UCR Research and Economic
Development Newsletter: June 10, 2014
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
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Venture
Investing 101: 2:30 June 25
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Sonny
Ramaswamy of USDA to Visit UCR on July 21, 2014
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UCR faculty to
visit USDA in Sept 2014
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TEDxRiverside
Oct 16, 2014
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NASA Early
Stage Innovations, June 24
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Results: Collaborative Seed Grants
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Birds of
Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center
Venture
Investing 101: 2:30 June 25
Tim Hoerr CEO of Serra
Ventures and Managing Partner of Serra Capita will be visiting UCR on June 25
in collaboration with INSOCAL CONNECT. He will speak at 2:30 in the
Genomics Auditorium to introduce entrepreneurs and start-up companies to the
venture capital process by presenting essential elements of building a high
performance technology company
The Serra companies provide
early stage capital and a variety of strategic services to high tech start-up
companies. Serra invests in several areas related to UCR research
areas including information technology (personalization, computer vision,
security), devices (sensors, medical devices), materials, agriculture
technology and water filtration.
Note: This talk
requires registration. You may extend this invitation to potential
partners interested in commercializing technology. Send mail to VCREDadmin@ucr.edu to register.
Sonny Ramaswamy of USDA to
Visit UCR on July 21, 2014
Dr Sonny Ramaswamy will be
visiting UCR on July 21. He will speak at 9am in the Genomics Auditorium.
Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy was
appointed to serve as director of the USDA's National Institute of Food and
Agriculture (NIFA) on May 7, 2012. As part of USDA's Research, Education, and
Extension mission, he oversees NIFA awards funds for a wide range of extramural
research, education, and extension projects that address the needs of farmers,
ranchers, and agricultural producers. Prior to joining NIFA, Dr.
Ramaswamy served as dean of Oregon State University's College of Agricultural
Sciences and director of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. He
received a Bachelor of Science in agriculture and a Master of Science in
entomology from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, and
his doctorate in entomology from Rutgers University.
Note, the talk was previously
planned for August, but Sonny has moved up the date.
UCR
faculty to visit USDA in Sept 2014
Research
and Economic Development is organizing a visit to USDA in Washington, DC in mid
September for UCR faculty interested in meeting program officer to discuss USDA
funding. If you are interested, please contact me. Research and
Economic Development will cover travel expenses for interested faculty and help
set up meetings.
TEDxRiverside
Oct 16, 2014
Together
with a group of members of the Riverside community, I am planning a TED
conference in Riverside on Thursday, Oct 16 at the Fox Performing Arts Center
in Riverside. The conference will run from 9am-6pm. The goals of the
conference include
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Energizing
Riverside’s entrepreneurial and art community and connecting them to national
thought leaders.
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Inspiring high
students in and around Riverside to pursue higher education and careers in
STEM-related fields.
Tickets will be available in later
this summer. However, you can help now by suggesting a speaker. We
are particularly interested in both technologists, for example, someone who
created a company with an innovative technology, or an avant-garde
entertainer. If one of your acquaintances falls into this category,
please contact me with your suggestions.
For more info on TED conferences see
http://www.ted.com/attend/conferences.
NASA Early Stage
Innovations, June 24
On June 4, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced its annual Early Stage
Innovations (ESI) solicitation for innovative space technology proposals to
advance technology at low Technology Readiness Levels.
The topics for the fiscal
year (FY) 2014 competition are:
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Advanced
thermal protection materials modeling
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Computational
materials
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Uncertainty
quantification for additive manufacturing
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Computational
modeling of NDE interactions in composite structures
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Technologies
for In situ utilization of asteroid materials
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Mobile
robotic surface probe concepts for planetary exploration
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Kinetic
penetrators for icy planetary moons
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Advanced
technology habitat system
NASA’s Space Technology
Mission Directorate, which began as the Space Technology program in 2010,
invests in potentially game-changing technology with applications across NASA
mission directorates. NASA sees the university community as an important
partner in accelerating innovative technology development and in training the
next generation of scientists, technologists, and engineers needed to support
NASA technology development. Topics are aligned with NASA’s Space
Technology Roadmaps, which were developed by NASA and reviewed by the National
Research Council in 2012.
Letters of Intent: June 24, 2014 (5 PM EST)
Due Date: July 21, 2014 (5 PM EST, 2 PM PST)
Total Funding and Award Size: Approximately 12 awards will be granted in
Fall 2014, with total amounts up to $500,000.
