Ops-Watch Weekly Grant Opportunities Update September 27 – October 3, 2014

Department of Defense – Office of Naval Research - Long Range BAA for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology Proposal Due Date: September 30, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: ONRBAA15-001 Purpose: Code 30 develops and transitions technologies to enable the Navy-Marine Corps team to win and survive on the battlefield. The department invests primarily in asymmetric and irregular warfare, distributed operations, Information Dominance, and survivability and self-defense. To achieve the goals of the department, the expertise of a number of technical communities are needed. The department supports applied physics efforts ranging from electromagnetics for C4 to condensed matter physics. The department engages chemistry and materials science to improve structures and efficiencies of our platforms and systems and is interested in emerging opportunities from the computer science community to efficiently control and protect our information and hardware systems. Given the applied nature of some of the departments work, we frequently support ideas and opportunities from the engineering community including electrical, mechanical, and software engineering. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267270  Department of Defense – DARPA - Information Innovation Office Proposal Due Date: November 19, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $52,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: DARPA-BAA-14-64

  Purpose: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of heterogeneous, cyber fault-tolerant computation to enable rapid detection of and recovery from cyber-attacks. 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. For further details see attached PDF DARPA-BAA-14-64(CFAR). AMENDMENT 0001: The purpose of this Amendment is to revise Section D, Other Eligibility Requirements. See Attached PDF DARPA-BAA-14-64 (CFAR) Amendment 1 for further details as the changes are highlighted in yellow. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=43b09e88c3b8289cb4cbf63b402f46c5&tab=core&_cview=1  Department of Defense – DARPA - SafeWare Proposal Due Date: November 18, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: DARPA-BAA-14-65 Purpose: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of program obfuscation. 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. For further details see attached PDF DARPA-BAA-14-65 SafeWare. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267509  Department of Defense – DARPA - Cyber Fault-tolerant Attack Recovery (CFAR) Proposal Due Date: November 19, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $52,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: DARPA-BAA-14-64 Purpose: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of heterogeneous, cyber fault-tolerant computation to enable rapid detection of and recovery from cyber-attacks. 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. For further details see attached PDF DARPA-BAA-14-64(CFAR). AMENDMENT 0001: The purpose of this Amendment is to revise Section D,

 Other Eligibility Requirements. See Attached PDF DARPA-BAA-14-64 (CFAR) Amendment 1 for further details as the changes are highlighted in yellow. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=43b09e88c3b8289cb4cbf63b402f46c5&tab=core&_cview=1  Department of Energy - Climate Action Champions Proposal Due Date: October 27, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0001189 Purpose: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is committed to advancing the Administration?s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to address global climate change. In recognition of the importance of the dual policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing climate resilience , the DOE? ? in close collaboration with other Federal agencies ? is launching an initiative to identify and showcase U.S. local and tribal governments that have proven to be climate leaders through pursuing opportunities to advance both of these goals in their communities. In particular, the initiative will select 10-15 U.S. local governments and tribal governments (or regional collaborations or consortia thereof) that demonstrate a strong and ongoing commitment to implementing strategies that both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance climate resilience, with a particular emphasis on strategies that further both goals. The DOE-led effort will provide a platform for other Federal agencies to participate in, and give leverage to, the activities of communities that are selected for this initiative. The Climate Action Champions competition will recognize local, regional, and tribal government entities that are leading emissions reductions and climate resilience efforts. DOE will work with other Federal partners to provide recognized entities with additional opportunities for financial and technical assistance, as well as facilitated peer-to-peer networking opportunities and mentorship, to support and advance their greenhouse gas emissions reduction and climate resilience objectives. This initiative will have the added objective of aligning assets at the Federal level and marshalling private, public, and philanthropic dollars at the local level. The full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov. Applications must be submitted through the EERE eXCHANGE website to be considered for award. The applicant must first register and create an account on the EERE eXCHANGE website. A User Guide for the EERE eXCHANGE can be found on the EERE website https://eere- exchange.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx after logging in to the system. Information on where to submit questions regarding the content of the announcement and where to submit questions regarding submission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the EERE eXCHANGE website. https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/ Department of Energy - FY 2015 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program Proposal Due Date: September 30, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding:

 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0001204 Purpose: The Office of Science of the Department of Energy hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics. On September 3, 1992, DOE published in the Federal Register the Office of Energy Research Financial Assistance Program (now called the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program), 10 CFR 605, as a Final Rule, which contained a solicitation for this program. Information about submission of applications, eligibility, limitations, evaluation and selection processes and other policies and procedures are specified in 10 CFR 605. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0001204, is our annual, broad, open solicitation that covers all of the research areas in the Office of Science and is open throughout the Fiscal Year. This FOA will remain open until September 30, 2015, 11:59 PM Eastern Time, or until it is succeeded by another issuance, whichever occurs first. This annual FOA DE-FOA-0001204 succeeds FOA DE-FOA-0000995, which was published October 1, 2013. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267589  Department of Energy – Office of Science - Systems Biology Research to Advance Sustainable Bioenergy Crop Development Proposal Due Date: January 16, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 8 Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,000,000 Award Ceiling: $3,000,000 Award Floor: $1,000,000 Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0001207 Purpose: The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research that supports the Genomic Science research program (http://genomicscience.energy.gov). In this FOA, applications are requested for: i) Systems-level research to better understand the molecular and physiological mechanisms that control bioenergy crop vigor, resource use efficiency, and resilience/adaptability to abiotic stress, as well as interactions with the surrounding environment, in order to increase biomass productivity under changing and at times suboptimal conditions; ii) Systems biology-enabled investigations into the role(s) of microbial and microbial communities in the complex and multi-scaled interactions of the plant-soil-environment: contribution(s) to bioenergy feedstock plant performance, adaptation, and resilience in the face of a broad range of changing environmental conditions and abiotic stressors (e.g., climate), and the impacts of introducing bioenergy cropping systems on the local ecosystem. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267590  Department of Energy – Transportation Energy Resources From Renewable Agriculture (TERRA)

 Proposal Due Date: November 17, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 10 Estimated Total Program Funding: $30,000,000 Award Ceiling: $10,000,000 Award Floor: $250,000 Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0001211 Purpose: Agency Overview: The Advanced Research Projects Agency ? Energy (ARPA-E), an organization within the Department of Energy, is chartered by Congress in the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-69), as amended by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-358), to support the creation of transformational energy technologies and systems through funding and managing Research and Development (R&D) efforts. Originally chartered in 2007, the Agency was first funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The mission of ARPA-E is to identify and fund research to translate science into breakthrough energy technologies that are too risky for the private sector and that, if successfully developed, will create the foundation for entirely new industries. Successful projects will address at least one of ARPA-E?s two Mission Areas: 1. Enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the development of energy technologies that result in: a. reductions of imports of energy from foreign sources; b. reductions of energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; and c. improvement in the energy efficiency of all economic sectors. 2. Ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies. Program Overview: There is an urgent need to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass. Recent technological advancements have now made it possible to extract massive volumes of genetic, physiological, and environmental data from certain crops, but, even with these resources, the data still cannot be processed into the knowledge needed to predict crop performance in the field. This knowledge is required to improve the breeding development pipeline for energy crops. Building upon precision agriculture innovations and data-intensive computational approaches, ARPA-E believes that it is now possible to accelerate plant breeding, using robust high-throughput precision phenotyping systems, to quantify important agronomic traits in the field throughout the entire lifecycle of an individual plant, and to associate these traits with their genetic and genomic properties. This ARPA-E program, Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TE RRA), is an investment in technologies that increase the precision, accuracy and throughput of energy crop breeding, to enable (a) new predictive algorithms for plant growth, (b) more detailed measurements for plant physiology, and (c) more sophisticated bioinformatics pipelines for gene discovery and trait association. TERRA will enable breeders to evaluate more individual plants, to select appropriate plants for breeding earlier in the growing season, to capture better information about them during their development, and to associate this information with the best genes to propagate. Success will be measured by the prospective ability to predict yield gains early, specifically, to identify which genes can improve carbon capture efficiency in newly cultivated bioenergy crops. Although other crops will be considered, this program intends to focus on energy sorghum as a model system because of its potential for improvement through breeding, its resources for genetic analysis, its geo graphic adaptability, and its commercial utility. To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) please go to the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. ARPA-E will not review or consider concept papers submitted through other means. For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E eXCHANGE User Guide (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx). https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/ - FoaId61790722-d585-40be-8db3-b8b99f025496  

 Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant Carbohydrates (U01) Proposal Due Date: December 10, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 6 Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,000,000 Award Ceiling: $500,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-RM-14-015 Purpose: The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience: Integration and Accessibility - aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will enable researchers in all biomedical fields to dramatically advance our understanding of the roles of these complex molecules in health and disease and to not abandon glycan discovery due to the difficulty or inability to study them. This FOA is intended to support development of new approaches (methods and technologies) to facilitate the rapid and affordable synthesis, production, and/or functionalization of bio-medically relevant glycans and glyco-conjugates representing 1) mammalian glycomes and 2) microbial glycans. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-14-015.html  Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking, Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (R21) Proposal Due Date: December 10, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 8 Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000 Award Ceiling: $400,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-RM-14-014 Purpose: The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience: Integration and Accessibility- aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will enable researchers in all biomedical fields to dramatically advance our understanding of the roles of these complex molecules in health and disease and to not abandon glycan discovery due to the difficulty or inability to study them. This FOA solicits development of new, more easily accessible tools, reagents, and technologies to facilitate identification, tracking, manipulation, and analysis of glycans with their biological binding partners and determine their functions. This initiative may build on efforts that interface with existing technologies and procedures to make them easier to access and use. As applicable, efforts must consider: factors for scale-up; efforts to make instrumentation broadly accessible and cost-effective for the end-user; and compatibility of data generated with integration into existing databases.

