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July 19, 2013
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Vol. 22, No. 27
in cybersecurity, establish a science of
cybersecurity, and transition promising
cybersecurity research into practice. This
challenge requires a dedicated approach
to research, development, and education
that leverages the disciplines of mathematics and statistics, the social sciences,
and engineering together with the computing, communications and information
sciences. The Secure and Trustworthy
Cyberspace (SaTC) program welcomes
proposals that address Cybersecurity
from a Trustworthy Computing Systems
(TWC) perspective and/or a Social,
Behavioral and Economic Sciences
(SBE) perspective. In addition, they welcome proposals that integrate research
addressing both of these perspectives as
well as proposals focusing entirely on
Cybersecurity Education. Proposals may
be submitted in one of the following
three categories: Small projects: up to
$500,000 in total budget, with durations
of up to three years; Medium projects:
$500,001 to $1,200,000 in total budget,
with durations of up to four years; Frontier projects: $1,200,001 to $10,000,000
in total budget, with durations of up to
five years. In addition, the SaTC program seeks proposals addressing Cybersecurity Education with total budgets
limited to $300,000 and durations of up
to two years. Cybersecurity education
projects may not include any of the three
perspectives named above. NSF 13-578
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13578/nsf13578.htm
Deadline: Medium 10/15/2013; Frontier 11/19/2013; Education 12/19/2013;
Small 1/17/2014
GENERAL
27-1 Career Awards at the Scientific
Interface (BWF)
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career
Awards at the Scientific Interface provide
$500,000 to bridge advanced postdoctoral
training and the first years of faculty service. Awards are intended to foster the
early career development of researchers
with backgrounds in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences and engineers whose work addresses biological
questions. These awards are open to U.S.
and Canadian citizens or permanent residents as well as to U.S. temporary residents.
URL: http://www.bwfund.org/casi
Deadline: Preproposals 9/3/2013
27-3 Instrument Development for
Biomedical Applications (R21) (NIH)
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) encourages innovative applications for the development
of new or improved instrumentation for
biomedical research. Projects should propose tools that can be used by a wide
range of biomedical or clinical researchers, and not limited to a specific organ or
disease. RFA-GM-14-014 (NIHG 7/12/
13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-14-014.html
Deadline: 10/10/2013
AGRICULTURE
27-2 Secure and Trustworthy
Cyberspace (SaTC) (NSF)
27-4 International DLG-Prize 2014
(DLG)
In December 2011, the National Science
and Technology Council (NSTC) with the
cooperation of NSF issued a broad, coordinated federal strategic plan for cybersecurity research and development to change
the game, minimize the misuses of cyber
technology, bolster education and training
For the 29th time the German Agricultural Society (DLG) is awarding the
International DLG Prize in 2014. This
prize, one of the most important promotion programmes for junior staff and new
recruits in Germany has already been
awarded to 236 honorees from 22 differ-
ent countries. They are looking for young
people who are professionally active or
want to be active in agriculture and food
industry and who are characterized by
technical skills, voluntary engagement
and sociability. The scholarships associated with the prize are there to support the
honorees in the process of expanding their
professional knowledge and skills and
furthermore to qualify in their occupational field. In addition, they want to give
young people access to the DLG and their
professional work. They would like to
invite you to nominate suitable candidates
for this award.
Email: L.Hug@DLG.org
Deadline: 10/1/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
27-5 Information and Intelligent
Systems (IIS): Core Programs (NSF)
CISE’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) supports research and
education projects that develop new
knowledge in three core programs: The
Cyber-Human Systems (CHS) program;
The Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and The Robust
Intelligence (RI) program. IIS is also
responsible for managing the review process for proposals in Computer Graphics
and Visualization; these proposals may be
submitted to any of the three core programs described above. Proposers are
invited to submit proposals in three
project classes, which are defined as follows: Small Projects - up to $500,000
total budget with durations up to three
years; Medium Projects - $500,001 to
$1,200,000 total budget with durations up
to four years; and Large Projects $1,200,001 to $3,000,000 total budget
with durations up to five years. NSF 13580
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13580/nsf13580.htm
Deadline: Medium 10/15/2013; Large
11/19/2015; Small 1/17/2014
27-6 Research Opportunities in
Fundamental Physics (NASA)
This NRA solicits research proposals
from Principal Investigators from U.S.
institutions to participate in NASA’s Cold
Atom Laboratory (CAL) facility on the
International Space Station (ISS). CAL is
a multi-user facility designed to study
ultra-cold atoms and degenerate quantum
gases in microgravity. Submitted research
proposals are expected to propose activities related to: 1) flight research on ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases
using the Cold Atom Laboratory; the
flight investigation will have to be consistent with the flexibility and capability
anticipated for CAL in its present design
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configuration, though minor modifications to the design suggested by PIs will
be accommodated to the extent feasible
and depending upon the availability of
agency resources; 2) ground research on
ultra-cold atoms and quantum gases that
can lead to future flight experiments with
an upgraded CAL facility, as well as to
future follow-on missions using a new
experiment facility utilizing ultra-cold
atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates for
fundamental physics measurements, especially atom interferometer experiments
using ultra-cold atoms; or 3) collaboration
with European scientists to use the German Aerospace Center (DLR) drop tower
facilities in Bremen, Germany, to conduct
experiments that will advance science and
technology for future ultra-cold atoms
research in space for both scientific investigations and technology validation relevant to CAL, cold atom physics, and
future cold atom experiments in space.
