UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: January 22, 2017
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
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Center for Advanced
Neuroimaging (CAN) Building Dedication – 1/30/17
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Lunch Research Meetings
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Limited Submission: FFAR New
Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award – 2/9/17
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NSF Cognitive Neuroscience
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Call for Proposals: UC Research in OptumLabs Data Warehouse
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Australia: Buff-Breasted Paradise Kingfisher, Fruit Bat,
Kangaroo
Center for Advanced
Neuroimaging (CAN) Building Dedication – 1/30/17
Please join us for the
Dedication Ceremony and tours of the Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (CAN) on
Monday, January 30, 2017, followed by a lecture presented by Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Director, National Institute of
Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
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9:45 a.m. |
Tours of the
Center for Advanced Neuroimaging |
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10:15 a.m. |
Dedication
Ceremony |
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11:00 a.m. |
Lecture
Presented by Dr. Roderic Pettigrew |
Complimentary parking is
available in Parking Lot 6.
Kindly RSVP by January 27,
2017 to specialevents@ucr.edu or call (951) 827-3144
The Center for Advanced
Neuroimaging (CAN) is a newly established MRI imaging facility that is aimed at providing state-of-art capabilities for
neuroimaging and other applications of MRI. It is equipped with a state-of-art
3T MRI scanner (Siemens Prisma) for human imaging and
will soon be equipped with an insert for small animal imaging. Furthermore, it
is staffed with 3 highly experienced full time support
staff. The techniques that are available include structural
imaging, functional brain imaging, perfusion imaging, diffusion imaging,
susceptibility imaging, and in vivo MR spectroscopy. These techniques are expected to play critical roles in noninvasive studies
of brain and other organs.
2017 Faculty
Networking Lunches
Announcing more faculty
networking lunches for 2017! Topics are:
Australia Day on 1/26/17 (register here: https://australia-lunch.eventbrite.com)
Sustainability Research
and Education on 1/30/17 (register
here: https://sustainability-lunch.eventbrite.com)
Neuroscience on 2/6/17 (register here: https://brain-lunch.eventbrite.com)
High Performance Computing on 2/13/17 (register here: https://high_performance_computing.eventbrite.com)
More to be
announced soon. The goal is get faculty with common interests to
meet each other in an informal setting and discuss possible
collaborations.
January 26 is Australia
Day. Faculty from Australia are particularly encouraged to attend, or
those that have studied in or about Australia. Okay, Mark, we’ll even allow Kiwis. In 1993, I spent a sabbatical
in Australia and really enjoyed an Australia Day celebration on a small island
on the great barrier reef. I’ve
celebrated Australia day every year since although one year I went to an
Outback Steakhouse and they had never heard of it.
The food at our faculty
lunches is usually catered by a local Thai restaurant
and includes vegetarian and gluten-free options. I’m
going to get Aussie Pies and lamingtons for Australia Day.
Limited Submission: FFAR New Innovator in Food and
Agriculture Research Award – 2/9/17
A limited submission has been posted seeking outstanding early career nominees for the 2017 New Innovator
in Food and Agriculture Research Award. Nominees will compete for up to 10
awards, with each awardee receiving up to $600,000 total over three years.
FFAR
created the New Innovator Award to help support the next generation of food and
agriculture scientists who will spur future innovation to meet the needs of a
growing global population. The Award funds promising individuals pursuing
research with potential to sustainably enhance agricultural production or
improve health through food.
Nominees
must be within the first three years of his or her tenure-track or equivalent
faculty career. Preference will be given to
individuals near the onset of their independent research careers.
Timeline:
Internal
Deadline: February 9, 2017 by 5:00pm PST
Nominations
Due: February 28, 2017 by 11:59 p.m. EST
Eligible
Nominees Invited to Apply: by March 10, 2017
There is a limit of two
proposals per institution. The deadline to apply for the limited
submission is 2/9/17. See http://research.ucr.edu/ord/limitedsubmissions.aspx for the UCR application process.
A Limited Submission has been posted for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has released USDA-NIFA-HSI-006206, USDA: National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hispanic Serving Institutions -- Education Grants Program. This program will support several types of educational opportunities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The overall purpose is to promote and strengthen the ability of HSIs to carry out higher education programs that attract, retain, and graduate outstanding students capable of enhancing the nation’s food, natural resources, human sciences and agricultural scientific and professional work force.
A proposal may address
education in any area of food, agriculture, natural resources and human
(FANH) sciences. However, the solicitation lists 16
targeted educational areas (p. 7). Collaborations with
USDA agencies is encouraged. Examples of collaborative activities with USDA
could include but are not limited to: internships,
USDA Career Days, HSI student visits or tours, and USDA staff presentations to
students and faculty.