Sources and Additional
Background:
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The
complete solicitation, as well as frequently asked questions and information on
other space technology programs, is available at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={1A828C6C-9B29-31E6-8151-D6C3533C4028}&path=open.
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The
press release announcing the solicitation can be found at
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NASA’s
Space Technology Roadmaps can be found at
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/roadmaps/index.html#.U5HSifldXyN.
Results:
Collaborative Seed Grants
The Office of Research and Economic Development (RED) is pleased to announce the results 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.
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PIs |
GRANT TITLE |
AMOUNT AWARDED |
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Juchen Guo Chemical & Environmental Engineering Lorenzo Mangolini Mechanical Engineering |
Center for Innovative Manufacturing of Next Generation
Rechargeable Batteries |
$12,000 |
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Xin Ge Huiwang Ai Juchen Guo |
$12,000 |
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Fabio Pasqualetti Mechanical Engineering Qi Zhu Electrical Engineering |
$12,000 |
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Lorenzo Mangolini Mechanical Engineering Elisa Franco Mechanical Engineering |
Design and synthesis of DNA-Si quantum dot heterogeneous
dynamic nanostructures |
$12,000 |
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Jun Li Statistics Jiayu Liao Bioengineering |
$12,000 |
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Gregor Blaha Biochemistry Yinsheng Wang Chemistry Wenwan Zhong Chemistry |
Direct Recruitment of Ribosomes by RNA polymerase: A
Facilitator of Evolution? |
$70,000 |
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Nigel Hughes Earth Sciences David Kisailus Chemical & Environmental Engineering |
$50,000 |
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Ming Liu Electrical Engineering Juchen Guo Chemical & Environmental Engineering |
$12,000 |
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Chan Seung Park CE-CERT Charles Wyman Chemical & Environmental Engineering CE-CERT |
$50,000 |
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Ilhem Messaoudi Biomedical Sciences Thomas Girke Botany & Plant Sciences Karine Leroch Cell Biology & Neuroscience Xinping Cui Statistics |
Impact of maternal obesity during pregnancy on the
development of the fetal immune system |
$62,500 |
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Jingsong Zhang Chemistry Heejung Jung Mechanical Engineering |
$12,000 |
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Kaustabh Ghosh Bioengineering Umar Mohideen Physics & Astronomy |
$12,000 |
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Phillip Christopher Chemical & Environmental Engineering Lorenzo Mangolini Mechanical Engineering |
Nanomaterial design, synthesis and validation for
autonomous water splitting |
$62,500 |
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Wenwan Zhong Chemistry David Lo Biomedical Sciences Chia-En Chang Chemistry Berlin Jacob Molecular Medicine |
Nanomaterials coated with antigenic proteins as
immunostimulatory complexes |
$50,000 |
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James Borneman Plant Pathology & Microbiology Tao Jiang Computer Science & Engineering Declan McCole Biomedical Sciences |
$73,028 |
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Ruoxue Yan Chemical & Environmental Engineering Ming Liu Electrical Engineering |
$12,000 |
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Haizhou Liu Chemical & Environmental Engineering Daniel Schlenk Environmental Sciences |
$12,000 |
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Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo Physics & Astronomy Bahram Mobasher Physics & Astronomy Xinping Cui Statistics Evangelos Christidis Computer Science |
Scientific discoveries in the age of Big Data: The case for
a Big Data Center! |
$72,000 |
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Elaine Haberer Electrical Engineering Dimitrios Morikis Bioengineering |
Shape-shifting Viral Template for Bio-directed Nanoscale
Materials Assembly |
$12,000 |
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Qi Zhu Amit Roy-Chowdhury |
Smart Camera Networks Through Algorithm and Platform
Co-design |
$12,000 |
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Emma Aronson Plant Pathology & Microbiology Darrel Jenerette Botany & Plant Sciences |
$12,000 |
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Bahman Anvari Bioengineering Valentine Vullev Bioengineering |
$75,000 |
Birds of Sweeney Granite
Mountains Desert Research Center
On Memorial Day weekend, I
visited Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, a natural reserve
maintained by UCR.
Here are some of the birds I encountered.
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Crissal Thrasher
Canyon Wren
Gambel's Quail and Chicks
Phainopepla
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: Johanna Bowman