UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: February 21, 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
·
Can you culture the bacteria that causes citrus
greening disease?
·
ONR SBIR/STTR Talk, Wednesday, 2/24/16
at 12:30pm in ULB 104
·
Collapses of research
integrity and opportunities to strengthen science – 3/3/16 at 2:00 in AVC
·
NSF Acceptance
Rates
·
Faculty Networking Lunches:
Sustainability
and Social Justice, BRAIN, Bio-based Materials, Health Disparities, Water
Research
·
Research Development & Grant Writing News
· Stupid Faculty Tricks
·
Female Hooded Merganser
Can
you culture the bacteria that causes citrus greening disease?
Citrus greening (also known
as Huanglongbing disease (HLB)) is a bacterial infection of citrus
trees. The disease has resulted in the decline and/or death of
millions of citrus trees in Florida and is threatening the California citrus
industry. HLB is caused by the phloem-limited insect-transmitted bacteria
Candidatus liberobacter asiaticus (cLas).
A Call for Proposals from
USDA / NISA /SCRI on approaches to combating the disease is expected in
April. One important topic is culturing the bacteria that causes the
disease. Although a USDA program, expertise outside of traditional
agricultural researchers and universities may be needed to address culturing or
cultivating of the bacterium the cLas bacterium. A little more detail
is below
·
HUANGLONGBING:
A DESTRUCTIVE, NEWLY-EMERGING, CENTURY-OLD DISEASE OF CITRUS: http://sipav.org/main/jpp/index.php/jpp/article/download/828/615
·
Complete
genome sequence of citrus huanglongbing bacterium, 'Candidatus Liberibacter
asiaticus' obtained through metagenomics. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589076
·
Candidatus
Liberibacter asiaticus: http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=1496
Grants of up to $4M will be made
to teams that can address this problem. If you’d like more info and
think you can help, contact me and we’ll set up a meeting with UCR’s top HLB
researchers.
Here are the draft HLB
Priority Topics by the Advisory Board for this program developed at a meeting
in Riverside last week.
·
Development
of tolerance or resistance in commercial citrus in all production areas with a
focus on delivery of new cultivars (or rootstocks and scions) using all
available strategies.
·
Therapies
to prevent or suppress Clas bacteria within trees.
·
Early
detection of the bacterium in host and vector.
·
Culturing
or cultivating of the bacterium the Clas bacterium.
Disclaimer: These are the
priorities for the NAREEE, but they do not exclude other viable topics that
address HLB management in citrus production.
ONR SBIR/STTR Talk, Wednesday, 2/24/16 at 12:30pm in
ULB 104
The Department of the Navy
SBIR/STTR Director, Mr. Bob Smith from the Office of Naval Research will be
visiting UCR on Wednesday, February 24th to give a talk about the
Navy SBIR/STTR program from 12:30-1:30pm in University Laboratory Building,
Room 104 (ULB 104). Come learn about the Navy SBIR/STTR program and pick up
some tips on developing successful proposals. Although the DoD SBIR/STTR
2016.1/A solicitations just closed this week, the 2016.2/B solicitations will
be released in April 2016. Mr. Smith is looking forward to a lively discussion
with UCR faculty and others interested in the Navy SBIR/STTR program. http://www.navysbir.com
Mr.
Robert Smith is the Director of the
Dept. of the Navy’s (DON) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. Mr. Smith manages numerous
activities designed to assist small businesses in getting their technology
fully developed, tested, and inserted into products and services used by our
Naval warfighters.
Prior
to his current assignment, Mr. Smith was the Director of Disruptive
Technologies for the Office of Naval Research. The mission of the Disruptive
Technologies program is to provide game-changing technical options for the
future Navy. Mr. Smith was also the Program Manager for the DON Rapid
Innovation Fund, which supports small business concerns rapidly inserting their
technology solutions into acquisition programs of record.
Mr.
Smith was the recipient of the 2013 DON Oreta B. Stinson Advocacy Award
(formerly Small Business Advocate Award), one of the annual Navy Acquisition
Excellence Awards. The award is given by DON’s Office of Small Business
Programs in recognition of a non-small business professional within the DON who
demonstrated direct, strong support for the DON Small Business Program, and
through documented actions contributed significantly to improving the
opportunity for small business success.
Mr.
