Description
The information below represents a sample of requests for proposals or applications (RFP/RFA) from governmental and non-governmental agencies with upcoming deadlines.
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Gr ant s & Sponsor ed Pr ogr ams
Open RFPs – Febr uar y 27, 2014
Note: This is not a comprehensive list. The information below represents a sample of requests for proposals or
applications (RFP/RFA) from governmental and non-governmental agencies with upcoming deadlines. Review
previous postings and search directly through various listed search engines for more complete results.
Included in this update:
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Department of Defense Agencies
Department of Energy
U.S. Small Business Administration
Department of Agriculture
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts
Department of Education
Department of State
State of Connecticut Office of Higher Education
Foundations and Private Organizations for Institutional Awards
Fellowships & Other Individual Awards
Announcements, Conferences, Calls for Papers
*Click on the heading to go directly to a specific section.
National Science Foundation
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace: Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and
Systems (SaTC: STARSS)
14-528
Synopsis of Program:
Cyberspace has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. However, our increasing
dependence upon cyberspace has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities: corporations, agencies,
national infrastructure and individuals have been victims of cyber-attacks. In December 2011, the
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) with the cooperation of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) issued a broad, coordinated federal strategic plan for cybersecurity research and
development (Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and
Development Program) to “change the game,” by calling for establishing a science of cybersecurity,
transitioning promising cybersecurity research into practice, and bolstering education and training in
cybersecurity.
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The NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program is supportive of this strategic plan. SaTC
recognizes that cyberspace will continue to grow and evolve, and that advances in science and
engineering will create new “leap-ahead” opportunities expanding cyberspace. It further recognizes that
cybersecurity must also grow and co-evolve, and that a secure and trustworthy cyberspace will ensure
continued economic growth and future technological innovation.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504996&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline: March 26, 2014
Genealogy of Life (GoLife)
14-527
Synopsis of Program:
All of comparative biology depends on knowledge of the evolutionary relationships (phylogeny) of living
and extinct organisms. In addition, understanding biodiversity and how it changes over time is only
possible when Earth's diversity is organized into a phylogenetic framework. The goals of the Genealogy
of Life (GoLife) program are to resolve the phylogenetic history of life and to integrate this genealogical
architecture with underlying organismal data.
The ultimate vision of this program is an open access, universal Genealogy of Life that will provide the
comparative framework necessary for testing questions in systematics, evolutionary biology, ecology,
and other fields. A further strategic integration of this genealogy of life with data layers from genomic,
phenotypic, spatial, ecological and temporal data will produce a grand synthesis of biodiversity and
evolutionary sciences. The resulting knowledge infrastructure will enable synthetic research on
biological dynamics throughout the history of life on Earth, within current ecosystems, and for predictive
modeling of the future evolution of life.
Projects submitted to this program should emphasize increased efficiency in contributing to a complete
Genealogy of Life and integration of various types of organismal data with phylogenies.
This program also seeks to broadly train next generation, integrative phylogenetic biologists, creating
the human resource infrastructure and workforce needed to tackle emerging research questions in
comparative biology. Projects should train students for diverse careers by exposing them to the
multidisciplinary areas of research within the proposal.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5129&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline: March 26, 2014
Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC)
14-518
Synopsis of Program:
In 2013, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, was deployed at the University of
Illinois. The goal of this project and system is to open up new possibilities in science and engineering by
providing computational capability that makes it possible for investigators to tackle much larger and
more complex research challenges across a wide spectrum of domains. The purpose of this solicitation
is to invite research groups to submit requests for allocations of resources on the Blue Waters system.
Proposers must show a compelling science or engineering challenge that will require petascale
computing resources. Proposers must also be prepared to demonstrate that they have a science or
engineering research problem that requires and can effectively exploit the petascale computing
capabilities offered by Blue Waters. Proposals from or including junior researchers are encouraged, as
one of the goals of this solicitation is to build a community capable of using petascale computing.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503224&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 10, 2014
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Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT)
13-575
Synopsis of Program:
The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and
Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research
(AIR) and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). In the final analysis, both programs are concerned with the
movement of academic research discoveries into the marketplace although each focuses on different
stages along the innovation spectrum. The subject of this solicitation is PFI: AIR Technology Translation
(TT) only. The PFI: AIR-TT solicitation is intended to help bridge the funding gap between existing
research discoveries that validate relevant science and engineering fundamentals and their translation
through proof-of-concept, prototype, or scale-up along a path toward commercialization and engage
faculty and students in entrepreneurial/innovative thinking.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504790&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: March 13, 2014
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 1, 2014
Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS)
14-524
Synopsis of Program:
Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and health. These
infrastructures are interdependent. For example, the electrical power system depends on the delivery
of fuels to power generating stations through transportation services, the production of those fuels
depends in turn on the use of electrical power, and those fuels are needed by the transportation
services.
The goals of the Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) solicitation are (1)
to foster an interdisciplinary research community that discovers new knowledge for the design and
operation of infrastructures as processes and services (2) to enhance the understanding and design of
interdependent critical infrastructure systems (ICIs) and processes that provide essential goods and
services despite disruptions and failures from any cause, natural, technological, or malicious, and (3) to
create the knowledge for innovation in ICIs to advance society with new goods and services. The
objectives of this solicitation are:
•Create theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary computational models of interdependent
infrastructure systems, processes and services, capable of analytical prediction of complex behaviors, in
response to system and policy changes.
•Synthesize new approaches to increase resilience, interoperations, performance, and readiness in ICIs.
•Understand organizational, social, psychological, legal, political and economic obstacles to improving
ICI's, and identifying strategies for overcoming those obstacles.
The RIPS solicitation seeks proposals with transformative ideas that will ensure ICIs services are
effective, efficient, dependable, adaptable, resilient, safe, and secure. Successful proposals are
expected to study multiple infrastructures focusing on them as interdependent systems that deliver
services, enabling a new interdisciplinary paradigm in infrastructure research. Proposals that do not
broadly integrate across the cyber-physical, engineering and social, behavioral and economic (SBE)
sciences may be returned without review. Projects supported under this solicitation may undertake the
collection of new data or use existing curated data depending on the category of award, and must
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recognize that a primary objective is integrative predictive modeling that can use the data to validate
the models and which can be integrated into decision making.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504971&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 19, 2014
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE & SSI (SI2 - SSE&SSI)
14-520
Synopsis of Program:
Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for
realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) vision, as
described inhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp. Scientific discovery and innovation
are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated
software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant
enhancement of researchers' capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode
of scientific progress, NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into
sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504865&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning)
14-526
Synopsis of Program:
The purpose of the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program is to integrate
opportunities offered by emerging technologies with advances in what is known about how people learn
to advance three interconnected thrusts:
•Innovation: inventing and improving next-generation genres (types) of learning technologies,
identifying new means of using technology for fostering and assessing learning, and proposing new ways
of integrating learning technologies with each other and into learning environments to foster and assess
learning;
•Advancing understanding of how people learn in technology-rich learning environments: enhancing
understanding of how people learn and how to better foster and assess learning, especially in
technology-rich learning environments that offer new opportunities for learning and through data
collection and computational modeling of learners and groups of learners that can be done only in such
environments; and
•Promoting broad use and transferability of new genres: extracting lessons from experiences with these
technologies that can inform design and use of new genres across disciplines, populations, and learning
environments; advancing understanding of how to foster learning through effective use these new
technologies and the environments they are integrated into.
The intention of this program is to advance technologies that specifically focus on the experiences of
learners; innovations that simply focus on making teaching easier will not be funded. Proposals that
focus on teachers or facilitators as learners are invited; the aim in these proposals should be to help
teachers and facilitators learn to make the learning experiences of learners more effective.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504984&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
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STEM-C Partnerships: Computing Education for the 21st Century (STEM-CP: CE21)
14-523
Synopsis of Program:
The STEM-C (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, including Computing) Partnerships
program is a major research and development effort of two NSF Directorates, the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE), which supports innovative partnerships to improve teaching and learning in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. STEM-C Partnerships combines and
advances the efforts of both the former Math and Science Partnership (MSP) and the former Computing
Education for the 21st Century (CE21) programs. It is critical that our nation maintain a competent,
competitive and creative STEM workforce, including teachers. Therefore, NSF aims to inspire and
motivate the next generation of that workforce, while ensuring that it has the skills, competencies, and
preparation to be successful. As we transition to a global, knowledge-based economy that is often
driven by information technology and innovation, it is increasingly important that STEM workforce
preparation includes a strong foundation in computing. Thus, 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.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503582&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 18, 2014
STEM-C Partnerships: MSP (STEM-CP: MSP)
14-522
Synopsis of Program:
The STEM-C (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, including Computing) Partnerships
program is a major research and development effort of two NSF Directorates, the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering, which supports innovative partnerships to improve teaching and learning in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. STEM-C Partnerships combines and
advances the efforts of both the former Math and Science Partnership (MSP) and the former Computing
Education for the 21st Century (CE21) programs. It is critical that our nation maintain a competent,
competitive and creative STEM workforce, including teachers. Therefore, NSF aims to inspire and
motivate the next generation of that workforce, while ensuring that it has the skills, competencies, and
preparation to be successful. As we transition to a global, knowledge-based economy that is often
driven by information technology and innovation, it is increasingly important that STEM workforce
preparation includes a strong foundation in computing. Thus, 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.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505006&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 18, 2014
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Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Research Related to the Science of Broadening Participation
NSF 14-038
Dear Colleague:
Building on previous investments, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) and
the Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR) announce their interest in stimulating research
related to the Science of Broadening Participation (SBP). The Science of Broadening Participation will
employ the theories, methods, and analytic techniques of the social, behavioral, economic, and learning
sciences to better understand the barriers that hinder and factors that enhance our ability to broaden
participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The results of these efforts
will inform approaches to increase the access and involvement of underrepresented groups in STEM and
to strengthen our national STEM capabilities and competitive advantage. Ultimately, the SBP research
will provide scientific evidence that STEM educators, STEM employers, and policy makers need to make
informed decisions and to design effective programs and interventions.
