Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 26, 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 (FB
16-1, 16-8) 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.k-state.edu/research/
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Notice
Vol. 22, No. 16
funding for EDA’s FY 2013 University
Center Economic Development Program
Competition. The purpose of EDA’s University Center Economic Development
Program is to assist institutions of higher
education and consortia of institutions of
higher education in establishing and
operating University Centers specifically focused on leveraging university
assets to build regional economic ecosystems that support high-growth entrepreneurship. University Centers collaborate
with other EDA partners by providing
resources to develop, implement, and
support regional strategies that promote
job creation, the development of highskilled regional talent pools, and business expansion in a region’s innovation
clusters. These resources may include
technology commercialization, feasibility studies, market research, economic
impact analyses training, and other technical assistance to help communities foster vibrant economic ecosystems. EDA
solicits competitive applications from
accredited institutions of higher education and from consortia of accredited
institutions of higher education that are
located in, and have programs targeting,
only the following geographic areas in
EDA’s Austin Region: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas;
and in EDA’s Denver Region: Colorado,
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Utah, and Wyoming. EDAFY2013UC
(GG 4/18/13)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 6/17/2013
16-1 Widening Implementation &
Demonstration of Evidence-Based
Reforms (WIDER) (NSF)
16-3 Modeling of Infectious Disease
Agent Study Information Technology
Resource (U24) (NIH)
The announcement of the WIDER program in the April 12 Bulletin (FB 14-1)
failed to include an internal deadline for
limited submission areas of this program.
An organization may submit only one
Planning or one Institutional Implementation proposal for a given deadline. There
are no restrictions on the number of Community Implementation or Research proposals an organization or an individual
may submit. Please email Dr. Guikema
(guikema@k-state.edu) if you wish to
apply to one of the limited submission
areas.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13552/nsf13552.htm
Deadline: Internal 5/6/2013; Preliminary Proposals 7/3/2013
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for an
Information Technology Resource within
the Models of Infectious Disease Agent
Study (MIDAS) network. The MIDAS
network, as modified by this FOA and
companion FOAs announced separately,
will consist of a centralized Information
Technology Resource, Centers of Excellence component, and a research projects
component. The Information Technology
Resource will further the research carried
out by a network of multidisciplinary scientists conducting computational and
mathematical research to improve the
ability to prepare for, identify, detect,
control, and prevent emerging infectious
diseases caused by naturally occurring or
intentionally released pathogens, including those relevant to biodefense. The
resource will support the data, logistics,
software and expert consultation needs
of the MIDAS Network. RFA-GM-14008 (NIHG 4/12/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-GM-14-008.html
GENERAL
16-2 FY 2013 University Center
Economic Development Program
Competition (EDA)
This FFO announces the availability of
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/18/2013;
Applications 7/18/2013
ARTS & HUMANITIES
16-4 Humanities Collections and
Reference Resources (NEH)
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential
underpinning for scholarship, education,
and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives,
museums, and historical organizations
across the country maintain important
collections of books and manuscripts,
photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture,
and digital objects. Funding from this
program strengthens efforts to extend the
life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often
through the use of digital technology.
Awards are also made to create various
reference resources that facilitate use of
cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools
that synthesize and codify knowledge of a
subject for in-depth investigation. HCRR
offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts. 20130718-PW
(GG 4/19/13)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
preservation/humanities-collections-andreference-resources
Deadline: 7/18/2013
EDUCATION
16-5 Education Research (ED)
The Director of the Institute of Education
Sciences (IES) announces the Institute’s
FY 2014 competitions for grants to support education research and special education research. The Institute’s purpose in
awarding these grants is to provide
national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of
developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at
risk for disability, and of education outcomes for all students from early childhood education through postsecondary
and adult education. The central purpose
of the Institute’s research grant programs
is to provide parents, educators, students,
researchers, policymakers, and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that
support learning and improve academic
achievement and access to education
opportunities for all students. In carrying
out its grant programs, the Institute provides support for programs of research in
areas of demonstrated national need. The
Institute’s National Center for Education
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Research (NCER) will hold five competitions: One competition for education
research, one competition for education
research training, one competition for
education research and development centers, one competition for statistical and
research methodology in education, and
one competition for partnerships and collaborations focused on problems of practice or policy. The Institute’s National
Center for Special Education Research
(NCSER) will not hold competitions in
FY 2014. ED-GRANTS-042313-001
(GG 4/23/13)
URL: http://www.grants.gov/
Deadline: 9/4/2013
16-6 EHR Core Research (ECR)
(NSF)
The EHR Core Research (ECR) program
establishes a mechanism in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources
to provide funding in foundational
research areas that are broad, essential
and enduring. EHR seeks proposals that
will help synthesize, build and/or expand
research foundations in the following core
areas: STEM learning, STEM learning
environments, workforce development,
and broadening participation in STEM.