Smith is a retired Marine Corps officer with over 3,000 flight hours in various
military aircraft, predominately in the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter.
Monthly Speaker Series – 3/3/16 at 2:00 in AVC
Office of Research Integrity
is launching a monthly speaker series. These seminar series will
highlight ethical issues and hot topics involving research with human
participants. The inaugural talk is by Prof. Krosnick from Stanford.
Please watch for RED promotional posters going up around campus.
Seminar Details:
Office of Research
Integrity Seminar Series – Inaugural talk
“Collapses of research
integrity and opportunities to strengthen science”
Thursday, March 3, 2016
2 PM – 3 PM at Alumni &
Visitor Center, Redmond Dining Room
Abstract:
"In
recent years, concerns have been raised about the ethics and honesty and
legitimacy of scientific practice in social psychology, political science,
economics, medicine, chemistry, and various other disciplines, while the rate
of retractions of public work has been skyrocketing. In his presentation,
Dr. Krosnick will describe a series of proposals about how to truly improve
scientific ethics, efficiency, and accuracy, assembled by an interdisciplinary
group of scholars at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences."
Dr. Jon Krosnick is Frederick O.
Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of
Communication, Political Science, and Psychology at Stanford University,
Director of Stanford’s Political Psychology Research Group, and Research
Psychologist at the U.S. Census Bureau. He has expertise in questionnaire
design and survey research methodology, voting behavior and elections, and
American public opinion. He has taught courses for professionals on survey
methods for 25 years around the world and has served as a methodology
consultant to government agencies, commercial firms, and academic scholars. His
recent research has focused on how other aspects of survey methodology (e.g.,
collecting data by interviewing face-to-face vs. by telephone or on paper
questionnaires) can be optimized to maximize accuracy. He is a world-recognized
expert on the psychology of attitudes, especially in the area of politics and
co-principal investigator of the American National Election Study, the nation's
preeminent academic research project exploring voter decision-making.
There will be free parking in
lot 24 (across the street from the A&V Center) and light refreshments will
be served. No RSVP – limited seating.
NSF
Acceptance Rates: 2015
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/awdfr3/default.asp
on the web. NSF received 49,633 proposals (up from 48,074 the prior year)
and made 12,016 awards (up from 10,981) for an overall acceptance rate of
24%. The median annual award size was $118,000. Some additional
information is below for specific divisions and programs.
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
BIO |
1382 |
0.27 |
$150,000 |
|
CSE |
1887 |
0.23 |
$149,849 |
|
EHR |
831 |
0.2 |
$152,933 |
|
ENG |
2504 |
0.2 |
$114,978 |
|
GEO |
1465 |
0.25 |
$129,000 |