In FY 2014, SBE and EHR will partner to support SBP research proposals that will contribute to the
overall understanding of the positive and negative factors impacting the participation of
underrepresented individuals in STEM education and careers. SBP research proposals may focus on
factors such as the following:
Sincerely,
Dr. Joanne Tornow
Acting Assistant Director
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Assistant Director
Directorate for Education and Human Resourceshttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14038/nsf14038.pdf
National Institutes of Health
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21)
National Institutes of Health — Department of Health and Human Services
PAR-14-119
Synopsis of Program:
This FOA encourages Exploratory/ Developmental Research Project (R21) applications for design and
development of novel technologies to monitor health or deliver care in a real-time, accessible, effective,
and minimally obtrusive way. These may be novel sensor or monitoring systems, home-use point-of-care
devices, home or mobile therapy or rehabilitation tools, or information systems and should have the
goal of fostering healthy and independent living. The development of such technologies has the
potential to significantly improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, people aging with mild
impairments, as well as individuals with chronic conditions.http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-119.html
Letter of Intent Due: 30 days before the application due date
Application Due Date: September 23, 2014; September 23, 2015; September 23, 2016
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Development of Software and Analysis Methods for Biomedical Big Data in Targeted Areas of High
Need (U01) - Department of Health and Human Services
RFA-HG-14-020
Synopsis of Program:
In response to the spectacular opportunities and immense challenges presented by the dawning era of
"Big Data" in biomedical research, NIH has developed the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative with
the mission of enabling the biomedical research community to use the various types of Big Data for
research. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit development of
analysis methods and software in the four topic areas of data compression/reduction, data visualization,
data provenance, and data wrangling as part of the overall BD2K initiative.http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-14-020.html
Letter of Intent Due: May 19, 2014
Application Due Date: June 19, 2014
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/solicitations.do?method=open&stack=push
Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion 2014 (SpaceTech-REDDI-
2014)
NNH14ZOA001N
Synopsis of Program:
This NASA Research Announcement (NRA), entitled “Space Technology Research, Development,
Demonstration, and Infusion 2014 (SpaceTech-REDDI-2014)” is NASA Space Technology Mission
Directorate’s (STMD) first annual umbrella solicitation. The following STMD programs will be included in
the solicitation:
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC),
Space Technology Research Grants (STRG),
Game Changing Development (GCD),
Small Spacecraft Technology (SST),
Technology Demonstration Missions (TDM) and
Flight Opportunities Program (FOP)
The Space Technology portfolio supports a combination of early stage studies, for assessing the
feasibility of entirely new technologies (which corresponds to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) range
from 1 to 3); maturing feasible technologies through rapid competitive development and ground based
testing (TRL 3-5); and flight demonstrations in a relevant environment to complete the final step to
mission infusion (TRL 5-7) (Attachment 2 “Technology Readiness Level Descriptions”). This technological
diversity results in a sustainable pipeline of revolutionary concepts. STMD seeks aggressive technology
development efforts that may require undertaking significant technical challenges and risk to achieve a
higher potential payoff.
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http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/cmdocumentid=394629/solicitationId=%
7B6DB59BB3-3679-F12D-E060-204DFE06A924%7D/viewSolicitationDocument=1/SpaceTech-REDDI-
2014%20Final%20solicitation%20November%201%202013.pdf
Department of Defense Agencies
DARPA listings – see alsohttp://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Solicitations/DSO_Solicitations.aspx
ONR Notices:http://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities.aspxhttp://www.onr.navy.mil/Science-Technology/Departments/Code-34/All-Programs.aspx
Mining and Understanding Software Enclaves (MUSE)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — Department of Defense
DARPA-BAA-14-22
Synopsis of Program:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in
the areas of program analysis, verification, and big data analytics for specifying, discovering, and
understanding properties of complex software systems. Proposed research should investigate
innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, methods, or systems. Specifically
excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
This broad agency announcement (BAA) is being issued, and any resultant selection will be made, using
procedures under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 35.016.
file:///C:/Users/grad-grants/Downloads/darpa-baa-14-22%20muse.pdf
Proposal Due Date: April 15, 2014
Defense Advanced Research Projects
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
DARPA-BAA-13-32
Synopsis of Program:
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 primarily results 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.https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=28e5dfc563c246b59c3f02e12dee3b53&tab
=core&_cview=1
Deadline: 3/18/14
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Department of Energy
For complete list of opportunities visit:https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/
Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute For Composite Materials and Structures
DE-FOA-0000977
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) of
EERE seeks to establish a Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Composites Materials and
Structures that will support U.S. prosperity and security; and contribute to the creation of the pilot
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. The vision for the Institute is to revitalize American
manufacturing and support domestic manufacturing competitiveness. The technical topic area for this
Institute is low cost, energy efficient manufacturing of fiber reinforced polymer composites. The
Institute will target continuous or discontinuous, primarily carbon and glass fiber systems, with
thermoset or thermoplastic resin materials. These types of composites are foundational technologies
that are broadly applicable and pervasive in multiple industries and markets with potentially
transformational technical and economic impact.
file:///C:/Users/grad-grants/Downloads/DE-FOA-
0000977_Clean_Energy_Manufacturing_Innovation_Institute_for_Composite_Materials_and_Structures
.pdf
Informational Webinar: March 6, 2014
Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: April 22, 2014
Submission Deadline for Full Applications: June 19, 2014
Microgrid Research, Development, and System Design
National Energy Technology Laboratory — Department of Energy
DE-FOA-0000997
Synopsis of Program:
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for financial
assistance awards to enable microgrid development. This FOA is responsive to addressing high-priority
research, development and demonstration activities, identified jointly with key stakeholders, to
overcome key challenges facing broad adoption of microgrids for key commercial applications.http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=250754
Application Deadline: Apr 28, 2014
Vehicle Technologies Program
DE-FOA-0000991
Synopsis of Program:
The Vehicle Technologies Office supports a broad research, development, and deployment technology
portfolio focused on reducing the cost and improving the performance of a mix of near- and long-term
vehicle technologies including advanced batteries, power electronics and electric motors, lightweight
and propulsion materials, advanced combustion engines, advanced fuels and lubricants, and other
enabling technologies. Specifically, activities are aimed at meeting the goals and objectives of the
President's Electric Vehicle Everywhere Grand Challenge as well as improvements in other vehicle
technologies such as powertrains, fuel, tires, and auxiliary systems. Investment in advanced vehicle
technologies, like vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and combustion engines, will yield benefits to
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conventional vehicles, as well as yielding the technologies necessary for alternative fuel vehicles. This
Funding Opportunity Announcement contains a total of 13 areas of interest in the general areas of
advanced light-weighting; advanced battery development; power electronics; advanced heating,
ventilation, air conditioning systems; and fuels and lubricants.http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/financial/solicitations_detail.asp?sol_id=727
Close Date: April 1, 2014
U.S. Wind Manufacturing: Taller Hub Heights to Access Higher Wind Resources and Lower Cost of
Energy
DE-FOA-0000982
Synopsis of Program:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support the development of technologies that
mitigate U.S. transportation and logistics constraints affecting the deployment of taller utility-scale wind
turbine systems. Continued turbine up-scaling and design advancements are expected to increase
turbine performance and lower costs. Scaling to higher hub heights allows wind turbines to capture less
turbulent and often stronger wind resources, thereby improving productivity and economics. Supported
projects will develop lifecycle cost-competitive tower solutions that address the challenges of
fabricating, transporting, assembling, maintaining, and decommissioning towers for turbine hub heights
of at least 120 m. These projects will strengthen U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing wind turbine
components, reduce the cost of wind energy, and dramatically expand the geographic range of cost-
effective wind power in the United States.https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId66d6cb29-b48a-4c59-b99f-224392c97a6b
Full Application Submission Deadline: 9/6/2013 5:00 PM ET
U.S. Small Business Administration
Boots-to-Business Program Announcement
B2B-2014-01
Synopsis of Program:
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to invite proposals from Public and Private Institutions to
provide entrepreneurship training, curriculum development and program management support services
for global delivery of B2B which will require at a minimum: 1) providing a network of instructors to teach
“Foundations” and to travel and teach “Intro” at overseas military installations; 2) production, global
distribution and inventory management of all course materials; 3) managing the SBA owned course
curricula including continuous improvement and compatibility with Department of Defense (DOD)
learning management systems; 4) execution of project management and marketing activities including
website administration, content generation and coordination; 5) collection, analysis, and reporting on
metrics and measures for program outcomes assessment; and, 6) collaboration on all program elements
with SBA Office of Veterans Business Development (OVBD), SBA District Offices, SBA Resource Partners,
and Veteran Business Outreach Centers (VBOCs).http://www.sba.gov/content/boots-business-program-announcement-b2b-2014-01
Application Deadline: March 3, 2014
Department of Agriculture
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www.csrees.usda.gov/business/business.html#
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National Endowment for the Humanities
For complete list of opportunities visit: www.neh.gov
Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
Synopsis of Program:
The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics 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.
