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1 Funding Opportunities Newsletter Office of Sponsored Programs Proposall Development January 9, 2015 The Proposal Development unit within the Office of Sponsored Programs publishes this notice on a bi weekly basis. If you are interested i in any of the opportunities listed, and would like assistance with a proposal, please contact Carol Brodie at 51328, carol.brodie@unlv.edu. Please see the Proposal Development website, development for a complete list of our office s services. An archive of these newsletters can be found at Updatedd Grants.gov Application Guide The Grants.gov Application Guide has been updated to align with changes to NSF s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that the new Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance). The Uniform Guidance incorporates language from eight previously existing Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars into one consolidated set of guidance in the Code of Federal Regulations. This updated guide is effective for proposals submitted or due on or after December 26, National Institutes of Health New Biosketch Format files/not OD html#sthash.NvkNnsDl.dpuf NIH and AHRQ will require use of a new biosketch format in applications for research grants submitted for due dates on or after January 25, Before that that time, applicants will have the choice of using the old or new biosketch format. The revised forms and instructions are now available on the SF 4244 (R&R) Forms and Applications page. The new format extends the page limit from four to five pages, and allows researchers to describe up to five of their most significant contributions to science, along with the historical background that framed their research. Investigators can outline the central findings of priorr work and the influence of those findings on the investigator s field. The Science Experts Network (SciENcv), which serves as an interagency system designed to create biosketches for multiple federal agencies, will be updated and available within a feww weeks to support the new biosketch format. SciENcv pulls informationn from available resources making it easy to develop a repository of information that can be readily updated and modified to prepare future biosketches. A YouTube video provides instructions for using SciENcv. Population Reference Bureau Doctoral Student Policyy Communication Fellows T he Policy Communication n Fellows program provides participants with an understanding of how research can inform social policy, and a detailed knowledge of different approaches to communicating research findings to non influences the policy process and how to communicate research effectively. During the academic year, specialists. It begins with a two week workshop held at PRB, duringg which participants learn about how research participants will prepare several policy oriented Association of America (PAA) Annual written products, one of which they will present at a workshop prior to the 2016 Population Meeting.

2 We are accepting applications from citizens of developing countries that plan to return to their home countries upon completion of their doctoral studies. The program gives priority to applicants who are between the third and fifth year of their doctoral program. Candidates accepted into the Policy Fellows program will be provided with travel, lodging, and per diem associated with the Washington and PAA workshops, PAA registration costs, as well as a $2,000 research stipend. The program is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and for this reason we can only accept candidates that come from developing countries where USAID provides population and family planning funding. Deadline: February 5, 2015 Truman (Harry S.) Library Institute for National and International Affairs Applications for funding will be considered by the Truman Library Institute s Committee on Research, Scholarship and Education for the following: Research Grants Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate students, post doctoral scholars and other researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are to offset expenses incurred for this purpose only. Apr. 1, October 1. Dissertation Year Fellowships Grants of $16,000 will be given to support graduate students working on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. One or two dissertation year fellowships will normally be awarded each year. Deadline: February 1. Scholar's Award Grants of up to $30,000 are made to post doctoral scholars engaged in work on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. The award is intended to free a scholar from teaching or other employment for a substantial period of time. The awarding of the Scholar's Award is contingent upon the receipt of underwriting support and of strong proposals from applicants. If, in the opinion of the Institute's Committee on Research, Scholarship and Academic Relations, the quality of available applications does not justify the making of an award in any given year, none will be made. When possible, the Institute intends to award a Scholar's Award every other year. Deadline: December 15 (odd numbered years). Nevada Arts Council FY 16 Grants Applications for FY16 annual grants will be accepted between February through April (depending on the category). The FY16 Grant Guidelines include changes to several grant categories, submission deadlines and general policies. The Guidelines may be downloaded as a PDF or viewed online at National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities advanced topics in the digital humanities These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. For example, training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months,

