UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: March 13, 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
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UCR sponsored project
funding up $9M in first six months of the fiscal year.
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Meetings with Lewis-Burke (Funding
Consultants) March 28 & 29 (Updated!)
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Monthly Speaker Series: “How
Much Payment is Too Much in Ethical Research?” 4/13/16 1:00 pm -2:00 pm,
HUB 367 (Time Correction!)
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DARPA Next Generation Social
Science program, proposers day, and upcoming solicitation
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NSF-USDA Joint
Funding Opportunities: NSF-USDA Joint
Funding Opportunities: Plant-Biotic Research
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Awards for Faculty at
Hispanic-Serving Institutions: National Endowment for the Humanities: April 16
Deadline
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NIH Requests for
Applications and Program Announcements
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Defense University
Research Instrumentation Program
UCR
sponsored project funding up $9M in first six months of the fiscal year.
Data for the
first 6 months of the fiscal year (July 1-Dec 31) for this year and the same period
the previous year are shown below. Funding is up more than $9M with BCOE
being responsible for majority of the increases. UCR remains on track for
achieving its funding goal in the 2020 plan.
Meetings with Lewis-Burke (Funding Consultants) March
28 & 29 Updated
This is an update of an earlier message. If you’d like to
attend a meeting, please sign up. No meeting times have changed, but one
additional meeting has been scheduled for researcher in psychology and related
fields.
UCR works with Lewis-Burke, a DC-based firm which monitors federal
funding and provides guidance on federal funding. Representatives will be
on campus to discuss funding strategies and availability on a variety of
topics. Faculty are welcome and encouraged to attend any
session that is of interest to them. The schedule is below.
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Monday,
March 28, 2016 |
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Topic |
Location |
Register Here: |
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9:00a-9:45a |
Water Research |
UOB 210 |
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4:00p-5:00p |
USDA: Education
& Outreach Programs |
UOB 210 |
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Tuesday,
March 29, 2016 |
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Time |
Topic |
Location |
Register Here: |
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11:00a-12:00p |
Education and Minority
Serving Programs |
UOB 210 |
http://lba-education-minority-serving-programs.eventbrite.com |
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11:00a-12:00p |
Psychology |
PSYCH 3210 |
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2:00p-3:00p |
DOE |
UOB 210 |
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2:00p-3:00p |
Spatial Science |
Batchelor
2158 |
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3:00p-4:00p |
DOD |
UOB 210 |
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3:00p-4:00p |
Social Science
Funding |
Batchelor
2158 |
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4:00p-5:00p |
USDA:
Agriculture Research |
UOB 2109 |
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I’m attaching a summary by Lewis-Burke
of the President’s budget for research and education. Although the
individual budget numbers are likely to change as it goes through congress,
particularly in the last year of the president, the
priorities of the larger agencies are less likely to be impacted. This
summary should not be circulated outside the university.
Research Integrity Speaker: Dr. Brandon Brown –
4/13/16 at 1:00 in HUB 367
“How much payment is too much in ethical research?”
Compensation of research participants
can present many dilemmas. What’s too much money? What kind is
appropriate? Are gifts acceptable? Dr. Brown will discuss some
considerations in understanding rational and issues involved in determining
acceptability of compensation for research participation, incentives, and
reimbursement.
Brandon Brown is a health
services researcher and assistant professor in the Center for Healthy
Communities at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. He
is responsible for creating new initiatives within the center and partnering
with local community centers and public health practitioners to build a robust
research portfolio.
His research interests
include the global impact, stigma, and ethics of human papillomavirus virus
(HPV) and HIV. He is a 2015 HIV Prevention Trials Network Scholar. He earned
his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of California,
Irvine, followed by a M.P.H. in epidemiology from UCLA. He then attended the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to earn his Ph.D. in
international health, conducting his postdoctoral work in global health back at
UCLA.
A prior newsletter
indicated a different time. 1:00pm is the correct time.
DARPA Next
Generation Social Science program, proposer’s day, and upcoming solicitation
Below is information on
new DARPA program on Next Generation Social Science, which will seek to support
the development of new methods and tools for modeling human social behaviors,
especially related to the formation of collective identity.
DARPA will host a proposers meeting March 22, 2016, including an option for a
webcast, and participation of interested researchers is highly
recommended. Note that in-person attendance is limited to the first 100
registrants.