  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-14-014.html  Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking, Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (R01) Proposal Due Date: December 10, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 2 Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000 Award Ceiling: $500,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-RM-14-013 Purpose: The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience: Integration and Accessibility- aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will enable researchers in all biomedical fields to dramatically advance our understanding of the roles of these complex molecules in health and disease and to not abandon glycan discovery due to the difficulty or inability to study them. This FOA solicits development of new, more easily accessible tools, reagents, and technologies to facilitate identification, tracking, manipulation, and analysis of glycans with their biological binding partners and determine their functions. This initiative may build on efforts that interface with existing technologies and procedures to make them easier to access and use. As applicable, efforts must consider: factors for scale-up; efforts to make instrumentation broadly accessible and cost-effective for the end-user; and compatibility of data generated with integration into existing databases. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-14-013.html  Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Data Integration and Analysis Tools: Accessible Resources for Integration and Analysis of Carbohydrate and Glycoconjugate Structural, Analytical, and Interaction Data in the Context of Comparable Gene, Protein, and Lipid Data (R34) Proposal Due Date: December 10, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 5 Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000 Award Ceiling: $150,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-RM-14-012 Purpose: The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience: Integration and Accessibility - aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools and technologies for studying

 carbohydrates that will enable researchers in all biomedical fields to dramatically advance our understanding of the roles of these complex molecules in health and disease and to not abandon glycan discovery due to the difficulty or inability to study them. The program will invest in three areas: facile methods and technologies for carbohydrate synthesis, accessible tools for probing and analyzing carbohydrates, and carbohydrate data integration and analysis tools. This R34 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for preliminary research and formation of research teams that will lay the groundwork for the inclusive, community-driven development of accessible resources for integration and analysis of carbohydrate and glycoconjugate structural, analytical, and interaction data in the context of comparable gene, protein, and lipid data. A subsequent FOA will invite applications for full support of that effort. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-14-012.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (P50) Proposal Due Date: December 22, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 5 Estimated Total Program Funding: $7,000,000 Award Ceiling: $150,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-RM-14-002 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to support a transdisciplinary program of basic and applied research to examine the effects of environmental factors on childrens health and well-being. Research conducted through the Centers should include substantive areas of science in childrens health while incorporating innovative technologies and approaches and links to the environment. This program encourages strong links between disciplines in the basic, applied, clinical and public health sciences to prevent disease and promote health of all children. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-14-002.html  Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Limited Competition for the Continuation of the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Cohort Study (UC4) Proposal Due Date: March 10, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $14,000,000 Award Ceiling: $150,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DK-14-508

 Purpose: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to continue the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. The overarching goal of SEARCH is to provide population-based data on the incidence and prevalence of diabetes and its complications in U.S. youth. SEARCH has recruited a cohort of youth with diabetes who have been followed longitudinally. The purpose of this FOA is to continue follow-up of the SEARCH cohort to understand the clinical course of youth-onset diabetes, including the incidence of acute and chronic complications, including mortality, and processes of care and quality of life. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-14-508.html  Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - The Midlife in the United States Study (U19) Proposal Due Date: January 7, 2018 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-14-356 Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to solicit an application for the next 5-year cycle of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Study, a National Longitudinal Study of Health and Well-being. The goals of this next phase are to complete the third wave of longitudinal data collection and enhance content in the area of daily stress; complete the second wave of data collection of clinical biomarkers and affective neuroscience assessments; continue innovative sub-studies such as how psychosocial influences affect gene expression and novel methods to track and reinstate non-responders; connect these content areas through innovative analyses to data on health, functioning, personality, cognitive status, affective functioning, economic well-being, social relationships, and well-being; and maintain and enhance data distribution and user support. A central goal of the MIDUS study is to support data dissemination, user support of public use files, and encourage data use broadly by the scientific community. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-356.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics (P41) Proposal Due Date: September 25, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $1,750,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-14-357 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics for supporting the continued operation, improvement, and dissemination of databases, digital information, or software tools that are unique, and of special importance to research using animal models of embryonic developmental processes. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with the

 Scientific/Research Contact listed below in Section VII to ensure that the proposed project reflects the objectives of this FOA and the programmatic interests of the NICHD. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-357.html  Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Pregnancy in Women with Disabilities (R01) Proposal Due Date: January 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-14-354 Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages research project grants (R01) investigating the incidence, course, and outcomes of pregnancy among women with disabilities. Areas of interest also include studies to inform preconceptional and antenatal counseling and strategies for addressing barriers to prenatal care, and management of pregnancy, the puerperium, and the transition to parenthood in order to optimize outcomes for women with physical, intellectual and developmental, and/or sensory disabilities and their families. Applicants are encouraged to include women with disabilities and members of the community in the design and conduct of their research. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-354.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Pregnancy in Women with Disabilities (R21) Proposal Due Date: January 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $275,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-14-355 Purpose: This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) applications to investigate the incidence, course, and outcomes of pregnancy among women with disabilities. Areas of interest also include studies to inform preconceptional and antenatal counseling and strategies for addressing barriers to prenatal care, and management of pregnancy, the puerperium, and the transition to parenthood in order to optimize outcomes for women with physical, intellectual and developmental, and/or sensory disabilities and their families. Applicants are encouraged to include women with disabilities and members of the community in the design and conduct of their research. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-355.html

 Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Innovative Research in HIV in Kidney, Urology and Hematology (R01) Proposal Due Date: April 9, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,600,000 Award Ceiling: $500,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-DK-14-020 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Research Project Grant (R01) applications for innovative research projects examining the basic and clinical aspects of HIV infection, treatment, and long-term sequelae as they relate to the mission of the Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases within NIDDK (KUH/NIDDK). http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-14-020.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Regional Consortia for High Resolution Cryoelectron Microscopy (U24) Department of Health and Human Services Proposal Due Date: January 27, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,500,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-GM-16-001 Purpose: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide regional access for cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) laboratories to state-of-the-art data collection capabilities. NIGMS will support consortia of established and early stage investigator laboratories whose research has an established specialization in and dependence on cryoEM. These laboratories will coordinate with each other to share facilities and resources for direct electron detection. Consortia will consist of a host institution which already has a modern high-performing cryoEM installation and proven capabilities for high-resolution data collection, partnered with regional participating institutions. A consortium will support surplus capacity for cryoEM data collection (infrastructure and services) at the host institution and make it available as a resource for the participating regional institutions. Projects will support access for cryoEM laboratories at participating institutions to resources and services at host sites. Projects will (a) contribute to the fixed costs of maintaining the host facility and extend services in proportion to the resources dedicated to the regional users and (b) support access to the facility by the regional laboratories. The host institution need not already have an electron detector; this FOA can help fund acquisition of direct detection equipment. Support is limited to enabling the participating cryoEM laboratories to collect data and perform the initial stages of processing raw images, and does not include other research activities. Consortia will consist of a minimum

 of 3-5 institutions; award budgets will depend on the number and data collection needs of the regional participating cryoEM laboratories. This initiative is not intended to support service centers of the traditional type in which the host laboratory performs the cryoEM analysis for non-specialist collaborators. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-16-001.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Biology of the Temporomandibular Joint in Health and Disease (R01) Department of Health and Human Services Proposal Due Date: September 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PA-14-358 Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to encourage research that will advance our understanding of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in health and disease and to stimulate research that complements previous efforts and focuses on the biology of joint function and the tissues that make up the TMJ. A better understanding of total joint structure and mechanics including the interactions of the skeletal, muscular, nervous, immune, and circulatory systems using new in vivo and in vitro models is needed. An expected outcome of this FOA is new knowledge that will provide a basis for developing novel approaches to prevent, diagnose, assess risk, and treat temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-358.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Biology of the Temporomandibular Joint in Health and Disease (R21) Department of Health and Human Services Proposal Due Date: September 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $275,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PA-14-359 Purpose: The purpose of this FOA is to encourage research that will advance our understanding of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in health and disease and to stimulate research that complements previous efforts and focuses on the biology of joint function and the tissues that make up the TMJ. A better understanding of total joint structure and mechanics including the interactions of the skeletal, muscular,

 nervous, immune, and circulatory systems using new in vivo and in vitro models is needed. An expected outcome of this FOA is new knowledge that will provide a basis for developing novel approaches to prevent, diagnose, assess risk, and treat temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-359.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (R01) Department of Health and Human Services Proposal Due Date: September 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PA-15-003 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support research projects to enhance our understanding of the nature, extent, distribution, etiology, comorbidities, and consequences of drug use, abuse, and addiction across individuals, families, communities, and diverse population groups. This FOA strongly encourages applications that reflect the breadth of epidemiology research by addressing multiple levels of risk, resilience, and causation across scientific disciplines; by applying novel methods to advance knowledge of the interplay among genetic, environmental, and developmental factors and between social environments and associated health and disease outcomes; and by building on the research investments of NIH and sister HHS agencies to harness existing data on the epidemiology and etiology of drug abuse to improve public health prevention and treatment programs. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-003.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (R03) Department of Health and Human Services Proposal Due Date: September 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PA-15-002 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support research projects to enhance our understanding of the nature, extent, distribution, etiology, comorbidities, and consequences of drug use, abuse, and addiction across individuals, families, communities, and diverse population groups. This FOA strongly encourages applications that reflect the breadth of epidemiology research by addressing multiple levels of risk, resilience, and causation across scientific disciplines; by applying novel methods to

 advance knowledge of the interplay among genetic, environmental, and developmental factors and between social environments and associated health and disease outcomes; and by building on the research investments of NIH and sister HHS agencies to harness existing data on the epidemiology and etiology of drug abuse to improve public health prevention and treatment programs. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-002.html Department of Health and Human Services – National Institutes of Health - Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (R21) Department of Health and Human Services Proposal Due Date: September 7, 2017 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PA-15-001 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support research projects to enhance our understanding of the nature, extent, distribution, etiology, comorbidities, and consequences of drug use, abuse, and addiction across individuals, families, communities, and diverse population groups. This FOA strongly encourages applications that reflect the breadth of epidemiology research by addressing multiple levels of risk, resilience, and causation across scientific disciplines; by applying novel methods to advance knowledge of the interplay among genetic, environmental, and developmental factors and between social environments and associated health and disease outcomes; and by building on the research investments of NIH and sister HHS agencies to harness existing data on the epidemiology and etiology of drug abuse to improve public health prevention and treatment programs. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-001.html Department of Interior – Fish and Wildlife Service - Cooperative Landscape Conservation and Science Support Proposal Due Date: September 30, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $1,000,000 Award Floor: $1,000 Funding Opportunity Number: F15AS00000 Purpose: The USFWS uses a science-based, adaptive framework for setting and achieving cross-program conservation objectives that strategically address the problems fish and wildlife will face in the future. This framework, called Strategic Habitat Conservation, is based on the principles of adaptive management and uses population and habitat data, ecological models, and focused monitoring and assessment efforts to develop and implement strategies that result in measurable fish and wildlife population outcomes. In addition, by leveraging resources and strategically targeting science to inform conservation decisions and

