Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
February 10, 2012
Vol. 21, No. 6
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applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
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Research, is the internal coordinator for
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AGRICULTURE
6-2 Agro-Inputs Project in
Bangladesh (USAID)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bangladesh is issuing this Request for
Applications (RFA) for a five-year Cooperative Agreement titled USAID’s AgroInputs Project in Bangladesh to stimulate
agricultural development to increase production and productivity, to reduce rural
poverty and to improve food security in
the southern delta of Bangladesh. The
project will achieve this goal by directly
supporting private sector activities that
result in the improved availability, quality and safe usage of agricultural inputs,
such as: fertilizer, seed, pesticides which
improve yields, mitigate environmental
degradation at the farm level and
improve product quality and export
opportunities. Additionally, this project
will provide enhanced access to and
knowledge of agricultural inputs so that
both male and female farmers can
become educated consumers and can
purchase appropriate quality inputs from
trusted supply sources. RFA-388-12000004 (GG 2/5/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/20/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
6-3
GENERAL
6-1 Pan-American Advanced Studies
Institutes Program (PASI) (NSF)
The Pan-American Advanced Studies
Institutes (PASI) Program is a jointly supported initiative between the Department
of Energy (DOE) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Pan-American
Advanced Studies Institutes are short
courses ranging in length from ten to
twenty-one days, involving lectures, demonstrations, research seminars, and discussions at the advanced graduate, postdoctoral, and junior faculty level. PASIs
aim to disseminate advanced scientific and
engineering knowledge and stimulate
training and cooperation among researchers of the Americas in the mathematical,
physical, and biological sciences, the geosciences, the computer and information
sciences, and the engineering fields. Proposals in other areas funded by NSF may
be considered on an ad hoc basis as long as
they are multidisciplinary; in this case,
lead investigators must consult with the
PASI Program before proposal submission.
NSF 12-535
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12535/nsf12535.htm
Deadline: 4/24/2012
ACLS Public Fellows (ACLS)
ACLS invites applications for the second
competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 13 recent
Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff
positions at partnering organizations in
government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive
work of these organizations and receive
professional mentoring. The program,
made possible by a grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to
demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the
humanities have wide application, both
within and beyond the academy. (TGA 2/
12)
URL: http://www.acls.org/programs/
publicfellows/
Deadline: 3/21/2012
EDUCATION
6-4 Learning Disabilities Innovation
Hubs (R24) (NIH)
This funding opportunity announcement
(FOA) invites resource-related research
project applications, hereafter referred to
as the Learning Disabilities Research
Hubs or LDR Hubs, addressing the etiology, manifestation, prevention and remediation of reading, writing or
mathematics learning disabilities (LDs).
The constitution of an LDR Hub includes
a single research project and one or two
corresponding core(s) that support the
goals and aims of the LDR Hub. The
FOA seeks to tackle under-researched
topics and populations as well as topics
that have been some of the most challenging in the area of learning disabilities
impacting reading, writing, and mathematics. Applicants must focus on one of
two possible research foci to be responsive to this FOA: 1) research topics that
include a primary focus on historically
under-represented populations who are atrisk for or diagnosed with one or more
learning disabilities impacting reading,
writing, or mathematics; or 2) research
topics considered nascent, understudied,
or highly innovative and potentially high
risk, involving one or more of these LDs,
which may or may not be wholly focused
on at-risk or understudied populations
with LDs. RFA-HD-12-203 (NIHG 1/27/
12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HD-12-203.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/11/2012;
Applications 4/11/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
6-5 International Space Station
National Laboratory Education Project
(ISS NLEP) (NASA)
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Office of Education, NASA Higher Education Office in
cooperation with the Human Exploration
Operations Mission Directorate
(HEOMD) and the Johnson Space Center
(JSC) Office of Education, invites proposals to seven areas within the ISS National
Lab Education Project’s portfolio. Three
“general” categories open for proposals to
include: 1) new ground-based education
activities/experiments not requiring ISS
upmass; 2) new flight-based or on-orbit
experiments that require ISS upmass
capability; and 3) new educational experiments utilizing a facility that simulates
the ISS microgravity environment. The
four “Specific” areas open for proposals
are: 1) flight experiments that can be conducted in “1 unit” NanoRacks payload
modules onboard the ISS; 2) mission
planning proposals to recommend an
appropriate mission planning support for
the Amateur Radio on ISS school contact
program using appropriate software and
hardware; 3) proposals to provide engineering/project management support for
the High Schools United with NASA for
the Creation of Hardware project; and 4)
proposals will be solicited to develop new
applications for the ISSLive! Internet
educational experience using existing
real-time ISS telemetry. NNJ12ZHA001C
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URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/5/2012;
Proposals 3/23/2012
6-6 The Earth System Science
Pathfinder Program: Earth Venture
Instrument - 1 (NASA)
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration Science Mission Directorate is releasing a NASA Announcement
of Opportunity entitled Second Stand
Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice
(SALMON-2). SALMON-2 is an omnibus AO that enables independent proposal
opportunities that support the science,
exploration, and technology objectives of
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate,
Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Office of the Chief
Technologist. Earth Venture Instruments1 is an element within the Earth System
Science Pathfinder Program that conducts
Principal Investigator-led Earth science
investigations relevant to SMD’s Earth
Science Division. This solicitation calls
for proposals for complete PI-led science
investigations requiring spaceflight
instrument development.
