UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter:
November 16, 2014
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
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NSF and NIH SBIR/STTR Workshop at UCR: Dec 5
· Defense Threat Reduction Agency Webinar: Dec 4
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DoD Research and Education Program for HBCU/MI
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What is the airspeed velocity of
an unladen swallow?
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Baby Barn Swallows
In the next few weeks, I’m going to hold catered lunch time meetings for UCR faculty. The goal is to have an informal discussion on research topics that cross departments and schools and to allow faculty to meet potential collaborators. The lunches will be held in UOB 210 and consist of Thai food from a nearby restaurant. A vegetarian and a gluten-free option will be available. Lunch will be served promptly at 12 and the meetings will last until 1:30
The schedule for this year is below. Click on a link to add yourself to the lunch list for a particular date and topic.
Monday, 11/24- Spatial Science: Research on and Applications of Geographic Information: http://www.jooners.com/guest?l=48befcac-ba4e-40eb-b63a-22d7f948e519
Monday, 12/1- The Brain Initiative: http://www.jooners.com/guest?l=872b6352-3914-454f-bb6b-ed3ab132c4fb
Friday 12/12, High Speed Networking & Applications: http://www.jooners.com/guest?l=ecea823a-3614-4b29-a754-f5d78ad5b8f8. UCR received a $500K grant to up upgrade its computer network to provide faster connectivity between some buildings internal to UCR and to the external internet. Faculty that have large data sets or need to access large data sets are encouraged to attend. This will inform the design of the network and services to be rolled out in the spring.
Monday 12/22, Big Data: http://www.jooners.com/guest?l=b21d90ef-0c19-4919-b567-992d5e0bfde2. This meeting will focus on research whose goal is to derive knowledge from data.
I welcome suggestions for topics for next year, particularly those that cross schools. Collaborations between STEM fields and humanities, arts, public policy, education, medicine and agriculture are welcome.
NSF and NIH
SBIR Workshop at UCR: Dec 5
UCR will host a workshop on the NSF and NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs on Dec 5 from 1-3PM at the alumni and visitors center. It will feature talks by a NSF program director, a local entrepreneur invoked with the SBIR program, and a panel of UCR faculty who have been involved in these grants.
Steven Konsek: Overview of SBIR/STTR at National Science Foundation
Molly Schmid
Overview of NIH SBIR/STTR programs
Panel: Xin Ge (Chemical and
Environmental Engineering), Ilhem
Messaoudi (School of
Medicine) Frank Vahid (Computer Science and
Engineering)
To encourage participation in these grant programs, UCR waives overhead on SBIR and STTR Phase I grants (when permitted by the agency). See http://research.ucr.edu/About/News.aspx?K=323
Presenter Bios
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Steven
Konsek Program Director, SBIR/STTR National Science
Foundation: Steven Konsek joined the National Science
Foundation in September 2012 as a SBIR/STTR Program Director. Prior to joining
NSF, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Illumitex,
a venture-backed company developing light emitting diode chips, packages and
fixtures for general illumination. He previously served as Chief of Technical
Staff at Glo, recognized as one of Europe's top LED
startups. Prior to Glo Steven was the Director of
Device R&D at Nantero, a memory startup.
Throughout his career Steven has developed innovative, game-changing
technologies across a range of semiconductor applications. He has a PhD in
Physics from the University of Washington and a BS in Mathematics from Purdue
University. He holds numerous patents and publications in LEDs, memory, process
integration and nanoscale devices.
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Molly
Schmid has a distinguished career in both academia
and in the biotechnology industry. She was an Assistant Professor, Molecular
Biology at Princeton University, part of executive teams (Microcide
Pharmaceuticals, Affinium Pharmaceuticals) that
raised over $100M in funding through venture capital, corporate partnerships,
public markets, and research grants. She has served on grant review panels for
NIH, NSF, DoD and DoE, and has chaired SBIR/STTR
review panels for NIH. Currently, she is Vice President, Life and Health
Technologies, for ieCrowd, Inc. in Riverside CA. She
is also a Senior Counselor for TriTech Small Business
Development Center, former President of the Tech Coast Angels Inland Empire
network, and a member of the TCA Board of Directors.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture has released its strategic plan for FY2014-2018. http://www.nifa.usda.gov/about/pdfs/strat_plan_2014.pdf.
NIFA investments in research,
education, and extension are currently organized within ten portfolios:
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Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Addresses human
interaction between science, technology, and agriculture. Integrates the
biological, physical, and environmental and socioeconomic factors essential to
successful production enterprises and viable rural communities.
