UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: October 9, 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
·
Seminar:
Intellectual Property: How to Protect Your Invention – 10/11/16
·
EPIC: Entrepreneurial Proof of Concept
& Innovation Center Announcement and Launch – 10/26/16
· Limited Submissions: NSF S-STEM, etc
·
Research and
Economic Development- Collaborative Seed Grant Program –
1/12/17
·
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program – diversity in the biomedical
research community 2/15/17
·
Inaugural UC-Wide
Drug Discover Symposium – 2/21-22/17
· Nominations for the Defense Science Study Group
·
Unless your name is Michael
Pazzani, you need an ORCID
·
U.S. Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell, October 14,
4:00 – 6:00 pm, HUB 30
Intellectual Property: How to Protect Your Invention –
10/11/16
UCR's Office of
Technology Partnerships is hosting a series of seminars focusing on Technology
Commercialization and Entrepreneurship. The first session in these series will
cover the basics of intellectual property protection and commercialization.
Speaker is Brian Suh,
Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization. His team oversees all
aspects of the management of UCR intellectual property, from invention
disclosures, evaluation, filing patent applications, and licensing.
Topics will include basic
concepts of intellectual property, criteria for patenting, available resources
and how to work with the Office of Technology Commercialization. Lunch will be
provided.
Event Details:
Date: 10/11/16
Time:
12:00-1:00
Location: Orbach Science Library, Room 240
A similar seminar will be
delivered at the ExCITE Incubator located at 3499
10th Street, Riverside, CA 92501, same day from 5:30-6:30pm.
RSVP: judy.swineford@ucr.edu
Entrepreneurial
Proof of Concept & Innovation Center Announcement and Launch – 10/26/16
The County of
Riverside will host the launch of UCR’s Regional Entrepreneurial Proof of
Concept and Innovation Center (EPIC) on October 26, 2016 from 3:00-5:00pm at
the Riverside County Administration Center.
A partnership between
UC Riverside, the County of Riverside, and regional innovation centers, EPIC
will focus on supporting entrepreneurs and innovators by:
-Providing access to
entrepreneurial training
-Pairing innovators
and startups with experienced mentors
-Connecting startups
to investors and partners
Come learn more about
EPIC. Listen to local start-up companies pitch to business leaders,
investors and mentors. Meet the members of our growing entrepreneurial
community.
Event Details:
3:00pm- Technology
Showcase
5:00pm- Reception
immediately following
Location:
The Riverside County
Administration Center
4080 Lemon Street
Riverside, CA 92501
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entrepreneurial-proof-of-concept-innovation-center-announcement-launch-tickets-28287997161?aff=es2
***Complimentary
parking in the adjacent parking deck on Lemon Street***
For information
contact: judy.swineford@ucr.edu
Several NSF limited
submissions have recently been posted. I’d like to highlight three in
particular:
·
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT)
The
NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development
and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for STEM
graduate education training. The NRT program seeks proposals that ensure that
graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs
develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of
STEM careers. The NRT program includes two tracks: the
Traineeship Track and the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track.
The
Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students
in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through the use of a
comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned
with changing workforce and research needs. For FY2016, there are four priority
areas: (1) Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (DESE), (2) Understanding the
Brain (UtB), (3) Innovations at the Nexus of Food,
Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS), and (4) any other interdisciplinary
research theme of national priority. The priority research areas for the
FY2017 competition will be (1) UtB, (2) INFEWS, and
(3) any other interdisciplinary research theme of national priority.
The
IGE Track focuses on test-bed projects aimed at piloting, testing, and
validating innovative and potentially transformative approaches to graduate
education. IGE projects are intended to generate the knowledge required
for their customization, implementation, and broader adoption. While the
Traineeship Track promotes building on the current knowledge base to develop
comprehensive programs to effectively train STEM graduate students, the IGE
Track supports testing of novel models or activities with high potential to
enrich and extend the knowledge base on effective graduate education
approaches.
The
NRT program addresses both workforce development, emphasizing broad
participation, and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education.
For both tracks, strategic collaborations with the private sector,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, national
laboratories, field stations, teaching and learning centers, informal science
centers, and academic partners are encouraged
There is a limit of
two Traineeship Track proposals and two Innovations in Graduate Education Track
proposals per competition. Participation includes serving as a lead
organization on a non-collaborative proposal or as a lead organization,
non-lead organization, or subawardee on a
collaborative proposal.
The deadline to apply
for the limited submission is 10/27/16.