3 or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic. Today, complex data its form, manipulation, and interpretation are as important to humanities study as more traditional research materials. Datasets, for example, may represent digitized historical records, high quality image data, or even multimedia collections, all of which are increasing in number due to the availability and affordability of mass data storage devices and international initiatives to create digital content. Moreover, extensive networking capabilities, sophisticated analytical tools, and new collaboration platforms are simultaneously providing and improving interactive access to and analysis of these data as well as a multitude of other resources. The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program seeks to enable humanities scholars in the United States to incorporate advances like these into their scholarship and teaching. Deadline: March 10, 2015 Administration for Children and Families Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants ACF OPRE YR 0785 The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to provide funds for Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants to support dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are working in partnership with Head Start programs and with faculty entors. Competitive applicants will 1) demonstrate a collaborative partnership with their program partners, and 2) pursue research questions that directly inform local, State, or Federal policy relevant to multiple early care and education practice. Applicants should consider pursuing data collection across contexts, including child care, pre k, homevisiting programs, Head Start, Early Head Start, and/or others. Applicants are expected to demonstrate an established partnership with their early care and education program partners that should be apparent throughout the research plan, from development and refinement of the research questions through the proposed data collection, interpretation, and dissemination. Letter of Intent: March 25, 2015; March 25, 2016 Application: April 27, 2015; April 25, 2016 Administration for Children and Families Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars ACF OPRE YE 0775 The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Policy, Research and Evaluation plans to solicit applications for Child Care Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on child care policy issues. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for child care policy decision making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high quality doctoral students. Letter of Intent: March 25, 2015; March 25, 2016 Application: April 27, 2015; April 25, 2016 Spencer Foundation Research Grants to apply The Spencer Foundation provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad. The Foundation funds research grants that range in size from smaller grants that can be completed within a year, to larger, multi year endeavors. The Spencer Foundation has been moving towards more focused grant making in four specific areas of interest:

4 The Relation between Education and Social Opportunity; Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions; Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; Purposes and Values of Education; In addition to proposals in these defined areas, the Foundation will continue to accept proposals that do not fit one of these areas. Field Initiated Proposals: The Foundation is of course alive to the possibility that someone may have a terrific idea for worthwhile research that does not fit easily into even these broad categories. We are happy to entertain such proposals. We ask in such cases that you address explicitly how your proposed study aligns with the Foundation's mission of research toward educational improvement, and we ask as well that you understand that we will be asking ourselves the question whether this proposal promises to advance our purposes more effectively than research we can fund in our declared areas of interest. Small Research Grants: February 5, 2015, June 2, 2015, August 20, 2015 Lyle Spencer Research Awards: Tentatively June 2015 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Guidance for Trainees Guidance for Trainees/ The Burroughs Wellcome Fund will support pilot projects that demonstrate practical approaches to readying scientists for career transitions. Projects may be meant to enhance trainees understanding of jobs beyond the Academy, or of career trajectories within academe, or of the flexibility of scientists intellectual skill set. Approaches that help trainees better acknowledge and acquire the skills expected of knowledge workers and efforts that help them understand career pathways will help them succeed in the workplace, whether as principal investigators, in long term non tenure track positions, in industrial careers, or away from the bench. Beyond the traditional tenure track, there are few clear pathways for transition from bench training to the kinds of stable jobs that put scientists knowledge, skills, and intellectual energy to good use. Highlighting approaches to careers outside academia, providing insight into how to fit in and thrive in the working world, and clarifying how a scientist s skills are applicable beyond the bench may help young scientists remain confident that time spent at the bench does not close the door to future careers away from the laboratory, and that improving one s non technical skills does not close the door to future careers in basic or applied research. Deadline: March 16, 2015 Enhancing Life Project Seeking Letters of Intent for Scholarly Projects Given the profound expansion of human power through technology as well as advances in genetics, ecology, and other fields, the vulnerability, endangerment, and enhancement of life are dominant themes in the global age. As such, the Enhancing Life Project aims to explore this rich but widely unexamined dimension of human aspiration and social life, and increase knowledge so that life might be enriched. To that end, the project supports relevant scholarly research projects in the areas of religious thought, theology, and philosophy; philosophy of biology, science, and technology; social sciences; and communications and media studies. The initiative will support the research projects of fifteen advanced career scholars with awards of $100,000 each and the projects of twenty early career scholars with awards of $50,000 each. Letters of Intent: February 1, 2015 Invited proposals: April 20, 2015 Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Education Local Grants Program