|
MPS |
2593 |
0.28 |
$110,382 |
|
SBE |
1042 |
0.24 |
$66,902 |
BIO
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
Digitization |
24 |
100% |
$57,967 |
|
FIELD STATIONS |
26 |
50% |
$96,276 |
|
Dimensions of
Biodiversity |
30 |
16% |
$391,892 |
|
LONG TERM
ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH |
18 |
90% |
$149,675 |
|
ACTIVATION |
29 |
52% |
$170,000 |
|
PLANT GENOME
RESEARCH RESOURCE |
11 |
48% |
$658,844 |
|
Cellular
Dynamics and Function |
42 |
13% |
$193,681 |
|
Genetic
Mechanisms |
62 |
16% |
$171,646 |
|
Molecular
Biophysics |
37 |
12% |
$210,482 |
CISE
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
Campus
Cyberinfrastrc (CC-NIE) |
38 |
49% |
$199,306 |
|
Cyber Secur -
Cyberinfrastruc |
19 |
56% |
$166,576 |
|
EDUCATION AND
WORKFORCE |
11 |
100% |
$59,389 |
|
INTERNATIONAL
RES NET CONNECT |
14 |
67% |
$783,014 |
|
Software
Institutes |
71 |
31% |
$169,638 |
|
ALGORITHMIC
FOUNDATIONS |
104 |
31% |
$100,955 |
|
Algorithms in
the Field |
26 |
22% |
$181,322 |
|
COMM &
INFORMATION FOUNDATIONS |
81 |
29% |
$161,226 |
|
CyberSEES |
21 |
7% |
$299,789 |
|
Exploiting
Parallel&Scalabilty |
30 |
19% |
$187,500 |
|
SOFTWARE &
HARDWARE FOUNDATION |
182 |
31% |
$124,015 |
|
CISE RESEARCH
RESOURCES |
13 |
30% |
$299,291 |
|
COMPUTER
SYSTEMS |
97 |
24% |
$149,918 |
|
COMPUTING RES
INFRASTRUCTURE |
36 |
17% |
$241,653 |
|
CYBER-PHYSICAL
SYSTEMS (CPS) |
121 |
33% |
$168,044 |
|
EARS |
14 |
24% |
$133,333 |
|
RES EXP FOR
TEACHERS(RET)-SITE |
3 |
100% |
$190,059 |
|
RES IN
NETWORKING TECH & SYS |
138 |
29% |
$135,068 |
|
Secure
&Trustworthy Cyberspace |
196 |
26% |
$140,005 |
|
STEM +
Computing (STEM+C) Part |
16 |
37% |
$262,525 |
|
Big Data
Science &Engineering |
56 |
13% |
$250,000 |
|
Cyber-Human
Systems (CHS) |
102 |
21% |
$111,574 |
|
Cyberlearn
& Future Learn Tech |
38 |
17% |
$183,273 |
|
INFO
INTEGRATION & INFORMATICS |
105 |
20% |
$109,802 |
|
National
Robotics Initiative |
63 |
20% |
$199,898 |
|
ROBUST
INTELLIGENCE |
123 |
21% |
$116,998 |
|
Smart and
Connected Health |
38 |
10% |
$140,845 |
EHR
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
Core R&D
Programs (DGE) |
17 |
31% |
$380,365 |
|
FED CYBER SERV:
SCHLAR FOR SER |
30 |
38% |
$163,617 |
|
NSF Research
Traineeship (NRT) |
34 |
12% |
$577,961 |
|
PROGRAM
EVALUATION |
21 |
27% |
$255,694 |
|
Secure
&Trustworthy Cyberspace |
23 |
19% |
$149,986 |
|
AISL |
54 |
11% |
$199,621 |
|
Core R&D
Programs (DRL) |
10 |
8% |
$220,213 |
|
DISCOVERY
RESEARCH K-12 |
58 |
13% |
$501,067 |
|
RES IN
DISABILITIES ED |
3 |
60% |
$240,756 |
|
RES ON GENDER
IN SCI & ENGINE |
9 |
60% |
$454,083 |
|
STEM +
Computing (STEM+C) Part |
20 |
15% |
$613,505 |
|
ADVANCED TECH
EDUCATION PROG |
59 |
28% |
$251,645 |
|
Core R&D
Programs (DUE) |
16 |
21% |
$311,071 |
|
I-Corps |
21 |
100% |
$50,000 |
|
IUSE |
279 |
21% |
$126,791 |
|
ROBERT NOYCE
SCHOLARSHIP PGM |
37 |
28% |
$229,643 |
|
WIDER |
2 |
29% |
$262,106 |
|
ADVANCE PLAN D |
4 |
17% |
$159,008 |
|
ADVANCE PLAN
IHE |
6 |
16% |
$150,484 |
|
ALLIANCES-MINORITY
PARTICIPAT. |
16 |
42% |
$493,500 |
|
CENTERS FOR
RSCH EXCELL IN S&T |
