UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: January 30, 2016
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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Go to Washington (or
Arlington or Bethesda)
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High
Performance Computing Facility
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National Endowment
for the Humanities: Match your Project
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Slides of Recent
Talks: NSF, ARO, and DOE
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Amy Litt: NSF Bio Workshop, Thurs.,
2/4/16 at 11:00 in UOB 210
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Cyber Security
Awareness Training
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American
Robin and Cedar Waxwing
Go
to Washington (or Arlington or Bethesda)
On Thursday, I was in Arlington with
UCSDs best funded faculty member discussing a collaborative project with NSF and
I ran into Rutgers best funded faculty member. Visiting federal
agencies when you are formulating an idea for a proposal is a good way to
increase the chances of finding by talking about your work aligns with agency
priorities. Thats why my office funds faculty trips to federal
agencies. It can work three ways:
1. You are in the DC area on a panel
review or study section and want to spend an extra day. Research and
Economic development will pay for an extra nights hotel and meals.
2. You want to make a special trip just
to meet with a program director. Research and Economic development will
pay for your entire trip.
3. A group of faculty, typically
assistant professors, with related interests want to visit several programs or
agencies to learn more about funding. Research and Economic development,
working with Kaitlin Chell in government relations
can set up an itinerary, go to DC with you and will pay for your entire
trip.
There isnt a form; just send me a
brief email with your plans. I ask that faculty be frugal so that we can afford
to send more people.
High Performance Computing Facility
Did you know that, Bioinformatics has
the largest HPC facility on campus with over 70 labs / PIs using it from
various colleges and departments of UCR including many not involved in
bioinformatics work?
The UCRs High-Performance Computing
/ Bioinformatics Facility is part of the Institute for Integrative Genome
Biology (IIGB) in the Genomics building that provides access to high-performance compute resources, data analysis and programming expertise. The resources serve
the scientists at UC Riverside and to the external institutes / industry
to master the informatics needs of their research in a proficient and cost-effective manner.
The following services are offered:
§ Development and maintenance of a high-performance informatics hardware and software infrastructure
for
the research community,
§ Instruction and
hands-on tutorials
and workshops on a
wide variety
of informatics topics.
Extensive manuals for these tutorials are available on our manual page,
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Custom data analysis and consultation services for bioinformatics and cheminformatics
projects,
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Establishment of research collaborations
with experimental
scientists from different departments.
Services and rates
1.
Annual Subscription / Access to HPCC: $1000 / lab / year for UCR or any UC-system lab; $1120.35 for external domestic academic institutes; and $1518.23 for commercial and foreign
educational institutes. The annual
registration fee gives all
members of a registered lab access
to our high-performance computing infrastructure;
see details at http://biocluster.ucr.edu/~rkaundal/Documents/Recharge_Rates.pdf.
2. Data storage: The facility
provides storage options in the increments of 100GB or 4TB. A user may opt for as
many units as they want.
§ BD (bigdata)
storage: $1000/4TB/year for UCR or any UC-system labs, $1070 for external
domestic academic institutes, and $1450 for commercial / foreign educational institutes,
§ GB storage: $100/100GB/year for UCR or any UC-system
lab, $157.35 for external domestic academic institutes, and $213.24
for commercial / foreign educational institutes.
3. Programming and Data Analysis: $52 / hour labor time for UCR or any UC-system
lab, $105.99 for external
domestic academic institutes, and $143.64 for commercial
/ foreign educational institutes.
4. Owned nodes/storage:
Labs can also purchase their own nodes /
disk storage units and
have them attached to
the cluster as long as they match
the specifications supported by the facility.
§ Cluster: (a) One-time
set-up fee / node: $520 (10 hours labor time @ $52/hour)
(b)
Annual maintenance / node: $260 (5 hours labor time @ $52/hour)
(c) Compatibility requirements:
As of now, we recommend 2 options; (i) AMD 64 cores with 512GB RAM (~$14K/node),
or (ii) the new Intel Haswell
72 core node with
1024GB RAM (~$25K/node). For details, users can visit Thinkmate website to get some
tentative quotes
(http://www.thinkmate.com/).
§ Storage: 2 labor hours / TB @ $52/hour; i.e. $104/TB
for owned storage / year.
For more details, please visit http://facility.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/ or
support@biocluster.ucr.edu
New Faculty Networking Lunches 2/22/16 & 3/28/16
12:00pm-1:15pm
Two additional faculty
networking lunches have now been scheduled. The complete list is below.
Diabetes Research on 2/8/16
(register here: http://diabetes-research.eventbrite.com)
Health Disparities on 2/22/16
(register here: https://health-disparities.eventbrite.com)
Water Research on 3/7/16
(register here: https://water-research.eventbrite.com).
BRAIN Initiative-Related
Research 3/28/16 (register here: https://brain-initiative.eventbrite.com).
The goal is get faculty with
common interests to meet each other in an informal setting and discuss possible
collaborations. The food is catered by a local Thai restaurant and
includes vegetarian and gluten-free options.
All lunches are held in UOB
210 from 12:00pm 1:15pm. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR A
TOPIC that you think 8-12 other faculty will be interested in.
National Endowment for the
Humanities: Match your Project
NEH has a web site that helps
faculty find funding for projects. (http://www.neh.gov/grants/match-your-project). A portion is replicated below.
