Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 16, 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
2-1, 2-2) or by at least two months prior
to the sponsor deadline if you wish to
submit to a limited submission program.
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GENERAL
2-1 Ethics Education in Science and
Engineering (EESE) (NSF)
The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program funds research
and educational projects that improve ethics education in all fields of science and
engineering that NSF supports, with priority consideration given to interdisciplinary,
inter-institutional, and international contexts. Although the primary focus is on
improving ethics education for graduate
students in NSF-funded fields, the proposed programs may benefit advanced
undergraduates as well. An eligible organization may submit only one proposal as
the lead organization. NSF 11-514
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/
nsf11514/nsf11514.htm
Deadline: Internal 2/1/2012; Proposal 3/
14/2011
2-2 Postbaccalaureate Research
Education Program (PREP) (R25)
(NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences (NIGMS),
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
encourages Research Education Grant
Vol. 21, No. 2
(R25) applications from institutions that
propose to develop recent baccalaureate
science graduates from diverse backgrounds so that they have the necessary
knowledge and skills to pursue PhD or
MD-PhD degrees in biomedical and
behavioral sciences. The program provides support for well-designed academic enhancements and extensive
research experiences aimed at preparing
individuals from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral sciences to complete PhD or MD-PhD
degree programs in these disciplines.
Only one application per institution is
allowed. PAR-12-056 (NIHG 12/16/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-056.html
Deadline: Internal 1/24/2012; Applications 2/24/2012
2-3 FAA Aviation Research and
Development Grants (FAA)
The FAA Research Grants Program
encourages and supports innovative,
advanced research of potential benefit to
the long-term growth of civil aviation
and Commercial Space Transportation.
The pursuit of basic and applied research
in scientific and engineering disciplines
that have the potential to further knowledge and understanding on a broad front
of emerging technologies is crucial to the
realization of this goal. The intent is to
encourage applied research and development enhance technology assimilation,
transfer, and development in the FAA.
The agency encourages the submission
of proposals that embrace the entire
spectrum of physical, chemical, biological, medical, psychological, mathematical, and engineering sciences. 12-01 (GG
1/1/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: Open
ARTS & HUMANITIES
2-4 Summer Seminars and
Institutes (NEH)
These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for
school teachers and for college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars
and Institutes may be as short as two
weeks or as long as six weeks. The duration of a program should allow for a rigorous treatment of its topic. 20120301FS (GG 11/15/11)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/seminars.html
Deadline: 3/1/2012
2-5 NEA Literature Fellowships:
Poetry, FY2013 (NEA)
The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fic-
tion and creative nonfiction) and poetry to
published creative writers that enable the
recipients to set aside time for writing,
research, travel, and general career
advancement. Applications are reviewed
through an anonymous process in which
the only criteria for review are artistic
excellence and artistic merit. To review
the applications, the NEA assembles a
different advisory panel every year, each
diverse with regard to geography, race
and ethnicity, and artistic points of view.
The NEA Literature Fellowships program
operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in
alternating years. For FY 2013, which is
covered by these guidelines, fellowships
in poetry are available. Fellowships in
prose will be offered in FY 2014 and
guidelines will be available in the fall of
2012. 2012NEA03LFCW (GG 11/15/11)
URL: http://www.nea.gov
Deadline: 3/1/2012
2-6 NEA Our Town Guidelines,
FY2012 (NEH)
The Arts Endowment’s support of a
project may start on September 1, 2012,
or any time thereafter. A grant period of
up to two years is allowed. Communities
across our nation are engaging design and
leveraging the arts to create livable, sustainable neighborhoods with enhanced
quality of life, increased creative activity,
distinct identities, a sense of place, and
vibrant local economies that capitalize on
existing local assets. The NEA defines
these efforts as Creative Placemaking: “In
creative placemaking, partners from public, private, nonprofit, and community
sectors strategically shape the physical
and social character of a neighborhood,
town, tribe, city, or region around arts and
cultural activities. Creative placemaking
animates public and private spaces, rejuvenates structures and streetscapes,
improves local business viability and public safety, and brings diverse people
together to celebrate, inspire, and be
inspired.” 2012NEAOT (GG 12/1/11)
URL: http://www.nea.gov
Deadline: 3/1/2012
EDUCATION
2-7 Robert Noyce Teacher
Scholarship Program (NSF)
The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship
Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to
become K-12 mathematics and science
teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track
provides funds to institutions of higher
education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and postbaccalaureate students holding STEM
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degrees who earn a teaching credential
and commit to teaching in high-need K12 school districts. The NSF Teaching
Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship
Track provides funding to support STEM
professionals who enroll as NSF Teaching
Fellows in master’s degree programs
leading to teacher certification by providing academic courses, professional development, and salary supplements while
they are fulfilling a four-year teaching
commitment in a high-need school district. This track also supports the development of NSF Master Teaching Fellows by
providing professional development and
salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and science teachers to become
Master Teachers in high-need school districts. Each track supports Capacity
Building Projects to develop the capacity
for institutions to provide innovative
teacher preparation programs to enable
increasing numbers of STEM majors and
STEM professionals to become effective
K-12 mathematics and science teachers
and to develop the capacity to prepare
Master science and mathematics teachers.
