UCR Research and Economic
Development Newsletter: August 7, 2014
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
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Grant Opportunity Search: http://pivot.cos.com
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National Endowment for The Humanities: Bro Adams
Confirmation
·
NSF Partnerships for International Research and
Education
·
Upcoming Grant Deadlines from the Burroughs Wellcome
Fund
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NSF: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
·
National Geospatial Agency: regular and HBCU/MI program
·
Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student
Research (SCGSR): September 24
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Roadrunner
NEH Bro Adams
Confirmation/From the New Chairman of NEH:
The United States Senate
today voted to confirm William D. “Bro” Adams as the 10th chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Founded in 1965, the National
Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making institution of the
United States government dedicated to supporting research, education,
preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Adams, president of Colby
College in Waterville, Maine from 2000 until his retirement on June 30, 2014,
is a committed advocate for liberal arts education and brings to the Endowment
a long record of leadership in higher education and the humanities.
A native of Birmingham,
Michigan, and son of an auto industry executive, Adams earned his undergraduate
degree in philosophy at Colorado College and a Ph.D. from the University of
California at Santa Cruz History of Consciousness Program. He studied in France
as a Fulbright Scholar before beginning his career in higher education with appointments
to teach political philosophy at Santa Clara University in California and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He went on to coordinate the Great
Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University and to serve as vice
president and Secretary of Wesleyan University. He became president of Bucknell
University in 1995 and president of Colby College in 2000.
Adams’s formal education was
interrupted by three years of service in the Army, including one year in
Vietnam. It was partly that experience, he says, that motivated him to study
and teach in the humanities. “It made me serious in a certain way,” he says.
“And as a 20-year-old combat infantry advisor, I came face to face, acutely,
with questions that writers, artists, philosophers, and musicians examine in
their work -- starting with, ‘What does it mean to be human?’”
NSF Partnerships for
International Research and Education
UCR may submit one proposal
for the NSF Partnership for International Research and Education program.
The deadline for the internal preproposal is August 21, 2014. (see http://research.ucr.edu/ord/LimitedSubmissions.aspx)
Partnerships for International Research and Education
(PIRE) is an NSF-wide program that supports international activities across all
NSF supported disciplines. The primary goal of PIRE is to support high quality
projects in which advances in research and education could not occur without
international collaboration. PIRE seeks to catalyze a higher level of
international engagement in the U.S. science and engineering community.
In general, a PIRE award has
deep relationship with one (or perhaps two) institutions instead of
relationships with many countries and institutions and strengthens an existing
relationship vs. is the first interaction between two partners. Below is
a list of some of the most recent awards.
·
PIRE:
Low Energy Options for Making Water from Wastewater-University of
California-Irvine-$3,199,878
·
PIRE:
Assembly of Marine Biodiversity Along Geographic and Anthropogenic Stress
Gradients-San Diego State University Foundation-$2,963,462
·
PIRE:
U.S.-Denmark Cooperative Research and Education in Intermittency-Friendly
Community-Scale Renewable Energy Micro-Grids-University of California-Santa
Cruz-$1,730,536
·
PIRE:
Mapping Evolutionary Process in the Face of Climate Change: An Integrated
Approach to Education and Conservation Prioritization in Central
Africa-University of California-Los Angeles-$3,189,171
·
PIRE:
Context Sensitive Implementation of Synergistic Water-Energy Systems-University
of South Florida-$2,282,562
·
PIRE:
Nuclear Energy Systems and Materials under Extreme Conditions-Purdue
University-$2,328,366
·
PIRE:
Water and Commerce- Technologies to Enable Environmental Sustainability in
Global Markets-Duke University-$2,799,454
·
PIRE:
Materials for Renewable Energy NaturE's Way (RENEW)-Case Western Reserve
University-$2,380,451
·
PIRE:
Training and Workshops in Data Intensive Computing Using The Open Science Data
Cloud-University of Chicago-$4,891,876
·
PIRE:
Toward a holistic and global understanding of hot spring ecosystems: A US-China
based international collaboration-University of Nevada Las Vegas-$3,750,000
·
PIRE:
U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research and Education on Terahertz Dynamics in
Nanostructures-William Marsh Rice University-$4,109,543
·
PIRE:
International Collaboration and Education in Ice Core Science (ICE-ICS)-Oregon
State University-$4,499,867
·
PIRE:
Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive
psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience-Pennsylvania State Univ
University Park-$2,800,000
·
PIRE:
Collaborations with France and Japan on Multiphase Fluid Science and
Technologies-University of Florida-$3,107,325
·
PIRE:
An International Pulsar Timing Array for Gravitational Wave Detection-West
