Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
September 27, 2013
Program Information
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Limited Submissions
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 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: http://www.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
bul13/limits13/index.htm
GENERAL
34-1 American Fellowships (AAUW)
American Fellowships support women
scholars who are completing dissertations,
planning research leave from accredited
institutions, or preparing research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens
or permanent residents. Candidates are
evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence; quality and originality of project
design; and active commitment to helping
women and girls through service in their
communities, professions, or fields of
research.
URL: http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/
educational-funding-and-awards/
american-fellowships/
Deadline: 11/15/2013
34-2 Decadal and Regional Climate
Prediction using Earth System Models
(EaSM) (NSF)
The consequences of climate variability
and change are becoming more immediate
and profound than previously anticipated.
Over recent decades, the world has witnessed the onset of prolonged droughts on
several continents, increased frequency of
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floods, loss of agricultural and forest productivity, degraded ocean and permafrost
ecosystems, global sea level rise and the
rapid retreat of ice sheets and glaciers,
loss of arctic sea ice, and changes in
ocean currents. These important impacts
highlight that climate variability and
change can have significant effects on
decadal and shorter time scales, with significant consequences for plant, animal,
human, and physical systems. The EaSM
funding opportunity enables interagency
cooperation on one of the most pressing
problems of the millennium: climate
change and how it is likely to affect our
world. It allows the partner agencies—
National Science Foundation (NSF) and
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
—to combine resources to identify and
fund the most meritorious and highestimpact projects that support their respective missions, while avoiding duplication
of effort and fostering collaboration
between agencies and the investigators
they support. This interdisciplinary scientific challenge calls for the development and application of next-generation
Earth System Models that include coupled and interactive representations of
such components as ocean and atmospheric currents, agricultural working
lands and forests, biogeochemistry,
atmospheric chemistry, the water cycle
and land ice. This solicitation seeks to
attract scientists from the disciplines of
geosciences, agricultural sciences, mathematics and statistics. Successful proposals will develop intellectual excitement
in the participating disciplinary communities and engage diverse interdisciplinary teams with sufficient breadth to
achieve the scientific objectives. An individual may appear as PI, co-PI, co-investigator or senior personnel on only one
proposal in response to this solicitation.
NSF 13-607 (GG 9/23/13)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13607/nsf13607.htm
Deadline: 12/23/2013
34-3 Program Grants (NCIIA)
Course and Program grants are awarded
to NCIIA member institutions for the
purpose of strengthening existing curricular programs or building new programs
in technology-based invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Proposals
may request support for a single course, a
course sequence, a certificate program, a
minor or major, extracurricular programs
or a combination of these. Successful
proposals include the following elements: The formation of student teams
(E-Teams*) focused on technology
invention, innovation and entrepreneurship with a positive social/environmental
impact; a focus on entrepreneurship and
support for promising student teams who
want to continue to develop their technologies and business models after par-
ticipation in the proposed course/
program; a plan for continuation (and
financial sustainability) of the course or
program post-NCIIA-funding; an emphasis on experiential learning-by-doing and
creative pedagogical approaches to solving real world problems. NCIIA encourages proposals that involve students and
advisors from engineering, science, business, design, and liberal arts disciplines,
as well as groups traditionally underrepresented in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including women and
minorities.
URL: http://nciia.org/grants/
courseandprogram
Deadline: 11/8/2013, 5/9/2014
AGRICULTURE
34-4 North Central Soybean Research
Program Request for Research
Proposals (NCSRP)
The North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) combines soybean checkoff funds from its 12 member states in
order to sponsor basic and applied
research to increase soybean profitability
and yield enhancement, while maintaining or improving soybean composition,
through genetic improvement and biotic
and abiotic stress mitigation for soybean
maturity groups 0-IV. The NCSRP is
seeking soybean research proposals for
funding to begin on March 1, 2014. The
NCSRP Board will fund research projects
that address their goals to increase soybean grower productivity and profitability
while improving environmental stewarship. The NCSRP will fund both applied
and basic research that will provide shortand long-term practical benefit to Midwestern soybean producers. Researchers
interested in submitting a proposal should
provide an electronic copy in Microsoft
Word format of the complete proposal to
Sue Heath at sheath@iasoybeans.com,
Dr. Ed Anderson eanderson@iasoybeans.com and Dr. Keith Smith at
keith.smith@ wildblue.net along with 20
three-holed punched and stapled copies to
the NCSRP office.
Email: eanderson@iasoybeans.com
Deadline: 11/20/2013
34-5 Research/Education
Opportunity (KCC)
The Kansas Corn Commission is soliciting research and education Proposals for
FY 2015. An individual may be listed as
lead principal investigator on only one
proposal, but may be a secondary principal investigator on multiple proposals.
Proposals will be accepted in the following areas: 1) Value-Added Projects—The
proposal program should be commercially significant and have the potential to
use large quantities of corn. 2) Marketing
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Extension Program and Transportation—
The proposed program should include
extensive educational training of corn
pricing, crop disappearance/market share,
risk management and crop insurance
options, yield protection, farm program
considerations and options in marketing
available to Kansas Corn producers. 3)
Production/Environmental Programs—
Proposals should address cropping systems for the Kansas corn industry for the
year 2015 and beyond and should focus
on the most economical/efficient cropping systems with minimal impact on the
environment.