The Division of Public Programs encourages innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple
points of view in creative formats. The proposed film should range in length from thirty minutes to a
feature-length documentary.
We invite a wide range of approaches to international and transnational topics and themes, such as
•an examination of a critical issue in ethics, religion, literature, or history, viewed through an
international lens;
•an exploration of a topic that transcends a single nation-state;
•a biography of a foreign leader, writer, artist, or historical figure; or
•an exploration of the history and culture(s) of a specific region, country, or community outside of the
United States.http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/bridging-cultures-through-film-international-topics
Receipt Deadline: June 11, 2014
Challenge Grants
Synopsis:
NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions and organizations secure
long-term support for their humanities programs and resources. Through these awards, many
organizations and institutions have been able to increase their humanities capacity and secure the
permanent support of an endowment. Grants may be used to establish or enhance endowments or
spend-down funds that generate expendable earnings to support and enhance ongoing program
activities. Challenge grants may also provide capital directly supporting the procurement of long-lasting
objects, such as acquisitions for archives and collections, the purchase of equipment, and the
construction or renovation of facilities needed for humanities activities. Funds spent directly must be
shown to bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly. Grantee
institutions may also expend up to 10 percent of total grant funds (federal funds plus matching funds) to
defray costs of fundraising to meet the NEH challenge. Because of the matching requirement, these NEH
grants also strengthen the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support.
Applications are welcome from colleges and universities, museums, public libraries, research
institutions, historical societies and historic sites, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and
other nonprofit humanities entities. Programs that involve collaboration among multiple institutions are
eligible as well, but one institution must serve as the lead agent and formal applicant of record.http://www.neh.gov/grants/challenge/challenge-grants
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Receipt Deadline: May 1, 2014
Contact Carol Withers as soon as possible if you have an interest in this program. It requires very
significant cost-sharing on the part of the University that must be approved in advance.
Collaborative Research Grants
Synopsis of Program:
Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or
more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available
for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field
work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are
expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences.
Eligible projects include
•research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities;
•conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research;
•archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may
encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive
monographs); and
research that uses the knowledge and perspectives of the humanities and historical or philosophical
methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/collaborative-research-grants
Receipt Deadline: December 9, 2014
National Endowment for the Arts
For complete list of opportunities visit: www.nea.gov
Department of Education
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/grantapps/index.html
Professional Services for Low-Performing Schools to Support and Empower Teachers and Leaders
Connecticut State Department of Education
14SDE0016-RFP
Synopsis of Program:
A growing body of research demonstrates the primacy and impact of teacher and leader effectiveness
on student achievement. Typically, urban public school districts have difficulty attracting and retaining
top talent in their lowest-performing schools. Leaders and teachers in these schools often lack the
ongoing support, development, feedback, and coaching necessary to grow as professionals and become
highly effective. The Turnaround Office and the Connecticut State Department of Education (“CSDE”)
unfortunately do not have the capability or capacity to meaningfully support and systematically increase
leader and teacher effectiveness in these schools and at scale. Therefore, the Turnaround Office seeks a
provider willing and able to offer professional services to support and empower teachers and leaders in
low-performing schools in the areas described in Section II of this Request for Proposals (“RFP”).
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The purpose of this RFP is to identify a proven provider(s) able to offer the professional services, or
some combination thereof, listed below that will support and empower teachers and leaders serving in
low-performing schools. It is expected that these services will lead to significant gains in student
achievement.
Scope and Activities:
The CSDE is seeking a proven provider willing and able to:
1. Provide differentiated teacher coaching to new and/or developing teachers;
2. Design and/or deliver targeted and job-embedded professional development for teachers;
3. Offer leadership development support to school administrators;
4. Provide ongoing training and calibration support for school administrators executing frequent formal
and informal teacher evaluations;
5. Support school leaders in communicating meaningful and actionable feedback to teachers and staff;
6. Support school leaders in using data and aligning professional learning opportunities to staff
development areas identified through evaluations;
7. Provide monitoring tools to evaluate leadership effectiveness and the professional work environment;
8. Diagnose instructional and leadership constraints in low-performing schools; and/or
9. Offer training in best practices for classroom walkthroughs and teacher and leader coaching.http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/rfp/14sde0016rfp_teacher_and_leader_effectiveness.pdf
Full Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2014
Professional Services to Support Redesign Efforts in Comprehensive, Low-Performing High Schools
Connecticut State Department of Education
14SDE0015-RFP
Synopsis of Program:
There are dozens of low-performing high schools in Connecticut, many of which are concentrated in the
state's 30 Alliance Districts. With a few exceptions, past efforts to address underperformance in these
comprehensive high schools have failed to generate necessary and/or lasting results. Given the urgent
need to improve student achievement, the Connecticut State Department of Education (“CSDE”) is eager
to support district and school teams in their high school redesign efforts. A growing body of research
supports converting large, comprehensive high schools into small learning communities (SLCs) or
autonomous academies within a larger school campus. To that end, the Turnaround Office seeks a
provider(s) willing and able to offer the services described in Section II of this Request for Proposals
(“RFP”).
The purpose of this RFP is to identify a proven provider(s) able to offer the professional services listed
below, or some combination thereof, to support district and school teams in transforming
comprehensive, low-performing high schools into high-achieving SLCs or autonomous academies. It is
expected that these services will lead to significant gains in student achievement.
Scope and Activities:
The CSDE Turnaround Office seeks a provider willing and able to:
1. Lead and facilitate school redesign efforts in partnership with school and district administrators;
2. Offer strategies, models, and exemplars for converting large comprehensive high schools into SLCs or
autonomous academies;
3. Support school teams in developing actionable school reform plans, including strategies for staffing,
leadership, professional development, scheduling, budgeting, partnerships, and academic programming;
4. Provide ongoing advising to school and district leaders as they begin to operationalize school reform
plans;
5. Support district teams in identifying partners for thematic SLCs or autonomous academies;
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6. Provide and facilitate site visits to high-performing high schools successfully employing the SLC or
autonomous academy model;
7. Support family and community engagement efforts around the redesign process and SLC model;
8. Serve as a Lead Partner responsible for managing school operations and implementing SLCs or
autonomous academies; and/or
9. Collaborate with the CSDE to establish monitoring tools and processes to evaluate the effectiveness
and impact of high school redesign efforts.http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/rfp/14sde0015rfp_high_school_redesign_support.pdf
Full Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2014
Special Education--Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with
Disabilities
CFDA Number 84.325
Synopsis of Program:
The purposes of this program are to: (1)help address state-identified needs for highly qualified
personnel—in special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education—to work
with children, including infants and toddlers, with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have
the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through
scientifically based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children.http://www2.ed.gov/programs/osepprep/index.html
Deadline: April 8, 2014
Department of State
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://exchanges.state.gov/grants/open2.html
State of Connecticut Office of Higher Education
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www.ctohe.org/
Foundations and Private Organizations for Institutional Awards
Philanthropy News Digest (http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/) offers suggestions from private
foundations.
Need assistance identifying potential sponsors from the private sector, including corporations and
private foundations? Contact Linda F. Seligson, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
([email protected]).
Lung Cancer Research Foundation
The Lung Cancer Research Foundation supports research on innovative strategies for better treatments,
screening, and prevention of all cancers of the lung. The foundation's goal is to fund promising scientific
and clinical research initiatives that lead to more positive outcomes and improved quality of life for all
lung cancer patients.
To that end, LCRF has issued a Request for Proposals designed to provide critical seed support for
cutting-edge scientific research on all lung cancers. Through its Research Grant program, the foundation
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will support projects with a focus on basic science, translational research, clinical research, supportive
care, and quality of care/outcomes.
Grant amounts will vary on a project-by-project basis.
The program is open to all U.S. and international investigators, including graduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, physicians, medical students, and nurse researchers.
See the LCRF Web site for complete program guidelines and application procedures.http://www.lungcancerresearchfoundation.org/our-research/current-grants/
Application Deadline: June 16, 2014
American Cancer Society
Synopsis of Program:
To stimulate research that will generate new knowledge of the effects of the US healthcare system
structure and the role of insurance on both access to and outcomes of cancer screening, early detection
and treatment services. Studies investigating how one or more factors impacting access and outcomes
interact – such as insurance status, costs, capacity, personal characteristics, provider characteristics,
components of the healthcare delivery system and other known factors – are encouraged.http://www.cancer.org/research/applyforaresearchgrant/granttypes/rfa-role-healthcare-insurance-
cancer
Application Deadline: April 1, 2014
Spencer Foundation Invites Proposals for Education Research Projects
Synopsis of Program:
The New Civics initiative starts with the assumption that a central aim of civic education is to prepare
young people to act with civic purpose and to do so effectively and with good judgment. Like others, we
presume that individuals must be educated for citizenship and that schools have a historic mandate to
develop young people’s knowledge, skills, and dispositions for responsible citizenship. At the same time,
we expand the scope of civic learning for civic action beyond the school; community organizations,
political parties, and many other groups have both the interest and the capacity to contribute to this
critical aim. If the goal is to prepare young people to act in informed and mature ways, what civic
knowledge, skills, dispositions, and attitudes do they need to learn or develop? How do young people
learn these building blocks for civic participation? Broadly speaking, how can education, in whatever
form it takes and wherever it occurs, contribute to more effective programs and practices to achieve
this goal?