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Bioenergy: Supports advances in crop development,
coordinated logistics, near-term commercialization in
conversion technologies and products, modeling the improvement of
maintaining environmental services, and evaluating social prosperity for
rural communities.
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Climate Change: Supports transformational discovery,
learning and outreach programs that advance the development and delivery of
agricultural science and optimizes sustainable management, production,
utilization and consumption of goods and services from working lands under a
variable and changing climate.
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Education and Multicultural Systems: Provides leadership
and administrative guidance to education grant and formula programs that serve secondary and postsecondary institutions
that invest in students and institutions which promote national and
global well-being in the food and agriculture science systems.
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Environmental Systems: Supports scientific
research, education and extension that involves air, water, soil, natural resources, and biodiversity in order to
advance the sustainability of agricultural, forest, and range production
systems.
·
Family and Consumer Sciences: Supports the human and
social dimensions of food and agricultural sciences.
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Food Safety: Ensures a safe and high quality food supply
through funding of research, education, and extension activities and
efforts by partners and stakeholders; sets national priorities; and provides
guidance, management and oversight of these activities
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Human Nutrition: Develops the research base for
guidance on diet and physical activity and develops and
implements effective educational and environmental strategies to improve the
Nation’s health by providing leadership for strong research, education
and extension.
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International Programs: Assists in strengthening the
international dimension of NIFA and its U.S. university partners in order to
help USDA achieve its food security objectives.
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Youth Development: Advances research-based youth
development and 4-H through the science of engagement,
learning and change to create a better future for our nation and the
world.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency Webinar: Dec 4
The Defense Threat Reduction
Agency (DTRA) is an agency within the United States Department of Defense
that supports research on countering weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear,
and high explosives). DTRA's main functions are
threat reduction, threat control, and technology development. A new Broad
Agency Announcement will come out on Dec 1. On Dec 4, DTRA will hold a webinar
to discuss this year’s basic research directions.
Thursday,
December 4, 2014 at 10:00am PST (includes a live Q&A)
Covered Topics and What You Can
Expect:
Who should attend?
Innovators from universities or
industry seeking funding for basic research in collective efforts to combat
WMD. This can include: university chief research officers and professors,
directors of economic development, corporate business development directors and
researchers, and academic liaisons.
Hosts: Mr. Robert Kehlet and Dr. Viktoria Greanya
Cost is Free, but registration
required.
This series is online. You need a
computer with web access for the visual/audio. Questions are sent in via a chat
box to the speakers. Register here: https://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=BAAW11E&OID=50
For more info on DTRA see http://www.dtra.mil/Research.aspx
UCR is eligible as a HSI to submit
up to three $600,000/3-year proposals to the Department of Defense (DoD) program described at http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=8.
To
select the three most competitive proposals, Office of Research and Economic
Development requests by Dec. 4, 2014 an internal preproposal
at http://research.ucr.edu/ord/limitedsubmissions.aspx
Please include any encouraging communications from
DoD officials in your limited submission prepropsoal.
This program supports awards up to
$200,000 per year for three years will support projects to (a) enhance research
programs and capabilities in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to
the national security functions of the DoD; (b) enhance the capacity of an
HBCU/MI to participate in DoD research programs and activities; and (c)
increase the number of graduates, including underrepresented minorities, in
fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) important to
the defense mission.
Projects
must be for basic research but can be in any topic area of interest to DOD.
Projects must be conducted by a single PI working within his/her institution
(no outside collaborations) and include student involvement. Each proposal
must request support for at least two—but no more than four—students. These
may be undergraduate students, graduate students (including post-doctoral
associates), or a combination. Student support may include full or partial
tuition, stipends, fees, and other justified expenses. Awards will not fund equipment.
The
Army will award a total of $18 million acting on behalf of all of DoD: Army Research Office (ARO), Office of Naval Research
(ONR), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Proposals
selected to go forward must be submitted to DOD by January 15, 2015.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen
swallow?
I attended the production of
production of Spamalot by UCR’s Theater department at
University Theatre, Humanities 400 this weekend and highly recommend it. The
final three shows are November 20th, 21st, and 22nd
at 8PM. Tickets are free for students and $14 general admission.
Details at http://events.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?event_id=41967
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and
Economic Development
Professor, Computer Science
& Engineering
University of California,
Riverside
200 University Office Building
Riverside, CA 92521
Assistant: Linda Bejenaru
Email: VCREDadmin@ucr.edu
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, Riverside
200 University Office Building
Riverside, CA 92521
Assistant: Linda Bejenaru
Email: VCREDadmin@ucr.edu