4 |
31% |
$333,115 |
|
Core R&D
Programs (HRD) |
5 |
10% |
$349,771 |
ENG
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
BIOMEDICAL
ENGINEERING |
52 |
20% |
$110,886 |
|
BIOPHOTONICS,
IMAGING &SENSING |
22 |
23% |
$103,321 |
|
BIOTECH,
BIOCHEM & BIOMASS ENG |
40 |
20% |
$103,333 |
|
CATALYSIS AND
BIOCATALYSIS |
37 |
17% |
$111,378 |
|
CHEMICAL &
BIOLOGICAL SEPAR |
28 |
20% |
$100,000 |
|
COMBUSTION,
FIRE, & PLASMA SYS |
23 |
18% |
$100,000 |
|
ENERGY FOR
SUSTAINABILITY |
50 |
15% |
$101,232 |
|
Enviro Health
& Safety of Nano |
16 |
16% |
$100,000 |
|
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING |
88 |
25% |
$99,747 |
|
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY |
38 |
18% |
$101,153 |
|
FLUID DYNAMICS |
51 |
17% |
$100,353 |
|
Gen & Age
Rel Disabilities Eng |
22 |
22% |
$108,255 |
|
INTERFAC
PROCESSES & THERMODYN |
20 |
14% |
$110,796 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
8 |
11% |
$156,795 |
|
NANO-BIOSENSING |
19 |
16% |
$100,138 |
|
NANOSCALE:
INTRDISCPL RESRCH T |
1 |
6% |
$378,631 |
|
PARTICULATE
&MULTIPHASE PROCES |
33 |
15% |
$116,947 |
|
PROCESS &
REACTION ENGINEERING |
27 |
19% |
$100,000 |
|
Sustainable
Energy Pathways |
5 |
25% |
$58,358 |
|
THERMAL TRANSPORT
PROCESSES |
20 |
13% |
$105,900 |
|
Biomechanics
& Mechanobiology |
36 |
17% |
$123,720 |
|
CIVIL
INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS |
26 |
21% |
$131,294 |
|
Design of Eng
Materials (DEMS) |
9 |
12% |
$172,398 |
|
Dynamics,
Control and System D |
84 |
18% |
$119,415 |
|
ENGINEERING DESIGN
AND INNOVAT |
19 |
18% |
$110,025 |
|
GEOMECHANICS
& GEOMATERIALS |
1 |
4% |
$47,454 |
|
Geotechnical
Engineering and M |
26 |
26% |
$113,816 |
|
INFRAST MGMT
& EXTREME EVENTS |
33 |
27% |
$94,006 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
7 |
12% |
$216,839 |
|
MANFG
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS |
3 |
8% |
$99,945 |
|
Manufacturing
Machines & Equip |
52 |
17% |
$99,994 |
|
Materials Eng.
& Processing |
71 |
14% |
$116,447 |
|
Mechanics of
Materials and Str |
44 |
13% |
$104,672 |
|
NANOMANUFACTURING |
35 |
16% |
$100,000 |
|
NANOSCALE:
INTRDISCPL RESRCH T |
3 |
11% |
$374,827 |
|
Natural Hazards
Engineering Re |
8 |
33% |
$894,892 |
|
OPERATIONS
RESEARCH |
6 |
16% |
$99,973 |
|
SERVICE
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS |
2 |
2% |
$112,473 |
|
Service,
Manufacturing, and Op |
64 |
67% |
$99,904 |
|
Structural and
Architectural E |
27 |
18% |
$99,945 |
|
Systems Science
(SYS) |
13 |
42% |
$101,955 |
|
COMMS, CIRCUITS
& SENS SYS |
99 |
22% |
$106,667 |
|
EARS |
15 |
36% |
$208,333 |
|
ELECT,
PHOTONICS, & MAG DEVICE |
125 |
24% |
$116,667 |
|
ENERGY,POWER,ADAPTIVE
SYS |
90 |
21% |
$118,168 |
|
IntgStrat Undst
Neurl&Cogn Sys |
12 |
22% |
$249,167 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
7 |
16% |
$262,500 |
|
NANOSCALE:
INTRDISCPL RESRCH T |
1 |
3% |
$376,421 |
|
National
Nanotechnology Coordi |
16 |
29% |
$956,816 |
|
ENG DIVERSITY
ACTIVITIES |
16 |
42% |
$160,779 |
|
ENGINEERING
EDUCATION |
53 |
23% |
$113,874 |
|
HUMAN RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT |
33 |
25% |
$120,252 |
|
NANOSCALE: INTRDISCPL
RESRCH T |
2 |
13% |
$363,396 |
|
RES EXP FOR
TEACHERS(RET)-SITE |
15 |
47% |
$199,863 |
|
Accelerating
Innovation Rsrch |
49 |
27% |
$133,696 |
|
I-Corps |
190 |
99% |
$44,817 |
|
I-Corps - Sites |
21 |
41% |
$100,000 |
|
INDUSTRY/UNIV
COOP RES CENTERS |
74 |
45% |
$44,975 |
|
IUCRC FUNDAMENTAL
RESEARCH |
8 |
35% |
$99,506 |
|
PARTNRSHIPS FOR
INNOVATION-PFI |
10 |
12% |
$333,333 |
|
SMALL BUSINESS
PHASE I |
200 |
12% |
$150,000 |
|
SMALL BUSINESS
PHASE II |
110 |
43% |
$374,070 |
|
STTR PHASE I |
72 |
17% |
$224,976 |
|
STTR PHASE II |
5 |
17% |
$376,197 |
GEO
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
AERONOMY |
33 |
32% |
$119,136 |
|
ATMOSPHERIC
CHEMISTRY |
53 |
58% |
$144,995 |
|
CLIMATE &
LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS |
45 |
38% |
$166,465 |
|
DYN COUPLED
NATURAL-HUMAN |
5 |
3% |
$362,338 |
|
EDUCATIONAL
LINKAGES |
4 |
36% |
$121,702 |
|
MAGNETOSPHERIC
PHYSICS |
13 |
81% |
$115,000 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
5 |
28% |
$405,380 |
|
PALEOCLIMATE
PROGRAM |
29 |
39% |
$142,187 |
|
PHYSICAL &
DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY |
68 |
49% |
$158,144 |
|
POSTDOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIPS |
21 |
55% |
$86,000 |
|
SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL |
23 |
31% |
$119,126 |
|
Space Weather
Research |
14 |
26% |
$299,286 |
|
EARTHSCOPE |
20 |
26% |
$119,724 |
|
EDUCATION AND
HUMAN RESOURCES |
6 |
21% |
$121,557 |
|
GEOBIOLOGY
& LOW TEMP GEOCHEM |
49 |
19% |
$100,000 |
|
GEOMORPHOLOGY
& LAND USE DYNAM |
28 |
20% |
$94,683 |
|
GEOPHYSICS |
73 |
29% |
$105,450 |
|
GeoPRISMS |
5 |
22% |
$90,247 |
|
GLOBAL CHANGE |
11 |
13% |
$137,826 |
|
HYDROLOGIC
SCIENCES |
52 |
19% |
$114,236 |
|
INSTRUMENTATION
& FACILITIES |
23 |
51% |
$129,666 |
|
INTEGRATED
EARTH SYSTEMS |
20 |
17% |
$374,055 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
11 |
23% |
$207,479 |
|
PETROLOGY AND
GEOCHEMISTRY |
50 |
27% |
$104,278 |
|
POSTDOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIPS |
14 |
16% |
$87,000 |
|
SEDIMENTARY GEO
& PALEOBIOLOGY |
25 |
12% |
$94,706 |
|
SEES Hazards |
3 |
2% |
$651,739 |
|
STUDIES OF THE
EARTHS DEEP INT |
14 |
47% |
$152,112 |
|
TECTONICS |
44 |
22% |
$110,393 |
|
EarthCube |
41 |
64% |
$381,510 |
|
INTERNATIONAL
COORDINATION ACT |
9 |
82% |
$75,694 |
|
IUSE |
22 |
35% |
$139,289 |
MPS
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGIES & INSTRM |
13 |
22% |
$251,986 |
|
CAREER: FACULTY
EARLY CAR DEV |
8 |
15% |
$147,458 |
|
EARS |
15 |
47% |
$219,924 |
|
EXTRAGALACTIC
ASTRON & COSMOLO |
64 |
19% |
$128,433 |
|
GALACTIC
ASTRONOMY PROGRAM |
28 |
19% |
$122,694 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
3 |
21% |
$372,831 |
|
PLANETARY
ASTRONOMY |
27 |
20% |
$128,850 |
|
SPECIAL
PROGRAMS IN ASTRONOMY |
11 |
44% |
$73,644 |
|
STELLAR
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSC |
31 |
20% |
$114,385 |
|
CHE CENTERS |
2 |
50% |
$3,997,809 |
|
Chem
Struct,Dynmcs&Mechansms A |
40 |
29% |
$143,148 |
|
Chem