 actions, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) have created a network of partners working in unison to ensure the sustainability of America’s land, water, wildlife and cultural resources. Financial assistance may be awarded for science projects and LCC-prioritized biological planning, conservation design and adaptive management projects to include: research; inventory design and implementation; monitoring; goal and priority setting associated with efficient and effective conservation; development of implementation strategies; and projects supporting all other FWS organizational efforts, including planning, establishment maintenance, and general business operations. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated on a rolling basis subject to available funding. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267539 Department of Transportation – DOT/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - FY 2015 MCSAP High Priority Notice of Funding Availability Proposal Due Date: November 17, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 50 Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,000,000 Award Ceiling: $1,000,000 Award Floor: $25,000 Funding Opportunity Number: FM-MHP-15-001 Purpose: This program supports commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety programs that: 1) Carry out high priority activities and projects that improve CMV safety; 2) Increase compliance with CMV safety regulations; 3) Increase public awareness about CMV safety; 4) Provide education on CMV safety and related issues; 5) Demonstrate new safety related technologies; and 6) Reduce the number and rate of crashes involving CMVs. https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=50030  National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts: Phase I Studies NASA Research Announcement - 2015 Proposal Due Date: November 12, 2014 Step A white papers of no more than 3 pages, plus summary chart, due Wednesday, November 12th, 2014. Invited Step B Proposals of no more than 8 pages due Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 12 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: NNH15ZOA001N-15NIAC-A1

  Purpose: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is releasing an Appendix to the current Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion 2015 (REDDI) NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for initial studies of visionary aerospace concepts. NNH15ZOA001N, entitled NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts: Phase I Studies, will be available as of October 10th, 2014 by opening the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and then linking through the menu listings "Solicitations" to "Open Solicitations." This NRA Appendix will solicit multiple studies, each of which will investigate an architecture, mission, or system concept with the potential to enable a great leap in space or aeronautics. Aerospace architecture, mission, or system concepts proposed for NIAC Phase I study must be exciting, unexplored, far-term, and credible. Proposals for narrow technology or subsystem development, or incremental or near-term advancement, are explicitly out of scope for this program. Finally, while NIAC encourages daring vision and accepts the accompanying risk, proposals must be technically credible and plausibly implementable. NIAC is part of the Space Technology Mission Directorate. The 2015 NIAC Phase I solicitation will be a two-step process. Step A will be a 3-page white paper plus summary chart. Proposals shall be submitted electronically, and all Step A proposers shall use the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES), accessible at http://nspires.nasaprs.com , or for Step A may also use Grants.gov. Step B full proposals will be eligible only if invited after review of a Step A submission. Step B proposals shall be submitted electronically through NSPIRES only. This solicitation will be an open announcement; anyone is welcome to respond. Affiliation with any educational institution, commercial or not-for-profit organization, research laboratory, government agency, or NASA Center (including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) is permitted. Individuals may submit, as long as they meet the registration requirements for NSPIRES. Every organization that intends to submit a proposal in response to this NRA must be registered with NSPIRES, and such registration must identify the authorized organizational representative(s) who will submit the electronic proposal. Each electronic proposal system places requirements on the registration of principal investigators and other participants (e.g. co-investigators). Potential proposers and proposing organizations are urged to access the electronic proposal system(s) well in advance of the proposal due date(s) to familiarize themselves with its structure and enter the requested information. Specific propo sal submission deadline dates, evaluation criteria, and submission information will be identified in the NRA. Step A White Papers will be due on or before Wednesday, November 12th, 2014; Step B full Proposals will be due on or before Wednesday, January 21st , 2015. 12-16 NIAC Phase I awards are anticipated, but the final number of awards will depend on the quality of proposals and availability of appropriated funds. Comments and questions may be addressed by e-mail to NIAC Program representatives at hq-niac@mail.nasa.gov . Responses to inquiries will be answered by e-mail and also included in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document located on the NSPIRES page associated with the solicitation; anonymity of persons/institutions who submit questions will be preserved. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267828  National Aeronautics and Space Administration - ROSES 2014: Habitable Worlds Proposal Due Date: November 24, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: NNH14ZDA001N-HW

 Purpose: The goal of the Habitable Worlds program is to use knowledge of the history of the Earth and the life upon it as a guide for determining the processes and conditions that create and maintain habitable environments and to search for ancient and contemporary habitable environments and explore the possibility of extant life beyond the Earth. NASA's Habitable Worlds Program includes elements of the strobiology Program, the Mars Exploration Program, and the Outer Planets Program. A common goal of these programs is to identify the characteristics and the distribution of potentially habitable environments in the Solar System and beyond. This research is conducted in the context of NASA’s ongoing exploration of our stellar neighborhood and the identification of biosignatures for in situ and remote sensing applications. For further information on the science scope of Astrobiology, please refer to the Astrobiology roadmap, which can be found on the Astrobiology web page http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/. Information on the habitability-related goals of the Mars Exploration Program can be found in the "Mars Science Goals, Objectives, Investigations and Priorties: 2010" document, available on the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group web page (http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov). For the Outer Planets Program, refer to the document "Scientific Goals and Pathways for Exploration of the Outer Solar System," found on the Outer Planets Assessment Group web site (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag). http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId=%7B5924CEB3-4EB7-FEF1-C85B-DD5745C1331C%7D&path=open  National Endowment for the Humanities – National Digital Newspaper Program Proposal Due Date: Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $325,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 20150115-PJ Purpose: NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is creating a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and will be freely accessible via the Internet. (See the website, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.) An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During the course of its partnership with NEH, LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections. NEH intends to support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible to receive supplements for continued work, but the program will give priority to new projects. In particular, the program will give priority to projects from states and territories that have not received NDNP funding. Applications that involve collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome. Such collaborations might involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the creation and delivery of digital files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects of the project; or providing formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop. Over a period of two years, successful applicants will select newspapers¿published in their state or territory between 1836 and 1922¿and convert approximately 100,000 pages into digital files (primarily from microfilm), according to the technical guidelines (PDF)

 outlined by the Library of Congress. Applicants may select titles published in Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. (More languages will be added in future years.) http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/national-digital-newspaper-program National Endowment for the Humanities – Collaborative Research Grants Proposal Due Date: December 9, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $300,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 20150115-PJ Purpose: 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  National Endowment for the Humanities – Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants Proposal Due Date: December 9, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $300,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 20141209-RQ Purpose: Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in

 inadequate editions. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible. Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants  National Science Foundation – Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program Proposal Due Date: December 3, 2014 for proposals that deal with training as described in the Synopsis Full Proposal Accepted Anytime for proposals that do not deal with training Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 04-1260 Purpose: The Infrastructure Program provides support for activities that differ from the research projects supported by the disciplinary programs of the Division of Mathematical Sciences. These include working research sessions, such as conferences, symposia, colloquia, and special years, as well as training programs, such as grants for broadening education in the mathematical sciences or increasing the number of individuals in disciplines that are based in the mathematical sciences. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12756  National Science Foundation – Cultural Anthropology Scholars Awards Proposal Due Date: January 16, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 2 Estimated Total Program Funding: $100,000 Award Ceiling: $50,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 07-544 Purpose: The National Science Foundation announces an opportunity for methodological training by cultural anthropologists who are active researchers. The purpose is to help cultural anthropologists upgrade their methodological skills by learning a specific analytical technique which will improve their research abilities. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5321  

 National Science Foundation – Cooperative Studies Of The Earth's Deep Interior Proposal Due Date: September 28, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 10 Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 11-548 Purpose: The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) invites the submission of proposals for collaborative, interdisciplinary studies of the Earth's interior within the framework of the community-based initiative known as Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior (CSEDI). Funding will support basic research on the character and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core, their influence on the evolution of the Earth as a whole, and on processes operating within the deep interior that affect or are expressed on the Earth's surface. Projects may employ any combination of field, laboratory, and computational studies with observational, theoretical, or experimental approaches. Support is available for research and research infrastructure through grants and cooperative agreements awarded in response to investigator-initiated proposals from U.S. universities and other eligible institutions. Multidisciplinary work is required. EAR will consider co-funding of projects with other agencies and supports international work and collaborations. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11702 National Science Foundation – Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences Proposal Due Date: September 19, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 10 Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000 Award Ceiling: $1,500,000 Award Floor: $450,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 12-566 Purpose: The purpose of the FRG activity is to allow groups of researchers to respond to recognized scientific needs of pressing importance, to take advantage of current scientific opportunities, or to prepare the ground for anticipated significant scientific developments in the mathematical sciences. Groups may include, in addition to mathematicians and statisticians, researchers from other science and engineering disciplines appropriate to the proposed research. The activity supports projects for which the collective effort by a group of researchers is necessary to reach the scientific goals. Projects should be scientifically focused and well-delineated. It is not the intent of this activity to provide general support for infrastructure. Projects should also be timely, limited in duration to up to three years, and substantial in their scope and impact. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5671  

 National Science Foundation – Research Experiences for Undergraduates Proposal Due Date: May 22, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 1800 Estimated Total Program Funding: $68,400,000 Award Ceiling: $400,000 Award Floor: $5,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 13-542 Purpose: The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department or may offer interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. Proposals with an international dimension are welcome. (2) REU Supplements may be included as a component of proposals for new or renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements or may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects. Undergraduate student participants in either REU Sites or REU Supplements must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents of the United States. Students do not apply to NSF to participate in REU activities. Students apply directly to REU Sites or to NSF-funded investigators who receive REU Supplements. To identify appropriate REU Sites, students should consult the directory of active REU Sites on the Web at http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517  National Science Foundation – Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences Proposal Due Date: September 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000 Award Ceiling: $2,000,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 13-570 Purpose: The Division of Mathematical Sciences in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health plan to support research in mathematics and statistics on questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. Both agencies recognize the need and urgency for promoting research at the interface between the mathematical sciences and the life sciences. This competition is designed to encourage new collaborations, as well as to support existing ones.