5 opportunity.html?oppid= Under this solicitation EPA is seeking grant proposals for locally focused environmental education (EE) projects that design, demonstrate, and/or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques, as described in this notice. EPA will provide financial support for projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop informed, knowledgeable and responsible citizens in the community(ies) in which the project is located. Selections and awards will be made in each of EPA s 10 regional offices. Deadline: March 6, 2015 US Department of Agriculture Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences Education and Literacy Initiative (Formerly the AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program) opportunity.html?oppid= The U.S. Department of Agriculture established the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) which makes grants for fundamental and applied research, extension, and education to address food and agricultural sciences in six priority areas. The six priority areas include: 1) plant health and production and plant products; 2) animal health and production and animal products; 3) food safety, nutrition, and health; 4) bioenergy, natural resources, and environment; 5) agriculture systems and technology; and 6) agriculture economics and rural communities. NIFA requests applications to provide fellowships to undergraduate, predoctoral, and postdoctoral students in the agricultural sciences. The Program Goals are as follows: To promote research and extension experiential learning for undergraduates such that upon graduation they may enter the agriculture workforce with exceptional skills To prepare the next generation of scientists through doctoral and post doctoral fellowships. Predoctoral Fellowships: February 11, 2015 Postdoctoral: February 11, 2015 Undergraduate Research and Extension Experiential Learning Fellowships LETTER OF INTENT: February 18, 2015 APPLICATION: May 6, 2015 Eppley Foundation for Research Support for Advanced Scientific Research The Eppley Foundation for Research was incorporated in 1947 for the purpose of "increasing knowledge in pure or applied science...in chemistry, physics and biology through study, research and publication." Today the Foundation funds projects in medicine, life sciences and the physical sciences. Particular areas of interest include innovative medical investigations and applications, endangered animals and ecosystems, and climate change. The Foundation does not support work in the social sciences, education or computer science, and only rarely funds research into diseases that have considerable financial support available, such as AIDS, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Letters of inquiry, not to exceed four pages, should be received by September 15th or March 15th. Submissions in advance of those deadlines are encouraged. Invited grant proposals are considered during board meetings in December and June of each year. Invited proposals are due on October 15 or April 15. Before approaching this foundation, contact Caleen Norrod Johnson, Director of Foundation Relations, , caleen.johnson@unlv.edu

6 The National Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Enhancing Socio Environmental Research & Education socio environmental research education Proposals are invited for synthesis projects focused on tools, methods, and other practices applicable to actionable team research on socio environmental problems. Multiple teams will be supported, and together their syntheses will contribute towards the development of new toolkits, roadmaps, curricula, and other practical advice. SESYNC will fund up to six international teams (up to 12 members each) to meet over two years to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the practices, tools, methods, and strategies of transdisciplinary team science to significantly improve research teams effectiveness at understanding socio environmental problems and informing socio environmental decisions. This call is open to researchers and educators with expertise in all aspects of the practice and scholarship of actionable team research, including diverse areas of environmental and social investigation and other areas that have not traditionally engaged in socio environmental contexts, such as public health, international development, security, or other research areas. Successful proposals could include participants from a variety of disciplines including environmental science, ecology, social psychology, systemic intervention, political science, organizational management, implementation science, cognitive science, operations research, information science, and computer science. Deadline: March 9, 2015 National Science Foundation Science of Learning: Collaborative Networks (SL CN) This solicitation launches the National Science Foundation s (NSF s) next phase of research in the Science of Learning (SL). The new SL Program is designed to capitalize on the momentum created by the Science of Learning Centers (SLC) Program to continue developing an integrated, interdisciplinary SL community. The goals of the SL Program are to: advance fundamental knowledge about learning through integrated research; connect the research to specific scientific, technological, educational, and workforce challenges; and enable research communities to capitalize on new opportunities and discoveries. The Program is designed to support projects that due to the activities supported and their interdisciplinarity and integrative breadth do not fit into existing NSF programs. This solicitation invites proposals for the creation of new research networks to address important questions in the SL. Networks will focus on: Advancing basic research through integrative, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, through integration of theory and experiment, and across scales of analysis; and/or Translating findings from basic research on learning to applications to benefit society and further inform fundamental theories of learning. Each network is expected to engage in both of the following activities: Partnership building activities among the network participants to optimize scientific exchange for the codesign and execution of network goals; and Collaborative, exploratory research to be conducted by the network participants. Letter of Intent: February 6, 2015 Proposal: March 18, 2015 National Science Foundation Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) 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

