UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter: July 22, 2017
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor
for Research and Economic Development
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Grant Opportunity
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Call for Nominations – Sloan Research
Fellowships
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Cultural Anthropology Program –
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
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Drones at the University of California
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UCR Researchers and
Faculty: Interested in applying for SBIR/STTR and follow-on funding?
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NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Program & Incentives
A while back, I
reported that UCR was tied with Berkeley for the most
number of active NSF Career Awards in University of California. We’ve now passed Berkeley.
Call
for Nominations – Sloan Research Fellowships
$65,000
fellowships for exceptional junior faculty in recognition of distinguished
performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to
their field. Fellowships awarded annually to exceptional junior faculty
in the fields of: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology,
computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and
physics.
Who is eligible?
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Candidates must hold a tenure track (or
equivalent) position at a college, university, or other degree-granting
institution in the United States or Canada. Tenure
track faculty positions at the candidate's institution must include a
yearly teaching requirement.
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Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry,
computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics,
mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field;
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Candidates' most recent Ph.D. (or equivalent) must have been awarded on or after September 1, 2011.
Exceptions may apply.
To be eligible, candidates must
be nominated by a department head or other senior researcher. No
more than three candidates may be nominated from any
one department. At UCR, the selection of three candidates by each
department is handled within the department. Please
inform your chair is you wish to be nominated.
All nomination materials, including nomination
letters and all letters of support, must be submitted
through the Foundation’s online application system no later than 11:59PM EDT,
September 15, 2017.
Learn more at https://sloan.org/fellowships
Cultural
Anthropology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
(CA-DDRIG)
Full Proposal Target Date:
August 15, 2017
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-556
The primary objective of the Cultural
Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the
causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability.
Anthropological research spans a wide
gamut, and contemporary cultural anthropology is an arena in which diverse
research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth
of the field's contributions to science, the Cultural Anthropology Program
welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and
methodologically sophisticated research in all sub-fields of cultural
anthropology. Because the National Science Foundation's mandate is to
support basic research, the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program does not
fund research that takes as its primary goal improved clinical practice or
applied policy. A proposal that uses anthropological methods to
understand a social problem but does not propose to make a theory-testing
and/or theory expanding contribution to anthropology will be returned without
review.
Program research priorities include, but
are not limited to, research that increases our understanding of:
- Socio-cultural
drivers of critical anthropogenic processes such as deforestation,
desertification, land cover change, urbanization, and poverty
- Resilience
and robustness of socio-cultural systems
- Conflict,
cooperation, and altruism
- Economy,
culture, migration, and globalization
- Variability
and change in kinship and family norms and practices
- Cultural
and social drivers of health outcomes and disease transmission
- Social
regulation, governmentality, and violence
- Origins
of complexity in socio-cultural systems
- Language
and culture: orality and literacy, sociolinguistics, and cognition
- Human
variation through empirically grounded ethnographic descriptions
- Mathematical
and computational models of sociocultural systems such as social
network analysis, agent-based models, multi-level models, and modes that
integrate agent-based simulations and geographic information systems
(GIS)
As part of its effort to encourage and
support projects that explicitly integrate education and basic research,
CA provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral
dissertation projects designed and carried out by doctoral students
enrolled in U.S. universities who are conducting scientific research that
enhances basic scientific knowledge.
Anticipated funding amount: $800,000
Who May Serve as PI: The proposal must be submitted through regular organizational channels by
the dissertation advisor(s) on behalf of the graduate student. The advisor is
the Principal Investigator (PI); the student is the Co-Principal Investigator (CoPI). The student must be the author of the proposal. The
student must be enrolled at a U.S. institution, but
need not be a U.S. citizen.
More information can be found
at: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15556/nsf15556.pdf
Drones
at the University of California – August 14th,
2017
On August 14th, Dr.
Brandon Stark, Director of the UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft
System Safety, will be on campus to present on drone regulations and policies
in the UC system. The presentation will take place at the Alumni & Visitors
Center, Redmond Dining Room beginning at 9am and will be
followed by a flight demonstration. In his talk, Dr. Stark will
provide an overview of new and existing Federal drone laws and regulations,
discuss the new SUAS license for research and commercial use, and explain best
practices for safety, and record-keeping requirements. Brandon will also talk
about UC’s UAS Safety Management System. A key component of this system is the
UC UAS Fleet Management System software suite, available to campuses free of
charge. The UC UAS Fleet Management System software will promote the safe
operation of UASs by providing end-users and oversight managers with a tool to
track UAS usage. Brandon will talk about how this information is being used to shape UC UAS policies and safety
strategies. Additionally, Dr. Stark will be offering a drone
pilot license test prep workshop and facilitating two beginner flight
instruction sessions. One drone will be available for everyone to use
during the instruction sessions. Attendees are welcome to bring their own
drone to use if possible.
Faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students, and
undergraduate students are welcome to register.