We invite researchers to identify and conduct research on questions or issues in
order to advance the improvement of
STEM learning in general, or to address
specific challenges of great importance.
Two types of proposals are invited: Core
Research Proposals that propose to study
a foundational research question/issue
designed to inform the transformation of
STEM learning and education and Capacity Building Proposals intended to support
groundwork necessary for advancing
research within the four core areas. NSF
13-555
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13555/nsf13555.htm
Deadline: 7/12/2013, 2/4/2014
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
16-7 Gen-3 Engineering Research
Centers (ERC): Partnerships in
Transformational Research, Education,
and Technology (NSF)
The goal of the Generation Three (Gen-3)
Engineering Research Centers (ERC)
Program is to create a culture in engineering research and education that integrates
discovery with technological innovation
to advance technology and produce graduates who will be creative U.S. innovators
in a globally competitive economy. These
ERCs are at the forefront as the U.S. competes in the 21st century global economy
where R&D resources and engineering
talent are internationally distributed. Recognizing that optimizing efficiency and
product quality are no longer sufficient
for U.S. industry to remain competitive,
these ERCs integrate transformational
academic engineering research and education to stimulate increased U.S. innovation in a global context. The ERC is
motivated by an engineered systems
vision and structured by a strategic plan
that defines a research program to address
barriers in the way of realizing the vision.
The strategic research plan structures an
integrated program of fundamental and
applied research that feeds into proof-ofconcept enabling and systems technology
test beds. The ERC education program is
comprised of a university program and a
pre-college program. The university education mission of an ERC is to prepare
students for effective practice in industry
and to enhance their capacity for creative
and innovative leadership throughout
their careers. Surrounding this research
and education culture is the ERC’s innovation ecosystem, which is important for
translating center advancements into
actual adoption or use for U.S. competitive advantage. The innovation ecosystem
of Gen-3 ERCs is achieved through a
symbiotic relationship between the center
researchers, industrial and practitioner
members, and partner organizations
devoted to stimulating entrepreneurship
and innovation. Proposals are solicited in
two tracks: (1) Open Topic ERCs, where
the PI’s are free to structure the engineered systems vision and research program without restrictions on the research
content and (2) Nanosystems ERCs
(NERCs), where the PIs are free to structure the engineered systems vision but the
research program must include a substantial body of nanoscale fundamental
research. Please send a copy of your Letter of Intent to Dr. Guikema, Office of
Research & Sponsored Programs
(guikema@k-state.edu) NSF 13-560
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13560/nsf13560.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/30/2013;
Preliminary Proposals 7/30/2017
16-8 Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC)
(NSF)
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers
and institutes where the collective efforts
of a larger group of individuals can enable
transformational advances in the most
promising research areas. The program is
designed to foster major breakthroughs at
the intellectual frontiers of physics by
providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines,
and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators
or small groups, in an environment in
which the collective efforts of the larger
group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science
and the education of students. Activities
supported through the program are in all
sub-fields of physics within the purview
of the Division of Physics: atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, elementary particle,
nuclear, astro-, gravitational, and biological physics. Interdisciplinary projects at
the interface between these physics areas
and other disciplines and physics subfields are also included, although the bulk
of the effort should fall within one of
those areas within the purview of the
Physics Division. No more than two preliminary proposals may be submitted by
any one institution. NSF 13-559
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13559/nsf13559.htm
Deadline: Internal 6/5/2013; Preliminary Proposals 8/5/2013
16-9 Methods Development in
Natural Products Chemistry (SBIR)
(R43) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) encourages Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant applications
from small business concerns (SBCs) to
address problems associated with the
methods of collection, bioassay, isolation,
purification, de-replication, yield, and
supply that hamper the full utilization of
natural products. RFA-AT-14-001 (NIHG
4/12/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AT-14-001.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 7/2/2013;
Applications 8/2/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
16-10 Detection of Pathogen-Induced
Cancer (DPIC) (R01) (NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), issued by the National Cancer
Institute (NCI), is to encourage research
projects which focus on the interactions
of carcinogenic pathogens with the
human microbiome and the host for the
detection of pathogen-induced cancer
(DPIC). This FOA encourages research to
assess molecular signatures associated
with risk and early detection of pathogeninduced cancer and chronic inflammation
associated with progression to invasive
cancer. PAR-13-190 (NIHG 4/12/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-13-190.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/10/2013,
11/11/2013; Applications 7/10/2013, 12/
11/2013
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, Diana McElwain, Katie Small,
Rex Goff, Namrita Berry, Cecilia Scaler,
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
Petra Jardine, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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