7 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 Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (CRISP) solicitation are to: (1) foster an interdisciplinary research community of engineers, computer and computational scientists and social and behavioral scientists, that creates new approaches and engineering solutions for the design and operation of infrastructures as processes and services; (2) 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; (3) create the knowledge for innovation in ICIs so that they safely, securely, and effectively expand the range of goods and services they enable; and (4) improve the effectiveness and efficiency with which they deliver existing goods and services. These goals lead to the following specific objectives for this solicitation: To create new knowledge, approaches, and engineering solutions to increase resilience, performance, and readiness in ICIs. To create theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary models of ICIs, processes and services, capable of analytical prediction of complex behaviors, in response to system and policy changes. To develop frameworks to understand interdependencies created by the interactions between the physical, the cyber (computing, information, computational, sensing and communication), and social, behavioral and economic (SBE) elements of ICIs. These could include, but are not limited to, approaches for: better physical design of ICIs and their placement; the use of new materials; software frameworks for better integration of the software and computing systems embedded in ICIs; software frameworks for modeling and simulation, management, monitoring and control of interdependent ICIs; and novel software engineering methodologies. To understand organizational, social, psychological, legal, and economic obstacles to improving ICIs, and identifying strategies for overcoming those obstacles. The CRISP solicitation seeks proposals with transformative ideas that will ensure ICI 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. To meet the interdisciplinary criterion, proposals must broadly integrate across engineering, computer, information and computational science, and the social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences. Proposals that do not meet this criterion 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 recognize that a primary objective is integrative, predictive modeling that can use the data to validate the models and that can be integrated into decision making. Deadline: March 20, 2015 National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program The major aim of the DMS Infrastructure Program is to foster the continuing health of the mathematical sciences research community as a whole. Hence, the program supports projects that positively influence the entire community, most often those cutting across multiple sub disciplines. Activities funded include working research sessions, such as conferences and symposia, as well as larger initiatives focused on enhancing and developing the mathematical sciences at the national scale. In addition, the Infrastructure Program will support a limited number of unsolicited training projects aimed at the undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral levels that include a core mathematical sciences research component for trainees. The Infrastructure Program seeks to fund novel projects that can have a large impact by promoting partnerships, broadening participation, and/or serving as models to be replicated. Proposals must clearly identify: the goals to be achieved; the specific new activities to be conducted, the way in which these address the goals, and the way in which the activities significantly differ from or enhance common practice; measurable proposed outcomes for the project;

8 specific methods for evaluation of the success of the activity and for assessment of progress toward the goals to be achieved, and a budget commensurate with the proposed activity. Full Proposal Accepted Anytime (For proposals that do not deal with training) Full Proposal: December 2, 2015 (For proposals that deal with training as described in the Synopsis) National Science Foundation Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) To meet new challenges and societal needs, the Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) Program invests in systems and control methods for analysis and design of cyber physical systems to ensure stability, performance, robustness, and security. Topics of interest include modeling, optimization, learning, and control of networked multi agent systems, higher level decision making, and dynamic resource allocation as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub system failures and stochastic disturbances. EPCN also invests in adaptive dynamic programing, brain like networked architectures performing real time learning, and neuromorphic engineering. EPCN supports innovative proposals dealing with systems research in such areas as energy, transportation, and nanotechnology. EPCN places emphasis on electric power systems, including generation, transmission, storage, and integration of renewables; power electronics and drives; battery management systems; hybrid and electric vehicles; and understanding of the interplay of power systems with associated regulatory and economic structures and with consumer behavior. Also of interest are interdependencies of power and energy systems with other critical infrastructures. Topics of interest include energy scavenging and alternate energy technologies such as solar, wind, and hydrokinetic. The program also supports innovative tools and test beds, as well as curriculum development integrating research and education. In addition to single investigator projects, EPCN encourages cross disciplinary proposals that benefit from active collaboration of researchers with complementary skills. Proposals for the EPCN program may involve collaborative research to capture the breadth of expertise needed for such multidisciplinary integrative activities. ECCS will consider supporting a limited number of small team proposals of three or more Investigators from different disciplines and/or universities. November 2, 2015 REU/RET Supplement: April 1, 2015 Department of Energy OPEN opportunity.html?oppid= ARPA E s focused programs target specific areas of technology that the agency has identified, through extensive interaction with the appropriate external stakeholders, as having significant potential impact on one or more of the following areas: Renewable Energy (Non Bio) Bioenergy Transportation Technologies Conventional Generation (Non Renewable) Grid Technologies Efficiency Other: Water Reuse, Behavior/Education, Data Centers and Computation, etc. ARPA E s OPEN FOAs ensure that the agency does not miss opportunities to support innovative energy R&D that falls outside of the topics of the focused technology programs or that develop after focused solicitations have closed. OPEN FOAs provide the agency with a remarkable sampling of new and emerging opportunities across the complete spectrum of energy applications and allow the agency to take the pulse of the energy R&D community.

