Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
January 11, 2013
Program Information
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Limited submission programs have
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proposals that may be submitted by a
single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
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Research, is the internal coordinator for
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GENERAL
1-1 ROSES 2012 Appendix A.36,
Earth Science Applications: Ecological
Forecasting for Conservation and
Natural Resource Management (NASA)
The Ecological Forecasting program element of the Applied Sciences Program
supports the use of NASA observations
and associated models to develop a predictive understanding of how ecosystems and
their components (e.g., species, genes) are
changing and why, in order to enable better
conservation and more sustainable natural
resource management. This solicitation
will initially support twelve-month feasibility studies of potential applications.
NASA will then down-select and continue
support for a subset of these applications
in subsequent, three-year projects. The
three-year projects will continue to
develop the application with and then transition the application to a public or private
organization for sustained use in decision
making and services to end-users.
NNH12ZDA001N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Deadline: Notices of Intent 2/14/2013;
Proposals 4/18/2013
1-2
Biotechnology Risk Assessment
Vol. 22, No. 1
Grants Program (USDA)
The purpose of the BRAG program is to
support the generation of new information that will assist Federal regulatory
agencies in making science-based decisions about the effects of introducing into
the environment genetically engineered
organisms (GE), including plants, microorganisms (including fungi, bacteria, and
viruses), arthropods, fish, birds, mammals and other animals excluding
humans. Investigations of effects on both
managed and natural environments are
relevant. The BRAG program accomplishes its purpose by providing Federal
regulatory agencies with scientific information relevant to regulatory issues.
USDA-NIFA-BRAP-004069 (GG 12/20/
12)
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/
biotechnologyriskassessment.cfm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/22/2013;
Applications 3/21/13
AGRICULTURE
1-3 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative: Sustainable Bioenergy
(USDA)
This AFRI Challenge Area focuses on
the priority to secure America’s energy
future. It supports the development of
regional systems for the sustainable production of bioenergy and biobased products that contribute significantly to
reducing dependence on foreign oil, have
net positive social, environmental, and
rural economic impacts, and are compatible with existing agricultural systems.
The long-term outcome for this program
is to implement regional systems that
materially deliver liquid transportation
biofuels to help meet the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of
2007 goal of 36 billion gallons/year of
biofuels by 2022 and reduce the National
dependence on foreign oil. In order to
achieve this outcome, this program will
support single-function Research, multifunction Integrated Research, Education,
and/or Extension Projects, and Food and
Agricultural Science Enhancement
(FASE) Grants that address one of the
Program Area Priorities. USDA-NIFAAFRI-004029 (GG 12/26/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/afri.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/28/2013;
Applications 4/3/2013
ARTS & HUMANITIES
1-4 Library Resident Research
Fellowships (APS)
The American Philosophical Society
Library offers short-term residential fellowships for conducting research in its
collections. The Library is a leading
international center for research in the
history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as
early American history and culture. The
Library houses over 11 million manuscript items, 350,000 volumes of printed
materials, thousands of maps and prints,
and more than a thousand hours of audio
recordings of Native American languages. (TGA 12/12)
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/
resident
Deadline: 3/1/2013
1-5 Institutes for Advanced Topics in
the Digital Humanities (NEH)
These NEH grants support national or
regional (multistate) training programs
for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these
programs, NEH seeks to increase the
number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to
broadly disseminate knowledge about
advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The
projects may be a single opportunity or
offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few
days and held at multiple locations or as
long as six weeks at a single site.
