UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: January 28, 2017
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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NSF CAREER AWARDs
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Book Smart and Street Smart: What Can We
Learn About Human Memory from Pokémon?: Feb 22, 2pm
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NSF funding for 2016
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UCR funding to date in FY 2017
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Resource Implementations for Data Intensive
Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR)
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Center for Advanced
Neuroimaging (CAN) Building Dedication – 1/30/17
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Lunch Research Meetings: IMMIGATION (NEW),
Sustainability (Moved): High Performance Computing; BRAIN;
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Australia: Fairy Wrens
I recently looked at NSF databases. Here’s one statistic that jumped out at me. UCR is tied with Berkeley for the number of active CAREER awards of University of California Campuses (and has at least 50% more than Irvine, Davis, or Santa Barbara).
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This year, six UCR faculty to date have been recipients of NSF CAREER awards. Congratulations to the following.
Fokwa,
Boniface
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CAREER: Rational Design of Magnetic Materials Featuring
Low-Dimensional
Subunits
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Gabor,
Nathaniel
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CAREER: Optoelectronic Probes of Interlayer Electron-Hole
Pair Multiplication in Atomic Layer Semiconductor
Heterostructures
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Liu, Haizhou
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CAREER: Beyond Conventional Drinking Water Management:
Control of Redox-driven in situ Release of Accumulated Inorganic Contaminants
from Water Distribution
Infrastructure |
Liu,
Ming
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CAREER: Advanced Optical and Electrical Characterization
of Novel Van der Waals Heterostructure
Materials
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Tsutsui,
Hideaki
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CAREER: Printable and Injectable Chromatic Nanosensor for One-Step, Naked-Eye
Detection |
Yan, Ruoxue
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CAREER: Development of Novel-scheme Nano-optical Chemical
Imaging
Spectroscopy
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Three UCR faculty have not yet heard the results from NSF and I’ll update these stats when all have heard.
Book Smart and Street Smart: What Can We Learn About Human
Memory from Pokémon?
Dr. Weiwei
Zhang, Psychology
2 PM on Wednesday, February 22 at HUB 355.
Seminar Summary:
The two major components of human intelligence, fluid and
crystallized intelligence, have been linked to working
memory and long-term memory, respectively. Although the two
memory system are traditionally believed to operate independently, some
recent research suggest close interactions between the two systems. We
conducted a series of experiments assessing how existing long-term memory affects
working memory using Pokemon characters. Our results
from three studies suggest that prior stimulus familiarity increases the speed
and the amount of information we could process on a moment by
moment basis. In another word, book smart could lead to street
smart.
Bio:
Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the
University of Iowa. He joined faculty at the Department of Psychology here at
UCR in 2012. The research program in Dr. Zhang’s laboratory focuses on
perception, memory, and higher cognition using multiple Cognitive Neuroscience
methods, including eye tracking, EEG, non-invasive brain stimulation, and
fMRI.
The seminar is free and open to the public. No
registration is required. Light refreshments will be available and
seating is limited.
NSF funding for 2016
NSF also released data (https://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/) on top universities with NSF funding and program
acceptance rates. UCR was ranked 54th of all universities, up
from 70th in 2013 with $33M in 2016
up from $18.8M in 2012. This increase of $14.2M is the largest
increase of any UC campus (and two campuses, UC Davis, UCSD declined). In the rise from 70th to 54th, UCR passed
Colorado State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeastern
University, Clemson University, , SUNY at Buffalo, Scripps Inst of Oceanography, SUNY at Stony Brook,
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Brown University, Vanderbilt
University, University of New Mexico, University of Pittsburgh, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, University of Notre Dame, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Campus, and University of California-Santa Cruz. (The universities
in italics are AAU universities).
UCR’s funding from all sources continues to increase. This funding provides support for graduate students, advanced equipment, travel, etc. Below is a chart shows total funded awarded each year.
Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A, i.e., overhead) are of increasing importance e.g., in paying for new buildings at UCR. The F&A awarded to UCR as part of external grants is also increasing. (Note: While F&A awarded is increasing, UCR can’t spend and distribute F&A until the corresponding grant funds are spent).
UCR Funding Stats
UCR’s fiscal year started July 1. In the first six month of the year, UCR received $72.5M in new awards, on track to exceed last year’s record. (we often get large grants late in year).
Below, is a ranking of Colleges/Units by research funding for the first six months.
