energy Sciences (BES) Scientific User
Facilities, the DOE Biological and Environmental Sciences (BER)Environmental
Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
and Advanced Scientific Computing
Research facilities (ASCR). DE-FOA0000654 (GG 2/24/12)
URL: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/25/2012;
Applications 5/21/2012
9-7 Methane Opportunities for
Vehicular Energy (MOVE) (ARPA-E)
The Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is an agency
within the Department of Energy (DOE)
that has funded the development and
deployment of transformational and disruptive energy technologies and systems
since 2009. ARPA-E focuses on high-risk
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concepts with potentially high rewards.
This program seeks to fund the development of transformational technologies
that reduce the barriers to mass adoption
of natural gas use in vehicles.DE-FOA0000672 (GG 2/24/12)
URL: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/
Deadline: Concept Papers 3/26/2012
9-8 Development of Quantum
Computing Algorithms (DOD)
This BAA seeks research that develops
new quantum computing algorithms for
hard computational problems, develops
insight into the power of quantum computation, and considers issues of quantum
complexity and computability. W911NF12-R-0008 (GG 2/24/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: White Papers 3/20/2012
9-9 Metamaterials for RF and
Optical Applications (DOD)
The objective of this open BAA is to
encourage a flow of supplementary and/or
complementary technologies for electromagnetic metamaterials. Such technologies may include active electronic
matching networks, frequency selective
structures, and periodic structure with
engineered dispersion, including photonic
band-gap materials, acoustic metamaterials. Innovative advancements in using
metamaterials and/or complementary
technologies that leverage commercial
economies of scale are highly desired.
The areas of focus are Radio Frequency
(RF), Optical, Acoustic and Bio-Related
Metamaterials. BAA-12-01-PKS (GG 2/
21/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: White Papers 2/20/2016
9-10 ROSES 2012: Modeling,
Analysis, and Prediction (NASA)
Within Earth Science Research, the Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP)
program seeks an understanding of the
Earth as a complete, dynamic system. The
program has a historical and continuing
emphasis on climate and weather, but
addresses broader Earth system research
as well. The MAP program supports
observation-driven modeling and data
assimilation. The modeling is distinguished by rigorous examination and utilization of observations in a global Earth
system context. The modeling integrates
across all the research activities in
NASA’s Earth Science research program
and spans the spatial and temporal scales
that characterize satellite observations
and observations from ground and air
based campaigns. The specific research
themes included in this Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction solicitation are as follows: 1) Model investigations designed to
examine the role of processes within the
Earth system and improve their representation in global models. 2) Proposals to
develop, implement, and evaluate new
parameterizations for global models
which would either expand the representation of the Earth system or replace mod-
ules which have been shown to have
significant deficiencies. 3) Studies to
understand regional and local scale climate change in the context of global climate change: Improved understanding
and modeling of the regional and local
effects of global climate change is listed
as a priority in the draft USGCRP strategic plan for the next decade. 4) Investigations using and/or evaluating the Modern
Era Retrospective - analysis for Research
and Applications (MERRA) reanalysis
data. 5) Investigations utilizing observations which are aimed at identifying,
characterizing, and reducing uncertainties in model predictions of climate
change on seasonal to multidecadal time
scales. 6) Constituents in the climate system: Constituents in the atmosphere
(aerosols and chemical species) will
respond to climate change, and changes in
constituent concentrations can have climatic consequences as well. 7) Advanced
numerics: The MAP program seeks investigations of grids and fluid dynamical formulations that support high resolution
simulation of the Earth’s climate. And 8)
Model-based methods for establishing
appropriate measurement requirements
for climate monitoring to reduce uncertainties in global climate model projections. NNH12ZDA001N-MAP
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/23/2012;
Proposals 5/25/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
9-11 DOD Breast Cancer Era of Hope
Scholar Award (DOD)
The Era of Hope Scholar Award supports
individuals who are early in their careers
and have high potential for innovation in
breast cancer research. These individuals
should be exceptionally talented scientists
who have demonstrated that they are the
best and brightest in their field(s) through
extraordinary creativity, vision, and productivity. They should have demonstrated
experience in forming effective partnerships and collaborations and should
exhibit strong potential for leadership in
the breast cancer research community.
Since the intent of the Era of Hope
Scholar Award is to recognize creative
and innovative individuals rather than
projects, the central feature of the award
is the innovative contribution that the
Principal Investigator can make toward
ending breast cancer. W81XWH-12BCRP-EOHS (GG 2/23/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/19/2012
counsel for indigent defendants; and/or,
pro bono services provided by criminal
defense attorneys. These services can be
at the pretrial, trial, post-conviction, and/
or appellate stages and involve either
juvenile and/or adult defendants. Applicants are encouraged to consider research
involving either 1) access to counsel and
waiver of counsel by juveniles and/or
adults, or 2) the effectiveness of other
defense team members in indigent
defense cases. However, other strong
research proposals will be considered as
well. NIJ-2012-3166 (GG 2/23/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/23/2012
9-13 Building Community and
Capacity for Data-Intensive Research
in the Social, Behavioral, and
Economic Sciences and in Education
and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/
EHR) (NSF)
As part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure
Framework for 21st Century Science and
Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources (EHR),
and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek
to enable research communities to
develop visions, teams, and capabilities
dedicated to creating new, large-scale,
next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR
sciences. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant
impacts across multiple fields by enabling
new types of data-intensive research.
Investigators should think broadly and
create a vision that extends intellectually
across multiple disciplines and that
includes—but is not limited to—the SBE
or EHR sciences. NSF 12-538
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12538/nsf12538.htm
Deadline: 5/22/2012
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
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Development Director
9-12 Social Science Research on
Indigent Defense (DOJ)
The National Institute of Justice seeks
proposals for funding to examine indigent
criminal defense services, policies, and
practices. This includes services provided by any of the following: Statefunded, county-funded, city-funded, or
tribal public defender’s offices; contract
indigent defense lawyers; court-appointed
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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