UCR Research and Economic Development
Newsletter: December 3, 2014
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Back Issues of Newsletter: http://research.ucr.edu/vcr/newsletters.aspx
Grant Opportunity Search: http://pivot.cos.com
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NSF and NIH SBIR/STTR Workshop at
UCR: Dec 5
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Rauschenberg Foundation: ART +
ENVIRONMENT
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USDA/AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH
INITIATIVE (AFRI) 2012 SYNOPSIS and Change in Matching Policy
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NSF Awards to UCR in FY 2014
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Lunch Meetings: Network &
Applications and Big Data
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New NSF Proposal and Award
Policies and Procedures Guide
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California Birds are Happy Birds
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 involved 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 is the 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.
Please RSVP to VCREDadmin@ucr.edu so we know how many cookies to order.
Rauschenberg
Foundation: ART + ENVIRONMENT
The goal of the Art + Environment program is to support
effective methods for addressing climate change that leverage creativity and
broad-based civic engagement.
The fund, launched in the fall of 2014, expands the foundation’s current
efforts in its Arts + Environment program, which focuses on arts-led projects
to deepen public awareness of climate change. Now, the fund will broaden the
strategy to foreground work of organizations tackling root cases of global
warming in ways that engage the public and recognize the catalytic roles
culture and creativity play in these endeavors.
UCR may only submit one application to this program. If interested,
please see http://research.ucr.edu/ord/SearchOr.aspx?k=2126965685&ae=A
Grants range from $25,000 to $150,000 for 1 – 2 years. See http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/grants/art-grants/art-environment
USDA/AGRICULTURE
AND FOOD RESEARCH INITIATIVE (AFRI) 2012 SYNOPSIS and Change in Matching Policy
Due to recent legislation, UCR, as a land-grant, is exempt from matching on all NIFA grant programs EXCEPT a small number of programs below. (Thanks to Kaitlin Chell for working with USDA and compiling this info). This is good news for UCR because I have heard that the need to find a match had inhibited UCR’s faculty ambitions on these awards). The following awards still require a match but UCR is committed to matching all grants that require matching.
Program Title |
Percent Match Required |
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program |
25 |
Biomass Research and Development Initiative |
20 (R&D grants) 50 (demonstration or commercial projects) |
Community Food Projects Program |
100 |
Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentives Program |
100 |
Higher Education Challenge Grants |
25 |
Sun Grants |
20 (subawards from Sun Grant center or Subcenter) |
USDA AFRI has issued a summary of
the 2012 programs with information on acceptance rates and average award
sizes. The full report is available at http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/afri/pdfs/afri_synop_2012.pdf. A summary is below.
Program |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Average Award |
PLANT HEALTH AND PRODUCTION
AND PLANT PRODUCTS |
|||
Biology of Agricultural Plants |
27 |
17.4% |
$318,390 |
Controlling Weedy and Invasive
Plants |
1 |
14.3% |
$499,679 |
Insects and Nematodes |
10 |
10.4% |
$290,585 |
Understanding Plant-Associated
Microorganisms |
21 |
10.8% |
$434,210 |
Plant Breeding for
Agricultural Production |
4 |
16.7% |
$195,146 |
FOOD SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND
HEALTH |
|||
