Research Funding Update
Research Funding Update is published monthly by the office of Research Administration to notify the campus community about potential sources of external support for their research and scholarly activities.
Additional information about opportunities listed in the update can be obtained by clicking on the given link or by contacting your Sponsored Research Officer.
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ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/DHHS
Details: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-199.html
Next Deadline: 6/5/2012
The sponsor invites applications for research projects that will build a knowledge base of individuals’ personal health information management (PHIM) needs and practices and the design principles related to these activities. The increased interest in and availability of consumer health information technology applications meant to assist consumers in managing their personal health information has rapidly increased over the past decade. Many other industries have greatly benefited from design principles that take into account user needs and context, which help designers improve the utility of information management tools among a heterogeneous population of users. Individuals are the end users of consumer health IT; however, there is still a lack of basic research around these end users’ PHIM practices and needs and how these methods are influenced by a multitude of other contextual factors that, typically, represent a mixture of facilitators or barriers to adequate PHIM.
Agency: BBVA Foundation
Details: http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsites/premios/fronteras/nominacion/index.jsp#0
Next Deadline: 6/30/2012
The Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards seek to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance. Awards will consist of €400,000, a diploma and commemorative artwork for each prize category. Candidates shall be one or more persons of any nationality, without limitation of number in the case of convergent contributions to a given advance, whether due to a formal collaboration (with the candidate(s) belonging to one or more groups) or parallel working. In the Climate Change and Development Cooperation categories, entries are open to public or private non-profit organizations, providing their institutional purpose is to undertake activities to do with these two issues.
Agency: Communities Foundation of Texas
Details: https://cftexas.academicworks.com/?page=2
Next Deadline: 6/1/2012
The sponsor awards one or more annual scholarships of as much as $5,000 awarded to a college junior, senior or graduate student pursuing a degree in aerospace science or aeronautical engineering. Applicants must be pursuing a baccalaureate degree or advanced degree in aerospace science or aeronautical engineering, have completed at least 52 hours of college course work by the end of the academic semester during which application is being made, be in good standing as a student and have a minimum 2.75 GPA on a 4.0 scale, be in need of financial assistance, and be a United States citizen.
Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Details: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=n3XDPH4M5R0JmMR2nJLSNPc
2qPf9LbzY2hPHQgx614QxJhBftwbS!98924490?oppId=146074&mode=VIEW
Next Deadline: 7/10/2012
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of the clean-slate development of software for high-assurance cyber-physical systems. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Details: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=TT0BNlrfRKsL2Mpxvds2Q7rhbr
KPKNnFJdS6dMJZK0QqfYyRJsy2!756542808?oppId=97194&mode=VIEW
Next Deadline: 5/30/2012
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to the Information Innovation Office (I2O). Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that results primarily in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art. I2O seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, undertaking directions that challenge assumptions and have the potential to radically change established practice.
Agency: Department of State
Details: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=z4BKPrXLpswQpc1hvLf2Ph
DHJ1GYWHTMnX3mCTGWFWkBvFlS1W4Y!-2135146600?oppId=157213&mode=VIEW
Next Deadline: 5/23/2012
The admissions process for refugee applicants seeking resettlement in the United States is overseen by the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State (the Bureau). The Bureau will make one award for the Resettlement Support Center in Bangkok, Thailand, for an initial period beginning October 1, 2012, through September 30, 2013, subject to the availability of funds. Through the award, the Bureau will provide full financial support to the selected organization, based on the proposal submitted in response to this request. This financial support may be renewable for up to two additional fiscal years based upon budget submissions on an annual basis, as long as there remains a need for the RSC and the organization operating the RSC provides satisfactory service, and subject to the availability of funds. At the end of three years, if the need to operate the RSC continues, the Bureau will re-compete the project, and the recipient of this award may participate in that process. Organizations must also meet the following requirements in order to be considered as candidates to operate the RSC: Be authorized by the Royal Thai Government (RTG) to conduct activities relating to the welfare, protection, or maintenance of refugees in Thailand. This should be understood, when required by Thai law, to include registration with or receipt of project approval from any relevant RTG ministry, agency or other official organ with jurisdiction over any activity to be conducted by the RSC. A. Have evidence of effective coordination with U.S. Government agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations and International Organizations involved with the refugee admissions program; B. Possess management capacity at the agency’s headquarters sufficient to oversee the operation of the RSC.
Agency: Directorate for Engineering/NSF
Details: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12544/nsf12544.htm
Next Deadline: 6/4/2012
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a second year of a program on collaborative research and education in the area of scalable nanomanufacturing, including the long-term societal implications of the large-scale implementation of nanomanufacturing innovations. This program is in response to and is a component of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Signature Initiative: Sustainable Nanomanufacturing - Creating the Industries of the Future (http://www.nano.gov/node/611). Although many nanofabrication techniques have demonstrated the ability to produce relatively small quantities of nanomaterials and devices, the emphasis of this program is research that supports the identification and demonstration of nanomanufacturing processes with high potential to scale to economically and industrially relevant production levels.
Agency: Directorate for Geosciences/NSF
Details: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12537/nsf12537.htm
Next Deadline: 7/2/2012
GeoPRISMS (Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and Subducting Margins) is the successor to the MARGINS Program. GeoPRISMS will investigate the coupled geodynamics, earth surface processes, and climate interactions that build and modify continental margins over a wide range of timescales. These interactions cross the shoreline and have applications to margin evolution and dynamics, construction of stratigraphic architecture, accumulation of economic resources, and associated geologic hazards and environmental management. The GeoPRISMS Program includes two broadly integrated science initiatives (Subduction Cycles and Deformation and Rift Initiation and Evolution), linked by five overarching scientific topics and themes, where transformative advances are likely to occur in the next decade, and where a focused scientific program could be most effective. These overarching science topics include: Origin and evolution of continental crust; Fluids, magmas and their interactions; Climate-surface-tectonics feedbacks; Geochemical cycles; and Plate boundary deformation and geodynamics. Each of the initiatives has identified primary sites for focused investigations, as well as thematic studies that will complement primary site studies.
