Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
March 8, 2013
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GENERAL
9-1 Grand Challenges Explorations
(Gates Foundation)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for Grand
Challenges Explorations, an initiative to
encourage innovative and unconventional
global health and development solutions.
Applicants can be at any experience level;
in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities,
government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for
profit companies. Proposals are being
accepted online on the following topics:
The One Health Concept: Bringing
Together Human and Animal Health for
New Solutions - New; Increasing interoperability of Social Good Data - New;
Develop the Next Generation of Condom New; New Approaches for Detection,
Treatment, and Control of Selected
Neglected Tropical Diseases; and Labor
Savings Strategies and Innovations for
Women Smallholder Farmers.
URL: www.grandchallenges.org/
explorations
Deadline: 5/7/2013
Vol. 22, No. 9
9-2 ROSES 2013: Opportunities in
Education and Public Outreach for
Earth and Space Science (NASA)
This Opportunities in Education and
Public Outreach for Earth and Space Science (EPOESS) solicitation is for project
activities utilizing SMD content supporting NASA education and public outreach
(E/PO) objectives. It solicits proposals
that address substantial and substantive
educational or outreach needs or problems and offer solutions of significant
impact. Project activities are expected to
be relevant to NASA SMD Education
and Outreach portfolio. This relevance
should be clearly demonstrated in the
proposal. This particular solicitation is
focused on education and outreach activities in support of the SMD Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science,
and Astrophysics Divisions.
NNH13ZDA001N-EPOESS (GG 3/1/13)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 4/8/2013;
Proposals 5/23/2013
AGRICULTURE
9-3 Special Research Grants
Program - Pest Management
Alternatives (USDA)
The purpose of Pest Management Alternatives Program (PMAP) is to provide
support for the development and implementation of integrated pest management
(IPM) practices, tactics, and systems for
specific pest problems while reducing
human and environmental risks. This
purpose addresses the broad goals outlined in the National Roadmap for Integrated Pest Management, developed by
federal and non-federal IPM experts,
practitioners, and stakeholders in 2004.
The successful management of pest
problems in commercial production is
facing severe challenges due to regulatory changes, emergence of new pest
problems, and the development of pest
resistance to present management technologies. The greatest impact on current
management technologies is in the production of specialty crops; however,
other crops, including grain, forage and
fiber, as well as animal health, are also
being impacted by these changes.
USDA-NIFA-SRGP-004191 (GG 3/1/
13)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
funding/rfas/pmap.html
Deadline: 4/1/2013
for students in eligible schools. For purposes of this Notice, eligible schools are
defined as Tier I and Tier II schools that
are receiving SIG funds to implement one
of the four SIG models; Tier I and Tier II
schools that, at the time of the applicant’s
application submission, have been formally notified that they will receive SIG
funds to implement a SIG model in the
2013-2014 school year; and priority
schools that are implementing in the
2012-2013 school year or will implement
in the 2013-2014 school year interventions aligned with the ESEA flexibility
turnaround principles. Grants will fund
projects that serve eligible schools not
currently served by a national service program (e.g., AmeriCorps State and
National, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Foster Grandparents, etc.),
or will support expansion and better coordination of existing national service activities in those schools. CNCSGRANTS03042013 (GG 3/4/13)
URL: http://www.nationalservice.gov/
pdf/schoolturnaround_ac_notice.pdf
Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/2/2013;
Applications 4/23/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
9-5 Physics of Reliability: Evaluating
Design Insights for Component
Technologies in Solar (PREDICTS)
(DOE)
The Physics of Reliability: Evaluating
Design Insights for Component Technologies in Solar (PREDICTS) Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
issued by the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) is seeking applications that
attempt to identify and evaluate only fundamental, intrinsic failure mechanisms. In
addition to addressing intrinsic failure
mechanisms, solar component lifetime
and reliability evaluations must transition
from a correlation-based approach to a
causation-based approach. This transition
will require the development of physicsbased models that allow for the accurate
and precise determination of the lifetime
and the failure/degradation mechanisms
of solar installation systems and components based upon their fundamental composition, method of assembly, and
(accelerated) environmental exposure
conditions. DE-FOA-0000861 (GG 2/15/
13)
URL: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov
Deadline: Concept Papers 3/22/2013;
Applications 4/29/2013
EDUCATION
9-4 School Turnaround AmeriCorps
FY13 (CNCS)
9-6 Scalable Nanomanufacturing
(SNM) (NSF)
This Notice invites applications for
AmeriCorps grants from eligible organizations that improve academic outcomes
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
announces a third year of a program on
collaborative research and education in
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the area of scalable nanomanufacturing,
including the long-term societal implications of the large-scale implementation of
nanomanufacturing innovations.