Our aim is not simply to increase the quantity of civic action, but also to improve the quality of young
actors’ deliberations and participation, particularly by helping them to learn skills, knowledge, attitudes,
and dispositions that support this quality. While the quality of civic action is central to our framing of
this work, we highlight here as well our interest in understanding the pathways to civic action for young
people from diverse political, social, and economic backgrounds.http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/the-new-civics-rfp
Deadline: April 29, 2014 February 6, 2014 and April 29, 2014
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
PreK-8 Preservice Teacher Action Research Grants
Synopsis of Program:
The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support for action research conducted as a collaborative
by university faculty, preservice teacher(s), and classroom teacher(s) seeking to improve their
understanding of mathematics in PreK–8 classroom(s). For 2014–2015, a grant up to a maximum of
$3,000 will be awarded.
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Primary emphasis will be placed on collaboration by a team of researchers consisting of university,
elementary/middle school teachers, and preservice teachers from the undergraduate ranks. The action
research should be designed, implemented, and completed with a focus on enhancing the teaching
and/or learning of mathematics in Grades PreK–8.http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=15479
Application Deadline: May 2, 2014
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Keep America Beautiful Bin Grant Program
The Coca-Cola/Keep America Beautiful Recycling Bin Grant Program supports recycling in communities
and on college and university campuses by providing bins to selected grant recipients for the collection
of beverage container recyclables. Grants will be provided to a limited number of applicants who can
demonstrate how their proposals will lead to sustainable recycling opportunities.http://bingrant.org/
Application Deadline: March 3, 2014
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Bringing Theory to Practice
Engaged Learning, Civic Engagement and Development, and the Psychosocial
Well-Being of College Students
Synopsis of Program:
The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) encourages colleges and universities to reassert their
core purposes as educational institutions, not only to advance learning and discovery, but to advance
the potential and well-being of each individual student, and to advance education as a public good that
sustains a civic society.
The Project supports campus-based initiatives that demonstrate how uses of engaged forms of learning
that actively involve students both within and beyond the classroom directly contribute to their
cognitive, emotional, and civic development.
Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) requests proposals in one or more of the following three
categories.
Category I. Seminar Grants
Seminar Grants up to $1,000 are available for institutions to bring together diverse members
of the campus community for meaningful conversations which will result in institutional
actions. Matching support is not required. Proposals are accepted on quarterly deadlines
between 2012-2014 (June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15) and awards are
announced 2 weeks after each deadline.
Category II. Program Development Grants
Program Development Grants up to $10,000 are available for institutions to enhance or
extend a program which is consistent with our objectives. Institutional matching support is
required. Grants may be renewable. Proposals are accepted on quarterly deadlines between
2012-2014 (June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15) and awards are announced
6-8 weeks after each deadline.
Category III. Demonstration Site Grants
Grants up to $75,000, distributed over two years, are available for institutions proposing to
demonstrate the outcomes of building institutional capacity for a program of work consistent
with our purpose. Institutional matching support is required. Proposals are due by June 15,
2012, and awards are announced by July 15, 2012.http://www.aacu.org/bringing_theory/documents/BTtoP12to14RFP.pdf
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http://www.aacu.org/bringing_theory/fundingopportunities.cfm
Seminar Grants Deadlines: June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15
Program Development Grants Deadlines: June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15
Fellowships & Other Individual Awards
Grants-in-Aid of Research Program
Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society
The Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) program has been providing undergraduate and graduate
students with valuable educational experiences for more than 80 years. By encouraging close working
relationships between students and faculty, the program promotes scientific excellence and
achievement through hands-on learning.
The program awards grants of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering.
Designated funds from the National Academy of Sciences allow for grants of up to $5,000 for astronomy
research and $2,500 for vision related research. Students use the funding to pay for travel expenses to
and from a research site, or for purchase of non-standard laboratory equipment necessary to complete
a specific research project.http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml
Application Deadlines: March 15 and October 15 annually.
Please share with students who might be interested.
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2014
1121-0329
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on
Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2014. 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 criminal
justice in diverse cultural contexts within the United States.https://ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001101.pdf
Application Deadline: May 12, 2014
Announcements, Conferences, Calls for Papers
Innovators Forum
A Health and Social Entrepreneurship Conference
Friday, March 14, 2014
Shubert Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
The Innovator’s Forum will draw health, education, development, and social entrepreneurship
professionals and students for a focused, highly interactive, and collaborative conference on best and
emerging practices for effective programs. During presentations and meal receptions, the expert
speakers will offer key lessons, mentoring, and guidance about strategies that participants can apply to
their work in health, education, development, and social entrepreneurship.http://www.uniteforsight.org/forum/
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U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Energy Innovation Summit
February 24-26, 2014
ARPA-E has once again tapped an array of insightful keynote speakers and panelists for its 2014 Energy
Innovation Summit. Recent additions include world-renowned author and journalist Thomas Friedman;
BASF New Business GmbH Managing Director and CEO Dr. Stefan Blank; Waste Management Recycle
America and Organic Growth President William K. Caesar; MIT Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head
of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Prof. Richard Lester; and Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations for Operations, Plans, and Strategy Vice Admiral Michelle Howard. See the full list of 2014
Summit speakers and panelists on the ARPA-E Summit website.
There’s still time to register for this year’s Summit! Over 2,000 of your fellow energy innovators from
across industry, government, and academia will be convening February 24-26 at the Gaylord National
Convention Center to network, share knowledge, and collaborate. Visit the registration page of the
ARPA-E Summit website to learn more.
The 2014 Summit will feature a variety of new program elements. ARPA-E staff will hold a pre-summit
session where attendees can learn about career opportunities at the Agency. A new Innovation Board in
the foyer will provide attendees with opportunities to collaborate on solutions to critical energy
challenges. And, the popular Government Networking Program has spun out a separate state and global
component. View the Summit Agenda to learn more.
Can’t attend this year’s Summit? We’ll be live-tweeting throughout the event. Follow us on Twitter
@ARPAE to keep up with all of the action! If you are attending, let us know how your Summit
experience is going by tweeting us, and connect with other Summit attendees using #eis14.
New Website: Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities
In 2012-2013 the Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities moved to a new publisher: the
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care located at Tuskegee University. The academic
mission of the Journal and its impact continue to expand and grow. We welcome new authors and
collaborators to explore the Journal as a rich avenue for scholarship and publication.
The Journal has a new website for this calendar year. Past editions, General Information, and Author
Information are readily easily available for download at:http://jhsh.cryptictruth.com/
Data, Not Dollars: Twitter Announces a Grant Program
Tweets have become fodder for all kinds of academic research. Scholars mine Twitter to track how
voters view politicians, how the public reacts to antismoking campaigns, even how people’s moods
change through the day. But academics have faced technical and financial obstacles to obtaining the
tweets.
This week Twitter Inc. announced a pilot program that should make it simpler to pursue social-media
research—at least for some scholars.
The program, called Twitter Data Grants, will give researchers at "selected institutions free and easy
access to Twitter data sets," according to a company blog post announcing the effort and soliciting
project proposals. Those researchers will also get the chance to collaborate with Twitter’s engineers and
researchers.http://chronicle.com/article/Data-Not-Dollars-
Twitter/144619/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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Council on Undergraduate Research
Proposal Writing Institute
This Institute will bring together faculty and administrators interested in preparing proposals for
submission to external funding agencies. The four-day institute will consist of one-on-one work with a
mentor, writing, small group discussions, and critiquing of proposals. The institute has been developed
to assist novice to experienced proposal writers in drafting complete proposals for submission. Prior to
the institute participants will be able to access information that will help them begin to draft their
proposal.
Time at the Institute will consist of periods of proposal preparation interspersed with one-on-one
mentoring by experienced and successful proposal writers, members of grants review panels, former
program officers and/or Directors of Sponsored Programs Offices. Small group discussions and group
critiquing sessions round out the Institute. Participants who come well-prepared and who work hard
should be able to leave the Institute with a completed (or nearly completed) proposal to the granting
agency of their choice.http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/institutes/proposal_writing_institute/
Next Offering: July 17-21, 2014 - University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Application Deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Council on Undergraduate Research
Summer 2014 issue of the CUR Quarterly
Submissions for the "Undergraduate Research Highlights" feature of the Summer 2014 issue of the CUR
Quarterly are being accepted until March 15, 2014. Highlights consist of brief descriptions of recent
(past six months) peer-reviewed research or scholarly publications in scholarly journals, book and book
chapters, web-based publications, and juried performances. These publications must be in print and
must include one or more undergraduate co-authors.https://members.cur.org/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=137
Deadline: March 15, 2014
doc_117330228.pdf
The information below represents a sample of requests for proposals or applications (RFP/RFA) from governmental and non-governmental agencies with upcoming deadlines.
