The following new funding opportunities may be of particular interest to faculty in the College of Liberal Arts. For a more complete list of new funding announcements, please see the website of the Office of the Vice President for Research, or click here

1. New Funding Opportunities

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • The Foundation is interested in projects that it expects will result in a strong benefit to society, and for which funding from other sources is not widely available.  The following initiatives are among those funded: Census of Marine Life; Encyclopedia of Life; Public Understanding of Science and Technology; Education and Careers in Science and Technology; Workplace, Work Force and Working Families; Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge; and Economic Institutions, Behavior and Performance.   
  • The Foundation accepts Letters of Intent on an ongoing basis.
• American Heart Association
  • The following programs are being offered for the Winter 2013 deadlines: Pre-doctoral & Post-doctoral Fellowships; Clinical Research Program; Beginning Grant-In-Aid; Grant-In-Aid; Scientist Development Grant; Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award; and AHA/Myocarditis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships along with others.
  • Deadlines vary by program
• The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Secondary Education Grants
  • Grants are made for innovative professional development programs that strengthen teachers and their teaching in grades 9-12.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis
• DOD-Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences BAA for Basic, Applied, and Advanced Scientific Research (FY13-18)
  • The funding opportunity is divided into two sections: Basic Research and Applied Research & Advanced Technology Development. The four major topic areas of research interest include the following: (1) Training; (2) Leader Development; (3) Team and Inter-Organizational Performance in Complex Environments; and (4) Solider/Personnel Issues. The recommended three-step sequence is (1) telephone call to the program manager, (2) white paper submission, (3) full proposal submission.
• DOD-USAMRMC BAA for Extramural Medical Research
  • This BAA is intended to solicit extramural research and development ideas in the following topics: Military Infectious Diseases; Combat Casualty Care; Military Operational Medicine; Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine; Medical Biological Defense; Medical Chemical Defense; Medical Training and Health Information Sciences Research Programs. 
  • Pre-applications are accepted at any time between now and September 30, 2013. 
  • Full applications will be encouraged or discouraged based on pre-applications
• DOE INCITE Leadership Computing
  • INCITE is currently soliciting proposals of research for awards of time on the 27-petaflops Cray XK7 “Titan” and the 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q “Mira” beginning CY2014. INCITE seeks research enterprises for capability computing: production simulations – including ensembles – that use a large fraction of the systems or require the unique leadership-class architectural infrastructure for high-impact projects that cannot be performed anywhere else.
  • Deadline: June 28
• DOJ Research and Evaluation on Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals
  • With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding of research and evaluation related to abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elderly individuals and residents of residential care facilities. Priority research areas include studies that identify and explore forensic markers of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect among the elderly living in any setting and/or evaluate forensic practices that may aid in the detection and documentation of elder abuse and that provide comprehensive dissemination plans for such evaluation data.
  • Deadline: May 20
• DOJ W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship for Research on Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2013
  • The Fellowship Program seeks to advance knowledge regarding the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts. The Fellowship places particular emphasis on crime, violence, and the administration of justice in diverse cultural contexts within the United States.  Applicants may apply from all academic disciplines. However, applicants must: Be early in their academic career; Not have been awarded tenure; Possess a terminal degree in their respective field.
  • Deadline: May 28
• ED Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program – Short-term Projects
  • Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Short-term projects may include seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study.
  • Deadline: June 13
• ED-IES FY14 Funding for Education-related Research
  • The Institute’s National Center for Education Research (NCER) is holding five competitions this year: Education Research, Education Research Training, Education Research and Development Centers, Statistical and Research Methodology in Education, and 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 FY14.  The full RFAs will be posted here in early May; Application packages will be available June 6.
  • Deadline: September 4
• Entertainment Software Association Foundation Grants
  • The ESA Foundation is seeking proposals for projects that use innovative technology and/or computer and video games to positively shape the lives of youth in the United States. Eligible projects must be implemented or available nationwide (or at a minimum in two or more states) and serve American youth between the ages of 7 and 18.