Virginia University Research Corporation-$6,548,073
·
PIRE:
Hydrologic Redistribution and Rhizosphere Biology of Resource Islands in
Degraded Agroecosystems of the Sahel-Ohio State University-$2,599,994
·
PIRE--Ancient
biodiversity and global change in the New World Tropics: A once-in-a-century
opportunity along the Panama Canal-University of Florida-$3,905,831
·
PIRE:
Wildfire feedbacks and consequences of altered fire regimes in the face of climate
and land-use change in Tasmania, New Zealand, and the western U.S.-Montana
State University-$3,850,000
·
PIRE:
Graduate Education and Research in Petascale Many Body Methods for Complex
Correlated Systems: A Collaboration with Partners in Germany and Switzerland-Louisiana
State University & Agricultural and Mechanical College-$2,280,895
Upcoming Grant Deadlines
from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Career
Awards at the Scientific Interface
Advancing the careers of
physical, chemical, or computational science researchers and engineers whose
work addresses biological questions.
Preproposal Deadline: September
1, 2014
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career
Awards at the Scientific Interface provide $500,000 to bridge advanced
postdoctoral training and the first years of faculty service.
Awards are intended to foster the early career development of researchers
with backgrounds in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences and
engineers whose work addresses biological questions.
These awards are open to U.S.
and Canadian citizens or permanent residents as well as to U.S. temporary
residents.
- Complete eligibility
requirements
Career
Awards for Medical Scientists
Awards foster the development
and productivity of physician-scientists who are early in their careers and
help them make the critical transition to becoming independent investigators.
Application Deadline: October
1, 2014
Five-year $700,000 awards for physician-scientists bridge advanced
postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.
Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or
translational research. Proposals in health services research or involving
large-scale clinical trials are ineligible.
Awards are made to
degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada on behalf of the awardee.
New
for 2014: BWF will make up
to two additional awards to clinically trained psychiatrists who focus on research
at the interface of neuroscience and psychiatry. These proposals must
demonstrate evidence of integration of neuroscience and psychiatry in project
design.
- Complete eligibility
requirements
Investigators
in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
Awards for assistant
professors to study infectious disease pathogenesis, with a focus on the
intersection of human and pathogen biology. This program is intended to
shed light on how infectious disease systems work by encouraging assistant
professors to take on fundamental biological questions at the intersection of
human and microbial biology.
Application Deadline: November
3, 2014
Five-year awards provide $500,000 for opportunities for accomplished
investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis with a
focus on the intersection of human and microbial biology. The program is
intended to shed light on the overarching issues of how human hosts handle
infectious challenge. The awards give recipients the freedom and
flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects
that hold potential for advancing significantly the biochemical,
pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological understanding of how
infectious agents and the human body interact.
Note: Application link will go live on August 7, 2014
- Complete
eligibility
requirements
Subject: National Geospatial Agency: regular and HBCU/MI
program
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=254129
.
NGA seeks proposals from eligible U.S. institutions for path-breaking GEOINT
research in areas of potential interest to NGA, the DoD, and the Intelligence
Community (IC). NGA welcomes any innovative research ideas, including, but not
limited to, example areas such as:
--
Access to GEOINT data and services
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Advancing Geolocation and data uncertainty
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Anticipatory Analysis
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Computer Vision
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Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science supporting GEOINT
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Exploiting data from new sources and sensors
--
GEOINT tradecraft
--
Geolinguistics
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Graph methods for geospatial data
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Image Science
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Massive data
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Predictive intelligence
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Signature development & discovery
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Spatio-temporal analysis
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Strategic indications and warning
--
Understanding human activities
--
Video Indexing and Search
--
Video Content Extraction
--
Visual analytics for GEOINT
There
are five types of awards:
1.
NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI) awards. NURI awards focused on
fundamental research in Geospatial Intelligence topics and are open to all
eligible institutions. Awards typically are 24 months and $300,000, with up to
three option years at up to $150,000 per year.
2.
