UCR
Research and Economic Development Newsletter: October 22, 2014
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
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USAID: Feed the
Future Seminar: Nov 3
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Cal-BRAIN Seed Grant
Program - Call for Applications
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National Science
Foundation Funding Seminar, Oct 23
USAID: Feed the Future Seminar: Nov 3
Monday, Nov 3, 2014
10:10am – 11:00am
Genomics Building Auditorium
USAID funds projects at UCR
on cowpea research involving Timothy Close, Philip
Roberts and Stefano Lonardi. Jennifer “Vern”
Long, will give a seminar on the USAID Feed the Future program from 10:10am-11
on Nov 3 in the Genomics Auditorium.
Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food
security initiative, which establishes a foundation for lasting progress
against global hunger. With a focus on smallholder farmers, particularly women,
Feed the Future supports partner countries in developing their agriculture
sectors to spur economic growth that increases incomes and reduces hunger,
poverty and undernutrition.
What is Food Security?
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Food security means having, at all times,
both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet dietary needs for
a productive and healthy life.
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A family is food secure when its members do not live in
hunger or fear of hunger.
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Food insecurity is often rooted in poverty and has
long-term impacts on the ability of families, communities and countries to
develop.
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Prolonged undernourishment stunts growth,
slows cognitive development and increases
susceptibility to illness.
USAID is advancing global food security by helping to
improve the most basic of human conditions: the need that families and
individuals have for a reliable source of quality food and sufficient resources
to purchase it. This, in turn, supports global stability and prosperity.
Bio
Dr. Jennifer “Vern” Long is a
Senior International Agriculture Research Advisor with the US Agency for International Development,
Bureau for Food Security. She leads the Program Area for Legume Productivity in
the Food Security Innovation Center, USAID’s implementation of the Feed the
Future Research Strategy. She provides technical leadership on intellectual
property, genetic resources movement and use issues, and linkages between
agriculture-nutrition research across the USAID
agricultural research portfolio. She manages USAID’s sorghum, millet and
legumes research programs based at US Universities and member centers of the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. She represents USAID
to the CGIAR’s Independent Science and Partnership Council and is former Chair
of the Agricultural Research Working Group of the Global Donor Platform on
Rural Development.
Cal-BRAIN Seed Grant Program - Call for Applications
Cal-BRAIN announces a call
for applications from Cal-BRAIN
(California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience)
for a new Seed Grant Program.
Cal-BRAIN is a State of
California program that will develop new technologies to revolutionize the
understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of brain disorders by vastly improving
our ability to ascertain what goes on in the brain in much greater detail and
at a much faster timescale than current technologies permit. As an initial
demonstration of what might be accomplished with a larger-scale, multi-year
grants program, one-year seed grants will be awarded in a competition open to
eligible investigators at public and private research institutions in
California.
Projects supported by this
program will require expertise from multiple disciplines to develop innovative neurotechnologies.
Requests will be considered
for total costs up to $120,000 inclusive of indirect costs which are capped at
25% of modified total direct costs.
Letters of Intent (LOIs) are
mandatory and due November 24, 2014. Full Applications are due December 15,
2014. All submissions must be done through proposalCentral.
LOIs will not be selected; all those who submit LOIs may submit full
applications (research narrative 3 pages maximum).
There is a short time frame
due to requirements of the State's funding cycle.
Downloadable copies of the
program guidelines are available at http://cal-brain.org/.
Facebook has announced the
launch of the 2015-2016 Facebook Graduate Fellowship Program. Facebook
created the fellowship program to encourage and support promising graduate
students who are doing cutting edge research around the globe.
This year, Facebook is
accepting applications for research in the following areas:
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Architecture
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Computer Vision
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Data Mining
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Databases
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Distributed Systems
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Economics and Computation
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Human-Computer Interaction/Social Computing
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Machine Learning
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Natural Language Processing
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Networking / Operating Systems
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Programming Languages / Compilers
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Security / Privacy
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Software Engineering
They will be expanding the
fellowship to a two-year program and each fellowship will include payment of
tuition and fees for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years, a $37,000
unrestricted yearly grant, and a visit to Facebook’s HQ in Menlo Park for winners
to present their research.
Students can find more
information and the application link at facebook.com/fellowship.
National Science Foundation Funding Seminar
Thursday, October 23, 2014
10:00am – 11:00am
Genomics Building Auditorium
Please join us for the National Science Foundation
Seminar on Thursday, October 23rd at 10:00am in the Genomics
Building Auditorium. Presenting will be three UCR faculty who have been
program directors or division directors at NSF
Jan Stets
Michael Allen
Michael Pazzani
This is a Kingbird from Ponte
Winery in Temecula.
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: Linda
Bejenaru
Email: VCREDadmin@ucr.edu