More information can
be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505015&WT.mc_id=USNSF_180&WT.mc_ev=click
·
NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (S-STEM)
The program seeks: 1) to increase the number of low-income
academically talented students with demonstrated financial need obtaining degrees
in STEM and entering the workforce or graduate programs in STEM; 2) to improve
the education of future scientists, engineers, and technicians, with a focus on
academically talented low-income students; and 3) to generate knowledge to
advance understanding of how factors or evidence-based curricular and
co-curricular activities affect the success, retention, transfer,
academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM of low-income students.
The STEM disciplines supported by the S-STEM program include:
Biological sciences (except medicine and other clinical
fields);
Physical sciences (including physics, chemistry, astronomy,
and materials science);
Mathematical sciences;
Computer and information sciences;
Geosciences;
Engineering; and
Technology areas
associated with the preceding disciplines (for example, biotechnology,
chemical technology, engineering technology, information technology, etc.)
An Institution may submit one proposal (either as a single
institution or as subawardee or a member of a
Collaborative Research project) from each constituent school or college that
awards degrees in an eligible field. See Additional Eligibility Information
below for more details.
The deadline to apply
for the limited submission is 11/17/16.
More
information can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257&WT.mc_id=USNSF_180&WT.mc_ev=click
Other NSF limited submissions
are:
Title |
Internal Deadline |
Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways
into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS) |
10/16/2016 |
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
(NCN) |
10/16/2016 |
Improvements in Facilities, Communications,
and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) |
10/16/2016 |
Scalable Nanomanufacturing
for Integrated Systems (SNM-IS) |
10/16/2016 |
Increasing the Participation and
Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) |
10/27/2016 |
Collections in Support of Biological
Research (CSBR) |
1/12/2017 |
See http://research.ucr.edu/ord/limitedsubmissions.aspx for more information,
and for the UCR application process.
Research
and Economic Development Collaborative Seed Grant Program – 1/12/17
The Office of Research
and Economic Development (RED) is pleased to announce the continuation of the
collaborative seed grant program. The grants are internal funds for UCR faculty
teams to collaborate and publish in advance of proposing multi-investigator
projects and centers to external agencies. Teams with seed funding who generate
preliminary results and gain experience working jointly have proven more
successful when they later compete for multi-investigator and/or
multidisciplinary grants.
PURPOSE
Serving as a catalyst for
UCR faculty to form new teams, the seed grant program is intended to initiate new
intellectual directions for faculty and to make UCR more competitive for
multidisciplinary grants. Selection criteria for seed grants reward projects
that create new relationships and synergies across schools, departments or
centers. Key considerations include whether the project can be leveraged toward
new externally-funded research, and whether the project cannot be otherwise
initiated using regular department or school resources. An ideal project would
apply for external funding within 6-10 months following seed funding.
TYPES OF AWARDS
ELIGIBILITY
Proposals are invited
from all UCR individuals eligible to serve as a Principal Investigator. (For
additional information on PI eligibility see Policy #527-3.) Although external
collaborations with universities or companies are encouraged, seed funded
projects must involve at least two UCR faculty (a PI and at least one UCR CoPI) and funds may not be used to support outside
institutions. A faculty member may participate as PI or CoPI on only one seed grant. A faculty PI on an award made
through the Large or Small Collaborative Seed Grant Program in 2013, 2014, 2015
or 2016 cannot be a PI or CoPI on a seed grant in 2017, unless they have
been awarded a grant as a result of the prior seed grant or applied three times
for funding based on the seed grant.
USE OF FUNDS
Funds may be used for any
activity directly related to the conduct of the research, e.g. salaries and
benefits for students, postdocs, or research scientists, research supplies, equipment/facility
recharge, etc. Funds may not be used for faculty summer salaries,
administrative staff, course buyouts, seminar speakers, consultants,
conferences, or travel, except to federal agencies or proposer workshops. Small
project seed grants will receive all funding at the start of the project. Large
project seed grants will receive 50% of funds to initiate the project, with the
remainder made available upon completion and approval of a brief report on
project status. All funds must be expended by the end of the project period. To
focus on projects that can make rapid progress, unexpended funds will be
returned.
DEADLINES
The internal proposal
deadline for both Large and Small Seed Grants is January 12, 2017.
PROGRESS TRACKING AND
REPORTING
Awardees of Large Grants
are required to submit both a brief interim report to release the remaining 50%
of the funds and a final project report within 60 days of the award period end.
Small Grant awardees are required only to submit a final project report within
60 days. The final project report should include the results of the research, a
financial statement and plans or efforts underway to obtain external funding.
Lack of timely reporting may result in exclusion from future award
opportunities.