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Summer Seminars and Institutes
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Institutes for Advanced Topics in the
Digital Humanities
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Humanities Initiatives at Institutions
at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
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Preservation and Access Education and
Training
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Fellowships for Advanced Social Science
Research on Japan
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Awards for Faculty at Historically Black
Colleges and Universities
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Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving
Institutions
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Awards for Faculty at Tribal Colleges
and Universities
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Scholarly Editions and Translations
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Humanities Collections and Reference
Resources
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Preservation Assistance Grants for
Smaller Institutions
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Humanities Collections and Reference
Resources
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Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
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Humanities Open Book Program
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations:
Planning Grants
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Implementation Grants
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Media Projects: Development Grants
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Media Projects: Production Grants
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Bridging Cultures through Film:
International Topics
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Humanities Initiatives at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities
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Humanities Initiatives at Institutions
at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal
Colleges and Universities
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Awards for Faculty at Historically Black
Colleges and Universities
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Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
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Collaborative Research Grants
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Humanities Collections and Reference
Resources
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Scholarly Editions and Translations
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Media Projects: Development Grants
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Media Projects: Production Grants
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Digital Projects for the Public
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Humanities Open Book Program
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Media Projects: Development Grants
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Media Projects: Production Grants
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Humanities Collections and Reference
Resources
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Scholarly Editions and Translations
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Planning Grants
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Implementation Grants
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Digital Projects for the Public
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Humanities Initiatives at Institutions
at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
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Humanities Initiatives at Tribal
Colleges and Universities
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Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving
Institutions
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Planning Grants
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Implementation Grants
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Planning Grants
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural
Organizations: Implementation Grants
Slides of Recent Talks:
NSF, ARO, and DOE
Here are the presentations
from recent talks at UC Riverside or from a meeting I attended in DC.
Army Research Office: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kyuap8v71mduin9/AROOverviewUCRJan2016.pdf?dl=0
(Dr. Steven Taulbee material research, Open campus Initiation)
Department of Energy https://www.dropbox.com/s/vmypuhjydspx3eg/DOE-URA%20Murray%20Final%20as%20Presented%202016.pdf?dl=0 (Dr. Cherry Murray, Office of Science Priorities)
NSF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/030ix4j3othdal0/NSF-Okamuru-Riverside%202016%20Funding%20Opportunities.pdf?dl=0 (Dr. Diane Okamuru,
NSF BIO)
Amy Litt:
NSF Bio Workshop, Thurs., 2/4/16 at 11:00 in UOB 210
Amy
Litt, a professor in Botany and Plant Science and
former NSF BIO program officer will lead a workshop focusing on funding from
the NSF BIO Directorate. Based on her experience as a program director at
NSF, she will give suggestions as to how to craft a successful grant proposal
to NSF. Although focusing on BIO, there are similarities between NSF
directorates and anyone interested in NSF is welcome to attend.
Since
she is no longer at NSF, Amy may be able to tell you things Diane Okamuru could not.
Cyber Security Awareness Training
If
you have not done so, take the required Cyber
Security Awareness Training today.
You can help keep UC Riverside
out of the news, unlike my alma mater.
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UCLA break-in
puts data on 800,000 at risk: For
more than a year, an intruder has been accessing private information on
students and staff, among others, the university says. http://www.cnet.com/news/ucla-break-in-puts-data-on-800000-at-risk/
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Former
UCLA Medical Center employee receives jail time for looking at private medical
files http://dailybruin.com/2010/05/05/former-ucla-medical-center-employee-huping-zhou-se/
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UCLA Medical Center agrees to settle HIPAA violation charges for $865K
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2510066/data-privacy/ucla-medical-center-agrees-to-settle-hipaa-violation-charges-for--865k.html
· UCLA Health Targeted in Criminal Cyber Attack; 4.5 Million Potentially Affected. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/07/17/ucla-health-targeted-in-criminal-cyber-attack-4-5-million-affected/
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UCLA and Ashley Madison: This Year of the
Data Breach
http://www.netlib.com/blog/application-security/UCLA-and-Ashley-Madison-This-Year-of-the-Data-Breach.asp
The
online training module can be accessed at http://ucrlearning.ucr.edu/ and will take less than an hour to complete.
(It is required by Sunday, Jan 31)
American Robin and Cedar Waxwing
The
American Robin and Cedar Waxwing are occasional visitors to my yard, eating the
toyon or pyracantha
berries. In spite of competing for a food source, they seem to get along,
although both birds below seemed a little surprised to be sharing a bath.
(Click to enlarge)
Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), a native California shrub, is commonly called
Christmas Berry. It is drought tolerant and provides
food and shelter for local and migrating birds.
In the last newsletter, the photo was of a
painting of a bird by Ed Ruscha Angry Because it's Plaster,
Not Milk. The painting can be seen at the Broad Museum is LA,
which is highly recommended and free (but has a reservation system for
tickets). Kaitlin Chell, Jeffrey Bachant,
Stan Fletcher, Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo , Misty Madero and Lorraine Castro all correctly identified
the painting (but I suspect several used Google Image search vs. their art
history background).
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
Assistant: Linda
Bejenaru
Email: VCREDadmin@ucr.edu