UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: May 7, 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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Funding
Opportunity: NEH Announces New Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum Program
· Funding Opportunity: NEH Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
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Non-NIH Funding
Opportunities from NIH
· DOD Funding for Medical Research
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Office of Research Integrity
Guest Speaker – 5/10/16, 1:00pm, HUB 265
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Research Development & Grant Writing News
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Funded
Collaborative Seed Grants
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Rescheduled: Faculty Networking Lunches –Bio-based
Materials, Health Disparities
·
eCAF Improvements
·
UCR Export Control Awareness Day (June 3rd, 2016)
· Zika Funding: Funding Insights from COS
Funding Opportunity: NEH
Announces New Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum Program
The National Endowment
for the Humanities
(NEH) announced a new grant program, “Humanities Connections.” Through
this new program,
NEH aims to expand
humanities education, knowledge, and skills across
academic fields at the undergraduate level at two-year
and four-year institutions.
These grants will support
the development of curriculum,
including a set of undergraduate courses under a common topic or theme,
as well as support related, high-impact
undergraduate student activities.
The
Humanities Connection
program, which falls under NEH’s Division
of Education, ties into the broader push of bringing
the humanities into the
public square, an emphasis area of NEH Chairman Bro Adams.
An important thrust of this
new
program is the
encouragement of building collaborations between
the humanities
and
other fields, such as
in sciences, engineering, business, and law.
The Humanities Connection program grants must include:
·
collaborations between
teams of faculty members across two or more
departments, including at least
one in the humanities, at a single institution;
·
support for the development
of a
minimum of at least three undergraduate courses that are linked
by topic; and
·
opportunities for student
engagement in related undergraduate research or community
or site- based
experiential learning.
NEH will host a webinar for interested parties on Monday,
May 16 at 2 pm EDT. Registration
is available at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8954761720425105156.
Due Dates:
Full proposals are due October
5, 2016 for projects beginning before September 2017. Applicants are encouraged to contact
program officers and submit
draft proposals by September
6, 2016.
Eligibility: U.S. institutions of higher education. Individuals
are not eligible to apply.
Total Funding
and Award Size: NEH
will award up to $100,000 for grant periods
between 18 and 36 months. NEH
has
not indicated how many grants it plans to
award.
Sources and Additional Information:
·
Additional information and application materials
for
the Humanities Connections program are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-connections.
Funding Opportunity: NEH Humanities Initiatives
at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
The NEH has now posted the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 funding opportunity announcement for the Humanities Initiatives at HSIs program. These awards are intended to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at HSIs, both through the expansion and improvement of current activities and for the development of new courses, programs, and projects.
Funding: Up to $100,000 for awards beginning in 2017 and lasting one to three years.
Deadlines: Questions and draft proposals (optional) are requested to be submitted to NEH staff by May 16, 2016. Full proposals are due June 23, 2016.
·
Additional
details can be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-initiatives-hispanic-serving-institutions.
·
The
official Grants.gov notice is viewable at http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=283182.
Non-NIH Funding Opportunities from NIH
NIH
maintains a directory of Non-NIH
Funding Opportunities is
available, which includes a variety of international grants and
fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research. Its goal is to provide
information about additional funding opportunities available to those in the
field of global health research. The directory is maintained by the Fogarty
International Center, the international component of the U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
NOTE: This
replaces the Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health
Sciences Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health
Sciences.
Included are Non-NIH Funding Opportunities for:
·
Predoctoral/Graduate Students
·
Postdoctoral Students
·
Faculty
·
Health Professionals
·
Institutions
·
Travel
The website can be found here:
http://www.fic.nih.gov/Funding/NonNIH/Pages/default.aspx
DOD Funding for Medical Research
The fiscal year (FY) 2016 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) has released the award mechanisms for this funding cycle. PRMRP is supported by the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP). In FY 2016 $278.7 million was appropriated for PRMRP, which historically serves as a catch-all for congressional priorities focused on rarer diseases or conditions. Interested investigators must submit an application to a specific mechanism on one of the 39 topic areas. The pre-application and application deadlines vary by mechanism. Please refer to the chart below for details, as well as a list of the 39 topic areas. The full program announcement, including submission instructions for each mechanism, is available at: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/prmrp.shtml.