Struct,Dynmcs&Mechansms B |
42 |
33% |
$133,333 |
|
Chemical
Catalysis |
58 |
25% |
$140,000 |
|
Chemical
Measurement & Imaging |
59 |
28% |
$145,667 |
|
Chemical
Synthesis |
50 |
33% |
$139,545 |
|
Chemistry of
Life Processes |
54 |
24% |
$151,943 |
|
DMREF |
8 |
35% |
$418,686 |
|
Environmental
Chemical Science |
30 |
32% |
$140,125 |
|
Macromolec/Supramolec/Nano |
80 |
32% |
$136,748 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
39 |
27% |
$107,762 |
|
Theory, Models,
Comput. Method |
36 |
32% |
$151,667 |
|
UNDERGRADUATE
PROGRAMS IN CHEM |
23 |
43% |
$91,166 |
|
BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM |
57 |
20% |
$120,777 |
|
CERAMICS |
36 |
24% |
$144,266 |
|
CONDENSED
MATTER & MAT THEORY |
68 |
23% |
$104,667 |
|
CONDENSED
MATTER PHYSICS |
83 |
31% |
$128,648 |
|
DMREF |
29 |
11% |
$374,997 |
|
ELECTRONIC/PHOTONIC
MATERIALS |
52 |
19% |
$133,333 |
|
ETHICS EDU FOR
SCI & ENG PROG |
3 |
27% |
$112,465 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
28 |
42% |
$185,661 |
|
MATERIALS RSCH
SCI & ENG CENT |
12 |
55% |
$2,488,697 |
|
METAL &
METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE |
27 |
18% |
$136,005 |
|
OFFICE OF
SPECIAL PROGRAMS-DMR |
18 |
47% |
$110,000 |
|
POLYMERS |
45 |
29% |
$128,000 |
|
PREM |
9 |
35% |
$599,671 |
|
SOLID STATE
& MATERIALS CHEMIS |
37 |
17% |
$142,573 |
|
ALGEBRA,NUMBER
THEORY,AND COM |
141 |
37% |
$51,622 |
|
ANALYSIS
PROGRAM |
133 |
37% |
$58,287 |
|
APPLIED
MATHEMATICS |
90 |
27% |
$82,483 |
|
CDS&E-MSS |
25 |
24% |
$108,333 |
|
Combinatorics |
39 |
34% |
$50,535 |
|
COMPUTATIONAL
MATHEMATICS |
102 |
34% |
$66,667 |
|
FOUNDATIONS |
21 |
45% |
$55,086 |
|
GEOMETRIC
ANALYSIS |
54 |
35% |
$62,647 |
|
MATHEMATICAL
BIOLOGY |
41 |
22% |
$93,333 |
|
NIGMS |
9 |
14% |
$390,029 |
|
PROBABILITY |
29 |
33% |
$60,777 |
|
STATISTICS |
79 |
27% |
$76,667 |
|
TOPOLOGY |
65 |
34% |
$51,845 |
|
WORKFORCE IN
THE MATHEMAT SCI |
68 |
18% |
$37,500 |
|
Accelerator
Science |
17 |
57% |
$139,633 |
|
AMO
Experiment/Atomic, Molecul |
42 |
44% |
$150,000 |
|
AMO
Theory/Atomic, Molecular & |
21 |
43% |
$74,833 |
|
COMPUTATIONAL
PHYSICS |
13 |
46% |
$84,978 |
|
Elem. Particle
Physics/Theory |
28 |
42% |
$79,956 |
|
ELEMENTARY PARTICLE
ACCEL USER |
28 |
35% |
$150,971 |
|
GRAVITATIONAL
EXPERIMENTS |
3 |
33% |
$130,781 |
|
GRAVITATIONAL
THEORY |
15 |
45% |
$50,648 |
|
Integrative
Activities in Phys |
30 |
61% |
$123,229 |
|
LIGO RESEARCH
SUPPORT |
19 |
76% |
$121,554 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
7 |
27% |
$175,353 |
|
Nuclear &
Hadron Quantum Chrom |
21 |
72% |
$83,083 |
|
NUCLEAR
PRECISION MEASUREMENTS |
13 |
62% |
$150,000 |
|
NUCLEAR
STRUCTURE & REACTIONS |
9 |
56% |
$27,848 |
|
NUCLEAR THEORY |
12 |
41% |
$94,895 |
|
Particle
Astrophysics & Cosmol |
5 |
23% |
$60,777 |
|
Particle
Astrophysics/Cosmic P |
11 |
26% |
$152,476 |
|
Particle
Astrophysics/Undergro |
23 |
37% |
$110,160 |
|
PHYSICS OF
LIVING SYSTEMS |
35 |
27% |
$160,000 |
|
PLASMA PHYSICS |
29 |
23% |
$109,440 |
|
QUATM INFO
& REVOLUTIONARY COM |
10 |
23% |
$150,000 |
SBE
|
Area |
Awards |
Acceptance |
Annual |
|
ARCHAEOLOGY |