  • Deadline: May 15
• Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health Exploration Round 11
  • This is an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions.  Proposals are being accepted on the following topics: The “One Health” Concept:  Bringing Together Human and Animal Health for New Solutions; Increasing Interoperability of Social Good Data; Develop the Next Generation of Condom; New Approaches for Detection, Treatment, and Control of Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases; Labor Saving Strategies and Innovations for Women Smallholder Farmers.
  • Deadline: May 7
• The Gerber Foundation Pediatric Research Grants
  • The primary focus of grantmaking is on health and nutritional issues affecting infants and young children. Research projects aimed at finding solutions to children's health and nutritional problems are sought. Of particular interest are applied research projects focused on reducing the incidence of serious neonatal and early childhood illnesses, or improving cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of development. Funding is available in the topics of Pediatric Health, Pediatric Nutrition, and  Environmental Hazards.
  • Concept paper deadline: June 1; Invited full application due: August 15
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Humanities Program
  • Programs in the following areas are eligible: History; Archaeology; Literature; Languages, both classical and modern; Philosophy; Ethics; Comparative religion; The history, criticism, and theory of the arts; Those aspects of the social sciences that share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.
  • Letters of intent are accepted on an ongoing basis
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Research Library Program
  • The overall objective of the Research Library Program is to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public.
  • Letters of Inquiry are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• HHS-FDA Postmarketing Surveillance of Generic Drug Usage and Substitution Patterns (U01)
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate existing tools and to develop new methods to proactively monitor the drug safety, efficacy, usage, and substitution patterns of recently approved generic drugs whose approval was controversial and to evaluate if controversy during the approval process affects their acceptance by physicians and patients.  The outcome of this study will help assure the public about generic drug safety and efficacy, and support the Agency to continue developing innovative methods for generic drug product approval.
  • Deadline: May 10
• J.S. McDonnell Foundation Collaborative Activity Awards
  • The Foundation offers Collaborative Activity Awards to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on problems or issues, to help launch interdisciplinary research networks, or to fund communities of researchers/practitioners dedicated to developing new methods, tools, and applications of basic research to applied problems. In each case the focus of the collaborative activity must meet the program guidelines for one of the following program areas: Studying Complex Systems or Understanding Human Cognition.
  • Letters of Inquiry are accepted on a rolling basis
• Lumina Foundation
  • Lumina’s overarching goal is to increase the higher education attainment rate of the United States to 60 percent by 2025. Their portfolio focuses on: increasing awareness of the benefits of higher education; improving student access to and preparedness for college; improving student success in college; and productivity across the higher education system.
  • Unsolicited Letters of Inquiry on these topics are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• Mazda Foundation Grants
  • The Mazda Foundation awards grants promoting education and literacy, environmental conservation, cross-cultural understanding, social welfare, and scientific research.
  • Application Deadline: July 1
• Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
  • Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation supports innovative projects that help youth with disabilities develop the leadership and employment skills they need to succeed, particularly for careers in science, technology and the environment. MEAF will also consider projects to create tools that help break down barriers to employment and increase job opportunities for young people with disabilities entering the workforce, including returning veterans with disabilities.
  • Concept paper deadline: June 1
  • Full proposals due July
• Multi-Sponsored Digging Into Data Challenge
  • To encourage innovative research from across the globe, Digging into Data is sponsored by ten international research funding organizations that are working to focus the attention of the social sciences, humanities, library, archival, information, computer, mathematical, and statistical science communities on large-scale data analysis and its potential applications. The Challenge aims to address how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences.  This competition is open only to international research projects.
  • Deadline: May 15
• National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Research Programs Fellowships
  • Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.
  • Deadline: May 1
• NEH America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
  • This program provides support for museums, libraries, historic places, and other organizations that produce public programs in the humanities. Grants support the following formats: exhibitions at museums, libraries, and other venues; interpretations of historic places, sites, or regions; book/film discussion programs; living history presentations; other face-to-face programs at libraries, community centers, and other public venues; and interpretive websites.
  • Planning Grants Deadline: August 14
  • Implementation Grants  Deadline: August 14
• NEH Bridging Cultures Through Film: International Topics 
  • This program supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship.
  • Deadline: June 12
• NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
  • The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities.  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.