NNH12ZDA006O-EVI1 (GG 1/24/12)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/22/2012;
Proposals 5/8/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
6-7 Building the Science of Public
Reporting (R21) (AHRQ)
This AHRQ FOA solicits R21 Exploratory / Developmental grant applications
that propose to build the scientific evidence base for effective public reporting
for consumers through innovative, actionable studies that address pressing questions in the field. A number of studies
suggest that consumers’ infrequent use of
public reports of health care quality and
resource use is due to reports’ poor
design, irrelevant content, and inadequate
dissemination, rather than a lack of consumer interest. This FOA seeks to support
research that will inform the development
of a health care system in which every
consumer has ready access to reports that
allow meaningful comparison of providers based on measures of quality and
resource use. This FOA will fund exploratory and developmental studies that seek
to fill knowledge gaps around public
reporting and establish an evidence base
to inform the content, design, dissemination and use of public reports, guiding the
way toward enhanced reporting practices. RFA-HS-12-004 (NIHG 1/27/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-HS-12-004.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/27/2012;
Applications 3/28/2012
6-8 MacroSystems Biology:
Research on Biological Systems at
Regional to Continental Scales (NSF)
The MacroSystems Biology: Research on
Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales will support quantitative,
interdisciplinary, systems-oriented
research on biosphere processes and their
complex interactions with climate, land
use, and invasive species at regional to
continental scales as well as planning,
training, and development activities to
enable groups to conduct MacroSystems
Biology Research. NSF 12-532
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12532/nsf12532.htm
Deadline: 4/18/12
two individual institution center applications and a single application serving as
the lead (primary) on an application composed of a group of institutions competing
for a “Consortium level” award. RFAOAA-12-000004 (GG 2/8/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Internal 3/1/2012; Concept
Papers 3/22/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
INTERNATIONAL
6-9 Tourism for Biodiversity and
Economic Growth (USAID)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Uganda is
seeking applications to fund one or more
organizations through a Cooperative
Agreement for a four-year USAID/
Uganda economic growth program. The
activity aims to use eco-tourism to reduce
threats to biodiversity. The program will
help develop Uganda’s nature-based tourism industry to deliver an improved experience for visitors and improved
stewardship of the natural resources necessary to sustain Uganda’s economic
development. Tourism revenues resulting
from the enjoyment of biological diversity, often located in the world’s lessdeveloped regions, are a significant
source of income and employment for
local communities. It is important to
involve frontline communities and ensure
that they learn to manage and protect natural resources, and share in the potential
economic benefits of Uganda’s natural
resources. RFA-617-12-000004 (GG 2/3/
12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/20/2012
6-10 USAID Higher Education
Solutions Network (USAID)
The primary goal of this program is to
establish institutional partnerships that
will create and leverage a virtual network
of leading experts who will help USAID
solve distinct global development challenges. This network will help USAID
identify new solutions and by working
together, save money and improve results
over time. The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) is
taking a new approach to solving major
development challenges. By partnering
with universities and research institutions,
both in the United States and abroad,
USAID will create and leverage a virtual
network of experts who are focused on
solving distinct global development challenges. We expect that the partnerships
will focus on complex development challenges and approach these challenges by
applying creative, evidence-based and
multidisciplinary approaches. We believe
that science, technology and engineering
will play key roles in these approaches,
and also seek ideas from the institutions
as to other contributing disciplines, and
how faculty, students, and staff will contribute. An institution may submit no
more than three applications as the lead.
Each applicant institution is restricted to
6-11 Modeling Social Behavior (RO1)
(NIH)
This FOA, issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
(NIGMS) and the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH), solicits applications for developing and testing innovative theories and computational,
mathematical, or engineering approaches
to deepen our understanding of complex
social behavior. This research will examine phenomena at multiple scales to
address the emergence of collective
behaviors that arise from individual elements or parts of a system working
together. This FOA will support research
that explores the often complex and
dynamical relationships among the parts
of a system and between the system and
its environment in order to understand the
system as a whole. To accomplish the
goals of this FOA we encourage applications that build transdisciplinary teams of
scientists spanning a broad range of
expertise. Minimally this team should
include senior investigators with expertise
in the behavioral or social sciences as
well as in computational and systems
thinking (computer science, mathematics, engineering, systems-level methodology). Research can involve model
organisms or humans. RFA-GM-13-006
(NIHG 2/3/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-13-006.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/3/12;
Applications 4/3/12
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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