The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences
Office has announced that it is starting a
new program called Next Generation Social Science (NGS2). The
program aims to, “build and evaluate new methods and tools to advance rigorous,
reproducible social science studies at scales necessary to develop and validate
causal models of human social behaviors.” The program intends to call on
a range of disciplines, including traditional social science fields as well as
physics, computer science, biology, game design, mathematics, and others.
The initial program focus will be related to identifying mechanisms of
“collective identity” formation and disintegration.
DARPA expects these capabilities to benefit other areas of study, such
as resilience in social networks and structures, changes in cultural norms or
beliefs, emergence of cooperation/competitions, and social influences on
preferences and cognition.
DARPA anticipates releasing a
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the program in mid-March. DARPA will also
host the NGS2 Proposers Day on March 22, 2016 to introduce interested
industry, academia, and government community members to the NGS2 program vision
and goals; provide anticipated milestones for the NGS2 effort; and encourage
and promote teaming arrangements among potential organizations with the relevant
expertise, facilities, and capabilities to execute a research and development
program in response. The Proposers Day will take place in Arlington, VA, near DARPA headquarters. In-person
attendance is limited to the first 100 registrants, and remote attendance via
webcast is available but limited to 500 participants. Advance
registration is required for both in-person attendance and the webcast.
More information about the
NGS2 Proposers Day is available at https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-SN-16-25/listing.html.
Once it is released, the BAA
will be available at https://www.fbo.gov/ and http://www.grants.gov/.
A press release about the
program can be found at http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-03-04.
Registration is at http://www.sa-meetings.com/NGS2ProposersDay.
NSF-USDA
Joint Funding Opportunities: Plant-Biotic
Research
Here are two sides of the
same coin.
March 10, 2016
Dear Colleagues:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Directorate (BIO) and the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) have
established a joint funding opportunity to support the development of
transformative plant and animal phenomics, and
microbiome technologies. This opportunity seeks to advance our understanding of
basic biological mechanisms and principles. Insights thus gained have the
potential to result in improved agricultural productivity and more efficient
use of natural resources such as land, water, nitrogen, and phosphorous.
This NSF-BIO and USDA-NIFA
Joint Activity is soliciting Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research
(EAGER) proposals to support development of innovative approaches for
phenotyping and microbiome characterizations, as well as for elucidating the
role of microbiomes in plants and animals. In part to more fully realize the
potential of low-cost high throughput sequencing and genotyping technologies,
this activity addresses critical gaps in tools available for characterizing
plant and animal phenotypes and microbiomes. Types of projects that might be
appropriate include but are not limited to:
- Technologies that increase the accuracy and
throughput of existing phenotypic and microbiome data acquisition
- Extending
the diversity of phenotypes that can be measured.
- Automation
or mechanization, including robotics and sensors, for phenotyping
- Standardization
of ontologies, interoperability of platforms and systems, and integration
of datasets
- Technologies
that would identify the metabolic activities specific to particular
microbes within a microbiome as well as facilitating elucidation of
biochemical communication between microbes, and between microbes and their
hosts
- Novel
modeling approaches that address problems in phenotyping or microbiome
structure and function
Proposed studies should be potentially transformative and may be
considered "high-risk, high-payoff", and be compatible with the
budget and time limits ($300,000, 2 years) of the EAGER funding mechanism. For
more information on EAGERs, please review the NSF Grant Proposal Guide.
EAGER
SUBMISSION PROCESS
EAGER proposal inquiries will be accepted from a Principal Investigator
(PI) or a consortium of Investigators led by a PI at an eligible U.S.
institution. Interested PIs are required to email a two-page summary as a pdf
file with a filename in the format
"PILastName_PIFirstName_PIInstitution.pdf" to papm@nsf.gov by May 12, 2016, 5:00 PM proposer's local
time. Investigators may be listed as PI or coPI in no
more than two summaries. The summary must contain a project title, the names
and affiliations of all PIs, and a project description highlighting the overall
hypothesis and goal, specific aims, methods, intellectual merit, and broader
impacts of the proposed research. All submitted material, including references
and figures, must be included within the two-page summary and comply with the NSF Grant Proposal Guide formatting requirements. The summaries will be reviewed internally
and PIs whose ideas best meet the goals of this DCL will be encouraged to
submit full proposals to the NSF according to NSF EAGER guidelines.