53 |
33% |
$62,228 |
|
ARCHAEOMETRY |
4 |
31% |
$100,562 |
|
Biological
Anthropology |
26 |
41% |
$79,116 |
|
COGNEURO |
18 |
15% |
$189,034 |
|
CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY |
37 |
31% |
$69,878 |
|
DDRI
Archaeology |
45 |
36% |
$14,573 |
|
DDRI Bio Anthro |
32 |
23% |
$14,302 |
|
DDRI Cult
Anthro |
45 |
16% |
$14,352 |
|
DDRI
Linguistics |
31 |
54% |
$7,487 |
|
DEL |
30 |
38% |
$49,469 |
|
DEVELOP&
LEARNING SCIENCES/CRI |
23 |
17% |
$133,333 |
|
GEOGRAPHY AND
SPATIAL SCIENCES |
66 |
26% |
$10,910 |
|
IntgStrat Undst
Neurl&Cogn Sys |
11 |
20% |
$315,364 |
|
LINGUISTICS |
32 |
42% |
$42,647 |
|
MAJOR RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION |
9 |
39% |
$49,328 |
|
PERCEPTION,
ACTION & COGNITION |
24 |
19% |
$135,418 |
|
SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY |
27 |
20% |
$113,898 |
|
CIVIL
INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS |
2 |
9% |
$299,195 |
|
DECISION RISK
& MANAGEMENT SCI |
36 |
21% |
$134,760 |
|
ECONOMICS |
89 |
28% |
$95,397 |
|
ETHICS EDU FOR
SCI & ENG PROG |
10 |
21% |
$113,589 |
|
LAW AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES |
46 |
19% |
$50,201 |
|
METHOD, MEASURE
& STATS |
24 |
23% |
$90,000 |
|
POLITICAL
SCIENCE |
37 |
24% |
$85,014 |
|
Science of
Organizations |
18 |
19% |
$128,307 |
|
SCIENCE, TECH
& SOCIETY |
44 |
19% |
$58,868 |
|
Secure
&Trustworthy Cyberspace |
11 |
31% |
$158,319 |
|
SOCIOLOGY |
66 |
37% |
$11,983 |
|
SOCIOLOGY -
DDRI |
12 |
10% |
$11,678 |
|
Data
Infrastructure |
5 |
7% |
$429,051 |
|
Interdiscp
Behav&SocSci IBSS |
12 |
15% |
$246,772 |
|
RSCH EXPER FOR
UNDERGRAD SITES |
11 |
23% |
$116,596 |
|
Science of
Learning |
8 |
31% |
$253,224 |
|
SCIENCE OF
SCIENCE POLICY |
44 |
39% |
$59,174 |
|
SPRF-Broadening
Participation |
6 |
32% |
$98,657 |
|
SPRF-IBSS |
14 |
25% |
$109,778 |
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.
Here’s a reminder about the
full-day symposium in “Advanced Electron Microscopy in Nanostructure Research”
and the inauguration of the new Titan Themis 300 S/TEM and the Quanta 200 duo
beam instrument at the Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and
Microanalysis (CFAMM).
The inauguration will take
place on March 10th, 2016 starting at 9 a.m. in HUB 355. Plenary seminar talks
will be presented by leading researchers demonstrating the application of S/TEM
and duo-beam techniques in nanostructure research. The plenary session will be
followed by demo sessions on the instruments in the afternoon.
Speaker bios can be found
here: http://cfamm.ucr.edu/seminar.html.
Program:
·
8:30 a.m. Registration
·
9:00 a.m. Welcome Address
·
9:10 a.m "S/TEM Sample Preparation in a DualBeam:
Practical Aspects for High Quality Results" - Brandon Van Leer, The FEI
Company.
·
9:55 a.m. “Application of analytical AC-STEM in materials
science: Advanced instrumentation and data analytics” - Paul Kotula,
Sandia National Labs“, Albuquerque, NM
·
10:40 a.m. Coffee break
·
10:50 a.m. Efficient use of electrons, making every electron
count for imaging and analysis.” Jan Ringnalda, The FEI Company.