9 OPEN FOAs have been and will continue to be the perfect complement to the agency s focused technology programs a unique combination of approaches for supporting the most innovative and current energy technology R&D. REQUIRED Notice of Intent: Feb. 20, 2015 Concept Papers: Feb. 27, 2015 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Higher Education Research Experiences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Faculty Higher Education Research Experiences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (HERE at ORNL) provides research opportunities and associated activities for teaching and non teaching faculty. The program is designed to complement academic programs by utilizing the unique resources of ORNL to enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, encourage careers in science and technology, and improve scientific literacy, while at the same time contributing to the Laboratory mission. This is a continuous application opportunity. Applications are considered in the order received. However, suggested deadlines are: February 1, June 1, October 1 National Science Foundation Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) 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 technologyrich 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. Proposals are expected to address all three of the program's thrusts. Of particular interest are technological advances that (1) foster deep understanding of content coordinated with masterful learning of practices and skills; (2) draw in and encourage learning among populations not served well by current educational practices; and/or (3) provide new ways of assessing understanding, engagement, and capabilities of learners. It is expected that research funded by this program will shed light on how technology can enable new forms of educational practice. This program does not support proposals that aim simply to implement and evaluate a particular software application or technology in support of a specific course.

10 Awards will be made in three research categories, each focusing on a different stage of research and development: Exploration (EXP), Design and Implementation (DIP), and Integration (INT). The program will also support small Capacity Building Projects (CAP), e.g., conferences, workshops, and partnership building activities, and will continue to participate in NSF's Foundation Wide programs: EAGER, RAPID, INSPIRE, and CAREER. Exploration Projects (EXPs) Projected to be December 2015 Development and Implementation Projects (DIPs) January 19, 2015 Capacity Building Projects (CAPs) March 27, 2015, July 31, 2015 Integration (INT) Projects Letter of Intent: May 11, 2015 Proposal: July 13, 2015 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Enabling Quantification of Uncertainty in Physical Systems (EQUiPS) opportunity.html?oppid= The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) methods for large scale Department of Defense (DoD) systems. 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 practice. Abstract: January 15, 2015 Full Proposal: February 25, 2015 National Science Foundation Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs CISE s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: Computer Systems Research (CSR) program Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program. September 21, 2015 (MEDIUM Projects up to $3,000,000 with durations up to 5 years) November 19, 2015 (LARGE Projects up to $1,200,000 with durations up to 4 years) January 14, 2016 (SMALL Projects up to $500,000 with durations up to 3 years) National Institutes of Health Serious STEM Games for Pre College and Informal Science Education Audiences (STTR) (R41/R42, R43/R44) files/par html (Companion FOA: PAR , R43/R44 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant Phase I, Phase II, and Fast Track) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide opportunities for eligible small business concerns (SBCs) to submit STTR grant applications to develop serious Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) games with a focus on biology that addresses health and medicine questions for: (1) pre kindergarten to grade 12 (P 12) students and pre and in service teachers ("Teachers") or (2) Informal Science Education (ISE) audiences. Serious games are defined as the use of gaming technology to train, educate, and encourage behavioral changes in a virtual world format where progressive learning, feedback on success and user control are combined into an interactive and engaging experience.