Funding Mechanisms:
Topics:
• Acute Lung Injury
• Antimicrobial Resistance*
• Chronic Migraine and Post-Traumatic Headaches
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Constrictive Bronchiolitis*
• Diabetes
• Dystonia
• Emerging Infectious Diseases*
• Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Hepatitis B
• Hereditary Angioedema
• Hydrocephalus
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Influenza*
• Integrative Medicine
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Lupus
• Malaria
• Metals Toxicology
• Mitochondrial Disease
• Nanomaterials for Bone Regeneration
• Nonopioid Pain Management*
• Pancreatitis
• Pathogen-Inactivated Dried Plasma
• Polycystic Kidney Disease
• Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
• Psychotropic Medications
• Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Respiratory Health
• Rett Syndrome*
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Scleroderma
• Sleep Disorders
• Tinnitus
• Tuberculosis*
• Vaccine Development for Infectious Disease*
• Vascular Malformations
• Women's Heart Disease
(*denotes new topics in FY 2016)
It is important for both the pre-application and application to speak to the mission of the Department of Defense (DOD). Applications are reviewed through a two-tier process: scientific, peer review and programmatic review. The programmatic review is heavily weighted and reflects the DOD mission and current needs for the Department. Members of the Programmatic Panel are available at: http://cdmrp.army.mil/prmrp/panels/panels16.shtml. The projects funded in FY 2015 are available at: http://cdmrp.army.mil/prmrp/awards/awards.shtml.
Office of Research
Integrity Guest Speaker – 5/10/16, 1:00pm, HUB 265
The Office of Research Integrity invites you to attend the final speaker for the Seminar Series in the 2016 academic year.
Dr. Eric Schwitzgebel will be giving a talk entitled “Living up to Our own Norms? The Ethical Behavior of Ethicists?” on May 10, at 1 PM in HUB 265. This is a free seminar which is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
Seminar summary: Do professional ethicists live up to
ethical norms, any more than people who don’t make a living out of teaching
ethics? I will discuss why we might expect that they would, or that they
wouldn’t, and why we might think they
ethically should or that they needn’t. I will then present a range of
empirical evidence about how professional ethicists really do behave.
Speaker Bio: Eric Schwitzgebel has been a professor of philosophy at UCR since 1997. He works on the nature of attitudes (what you do matters more than what you say), on self-knowledge (we have less of it than we think), and the relationship between intellectual moral reflection and real-world moral behavior (pretty tenuous). He is the world’s leading authority on the moral behavior of professional ethicists.
Click here for the flyer: https://research.ucr.edu/WebDocs/RI/ORI-Seminars/Schwitzgebel.pdf.
ICAM (Institute for Complex
Adaptive Matter) will be considering proposals for workshops from the time
frame October 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017 at the upcoming SSC
(Science Steering Committee) meeting to be held on the week of July 11, 2016
[exact date and time will be determined at a later time].
The deadline for proposals
is TUESDAY JUNE 28, 2016
Interested Applicants should submit
a proposal via the ICAM website here: http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/application
The main thrusts of ICAM are in
quantum matter, soft matter, biological matter, and emergent materials for
renewable energy.
Strongest preference will be given
to events that either focus on bringing a new discovery to the forefront, or
which bring together diverse and uncommonly associated areas of science that
focus on identifying the organizing principles of emergent science, as is the
ICAM tradition. Strongest preference will be given to those proposals for
which ICAM support is integral to the workshop.
For this time period they will not
be able to consider:
·
Proposals
for block travel awards for junior scientists
·
Proposals
for schools that have not been previously approved
Workshop applications must be in
compliance with ICAM’s Guidelines.
Please refer to the ICAM workshop
guidelines (http://icam-i2cam.org/index.php/events/workshop_guidelines) for guidance.
ICAM will help with outreach to
underrepresented groups in the US via their partner branches. For approved
workshops, they will send your proposal to the four partner branches (Cal State
San Marcos, Fresno State, Florida A&M, and the Society for the Advancement
of Chicano and Native American Science [SACNAS]) to see if they have qualified
junior scientists and mentors (at most one) who are interested in your
workshop. If you have additional outreach activities, that will be welcomed and
viewed positively in your proposal.
If you have any questions, please
contact ICAMadmin@ucdavis.edu.
Academic Research Funding Strategies: Research
Development & Grant Writing News
The April 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.