REVIEW PROCESS
Proposals will be
reviewed by UCR faculty with comments returned to explain funding decisions.
The alignment of projects with the goals of innovation and high impact, and the
feasibility of completing the project and submitting a collaborative grant proposal
are evaluation priorities. Proposals that are disruptive, use technology in new
ways, or launch entirely novel approaches are specifically encouraged. The
assessment will consider the extent of inter-disciplinary and
inter-departmental collaboration as well as the potential for subsequent
extramural funding. Deans of the PI and co-PIs also will be asked for input on
the importance of the project for their school.
APPLICATION FORMAT
Bearing in mind that not
all reviewers will have an extensive knowledge of their field of inquiry,
faculty should use proposal language accessible to the most faculty. Both types
of Seed Grant proposals use the same application format:
APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Applications should be
submitted through the "EasyChair"
system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csgp2017
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program – diversity in the
biomedical research community 2/15/17
The Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI) has announced the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program. Recognizing
the value of individuals from different backgrounds to move science forward,
HHMI seeks to increase diversity in the biomedical research community. The
Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program will recruit and retain early career scientists
who are from groups underrepresented in the life sciences and who have the
potential to become leaders in academic research. Through their successful
careers, Hanna H. Gray Fellows will inspire the next generation of scientists
from America’s diverse talent pool. The Institute will select and support up to
15 Fellows in this first competition.
You help is appreciated in
distributing this announcement and encouraging eligible individuals to apply.
Applicants can establish eligibility and submit an application via the HHMI
online competition site www.hhmi.org/research/application/fellow2017. Applications are due February
15, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Program Overview
Fellows will receive funding
($80,000) for up to four years of their postdoctoral training and may continue
to receive funding ($270,000) for up to four years during their early career
years as independent faculty. The program includes opportunities for career
development, including mentoring and active involvement in the HHMI scientific
community.
Eligibility
·
The program is open to individuals who are from gender, racial,
ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences at the career
stages targeted by this program, including those from disadvantaged
backgrounds.
·
Applicants must have a PhD and/or MD (or equivalent) by the start
of the grant term and can have no more than 12 months of postdoctoral research
experience at the time of the application due date.
·
The program is open to applicants of any citizenship or
nationality who have been accepted to join a laboratory as a postdoctoral
fellow at a research institution located in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico).
·
The program is open to basic science researchers and physician-scientists
in all biomedical and life science disciplines.
Selection of Fellows
The review process will
assess the applicant’s potential for a career as an independent academic
researcher and the quality of the training environment with the selected mentor.
The selection of finalists will be made by the end of September 2017. Awards
may begin as early as November 15, 2017, but no later than January 15, 2018.
Additional information including a full
Program Announcement is available at www.hhmi.org/HannaGrayFellows2017. For questions, contact program staff at fellows@hhmi.org.
Inaugural UC-Wide Drug
Discover Symposium – Feb. 21-22, 2017
Save the date! Share drug discovery success stories,
highlights and strategies. Learn about resources for translational
research across the campuses. Work toward a cross-campus drug discovery
and development pipeline. Improve UC competitiveness through cross-campus
connections. Network with industry leaders seeking academic partnerships.
Location: UCLA California Nanosystems Institute
Host: UC BRAID Drug, Device, Discovery
and Development Group
To register: http://ucdrugdiscovery.eventbrite.com
For questions please
contact: Robert Damoiseaux, California NanoSystems Institute, Phone: 310-794-1974
Nominations to the Defense Science
Study Group
UCR
has the opportunity to nominate two members of your faculty to participate in
the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). This program, begun in 1985, is
sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and
administered by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). The DSSG is a unique
program of education and study that introduces some of the nation's most
outstanding professors of science and engineering to the challenges facing
national security. It also provides the members with an opportunity to become
involved in and to contribute to those issues on an ongoing basis. The two-year
program requires that the member of the class devote approximately 20 days per
year to DSSG activities. To minimize disruption of the academic year, the
majority of the time for DSSG activity is scheduled during the summer months.
The
selection criteria are, briefly, as follows:
•
A
faculty member in science, engineering or related discipline (the DSSG has
enjoyed broad disciplinary representation over the years ranging from medicine
to math)
•
Outstanding
academic accomplishments and a likely future leader in their field
•
Preferably
within 15 years of their Ph.D.
•
Must
be a U.S. citizen (to acquire a security clearance).
To
be considered send a CV to limitedsubmissions@ucr.edu. By Dec 1, 2016 plus a
brief cover letter indicating your interest and history with DARPA, DoD and
Federal agencies or advisory boards.
