MAY 27 – JUNE 1, 2014 O F F I C E O F R E S E A RC H A N D S P O N S O R E D P RO G R A M S LAN 421 – 936 436 1151

Areas of Focus STEM STEM and Computer Science Computer Science Education Nursing Health Related Research Biomedical Research Animal Biology Environmental Science Geology, Chemistry, and Biology  Astronomy          

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International Studies Natural Science, Social Science, and Humanities Fine Arts Theatre Media and Film Research Infrastructure Multiple Disciplines

Area of Focus - STEM Grant Title Widening Implementation & Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms (WIDER)

Grant Sponsor National Science Foundation

Award Amount $2,500,000

Description The chief goal of WIDER is to transform institutions of higher education into supportive environments for STEM faculty members to substantially increase their use of evidence-based teaching and learning practices. In all cases, the primary goal of WIDER is to increase substantially the scale of these improvements within and across the higher education sector in order to achieve: (1) Improved student learning; (2) Increased numbers of students choosing STEM majors, particularly from demographic groups underrepresented in STEM; (3) Improved retention in the first two years of undergraduate study and to graduation of all STEM majors.

Website https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504889

Area of Focus - STEM Grant Title Grants

Grant Sponsor Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation

Award Amount $2,500

Description Lockheed Martin will consider grant requests that best support the Corporation's strategic focus areas and reflect effective leadership, fiscal responsibility, and program success. 1. Education: K-16 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education. This area includes Lockheed Martin's K12 STEM Education Initiative, Engineers in the Classroom, as well as STEM-focused curricular and extracurricular programs that provide employee engagement opportunities in local communities. Lockheed Martin dedicates 50% of its support to STEM education programs and activities.

Website http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are/community/philanthropy.html

Area of Focus – STEM and Computer Science Grant Title STEM-C Partnerships: Computing Education for the 21st Century

Grant Sponsor National Science Foundation

Award Amount Upper $1,000,000

Description The STEM-C Partnerships program addresses both the need for advances in K-12 STEM education generally, as well as the need to elevate the inclusion of computer science education. From MSP, STEM-C Partnerships embraces any of the STEM disciplines--within the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computer science--and maintains its commitment to institutional partnerships and opportunities for funding of Targeted proposals in one of four focal areas: Community Enterprise for STEM Teaching and Learning, Current Issues Related to STEM Content, Identifying and Cultivating Exceptional Talent, and K-12 STEM Teacher Preparation. From CE21, STEM-C Partnerships adds a discipline-specific focal area on the teaching and learning of computing and computational thinking, a strong commitment to broadening participation in computing, an emphasis on in-service teacher professional development, and support for the implementation of computer science courses at the high school level. -CONTACT ORSP FOR FULL ANNOUNCEMENT

Website http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503582

Area of Focus – Computer Science Grant Title Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Programs – Information Technology Laboratory Grant Program

Grant Sponsor U.S. Department of Commerce

Award Amount Upper $500,000 to Lower $10,000

Description The ITL Grant Program provides financial assistance to support research in the broad areas of advanced network technologies, big data, cloud computing, computer forensics, information access, information processing and understanding, cybersecurity, health information technology, human factors and usability, mathematical and computational sciences, mathematical foundations of measurement science for information systems; a metrology infrastructure for modeling and simulation smart grid, software testing, and statistics for metrology.

Website http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=251835

Area of Focus - Education Grant Title Education Research Grants – Education Technology

Grant Sponsor U.S. Department of Education

Award Amount Upper $3,500,000

Description Through this program, the Institute seeks to improve the quality of education for all students prekindergarten through postsecondary and adult education by advancing the understanding of and practices for teaching, learning, and organizing education systems. For the FY 2015 Education Research Grants program, an applicant must select one of the five research goals described below. 1. Goal One: Exploration 2. Goal Two: Development and Innovation 3. Goal Three: Efficacy and Replication 4. Goal Four: Effectiveness 5. Goal Five: Measurement

Website http://ies.ed.gov/funding/ncer_rfas/edtech.asp

Area of Focus - Education Grant Title Education Research Grants – Effective Teachers and Effective Teaching

Grant Sponsor U.S. Department of Education

Award Amount Upper $3,500,000

Description The Effective Teachers and Effective Teaching (Effective Teachers) topic supports research on strategies for improving the performance of classroom teachers in ways that promote student learning and academic achievement in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and - for English Learners - English language proficiency, from kindergarten through high school. Research must focus on teachers or other instructional personnel (e.g., coaches of teachers) at any level from kindergarten through high school. Through this topic, the Institute is interested in identifying ways to improve the quality of teaching including 1) the training of in-service instructional personnel and pre-service teachers, and 2) the recruitment, retention, certification, and evaluation of teachers.

