Extramural funding opportunities

The Office of Grants and Research shares the following list of grant programs of possible interest to UWGB faculty and staff. Interested individuals should contact the Office of Grants and Research for more information and for assistance in preparing applications.

ARTS/HUMANITIES/INTERNATIONAL
Collaborative Research Grants
FON: 20151209-RZ
AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) , Division of Research Programs
ITEM:
 Notice seeking applications to support interpretive humanities research undertaken by two or more collaborating scholars. 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. 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; and archaeological projects that include the interpretation and dissemination of results.
ACTION: 
Applications are due December 9, 2015. Awards normally range between $25,000 and $10,000 per year to support full- or part-time activities for one to three years. Over the last five competitions, NEH has made an average of 10 awards per year for a funding ratio of 8 percent. All projects must include at lease one collaborator in addition to the project director.
LINKS: 
Solicitation, Grants.gov
CONTACT: Division of Research Programs, 202/606-8200. Email: collaborative@neh.gov

DNA Forensic Technology Development
FON: INLEA-INLCJ-16-002
AGENCY: 
Department of State (State) , International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affair
ITEM:
 Notice seeking applications to aid development of forensic sciences in Central America, particularly DNA forensic technology for a project period not to exceed one year.
ACTION: Questions are due November 4, 2015. Applications are due December 4, 2015. Approximately up to $2 million is available to support one award.
LINKS: Solicitation, Grants.gov
CONTACT: Whitney Wiedeman, Email: WiedemanWS@state.gov

EDUCATION/ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for the Reach Higher Career App Challenge
AGENCY: 
Department of Education (Education)
ITEM: 
Notice announcing a prize competition seeking concepts (or prototypes) for mobile apps to improve access to information about career and technical education, help middle school and high school students (including those with disabilities and English Learners) navigate education and career paths, and increase the capacity of career counselors to serve students.
ACTION: Submissions are due December 7, 2015. Approximately $225,000 is available for up to five prizes of $25,000 each.
LINKS: Federal Register
CONTACT: Albert Placios, Email: albert.palacios@ed.gov

The Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:
 The Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program
AGENCY:
 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) , Forest Service
ITEM:
 Notice seeking applications to establish community forests by protecting forest land from conversion to non-forest uses and provide community benefits such as sustainable forest management, environmental benefits including clean air, water, and wildlife habitat; benefits from forest-based educational programs; benefits from serving as models of effective forest stewardship; and recreational benefits secured with public access.
ACTION: Applications are due January 15, 2016.
LINKS: Federal Register
CONTACT: Maya Solomon, 202/205-1376. Email: mayasolomon@fs.fed.us

HEALTH
Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program
FON: USDA-NIFA-FINI-005395
AGENCY: 
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) , National Institute of Food and Agriculture
ITEM:
 Notice seeking applications to increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables among low-income consumers participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by providing incentives at the point of purchase. The program will test strategies that could contribute to our understanding of how best to increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables by SNAP participants.
ACTION: Applications are due December 16, 2015 . Approximately $16.8 million is available.
LINKS: Solicitation, Grants.gov
CONTACT: Jane Clary Loveless, 202/720-3891. Email: jclary@nifa.usda.gov

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING/MATH
13th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
ITEM:
 Notice seeking applications for scientific projects and engineering designs that address the three components of sustainability: people, prosperity and the planet. The P3 Program is intended to support science-based projects and designs developed by interdisciplinary student teams that benefit people by improving their quality of life, promote prosperity by developing local economies, and protect the planet by conserving resources and minimizing pollution.
ACTION: Applications are due December 8, 2015 .
LINKS: Grant.gov
CONTACT: Cynthia Nolt-Helms, 703/347-8102.
Email: nolt-helms.cynthia@epa.gov
Gregory Lank, 703/347-8128. Email: lank.gregory@epa.gov
Anne Sergeant, 703/347-8105. Email: sergeant.anne@epa.gov

Announcement of Requirements and Registration for a Prize Competition Seeking Methods or Devices That can Quantify Drift Invertebrates in River and Estuary Systems
FON: N/A
AGENCY:
 Department of Commerce (Commerce), Department of Defense (Defense), Department of the Interior (Interior)
ITEM:
 Notice announcing a prize competition for determining a way to economically detect, count, and identify zooplankton and drift invertebrates in river and estuary systems.
ACTION: Submissions are due November 16, 2015. Approximately $30,000 is available for up to three prizes.
LINKS: Federal Register
CONTACT: David Raff, 202/513-0516. Email: draff@usbr.gov

Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems (ICARUS)
FON: DARPA-BAA-16-03
AGENCY: Department of Defense (Defense), DARPA (DARPA)
ITEM: 
Notice seeking applications for the design and prototyping of vanishing air delivery vehicles capable of precise, gentle drops of small payloads. These precision vehicles must be guaranteed to rapidly physically disappear following safe payload delivery. Proposed efforts must integrate engineered vanishing materials into advanced aerodynamic designs to produce an autonomously vanishing, field-testable prototype vehicle by the end of the two-year program.
ACTION: Applications are due November 23, 2015.
LINKS: FBO.gov
CONTACT: Troy Olsson, Email: DARPA-BAA-16-03@darpa.mil

Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
FON: 16-500
AGENCY:
 National Science Foundation (NSF) , Directorate for Biological Sciences
ITEM: 
Notice seeking preproposals to support decadal long research that generates extended time series of data to address important questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Focus areas include the effects of natural selection or other evolutionary processes on populations, communities, or ecosystems; the effects of interspecific interactions that vary over time and space; population or community dynamics for organisms that have extended life spans and long turnover times; feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes; pools of materials such as nutrients in soils that turn over at intermediate to longer time scales; and external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long return intervals.
ACTION: Preproposals are required and due January 25, 2016, and then annually on January 23. Proposals are due on August 2, 2016, and then annually on August 2. Approximately $750,000-$1.5 million is available to support six to eight awards.
LINKS: Solicitation, Grants.gov
CONTACT: Saran Twombly, 703/292-8133. Email: stwombly@nsf.gov

Atmospheric System Research Program
FON: DE-FOA-0001430
AGENCY:
 Department of Energy (Energy) , Office of Science (SC)
ITEM: 
Notice seeking pre-applications to support observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that improve understanding and model representation of processes involving Boundary Layer or Mixed Phase Clouds, Ice Clouds, and the Aerosol Life Cycle, and to study Convective Processes. Studies must draw data from existing resources in the Department of Energy’s Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility .
ACTION: Pre-applications are required and due by November 3, 2015. Applications are due by January 20, 2016. Approximately $10 million will be available.
LINKS: Grants.gov
CONTACT: Ashley Williamson, 301/903-3120. Email: Ashley.williamson@science.doe.gov

Dimensions of Biodiversity
FON: 15-611
AGENCY:
 National Science Foundation (NSF) , Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO); Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
ITEM: 
Notice seeking proposals for novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth in order to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth.
ACTION: Proposals are due March 17, 2016. Approximately $20 million is available to support projects ranging from $750,000 to $2 million each.
Limited Submission: See solicitation for details when posted.
LINKS: Agency Website (solicitation not yet posted), Grants.gov
CONTACT: Simon Malcomber, 703/292-8227. Email: Dimensions@nsf.gov