April 2016
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Topics of Interest URLs
·
How Readers Read Your Proposal
·
Organizing the Proposal Narrative
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Helping Your Junior Faculty: Successful
Models
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The Chronicle of Proposal Flaws
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Research Grant Writing Web Resources
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Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
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Agency Research News
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Agency Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
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New Funding Opportunities
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About Academic Research Funding Strategies
Funded Collaborative Seed Grants
I am pleased to announce funding approval for the following Collaborative Seed Grant Proposals:
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PI(s) |
Title |
Amount Awarded |
|
Naoki Yamanaka and Anupama Dahanukar |
Characterization of a Neural Circuit
Connecting Gustatory Input to Hormonal State |
$9,841.00 |
|
Kelley Barsanti
and David Cocker |
Next Generation Chemical
Modeling |
$9,956.00 |
|
Caroline Roper and Sharon Walker |
Integrating environmental and
physical cues to induce bacterial biofilm formation |
$9,982.00 |
|
Alan Brelsford,
Hollis Woodard and Jeffrey Diez |
Living on the edge: Adaptation
and resilience of threatened Arctic bumble bees and their pollination
services |
$10,000.00 |
|
Jess Miller-Camp and Jim Baldwin |
Database digitization of small
UCR collections in support of big data scientific endeavors by the UCR Center
for Integrative Biological Collections (CIBC) |
$10,000.00 |
|
Jin Nam and Hyle
Park |
Non-invasive electrical
neuromodulation for peripheral nerve regeneration by a novel piezoelectric
scaffold |
$10,000.00 |
|
Weixin Yao and Nanpeng Yu |
Predictive Analytics for
Distributed Energy Resources |
$10,000.00 |
|
Rong Hai and Ansel Hsiao |
Investigate the influence of
respiratory tract microbiota on influenza viral pathogenicity |
$10,000.00 |
|
Declan McCole and James Borneman |
Development of a novel 3-D enteroid system to study host-microbe interactions |
$10,000.00 |
|
Quinn McFrederick and Richard Stouthamer |
Wolbachia and its role in bee health |
$10,000.00 |
|
Ilhem Messaoudi, Brandon Brown,
James Borneman and Wenxiu
Ma |
Mechanisms of accelerated aging
in geriatric HIV+ subjects |
$50,000.00 |
|
A.L.N. Rao, Shou-wei Ding, Roya Zandi |
Production of HIV capsids in plants |
$60,000.00 |
|
Juan Pablo Giraldo
and Min Xue |
Plasmonic nanosensors for monitoring
plant sugars |
$60,000.00 |
|
Guillermo Aguilar, Suveen
Mathaudhu, Masaru Rao and David Halaney |
Laser-mediated Surface
Modification of Hard Biomaterials |
$60,000.00 |
|
Bryan Wong, Jianzhong
Wu and Gregory Beran |
New Computational Methods for Addressing
Complex, Mesoscale Polymer Systems |
$70,000.00 |
|
Jay Gan,
Yinsheng Wang and Ashok Mulchandani |
Detection, Transformation and
Health Effects of Organochlorine Pesticides |
$70,000.00 |
|
Christiane Weirauch,
Amy Litt and John Heraty |
Unlocking the Vault of Southern
California Biota |
$75,000.00 |
|
Maurizio Pellecchia
and Iryna Ethell |
The EphA4 receptor signaling as
target for novel therapeutics |
$75,000.00 |
Congratulations!
Rescheduled: Faculty
Networking Lunches
The following lunches have
been rescheduled:
·
Bio-based
Materials: 6/20/16 at 11:30 (please note earlier time!) Please register
here: https://biobased-materials.eventbrite.com
·
Health
Disparities: 6/27/16 at noon. Please register here: https://health-disparities.eventbrite.com
New electronic Campus Approval Form (eCAF)
feature.
RED is excited to announce the deployment of a new eCAF feature. Project Percent Credit (PPC) will be added to the PI Research Integrity tab for completion by the PI. The objective of the assigning of PPC is to recognize the contributions of all faculty that participate in a sponsored projected and to remove barriers to collaborations among UCR’s departments/colleges/schools. The Principal Investigator will assign the PPC for the PI and all co-PI’s on the eCAF. These percentages reflect "credit" for intellectual and technical responsibility for the project. They need not correspond nor represent salary or time distributions. The PPC will be attributed to the home department/colleges/school of those co-PI’s, identified on the eCAF, in proportion to the percentages assigned.
More enhancement and improvements to eCAF coming later this summer!!
UCR Export Control Awareness Day
(June 3rd, 2016)
Export Control comprises the U.S. laws and regulations that govern the electronic transfer or shipment overseas (or to foreign nationals within the United States) of certain information, technologies, and commodities. The federal government has enacted export control laws in order to protect the U.S. economy, promote trade goals, and restrict the export of technology and goods that could militarily aid U.S. adversaries.