11 Only United States small business concerns (SBCs) are eligible to submit applications for this opportunity. In Phase I and Phase II, at least 40% of the research or analytical effort must be performed by the small business concern and at least 30% of the research or analytical effort must be performed by the single, partnering research institution. November 12, 2014, May 12, 2015, May 12, 2016, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program welcomes proposals that address Cybersecurity from a Trustworthy Computing Systems (TWC) perspective and/or a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) perspective, or from the Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS) perspective (see Perspectives below). In addition, we welcome proposals that integrate research addressing all of these perspectives (see below). Proposals may be submitted in one of the following three categories (plus Cybersecurity Education; see below): Small projects: up to $500,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years Medium projects: $500,001 to $1,200,000 in total budget, with durations of up to four years Large projects: $1,200,001 to $3,000,000 in total budget, with durations of up to five years In addition, the SaTC program seeks proposals focusing entirely on Cybersecurity Education with total budgets limited to $300,000 and durations of up to two years. These cybersecurity education projects may not include any of the three perspectives named above, nor may they include a TTP Option. Deadlines January 14, 2015 (SMALL Projects) September 21, 2015 (MEDIUM Projects) November 19, 2015 (LARGE Projects) December 21, 2015 (CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION Projects) National Science Foundation Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants (IPG) The Biological Anthropology and Archaeology Programs are pleased to announce the continuation in 2015 of the Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants (IPG) competition. The goal of the competition is to further innovative, integrative research to elucidate hominin biological and behavioral evolution. The particular focus is on long term processes within hominin evolution and how they relate to major questions of paleoanthropological significance. Competition organizers recognize that much paleoanthropological research is currently interdisciplinary and integrative in nature. However, the competition is intended to stimulate research that is integrative and crosses intellectual/disciplinary boundaries in novel ways, above and beyond current practice. As general examples, an integrative and interdisciplinary project might: 1. Encompass broader perspectives, not previously synthesized, on regional and large scale comparative issues, or 2. Result in the development and application of an innovative method informed by multiple disciplines. Deadline: April 2, 2015 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terrestrial Ecology (ROSES 2014) 32FC FCF3 27E6 57D20C9916CB}&path=open

12 NASA Terrestrial Ecology research addresses changes in Earth s carbon cycle and ecosystems using space based observations in order to improve understanding of the structure and function of global terrestrial ecosystems, their interactions with the atmosphere and hydrosphere, and their role in the cycling of the major biogeochemical elements and water. The focus of this solicitation is the initial research to begin the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) field campaign a large scale study of ecosystem responses to environmental change in western North America s Arctic and boreal region and the implications for social ecological systems. The Overarching Science Question for ABoVE is: How vulnerable or resilient are ecosystems and society to environmental change in the Arctic and boreal region of western North America? Notice of Intent: Jan. 20, 2015 Proposal: Mar. 20, 2015 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Severe Storm Research (ROSES 2014) 2A46 C01C 49DD B613EF2D405E}&path=open This program element seeks investigations that use measurements acquired from the vantage point of space to: Conduct basic research on the formation and intensification of severe storms that lead to the formation of tornados; and Assess if satellite based products, coupled with advanced algorithms and models, can result in more accurate forecasts and warnings. Proposals that are not related to current or definitively planned satellite based observations are not responsive to this solicitation and will be returned without review. Notice of Intent: January 23, 2015 Proposals: March 03, 2015 National Institutes of Health NCI Transition Career Development Award files/par html This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) represents the continuation of an NCI program to facilitate the transition of investigators in mentored, non independent cancer research positions to independent faculty cancer research positions. This goal is achieved by providing protected time through salary and research support for the initial 3 years of the first independent tenure track faculty position, or its equivalent, beginning at the time when the candidate starts a tenure track faculty position. February 12, June 12, October 12 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Evaluating Structural, Economic, Environmental, or Policy Primary Prevention Strategies for Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence opportunity.html?oppid= The purpose of this announcement is to support research to rigorously evaluate structural, economic, environmental, or policy strategies for the primary prevention of intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence (IPV and/or SV). The proposed research will add to the limited knowledge base on effective strategies for IPV and/or SV prevention by evaluating the use of community level approaches that change one or more of the social, economic, behavioral, or environmental characteristics of a community in order to prevent and reduce rates of IPV and/or SV perpetration, victimization or both perpetration and victimization. Under the current announcement, three cooperative agreements will be funded. The focus of these cooperative agreements will be the prevention of IPV, SV, or both IPV and SV. For the purposes of this announcement, proposals focused on evaluating community level strategies for preventing one type, or preferably multiple types,

13 of violence (i.e., sexual, physical, psychological, stalking) within the context of current or past intimate relationships will be considered IPV proposals. Proposals focused on evaluating community level strategies for preventing SV not limited to within an intimate relationship (e.g., SV perpetrated by friends, acquaintances, someone in a position of authority, family members, someone not known well, and/or strangers) will be considered SV proposals. Applicants are encouraged to assess both IPV and SV outcomes if feasible. When feasible, applicants are also encouraged to examine strategy implementation costs. Deadline: March 5, 2015 Taub Foundation Grants Program for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) The Taub Foundation Grants Program for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Research was created to support high impact, innovative translational research to understand the underlying causes of MDS and to advance its treatment and prevention. The Program specifically focuses on MDS research, exclusive of AML and MPN. Initial Proposal March 17, 2015 Invited Proposal August 14, 2015