  • Deadline: July 18
• New Paths to Purpose Center for Decision Research RFP
  • The Center for Decision Research (CDR) at Chicago Booth is pleased to announce a $250,000 grant competition for work that uses behavioral science to explain or inform the ways that people pursue, experience, or fulfill purpose in their lives.  The overarching aim of all NPP initiatives is to use behavioral science to reshape the study, as well as the prevalent understandings and experiences, of purposeful living.
  • LOI due May 15; Invited full proposals due September 15
• NIH Addressing Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (R01)
  • This FOA seeks research to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases and to develop and test more effective interventions for reducing/eliminating health disparities. Research is encouraged in the following: diabetes, obesity, nutrition-related disorders, hepatitis C, gallbladder disease, H. Pylori infection, sickle cell disease, kidney diseases, urologic diseases, hematologic diseases, metabolic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV.
  • Deadline: June 5
• NIH Development of Measures to Determine Successful Hearing Health Care Outcomes (R01)
  • The goal of this FOA is to encourage Research Project Grant (R01) applications that seek to identify the variables contributing to successful hearing health care outcomes in adults with hearing loss, and to develop and evaluate clinical measures of those variables.
  • Deadline: June 3
• NIH Disorders of Human Communication: Effectiveness, Outcomes and Health Services Research
  • The purpose of this FOA is to support effectiveness, outcomes and health services research in the NIDCD mission areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language.
  • R01 Deadline: June 5
  • R21 Deadline: June 16
• NIH/DOD Prevention and Health Promotion Interventions to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Associated Physical and Psychological Health Problems in US Military Personnel, Veterans and their Families
  • The purpose of this FOA is to accelerate research on health promotion and prevention interventions with foci on reducing the onset and progression of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse and associated mental and physical health problems and on the promotion of health-enhancing behaviors among active-duty or recently separated military troops, Veterans, and their families.
  • R01 Deadline: May 1
  • R34 Deadline: May 1
• NIH Home and Family Based Approaches for the Prevention or Management of Overweight or Obesity in Early Childhood
  • Applications should focus on infants and young children (to age 6) and emphasize the role of home environment and the influence of family/extended family members and parents within the child's home environment.  The direct goal of this initiative is to fund research that will advance knowledge for innovative approaches to the prevention or management of overweight in children less than 6 years of age, with potential for future translation to applications either in the home or linked to a community setting.
  • R01  Deadline: June 5
  • R21  Deadline: June 16
• NIH Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa): Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues (ELSI) Research Program (U01)
  • This FOA encourages applications to study the ethical, legal and societal issues of human genome research in African populations.  Of particular interest are projects that propose focused bioethical, legal, and social science analyses of new or emerging issues.  These applications should be for small, self-contained research projects.
  • Deadline: June 19
• NIH Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP) Small Research Grant Program (R03)
  • The goal of the VAP is to support collaborative vaccine-related research projects that ultimately reduce the burden of infectious diseases of importance in India, the U.S., the South Asian region and globally. Applications are encouraged that propose to conduct vaccine-related research through U.S.-Indo collaborations on the following: dengue, influenza, malaria, enteric diseases, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis.
  • Deadline: June 16
• NIH Innovative Measurement Tools for Community Engaged Research Efforts
  • This funding opportunity announcement issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research seeks to develop innovative measurement tools for community engaged research efforts.
  • R01 Deadline: October 5
  • R21 Deadline: October 16
• NIH Innovative Research Methods: Prevention and Management of Symptoms in Chronic Illness
  • This funding opportunity seeks to update the randomized control trial (RCT) design using novel research methods that are practical, innovative, and hold promise for producing more effective outcomes.  Novel clinical research designs, applied to symptom management trials, may identify those treatment strategies that best alter the course of symptom burden in chronic illness by addressing the issues of varied treatment responses across patients, subject retention, and adherence to treatment regimens.
  • R01  Deadline: June 5
  • R15  Deadline: June 25
  • R21  Deadline: June 16
• NIH-NCI Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21) 
  • The National Cancer Institute Exploratory/Developmental Grant funding opportunity supports the development of new research activities in all areas of cancer research. The R21 mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of cancer research (biomedical, behavioral, or clinical).