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Gr ant s & Sponsor ed Pr ogr ams
Open RFPs – Febr uar y 27, 2014
Note: This is not a comprehensive list. The information below represents a sample of requests for proposals or
applications (RFP/RFA) from governmental and non-governmental agencies with upcoming deadlines. Review
previous postings and search directly through various listed search engines for more complete results.
Included in this update:
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Department of Defense Agencies
Department of Energy
U.S. Small Business Administration
Department of Agriculture
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts
Department of Education
Department of State
State of Connecticut Office of Higher Education
Foundations and Private Organizations for Institutional Awards
Fellowships & Other Individual Awards
Announcements, Conferences, Calls for Papers
*Click on the heading to go directly to a specific section.
National Science Foundation
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace: Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and
Systems (SaTC: STARSS)
14-528
Synopsis of Program:
Cyberspace has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. However, our increasing
dependence upon cyberspace has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities: corporations, agencies,
national infrastructure and individuals have been victims of cyber-attacks. In December 2011, the
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) with the cooperation of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) issued a broad, coordinated federal strategic plan for cybersecurity research and
development (Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and
Development Program) to “change the game,” by calling for establishing a science of cybersecurity,
transitioning promising cybersecurity research into practice, and bolstering education and training in
cybersecurity.
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The NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program is supportive of this strategic plan. SaTC
recognizes that cyberspace will continue to grow and evolve, and that advances in science and
engineering will create new “leap-ahead” opportunities expanding cyberspace. It further recognizes that
cybersecurity must also grow and co-evolve, and that a secure and trustworthy cyberspace will ensure
continued economic growth and future technological innovation.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504996&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline: March 26, 2014
Genealogy of Life (GoLife)
14-527
Synopsis of Program:
All of comparative biology depends on knowledge of the evolutionary relationships (phylogeny) of living
and extinct organisms. In addition, understanding biodiversity and how it changes over time is only
possible when Earth's diversity is organized into a phylogenetic framework. The goals of the Genealogy
of Life (GoLife) program are to resolve the phylogenetic history of life and to integrate this genealogical
architecture with underlying organismal data.
The ultimate vision of this program is an open access, universal Genealogy of Life that will provide the
comparative framework necessary for testing questions in systematics, evolutionary biology, ecology,
and other fields. A further strategic integration of this genealogy of life with data layers from genomic,
phenotypic, spatial, ecological and temporal data will produce a grand synthesis of biodiversity and
evolutionary sciences. The resulting knowledge infrastructure will enable synthetic research on
biological dynamics throughout the history of life on Earth, within current ecosystems, and for predictive
modeling of the future evolution of life.
Projects submitted to this program should emphasize increased efficiency in contributing to a complete
Genealogy of Life and integration of various types of organismal data with phylogenies.
This program also seeks to broadly train next generation, integrative phylogenetic biologists, creating
the human resource infrastructure and workforce needed to tackle emerging research questions in
comparative biology. Projects should train students for diverse careers by exposing them to the
multidisciplinary areas of research within the proposal.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5129&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline: March 26, 2014
Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC)
14-518
Synopsis of Program:
In 2013, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, was deployed at the University of
Illinois. The goal of this project and system is to open up new possibilities in science and engineering by
providing computational capability that makes it possible for investigators to tackle much larger and
more complex research challenges across a wide spectrum of domains. The purpose of this solicitation
is to invite research groups to submit requests for allocations of resources on the Blue Waters system.
Proposers must show a compelling science or engineering challenge that will require petascale
computing resources. Proposers must also be prepared to demonstrate that they have a science or
engineering research problem that requires and can effectively exploit the petascale computing
capabilities offered by Blue Waters. Proposals from or including junior researchers are encouraged, as
one of the goals of this solicitation is to build a community capable of using petascale computing.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503224&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 10, 2014
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Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT)
13-575
Synopsis of Program:
The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and
Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research
(AIR) and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). In the final analysis, both programs are concerned with the
movement of academic research discoveries into the marketplace although each focuses on different
stages along the innovation spectrum. The subject of this solicitation is PFI: AIR Technology Translation
(TT) only. The PFI: AIR-TT solicitation is intended to help bridge the funding gap between existing
research discoveries that validate relevant science and engineering fundamentals and their translation
through proof-of-concept, prototype, or scale-up along a path toward commercialization and engage
faculty and students in entrepreneurial/innovative thinking.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504790&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: March 13, 2014
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 1, 2014
Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS)
14-524
Synopsis of Program:
Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and health. These
infrastructures are interdependent. For example, the electrical power system depends on the delivery
of fuels to power generating stations through transportation services, the production of those fuels
depends in turn on the use of electrical power, and those fuels are needed by the transportation
services.
The goals of the Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) solicitation are (1)
to foster an interdisciplinary research community that discovers new knowledge for the design and
operation of infrastructures as processes and services (2) to enhance the understanding and design of
interdependent critical infrastructure systems (ICIs) and processes that provide essential goods and
services despite disruptions and failures from any cause, natural, technological, or malicious, and (3) to
create the knowledge for innovation in ICIs to advance society with new goods and services. The
objectives of this solicitation are:
•Create theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary computational models of interdependent
infrastructure systems, processes and services, capable of analytical prediction of complex behaviors, in
response to system and policy changes.
•Synthesize new approaches to increase resilience, interoperations, performance, and readiness in ICIs.
•Understand organizational, social, psychological, legal, political and economic obstacles to improving
ICI's, and identifying strategies for overcoming those obstacles.
The RIPS solicitation seeks proposals with transformative ideas that will ensure ICIs services are
effective, efficient, dependable, adaptable, resilient, safe, and secure. Successful proposals are
expected to study multiple infrastructures focusing on them as interdependent systems that deliver
services, enabling a new interdisciplinary paradigm in infrastructure research. Proposals that do not
broadly integrate across the cyber-physical, engineering and social, behavioral and economic (SBE)
sciences may be returned without review. Projects supported under this solicitation may undertake the
collection of new data or use existing curated data depending on the category of award, and must
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recognize that a primary objective is integrative predictive modeling that can use the data to validate
the models and which can be integrated into decision making.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504971&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 19, 2014
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE & SSI (SI2 - SSE&SSI)
14-520
Synopsis of Program:
Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for
realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) vision, as
described inhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp. Scientific discovery and innovation
are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated
software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant
enhancement of researchers' capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode
of scientific progress, NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into
sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504865&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning)
14-526
Synopsis of Program:
The purpose of the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program is to integrate
opportunities offered by emerging technologies with advances in what is known about how people learn
to advance three interconnected thrusts:
•Innovation: inventing and improving next-generation genres (types) of learning technologies,
identifying new means of using technology for fostering and assessing learning, and proposing new ways
of integrating learning technologies with each other and into learning environments to foster and assess
learning;
•Advancing understanding of how people learn in technology-rich learning environments: enhancing
understanding of how people learn and how to better foster and assess learning, especially in
technology-rich learning environments that offer new opportunities for learning and through data
collection and computational modeling of learners and groups of learners that can be done only in such
environments; and
•Promoting broad use and transferability of new genres: extracting lessons from experiences with these
technologies that can inform design and use of new genres across disciplines, populations, and learning
environments; advancing understanding of how to foster learning through effective use these new
technologies and the environments they are integrated into.
The intention of this program is to advance technologies that specifically focus on the experiences of
learners; innovations that simply focus on making teaching easier will not be funded. Proposals that
focus on teachers or facilitators as learners are invited; the aim in these proposals should be to help
teachers and facilitators learn to make the learning experiences of learners more effective.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504984&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
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STEM-C Partnerships: Computing Education for the 21st Century (STEM-CP: CE21)
14-523
Synopsis of Program:
The STEM-C (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, including Computing) Partnerships
program is a major research and development effort of two NSF Directorates, the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE), which supports innovative partnerships to improve teaching and learning in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. STEM-C Partnerships combines and
advances the efforts of both the former Math and Science Partnership (MSP) and the former Computing
Education for the 21st Century (CE21) programs. It is critical that our nation maintain a competent,
competitive and creative STEM workforce, including teachers. Therefore, NSF aims to inspire and
motivate the next generation of that workforce, while ensuring that it has the skills, competencies, and
preparation to be successful. As we transition to a global, knowledge-based economy that is often
driven by information technology and innovation, it is increasingly important that STEM workforce
preparation includes a strong foundation in computing. Thus, 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.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503582&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 18, 2014
STEM-C Partnerships: MSP (STEM-CP: MSP)
14-522
Synopsis of Program:
The STEM-C (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, including Computing) Partnerships
program is a major research and development effort of two NSF Directorates, the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering, which supports innovative partnerships to improve teaching and learning in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. STEM-C Partnerships combines and
advances the efforts of both the former Math and Science Partnership (MSP) and the former Computing
Education for the 21st Century (CE21) programs. It is critical that our nation maintain a competent,
competitive and creative STEM workforce, including teachers. Therefore, NSF aims to inspire and
motivate the next generation of that workforce, while ensuring that it has the skills, competencies, and
preparation to be successful. As we transition to a global, knowledge-based economy that is often
driven by information technology and innovation, it is increasingly important that STEM workforce
preparation includes a strong foundation in computing. Thus, 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.http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505006&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 18, 2014
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Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Research Related to the Science of Broadening Participation
NSF 14-038
Dear Colleague:
Building on previous investments, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) and
the Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR) announce their interest in stimulating research
related to the Science of Broadening Participation (SBP). The Science of Broadening Participation will
employ the theories, methods, and analytic techniques of the social, behavioral, economic, and learning
sciences to better understand the barriers that hinder and factors that enhance our ability to broaden
participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The results of these efforts
will inform approaches to increase the access and involvement of underrepresented groups in STEM and
to strengthen our national STEM capabilities and competitive advantage. Ultimately, the SBP research
will provide scientific evidence that STEM educators, STEM employers, and policy makers need to make
informed decisions and to design effective programs and interventions.