 http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf13570  National Science Foundation – Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program Proposal Due Date: March 3, 2015 Letter of Intent Deadline Date: January 05, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 8 Estimated Total Program Funding: $12,000,000 Award Ceiling: $200,000 Award Floor: $10,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 13-594 Purpose: The Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and are primarily supported by industry center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in the development and evolution of the center. Each center is established to conduct research that is of interest to both the industry members and the center faculty. An I/UCRC contributes to the nation's research infrastructure base and enhances the intellectual capacity of the engineering and science workforce through the integration of research and education. As appropriate, an I/UCRC uses international collaborations to advance these goals within the global context. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5501  National Science Foundation – Cognitive Neuroscience Proposal Due Date: February 25, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 25 Estimated Total Program Funding: $8,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 14-514 Purpose: The Cognitive Neuroscience Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5316    National Science Foundation – Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Proposal Due Date: December 1, 2014

 Expected Number of Awards: 34 Estimated Total Program Funding: $18,000,000 Award Ceiling: $2,500,000 Award Floor: $20,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 14-526 Purpose: 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; andPromoting 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. 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. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504984  National Science Foundation – Geography and Spatial Sciences Program Proposal Due Date: September 3, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 40 Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000 Award Ceiling: $400,000 Award Floor: $40,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 14-537

 Purpose: As specified in the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program strategic plan, the goals of the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) Program are: To promote scientific research in geography and the spatial sciences that advances theory and basic understanding and that addresses the challenges facing society. To promote the integration of geographers and spatial scientists in interdisciplinary research. To promote education and training of geographers and spatial scientists in order to enhance the capabilities of current and future generations of researchers. To promote the development and use of scientific methods and tools for geographic research. The Geography and Spatial Sciences Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on Earth. Investigators are encouraged to propose plans for research about the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. GSS provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms: Regular research awards Doctoral dissertation research improvement (DDRI) awards Faculty early-career development (CAREER) awards Awards for conferences, workshops, group-travel support, and community-development or community-serving activities Research coordination network (RCN) awards Rapid-response research (RAPID) awards Early-concept grants for exploratory research (EAGER) and other special kinds of award mechanisms established by NSF may be supported in rare and unusual cases. (GSS strives to be open to ideas and approaches in early stages of development and emphasizes the potential longer-term significance of new lines of inquiry as part of its merit evaluation of all proposals.)Two different solicitations now provide information about proposals to be submitted for consideration by GSS. One solicitation focuses on providing instruction for submission of proposals for regular research awards; proposals for awards for conferences, workshops, group-travel support, and community-development or community-serving activities; proposals for research coordination network (RCN) awards; and proposals for rapid-response research (RAPID) awards. Proposals for doctoral dissertation research improvement (DDRI) awards are described in a separate solicitation (accessible at http://xxx.nsf.gov/). Note that there are different proposal submission deadlines for DDRI proposals submitted to GSS. Note also that there now are special eligibility requirements for doctoral students submitting DDRI proposals to GSS. Proposals for faculty early-career development (CAREER) awards should submit proposals in accordance with the CAREER solicitation (accessible at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214). http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505034  National Science Foundation – Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants Proposal Due Date: January 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 50 Estimated Total Program Funding: $800,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 14-560 Purpose: The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Anthropological research spans a wide gamut, and contemporary cultural anthropology is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology. Because the

 National Science Foundation’s mandate is to support basic research, the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal improved clinical practice or applied policy. Program research priorities include, but are not limited to, research that increases our understanding of: Socio-cultural drivers of critical anthropogenic processes such as deforestation, desertification, land cover change, urbanization, and poverty Resilience and robustness of socio-cultural systems Conflict, cooperation, and altruism Economy, culture, migration, and globalization Variability and change in kinship and family norms and practices Cultural and social contexts of health and disease Social regulation, governmentality, and violence Origins of complexity in socio-cultural systems Language and culture: orality and literacy, sociolinguistics, and cognition Human variation through empirically grounded ethnographic descriptions Mathematical and computational models of sociocultural systems such as social network analysis, agent-based models, and integration of agent-based models with geographic information systems (GIS) As part of its effort to encourage and support projects that explicitly integrate education and basic research, CA provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation projects carried out by doctoral students enrolled in U.S. universities who are conducting scientific research that enhances basic scientific knowledge. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505057  National Science Foundation – Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative Proposal Due Date: September 23, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 30 Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,500,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 14-562 Purpose: With the goal of encouraging research independence immediately upon obtaining one's first academic position after receipt of the PhD, the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) will award grants to initiate the course of one's independent research. Understanding the critical role of establishing that independence early in one's career, it is expected that funds will be used to support untenured faculty or research scientists (or equivalent) in their first two years in an academic position after the PhD. One may not yet have received any other grants in the Principal Investigator (PI) role from any institution or agency, including from the CAREER program or any other award post-PhD. Serving as co-PI, Senior Personnel, Post-doctoral Fellow, or other Fellow does not count against this eligibility rule. It is expected that these funds will allow the new CISE Research Initiation Initiative PI to support one or more graduate students for up to two years. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504952  

 National Science Foundation – ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers Letter of Intent Deadline Date: October 5, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: $11,000,000 Award Ceiling: $4,000,000 Award Floor: $100,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 14-573 Purpose: The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity in the STEM academic workforce; and (3) to contribute to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE also has as its goal to contribute to and inform the general knowledge base on gender equity in the academic STEM disciplines. There are three tracks with distinct purposes. The Institutional Transformation (IT) track is meant to produce large-scale comprehensive change and serve as a locus for research on gender equity and institutional transformation for academic STEM. The Institutional Transformation Catalyst (IT Catalyst) track is meant either to conduct self-assessment or to implement unique strategies – either adapted from those found effective in the IT track or ones designed to be responsive to the unique environments of eligible institutions – and evaluate their effectiveness. The Partnerships for Learning and Adaptation Networks (PLAN) track is meant to provide a larger scale environment for adapting, implementing and creating knowledge about the effectiveness of a particular strategy for change within a context of networked adaptation and learning. PLAN is focused on adaptation/implementation and learning either in particular STEM disciplines (PLAN D) or across institutions of higher education (PLAN IHE). ADVANCE projects support institutional transformation in STEM. STEM includes but is not limited to Arctic and Antarctic sciences, biological sciences, computer and information sciences, engineering, geosciences, mathematics, physical sciences, the learning sciences, and social, behavioral and economic sciences. Institutional Transformation and IT Catalyst awards are expected to include all STEM disciplines at the institution submitting the proposal. PLAN awards may include all of STEM or a subset or one discipline. The following types of institutions are strongly encouraged to apply to the ADVANCE program: For All Project Types: Community colleges, primarily undergraduate institutions, minority-serving institutions (e.g. Tribal Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Alaska Native Institutions, Predominantly Black Institutions and Non-tribal, Native American Serving Institutions), women's colleges, and institutions primarily serving persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is anticipated that there may be significant differences in the issues facing faculty in these institutions, compared to faculty in other types of institutions, which will warrant development of unique strategies and/or adaptation of proven strategies in a unique way to achieve ADVANCE Program goals. ADVANCE projects are viewed as team research and, as such, the team of principal investigators is expected to be multidisciplinary and representative of the theoretical, methodological and contextual expertise necessary to conceptualize, implement, and evaluate a successful project.

 ADVANCE does not support activities to increase or retain the number of women entering into or persisting in STEM undergraduate or doctoral degree programs; rather the program focuses on ensuring that women faculty consider academia as a viable and attractive career option. As such, no student training initiatives/activities should be proposed. ADVANCE funds, in general, cannot be used to support dependent care costs. However, costs incurred by the awardee organization under employee morale and welfare for dependent-care expenses (daycare facilities or other child/elder care arrangements) may be allowed, provided these types of expenses are charged through the application of fringe benefits or indirect costs (also known as Facilities & Administrative Costs). Any such charges must be made in accordance with established awardee institutional policy as approved by the cognizant agency and consistently applied to both Federal and non-Federal sponsors. For more information on the allowability of dependent care costs, visit the following NSF website: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=clbfaqs. Special populations of women, for the purposes of the ADVANCE Program, includes women of diverse characteristics and backgrounds including, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, disability status and sexual orientation. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383  National Science Foundation – Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Proposal Due Date: January 20, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 35 Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,400,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 14-574 Purpose: The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative, analytical, and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data. The MMS Program provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms. The following mechanisms are addressed in this solicitation: Regular Research Awards Awards for conferences, workshops, and community-development activities Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements MMS also supports Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. Please see the CAREER Program Web Site for more information about this activity. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5421