  • Deadline: June 28
• NIH-NIDCD Research on Hearing Health Care (R21/R33)
  • This FOA invites applications to support research and/or infrastructure needs leading to more accessible and affordable hearing health care. The proposed research aims should lead to the delivery of better healthcare access and outcomes and be directed to solutions that are effective, affordable and deliverable to those who need them.  Outcomes and health services research are also responsive to this FOA.
  • Deadline: October 24
• NIH Obesity Policy Evaluation Research (R01)
  • This FOA encourages applications that propose to evaluate large scale policy or programs that are expected to influence obesity related behaviors (e.g., dietary intake, physical activity, or sedentary behavior) and/or weight outcomes in an effort to prevent or reduce obesity.
  • Deadline: June 5
• NIH School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors, and Weight Outcomes
  • The FOA encourages applications that propose to: (1) foster multidisciplinary research that will evaluate how policies can influence school physical activity and nutrition environments, youths’ obesogenic behaviors, and weight outcomes; (2) understand how schools are implementing these policies and examine multi-level influences on adoption and implementation at various levels; and (3) understand the synergistic or counteractive effect of school nutrition and physical activity polices on the home and community environment and body weight.
  • R21 Deadline: June 16
  • R03 Deadline: June 16
  • R01 Deadline: June 5
• NIH Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity  in Health-Related Research (R03)
  • This FOA is intended to provide support for New Investigators from diverse backgrounds underrepresented nationally in biomedical research who are interested in conducting research projects in the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK, the NIMH and the ODS, with the purpose of providing the preliminary data to support a R01-equivalent application.
  • Deadline: June 16
• NIH Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy
  • 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.
  • R01  Deadline: June 5
  • R03  Deadline: June 16
  • R21  Deadline: June 16
• NOAA FY2012-2013 BAA
  • NOAA issues this BAA for extramural research, innovative projects, and sponsorships (e.g., conferences, newsletters etc.) that address one or more of the following four mission goal descriptions contained in the NOAA Strategic Plan: 1.) Climate Adaptation and Mitigation and responding to climate and its impacts; 2.) Weather-Ready Nation; 3.) Healthy Oceans; and 4.) Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies.
  • Proposals accepted at any time through September 30
• NSF Dear Colleague Letter – Accelerating Integrative Research in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (AIR-NCS)
  • NSF invites proposals that accelerate new integrative research across disciplines and across spatial and temporal scales of analysis in cognitive science and neuroscience.  Principal Investigators are free to choose among multiple funding mechanisms to support their integrative/interdisciplinary research, and research collaboration proposals in the thematic areas described above in response to this DCL.
  • Deadline: June 1
• NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Interdisciplinary Research across the SBE Sciences
  • The directorate anticipates future activities that will support research in some or all of the thematic areas, and proposals that address research problems from an interdisciplinary perspective within the broad topics are welcome.
• NSF Dear Colleague Letter – SaTC EAGERs Enabling New Collaborations Between Computer and Social Scientists
  • NSF expects to fund a small number of Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGERs) in the area supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program (see solicitation NSF 12-596). EAGER is a funding mechanism for supporting exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. The proposed research should fit both the Trustworthy Computing and the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences perspectives within the SaTC solicitation.
  • Deadline: August 31
• NSF Dear Colleague Letter – Stimulating Research Related to the Science of Broadening Participation
  • SBE and EHR are partnering to announce joint interest in supporting the Science of Broadening Participation. The Science of Broadening Participation will employ the social, behavioral, economic and education sciences to inform approaches to increasing the access and involvement of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to strengthen our national STEM capabilities and competitive advantage.
  • Deadlines vary by program.
• NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Research Related to the Use and Functioning of the Civil Justice System
  • The Law & Social Sciences program invites research on how people and organizations define legal claims, whether and how they mobilize the law on their behalf, and how legal institutions respond to questions about civil justice.
  • Deadline: August 1
• NSF Research Coordination Networks (RCN)
  • The goal of the RCN program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries. RCN provides opportunities to foster new collaborations, including international partnerships, and address interdisciplinary topics. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies, collaborative technologies, and development of community standards for data and meta-data are especially encouraged.