On Friday, June 3rd, Research and Economic Development, Office of International Affairs and the Campus Ethics and Compliance Office will host concurrent seminars across campus to raise institutional and individual awareness of Export Control regulations and how to avoid civil and criminal penalties. If you have international collaborations, travel abroad or conduct research in the fields of biomedical sciences, computer sciences, space sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, or anthropology…this one hour seminar is for you!
Two 1-hour sessions (same material) will be offered for Faculty and Researchers at 12:00 p.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. UCOP’s Elizabeth Boyd, Ph.D., Executive Director of Research Compliance & Export Control Officer will address specific export control areas of interest for faculty and researchers.
·
Both
sessions will be located at: Winston Chung Hall, Room 443
·
Lunch
will be provided at both sessions.
·
To
reserve a seat, please send an email to Robert.Chan@ucr.edu or register online at: https://research.ucr.edu/about/calendar.
Zika Funding: Funding
Insights from COS
Research Agencies Respond Swiftly
to Zika Outbreak
Reacting to the recent Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak, global research funding
organizations, including the European Commission, the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the São Paulo
Research Foundation (FAPESP), are seeking ZIKV-related research proposals.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) declared the virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
following a recent spike in the number of severe congenital brain malformations
in Latin America. Prior to 2013, the mosquito-borne virus was best known for
relatively mild symptoms. However, large increases in medical conditions like
microcephaly and neurological disorders in affected regions raise troubling
questions about potential ZIKV complications.
In response, the international
community has swiftly set up mechanisms to fund urgently needed research into
the emerging virus. The Wellcome Trust, along with
leading health research funders, institutes, nonprofits, and journals, is urging
that all Zika virus research data and results be
shared rapidly and openly once adequately controlled for release and subject to
required safeguards, with a view to quickly turning the research into effective
interventions.
European Commission ZIKV
Funding
Through consultation with
international experts, the European Commission will launch a rapid response
call for research into the virus on March 15, 2016, with an expected deadline
of April 28, 2016. The €10 million call for proposals seeks to investigate
potential causal links between the virus and noted medical complications, with
further research to combat the virus via diagnostics, vaccines, and/or
treatment strategies if such a link is discovered. In addition to Horizon 2020
participating regions, most affected countries are eligible for funding, as are
the U.S., Brazil, and countries with Commission co-funding mechanisms (subject
to terms). To facilitate preparation of research proposals by interested
consortia, the draft call text and additional documentation can be viewed at http://ec.europa.eu/research/health/index.cfm?pg=area&areaname=zika.
Additional avenues for European
Commission funding include a €40 million call for research on vaccine
development for malaria and neglected infectious diseases, including ZIKV, and
a €10 million call for research infrastructures for vector control, including
the Aedes mosquitoes that spread the virus. All calls
are through the Commission's Horizon 2020 program.
ZIKV Funding in the Americas:
United States and Brazil
The United States is seeking
research proposals on the virus through multiple agencies. A February 9, 2016, National Science Foundation
(NSF) Dear Colleague Letter (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16043/nsf16043.jsp?org=NS) announced the Ecology
& Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) program's interest in receiving
proposals relevant to the ongoing spread of the ZIKV. The EEID program is
particularly looking for proposals that address the ecological transmission
dynamics of the virus. Proposals needing lengthier research can be submitted to
EEID's annual call (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5269&org=DEB&from=home) , while proposals focused
on obtaining research results for the management or spread of ZIKV within the
year can be submitted as a RAPID
proposal following the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf16001/gpg_2.jsp#IID1).
The National Institutes of
Health (NIH) is offering funding through a variety of initiatives. At the
agency level, the NIH and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil,
have teamed up to request proposals through a parallel funding
initiative for collaborative research
(http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-TW-16-001.html). The two agencies will jointly support successful R01
applications to the NIH that fall within research areas of mutual interest,
including single disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches and topics.
Additionally, the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) published notice of
interest NOT-AI-16-026 (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AI-16-026.html) for research on and product development related to ZIKV
through funding types R03, R21, R01, and SBIR. The NIAID has also joined forces
with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke (NINDS), and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
(NIDCR) on notice of interest
NOT-HD-16-004
(http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HD-16-004.html) to highlight interest in research on the virus as it
relates to the mother-infant dyad and sequelae of infection through R21 and R01
funding
Here’s
a photo of a mother Mute Swan with her cygnets that I took in Cape May, NJ.
(Click to
enlarge)
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