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College
of Nat & Agr Sciences
28,730,193
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Bourns
College of Engineering
20,739,805
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School
of Medicine
9,502,776
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Coll of Hum, Arts & Social Sci
2,989,348
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Graduate
School of Education
2,463,527
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Graduate
Division
1,790,000
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Vice
ChancellorStudent
Affairs
1,532,969
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Vice
Chancellor - Research
1,394,621
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Business
& Administrative Serv
1,070,938
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UC
MEXUS
1,017,837
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School
of Public Policy
406,116
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Undergraduate
Education
280,941
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University
Extension
100,000
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School
of Business Administrat
6,396
Below, is a ranking of Departments/Center by research funding in the first half of this year.
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SOM
Research
6,912,967
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Computer
Science & Engin
5,466,415
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Electrical
& Computer Eng
5,236,293
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Entomology
5,111,234
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Physics
and Astronomy
4,187,563
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Chemistry
3,888,139
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Plant
Pathology & Microbiology
3,775,349
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CE-CERT
3,627,731
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Botany
and Plant Sciences
3,022,243
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Mechanical
Engineering
2,853,305
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SOM
Neuroscience
2,536,378
·
Graduate
School of Education
2,463,527
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Chemical/Environ.
Engin
2,150,740
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Graduate
Division
1,790,000
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Earth
Sciences
1,540,385
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Psychology
1,449,948
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Biochemistry
1,314,299
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Bioengineering
1,225,321
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Biology
1,161,198
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Office
of TRIO Programs
1,148,176
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UC
MEXUS
1,122,510
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Early
Childhood Services
1,070,938
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Institute
of Genomics
1,068,709
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Environmental
Sciences
1,009,192
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RED
Research Centers
739,948
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Mathematics
665,275
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Statistics
622,172
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Gluck
Administration
556,444
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Technology
Partnerships
500,000
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Nematology
442,806
·
One
Health
Center
373,333
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Univ Eastside Commun
Collab
334,793
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Ctr for Conservation Biology
282,047
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Undergraduate
Education
257,611
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Cell
Biology & Neuroscience
254,687
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CNAS
Dean's Office
250,086
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Economics
192,697
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Engineering
- Dean's Office
180,000
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History
169,568
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Agricultural
Operations
134,808
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Ethnic
Studies
126,048
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UNEX-Education
100,000
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Cntr for Ideas and
Society
100,000
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History
of
Art
66,152
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Philosophy
62,742
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Biomedical
Sciences
53,431
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Anthropology
50,794
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Sociology
50,000
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Religious
Studies
50,000
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Financial
Aid
50,000
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Music
32,819
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English
32,819
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Dance
32,819
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SPP
- Dean's Office
32,783
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University
Writing Program
23,330
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UCR
ARTSBlock
15,000
·
School
of Business Administrat
6,396
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Hispanic
Studies
1,500
Note: In this data, CoPIs get partial credit for grants. For example, if a researcher in statistics collaborates with a researcher in SOM, both get partial credit and similarly their departments and colleges get partial credit. This is done in recognition that many efforts are collaborative and cross department and college boundaries.
Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the
Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 27, 2017
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-602
As part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st
Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social,
Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to develop user-friendly
large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to
advance fundamental research in SBE areas of study. Successful proposals will,
within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases
and/or relevant analytic techniques ...
More at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505168&WT.mc_id=USNSF_50&WT.mc_ev=click
If you want help finding a collaborator, please contact me.
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
9:45 a.m. |
Tours of the
Center for Advanced Neuroimaging |
10:15 a.m. |
Dedication Ceremony |
11:00 a.m. |
Lecture
Presented by Dr. Roderic Pettigrew |
Complimentary parking is
available in Parking Lot 6.
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
Due to other campus meetings
on Monday, the Sustainability Lunch has been moved to
Feb 27.
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)
Sustainability Research
and Education on 2/27/17 (register
here: https://sustainability-lunch.eventbrite.com)
Immigration: Research on immigration 3/6/17
(register here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucr-immigation-research-discussion-tickets-31567187307)
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.
The new immigration lunch is intended to be broad covering all aspects of research on
immigration populations as well as immigration policy. It will catered by
a local Persian restaurant and include vegetarian and halal dishes.
Australia: Fairy Wrens
I will go bird watching in the US again someday soon (after my
binoculars are repaired since the coating deteriorated due to my using DEET as mosquito repellent). In the meantime, here are
some photos of Australia’s fairy wrens from my recent trip.
We didn't have a list of birds we
'needed' to see before we left. We did buy an app to help identify birds
and found out about Australia’s fairy-wrens. They are somewhat common but still
spectacularly colorful birds. They also aren't
particularly shy, but the variegated prefers dense shrubbery. We found three
varieties.
Variegated Fairy-wren
Superb Fairy-wren
Red-backed Fairy-wren