NGA Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions
(HBCU/MI) research awards. The lead institution must be an HBCU or Minority
Serving Institution. UCR qualifies for this designation as a Hispanic Serving
Institution. NGA will consider proposals in this category for (1) research to
improve GEOINT analysis, (2) educational research, (3) research to strengthen
GEOINT academic programs, (4) curriculum development research, and (5) faculty
development research. A proposal may include one or more of these areas, as
well as any other topic specific to GEOINT program objectives and the NGA
mission. These awards typically are $150,000 for two years, plus up to three
one-year options at $75,000 per year.
3.
NGA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Research awards. A
consortium of accredited institutions is encouraged to include a minimum of one
HBCU/MI institution as a member. NGA will consider proposals in this category
to (1) expand, upgrade, enrich, or integrate undergraduate and graduate course
offerings in geospatial sciences; (2) conduct focused mentoring of
undergraduate or graduate student research in geospatial related areas; (3)
present geospatial science related workshops in the institution’s geographic
area that includes, to the maximum extent practicable, other
colleges/universities, community colleges, and/or high schools annually; (4)
conduct research designed to increase innovation in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics programs for students in grades K – 12; and (5)
STEM-related faculty development research. Awards typically are 24 months and
$300,000, with up to three option years at up to $150,000 per year.
4.
NGA New Investigator Program Grants. These awards are open to faculty employed
by eligible institutions who are U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent
U.S. residents who have held their doctorate degrees (PhD or equivalent) for
less than five years at the time of application. These awards typically are for
24 months and $200,000, plus up to one one-year option at $100,000.
5.
NGA Research Collaboration Forum (NRCF) Grants. These awards are intended to
encourage collaboration forums in the United States for the systematic
exploration and advancement of greater scientific breakthroughs or
understanding in one or more GEOINT research issues. (Cost sharing is
encouraged, but not required, for this category.) These awards typically are
less than $30,000 per event.
A
brief white paper (4 pp) is required. NGA will invite or not invite a full
proposal. White papers will be accepted until August 31, 2017.
NSF: Improving
Undergraduate STEM Education
IUSE has three basic classes
of award: (i) Engaged Student Learning, (ii) Institutional and Community
Transformation, and (iii) workshop/conference/special. Within these types,
there are subtypes. Here is a summary to get you started, but you will want to
go through the taxonomy in the solicitation to zero in on the right type of
proposal.
The overall goals of IUSE
are:
(1) improve STEM Learning
& Learning Environments: Improve the knowledge base for defining,
identifying, and innovating effective undergraduate STEM education teaching and
learning for all NSF-supported disciplines, and foster widespread use of
evidence-based resources and pedagogies in undergraduate STEM education
practice.
(2) Broaden Participation
& Institutional Capacity for STEM Learning: Increase the number and
diversity of undergraduate students recruited and retained in STEM education
and career pathways through improving the evidence base for successful
strategies to broaden participation and implementation of the results of this
research.
(3) Build the Professional
STEM Workforce for Tomorrow: Improve the preparation of undergraduate students
so they can succeed as productive members of the future STEM workforce,
regardless of career path, and be engaged as members of a STEM-literate
society.
The types:
Engaged Student Learning: All Engaged Student Learning projects should focus on
design, development, and research studies that involve the creation,
exploration, or implementation of tools, resources, and models that show particular
promise to increase engagement of undergraduate students in their STEM learning
and lead to measurable and lasting learning gains. Projects are encouraged to
form collaborations among STEM disciplinary researchers, education researchers,
and cognitive scientists so that their projects can best leverage what is known
about how people learn and/or contribute to the growth of that body of
knowledge. The undergraduate audience for IUSE projects includes students at
two- and four-year schools, both declared and undeclared STEM majors, students
whose courses of study require solid skills and knowledge of STEM principles,
and students seeking to fulfill a general education requirement in STEM.
-- Engaged Student
Learning: Exploration - up to $250,000 (due October 22) (100 awards expected)
These projects may seek to
establish the basis for design and development of new interventions or
strategies, develop strategies for the adoption, adaptation, and implementation
of effective practices, or adapt and implement strategies shown to be effective
at other institutions. They may also pose new interventions or strategies, and
explore challenges to their adoption, with the goal of informing policy,
practice, and future design or development of components in the STEM higher
education enterprise.