This is an interagency partnership between NSF/BIO and USDA/NIFA,
therefore meritorious proposals may be selected by one of the agencies for
funding. Successful applications will then be forwarded to the appropriate
agency for funding in accordance with each agency's terms and conditions.
Applicants selected for funding may be required to provide additional
information. Subsequent grant administration procedures will be in accordance
with the individual policies of the awarding agency. Information on NIFA's
policies and procedures is in NIFA's Policy Guide.
For more information or questions, please contact one of the
following:
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Michael
Mishkind, Program Director, Integrative Organismal
Systems Division, NSF at mmishkin@nsf.gov or 703-292-7190
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Larry
J. Halverson, Program Director, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Division, NSF
at lhalvers@nsf.gov or 703-292-7278
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Edward
Kaleikau, National Program Leader, Division of Plant
Systems, Institute for Food Production and Sustainability, NIFA at ekaleikau@nifa.usda.gov or 202-401-1931
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Lakshmi
Matukumalli, National Program Leader, Division of
Animal Systems, Institute for Food Production and Sustainability, NIFA at lmatukumalli@nifa.usda.gov or 202-401-1766
Sincerely,
Jane Silverthorne
Deputy Assistant Director
Directorate for Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
Parag Chitnis
Deputy Director
Institute of Food Production and Sustainability
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA
Also see
NIFA,
NSF Announce $14.5 Million in Available Funding for Plant-Biotic Research
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2016 – The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) joined
with the National Science Foundation (NSF) today to announce the availability
of $14.5 million in funding for the NIFA-NSF Joint Plant-Biotics Interactions (PBI) program.
PBI supports research on the processes that mediate
beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral,
bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens and
pests. This joint program supports projects focused on current and emerging
model and non-model systems, as well as agriculturally relevant plants.
In fiscal year 2016, NIFA has made $6 million
available for PBI and NSF has made $8.5 million available for fiscal year 2017.
The program's scope extends from fundamental
mechanisms to translational efforts, with the latter seeking to put into
agricultural practice insights gained from basic research on the mechanisms
that govern plant-biotic interactions. Projects must be strongly justified in
terms of fundamental biological processes and/or relevance to agriculture and
may be purely fundamental or applied, or include aspects of both perspectives.
Applications are due June 6, 2016 for those projects
seeking NIFA funding and April 21, 2017 for NSF funding. Please see the request for applications for more information.
Since 2009, NIFA has invested in and advanced
innovative and transformative initiatives to solve societal challenges and
ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA’s integrated research,
education, and extension programs, supporting the best and brightest scientists
and extension personnel, have resulted user-inspired, groundbreaking
discoveries that are combating childhood obesity, improving and sustaining rural
economic growth, controlling water availability, increasing food production,
finding new sources of energy, mitigating climate variability, and ensuring
food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit www.nifa.usda.gov/impacts, sign up for email updates, or follow us on Twitter @usda_NIFA, #NIFAimpacts.
Plant-Biotic Interactions
The Plant-Biotic
Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that mediate
beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral,
bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens
and pests. This joint NSF-NIFA program supports projects focused on current and
emerging model and non-model systems, and agriculturally relevant plants. The
program's scope extends from fundamental mechanisms to translational efforts,
with the latter seeking to put into agricultural practice insights gained from
basic research on the mechanisms that govern plant-biotic interactions.
Projects must be strongly justified in terms of fundamental biological
processes and/or relevance to agriculture and may be purely fundamental or
applied, or include aspects of both perspectives. All types of symbiosis are
appropriate, including commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, and host-pathogen
interactions. Research may focus on the biology of the plant host, its
pathogens, pests or symbionts, interactions among these, or on the function of
plant-associated microbiomes. The program welcomes proposals on the dynamics of
initiation, transmission, maintenance and outcome of these complex
associations, including studies of metabolic interactions, immune recognition
and signaling, host-symbiont regulation, reciprocal responses among interacting
species and mechanisms associated with self/non-self
recognition such as those in pollen-pistil interactions. Explanatory
frameworks may include molecular, genomic, metabolic, cellular, network and
organismal processes, with projects guided by hypothesis and/or discovery
driven experimental approaches. Where appropriate, quantitative modeling in
concert with experimental work is encouraged. Overall, the program seeks to
support research that will deepen our understanding of the fundamental
processes that mediate interactions between plants and the organisms with which
they intimately associate and advance the application of that fundamental
knowledge to benefit agriculture.
