UCR Research and Economic
Development Newsletter: August 20, 2013
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
Back Issues of Newsletter: http://or.ucr.edu/vcr/newsletters.aspx
Grant Opportunity Search: http://pivot.cos.com
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NSF
Grants Conference
·
NEA:
How Art Works
· AFOSR Young Investigator Program
·
DOD
MURI
·
NSA
and Research Funding
·
Results of UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program
·
Red-Tailed Hawk
NSF Grants Conference
The first National Science
Foundation Grants Conference of fiscal year 2014 will be held in Denver, CO, on
October 21-22, 2013. My office will sponsor a few faculty to attend. If
you are interested in attending, please contact me.
Key representatives from the
National Science Foundation as well as your colleagues - faculty, researchers
and grant administrators - representing colleges and universities from around
the US will participate.
This two-day conference is a
must, especially for new faculty, researchers and administrators who want to
gain key insight into a wide range of current issues at NSF including the state
of current funding; new and current policies and procedures; and pertinent
administrative issues. NSF program officers representing each NSF directorate
will be on hand to provide up-to-date information about specific funding
opportunities and answer your questions.
Highlights include:
NEA:
How Art Works
In September 2012, the NEA's
Research and Economic Development & Analysis published its five-year research agenda,
supported by a system map and measurement model. Titled How Art Works,
the report offers a framework for studying research topics critical to a
broader public understanding of the arts' value and/or impact for individuals
and communities.
The NEA's Research and Economic Development
& Analysis will make awards to support research that investigates the value
and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components within the U.S. arts
ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of
American life.
Details: http://arts.gov/grants/apply/Research/Grant-program-description.html
Deadline: November 5,
2013. NEA strongly recommends that you submit at least 10 days in advance
of the deadline to give yourself ample time to resolve any problems that you
might encounter.
Helen Magid (Helen.magid@ucr.edu) can assist faculty
interested in applying for this program
AFOSR Young
Investigator Program
The
Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports young scientists and
engineers in Air Force relevant disciplines and is designed to promote
innovative research in fields such as: energy, power and propulsion, materials
interactions in extreme environments, aero-structure interactions and control,
hierarchical design and characterization of materials, space architecture and
protection, thermal control, mathematical, information and computer sciences,
biology, behavioral sciences, plasma and quantum physics, theoretical and
experimental physics, microwave and photonic systems, information and signal
process, and materials-processing techniques. The awards foster creative basic
research, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators,
and increase opportunities to recognize Air Force mission and challenges in
science and engineering.
Deadline:
Sept 15, 2013
DOD MURI
The Department of Defense has
released ONRBAA13-022, Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Department of Defense
Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative. This
annual program makes awards of $1 million to $2.5 million to interdisciplinary,
multi-institutional teams.
White papers (4 pp) are
strongly recommended and are due October 15. Full proposals are due December
16. You are encouraged to consult with colleagues at other universities to form
multi-institution teams and speak with a program officer before submitting your
white paper.
(http://pivot.cos.com provides a mechanism
to search for faculty at UCR or other schools with certain expertise).
The topic areas this year are
below.
The topics:
Army:
1. Attosecond Electron
Dynamics
2. Force-Activated Synthetic
Biology
3. Nonlinear Dynamics of
Energy Hypersurfaces Governing Reaction Networks
4. Strongly Linked Multiscale
Models for Predicting Novel Functional Materials
5. Multistep Catalysis
6. Innovation in Prokaryotic
Evolution
7. Ultracold Molecular Ion
Reactions
8. The Skin-Microbe
Interactome
Air Force
9. Time-resolved quantum
dynamics of complex systems
10. Computational Foundation
of Mathematics and Information
11. Transport and Utilization
of Energy Using Plasmon-induced Processes
12. Design Rules for Biobased
and Bioinspired Materials
13. Control of Coherent
Structures in Plasmas for Reconfigurable Metamaterial-Based Devices
14. Multifunctional Quantum
Transduction of Photons, Electrons and Phonons
15. Control of Light
Propagation through Metasurfaces
16. Goal-Driven, Multi-Source
Algorithms for Complex Resilient Multi-Physics Systems
17. Security Theory of
Nano-Scale Devices
Navy
18. Understanding Energy
Harvesting Mechanisms in Polymer-Based Photovoltaics
19. Role of Bidirectional
Computation in Visual Scene Analysis
20. Exploring the Atomic and
Electronic Structure of Materials to Predict Functional Material Properties
21. Optical Computing
22. Quantum optomechanics
23. Air-Sea Interaction and
RF Propagation in Maritime Atmospheric Boundary Layers
24. Hydrodynamics of
Non-traditional Propulsion
The solicitation is available
at http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=MURI
NSA and Research Funding
Since NSA has been in the
press recently, it’s worth noting that they also fund university research in
mathematics. The MSP supports
self-directed, unclassified research in the areas of Algebra, Number Theory,
Discrete Mathematics, Probability, and Statistics. The program does not support
research in cryptology. The Research Grants program offers three types of
grants: the Young Investigators Grant, the Standard Grant, and the Senior
Investigators Grant. More details are available on the MSP proposal submission
website. Investigators must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Proposals
should be submitted electronically by October 15 .