In FY 2014, SBE and EHR will partner to support SBP research proposals that will contribute to the
overall understanding of the positive and negative factors impacting the participation of
underrepresented individuals in STEM education and careers. SBP research proposals may focus on
factors such as the following:
Sincerely,
Dr. Joanne Tornow
Acting Assistant Director
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Assistant Director
Directorate for Education and Human Resourceshttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14038/nsf14038.pdf
National Institutes of Health
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21)
National Institutes of Health — Department of Health and Human Services
PAR-14-119
Synopsis of Program:
This FOA encourages Exploratory/ Developmental Research Project (R21) applications for design and
development of novel technologies to monitor health or deliver care in a real-time, accessible, effective,
and minimally obtrusive way. These may be novel sensor or monitoring systems, home-use point-of-care
devices, home or mobile therapy or rehabilitation tools, or information systems and should have the
goal of fostering healthy and independent living. The development of such technologies has the
potential to significantly improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, people aging with mild
impairments, as well as individuals with chronic conditions.http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-119.html
Letter of Intent Due: 30 days before the application due date
Application Due Date: September 23, 2014; September 23, 2015; September 23, 2016
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Development of Software and Analysis Methods for Biomedical Big Data in Targeted Areas of High
Need (U01) - Department of Health and Human Services
RFA-HG-14-020
Synopsis of Program:
In response to the spectacular opportunities and immense challenges presented by the dawning era of
"Big Data" in biomedical research, NIH has developed the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative with
the mission of enabling the biomedical research community to use the various types of Big Data for
research. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit development of
analysis methods and software in the four topic areas of data compression/reduction, data visualization,
data provenance, and data wrangling as part of the overall BD2K initiative.http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-14-020.html
Letter of Intent Due: May 19, 2014
Application Due Date: June 19, 2014
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/solicitations.do?method=open&stack=push
Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion 2014 (SpaceTech-REDDI-
2014)
NNH14ZOA001N
Synopsis of Program:
This NASA Research Announcement (NRA), entitled “Space Technology Research, Development,
Demonstration, and Infusion 2014 (SpaceTech-REDDI-2014)” is NASA Space Technology Mission
Directorate’s (STMD) first annual umbrella solicitation. The following STMD programs will be included in
the solicitation:
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC),
Space Technology Research Grants (STRG),
Game Changing Development (GCD),
Small Spacecraft Technology (SST),
Technology Demonstration Missions (TDM) and
Flight Opportunities Program (FOP)
The Space Technology portfolio supports a combination of early stage studies, for assessing the
feasibility of entirely new technologies (which corresponds to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) range
from 1 to 3); maturing feasible technologies through rapid competitive development and ground based
testing (TRL 3-5); and flight demonstrations in a relevant environment to complete the final step to
mission infusion (TRL 5-7) (Attachment 2 “Technology Readiness Level Descriptions”). This technological
diversity results in a sustainable pipeline of revolutionary concepts. STMD seeks aggressive technology
development efforts that may require undertaking significant technical challenges and risk to achieve a
higher potential payoff.
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http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/cmdocumentid=394629/solicitationId=%
7B6DB59BB3-3679-F12D-E060-204DFE06A924%7D/viewSolicitationDocument=1/SpaceTech-REDDI-
2014%20Final%20solicitation%20November%201%202013.pdf
Department of Defense Agencies
DARPA listings – see alsohttp://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Solicitations/DSO_Solicitations.aspx
ONR Notices:http://www.onr.navy.mil/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities.aspxhttp://www.onr.navy.mil/Science-Technology/Departments/Code-34/All-Programs.aspx
Mining and Understanding Software Enclaves (MUSE)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — Department of Defense
DARPA-BAA-14-22
Synopsis of Program:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in
the areas of program analysis, verification, and big data analytics for specifying, discovering, and
understanding properties of complex software systems. Proposed research should investigate
innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, methods, or systems. Specifically
excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
This broad agency announcement (BAA) is being issued, and any resultant selection will be made, using
procedures under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 35.016.
file:///C:/Users/grad-grants/Downloads/darpa-baa-14-22%20muse.pdf
Proposal Due Date: April 15, 2014
Defense Advanced Research Projects
Defense Sciences Research and Technology
DARPA-BAA-13-32
Synopsis of Program:
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 primarily results 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.https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=28e5dfc563c246b59c3f02e12dee3b53&tab
=core&_cview=1
Deadline: 3/18/14
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Department of Energy
For complete list of opportunities visit:https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/
Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute For Composite Materials and Structures
DE-FOA-0000977
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) of
EERE seeks to establish a Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Composites Materials and
Structures that will support U.S. prosperity and security; and contribute to the creation of the pilot
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. The vision for the Institute is to revitalize American
manufacturing and support domestic manufacturing competitiveness. The technical topic area for this
Institute is low cost, energy efficient manufacturing of fiber reinforced polymer composites. The
Institute will target continuous or discontinuous, primarily carbon and glass fiber systems, with
thermoset or thermoplastic resin materials. These types of composites are foundational technologies
that are broadly applicable and pervasive in multiple industries and markets with potentially
transformational technical and economic impact.
file:///C:/Users/grad-grants/Downloads/DE-FOA-
0000977_Clean_Energy_Manufacturing_Innovation_Institute_for_Composite_Materials_and_Structures
Informational Webinar: March 6, 2014
Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: April 22, 2014
Submission Deadline for Full Applications: June 19, 2014
Microgrid Research, Development, and System Design
National Energy Technology Laboratory — Department of Energy
DE-FOA-0000997
Synopsis of Program:
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for financial
assistance awards to enable microgrid development. This FOA is responsive to addressing high-priority
research, development and demonstration activities, identified jointly with key stakeholders, to
overcome key challenges facing broad adoption of microgrids for key commercial applications.http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=250754
Application Deadline: Apr 28, 2014
Vehicle Technologies Program
DE-FOA-0000991
Synopsis of Program:
The Vehicle Technologies Office supports a broad research, development, and deployment technology
portfolio focused on reducing the cost and improving the performance of a mix of near- and long-term
vehicle technologies including advanced batteries, power electronics and electric motors, lightweight
and propulsion materials, advanced combustion engines, advanced fuels and lubricants, and other
enabling technologies. Specifically, activities are aimed at meeting the goals and objectives of the
President's Electric Vehicle Everywhere Grand Challenge as well as improvements in other vehicle
technologies such as powertrains, fuel, tires, and auxiliary systems. Investment in advanced vehicle
technologies, like vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and combustion engines, will yield benefits to
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conventional vehicles, as well as yielding the technologies necessary for alternative fuel vehicles. This
Funding Opportunity Announcement contains a total of 13 areas of interest in the general areas of
advanced light-weighting; advanced battery development; power electronics; advanced heating,
ventilation, air conditioning systems; and fuels and lubricants.http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/financial/solicitations_detail.asp?sol_id=727
Close Date: April 1, 2014
U.S. Wind Manufacturing: Taller Hub Heights to Access Higher Wind Resources and Lower Cost of
Energy
DE-FOA-0000982
Synopsis of Program:
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support the development of technologies that
mitigate U.S. transportation and logistics constraints affecting the deployment of taller utility-scale wind
turbine systems. Continued turbine up-scaling and design advancements are expected to increase
turbine performance and lower costs. Scaling to higher hub heights allows wind turbines to capture less
turbulent and often stronger wind resources, thereby improving productivity and economics. Supported
projects will develop lifecycle cost-competitive tower solutions that address the challenges of
fabricating, transporting, assembling, maintaining, and decommissioning towers for turbine hub heights
of at least 120 m. These projects will strengthen U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing wind turbine
components, reduce the cost of wind energy, and dramatically expand the geographic range of cost-
effective wind power in the United States.https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId66d6cb29-b48a-4c59-b99f-224392c97a6b
Full Application Submission Deadline: 9/6/2013 5:00 PM ET
U.S. Small Business Administration
Boots-to-Business Program Announcement
B2B-2014-01
Synopsis of Program:
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to invite proposals from Public and Private Institutions to
provide entrepreneurship training, curriculum development and program management support services
for global delivery of B2B which will require at a minimum: 1) providing a network of instructors to teach
“Foundations” and to travel and teach “Intro” at overseas military installations; 2) production, global
distribution and inventory management of all course materials; 3) managing the SBA owned course
curricula including continuous improvement and compatibility with Department of Defense (DOD)
learning management systems; 4) execution of project management and marketing activities including
website administration, content generation and coordination; 5) collection, analysis, and reporting on
metrics and measures for program outcomes assessment; and, 6) collaboration on all program elements
with SBA Office of Veterans Business Development (OVBD), SBA District Offices, SBA Resource Partners,
and Veteran Business Outreach Centers (VBOCs).http://www.sba.gov/content/boots-business-program-announcement-b2b-2014-01
Application Deadline: March 3, 2014
Department of Agriculture
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www.csrees.usda.gov/business/business.html#
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National Endowment for the Humanities
For complete list of opportunities visit: www.neh.gov
Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
Synopsis of Program:
The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics 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.