Agency: Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences/NSF
Details: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12540/nsf12540.htm#pgm_desc_txt
Next Deadline: 6/1/2012
The CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science is designed to promote research in the area of Quantum Information Science (QIS) by providing resources to allow QIS researchers and researchers from the CISE or MPS disciplines to actively engage in joint research efforts, addressing problems at the interface between the mathematical and physical sciences and computer and information sciences through long-term visits by faculty to a host institution. The scholar must be in a tenured faculty position at the associate or full professor level in his or her US home institution and must be prepared to spend a minimum of one contiguous semester with the host’s group. Scholar and host must be from substantially different environments, such that the collaborative activity represents a broadening of experience and a bone fide change in the research direction. Scholar and host must also be from different institutions, so that the interaction with the host research group represents a full immersion and not a part-time activity.
Agency: Emerald Group Publishing
Details: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/research/awards/african_engineering.htm?
PHPSESSID=dqp6ct9h685f6qscvqcnrnk7r5
Next Deadline: 7/1/2012
The sponsor will provide a research grant of £2,500 for an African project in the field of engineering research.
Agency: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society
Details: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/Rau
Next Deadline: 7/1/2012
The sponsor offers the B. Ramakrishna Rau Award annually. Candidates will have made an outstanding, innovative contribution or contributions to microarchitecture, use of novel microarchitectural techniques or compiler/architecture interfacing. It is hoped, but not required, that the winner will have also contributed to the computer microarchitecture community through teaching, mentoring, or community service.
Agency: Lorentz Center
Details: http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/proposals.php?jaar=2007
Next Deadline: 5/15/2012
The Lorentz Center is an international center that coordinates and hosts workshops in the sciences, based on the philosophy that science thrives on interaction between creative researchers. Lorentz Center workshops focus on new collaborations and interactions between scientists from different countries and fields, and with varying seniority.
Agency: National Center for Research Resources/NIH/DHHS
Details: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-028.html
Next Deadline: 6/5/2012
The sponsor provides support for the continued development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of existing software. The proposed work should apply best practices and proven methods for software design, construction, and implementation to extend the applicability of existing biomedical informatics/computational biology software to a broader biomedical research community.
Agency: Office of Naval Research
Details: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=cvbfPywF5L6r3n2x3ytNwRM1RJKkL
H0JgVtXJxlhp7s8Sjhlxy2J!-16379161?oppId=142735&mode=VIEW
Next Deadline: 6/29/2012
The goal of the Communications and Networking Program within the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Code 312 is to support the FORCEnet vision 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 such 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 information, knowledge, and decision-making necessary to perform their assigned tasks.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) plans to award multiple technology development contracts (particularly cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) type contracts) and grants that represent the best value to the Government in accordance with the evaluation criteria. ONR is seeking participants for this program that are capable of supporting the goals described in this announcement. Offerors have the opportunity to be creative in the selection of the technical and management processes and approaches to address the research topics. ONR anticipates an annual budget of approximately $2,000,000 for this program.
Agency: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Details: http://see.orau.org/ProgramDescription.aspx?Program=10190
Next Deadline: 7/1/2012
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities at NASA Centers, headquarters, and other facilities to highly talented national and international scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate degree. Appointments are for one year, renewable up to a total of three years.
Agency: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command/Department of Defense
Details: https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=4d4012cd8f3f0eacbfc45b64bfb
62265&tab=core&_cview=0
Next Deadline: 5/15/2012
The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command(SPAWAR), Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (C4I), Command and Control, Program Office (PMW 150) is acquiring software and hardware system development, engineering services associated with this development, and Technology Refresh (TR) field change kits for the Next Generation Command and Control Processor (NGC2P) Increment 2, in addition to future Increment 3Link 22 baseline development services. The primary objective of this contract is to address obsolescence issues in the current system and to support system capability enhancements and new capability insertion such as Link 22. The Government anticipates issuing a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract using full and open competition and best-value/trade-off source selection procedures. The period of performance is expected to be a single five-year ordering period with an additional two-year option. Contract award is anticipated in December 2012. An Industry Day / Pre-solicitation conference is scheduled for 1 December 2011. Detailed information regarding Industry Day for potential offerors, including RSVP instructions, is located in the attached draft RFP document, Section L, provision 5252.215-9201. Draft RFP documents are posted at the SPAWAR e-commerce website:https://e-commerce.sscno.nmci.navy.mil/command/02/acq/navhome.nsf/homepage?readform under the ‘Headquarters’ and ‘Future Opportunities’ tabs. There are additional documents, whose distribution is limited to U.S. DoD Contractors, posted at https://nesi.spawar.navy.mil. Instructions on how to access the documents on this website are included as Attachment 9 to the draft RFP. Feedback on all posted documents from potential offerors is welcome if submitted by 15 December 2011.
Agency: U.S. Geological Survey/Department of the Interior
Details: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=149334
Next Deadline: 5/17/2012
The sponsor announces the availability of funds for the 2013 Earthquake Hazards Program. The purpose of EHP is to provide products for earthquake loss reduction to the public and private sectors any by carrying out research on earthquake occurrence and effects.