Website http://ies.ed.gov/funding/ncer_rfas/effective_teachers.asp

Area of Focus - Nursing Grant Title Nursing Education Research Grants

Grant Sponsor National League for Nursing

Award Amount Unspecified

Description The NLN's research grants program supports high-quality studies that contribute to the development of the science of nursing education. The NLN-funded grants promote diversity of research topics and support investigators who demonstrate rigor and innovative approaches to advance the field of nursing education research. NLN research priorities include leading reform in nursing education, advancing the science of nursing education, and developing national and international leaders in nursing education.

Website http://www.nln.org/researchgrants/grants.htm

Area of Focus – Health-Related Research Grant Title Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Support)

Grant Sponsor Health and Human Services

Award Amount Unspecified

Description The NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notify Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) holding specific types of NIH research grants, listed in the full FOA, that funds are available for administrative supplements to improve the diversity of the research workforce by supporting and recruiting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related research. This supplement opportunity is also available to PD(s)/PI(s) of research grants who become disabled and need additional support to accommodate their disability in order to continue to work on the research project. Administrative supplements must support work within the scope of the original project.

Website http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-149.html

Area of Focus – Biomedical Research Grant Title Research Grants (Mitochondrial Illness)

Grant Sponsor United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation

Award Amount Unspecified

Description UMDF is committed to finding cures for mitochondrial illness and knows research is the path to success. Yet the foundation also realizes that new, aggressive research for rare disorders is often not underwritten by federal grants. UMDF seeks to fund such grants and others which will forward the cause of research into mitochondrial diseases. Proposals fitting one of the following categories will be considered: - Postdoctoral fellowships - Seed money for new researchers - New area of research for experienced investigators The UMDF has established the following research priorities for its research grant program: 1. Basic Science and Research - Develop animal models of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA mutations - Develop methods to transform mitochondria with exogenous DNA - Understand basic pathogenetic mechanisms (genetic and environmental modifiers of phenotype, genotype-phenotype correlations, role of free radicals, etc.) - Support basic biology that would lead to a treatment - Understand better the transmission and segregation of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA - Develop new approaches to mitochondrial biology using cellular and animal systems - Encourage new basic scientists to enter the field

Website http://www.umdf.org/site/pp.aspx?c=8qKOJ0MvF7LUG&b=7934689

Area of Focus – Animal Biology Grant Title Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics

Grant Sponsor USDA-NIFA

Award Amount Upper $500,000

Description This priority area supports projects that focus on the development of community genetic and genomic resources and tools including software, experimental protocol/methods for breeding, advancing basic biology and applied animal health and nutritional focus such as: - improvement of genome assembly and annotation; - discovery and analysis of genetic diversity within and across breeds or populations (e.g., detection of signatures of selection); - application of genome-wide methods for identification of gene regulatory regions; - novel quantitative genetics methods including selection theory and modeling; - user-friendly web interfaces and data visualization tools having knowledge exchange capabilities between federated databases within and across species; or - development of cyber-infrastructure tools, that will benefit agricultural animals through customization and addition of new software tools, for genotype-phenotype associations from analysis of large-scale sequence and/or genotype data, databases, and user-friendly web-interface.

Website http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/afri.html

Area of Focus – Environmental Science Grant Title Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Grants

Grant Sponsor U.S. Department of the Interior

Award Amount Upper $200,000

Description There are two programs that you can apply to under the NMBCA. One is the core (traditional) program benefitting any eligible Neotropical migratory bird and the second is a pilot program designed to focus resources to a specific set of Neotropical migratory bird species. Proposals not selected under the pilot program are automatically considered for funding under the core program. The subsections in these instructions apply to the core program, the pilot program, or both. The pilot program focuses a portion of available NMBCA funding in support of projects having the highest potential to leverage resources and interest into "initiatives" that contribute significantly to the conservation of select, high-priority species within the next 5-10 years. We seek to fund on-the-ground conservation projects that will directly improve the population status of these species. We will also consider research, monitoring or assessment projects for a broader set of species of conservation concern that significantly contribute to filling information gaps that currently inhibit implementation of the most effective conservation actions. The goal of this pilot program is to invest in projects that can demonstrate a measurable biological improvement in the population or increase our knowledge and understanding of the factors limiting populations of these species.