The Division of Public Programs encourages innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple
points of view in creative formats. The proposed film should range in length from thirty minutes to a
feature-length documentary.
We invite a wide range of approaches to international and transnational topics and themes, such as
•an examination of a critical issue in ethics, religion, literature, or history, viewed through an
international lens;
•an exploration of a topic that transcends a single nation-state;
•a biography of a foreign leader, writer, artist, or historical figure; or
•an exploration of the history and culture(s) of a specific region, country, or community outside of the
United States.http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/bridging-cultures-through-film-international-topics
Receipt Deadline: June 11, 2014
Challenge Grants
Synopsis:
NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions and organizations secure
long-term support for their humanities programs and resources. Through these awards, many
organizations and institutions have been able to increase their humanities capacity and secure the
permanent support of an endowment. Grants may be used to establish or enhance endowments or
spend-down funds that generate expendable earnings to support and enhance ongoing program
activities. Challenge grants may also provide capital directly supporting the procurement of long-lasting
objects, such as acquisitions for archives and collections, the purchase of equipment, and the
construction or renovation of facilities needed for humanities activities. Funds spent directly must be
shown to bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly. Grantee
institutions may also expend up to 10 percent of total grant funds (federal funds plus matching funds) to
defray costs of fundraising to meet the NEH challenge. Because of the matching requirement, these NEH
grants also strengthen the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support.
Applications are welcome from colleges and universities, museums, public libraries, research
institutions, historical societies and historic sites, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and
other nonprofit humanities entities. Programs that involve collaboration among multiple institutions are
eligible as well, but one institution must serve as the lead agent and formal applicant of record.http://www.neh.gov/grants/challenge/challenge-grants
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Receipt Deadline: May 1, 2014
Contact Carol Withers as soon as possible if you have an interest in this program. It requires very
significant cost-sharing on the part of the University that must be approved in advance.
Collaborative Research Grants
Synopsis of Program:
Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or
more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available
for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field
work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are
expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences.
Eligible projects include
•research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities;
•conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research;
•archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may
encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive
monographs); and
research that uses the knowledge and perspectives of the humanities and historical or philosophical
methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/collaborative-research-grants
Receipt Deadline: December 9, 2014
National Endowment for the Arts
For complete list of opportunities visit: www.nea.gov
Department of Education
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/grantapps/index.html
Professional Services for Low-Performing Schools to Support and Empower Teachers and Leaders
Connecticut State Department of Education
14SDE0016-RFP
Synopsis of Program:
A growing body of research demonstrates the primacy and impact of teacher and leader effectiveness
on student achievement. Typically, urban public school districts have difficulty attracting and retaining
top talent in their lowest-performing schools. Leaders and teachers in these schools often lack the
ongoing support, development, feedback, and coaching necessary to grow as professionals and become
highly effective. The Turnaround Office and the Connecticut State Department of Education (“CSDE”)
unfortunately do not have the capability or capacity to meaningfully support and systematically increase
leader and teacher effectiveness in these schools and at scale. Therefore, the Turnaround Office seeks a
provider willing and able to offer professional services to support and empower teachers and leaders in
low-performing schools in the areas described in Section II of this Request for Proposals (“RFP”).
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The purpose of this RFP is to identify a proven provider(s) able to offer the professional services, or
some combination thereof, listed below that will support and empower teachers and leaders serving in
low-performing schools. It is expected that these services will lead to significant gains in student
achievement.
Scope and Activities:
The CSDE is seeking a proven provider willing and able to:
1. Provide differentiated teacher coaching to new and/or developing teachers;
2. Design and/or deliver targeted and job-embedded professional development for teachers;
3. Offer leadership development support to school administrators;
4. Provide ongoing training and calibration support for school administrators executing frequent formal
and informal teacher evaluations;
5. Support school leaders in communicating meaningful and actionable feedback to teachers and staff;
6. Support school leaders in using data and aligning professional learning opportunities to staff
development areas identified through evaluations;
7. Provide monitoring tools to evaluate leadership effectiveness and the professional work environment;
8. Diagnose instructional and leadership constraints in low-performing schools; and/or
9. Offer training in best practices for classroom walkthroughs and teacher and leader coaching.http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/rfp/14sde0016rfp_teacher_and_leader_effectiveness.pdf
Full Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2014
Professional Services to Support Redesign Efforts in Comprehensive, Low-Performing High Schools
Connecticut State Department of Education
14SDE0015-RFP
Synopsis of Program:
There are dozens of low-performing high schools in Connecticut, many of which are concentrated in the
state's 30 Alliance Districts. With a few exceptions, past efforts to address underperformance in these
comprehensive high schools have failed to generate necessary and/or lasting results. Given the urgent
need to improve student achievement, the Connecticut State Department of Education (“CSDE”) is eager
to support district and school teams in their high school redesign efforts. A growing body of research
supports converting large, comprehensive high schools into small learning communities (SLCs) or
autonomous academies within a larger school campus. To that end, the Turnaround Office seeks a
provider(s) willing and able to offer the services described in Section II of this Request for Proposals
(“RFP”).
The purpose of this RFP is to identify a proven provider(s) able to offer the professional services listed
below, or some combination thereof, to support district and school teams in transforming
comprehensive, low-performing high schools into high-achieving SLCs or autonomous academies. It is
expected that these services will lead to significant gains in student achievement.
Scope and Activities:
The CSDE Turnaround Office seeks a provider willing and able to:
1. Lead and facilitate school redesign efforts in partnership with school and district administrators;
2. Offer strategies, models, and exemplars for converting large comprehensive high schools into SLCs or
autonomous academies;
3. Support school teams in developing actionable school reform plans, including strategies for staffing,
leadership, professional development, scheduling, budgeting, partnerships, and academic programming;
4. Provide ongoing advising to school and district leaders as they begin to operationalize school reform
plans;
5. Support district teams in identifying partners for thematic SLCs or autonomous academies;
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6. Provide and facilitate site visits to high-performing high schools successfully employing the SLC or
autonomous academy model;
7. Support family and community engagement efforts around the redesign process and SLC model;
8. Serve as a Lead Partner responsible for managing school operations and implementing SLCs or
autonomous academies; and/or
9. Collaborate with the CSDE to establish monitoring tools and processes to evaluate the effectiveness
and impact of high school redesign efforts.http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/rfp/14sde0015rfp_high_school_redesign_support.pdf
Full Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2014
Special Education--Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with
Disabilities
CFDA Number 84.325
Synopsis of Program:
The purposes of this program are to: (1)help address state-identified needs for highly qualified
personnel—in special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education—to work
with children, including infants and toddlers, with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have
the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through
scientifically based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children.http://www2.ed.gov/programs/osepprep/index.html
Deadline: April 8, 2014
Department of State
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://exchanges.state.gov/grants/open2.html
State of Connecticut Office of Higher Education
For complete list of opportunities visit:http://www.ctohe.org/
Foundations and Private Organizations for Institutional Awards
Philanthropy News Digest (http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/) offers suggestions from private
foundations.
Need assistance identifying potential sponsors from the private sector, including corporations and
private foundations? Contact Linda F. Seligson, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
([email protected]).
Lung Cancer Research Foundation
The Lung Cancer Research Foundation supports research on innovative strategies for better treatments,
screening, and prevention of all cancers of the lung. The foundation's goal is to fund promising scientific
and clinical research initiatives that lead to more positive outcomes and improved quality of life for all
lung cancer patients.
To that end, LCRF has issued a Request for Proposals designed to provide critical seed support for
cutting-edge scientific research on all lung cancers. Through its Research Grant program, the foundation
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will support projects with a focus on basic science, translational research, clinical research, supportive
care, and quality of care/outcomes.
Grant amounts will vary on a project-by-project basis.
The program is open to all U.S. and international investigators, including graduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, physicians, medical students, and nurse researchers.
See the LCRF Web site for complete program guidelines and application procedures.http://www.lungcancerresearchfoundation.org/our-research/current-grants/
Application Deadline: June 16, 2014
American Cancer Society
Synopsis of Program:
To stimulate research that will generate new knowledge of the effects of the US healthcare system
structure and the role of insurance on both access to and outcomes of cancer screening, early detection
and treatment services. Studies investigating how one or more factors impacting access and outcomes
interact – such as insurance status, costs, capacity, personal characteristics, provider characteristics,
components of the healthcare delivery system and other known factors – are encouraged.http://www.cancer.org/research/applyforaresearchgrant/granttypes/rfa-role-healthcare-insurance-
cancer
Application Deadline: April 1, 2014
Spencer Foundation Invites Proposals for Education Research Projects
Synopsis of Program:
The New Civics initiative starts with the assumption that a central aim of civic education is to prepare
young people to act with civic purpose and to do so effectively and with good judgment. Like others, we
presume that individuals must be educated for citizenship and that schools have a historic mandate to
develop young people’s knowledge, skills, and dispositions for responsible citizenship. At the same time,
we expand the scope of civic learning for civic action beyond the school; community organizations,
political parties, and many other groups have both the interest and the capacity to contribute to this
critical aim. If the goal is to prepare young people to act in informed and mature ways, what civic
knowledge, skills, dispositions, and attitudes do they need to learn or develop? How do young people
learn these building blocks for civic participation? Broadly speaking, how can education, in whatever
form it takes and wherever it occurs, contribute to more effective programs and practices to achieve
this goal?