NNH13ZTT002N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Deadline: Notice of Intent 8/15/2013;
Proposals 9/25/2013
27-7 Dear Colleague Letter - FY 2014
Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering,
and Materials (SUSCHEM) Funding
Opportunity (NSF)
In fiscal year (FY) 2013, NSF started an
initiative to encourage and foster research
in Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering,
and Materials (SusChEM), partially in
response to the mandate of the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
2010. The SusChEM initiative addresses
the interrelated challenges of sustainable
supply, engineering, production, and use
of chemicals and materials. In FY 2014,
the participating divisions are Chemistry
(CHE); Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
(CBET); Materials Research (DMR);
Earth Sciences (EAR); and the Materials
Engineering and Processing program in
the Division of Civil, Mechanical and
Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI). NSF
13-013
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13013/nsf13013.jsp
Deadline: Varies
27-8 Dear Colleague Letter:
Information to Principal Investigators
(PIS) Planning to Submit Proposals to
the Sensors and Sensing Systems (SSS)
Program October 1, 2013, Deadline
(NSF)
The Sensors and Sensing Systems (SSS)
program will be conducting a proposal
review pilot test of a modified proposal
review process utilizing proposals submitted to the SSS program for the October
1, 2013, proposal submission deadline.
Submission of a proposal to this program
for this deadline will imply your willingness to participate in the process. The purpose of this pilot is to seek new
approaches to proposal review that can
lower the cost of the review process,
improve the quality of reviews, and
reduce the workload on the reviewer community, while not discouraging the sub-
mission of collaborative or highly
innovative proposals. Briefly, the review
process shall consist of the following: 1)
Proposals will be subject to ad hoc review
only. There will be no panel review of
these proposals. 2) All proposals submitted to the SSS program will be organized
into groups consisting of approximately
25 to 40 proposals. 3) Each PI whose proposal is assigned to a group will be
assigned to review and rank seven other
proposals also in that group. Review
assignments will be made so as to avoid
organizational or individual conflicts-ofinterest. 4) All PIs must complete their
review and ranking of the seven assigned
proposals within 30 days of the date of
their assignment. Failure to complete this
review and ranking within the allotted
time will result in the disqualification of
the PI’s own proposal. 5) A composite
ranking of all proposals in each group will
be determined, and each PI’s proposal
ranking will be adjusted based on a measure of the “quality” of the reviews provided by the PI. The adjustment is
designed to provide an incentive to all PIs
to do an honest and thorough job of
reviewing the proposals to which they are
assigned. 6) Final aggregation of proposals across the groups and award/declination decision making will be done by the
Program Director as currently done. NSF
13-096
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13096/nsf13096.jsp?org=NSF
Deadline: 10/1/2013
INTERNATIONAL
27-10 Prometeo Project (SENESCYT)
The Prometeo Project is an initiative that
seeks to promote and strengthen education, scientific research, innovation and
technological development in strategic
areas in the country. This Project contemplates the Ecuadorian and foreign
researchers with wide wand well-known
experience in their particular area of
study, such as technology, innovation and
productivity, take up their residence in
Ecuador in order to develop their research
projects within 4 to 12 months (not necessarily consecutive) in Ecuadorian public
institutions. Prometeo also aims to
recover Ecuadorian talents that are currently living in foreign countries and
offers local incentives for them to return.
Potential areas of research are: Natural
heritage, environment and biodiversity;
Health studies; Sustainable agricultural
development and fisheries; and Human
Sciences, IT and risk management.
URL: http://
prometeo.educacionsuperior.gob.ec/
Prometeo/inicio.do
Deadline: N/A
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
27-9 Research Grant Programs
(TREE)
The mission of the Tree Research and
Education Endowment Fund is to support
sustainable communities and environmental stewardship by funding research,
scholarships, and education programs
essential to the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge in the fields of
arboriculture and urban forestry. Applications are currently being accepted for two
of the fund’s research grant programs: 1)
John Z. Duling Grants of up to $10,000
provide seed funding or partial support
for innovative research and technology
transfer projects that have the potential to
benefit the everyday work of arborists.
Priority funding areas include root and
soil management, planting and establishment, plant health care, risk assessment
and worker safety, and urban forestry.
Projects are expected to be completed
within one to three years. 2) Jack Kimmel
International Grants of up to $10,000 provide research project support to arboriculture and urban forestry researchers all
over the world. Priority funding areas
include root and soil management, planting and establishment, plant health care,
risk assessment and worker safety, and
urban forestry. Projects are expected to be
completed within a one- to three-year
period. (PND 7/12/13)
URL: http://www.treefund.org/grants/
research-grants
Deadline: 10/1/2013
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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