   National Science Foundation – Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants Proposal Due Date: September 9, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 3 Estimated Total Program Funding: $60,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 14-578 Purpose: The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations. Among the many research topics supported are: examinations of the ways in which the contexts, structures and processes of science and engineering research are affected by policy decision, the evaluation of the tangible and intangible returns from investments in science and from investments in research and development, the study of structures and processes that facilitate the development of usable knowledge, theories of creative processes and their transformation into social and economic outcomes, the collection, analysis and visualization of new data describing the scientific and engineering enterprise. As part of its effort to encourage and support projects that explicitly integrate education and basic research, SciSIP provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation projects carried out by doctoral students enrolled in U.S. universities who are conducting scientific research that enhances basic scientific knowledge. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505092  National Science Foundation – Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Research Alliance Proposal Due Date: February 18, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 8 Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: $800,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 14-612 Purpose: 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). 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 PFI:AIR program has two additional subprograms: the PFI:AIR-Technology Translation (See NSF 14-569) and PFI:AIR- Research Alliance (this solicitation). This PFI:AIR-Research Alliance (RA) solicitation is intended to accelerate the translation and transfer of existing research discoveries into competitive technologies and commercial realities by leveraging the investments NSF has made in research consortia (e.g., Engineering Research Centers, Industry University Cooperative Research Centers, Science and Technology Centers, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers, Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, Centers for Chemical Innovation, and others) and catalyzing academic-based innovation ecosystems. The goal is that these synergistic partnerships and collaborations between government, academia, and other public and private entities will result in new wealth and the building of strong local and regional economies. WEBINAR: A webinar will be held within 6 weeks of the release date of this solicitation to answer any questions about this solicitation. Details will be posted on the PFI:AIR-RA website (http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/pfi/air-ra.jsp) as they become available. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504973  National Science Foundation – Science of Science and Innovation Policy Proposal Due Date: September 9, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: $8,000,000 Award Ceiling: $750,000 Award Floor: $50,000 Funding Opportunity Number: PD-09-7626 Purpose: The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations. Among the many research topics supported are:examinations of the ways in which the contexts, structures and processes of science and engineering research are affected by policy decision, the evaluation of the tangible and intangible returns from investments in science and from investments in research and development, the study of structures and processes that facilitate the development of usable knowledge, theories of creative processes and their transformation into social and economic outcomes, the collection, analysis and visualization of new data describing the scientific and engineering enterprise. The SciSIP program invites the participation of researchers from all of the social, behavioral and economic sciences as well as those working in domain-specific applications such as chemistry, biology, physics, or nanotechnology. The program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, workshops, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates. The program places a high priority on interdisciplinary research as well as international

 collaboration. Investigators are encouraged to submit proposals of joint interest to the SciSIP Program and other NSF programs and NSF initiative areas. The program places a high priority on broadening participation and encourages proposals from junior faculty, women, other underrepresented minorities, Research Undergraduate Institutions, and EPSCoR states. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature (see Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER).)For program specific guidelines on the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in SciSIP, please visit: Doctoral Preparation Checklist. The Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) will provide special support for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants that utilize SRS datasets. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084  National Science Foundation – Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-10-1638 Purpose: The IMEE program focuses on the impact of large-scale hazards on civil infrastructure and society and on related issues of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. The program supports research to integrate multiple issues from engineering, social, behavioral, political, and economic sciences. It supports fundamental research on the interdependence of civil infrastructure and society, development of sustainable infrastructures, and civil infrastructure vulnerability and risk reduction. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13353  National Science Foundation – Operations Research Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 10-5514 Purpose: The OR program supports fundamental research leading to the creation of innovative mathematical models, analysis, and algorithms for optimal or near optimal decision-making, applicable to the design and operation of manufacturing, service, and other complex systems. In addition to the traditional areas of Operations Research which includes discrete and continuous optimization as well as stochastic modeling and analysis, new research thrusts include simulation optimization and self-optimizing systems that can observe, learn, and adapt to changing environments. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13341

   National Science Foundation – Service Enterprise Systems Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 10-1787 Purpose: The SES program supports research on strategic decision making, design, planning, and operation of commercial, nonprofit, and institutional service enterprises with the goal of improving their overall effectiveness and cost reduction. The program has a particular focus on healthcare and other similar public service institutions, and emphasizes research topics leading to more effective systems modeling and analysis as a means to improved planning, resource allocation, and policy development. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13343  National Science Foundation – Research in Engineering Education Proposal Due Date: January 22, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-10-1340 Purpose: The Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) supports creation of a more agile engineering education ecosystem, equally open and available to all members of society, that dynamically and rapidly adapts to meet the changing needs of society and the Nation's economy. Research is sought that will inform systemic change across all parts of the ecosystem; areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Diversifying pathways to and through engineering degree programs. Research projects that align with this theme explore how engineering programs can create alternative pathways for students with a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and experiences; investigate how informal or real world experiences germane to engineering-such as military service or being a "maker" (i.e. tinkerer or hobbyist)-serve as pathways to engineering; or investigate how to fundamentally restructure courses, curricula, or programs to substantially boost student success, especially for under-represented populations and veterans. Research on approaches that lower barriers for students to transfer into or between engineering programs, from other majors or community colleges for example, is also sought. Exploring credentialing in engineering education. Research in this area explores how higher education institutions credential learning, i.e. certify student learning via externally accepted metrics. Topics include exploring the relation between credentialing and learning, developing new methods to assess and credential learning, and understanding how credentials are valued and interpreted both within and external to the university. Projects exploring novel credentialing methods that create more porous boundaries between formal and informal learning spaces are particularly sought.

 Understanding how to scale engineering education innovations. This topic includes studies on how to improve the translation of engineering education research to practice or scale educational innovations to have systemic impact. This topic also supports activities that inform engineering education efforts and investments or spawn new research. Such activities include modeling engineering education as a complex adaptive system, creating data systems that can inform future efforts, or clarifying the return on investments in engineering education. Advancing engineering learning in broader eco-systems such as innovation, globalization, or sustainability. Research projects that align with this theme include discovering key concepts and principles that enable engineering graduates to succeed in highly interdisciplinary environments or "eco-systems"; i.e. rigorously determining the effect of such programs on students or exploring factors such as teamwork, self efficacy, communication, or identity formation in such environments. Developing engineering-specific learning theories. Theories on development of engineering epistemologies and identities, and the effect of novel learning environments (such as maker-spaces) on learning are particularly sought. Competitive proposals advance understanding in engineering education by grounding the proposed work in theory as well as relevant prior work in engineering education specifically and education generally. Proposals should clearly address why the proposed research fills gaps in existing knowledge and address how evaluation will inform the research effort and allow assessment of the project's impact and effectiveness. Engineering education research projects should address the iterative cycle in which research questions that advance understanding are informed by practice and the results of research are, in turn, translated into practice. In other words, how are the research results broadly generalizable and/or transferable? Successful projects identify specific target audiences, effective communication channels, and novel partnerships to ensure broad dissemination. PIs are strongly encouraged to provide a roadmap detailing how they envision the proposed research will eventually be scaled to broadly impact practice, even if these activities are not within the scope of the submitted proposal. Proposals to build research capacity such as developing means to measure engineering thinking, doing, and knowing or proposals to build research networks or infrastructure will be considered. This program strongly discourages proposals that seek funding primarily to develop tools, curriculum, or laboratories, or that seek to implement innovations that have already been shown to be effective for engineering students. More information can be found in the program's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), see link below. The REE program accepts a diverse range of project scales from small, exploratory projects to large scale investigations with a broad, systemic scope; project budgets should match the project scope. Small-scale, exploratory projects with high transformative potential are strongly encouraged. The estimated number of awarded proposals is based on a projected average funding level of approximately $100,000 per project per year. All PIs should discuss the budget of proposed projects with a cognizant program officer before submission. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503584 National Science Foundation – Science of Organizations Proposal Due Date: February 2, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor:

 Funding Opportunity Number: PD-11-8031 Purpose: Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds. SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Funded research is aimed at yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker and research communities. SoO welcomes any and all rigorous, scientific approaches that illuminate aspects of organizations as systems of coordination, management and governance. In considering whether a particular project might be a candidate for consideration by SoO, please note: Intellectual perspectives may involve (but are not limited to) organizational theory, behavior, sociology or economics, business policy and strategy, communication sciences, entrepreneurship, human resource management, information sciences, managerial and organizational cognition, operations management, public administration, social or industrial psychology, and technology and innovation management. Phenomena studied may include (but are not limited to) structures, routines, effectiveness, competitiveness, innovation, dynamics, change and evolution. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) organizational, cross-organizational collaborations or relationships, and institutional and can address individuals, groups or teams. Research methods may be qualitative and quantitative and may include (but are not limited to) archival analyses, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. Consistent with NSF merit review criteria, each SoO proposal should discuss both the intellectual merit and the potential broader impacts of the proposed research. SoO values basic research that has the potential to provide broader societal benefits. However, the majority of space in any proposal will need to be dedicated to the explication of theory, methods, and specific contribution to the evidence base about organizational effectiveness. Projects that aim to implement and subsequently evaluate particular organizational training, effectiveness or change programs, rather than to advance fundamental, generalizable knowledge, are not appropriate for SoO. Researchers who seek to conduct SoO-appropriate research in an industrial site and/or via an industry-university collaboration are invited to also look at the Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaisons with Industry(GOALI) program web site. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504696  National Science Foundation – Geomechanics & Geomaterials Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 12-1634 Purpose: The GEOMM program supports fundamental research on the mechanical and engineering properties of geologic materials including natural, mechanically stabilized, and biologically or chemically modified soil and rock. The program also addresses hydraulic, biological, chemical and thermal processes that affect the behavior of geologic materials. Research at the micro-scale on soil-structure interaction and

 liquefaction are included in the scope of this program. Support is provided for theoretical studies, constitutive and numerical modeling, laboratory, centrifuge, and field testing. Cross-disciplinary and international collaborations are encouraged. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13350  National Science Foundation – Geotechnical Engineering Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-12-1636 Purpose: The GTE program supports fundamental research on geotechnical engineering aspects of civil infrastructure, such as site characterization, foundations, earth retaining systems, underground construction, excavations, tunneling, and drilling. Also included in the program scope is research on geoenvironmental engineering; geotechnical engineering aspects of geothermal energy; life-cycle analysis of geostructures; geotechnical earthquake engineering that does not involve the use of George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) facilities; scour and erosion; and geohazards such as tsunamis, landslides, mudslides and debris flows. The program does not support research related to natural resource exploration or recovery. Emphasis is on issues of sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructure. Cross-disciplinary and international collaborations are encouraged. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13351  National Science Foundation – Civil Infrastructure Systems Proposal Due Date: Expected Number of Awards: February 17, 2015 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-12-1631 Purpose: The Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program supports research leading to the engineering of infrastructure systems for resilience and sustainability without excluding other key performance issues. Areas of interest include intra- and inter-physical, information and behavioral dependencies of infrastructure systems, infrastructure management, construction engineering, and transportation systems. Special emphasis is on the design, construction, operation, and improvement of infrastructure networks with a focus on systems engineering and design, performance management, risk analysis, life-cycle analysis, modeling and simulation, behavioral and social considerations not excluding other methodological areas or the integration of methods.This program does not encourage research proposals primarily focused on structural engineering, materials or sensors that support infrastructure system design, extreme event modeling, hydrological engineering, and climate modeling, since they do not fall within the scope of the CIS program. Researchers focused in these areas are encouraged to contact the Infrastructure Management and Extreme