Our aim is not simply to increase the quantity of civic action, but also to improve the quality of young
actors’ deliberations and participation, particularly by helping them to learn skills, knowledge, attitudes,
and dispositions that support this quality. While the quality of civic action is central to our framing of
this work, we highlight here as well our interest in understanding the pathways to civic action for young
people from diverse political, social, and economic backgrounds.http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/the-new-civics-rfp
Deadline: April 29, 2014 February 6, 2014 and April 29, 2014
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
PreK-8 Preservice Teacher Action Research Grants
Synopsis of Program:
The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support for action research conducted as a collaborative
by university faculty, preservice teacher(s), and classroom teacher(s) seeking to improve their
understanding of mathematics in PreK–8 classroom(s). For 2014–2015, a grant up to a maximum of
$3,000 will be awarded.
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Primary emphasis will be placed on collaboration by a team of researchers consisting of university,
elementary/middle school teachers, and preservice teachers from the undergraduate ranks. The action
research should be designed, implemented, and completed with a focus on enhancing the teaching
and/or learning of mathematics in Grades PreK–8.http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=15479
Application Deadline: May 2, 2014
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Keep America Beautiful Bin Grant Program
The Coca-Cola/Keep America Beautiful Recycling Bin Grant Program supports recycling in communities
and on college and university campuses by providing bins to selected grant recipients for the collection
of beverage container recyclables. Grants will be provided to a limited number of applicants who can
demonstrate how their proposals will lead to sustainable recycling opportunities.http://bingrant.org/
Application Deadline: March 3, 2014
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Bringing Theory to Practice
Engaged Learning, Civic Engagement and Development, and the Psychosocial
Well-Being of College Students
Synopsis of Program:
The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) encourages colleges and universities to reassert their
core purposes as educational institutions, not only to advance learning and discovery, but to advance
the potential and well-being of each individual student, and to advance education as a public good that
sustains a civic society.
The Project supports campus-based initiatives that demonstrate how uses of engaged forms of learning
that actively involve students both within and beyond the classroom directly contribute to their
cognitive, emotional, and civic development.
Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) requests proposals in one or more of the following three
categories.
Category I. Seminar Grants
Seminar Grants up to $1,000 are available for institutions to bring together diverse members
of the campus community for meaningful conversations which will result in institutional
actions. Matching support is not required. Proposals are accepted on quarterly deadlines
between 2012-2014 (June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15) and awards are
announced 2 weeks after each deadline.
Category II. Program Development Grants
Program Development Grants up to $10,000 are available for institutions to enhance or
extend a program which is consistent with our objectives. Institutional matching support is
required. Grants may be renewable. Proposals are accepted on quarterly deadlines between
2012-2014 (June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15) and awards are announced
6-8 weeks after each deadline.
Category III. Demonstration Site Grants
Grants up to $75,000, distributed over two years, are available for institutions proposing to
demonstrate the outcomes of building institutional capacity for a program of work consistent
with our purpose. Institutional matching support is required. Proposals are due by June 15,
2012, and awards are announced by July 15, 2012.http://www.aacu.org/bringing_theory/documents/BTtoP12to14RFP.pdf
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http://www.aacu.org/bringing_theory/fundingopportunities.cfm
Seminar Grants Deadlines: June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15
Program Development Grants Deadlines: June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15
Fellowships & Other Individual Awards
Grants-in-Aid of Research Program
Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society
The Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) program has been providing undergraduate and graduate
students with valuable educational experiences for more than 80 years. By encouraging close working
relationships between students and faculty, the program promotes scientific excellence and
achievement through hands-on learning.
The program awards grants of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering.
Designated funds from the National Academy of Sciences allow for grants of up to $5,000 for astronomy
research and $2,500 for vision related research. Students use the funding to pay for travel expenses to
and from a research site, or for purchase of non-standard laboratory equipment necessary to complete
a specific research project.http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml
Application Deadlines: March 15 and October 15 annually.
Please share with students who might be interested.
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2014
1121-0329
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on
Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2014. 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 criminal
justice in diverse cultural contexts within the United States.https://ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001101.pdf
Application Deadline: May 12, 2014
Announcements, Conferences, Calls for Papers
Innovators Forum
A Health and Social Entrepreneurship Conference
Friday, March 14, 2014
Shubert Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
The Innovator’s Forum will draw health, education, development, and social entrepreneurship
professionals and students for a focused, highly interactive, and collaborative conference on best and
emerging practices for effective programs. During presentations and meal receptions, the expert
speakers will offer key lessons, mentoring, and guidance about strategies that participants can apply to
their work in health, education, development, and social entrepreneurship.http://www.uniteforsight.org/forum/
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U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Energy Innovation Summit
February 24-26, 2014
ARPA-E has once again tapped an array of insightful keynote speakers and panelists for its 2014 Energy
Innovation Summit. Recent additions include world-renowned author and journalist Thomas Friedman;
BASF New Business GmbH Managing Director and CEO Dr. Stefan Blank; Waste Management Recycle
America and Organic Growth President William K. Caesar; MIT Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head
of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Prof. Richard Lester; and Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations for Operations, Plans, and Strategy Vice Admiral Michelle Howard. See the full list of 2014
Summit speakers and panelists on the ARPA-E Summit website.
There’s still time to register for this year’s Summit! Over 2,000 of your fellow energy innovators from
across industry, government, and academia will be convening February 24-26 at the Gaylord National
Convention Center to network, share knowledge, and collaborate. Visit the registration page of the
ARPA-E Summit website to learn more.
The 2014 Summit will feature a variety of new program elements. ARPA-E staff will hold a pre-summit
session where attendees can learn about career opportunities at the Agency. A new Innovation Board in
the foyer will provide attendees with opportunities to collaborate on solutions to critical energy
challenges. And, the popular Government Networking Program has spun out a separate state and global
component. View the Summit Agenda to learn more.
Can’t attend this year’s Summit? We’ll be live-tweeting throughout the event. Follow us on Twitter
@ARPAE to keep up with all of the action! If you are attending, let us know how your Summit
experience is going by tweeting us, and connect with other Summit attendees using #eis14.
New Website: Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities
In 2012-2013 the Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities moved to a new publisher: the
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care located at Tuskegee University. The academic
mission of the Journal and its impact continue to expand and grow. We welcome new authors and
collaborators to explore the Journal as a rich avenue for scholarship and publication.
The Journal has a new website for this calendar year. Past editions, General Information, and Author
Information are readily easily available for download at:http://jhsh.cryptictruth.com/
Data, Not Dollars: Twitter Announces a Grant Program
Tweets have become fodder for all kinds of academic research. Scholars mine Twitter to track how
voters view politicians, how the public reacts to antismoking campaigns, even how people’s moods
change through the day. But academics have faced technical and financial obstacles to obtaining the
tweets.
This week Twitter Inc. announced a pilot program that should make it simpler to pursue social-media
research—at least for some scholars.
The program, called Twitter Data Grants, will give researchers at "selected institutions free and easy
access to Twitter data sets," according to a company blog post announcing the effort and soliciting
project proposals. Those researchers will also get the chance to collaborate with Twitter’s engineers and
researchers.http://chronicle.com/article/Data-Not-Dollars-
Twitter/144619/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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Council on Undergraduate Research
Proposal Writing Institute
This Institute will bring together faculty and administrators interested in preparing proposals for
submission to external funding agencies. The four-day institute will consist of one-on-one work with a
mentor, writing, small group discussions, and critiquing of proposals. The institute has been developed
to assist novice to experienced proposal writers in drafting complete proposals for submission. Prior to
the institute participants will be able to access information that will help them begin to draft their
proposal.
Time at the Institute will consist of periods of proposal preparation interspersed with one-on-one
mentoring by experienced and successful proposal writers, members of grants review panels, former
program officers and/or Directors of Sponsored Programs Offices. Small group discussions and group
critiquing sessions round out the Institute. Participants who come well-prepared and who work hard
should be able to leave the Institute with a completed (or nearly completed) proposal to the granting
agency of their choice.http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/institutes/proposal_writing_institute/
Next Offering: July 17-21, 2014 - University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Application Deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Council on Undergraduate Research
Summer 2014 issue of the CUR Quarterly
Submissions for the "Undergraduate Research Highlights" feature of the Summer 2014 issue of the CUR
Quarterly are being accepted until March 15, 2014. Highlights consist of brief descriptions of recent
(past six months) peer-reviewed research or scholarly publications in scholarly journals, book and book
chapters, web-based publications, and juried performances. These publications must be in print and
must include one or more undergraduate co-authors.https://members.cur.org/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=137
Deadline: March 15, 2014
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