Although many nanofabrication techniques have demonstrated the ability to
fabricate small quantities of nanomaterials and devices for characterization and
evaluation purposes, the emphasis of this
program is on research to overcome the
key impediments that prevent the low cost
production of useful nanomaterials,
devices and systems at industrially relevant scale. Therefore, competitive proposals will incorporate three elements in
their research plans: A persuasive argument that the nanomaterials, devices or
systems to be produced have or are likely
to have sufficient demand to justify eventual scale-up; A clearly identified and
arguably complete set of research issues
that must be addressed to enable the low
cost production of high quality products;
and A compelling research plan with clear
objectives to overcome the identified
research issues that is supported by preliminary results relevant to scale-up. The
mode of support is Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT). An academic institution – a university, or a
campus in a multi-campus university -may submit no more than one (1) proposal on which it is the lead organization
in response to this solicitation. NSF 13545
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13545/nsf13545.htm
Deadline: Internal 4/3/2013; Proposals
6/3/2013
9-7 FY14 Communications and
Networking Discovery and Invention
(DoD)
The performance of Command and Control (C2) systems and decision making at
all levels of command depends critically
on reliable, interoperable, survivable,
secure, and timely communications and
networking. The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the
Office of Naval Research (ONR) is to
overcome challenges by developing measurable advances in technology that can
directly enable and enhance end-to-end
connectivity and quality-of-service for
mission-critical information exchange
among widely dispersed naval, joint, and
coalition forces. The vision is to provide
high throughput, robust communications
and networking to ensure all warfighters—from the operational command to
the tactical edge—have access to the data,
information, and resources necessary to
make timely, accurate decisions while
performing their assigned missions or
tasks. ONRBAA13-008 (GG 3/5/13)
URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/
Contracts-Grants/FundingOpportunities/Broad-AgencyAnnouncements.aspx
Deadline: White Papers 4/19/2013;
Proposals 6/28/2013
9-8 ROSES 2013: The Science of
Terra and Aqua (NASA)
This solicitation follows on from the 2009
NASA Research Opportunities in Space
and Earth Science (ROSES) Program Element A.41 The Science of Terra and Aqua
(NNH09ZDA001N-EOS in ROSES2009) and provides an opportunity for scientists to undertake significant studies
responsive to NASA’s and the Science
Mission Directorate’s science objectives
through the use of data and derived products from two of the EOS satellites,
namely Terra and Aqua, and their measurement sensors. This solicitation recognizes the advances already made by
investigations that were solicited by prior
NASA Research Announcements and
ROSES program elements, and that
focused in the areas of sensor calibration,
algorithm development and refinement,
data product validation, and scientific
data analysis. As these EOS missions
continue to mature and move into the
extended mission phase, less emphasis
will be placed upon algorithm refinement,
and more emphasis will be directed to
multisensor product development, accompanied by active utilization of these data
and products in scientific research, modeling, synthesis, and diagnostic analysis
to answer Earth science questions.
NNH13ZDA001N-TERAQ (GG 3/1/13)
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 3/20/2013;
Proposals 5/20/2013
SOCIAL SCIENCES
9-11 NIJ FY 13 Research and
Evaluation on Children Exposed to
Violence (DOJ)
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is
seeking multidisciplinary research and
evaluation proposals related to childhood
exposure to violence. In particular, NIJ
seeks applications that address polyvictimization, Internet harassment/electronic aggression (e.g, bullying through
Facebook, harassing e-mails), resilience,
or justice system responses to children
identified as being exposed to violence.
For the purposes of this solicitation, Children Exposed to Violence (CEV) encompasses a broad area that includes children
as both direct victims and as bystanders or
observers of various forms of violence in
the home, school, or community (including, but not limited to, peer victimization/
bullying/harassment, child maltreatment,
domestic violence, and community violence). This solicitation may be used to
address other types of violence to which
children are exposed, with the exception
of media violence (e.g., television and
movie violence, music advocating aggression, and violent video games). NIJ-20133469 (GG 3/5/13)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 5/20/2013
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
9-9 Partnership for Biodefense (R01)
(NIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) issued by the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
invites research applications for projects
that support preclinical development of
lead candidate therapeutics, vaccines and
related technologies, or diagnostics
against NIAID Category A, B, or C priority agents. Applications must include a
Product Development Strategy attachment and demonstrate substantive investment by at least one industrial participant.
RFA-AI-13-013 (NIHG 3/1/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-AI-13-013.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/2/2013;
Applications 7/2/2013
9-10 Understanding and Promoting
Health Literacy (R01) (NIH)
The goal of this program announcement is
to encourage methodological, intervention and dissemination research for understanding and promoting health literacy.
Health literacy is defined as the degree to
which individuals have the capacity to
obtain, process, and understand basic
health information and services needed to
make appropriate health decisions (Ratzan and Parker, 2000). Companion Funding Opportunities are PAR-13-131, R03
Small Grant Program and PAR-13-132,
R21 Exploratory/Developmental Grant.
PAR-13-130 (NIHG 3/1/13)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PAR-13-130.html
Deadline: 6/5/2013, 10/5/2013, 2/5/2014
STUDENTS
9-12 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fellowship Program (DOT)
The Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship
provides funding for the pursuit of Masters or Doctorate Degrees in transportation related discipline. The Eisenhower
Graduate Fellowship Program encompasses all modes of transportation.
DTFH64-13-RA-00001 (GG 3/1/13)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov/
Deadline: 4/1/2013
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Jim Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research
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Preaward Section
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Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
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Adassa Roe, Diana McElwain, Katie Small,
Rex Goff, Namrita Berry, Cecilia Scaler,
Sharon Zoeller
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Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
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and Biosafety
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Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
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Congressional Relations
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