 Events (IMEE), Geotechnical Engineering (GTE), Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering (HSME), Structural Materials and Mechanics (SMM), or the Sensors and Sensing Systems (SSS) program within CMMI. Additionally, researchers may consider contacting the Hydrologic Sciences program in the Earth Sciences Division (EAR) or the Physical and Dynamic Meteorology (PDM) program in the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division (AGS) of the Directorate for Geosciences. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13352    National Science Foundation – Systems Science Proposal Due Date: February 1, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 15 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-12-8085 Purpose: The System Science (SYS) program funds fundamental research on engineered systems to support the creation of a theoretically sound foundation for systems engineering. The System Science program invites proposals that address fundamental issues critical to the design of large scale complex engineered systems such as: the relation of the structure of an engineering organization to design outcomes; uncertainty quantification and management from initial engineering design predictions through to operation and maintenance of large scale systems; the manner in which individual design decisions are aggregated to bring about whole systems; path dependence of design decision-making; and the way that relevant knowledge and information, mediated by individual engineers organized into very large teams, impact systems engineering outcomes. Research under the Systems Science program should draw on or extend established theory in mathematics, economics, organizational sociology, social psychology, and other relevant fields. The Systems Science program provides an opportunity to connect research on systems engineering or engineering design with basic research in dynamic systems, control systems, optimization, and other systems-related fields. The System Science program does not fund the development of methods, processes or tools. Proposals with system science or system engineering relevance, but have a predominant research contribution funded by an existing program in CMMI should be submitted to the appropriate disciplinary program, with the System Science program identified as a secondary program. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504788  National Science Foundation – Design of Engineering Material Systems Proposal Due Date: February 1, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 15

 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-12-8086 Purpose: The Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) program supports fundamental research intended to lead to new paradigms of design, development, and insertion of advanced engineering material systems. Fundamental research that develops and creatively integrates theory, processing/manufacturing, data/informatics, experimental, and/or computational approaches with rigorous engineering design principles, approaches, and tools to enable the accelerated design and development of materials is welcome. Research proposals are sought that strive to develop systematic scientific methodologies to tailor the behavior of material systems in ways that are driven by performance metrics and incorporate processing/manufacturing. While an emphasis on a specific material system may be appropriate to provide the necessary project focus, techniques developed should transcend materials systems. Ultimately it is expected that research outcomes will be methodologies to enable the discovery of materials systems with new properties and behavior, and enable their rapid insertion into engineering systems. Proposals that focus on modeling, simulation, and prediction of material performance (even when research is coupled with experiments for validation or guidance) without an intellectual emphasis on design are not appropriate for this program and should be submitted to other disciplinary programs. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504809  National Science Foundation – Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering Proposal Due Date: February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 13-1637 Purpose: The Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering (HMSE) program supports fundamental research to mitigate impacts of natural and anthropogenic hazards on civil infrastructure and to advance the reliability, resiliency, and sustainability of buildings and other structures. Hazards considered within the program include earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, tornado and other loads, as well as explosive and impact loading. Resiliency of buildings and other structures include structural and non-structural systems that, in totality, permit continued occupation or operation in case of an impact by a hazard. Research is encouraged that integrates structural and architectural engineering advances with discoveries in other science and engineering fields, such as earth and atmospheric sciences, material science, mechanics of materials, sensor technology, high performance computational modeling and simulation, dynamic system and control, and economics. The program seeks to fund transformative and cost-effective innovations for hazard mitigation of both new and rehabilitated buildings and other structures. Research in structural and architectural engineering is encouraged that extends beyond mature or current construction materials into investigations of smart and sustainable materials and technologies, and considers the structures in their entirety. In addition, the program funds research on structural health monitoring that goes beyond data

 acquisition to include the holistic system, integrating condition assessment and decision making tools to improve structural performance. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13358  National Science Foundation – Engineering and Systems Design Proposal Due Date: February 1, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-13-1464 Purpose: The Engineering and Systems Design (ESD) program supports descriptive and normative research leading to a theory of engineering design and an understanding of systems engineering. The program is focused on gaining an understanding of the basic processes and phenomena underlying a view of design where the system life-cycle context informs the identification and definition of preferences, analysis of alternatives, effective accommodation of uncertainty in decision-making, and the relationship between data, information, and knowledge in a digitally-supported environment. The program funds advances in a descriptive understanding of design and basic design theory that span multiple domains, such as the relationship of systems to the environment, the significance of manufacturability, and the range of complexity from small designed artifacts to large engineered systems. Fundamental research in system science and system engineering theory should be submitted to the System Science (SYS) program. Research in which the primary contribution is observation and description of systems engineering should be submitted to the ESD program, and should identify the System Science program as a secondary program. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13340  National Science Foundation – Materials Engineering and Processing Proposal Due Date: February 1, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-13-8092 Purpose: The Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP) program supports fundamental research addressing the interrelationship of materials processing, structure, properties and/or life-cycle performance for targeted applications. Research proposals should be driven by the performance or output of the material

 system relative to the targeted application(s). Research plans driven by scientific hypotheses are encouraged when suitable. Materials in bulk form or focus on special zones such as surfaces or interfaces that are to be used in structural and/or functional applications are appropriate. All material systems are of interest including polymers, metals, ceramics, semiconductors, composites and hybrids thereof. Analytical, experimental, and numerical studies are supported and collaborative proposals with industry (GOALI) are encouraged.Areas of interest include: Functional Materials - materials that possess native properties and functions that can be controlled by external forces such as temperature, light, electric field, pH, etc. These include materials that exhibit properties such as electronic, magnetic, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, photovoltaic, chromogenic, shape memory, thermoelectric or self-healing, etc. Structural Materials - materials that, in service, bear mechanical load. Length scales from nano to meso to macro are of interest as are materials in the bulk or in special configuration such as thin film. These include materials such as metals, polymers, composites, biomaterials, ceramics, hybrids, cement, etc. Materials Processing - processes that convert material into useful form as either intermediate or final composition. These include processes such as extrusion, molding, casting, deposition, sintering, printing, etc. Proposed research should include the consideration of cost, performance, and feasibility of scale-up, as appropriate. Research that addresses multi-scale and/or multi-functional materials systems is encouraged as is research in support of environmentally-benign manufacturing. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504950  National Science Foundation – Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Proposal Due Date: February 1, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-13-1786 Purpose: The MES program supports research on design, planning, and control of operations in manufacturing enterprises. Research is supported that is both grounded in an interesting and relevant application and requires the development of novel analytical and computational methodologies that may be of broader interest. Topics of interest include supply chain optimization and management; production planning and scheduling; monitoring and control of manufacturing processes; and maintenance and repair. Of particular interest are methods that incorporate increasingly rich enterprise process and product information and models, methods that address sustainability, and methods that incorporate characteristic uncertainty and risk. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13342  National Science Foundation – Nanomanufacturing Proposal Due Date: February 01, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $300,000 Award Ceiling: $300,000

 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 14-1788 Purpose: Nanomanufacturing is the production of useful nano-scale materials, structures, devices and systems in an economically viable manner. The NSF Nanomanufacturing Program supports fundamental research in novel methods and techniques for batch and continuous processes, top-down (addition/subtraction) and bottom-up (directed self-assembly) processes leading to the formation of complex heterogeneous nanosystems. The program supports basic research in nanostructure and process design principles, integration across length-scales, and system-level integration. The Program leverages advances in the understanding of nano-scale phenomena and processes (physical, chemical, electrical, thermal, mechanical and biological), nanomaterials discovery, novel nanostructure architectures, and new nanodevice and nanosystem concepts. It seeks to address quality, efficiency, scalability, reliability, safety and affordability issues that are relevant to manufacturing. To address these issues, the Program encourages research on processes and production systems based on computation, modeling and simulation, use of process metrology, sensing, monitoring, and control, and assessment of product (nanomaterial, nanostructure, nanodevice or nanosystem) quality and performance. The Program seeks to explore transformative approaches to nanomanufacturing, including but not limited to: micro-reactor and micro-fluidics enabled nanosynthesis, bio-inspired nanomanufacturing, manufacturing by nanomachines, additive nanomanufacturing, hierarchical nanostructure assembly, continuous high-rate nanofabrication such as roll-to-roll processing or massively-parallel large-area processing, and modular manufacturing platforms for nanosystems. The Program encourages the fabrication of nanomaterials by design, three-dimensional nanostructures, multi-layer nanodevices, and multi-material and multi-functional nanosystems. Also of interest is the manufacture of dynamic nanosystems such as nanomotors, nanorobots, and nanomachines, and enabling advances in transport and diffusion mechanisms at the nano-scale. The program supports education of the next generation of researchers, and encourages building a workforce trained in nanomanufacturing systems. It is also interested in understanding long-term environmental, health and societal (EHS) implications of large-scale production and use of nano-scale materials, devices and systems. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13347  National Science Foundation – Mechanics of Materials Proposal Due Date: February 01, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 20 Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-14-1630 Purpose: The Mechanics of Materials program supports fundamental research on the behavior of solid materials and respective devices under external actions. A diverse and interdisciplinary spectrum of research is supported with emphasis placed on fundamental understanding that i) advances theory, experimental, and/or computational methods in Mechanics of Materials, and/or ii) uses contemporary