·
11:35 a.m. “TEM for How Things are Made, How They Work, and How
They Break” - Brendan Foran, The Aerospace Corp. El Segundo, CA
·
12:20 p.m. Lunch
·
13:30 p.m. Workshop and demo in B116 Bourns Hall
·
4:30 p.m. Conclusion.
Registration is free, lunch
and refreshments will be provided. To register go to: http://aemnr-cfamm.eventbrite.com.
Upcoming Faculty Networking Lunches
There are still seats
available for the following networking lunches:
·
Sustainability
and Social Justice on 2/22/16 (register here: https://sustainability-social-justice.eventbrite.com) One seat
left – waitlist available
·
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).
·
Bio-based
Materials 5/9/16 (register here: http://biobased-materials.eventbrite.com)
·
Health
Disparities 5/23/16
(register here: https://health-disparities.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.
Academic Research Funding Strategies: Research
Development & Grant Writing News
The February
issue of the Academic Research Funding Strategies newsletter is now available
on the web at http://research.ucr.edu/OrApps/SP/Info/GrantWriting/GrantWritingNews.aspx. The index is below.
Note that this report is
for UCR internal use only. It may not be forwarded to colleagues at other
institutions or professional associations.
February 2016
·
Topics
of Interest URLs
·
The
Jackson Pollock Narrative
·
Practical
Teaming
·
Big
Data and the Internet of Things
·
Big
Data and Agricultural Research Funding
·
Heads-up:
New NSF GPG requirements
·
Research
Grant Writing Web Resources
·
Educational
Grant Writing Web Resources
·
Agency
Research News
·
Agency
Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
·
New
Funding Opportunities
·
About
Academic Research Funding Strategies
Stupid
Faculty Tricks
The information below is verbatim from http://grants.nih.gov/grants/research_integrity/research_misconduct.htm and provides useful info on how NOT to conduct
research. Although this is applies only to NIH grants, the processes and
policy of other funding agencies is quite similar.
Research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism
in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research
results, according to 42 CFR Part 93.
|
IMPORTANT: |
Fabrication: Making up data or results and recording or reporting
them
- A
possible example of fabrication: In order to meet recruitment pressure and
expectations, a study coordinator completed trial enrollment forms using
faked names and participants' information.
- Vermont
investigator Eric Poehlman made up patients' data that never existed to
support his scientific claims. Read about Poehlman's case in the New York Times
- Read
June 2012 article "Parkinson's Researcher Fabricated Data"
in The Scientist
Falsification: Manipulating research materials, equipment, or
processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is
not accurately represented in the research record.
- Investigators
might falsify results by 'splicing and pasting' together different segments
of western blot images so that the final image presented appeared to have
come from a single western blot procedure.
- Harvard
investigator Marc Hauser was found to have fabricated and manipulated
research results. Read about Hauser's case in Boston.com
- Read
news article "Image Manipulation: CSI: cell biology"
in Nature.com
Plagiarism: The appropriation of another person's ideas, processes,
results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
ORI's policy on
Plagiarism excludes:
- disputes
among former collaborators
If an individual involved in NIH funded research is found
to have committed research misconduct, the administrative actions PHS/HHS may
take against them include, but are not limited to:
·
debarment from eligibility to receive Federal funds for grants
and contracts,
·
prohibition from service on PHS advisory committees, peer
review committees, or as consultants,
·
certification of information sources by the respondent
that is forwarded by the institution,
·
certification of data by the institution,
·
imposition of supervision on the respondent by the
institution,
·
submission of a correction of published articles by the
respondent, and
·
submission of a retraction of published articles by the
respondent.
In addition, NIH may take further administrative action, including:
·
modification of the terms of an award such as imposing
special conditions, or withdrawing approval of the PI or other key personnel,
·
suspension or termination of an award,
·
recovery of funds, and
·
resolution of suspended awards.
I
had planned to put out a newsletter on Saturday, but the weather was nice and
my wife wanted to go to nursey and do some gardening. We stopped in
on Yucaipa Regional Park. I did see a bald eagle in the distance, but my
best photo was a female hooded merganser eating a fish. In animal
photography, one tries to get the eye in focus. In this case, both the duck’s
eye and that of its breakfast are fairly sharp.
(Click to
enlarge)