The HSIs Education Grants
Program supports social and behavioral science disciplines. Projects that
integrate social and biological sciences to provide experiential learning
opportunities for students in applied research and related community
development programs are encouraged. Incorporation of social and behavioral
sciences is important for addressing many of the challenges facing agriculture
and rural communities, such as increasing global demand for food production in
the face of limited natural resources, improving health and reducing obesity by
engaging in heathy diets, and alleviating poverty by fostering economic
opportunity.
Every proposal must address
leadership skills development for student trainees.
There are three “grant
types” and six “project types.” The grant types are Regular/Bridge (Bridge is
for institutions that have not had a Regular award before), Collaboration, and
Conference. The project types are:
1) Curricula Design,
Materials Development, and Library Resources (including development of courses
of study and degree programs)
2) Faculty Preparation and
Enhancement for Teaching
3) Instruction Delivery
Systems
4) Scientific Instrumentation
for Teaching
5) Student Experiential
Learning
6) Student Recruitment and
Retention
The grant types:
Regular (up to $250,000 total
over up to four years, single institution or a team) grants are
expected to enhance institutional capacity with the goal of leading to
future funding in the project area, as well as strengthen the competitiveness
of the applicant’s education activities. The educational
activities should be designed to: (1) increase the pool of highly-qualified
underrepresented students in professional careers in the FANH sciences and
USDA’s workforce; (2) increase the state-of the-art scientific knowledge for
HSIs; (3) provide technical and financial assistance through grant and
scholarship programs to recruit and retain talented students and faculty; and
(4) provide support for the development and utilization of faculty/staff
expertise.
Bridge is a sort of sub-class
of Regular for institutions that have not won a Regular before.
Collaborative (multiple
institutions, at least two of which are HSIs, up to $250,000 per year x 4 years
= $1 million total) grants should build linkages to generate a critical mass of
expertise, skill and technology to address education/teaching programs related
to the FANH sciences.
Conference (up to $50,000
total over up to two years) grants support scientific meetings that bring
together educators to identify research, education/teaching, and/or extension
needs, update information, or advance an area of education/teaching.
For the FY 2017 program, an applicant may not submit more than four
Regular applications and two Collaboration applications to this program,
as a lead institution. Only two awards will be made
to the same lead institution. Up to one Regular and Collaboration
application will be funded per institution.
The deadline to apply for the limited submission is 2/16/17. See http://research.ucr.edu/ord/limitedsubmissions.aspx for the UCR application process.
NSF Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 13, 2017
Program Guidelines: PD 151699
The National Science Foundation announces the area of Cognitive
Neuroscience within the Division of Behavioral and
Cognitive Sciences in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and
Economic Sciences.
INTRODUCTION
Cognitive neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field of research
to understand the neural basis of human cognition. The
cognitive neuroscience program therefore seeks to
fund highly innovative proposals that employ brain based
measurements in order to advance ...
More at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5316&WT.mc_id=USNSF_50&WT.mc_ev=click
Call for Proposals: UC Research in OptumLabs
Data Warehouse
PURPOSE
The University of California - OptumLabs
partnership was established to help accelerate
improvements in patient care and value. The 10-year strategic relationship will
help transition California to a value-based health care system while leveraging
the expertise of each organization to examine broader trends in care delivery.
As part of the strategic relationship between UC and OptumLabs,
OptumLabs will provide up to 7
UC researchers with complimentary access (aka: “research credits”) to its data
warehouse. We are soliciting proposals for research ideas that leverage the OptumLabs data.
ELIGIBILITY
Principal Investigators at all 10 UC campuses (PI must be full
time faculty at a UC campus and eligible to submit grants).
DETAILS
Deadline: Research Proposal Forms are due by 5 pm on February 2, 2017
The attached Call for Proposals contains detailed information
about the OptumLabs proposal selection criteria and
submission process. The Research Proposal Form (RPF) is also
attached.
For copies of the Call for Proposals, Research Proposal Form,
Research Application Template, and detailed information about the OptumLabs data sets, visit the UC-OptumLabs "microsite".
ABOUT the UC-OPTUMLABS PARTNERSHIP
You do not have to wait for the competition to get
started. If you wish to “pay” for access to the OptumLabs
Data Warehouse, you can move forward immediately. You will find the Sandbox Fee Schedule on the UC-OptumLabs micro-site.
Get more information by visiting the UC-OptumLabs
microsite/knowledge repository:
https://sp.ucop.edu/sites/its/immediate/ciosupport/internal/optumlabs/
Stay up to date on the latest OptumLabs
opportunities and information by signing up for the OptumLabs
listserv: https://goo.gl/HoSLgh
Australia: Buff-Breasted
Paradise Kingfisher, Fruit Bat, Kangaroo
I just got back from 4 weeks in Australia. Below is my
favorite photo (a Buff-breasted Paradise
Kingfisher) and one of the reasons I went.
Australia also has flying foxes (fruit bats) that are quite
interesting.
And of course, we encountered a few
kangaroos (and many more wallabies and pademelons)
while out bird watching. It was only after looking at photos we realized
this one had a joey in the pouch.