NSF 12-525
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12525/nsf12525.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/27/2012;
Proposals 3/26/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
2-8 University Center of Excellence
for Integrated Computation Material
Science and Engineering of Structural
Materials (DOD)
This is a special BAA in support of the
AFRL’s University Center of Excellence
for Integrated Computational Material
Science and Engineering of Structural
Materials. In collaboration with AFRL
Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
(Wright Patterson AFB, OH), AFOSR
invites proposals for research in the areas
described in detail below. This research
effort will consist of interdisciplinary
teams of researchers with the skills
needed to address the relevant research
challenges necessary to meet the program
goals. BAA-AFOSR-2012-03 (GG 1/12/
12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 4/2/2012
2-9 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
(NSF)
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from and
depend upon the synergy of computational and physical components. Emerging CPS will be coordinated, distributed,
and connected, and must be robust and
responsive. The CPS of tomorrow will
need to far exceed the systems of today in
capability, adaptability, resiliency, safety,
security, and usability. Examples of the
many CPS application areas include the
smart electric grid, smart transportation,
smart buildings, smart medical technologies, next-generation air traffic management, and advanced manufacturing. The
goal of the CPS program is to develop the
core system science needed to engineer
complex cyber-physical systems upon
which people can depend with high confidence. The program aims to foster a
research community committed to
advancing research and education in CPS
and to transitioning CPS science and technology into engineering practice. By
abstracting from the particulars of specific systems and application domains,
the CPS program aims to reveal cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the
integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors. The
CPS program also supports the development of methods, tools, and hardware and
software components based upon these
cross-cutting principles, along with validation of the principles via prototypes and
test beds. Three types of research and
education projects will be considered:
Breakthrough projects must offer a significant advance in fundamental CPS science, engineering and/or technology that
has the potential to change the field. Synergy projects must demonstrate innovation at the intersection of multiple
disciplines, to accomplish a clear goal
that requires an integrated perspective
spanning the disciplines. Frontiers
projects must address clearly identified
critical CPS challenges that cannot be
achieved by a set of smaller projects. NSF
12-520
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12520/nsf12520.htm
Deadline: 3/15/2012, 1/22/2013
2-10 NIST Center for Neutron
Research (NCNR) Comprehensive
Grant Program (DOC)
The NCNR is soliciting proposals from
eligible proposers to support research
involving Neutron Research and Spectroscopy specifically aimed at assisting
visiting researchers at NCNR, developing new instrumentation for Neutron
Research, conducting collaborative
research with NIST scientists, and to conduct other outreach and educational activities that advance the use of neutrons by
U.S. academia and industrial scientists.
This will entail stationing scientific staff
at the NCNR who, in collaboration with
NIST and visiting scientists, advance
these objectives. 2012-NIST-NCNR-01
(GG 11/30/11)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 3/15/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
minor species. This FOA relates to grants
to assist in defraying the costs of qualified
safety and effectiveness testing when a
grant will either result in, or substantially
contribute to, approval or conditional
approval of a designated MUMS drug for
a designated intended use. RFA-FD-12003 (NIHG 1/6/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-FD-12-003.html
Deadline: 2/17/2012, 7/20/2012, 12/7/
2012
2-12 NIAMS Small Grant Program
For New Investigators (R03) (NIAMS)
The National Institute of Arthritis and
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
(NIAMS) is seeking small grant (R03)
applications to stimulate and facilitate the
entry of promising new investigators into
research on arthritis and musculoskeletal
and skin diseases and injuries. This FOA
will provide support for pilot research that
is likely to lead to a subsequent individual
research project grant (R01). Clinical trials of any phase will not be supported by
this FOA. PAR-12-045 (NIHG 12/2/11)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-12-045.html
Deadline: 3/20/2012, 7/20/2012, 11/20/
2012
2-13 Plant Genome Research
Program (PGRP) (NSF)
This program is a continuation of the
Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
that began in FY 1998 as part of the
National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI).
Especially encouraged are proposals that
provide strong and novel training opportunities integral to the research plan and
particularly across disciplines that
include, but are not limited to, plant physiology, quantitative genetics, biochemistry, bioinformatics and engineering. NSF
12-517
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12517/nsf12517.htm
Deadline: 3/5/2012
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
2-11 Minor Use Minor Species
Development of Drugs; Research
Project Grant (R01) (FDA)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
is issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Veterinary
Medicine (CVM), and solicits Research
Project (R01) grant applications from
institutions/organizations that propose to
develop, or support the development of,
new animal drugs intended for minor use
in major species or intended for use in
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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