Email: shardman@ksgrains.com
Deadline: 11/8/2013
34-6 Special Call for Proposals: Fall
2013 (NPB)
The US pork industry produces more than
five million metric tons of pork variety
meats and pork by-products each year, yet
it exports less than a half million metric
tons of these products. This suggests that
a significant portion of US pork carcasses
are currently rendered to make blood
meal, meat and bone meal, fat and grease.
These rendered products are all of low
value but are often highly valued in specific countries and in many cases sell for
price premiums that are many multiples
of the US price. Also, consumers in many
target countries often lack adequate, high
quality protein in their diets. The elimination of a price wedge between the US and
international prices would allow these
consumers to purchase products that are
highly valued in local cuisine and, in so
doing, increase the nutritional value of
their diets. The removal of this price
wedge would also increase the value of
live hogs in the US and reduce the
breakeven cost of producing muscle
meats for the US consumer. Therefore,
NPB applied for, and received, a grant
from the USDA’s Emerging Market Program (EMP) to conduct the following
study: Market Assessment, Identification
and Elimination of Technical and Scientific Barriers to U.S. Pork Variety Meat
and By-Product Exports. The target
emerging markets are Vietnam, Philippines, Colombia and South Africa. Learnings to-date from in market studies,
packer interviews, price data comparisons, current export data analysis and
industry expert interviews led NPB to the
need for economic and technical research
related specifically to saving pork blood
for human consumption. Consumers in
Colombia and other parts of Central and
South America purchase large quantities
of blood sausage. Consumers in The Philippines and Vietnam consume large quantities of blood-based soups and stews.
There appears to be an opportunity to
save blood in U.S. packing plants to be
used for human consumption in export
markets. The purpose of the research
requested here, as part of the above mentioned EMP grant, is to determine if this
makes technical and economic sense.
Email: bhendricks@pork.org
Deadline: 10/22/2013
ARTS & HUMANITIES
34-7 NEA Our Town Application
(NEA)
Art works to improve the lives of America’s citizens in many ways. Communities
across our nation are leveraging the arts
and engaging design to make their communities more livable with enhanced
quality of life, increased creative activity,
a distinct sense of place, and vibrant local
economies that together capitalize on
their existing assets. The NEA defines
these efforts as the process of Creative
Placemaking. Organizations may apply
for creative placemaking projects that
contribute to the livability of communities
and place the arts at their core.
2014NEA01OT (GG 9/24/13)
URL: http://arts.gov/grantsorganizations/our-town
Deadline: 1/13/2014
34-8 Museums for America (IMLS)
The Museums for America (MFA) program supports projects that strengthen the
ability of an individual museum to serve
its public. MFA grants support activities
that strengthen museums as active
resources for lifelong learning, as important institutions in the establishment of
livable communities, and as good stewards of the nation’s collections. MFA
grants can fund both new and ongoing
museum activities and programs. Examples include planning, managing and conserving collections, improving public
access, training, conducting programmatic research, school and public programming, producing exhibitions, and
integrating new or upgraded technologies
into your operations. MFA-FY14 (GG 9/
16/13)
URL: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/
detail.aspx?GrantId=11
Deadline: 12/2/2013
34-10 AFRL Research Collaboration
Program (DoD)
The objective of the AFRL Research Collaboration program is to enable collaborative research partnerships between AFRL
and Academia and Industry in areas
including but not limited to Materials and
Manufacturing and Aerospace Sensors
that engage a diverse pool of domestic
businesses that employ scientists and
engineers in technical areas required to
develop critical war-fighting technologies for the nation’s air, space and cyberspace forces through specific AFRL Core
Technical Competencies (CTCs). BAARQKM-2013-0005 (GG 6/17/13)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 12/20/2017
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
34-11 Translational Research to
Improve Diabetes and Obesity
Outcomes (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) encourages NIH Research Project
Grants (R01) to test practical, sustainable,
and cost efficient adaptations of efficacious strategies or approaches to prevent
and treat diabetes and/or obesity.
Research focused on the prevention or
reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2
diabetes, improved care of type 1 and
type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay
of the complications of these conditions is
encouraged. The approaches tested
should have the potential for wide dissemination and implementation outside of
an academic setting such as in routine
clinical practice or communities at risk.
PA-13-352 (NIHG 9/13/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-13-352.html
Deadline: 2/5/2014, 6/5/2014, 10/5/2014
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
34-9 Physics at the Information
Frontier (NSF)
Physics at the Information Frontier (PIF)
includes support for data-enabled science,
community research networks, and new
computational infrastructure, as well as
for next-generation computing. It focuses
on cyber-infrastructure for the disciplines
supported by the Physics Division while
encouraging broader impacts on other disciplines. Disciplines within the purview
of the Physics Division include: atomic,
molecular, optical, plasma, elementary
particle, nuclear, particle astrophysics,
gravitational and biological physics. PIF
provides support for physics proposals in
three subareas: 1) computational physics,
2) data enabled physics, and 3) quantum
information science and revolutionary
computing. PD 13-7553 (GG 9/20/13)
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6681
Deadline: 11/29/2013
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, Namrita Berry, Rex
Goff, Tim McDaniel, Cecilia Scaler, Sharon
Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
Joel Anderson
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Petra Jardine, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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