Physical and Molecular Mechanisms
of Food Contamination |
9 |
23.7% |
$321,985 |
RENEWABLE ENERGY, NATURAL
RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENT |
|||
Microbial Communities in Soil |
2 |
25.0% |
$227,864 |
AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS AND
TECHNOLOGY |
|||
Nanotechnology for
Agricultural and Food Systems |
10 |
13.0% |
$439,491 |
Engineering Products and
Processes |
4 |
8.3% |
$319,682 |
Metabolic Engineering |
2 |
100.0% |
$747,984 |
National Robotics Initiative |
2 |
100.0% |
$660,552 |
SUSTAINABLE BIOENERGY |
|||
Policy Options for and Impacts
on Regional Biofuels Production Systems |
7 |
33.3% |
$324,731 |
Environmental Implications of
Direct and Indirect Land Use Change |
5 |
11.4% |
$497,827 |
Socioeconomic Impacts of
Biofuels on Rural Communities |
7 |
43.8% |
$349,180 |
Stimulating a New Era of
Students and Faculty in Bioenergy |
2 |
100.0% |
$974,367 |
Plant Feedstock Genomics for
Bioenergy |
2 |
100.0% |
$1,000,000 |
Regional Approaches to Climate
Change |
5 |
16.7% |
$3,199,700 |
Climate Change Mitigation and
Adaptation in Agriculture |
12 |
100.0% |
$913,120 |
Climate Adaptation and
Mitigation in Agroecosystems |
16 |
15.4% |
$529,147 |
Interagency Climate Change |
8 |
80.0% |
$1,250,000 |
FOOD SAFETY |
|||
Addressing Critical and
Emerging Food Safety Issues |
14 |
16.5% |
$384,360 |
Food Processing Technologies
to Destroy Food-Borne Pathogens |
3 |
100.0% |
$999,388 |
Effective Mitigation Strategies
for Antimicrobial Resistance |
3 |
8.8% |
$549,943 |
Improving the Safety of Fresh
and Fresh-Cut Produce |
4 |
6.3% |
$341,018 |
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY |
|||
Improved Sustainable Food
Systems to Reduce Hunger and Food Insecurity, Domestically and Globally |
13 |
21.0% |
$862,179 |
Oomycete Pathosystems
in Crop Plants to Minimize Disease |
2 |
100.0% |
$1,852,500 |
Minimizing Diseases Due to
Fungal Pathosystems |
3 |
37.5% |
$1,080,555 |
Management of Arthropod- or
Nematode-Vectored Plant Pathogens |
2 |
16.7% |
$712,500 |
Program Delivery and
Implementation of Wide-Area Pest Monitoring |
1 |
50.0% |
$1,170,000 |
Enhanced Implementation of
Integrated Pest Management for Vectored Pathogens |
4 |
57.1% |
$416,667 |
CHILDHOOD OBESITY
PREVENTION |
|||
Integrated Research, Education,
and Extension to Prevent Childhood Obesity |
4 |
11.8% |
$1,248,918 |
NIFA FELLOWSHIPS |
|||
NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowships |
32 |
40.5% |
$123,982 |
NIFA Pre-Doctoral Fellowships |
3 |
3.7% |
$71,685 |
NSF has released data on the acceptance rates of its programs for the fiscal year ending Sept 30, 2014. The data is available at http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/starth.asp. NSF received 48,074 proposals and made 10,981 awards for an overall acceptance rate of 23%. The median annual award size was $120,000.
Some additional information is below for specific divisions and programs.
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
BIO |
1,276 |
27% |
$150,000 |
CSE |
1,682 |
23% |
$150,000 |
EHR |
701 |
17% |
$199,998 |
ENG |
2,152 |
18% |
$121,385 |
GEO |
1,491 |
26% |
$131,210 |
MPS |
2,344 |
26% |
$102,169 |
SBE |
995 |
22% |
$76,709 |
Here are the acceptance rates and awards of programs in SBE, EHR and BIO. Future newsletters will report on the data for the rest of NSF.
SBE |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
ARCHAEOLOGY |
88 |
33% |
$25,190 |
ARCHAEOMETRY |
5 |
33% |
$89,609 |
Biological Anthropology |
35 |
21% |
$71,351 |
COGNEURO |
26 |
19% |
$161,991 |
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
72 |
19% |
$15,638 |
Documenting Endangered Languages |
17 |
31% |
$78,042 |
DEVELOP& LEARNING SCIENCES/CRI |
21 |
17% |
$129,078 |
GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL SCIENCES |
59 |
16% |
$11,387 |
LINGUISTICS |
59 |
39% |
$11,483 |
PERCEPTION, ACTION & COGNITION |
29 |
23% |
$149,617 |
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY |
22 |
17% |
$133,365 |
DECISION RISK & MANAGEMENT SCI |
31 |
19% |
$80,445 |
ECONOMICS |
90 |
23% |
$92,811 |
ETHICS EDU FOR SCI & ENG PROG |
10 |
19% |
$120,928 |
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES |
49 |
20% |
$65,024 |
METHOD, MEASURE & STATS |
16 |
16% |
$92,854 |
POLITICAL SCIENCE |
63 |
24% |
$21,280 |
Science of Organizations |
11 |
19% |
$104,780 |
SCIENCE, TECH & SOCIETY |
61 |
24% |
$23,309 |
Secure &Trustworthy Cyberspace |
22 |
42% |
$116,387 |
SOCIOLOGY |
89 |
28% |
$11,999 |
EHR |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
FED CYBER SERV: SCHLAR FOR SER |
22 |
25% |
$309,255 |
PROGRAM EVALUATION |
30 |
48% |
$149,971 |
Secure &Trustworthy Cyberspace |
12 |
29% |
$149,952 |
DISCOVERY RESEARCH K-12 |
66 |
12% |
$279,480 |
Research on Education and Learning |
59 |
17% |
$243,941 |
RES ON GENDER IN SCI & ENGINE |
10 |
100% |
$233,922 |
STEM - Computing Partnerships |
8 |
10% |
$433,320 |
ADVANCED TECH EDUCATION PROG |
63 |
26% |
$237,999 |
IUSE |
176 |
17% |
$158,490 |
ROBERT NOYCE SCHOLARSHIP PGM |
60 |
35% |
$199,911 |
Widening Impl & Dem of Evidence-based Reforms |
5 |
7% |
$143,619 |
BIO |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
ACTIVATION |
20 |
41% |
$170,000 |
ADVANCES IN BIO INFORMATICS |
63 |
28% |
$222,237 |
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR |
51 |
35% |
$81,574 |
ANIMAL DEVELOPMENTAL MECHANSMS |
17 |
38% |
$196,000 |
Biodiversity: Discov &Analysis |
20 |
51% |
$128,102 |
BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH COLLECTION |
22 |
29% |
$150,000 |
Cellular Dynamics and Function |
46 |
15% |
$200,000 |
Digitization |
32 |
26% |
$101,929 |
Dimensions of Biodiversity |
31 |
16% |
$399,695 |
ECOSYSTEM STUDIES |
74 |
32% |
$73,292 |
EVOLUTION OF DEVELOP MECHANISM |
9 |
24% |
$200,000 |
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY |
36 |
20% |
$19,955 |
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS |
48 |
26% |
$18,418 |
FIELD STATIONS |
22 |
42% |
$139,073 |
Genetic Mechanisms |
55 |
16% |
$170,000 |
Global Systems Science |
8 |
100% |
$302,321 |
GoLife |
13 |
25% |
$623,486 |
INSTRUMENTAT & INSTRUMENT DEVP |
41 |
28% |
$174,922 |
LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH |
4 |
100% |
$161,270 |
LONG-TERM RSCH IN ENVIR BIO |
11 |
79% |
$90,000 |
MACROSYSTEM BIOLOGY |
27 |
17% |
$431,296 |
MINORITY POSTDOC RSRCH FLW-NEW |
12 |
39% |
$69,000 |
MODULATION |
24 |
35% |
$150,000 |
Molecular Biophysics |
39 |
16% |
$180,824 |
ORGANISM-ENVIRO INTERACTIONS |
37 |
33% |
$171,147 |
ORGANIZATION |
20 |
38% |
$167,692 |
PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS |
52 |
39% |
$49,931 |
PLANT FUNGAL & MICROB DEV MECH |
8 |
30% |
$148,611 |
PLANT GENOME RESEARCH PROJECT |
22 |
88% |
$549,791 |
PLANT GENOME RESEARCH RESOURCE |
14 |
100% |
$266,410 |
POP & COMMUNITY ECOL PROG |
87 |
28% |
$74,922 |
PROCESSES STRUCS & INTEGRITY |
61 |
46% |
$181,064 |
RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES |
34 |
29% |
$106,320 |
SYMBIOSIS DEF & SELF RECOG |
40 |
33% |
$199,989 |
Systems and Synthetic Biology |
51 |
26% |
$154,823 |
The award rates above may be misleading for several reasons. First, they include workshops and RAPID grants that have a very high acceptance rate since most people don’t submit unless there is a verbal commitment to fund. However, there are only few per program and the impact on acceptance rates is minimal. Second, they include Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, which have a relatively high acceptance rate. These primarily increase the acceptance rates of SBE programs from the NSF averages in the low to mid twenties to a higher number. Third, they include only full proposals. Some BIO programs require preproposals and only invite 25-30% to submit a full proposal. Of course, one reaction is to submit more workshop, RAPID, DDIG grants and put effort into polishing preproposals.