20130307-HT (GG 11/28/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/
institutes-advanced-topics-in-the-digitalhumanities
Deadline: 3/7/2013
EDUCATION
1-6 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
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. Capacity Building Projects support
the development of new programs and
activities to increase the capacity for insti-
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tutions to provide innovative teacher
preparation programs. NSF 13-526
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13526/nsf13526.htm
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/20/2013;
Proposals 3/20/2013
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICAL SCIENCES
1-7 High Performance Computing
System Acquisition: Building a More
Inclusive Computing Environment for
Science and Engineering (NSF)
The NSF’s vision for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (ACI), which is part of
its Cyberinfrastructure for 21st Century
Science and Engineering (CIF21),
focuses specifically on ensuring that the
science and engineering community has
ready access to the advanced computational and data-driven capabilities
required to tackle the most complex problems and issues facing today’s scientific
and educational communities. To accomplish these goals requires advanced computational capabilities within the context
of a multilevel comprehensive and innovative infrastructure that benefits all
fields of science and engineering. The
current solicitation requests innovative
proposal of two types: The first is
intended to complement previous NSF
investments in advanced computational
infrastructure. Consistent with the ACI
Strategic Plan, the current solicitation is
focused on expanding the use of high end
resources to a much larger and more
diverse community. The second type is
devoted to the increasing pressure on the
existing infrastructure to store and process very large amounts of data coming
from simulation and from experimental
resources such as telescopes, genome data
banks or sensors. An organization may
submit only one proposal but may be a
sub-awardee on other proposals responding to this solicitation. NSF 13-528
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13528/nsf13528.htm
Deadline: Internal 2/15/2013; Proposals 4/15/2013
1-8 Dear Colleague Letter From
NSF 12-608, Sedimentary Geology and
Paleobiology (SGP) (NSF)
The Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP) program is pleased to
announce a revised funding opportunity
for the SGP community! Earth-Life Transitions (ELT) is a direct response to some
of the grand challenges posed by the community through a number of workshops
and National Academy reports. ELT will
support fundamental research into Earth
system dynamics, focusing on scientific
questions at the frontiers of climate
change and biogeosciences. The goals of
the Earth-Life Transitions program are 1)
to develop the synergistic activities and
capabilities of multi-disciplinary scientists to address critical questions about
Earth-Life interactions in deep time and
2) to enable team-based interdisciplinary
projects to understand the major linked
events of environmental, climate and
biotic change at a mechanistic level. This
program is Track 2 of the SGP solicitation
12-608. NSF 13-027
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13027/nsf13027.htm
Deadline: 2/22/2013
1-9 EPA/NSF Networks for
Characterizing Chemical Life Cycle
(NCCLCs) (NSF)
This solicitation is jointly sponsored by
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of
Chemistry (CHE) to encourage synergy
and enhance cooperation in examining the
life cycles of synthetic chemicals and
materials as they relate to their manufacture, use, transport, and disposal or recycle. The Networks for Characterizing
Chemical Life Cycle (NCCLCs) will promote development of trans-disciplinary,
systems- and molecular-level understanding of the life cycle of important (relevant) synthetic chemicals and materials
(including nanomaterials) as these distribute and are potentially altered through use
in society and interaction with the built
and natural environments. Education,
workforce development, and the translation or transfer of basic research results
into social or economic benefits are critical aspects of NCCLC projects. It is
expected that research teams in the
NCCLC awarded under this solicitation
will coordinate / communicate with the
funded research networks from the EPA/
NSF Networks for Sustainable Molecular
Design and Synthesis (NSMDS) solicitation. Only one proposal may be submitted
from an eligible entity. NSF 13-524
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13524/nsf13524.htm
Deadline: Internal 1/31/2013; Proposals 3/18/2013
with earth abundant, benign, and renewable alternatives is anticipated. Education,
workforce development, and the translation or transfer of basic research results
into social or economic benefits are critical aspects of NSMDS projects. It is
expected that research teams in the
NSMDS awarded under this solicitation
will coordinate / communicate with the
funded research networks from the EPA/
NSF Networks for Characterizing Chemical Life Cycle (NCCLC) solicitation.
Only one proposal may be submitted from
an eligible entity. NSF 13-523
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/
nsf13523/nsf13523.htm
Deadline: Internal 1/31/2013; Proposals 3/18/2013
SOCIAL SCIENCES
1-11 Children, Youth and Families at
Risk Sustainable Community Projects
(USDA)
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA announces the
Children, Youth, and Families at Risk
(CYFAR) funding program to improve
the quality and quantity of comprehensive
community-based programs for at-risk
children, youth, and families supported by
the Cooperative Extension System. The
CYFAR program mission is to marshal
resources of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems to develop and
deliver educations programs that equip
limited resource families and youth who
are at-risk for not meeting basic human
needs with the skills they need to lead
positive productive, contributing lives.
USDA-NIFA-SLBCD-004088
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/cyfar_scp.html
Deadline: 2/20/2013
1-10 EPA/NSF Networks for
Sustainable Molecular Design and
Synthesis (NSMDS) (NSF)
This solicitation is jointly sponsored
between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Divisions of
Chemistry and Chemical, Bioengineering,
Environmental, and Transport Systems
(CBET) to encourage synergistic research
activities and to enhance cooperation
among the chemical sciences, materials
research, geosciences, engineering, and
biomedical and public health communities. The agencies jointly issue the solicitation, but will separately fund awards for
Networks for Sustainable Molecular
Design and Synthesis (NSMDS). Networks for Sustainable Molecular Design
and Synthesis are groups of two or more
researchers working in trans-disciplinary
fields to promote the development of safe
and sustainable chemicals as well as safe
and sustainable synthetic procedures.
Advances resulting from these Networks
are expected to result in chemicals that
are safer and more sustainable throughout
their life cycle and thus, the replacement
of rare, toxic, and expensive chemicals
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
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Development Director
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Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
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Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
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Congressional Relations
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