Questions about the program
may be directed to MSPgrants@nsa.gov.
Details:
http://www.nsa.gov/research/math_research/
Results of UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program
I’m pleased to announce the results of the UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program (see http://research.ucr.edu/ord/funding/opportunities/collaborative-seed-grant-program.aspx for details)
I’d like to thank the
anonymous faculty reviews who provided constructive feedback to me and the
proposers.
The program
provides funds to enable teams of UCR faculty to collaborate and publish before
grant submission, making UCR more competitive for multi-investigator grants
from external agencies.
By
serving as a catalyst for UCR faculty to develop new multi-investigator, and/or
multi-disciplinary teams, the program is intended to make UCR more competitive
for center, program project grants, or similar large, multi-investigator
research grants. The Projects
A
new competition will be announced in January. The awards and
amounts are below.
·
Aaron
Seitz and Victor Zordan, The University of California Riverside Brain Game
Center for Mental Fitness and Wellbeing, $70,000
·
Christian
Lytle and Cindy Larive, Identification of absorbed fecal solutes by metabolomic
profiling, $24,000
·
Yinsheng
Wang and Jikui Song, RING Finger and Arsenite-induced Genomic Instability,
$50,000
·
Kevin
Esterling and Evangelos Christidis, The Role of, and Opportunities for, Online
Social Media in Diabetes Care, $60,000
·
Khaleel
Razak, Iryna Ethell and Devin Binder, Mechanisms and treatment of sensory
deficits in Fragile X Syndrome, $60,000
·
Jiayu
Liao and Michael Pirrung, Novel SUMOylation Inhibitor as in vivo Probe for
Cancer Synthetic Lethality Treatment, $70,000
·
Richard
Hooley, Quan Cheng and Yinsheng Wang, Synthetic Receptors as Selective Hosts
and Transfection Agents in Living Cells, $45,000
·
Frances
Sladek, James Borneman, Margarita Curras-Collazo, Tao Jiang and Chris Lytle,
Dietary Effects on the Gut-Brain Axis, $70,000
·
David
Kisailus and Cheryl Hayashi, Biologically Derived, Impact Resistant Composites
for Energy and Health Applications, $70,000
·
Nicole
Zur Nieden and Hideaki Tsutsui, Understanding biomechanics of pluripotent stem
cells under controlled fluidic shear, $60,000
·
Thomas
Morton, Leonard Mueller, Christopher Switzer and Ameae Walker, Binding to the
i-Motif as a Strategy for Inhibiting Cancer Metastasis, $60,000
·
Ashok
Mulchandani, Xin Ge, Manuela Martins-Green and James Borneman, TREATING
DISEASES BY CONTROLLING BACTERIAL BIOFILMS, $60,000
·
David
Jassby and Ian Wheeldon, Subsurface Carbon Mapping using Magnetotactic
Bacteria, $36,000
·
Masaru
Rao, Victor Rodgers and Kaustabh Ghosh, Rationally-Designed Surface
Nanopatterning: A New Paradigm for Mitigating Adverse Physiological Responses
to Coronary Stenting, $70,000
·
Katherine
Borkovich, Cynthia Larive and Jason Stajich, High-throughput synthetic biology
for natural products discovery, $65,000
·
Akua
Asa-Awuku, Development of a Portable Environmental Chamber, $50,000
·
Umar
Mohideen, I-Chueh Huang, Sarjeet Gill and Roya Zandi, Seed Funding for
“Examining HIV Gag Mediated Vesicle Budding Under Physiological Biomimetic
Conditions”, $45,000
·
Huinan
Liu and Iryna Ethell, Engineering Biodegradable Conductive Magnesium-Polymer
Composites for Neurogenesis, $70,000
·
Bradley
White and Eamonn Keogh, Inexpensive, automated detection of Anopheles malaria
mosquitoes in Africa, $45,000
·
Thomas
Eulgem, Conserved roles of WRKY transcription factors within the plant immune
transcriptional network, $40,000
·
Victor
Rodgers and Dimitrios Morikis, Novel Device for Quantifying Complement Protein
Interactions, $39,000
·
Edward
Korzus and B. Glenn Stanley, A genetic approach for studying neural circuits,
$40,000
The results of the Proof of
Concept Fund will be announced next week.
Red-Tailed Hawk
Here’s
a photo of the red-tailed hawk taken at the UCR botanic gardens
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: Toni Graham