Website http://www.fws.gov/birdhabitat/Grants/NMBCA/Applicants.shtm

Area of Focus – Geology, Chemistry, and Biology Grant Title C-DEBI Request for Research Proposals

Grant Sponsor Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI)

Award Amount Unspecified

Description C-DEBI invites proposals for projects that are relevant to deep biosphere research and in particular complement the scientific program of recent or scheduled IODP drilling expeditions. C-DEBI seeks to support deep biosphere research concerning life in marine sediments and the ocean crust. There are four central research themes: 1. Activity in the deep biosphere: function and rates of global biogeochemical processes 2. Extent of life: biomes and the degree of connectivity (biogeography and dispersal) 3. Limits of life: extremes and norms of carbon, energy, nutrient, temperature, pressure, pH 4. Evolution and survival: adaptation, enrichment, selection, and cell repair C-DEBI has a deep appreciation of the specific challenges that accompany microbiological investigations and the study of biogeochemical processes in the subseafloor biosphere, and encourages research that addresses these challenges through approaches such as timely analyses of perishable samples, experiments with live samples, refining or adapting difficult sampling or analytical techniques, or applying well-established methods to the analysis of substantial sample sets. C-DEBI also encourages basic research on biogeochemical processes that will lead to better understanding of subsurface microbial activities, and marine hydrogeological studies performed in the context of C-DEBI research themes.

Website http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/research/proposals.html

Area of Focus - Astronomy Grant Title ROSES 2014: Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools

Grant Sponsor NASA

Award Amount Unspecified

Description This ROSES-2014 NRA (NNH14ZDA001N) solicits basic and applied research in support of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This NRA covers all aspects of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data; aircraft, scientific balloon, sounding rocket, International Space Station, CubeSat, and suborbital reusable launch vehicle investigations; development of experiment techniques suitable for future SMD space missions; development of concepts for future SMD space missions; development of advanced technologies relevant to SMD missions; development of techniques for and the laboratory analysis of both extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft, as well as terrestrial samples that support or otherwise help verify observations from SMD Earth system science missions; determination of atomic and composition parameters needed to analyze space data, as well as returned samples from the Earth or space; Earth surface observations and field campaigns that support SMD science missions; development of integrated Earth system models; development of systems for applying Earth science research data to societal needs; and development of applied information systems applicable to SMD objectives and data. Awards range from under $100K per year for focused, limited efforts (e.g., data analysis) to more than $1M per year for extensive activities (e.g., development of science experiment hardware).

Website http://www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?oppId=256010

Area of Focus - Humanities Grant Title Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships

Grant Sponsor American Council of Learned Societies

Award Amount $80,722 to Lower $66,500

Description These fellowships support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Appropriate fields of specialization include, but are not limited to, American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; science, technology, and medicine studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.

Website http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=408

Area of Focus – Liberal Arts Grant Title Visegrad University Studies Grant

Grant Sponsor International Visegrad Fund

Award Amount Upper 40,000 to Lower 10,000 (EURO)

Description The VUSG is a grant program designed for universities with the aim to promote and support the development and launching of outstanding university courses or degree programs that deal with specific phenomena explicitly related to the Visegrad Group (V4) countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). The grant is intended as a lump-sum, multiple-installment grant awarded to university departments, schools or faculties, which can present the course's/program's thorough syllabus/curriculum and confirm its planned long-term enrollment.

Website http://visegradfund.org/grants/vusg/

Area of Focus – Foreign Language and International Studies Grant Title National Resource Centers Program for Foreign Language and Area Studies or Foreign Language and International Studies Program and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships

Grant Sponsor Department of Education

Award Amount $250,000 to $200,000

Description The NRC Program provides grants to institutions of higher education and consortia of such institutions to establish, strengthen, and operate comprehensive and undergraduate foreign language and area or international studies centers to serve as national resources for (a) teaching of any modern foreign language; (b) instruction in fields needed to provide full understanding of areas, regions, or countries in which the modern foreign language is commonly used; (c) research and training in international studies and international and foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and (d) instruction and research on issues in world affairs that concern one or more countries. -CONTACT ORSP FOR FULL ANNOUNCEMENT

Website https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/05/30/2014-12581/applications-for-new-awards-national-resourcecenters-program-for-foreign-language-and-areastudies?utm_campaign=subscription+mailing+list&utm_medium=email&utm_source=federalregister.gov#h-12

Area of Focus – Natural Science, Social Science, and Humanities Grant Title Research Grants

Grant Sponsor Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Award Amount Upper $80,000 to Lower $15,000

Description The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world. Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Research with no relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.

Website http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm

Area of Focus – Fine Arts Grant Title Artist Grants

Grant Sponsor Puffin Foundation, Ltd

Award Amount Upper $2,500 to Lower $1,000

Description The Puffin Foundation Ltd. continues to make grants that encourage emerging artists whose works might have difficulty being aired due to their genre and/or social philosophy. The Foundation does not have the means to fund large film/documentary proposals, grants for travel, continuing education, or the writing or publishing of books. Starting in 2011, the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. implemented a new two-year grant cycle for specific artistic disciplines. For the upcoming 2014 cycle the foundation will review grants only in the following fields: Music, Photography, Theater and Public Interest.