  • RCN-UBE due June 14
  • Non-targeted RCN proposal deadlines vary.
• NSF Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC)
  • The goal of the Water Sustainability and Climate solicitation is to enhance the understanding and predict the interactions between the water system and land use changes (including agriculture, managed forest and rangeland systems), the built environment, ecosystem function and services and climate change/variability through place-based research and integrative models.
  • Deadline: September 10
• OVPR Non-Laboratory Research Infrastructure and Equipment Program
  • This program is designed to support research infrastructure and equipment needs in disciplines not driven by instrument-dependent research. Such non-laboratory disciplines may include, but are not limited to social sciences, humanities, liberal arts, education, management, and libraries. Examples of allowable infrastructure needs include equipment, software, database access, access to special library collections, and other types of research infrastructure that could be applied across multiple research projects. Office and instructional computers/equipment are not eligible for this program. However computing equipment that is integral to an individual’s research program is allowed. Additionally, funds from the program may be expended to access Purdue’s shared cluster computing infrastructure. Eligibility is limited to faculty (research and tenure-track/tenured) on the West Lafayette campus in the following colleges: Liberal Arts, Education, Management, Libraries, and Health and Human Sciences.
  • Deadlines:
    • Tier 1 (proposals up to $5,000): Must be submitted to CLA Associate Dean for Research by September 17
    • Tier 2 (proposals from $5,000 to $20,000): Must be submitted to Sheryl Willison in the OVPR by September 17
• RGK Foundation Grants
  • The foundation's primary interests include formal K-12 education (particularly math, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education. The foundation's current interests in health and medicine include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and foundation-initiated programs focusing on ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease).
  • LOIs accepted on an ongoing basis.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
  • The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.  There are two types of awards available under this program:
  • Round 8 grants  Deadline: July 10
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
  • The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.
  • Concept papers due July 10
  • Invited full proposals due September 11
• Spencer Foundation Evidence for the Classroom Program
  • This program seeks to address the gap in the research literature on whether, when, and how student data informs classroom instruction. Many “data-based decision making” reforms are premised on the idea that teachers can effectively use student data. However, there is a dearth of research on how teachers use student data to improve student outcomes, and on the conditions and contexts that support or impede successful use. This program will fund research on teachers’ use of student performance data from kindergarten through 8th grade.
  • Preliminary proposals due June 11; Invited full proposals due September 4
• USDA-NIFA  AgrAbility and Youth Farm Safety
  • NIFA requests applications for AgrAbility and Youth Farm Safety, formerly two separate programs, for FY13 to increase the likelihood that farmers, ranchers, farm workers, or farm family members with disabilities experience success  and that those working with or teaching youth have access to comprehensive educational resources in the area of youth farm safety and certification.
  • AgrAbility proposals due May 1; Youth Farm Safety proposals due May 8
• USDA-NIFA: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Foundational Program
  • The AFRI Foundational Program is offered to support research grants in the six AFRI priority areas to continue building a foundation of knowledge critical for solving current and future societal challenges. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Project types supported by AFRI within this RFA include single-function Research Projects, multi-function Integrated Projects, and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants.
  • Deadlines vary by program.
• USDA-NIFA Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program
  • Once a disaster has occurred, the local extension outreach includes: 1) Communicating practical science-based risk information, 2) Developing relevant educational experiences and programs, 3) Working with individuals and communities to open new communication channels, and 4) Mitigating losses and facilitating recovery. NIFA intends to fund Special Needs projects to implement applied scientific programs that serve public needs in preparation for, during and after local or regional emergency situations.
  • Deadline: May 31
• US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
  • BSF has issues two new calls for proposals in the following programs: Transformative Science, a special program for ground breaking ideas in scientific research; and Prof. R. Rahamimoff Travel Grants for Young Scientists, a special program supporting short, research related, trips of young American scientists to Israel, and young Israeli scientists to the U.S.
  • Deadlines vary by program.