UCR had a 29% acceptance rate at NSF in 2014, 6 points above the NSF average. UCR’s acceptance rate has been increasing recently when many others have been relatively flat or declining.
With the increase in acceptance rate comes an increase in awards to UCR. The table below shows the new awards made to various universities in California in 2010 and 2014.
University |
New Awards 2010 |
New Awards 2014 |
Change |
Stanford University |
127 |
100 |
-27 |
U of Cal Merced |
12 |
20 |
8 |
U of Cal Berkeley |
185 |
154 |
-31 |
U of Cal Davis |
116 |
104 |
-12 |
U of Cal Irvine |
94 |
67 |
-27 |
U of Cal Los Angeles |
135 |
117 |
-18 |
U of Cal Riverside |
51 |
69 |
18 |
U of Cal San Diego |
111 |
104 |
-7 |
U of Cal Santa Barbara |
97 |
82 |
-15 |
U of Cal Santa Cruz |
75 |
47 |
-28 |
U of Southern California |
82 |
97 |
15 |
Here are the 10 largest awards from NSF to UCR last fiscal year.
·
Balandin- EFRI 2-DARE: Novel Switching
Phenomena in Atomic Heterostructures for
Multifunctional Applications- $1,678,265
·
Childers-
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)- $1,399,668
·
Bailey-Serres-Integrative Analysis of Plasticity in Cell Fate
Determination in Plants- $1,190,544
·
Wessler- Genome-wide Impact of mPing Transposition on Rice Phenotypic Diversity- $975,114
·
Stajich- Collaborative Research: The Zygomycetes Genealogy of Life (ZyGoLife)-
the conundrum of Kingdom Fungi- $715,674
·
Tsotras- BIGDATA: F: DKM: Collaborative
Research: Making Big Data Active: From Petabytes to Megafolks
in Milliseconds- $715,620
·
Tang-
CAREER: Tuning optical responses in artificial molecules of monovalent gold
nanocrystals- $649,964
·
Girke- MRI: Acquisition of a Big Data
Compute Cluster for Interdisciplinary Research- $548,476
·
Pazzani-
CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: University of California Riverside's Science
DMZ- $499,893
·
Bhuyan-:Small: Efficient CPU-GPU
Communication for Heterogeneous Architectures- $498,976
This only lists the amount of funds obligated by NSF to UCR last year. Many awards are multi-year awards and will obligate additional funds in the future.
Lunch Meetings: High Speed
Networking & Applications and Big Data
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 12:00 and the meetings will last until 1:30. 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.
The remaining schedule for this year is below. Click on a link to add yourself to the lunch list for a particular date and topic.
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.
New NSF Proposal
and Award Policies and Procedures Guide
NSF recently released its latest revision of the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, document 15-1, at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15001&org=NSF. There are a few changes regarding how proposals are to be prepared, which are listed below. This should be used for awards due after Dec 26, 2014
Significant Changes to the PAPPG Part I: Grant
Proposal Guide (GPG)
Chapter II.C.2.g(vi)(a), Materials and Supplies, includes coverage on costs of computing devices. Clarification on when a computing device is considered a supply is provided. The charging of computing devices as a direct cost is allowable for devices that are essential and allocable, but not solely dedicated, to the performance of the NSF award. This is good news, it relaxes an overly restrictive
Other Significant Changes to the GPG
Chapter II.C.2.d, Project Description, has been updated to reflect that the project description must now contain, as a separate section within the narrative, a section labeled "Broader Impacts of the Proposed Work".
Chapter II.C.2.d(iii), Results from Prior NSF Support, has been clarified If the PI and/or any Co-PI has had NSF support in the past five years, it needs to be reported on in this section. The format is quite important to NSF and proposals that deviate from the format have been returned without review. List
(a) the NSF award number, amount and period of support;
(b) the title of the project;
(c) a summary of the results of the completed work, including accomplishments, supported by the award. The results must be separately described under two distinct headings, Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts;
(d) a listing of the publications resulting from the NSF award (a complete bibliographic citation for each publication must be provided either in this section or in the References Cited section of the proposal); if none, state "No publications were produced under this award."