 Mechanics of Materials methods to address modern challenges in material and device mechanics and physics. Proposed research can focus on existing or emerging material systems across time and length scales. Intellectual merit typically includes advances in fundamental understanding of deformation, fracture, fatigue, and contact through constitutive modeling, multiscale and multiphysics analysis, computational methods, or experimental techniques. Recent interests comprise, but are not limited to: contemporary materials including multiphase materials and material systems, soft materials, active materials, low-dimensional materials, phononic/elastic metamaterials, friction, wear; multiphysics methods, mechanics at the nano, meso and microscale and multiscale integration thereof, as well as approaches incorporating fundamental understanding of physics and chemistry into the continuum-level understanding of the response characteristics of materials and material systems. Broader impacts include, but are not limited to: advancing the relevant application of Mechanics of Materials to problems in new technological domains and engineering practice; increasing awareness of the importance and role of Mechanics of Materials in other scientific communities as well as society in general; impacting graduate education in Mechanics of Materials across the US; strengthening undergraduate and K-12 education in and exposure to Mechanics of Materials; and engaging and encouraging the participation of groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=251286  National Science Foundation – Manufacturing Machines and Equipment Proposal Due Date: February 01, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $300,000 Award Ceiling: $300,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-14-1468 Purpose: The MME program supports fundamental research leading to improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and their application in manufacturing processes. Key goals of the program are to advance the transition of manufacturing from skill-based to knowledge-based activities, and to advance technologies that will enable the manufacturing sector to reduce its environmental impacts. A focus is on the advancement of manufacturing machines and related systems engineering that will enable energy manufacturing, namely the manufacture of facilities and equipment that will enable the conversion of renewable resources into energy products such as electricity and liquid fuels, on a large scale. The program also supports research on additive manufacturing, laser processing and bonding/joining processes encompassing feature scales from microns to meters. Proposals with focus on materials for these processes are also welcome in MME. Note: nanometer scale additive manufacturing is supported under the Nanomanufacturing program.Investigators wishing to serve on a proposal review panel should email the Program Director with a short biographical sketch, a list of areas of expertise and a link to their home page. REU/RET supplement requests should be submitted by March 31 each year. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13346  

 National Science Foundation – Paleoclimate Proposal Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1530 Purpose: Supports research on the natural evolution of Earth's climate with the goal of providing a baseline for present variability and future trends through improved understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence climate over the long-term.The Geosciences Directorate and the Office of Polar Programs have joined in creating the annual Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5750) competition in paleoclimate global change research. Researchers are encouraged to consider the P2C2 competition as a possible source of support for their global change research. Since proposals eligible for funding in the P2C2 competition are not eligible for funding in the Paleoclimate Program, researchers are strongly advised to contact the Director of the Paleoclimate Program for guidance as to the suitability of their proposed research for either program. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12727  National Science Foundation – Division of Environmental Biology Proposal Due Date: August 3, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 200 Estimated Total Program Funding: $72,000,000 Award Ceiling: $5,000,000 Award Floor: $5,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 15-500 Purpose: The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patterns and processes at all spatial and temporal scales. Areas of research include biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics, molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem structure, function and services, conservation biology, global change, and biogeochemical cycles. Research on organismal origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and evolutionary history may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative experiments; synthesis activities; as well as theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503634  National Science Foundation – Cultural Anthropology Proposal Due Date: January 16, 2015

 Expected Number of Awards: 80 Estimated Total Program Funding: $450,000 Award Ceiling: $450,00 Award Floor: $5,000 Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1390 Purpose: The Cultural Anthropology Program supports basic scientific research about the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Cultural anthropologists analyze human social and cultural behavior holistically. This integrated approach makes anthropology a valuable research tool for understanding the modern world. Because cultural patterns are emergent over time and space, there is no single natural scale for ethnographic and ethnological analysis. In some cases, cultural patterns may emerge from the collective behavior of large ensembles of smaller scale units; in others, they may be imposed by larger scale constraints. The origins of social and cultural variability may be remote from the scale at which they are observed. Therefore, research may target any appropriate scale or scales from local to regional to global. The Program encourages innovative research that contributes to building spatially and temporally specific theory that extends understanding beyond individual case studies.The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for a variety of project types: Senior Research proposals (that is, research proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degree); proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants; Cultural Anthropology Scholars awards (for research-related, post-PhD training); and CAREER proposals. The Program will also consider proposals for workshops and training programs, as well as supplements to current awards to support Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Graduate Studies (REG). Research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology is eligible. Successful proposals are characterized by clear research questions and propositions that will be put to the test through meticulous attention to research design, data collection, and analysis.For more details about the various funding opportunities within the Cultural Anthropology Program, please consult the Cultural Anthropology Program Overview page. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388  National Science Foundation – Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics Proposal Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-06-5740 Purpose: The goals of the Program are to: (i) advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate the atmosphere’s synoptic and planetary circulation, weather and climate, and (ii) sustain the pool of human resources required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research.Research topics include theoretical, observational and modeling studies of the general circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere; synoptic scale weather phenomena; processes that govern climate; the causes of climate variability and change; methods to predict climate variations; extended weather and climate predictability; development and testing of parameterization of physical processes; numerical methods for use in large-scale weather and climate models; the assembly and analysis of

 instrumental and/or modeled weather and climate data; data assimilation studies; development and use of climate models to diagnose and simulate climate and its variations and change.Some Climate and Large Scale Dynamics (CLD) proposals address multidisciplinary problems and are often co-reviewed with other NSF programs, some of which, unlike CLD, use panels in addition to mail reviewers, and thus have target dates or deadlines. Proposed research that spans in substantive ways topics appropriate to programs in other divisions at NSF, e.g., ocean sciences, ecological sciences, hydrological sciences, geography and regional sciences, applied math and statistics, etc., must be submitted at times consistent with target dates or deadlines established by those programs. If it's not clear whether your proposed research is appropriate for co-review, please contact CLD staff (listed above) or the potential co-reviewing program staff (including but not limited to)Eric Itsweire (Physical Oceanography), eitsweir@nsf.govL. Douglas James (Hydrological Sciences), ldjames@nsf.govThomas Baerwald (Geography and Regional Sciences), tbaerwal@nsf.govTom Russell (Applied and Computational Math), trussell@nsf.govRong Chen (Statistics), rchen@nsf.govPenny Firth (Ecological Biology), pfirth@nsf.govAlso see the program on Collaborations in Mathematical Geosciences. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11699  National Science Foundation – Physical Oceanography Proposal Due Date: February 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1610 Purpose: The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth and ice that surround it. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12729  National Science Foundation – Biological Oceanography Proposal Due Date: February 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1650 Purpose: The Biological Oceanography Program supports research in marine ecology broadly defined: relationships among aquatic organisms and their interactions with the environments of the oceans or Great Lakes. Projects submitted to the program for consideration are often interdisciplinary efforts that may include participation by other OCE Programs. (See information provided under Related URLs below).

 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11696  National Science Foundation – Chemical Oceanography Proposal Due Date: February 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1670 Purpose: The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within the ocean and at its interfaces with the solid earth and the atmosphere. Major emphases include: studies of material inputs to and outputs from marine waters; orthochemical and biological production and transformation of chemical compounds and phases within the marine system; and the determination of reaction rates and study of equilibria. The Program encourages research into the chemistry, distribution, and fate of inorganic and organic substances introduced into or produced within marine environments including those from estuarine waters to the deep sea. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11698  National Science Foundation – Marine Geology and Geophysics Proposal Due Date: February 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1620 Purpose: The Marine Geology and Geophysics program supports research on all aspects of geology and geophysics of the ocean basins and margins, as well as the Great Lakes. The Program includes: Structure, tectonic evolution and volcanic activity of the ocean basins, the continental margins, the mid-ocean ridges, and island arc systems. Processes controlling exchange of heat and chemical species between seawater and ocean rocks. Genesis, chemistry, and mineralogic evolution of marine sediments. Processes controlling deposition, erosion and transport of marine sediments. Past ocean circulation patterns and climates andInteractions of continental and marine geologic processes http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11726  National Science Foundation – Political Science Proposal Due Date: January 15, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling:

 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1371 Purpose: The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.In recent years, program awards have supported research projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice, and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization, political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political economy; party activism; political psychology and political tolerance. The Program also has supported research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations, in the discipline.Besides information on the Political Science Program, we invite you to also look at the Cross-Directorate Activities program web site.Furthermore, for program specific guidelines on the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, please view the: Doctoral Preparation Checklist. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418  National Science Foundation – Economics Proposal Due Date: January 18, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 110 Estimated Total Program Funding: $220,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1320 Purpose: The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.The Economics program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, workshops, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates. The program places a high priority on interdisciplinary research. Investigators are encouraged to submit proposals of joint interest to the Economics Program and other NSF programs and NSF initiative areas. The program places a high priority on broadening participation and encourages proposals from junior faculty, women, other underrepresented minorities, Research Undergraduate Institutions, and EPSCoR states. The program also funds conferences and interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics. For additional funding opportunities, we invite you to also look at the Cross Disciplinary Activities homepage. For program specific guidelines on the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in Economics, please visit: Doctoral Preparation Checklist. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437

   National Science Foundation – Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Proposal Due Date: January 18, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD-98-1321 Purpose: The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature (see Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER).)Funded research must be grounded in theory and generalizable. Purely algorithmic management science proposals should be submitted to the Operations Research Program rather than to DRMS. For additional funding opportunities, we invite you to also look at the Cross-Directorate Activities program website. For program specific guidelines on the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in DRMS, please visit: Doctoral Preparation Checklist. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423  National Science Foundation – Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Proposal Due Date: February 01, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: $400,000 Award Floor: $5,000 Funding Opportunity Number: PD-14-7479 Purpose: The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The influence of in vivo mechanical forces on cell and matrix biology in the histomorphogenesis, maintenance, regeneration, and aging of tissues is an important concern. In addition, the relationships between mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization are of interest. Funded projects may include theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches. The program encourages the consideration of diverse living tissues as smart materials that are self-designing. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13523