2. New Limited Submission Opportunities

• National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 Summer Stipends
  • NEH Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development, providing support for continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. While projects related to the NEH's Bridging Cultures program are welcome, all applications will receive equal consideration. For this opportunity, Purdue may submit two applications. Application forms, instructions, and information may be found at the link above. To apply, send all application materials except for letters of reference electronically to Deanna Bush in the CLA Dean's Office (bushd@purdue.edu) by Wednesday, September 4, 2013. A faculty committee will review applications, and up to two applicants will be instructed to submit full applications directly to NEH by September 26.
  • Internal Deadline: September 4
  • Sponsor Deadline: September 26
• NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)
  • Applications are invited to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops, and symposia. The purpose of the Conference Series is to bring together academic institutions and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research.  The areas of focus for these partnerships may include one or more of the following community-health issues: infant mortality; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); fibroid tumors; childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; health literacy; techniques for outreach and information dissemination; pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; and violence prevention.  For this opportunity, Purdue may submit only one application.
  • Internal deadline: Contact OVPRlimited@purdue.edu by June 3
  • Agency deadline: October 17
• NIH MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR) National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (T34)
  • The purpose of the Minority Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research Training program is to assist undergraduate institutions to increase the number of well-prepared underrepresented students who, within three years of graduation, matriculate into competitive/research active Ph.D. or combined M.D.-Ph.D. programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, go on to research careers and will be available to participate in NIH-funded research.  The program provides grants to institutions with significant enrollment of students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences that propose well-integrated developmental activities designed to strengthen students’ academic preparation, research training and professional skills that are critical to the completion of the Ph.D. degree in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.   For this opportunity, Purdue may submit only one application.
  • Internal Deadline: Contact OVPRlimited@purdue.edu by May 6
  • Sponsor Deadline: June 24
• NSF Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (ORCEESE)
  • The program will fund one five-year award to collect and curate multi-media materials (including research findings, pedagogical materials, and promising practices) for an online, state-of-the-art resource center that will support efforts by scientists and engineers to incorporate ethical issues and reasoning into their pedagogy, research and practice. The online resource center should be creative, comprehensive, accessible, and evolving. The team will incorporate strategies and techniques to keep the Ethics Online Resource Center relevant and up to date.  For this competition, Purdue may submit only one proposal.
  • Internal deadlines:
    • May 6: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR.
    • May 29: Preproposals due to the OVPR.
  • Agency deadline: August 7

3. New Purdue Funding Workshops

• Announcement from Purdue Electronic Research Administration Program on New CoeusLite Functionality
  • The Purdue Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Program has now introduced the “My Negotiations” functionality in the CoeusLite system.  This new capability is available to all Principal Investigators and may be accessed immediately using their standard Purdue Career Accounts.  CoeusLite “My Negotiations” provides email notifications when Negotiations have been fully executed, as well as real-time monitoring of a project's negotiation status and the ability to review historic negotiation records. For more information,  please see the online Investigator Guide and Quick Reference at:  http://www.purdue.edu/business/coeus/Negotiations/index.html. For any questions regarding CoeusLite please contact coeushelp@purdue.edu.
• Sequestration Information 
  • Guidance on the impact of sequestration of Federal funding is located on the main OVPR webpage.  Information is provided from NIH, HRSA, DOE, DOD, DOJ, NSA, DTRA, NSF, and AFOSR.
• Solicitation of Interest for DOC-National Telecommunications and Information Administration Opportunity
  • DOC-NTIA is soliciting applications from each state for a State and Local Implementation Grant Program (SLIGP) to assist States with identifying, planning, and implementing the most efficient and effective means to use and integrate the infrastructure, equipment, and other architecture associated with the nationwide public safety broadband network to satisfy the wireless broadband and data services needs of their jurisdictions.  If you are interested in participating in a Purdue collaboration with the state on this opportunity, please contact Duane Dunlap (ddunlap@purdue.edu) as soon as possible.
• Strategic planning for the BRAIN national mapping effort
  • The national effort to map the brain has been briefly outlined.  the current plan is to devote $100M to developing the technology and subsequent plan to map the brain over five years.  Along with private dollars, the initial funding will come from the NSF ($20M), NIH ($40M), and DARPA ($50M).  The plan for initial funding should be announced in summer 2014.
  • Faculty interested in more information concerning this BRAIN mapping effort can contact Perry Kirkham (pkirkham@purdue.edu).

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