(e) evidence of research products and their availability, including, but not limited to: data, publications, samples, physical collections, software, and models, as described in any Data Management Plan; and
(f) if the proposal is for renewed support, a description of the relation of the completed work to the proposed work.
Chapter II.D.3, Ideas Lab, is an entirely new section which details the four-stage process used with a new funding mechanism, which is designed to support the development and implementation of creative and innovative project ideas that have the potential to transform research paradigms and/or solve intractable problems. Note that, in addition to Ideas Lab, NSF has another funding mechanism titled Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE).
Clarifications and Other Changes to the GPG
Chapter II.C.2.f, Biographical Sketch(es ),makes clear that including personal information in the biographical sketch is not appropriate nor is it relevant to the merits of the proposal. New information is being requested in Section II.C.2.f(i)(a), Professional Preparation. The location of the individual's undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral institution(s) must be provided in a particular format. In your Professional Preparation section, give the location of each institution you attended. The requirements for the conflict-of-interest lists at the end of the bio sketch have changed. NSF can be very petty. Pay attention to the format:
·
For
Collaborators and Co-Editors: This should be an alphabetical list of all
collaborators and co-authors over the past 48 months and co-editors over the
past 24 months. At the start or end of this list, give the total number of
collaborators and co-editors.
·
For
your own advisors and sponsors, give the total number at the start or the
end of the list.
·
For
your advisees, list all over the past five years, and give the total number
of advisees at the start or end of the list.
Chapter II.C.2.j, Special Information and Supplementary Documentation, clarifies the use of letters of collaboration (formerly referred to as letters of commitment). Such letters should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate and should not contain endorsements or evaluation of the proposed project. Proposals that are not consistent with the instructions in this section will be returned without review.
Chapter II.D.6, Proposals for Equipment, has been
revised to remove the requirement to include a References Cited section for
equipment proposals submitted in response to the GPG. Additionally, the
Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources section needs to include a brief
description of other support services available.
Chapter II.D.9, Proposals for Conferences, has been modified to specify that NSF funds are not to be spent for meals and coffee breaks for intramural meetings of an organization or any of its components as a direct cost. Budgets and budget justifications for conferences should be prepared in accordance with GPG Chapter II.C.2.g. A reference to the appropriate AAG section has been added to address program income generated by conferences. In addition, Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources information is now required for conference proposals.
Chapter IV.B, Proposal Not Accepted or Returned Without Review, informs proposers that a proposal will not be accepted or will be returned without review by NSF for the reasons listed in that section. Previously the language used was "may" not be accepted or "may" be returned without review.
Significant Changes to the PAPPG Part II, Award and
Administration Guide (AAG) to Implement the Uniform Guidance
Chapter II.B.2, Changes in PI/PD, co-PI/co-PD, or Person-Months Devoted to the Project, has been revised to remove the requirement to notify NSF of the short-term absence of the PI/PD or co-PI/co-PD. This requirement has been eliminated as it goes beyond what is stipulated in the Uniform Guidance, which addresses PI disengagements of 90 days or longer.
Other Significant Changes to the AAG
Chapter I.E.4, Supplemental Support, now includes guidance on submission of mentoring plans post-award. If supplemental funding is requested to support a postdoctoral researcher and the original proposal did not include a mentoring plan, then the supplemental funding request must include the requisite mentoring plan.
Chapter V.A.3, Prior Written Approvals, has been updated to show that if a grantee rebudgets funds to support a postdoctoral researcher and the original proposal included a mentoring plan, no further documentation is necessary. If the original proposal did not include a mentoring plan, then the grantee should send the cognizant NSF Program Officer the requisite mentoring plan. In addition, the list of situations when written prior approval from the cognizant NSF Grants and Agreements Officer is required has been revised. Two new prior approval requirements, for salaries of administrative or clerical staff and additional categories of participant support costs other than those described in 2 CFR § 200.75, have been added.
California Birds are Happy Birds
The photos on the left are of birds that spend their winters in cold climates: (from top to bottom, house wren, downy woodpecker, cormorant and mute swan). Those on the right are happy birds that stay in Southern California in the winter. (Orange-crowned warbler, vermilion flycatcher, hooded oriole and American Avocet).
UCR is recruiting approximately 75 faculty this year. Now may be a good time to suggest that colleagues from Buffalo, Minnesota, Cornell, etc., apply for an open position here.
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