World Bank Data Challenge: Nov 9
The World Bank is announcing a global call for
big data solutions and prototypes that address climate change-related issues
pertaining to food security, nutrition, landscapes, forestry and watersheds.
The Bank seeks to identify and support the implementation
of high-potential solutions and prototypes developed by academics, citizens,
entrepreneurs, businesses, and nonprofits addressing these critical areas of
sustainable development.
These issues are high priorities in service to the World
Bank's goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, and are
also identified priorities of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The call for prototypes that address climate change-related
issues pertaining to two challenge areas:
1) Food: food security and nutrition
2) Landscapes: forestry and watersheds.
The bank seeks to identify and support the implementation
of at least two high-potential solutions and prototypes addressing these
critical areas of sustainable development.
The Bank is seeking innovative solutions and working
prototypes that leverage big data to understand and address the impacts of
climate change on food security and nutrition. The solutions and prototypes may
be developed by individuals and organizations from member countries of the
World Bank Group, and may leverage data sources such as government-released
open data, satellite imagery, mobile network data, anonymized private sector
data, social media data and surveys, among others.
The following represent illustrative areas of need:
- Mapping or measuring the risks to farmer's income
throughout the food supply chain
- Understanding of the food supply chain, its
vulnerabilities and food loss points
- The distribution of value added and income at different
stages of the food supply chain
- Understanding, forecasting or raising awareness of
constraints on food availability, affordability, and consumption, including
local prices and seasonality
- Linking seasonal food production and consumption with
nutrition and health, including behavioral aspects, and identification of
options for intervention
- Mapping of agricultural production diversity in specific
regions, including average crop yields and prices
Innovative data solutions, technologies and methodologies,
including the concepts listed below, represent relevant types of solutions:
- Artificial intelligence
- Crowdsourcing applications
- Data science
- Dynamic visualizations
- Machine learning
- Predictive analytics on existing datasets or through
combinations of datasets to generate insights, information or new data
- Software applications that allow the capture and
management of data
- Hardware applications that generate and capture
agriculture, water or weather data
http://bigdatainnovationchallenge.org/apply/
Unless your name
is Michael Pazzani, you need an ORCID
Because
my last name is uncommon, my publications are attributed to me fairly
easily. However, for many faculty, automated citation and indexing is not
100% accurate. The ORCID is a solution to this problem.
ORCID
and the University of California
Prepared
by Lisa Schiff, Ivy Anderson and Günter Waibel,
California Digital Library (CDL)
September
27, 2016
ORCID
Summary
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an
international registry service that allows an individual researcher to obtain a
personal unique identifier that can be used to create linkages to his/her
scholarly activities in various systems used by that researcher. This
identifier prevents a researcher’s work from being incorrectly attributed to
another individual with a similar name. As of September 27, 2016 almost
2,600,000 researchers worldwide have registered for an ORCID.
ORCID
Benefits for Individuals
Individual
scholars benefit from ORCID in a number of ways.
ORCID
at the University of California
Individual
UC researchers are already using this service in substantial numbers: Almost
13,000 UC-affiliated individuals currently possess ORCID iDs.
If you don’t already have an ORCID iD, simply
complete the ORCID
registration form. Add
professional information to enhance your newly created ORCID record, and then
use your ORCID iD wherever your name appears
professionally, such as in your email signature line, your webpage and in
submitting manuscripts or applying for grants.
P.S., My ORCID is orcid.org/0000-0002-4240-7349.
It is pretty easy to import BibTex at orcid.org and
export BibTex from Google Scholar to create an
initial profile. It is likely in the next year or two, many federal
funding agencies will require an ORCID with proposal submission.
U.S. Under
Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell, October 14, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, HUB 302
UCR’s Living the Promise symposium series will kickoff with a visit by U.S. Under Secretary of Education
Ted Mitchell on Friday, October 14 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm in HUB 302. Dr. Mitchell
will deliver about 20 minutes of remarks, after which he will spend time in
conversation with Provost and EVC D’Anieri about
UCR’s distinctive position in U.S. higher education and how we will leverage
our strengths and achievements to advance excellence, access, and opportunity.
Time is also allocated for audience Q&A – so please come welcome Dr.
Mitchell to UCR and participate in this interesting conversation.
Here’s
a photo of a Pelican landing taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach yesterday. It’s
one of my favorite birding spots in Southern California, and an exemplar of
habitat restoration. However, it wasn’t particularly birdy yesterday, but
it was a nice day to walk around the coast.
(click
to enlarge)