Awards for Faculty at
Hispanic-Serving Institutions: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline April 14, 2016 for
Projects Beginning January 2017
Awards support individual faculty
or staff members at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (UCR is an HSI) pursuing
research of value to humanities scholars, students, or general audiences.
Awards are designed to be flexible, allowing applicants to define the audience,
type of research, award periods, and administrative arrangements that best fit
their projects.
Awards for Faculty support
continuous work for the equivalent of two to twelve full-time months. Awards may
be held part time or full time, or in a combination of the two. Successful
applicants receive a stipend of $4,200 per full-time month. The maximum stipend
is $50,400 for twelve full-time months (or the part-time equivalent).
http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/awards-faculty-hispanic-serving-institutions
If you’d like help writing a NEH proposal, please contact Lynda Jenkins Senior Grant Writer/Facilitator
lyndaj@ucr.edu or (951)
827-5571
I have attached a sample
funded proposal from Cal State Long Beach. UCR faculty should be
even more likely to succeed in this program that Cal State faculty.
NIH Requests for
Applications and Program Announcements
Requests for Applications
- Systems Biology of Aging (R01)
(RFA-AG-17-004)
National Institute on Aging
Application Receipt Date(s): October 07, 2016 - Immunity in Neonates and Infants (U01)
(RFA-AI-16-001)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Application Receipt Date(s): July 29, 2016 - Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (R35)
(RFA-GM-17-002)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Application Receipt Date(s): May 20, 2016 - NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5)
(RFA-RM-16-006)
NIH Roadmap Initiatives
Application Receipt Date(s): September 12, 2016
Program Announcements
- The Application of Big Data Analytics to Drug
Abuse Research (R01)
(PA-16-119)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Application Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement. - NIGMS Program of Administrative Supplements for
Equipment (Admin Supp)
(PA-16-125)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Application Receipt Date(s): May 20, 2016 - Early-Stage Preclinical Validation of Therapeutic
Leads for Diseases of Interest to the NIDDK (R01)
(PAR-16-121)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Application Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement. - Physical Activity and Weight Control
Interventions Among Cancer Survivors: Effects on Biomarkers of Prognosis
and Survival (R01)
(PAR-16-122)
National Cancer Institute
Application Receipt Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement. - High Impact, Interdisciplinary Science in NIDDK
Research Areas (RC2)
(PAR-16-126)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Application Receipt Date(s): June 1, 2016; November 1, 2016; June 1, 2017; November 1, 2017; June 1, 2018; November 1, 2018, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Defense
University Research Instrumentation Program Deadline August 26, 2016
The Department of
Defense has released the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
solicitation for 2016, PA-AFRL-AFOSR-2016-0001. This program supports equipment
procurement to complement DOD-funded research and education.
Since equipment
complements ongoing research, it is an unwritten rule that DURIP applicants
should already have been funded by DOD. Furthermore, you should contact your
program officer before submitting to determine if there would be support for
your plan or for advice on to modifying a plan to be supportable.
Awards up to $1.5
million, but typically $150-400K. Cost sharing is not required and is not an
evaluation criterion. Construction, personnel, and ongoing operating costs are
not allowable expenses.
There is no limit
on the number of proposals an institution can submit.
The Air Force,
Army, and Navy each accept proposals with a different Grants.gov package for
each branch. You are allowed to submit the same proposal to more than one
branch, but not accept funds for the same proposal from multiple
agencies. Details at
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=282081.
La
Sierra university has ideal landscaping to attract
acorn woodpeckers. There are oak trees right next to palm trees. The
woodpeckers carry acorns from the oak trees and store them in holes they make
in the soft palm trees. I like the upper photo better, but the one in the
bottom has an acorn. If you’d like to learn more about birdwatching at
UCR, there a Yahoo group for that, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/UCRBirders/info and a group that goes onbird
walks looking for birds a couple times a month. The next walk in March 30 at
8am at the Botanic Gardens.
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Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
Professor,
Computer Science & Engineering
University of California,
Riverside
200 University Office Building
Assistant: Linda
Bejenaru
Email: VCREDadmin@ucr.edu