Registration links for the presentation,
test prep workshop, and the instruction sessions are below:
Presentation and Flight Demonstration: 9am – 1pm,
Alumni & Visitors Center, Redmond Dining Room https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drones-at-the-university-of-california-tickets-9759764719?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button
Pilot License Test Prep Workshop: 1pm – 3pm,
Alumni & Visitors Center, Redmond Dining Room https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drone-pilot-license-test-prep-tickets-36210968983
Beginner Flight Instruction (limited availability) : 2 sessions on August 14, 3-5pm or August 15, 9-11am, Amy
Harrison Softball Fields
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beginner-flight-instruction-tickets-36211027157
Deadline – September 15, 2017
The Sony Research Award
Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a
collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 per year for each accepted proposal,
both the Faculty Innovation Award and Focused Research Award create new
opportunities for university faculties to engage in pioneering research that
could drive new technologies, industries and the future.
Sony Faculty Innovation Award
provides up to $100K in funds to conduct pioneering research in specified
areas. The Sony Focused Research Award provides an opportunity for university
faculty and Sony to conduct this type of collaborative, focused research. The
award provides up to $150K in funds, and may be renewed
for subsequent year(s). A list of candidate research topics appears below.
Adaptive Network Structure
Optimization for Deep Learning
Next-Generation Dialogue
Management System
New Robotic Actuator
Machine Learning Based Image
Processing
Next Generation Novel Display
System
Image-based Photo-realistic
Rendering
Channel Modeling of
Self-Interference Signals for In-Band Full-Duplex Systems
Core Technology Design for
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based Satellite Communication System
Millimeter Wave based
Wireless Communication Technologies for Automated Vehicle Management
Egocentric Motion Tracking
3D Generic Real World Object
Recognition
High-Precision Sensing
Technology of Human Body Motion in Living Spaces
AR/MR Eyewear Display
Eligible Applicants
Principal Investigators (PIs)
who are tenured or tenure-track faculty members and are eligible to supervise Ph.D.. Full professors, associate professors, and assistant
professors are eligible to apply.
More information can be found
at: https://www.sony.com/research-award-program#Overview
UCR Researchers and Faculty: Interested
in applying for SBIR/STTR and follow-on funding?
UC Riverside has partnered with UC Irvine, TriTech
and the Santa Ana District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration to
bring the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Road Tour to the Orange
County and Inland Empire. The all-day event is on Tuesday, September 12, 2017
at UC Irvine. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear directly from federal
agency SBIR Program Managers who represent $2.5 billion in early stage funding
and MEET with them one-on-one to improve the chances of getting Phase I and
follow-on funding!
This is a
must-attend event for innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, small
technology firms applying for the first time, past SBIR/STTR applicants and
existing recipients!
Registration is now open! To register, go to: http://innovation.uci.edu/the-cove/sbir-road-tour/
DATE:
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
All Day Event – 7:30 AM to
6:00 PM
LOCATION:
The Cove @ UCI
5141 California Ave. Ste. 200
Irvine, CA 92617
Can’t make the event or want to know more about applying
for an SBIR/STTR?
Contact Misty Madero at UCR’s Office of Technology Partnerships: misty.madero@ucr.edu or (951) 827-2210
Have an
idea/research/technology you are interested in commercializing? Contact the Office of Technology Partnerships
(OTP) today to learn more about our programs and resources!
Website: http://www.ucreduotp.net/
Phone: (951) 827-7941
Address: 200 University
Office Building, Riverside, CA 92521
NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program
& Incentives
If you are applying for an NIH New Innovator and if you finish a complete draft by August 1, mail to vcredadmin@ucr.edu, and we'll get you feedback by August 15. Also RED will send you $1000 in a research
fund as incentive for finishing early.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-17-006.html Due September 8, 2017
The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2)
supports a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity
who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the
potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical
and behavioral research. The NIH Director's New Innovator Award complements
ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes and Centers to fund early stage
investigators through R01 grants.
An early stage investigator has not competed successfully for a significant NIH
independent research award and is within 10 years of
completing his/her terminal research degree or is within 10 years of completing medical residency (or
the equivalent).
New investigators may have exceptionally innovative research
ideas, but not the preliminary data required to fare well in the traditional
NIH peer review system. As part of NIH's commitment to increasing opportunities
for new scientists, it has created the NIH Director's New Innovator Award to
support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative
research projects that have the potential for unusually high impact. This award
complements ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes and Centers to fund new
investigators through R01 grants and other mechanisms.
The NIH Director's New Innovator Award is different from
traditional NIH grants in several ways. It is designed specifically to support unusually
creative investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage
of their career when they may lack the preliminary data required for an R01
grant application. The emphasis is on innovation and creativity; preliminary data
are not required, but may be included. No detailed, annual budget is
requested in the
application. The review process emphasizes the individual’s creativity, the
innovativeness of the research approaches, and the potential of the project, if
successful, to have a significant impact on an important biomedical or
behavioral research problem.
The research proposed for a NIH Director's New Innovator Award may
be in any scientific area relevant to the mission of NIH (biological,
behavioral, clinical, social, physical, chemical, computational, engineering,
and mathematical sciences). Investigators who were not selected for an award in prior years may submit
applications this year as long as they retain their ESI (early stage
investigator) eligibility; however, all applications must be submitted as “new”
applications regardless of any previous submission to the program.
Awards will be up to $1.5 million of direct costs ($300,000 per
year over five years).
Here’s a photo of one of my favorite
woodpeckers, the pileated woodpecker. This is from Florida. In Southern
California, the best places to see them are in Sequoia National Park.
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, Riverside
200 University Office Building
To schedule a meeting with me, please contact Bri Cates at
Email: VCREDadmin@ucr.edu