UCR Research and Economic Development Newsletter

Michael Pazzani

Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development

http://research.ucr.edu

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UCR's High Performance Computing Center is hosting the following seminar presentation given by a representative of Amazon's AWS team.

Date and time: Thu, Dec 14th from 10:00 - 12:00 PM

Location: Genomics Auditorium (map)

Sign-up for event: here (required)

Online announcement: here

Title of presentation: Introduction to AWS for Research

Presenter: Randy Ridgley - Solutions Architect of the Amazon Web Services Public Sector team; responsible for higher education clients in Southern California

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UCR Internal Deadline: December 12, 2017

After a lengthy delay, the U.S. Department of Energy has released DE-FOA-0001810, Energy Frontier Research Centers. This program will make multiple awards from a $98.8 million pool. Awards are expected to be $2 million to $4 million per year for four years. Cost sharing is not required. 

Every proposal must address at least one Basic Research Need, at least one Grand Challenge, and at least one Transformative Opportunity identified by the Department of Energy. You will need to read the DOE’s reports on these topics (linked in the solicitation) to make a credible proposal. 

Basic Research Needs

Grand Challenges

Transformative Opportunities

UCR may submit only three pre-proposals. An individual may be PI on only one proposal. A 5-page pre-proposal is mandatory and is due January 31, 2018. (In the past, only a letter of intent was required.) Full proposals will be invited and will be due April 11, 2018. If the proposal is for a Renewal, the PI must prepare and submit an extra section of the proposal called Renewal Proposal Products.

The solicitation is available at https://science.energy.gov//media/grants/pdf/foas/2018/SC_FOA_0001810.pdf.

The City of Riverside Public Utilities Energy Innovations Grant program is an ongoing program that has already contributed over $2 million in research funds to our local Universities. Funding from the program has helped post-secondary institutions look for new ways to advance science and technology in energy-related fields. Over the last five years, the utility industry has seen rapid changes as new technology has entered into the utility field. Riverside Public Utilities is looking to continue its partnerships with higher education institutions to explore ways to utilize technologies available today in order to make energy cleaner, more efficient and reliable.

Additional application information: https://research.ucr.edu/ord/SearchOr.aspx?k=2126965819&ae=A

The City of Riverside Public Utilities Water Innovations Grant Program provides support for local universities as they make advancements in water conservation techniques and procedures.

Additional application information: https://research.ucr.edu/ord/SearchOr.aspx?k=2126965820&ae=A

Possible Collaborative Opportunity for CHASS, GSOE, and Data Sciences

Due February 28, 2018 and February 25, 2019

Eligibility: no restrictions or limitations

As part of NSF's Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), 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 and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.

Solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18517/nsf18517.htm

Updates to CHASS Funding Calendar: Three Easy Steps to Finding Funders

Did you know there is a funding calendar that lists funding opportunities for Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences faculty? It’s new, so follow these three easy steps and check it out:

Step 1: Go to the CHASS website (http://chass.ucr.edu/) and click on the strawberry (also says “GET GRANTS!”) at the bottom left of the page.

Step 2: Under “Resources for Research” (left column), click on “Pivot and Grant, Fellowship Funding Calendars”

Step 3: Click on the main tab (UCR CHASS) for all populated listings, or on the individual tab (Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences) that lists the type of funding you are looking for.

NOTE: Calendar listings are added as new funders are identified. Help make the calendar better by sending funders or funding ideas to lauren.savord@ucr.edu. 

Upcoming NEH Deadlines

https://www.neh.gov/grants

UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI):

https://uchri.org/uchri/funding-overview-and-calendar/

Coming up (with deadlines)

UCR’s Center for Ideas & Society (CIS)

http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/

Coming up (with deadlines)

Haynes Faculty Fellowships are awarded by the Foundation on an annual basis to social science faculty members teaching at any university or four-year college based in the Los Angeles Region (which includes Riverside). The fellowships are competitive and favor is given to proposals which are well-conceived, innovative, imaginative, and break new ground on economic, social and political problems in the Los Angeles Region.

Eight awards are available at $12,000 each.

Deadlines: December 12, 2017 December 13, 2018

http://haynesfoundation.org/news/2017-2018POSTER.pdf

http://haynesfoundation.org/program/index.asp

Hooded Merganser

The Hooded Merganser is the bird that got me interested in bird watching. It's a small migrating duck that would visit a lake by my house in New Jersey in the winter. They also come to Riverside. I saw one Friday morning on the small pond (reservoir) on Canyon Crest just past the citrus groves in UCR's Agricultural Operations. I didn't cancel any meetings Friday and waited until Saturday to get a closer view.