Website http://www.puffinfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=24

Area of Focus - Theatre Grant Title Costume Care Grant

Grant Sponsor Costume Society of America

Award Amount $1,500

Description The CSA College and University Collection Care Grant is intended to assist the costume and textiles collection of a college or university that receives little or no financial support from its institution. Funding may be used to support the care, conservation, and/or instructional mission of a collection of historic, period, or otherwise informative costume and textiles that are intended for preservation and are used for study by an institution that has a degree program in apparel, textiles, or theatre. The award is intended to assist with the care, maintenance, preservation, and instructional missions of a college or university collection that is not eligible for a Small Museum Collection Care Grant. The collection seeking assistance must: - consist of dress, textiles, and related objects (published materials, textile production tools/equipment, etc.); - be legally owned by the institution applying for the Grant (not a private collection housed in a college/university); - be intended for preservation.

Website http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/GrantsAwards/cucollections.html

Area of Focus – Media and Film Grant Title Major Grants for Media Projects

Grant Sponsor Humanities Texas

Award Amount $3,000 to $8,000

Description Major grants for media projects fund film, radio, television, or interactive programming related to the humanities. Applicants may request funds for any phase of the project, including scripting, development, production, post-production, and in some cases, distribution and free public screenings. Humanities scholars should play an integral role in determining the content and approach of the project. Formats include: - Audio, video, or film for local, regional, or national radio or television broadcast and distribution; and - Products utilizing electronic technologies such as CD-ROM, the Internet, or the World Wide Web to engage general audiences in learning through the humanities.

Website http://www.humanitiestexas.org/grants/apply

Area of Focus – Research Infrastructure Grant Title Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

Grant Sponsor National Science Foundation

Award Amount Upper $500,000

Description STS provides a range of funding opportunities designed to support the full spectrum of research, educational, and scholarly activities undertaken by scholars working on science, technology and society. The title of the FastLane application must identify the mode of support being requested. Modes of support include the following: • Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research: These grants support proposals for basic research or infrastructure development. Proposals should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines for regular research proposals. Research projects often include support for research assistance, data collection activities and other research expenses, or training of Ph.D. students and postdocs from multiple disciplines around a newly-emerging topic. Infrastructure projects develop electronically-accessible resources that facilitate high priority STS research. Program support of infrastructure projects is directed towards scholarly research and data production, rather than administrative or logistical activities.

Website http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5324

Area of Focus – Multiple Disciplines Grant Title Postgraduate Environmental Management Participation Program for the U.S. Army Environmental Command (USAEC)

Grant Sponsor Oak Ridge Associate Universities

Award Amount $2,500,000

Description This program provides opportunities to participate in environmental projects involving cultural and natural resources, restoration, compliance, conservation, pollution prevention, validation, demonstration, technology transfer, quality assurance and quality control, training, information management and reporting, and related programs. Relevant disciplines are archaeology, biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, entomology, environmental sciences, forestry, historic preservation, information sciences, plant pathology, wildlife biology, and zoology. This program is available in various locations across the United States, locations outside the United States, at the U.S. Army Environmental Command (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland) and at other approved locations.

Website http://see.orau.org/ProgramDescription.aspx?Program=10056

Area of Focus – Multiple Disciplines Grant Title Dear Colleague Letter – Youth Violence: Opportunity for Breakthroughs in Fundamental Basic Research Grant Sponsor

National Science Foundation Award Amount Unspecified Description This letter is to alert all basic social and behavioral science research communities of the NSF’s interest in receipt of proposals that will enable a better understanding of the contributing factors, causes, and consequences of violence perpetrated by and against youth. The interest spans both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. NSF's mission includes support for basic research, in this case research with the goal of elucidating the causes, correlates, and consequences of youth violence. For this reason, projects focused on developing or evaluating specific interventions would lie outside NSF's purview. What is sought: Research responsive to advance the basic theories and methods to improve our understanding of the contributors to youth violence and to its reduction. The Foundation is especially interested in research relating to destructive violence as opposed to harm as a regrettable byproduct of other experiences or activities (e.g., contact sports). Proposals that investigate at the level of individual, family, school, community, and/or culture are encouraged. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Characteristics of youth at risk for violence and their family and community structures - Impact of exposure to domestic, community, and media violence - Positive and negative influences of social interactions, social norms, and group processes - Biological, neural, environmental, and developmental risk/protective factors - Organizational processes, institutional structures, and social policies that influence and are influenced by the perception and management of violent incidents - Roles for technology and engineering in minimizing incidence and impact of youth violence Website http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14049/nsf14049.jsp?org=NSF

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