   National Science Foundation – Sensors, Dynamics, and Control Proposal Due Date: February 01, 2015 - February 17, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: PD 14-7569 Purpose: The Sensors, Dynamics, and Control (SDC) program supports fundamental research on the analysis, measurement, monitoring and control of complex dynamical and structural systems, including development of new analytical, computational and experimental tools, and novel applications to engineered and natural systems. Program objectives are the discovery of new phenomena and the investigation of innovative methods and applications for dynamics, measurement, and control. Transformative research on complex networks, linear and nonlinear discrete or infinite dimensional systems spanning a multitude of time and length scales and physical domains are of interest, as are highly interdisciplinary projects and projects addressing security, resilience and sustainability. Basic research strongly motivated by industry needs or other real-life applications is welcome.The SDC program supports fundamental research on the theories of dynamical systems to uncover novel paradigms for modeling, control and analysis of dynamic phenomena and systems that undergo spatial and temporal evolution with applications crossing interdisciplinary boundaries, along with fundamental studies on stability, phase transitions, and wave propagation in complex and non-local media. Furthermore, the program supports fundamental research on monitoring, analysis, and decision-making processes for integrity monitoring, sensors reliability and safety of complex engineered systems, especially under conditions of uncertainty. Of interest is the investigation of big data (high-volume and high-speed) issues related to virtually-continuous streams of measurements from heterogeneous sensors for continuous systems monitoring. The SDC program also includes fundamental research on control theory and its applications. Topics of current interest include unconventional applications of control; the combined roles of feedback, feedforward and uncertainty; integrated feedback, communication and signal processing; and control concepts inspired by nature. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505099    National Science Foundation – Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Proposal Due Date: March 30, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,000,000 Award Ceiling: $2,000,000 Award Floor: $1,000,000 Funding Opportunity Number: 15-502

 Purpose: The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation has established the Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) to serve a critical role in focusing on important emerging areas in a timely manner. This solicitation is a funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, we will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in the following research area: Two-Dimensional Atomic-layer Research and Engineering (2-DARE) This solicitation is coordinated with the Directorate for Mathematical; Physical Sciences within NSF. Additionally, interest within other Federal agencies, specifically Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), may lead to an interagency effort. Submitted proposals may be shared with interested representatives from AFOSR.EFRI seeks proposals with transformative ideas that represent an opportunity for a significant shift in fundamental engineering knowledge with a strong potential for long term impact on national needs or a grand challenge. The proposals must also meet the detailed requirements delineated in this solicitation. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13708  National Science Foundation – Long Term Research in Environmental Biology Proposal Due Date: August 3, 2015 Expected Number of Awards: 8 Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,500,000 Award Ceiling: $450,000 Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: 15-503 Purpose: The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Research areas include, but are not limited to, 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. The Program intends to support decadal projects. Funding for an initial, 5-year period requires submission of a preliminary proposal and, if invited, submission of a full proposal that includes a 15-page project description. Proposals for the second five years of support (renewal proposals) are limited to an eight-page project description and do not require a preliminary proposal. Continuation of an LTREB project beyond an initial ten year award will require submission of a new preliminary proposal that presents a new decadal research plan. Successful LTREB proposals address three essential components: A Decadal Research Plan that clearly articulates important questions that cannot be addressed with data that have already been collected, but could be answered if ten additional years of data were collected. This plan is not a research timeline or management plan. It is a concise justification for ten additional years of support in order to advance understanding of key concepts, questions, or theories in environmental biology.

 Core Data: LTREB proposals require that the author has studied a particular phenomenon or process for at least six years up to the present or for long enough to generate a contemporary time series that contains six data points. These data constitute Core Data on which the new project should be based, and analysis of these data should generate new questions, on the same phenomenon or process, that provide the focus of the LTREB project. A Plan for Data Management and Dissemination that details infomation management and plans for data sharing with the broader research community and the interested public. Data from long-term research projects have value beyond the peer-reviewed and other publications generated by the investigators collecting the data. Specific review criteria for LTREB proposals and renewals are explained in Section VI of the current program solicitation. Prospective applicants are advised to read this solicitation carefully. All proposals submitted to the LTREB program are co-reviewed by participating Clusters in the Division of Environmental Biology: Ecosystem Science, Population and Community Ecology, and Evolutionary Processes. Proposals must address topics supported by these programs. Researchers who are uncertain about the suitability of their project for the LTREB Program are encouraged to contact the cognizant program director. Beginning in January 2014, the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) will no longer accept proposals submitted to the LTREB solicitation. Long-term projects that address questions of a) development, mechanisms, adaptive value, or evolutionary history of behavior, b) mechanisms and processes mediating antagonistic and beneficial symbioses, c) growth, development, stress adaptation mechanisms, energetics and metabolism, or other physiological processes, and d) structural and physiological traits that underlie organisms' capacities to live in various environments will no longer be supported through LTREB. Core IOS programs supporting all of these areas will entertain proposals based on long-term data http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503623&org=IOS&from=home. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13544  USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service - McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program Proposal Due Date: December 30, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 9 Estimated Total Program Funding: $185,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-FAS-MGD-15 Purpose: The McGovern-Dole program provides for the donation of agricultural commodities and the provision of financial and technical assistance to improve the education, food security and health of school-age children, especially girls, in developing countries. Commodities are made available for donation through agreements with Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs), cooperatives, intergovernmental organizations, and foreign governments. http://apps.fas.usda.gov/excredits/foodaid/ffe/ApplyForProgram.asp

   USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service - Food for Progress Program Proposal Due Date: December 30, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 8 Estimated Total Program Funding: $250,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-FAS-FFPR-15 Purpose: The Food for Progress program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities to developing countries and emerging democracies that are committed to introducing or expanding free enterprise in their agricultural economies. Donated commodities are typically “monetized” (or sold on the local market), and the proceeds are used to fund agricultural development activities. http://apps.fas.usda.gov/excredits/foodaid/ffp/ApplyForProgram.asp  USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture - Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program Proposal Due Date: December 15, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: $31,500,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-NIFA-FINI-004695 Purpose: To support projects 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 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants that would inform future efforts, and develop effective and efficient benefit redemption technologies. http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/fini.html  USDA – Utilities Programs - TAT Grant Program FY15 Proposal Due Date: December 31, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 15 Estimated Total Program Funding: $17,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor:

 Funding Opportunity Number: TATFY15 Purpose: Funds may be used to pay expenses associated with providing technical assistance and/or training (TAT) to identify and evaluate solutions to water problems relating to source, storage, treatment, and distribution, and to waste disposal problems relating to collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants that have filed a preapplication with RUS in the preparation of water and/or waste disposal loan and/or grant applications; and to provide training that will improve the management, operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Grant funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current services such as those performed by a consultant in developing a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets, purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made. Eligibility: Grants may be made to private non-profit corporations that have been granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. Applicants must also have the proven ability, background, experience, legal authority, and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations. Grant assistance is available to qualified applicants to identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems, to improve operation and maintenance of existing water and waste disposal facilities and to assist associations in preparing applications for water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas. http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/UWP-wwtat.htm  USDA – Utilities Programs - SWM Grant Program 2015 Proposal Due Date: December 31, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: 30 Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,400,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: SWMFY2015 Purpose: Funds may be used to: Evaluate current landfill conditions to determine threats to water resources in rural areas; provide technical assistance and/or training to enhance operator skills in the maintenance and operation of active landfills in rural areas; provide technical assistance and/or training to help associations reduce the solid waste stream; and provide technical assistance and/or training for operators of landfills in rural areas which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements. Grant funds may not be used to: Recruit preapplications/applications for any loan and/or grant program including RUS Water and Waste Disposal Loan and/or Grant Program; duplication of current services, replacement or substitution of support previously provided such as those performed by an association's consultant in developing a project; fund political activities; pay for capital assets, the purchase of real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office space, or repair and maintain privately-owned property; pay for construction or operation and maintenance costs of water and waste facilities; and pay costs incurred prior to the effective date of grants made under this subpart. Eligibility: An organization is eligible to receive a SWM grant if it: a. Is a private, non-profit organization that has tax-exempt status from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS); b. Is a Public body; c. Is a

 federally acknowledged or State-recognized Native American tribe or group; or d. Is an Academic Institution. e. Entitites must be established and legally located within a state as defined in 1775.2. f. Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds. g. Private businesses, Federal agencies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants. h. Applicants must also have the proven ability, background, experience, as evidenced by the organization's satisfactory completion of projects similar to those proposed; legal authority; and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations as provided in 1775.63. To meet requirements of actual capacity, an applicant must either: 1)have necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or 2)be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or 3) contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267368  USAID - Thailand USAID-Bangkok - Request for Information (RFI) Asian Agricultural Technology: Spurring Innovation, Transfer, Adaptation, and Uptake Proposal Due Date: October 16, 2014 Expected Number of Awards: Estimated Total Program Funding: Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Funding Opportunity Number: FI-486-15-GDO-AGRITECH Purpose: The United States Agency for International Development, Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA), is hereby issuing a Request for Information (RFI) for the anticipated “Asian Agricultural Technology Innovation and Transfer” activity. The RFI offers the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for facilitating the creation and diffusion of agricultural technologies within the South and Southeast Asia regions. Stakeholders in the region, including farmers, policy-makers, researchers and the private sector, have identified technology transfer as holding great promise in addressing food security concerns in some of the poorest countries. The diversity across the region is an opportunity for stakeholders to learn from each other and share knowledge and materials across borders to provide improved tools for agricultural production and to reduce post-harvest loss, as well as stronger management systems, to their low-income farmers. As a regional mission, USAID/RDMA is well poised to facilitate action on this opportunity and spur innovation, adaptation, and diffusion throughout the region, with a focus on Feed the Future (FTF) countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal). USAID/RDMA’s Agricultural Learning Exchange for Asian Regional Networking (AgLEARN) ongoing activity has demonstrated some positive examples of technology adaptation and transfer. Using this as a foundation, the proposed activity will explore new pathways toward reaching the U.S. Government’s FTF initiative goals of inclusive agricultural sector growth and improved nutrition. In responding to this RFI, significant emphasis should be placed on discrete and actionable interventions USAID/RDMA could take to support agricultural technology innovation, adaptation, and transfer. Response to this RFI is voluntary. Responders are free to address any or all the above items, as well as provide additional information that they think is relevant to Technology Transfer in Asia. Please note USAID is not seeking technical or cost

 proposals at this time. Do not submit any proposal/application at this time. Only the information requested above will be considered. Issuance of this notice does not constitute an award commitment on the part of the U.S. Government, nor does it commit the Government to pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of comments. http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=267870