-- Engaged Student
Learning: Design and Development, Level I - up to $600,000 (due January 13,
2015) (15 awards expected)
Typically such projects will
focus on achieving propagation beyond a single institution or work to promote
change across multiple STEM disciplines within an institution. Level I projects
should carry the development to a state in which the evaluation of the project
produces evidence to determine whether or not the project’s efforts are
effective.
--Engaged Student
Learning: Design and Development, Level II - from $601,000 up to $2,000,000
(due January 13, 2015) (20 awards expected)
These projects have a maximum
duration of 5 years and are intended to support large-scale efforts. This level
also supports long-term research on efforts to effect change, in order to learn
what has been achieved.
Institutional and
Community Transformation: This track
supports projects that use innovative approaches to substantially increase the
propagation of highly effective methods of STEM teaching and learning in
institutions of higher education. Projects may use technology and distance
education methods (or hybrid designs) when supported by evidence of potential
effectiveness and are expected to leverage advances in STEM knowledge to
motivate student interest. Projects may seek to transform high enrollment,
lower division courses or may implement their efforts in multiple courses
within a department or a college or in a particular disciplinary area. Faculty
learning through continued professional development is also an important
consideration for this track. Efforts to promote institutional change will
typically require the efforts of teams of faculty members and support from the
department chairperson, college dean, or other appropriate individual within
the institution's academic leadership. They may also include Provosts and
Presidents in the effort to elicit the cultural changes required to achieve
transformation at the institutional level.
This track also seeks to
learn whether theories of change from business or other sectors may be
applicable to bring about a shift in underlying cultural norms necessary to
support the institution-wide embrace of effective teaching approaches and
supports research on how to advance change. Proposals should present explicit
theories of change and test hypotheses about transforming undergraduate
teaching and learning in STEM by examining the impact of deliberate processes
of change.
--Institutional and Community
Transformation: Exploration - up to $250,000 (due October 24) (40 awards
expected)
The language here is the same
as for Engaged Student Learning Exploration: These projects may seek to
establish the basis for design and development of new interventions or
strategies, develop strategies for the adoption, adaptation, and implementation
of effective practices, or adapt and implement strategies shown to be effective
at other institutions. They may also pose new interventions or strategies, and
explore challenges to their adoption, with the goal of informing policy,
practice, and future design or development of components in the STEM higher
education enterprise.
--Institutional and
Community Transformation: Design and Development - up to $3,000,000 (due January
13, 2015) (10 awards expected)
These projects are expected
to support ambitious efforts to achieve the widespread deployment of effective
instructional, curricular, and co-curricular practices in support of student
engagement, learning, and retention. Maximum duration is five years.
Workshops, Conferences,
and Special Projects: Proposals for
workshops and special projects addressing critical challenges in undergraduate
STEM education may be submitted at any time following consultation with a program
officer. We welcome small projects, maximum of $75,000, to explore
revolutionary ideas to improve undergraduate STEM education. We also encourage
proposals that will increase the diversity of the institutions and faculty
participating in the IUSE enterprise and those involving collaborations of
education researchers and discipline scientists to ensure that undergraduate
STEM education reflects cutting-edge STEM and educational research.
The solicitation is available
at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14588/nsf14588.htm.
The DOE Office of Science
Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program
The Department of Energy’s
(DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science
Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the
2014 solicitation. Applications are due 5:00pm ET on Wednesday
September 24, 2014.
The SCGSR program supports
supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of
their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory in collaboration
with a DOE laboratory scientist for a period of 3 to 12 consecutive months—with
the goal of preparing graduate students for scientific and technical careers
critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission.
The SCGSR program is open to
current Ph.D. students in qualified graduate programs at accredited U.S.
academic institutions, who are conducting their graduate thesis research in
targeted areas of importance to the DOE Office of Science. The research
opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral
thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities
available at the DOE laboratories. The supplemental award provides for
additional, incremental costs for living and travel expenses directly
associated with conducting the SCGSR research project at the DOE host
laboratory during the award period.
The Office of Science expects
to make approximately 100 awards in 2014, for project periods beginning anytime
between January and September 2015.
Detailed information about
the program, including eligibility requirements and access to the online
application system, can be found at: http://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/.
For any questions, please
contact the SCGSR Program Manager, Dr. Ping Ge, at sc.scgsr@science.doe.gov.
U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Science
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Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, Riverside
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