October 02, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
VPRGS Research Workshops
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Internal and Foundation Grants | Presenters: Doug Gage & Tim Wuchter |
October 08, 2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Main Library, Reference Instruction Room
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Using UAVs (Drones) for Research | Presenter: Justin Booth | October 22,
2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Main Library, Reference Instruction Room
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Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Forum | October 22, 2015 | MSU Union Ballroom
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Budget-Building for Grant Proposals | November 11, 2015 | 3:00pm | Main
Library
Making a Statement: MSU Women in STEM Conference
Connect and engage with alumnae working in the science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM) fields, expand your professional network, and
acquire tools and knowledge that can assist you in furthering your career
objectives.
MSU Union | October 09, 2015 | 8:30am-4:00pm | Cost: $95
MSU Information Sessions for National/International Fellowships & Scholarships
The MSU National/International Fellowships & Scholarships Office has scheduled
information sessions for the 2015-16 academic year and is asking that you pass
along the topics and dates to any students who may be interested in attending.
Write On-Site with Trifecta
Trifecta’s “Write On-Site” is a way to build in writing time and accountability.
Bring your laptop or whatever writing materials you need and get started. This is
an open invitation; we always have coffee and sometimes cookies!
Every Wednesday | 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | CAS207
Research and Development Funding in FY 2016 Appropriations Current R&D
Scorecard
U.S. R&D increased in 2013, outpacing GDP
Universities and colleges accounted for the second-highest performance in 2013,
with $64.7 billion, or 14 percent, of total U.S. R&D expenditures. The education
sector has a special niche in the nation's R&D system: universities and colleges
performed 51 percent of the nation's basic research in 2013.
Mario Rotea to lead NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers
Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals
in Renewable Energy under the NSF/CBET - U.S.-Israel BSF International
Opportunity NSF 15-104
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science & Technology
Policy Fellowships
The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships are provided primarily as an
educational opportunity. Fellowships are awarded to highly qualified individuals
interested in learning about the science-policy interface while applying their
scientific and technical knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policy realm.
2017 Solar Decathlon College Team Competition DE-FOA-0001398
The Solar Decathlon is a high-profile DOE-branded education and workforce
development program for university-level students. The two-year program
culminates in a competition among 20 solar-powered, high efficiency houses
designed and built by multidisciplinary collegiate teams.
REMINDERS
SPA (OSP|CGA) Federal Uniform Guidance
Stay up to date with grant regulation changes resulting from Uniform Guidance.
New Facilities & Admin Rate: 7/1/15
Michigan State University has negotiated new Facilities & Administrative rates,
e.g., F&A, indirect or overhead rates that will be effective from July 1, 2015 until
June 30, 2019.
The federal rates for July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 are:
 Research - 53.5%
 Other Sponsored Activities - 36%
 Off-Campus - 26%
The new federal rates for July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2019 are:
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Research - 55%
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Other Sponsored Activities - 36%
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Off-Campus - 26%
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
Completed proposals must be provided to OSP at least three full business days
prior to the sponsor's deadline to be considered on time. On-time proposals will
take precedence over those considered late. Thank you for your continued
cooperation and commitment to improving the process of proposal review,
approval and timely submission.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) NSF 15610
Air Force Technology Transfer Pilot Project BAA-AFRL-RQKDA-2015-0001
Research in Engineering Education (REE) PD 10-1340
Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE) PD 15-1340
Improved Networking Through Embedded Processing and Sensing BAA-AFRLRIK-2015-0007
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Innovative Vacuum Electronics Science and Technology (INVEST) DARPABAA-15-40
Next Generation Intelligence Collection and Analyses BAA-AFRL-RIK-20150006
FY 2015 Training Workshop Support Activities for NPDES Program EPA-OWOWM-15-01
Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) PD 09-6880
Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) PD 09-6883
Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS)
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) PD 128084
Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) PD 13-1517
Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) PD 13-7607
Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) PD 09-6882
Jefferson Science Fellowship
Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry (MSN) PD 09-6885
U.S.-India Institutional Partnership Grants
Call for Partnership Concept Papers in Support of Power Africa Initiative
under Existing Global Development Alliance Annual Program Statement APS
No.:.APS-OAA- 14-000001 RFA-623-14-000002
BRAIN Initiative: Technology Sharing and Propagation (R03) RFA-MH-16-725
Wellcome Trust Our Planet, Our Health funding opportunities
Broad Agency Announcement for Science, Technology, Innovation and
Partnership (STIP) BAA-LAB-STIP-2015
Global Innovation Fund
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Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity
(PFI:BIC) NSF 15-610
The Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program
supports academe-industry partnerships which are led by an interdisciplinary
academic research team collaborating with a least one industry partner. In this
program, there is a heavy emphasis on the quality, composition, and participation
of the partners, including the appropriate contributions for each role. These
partnerships focus on the integration of technologies into a specified humancentered service system with the potential to achieve transformational change,
satisfying a real need by making an existing service system smart(er) or by
spurring the creation of an entirely new smart service system.
Internal deadline: October 21, 2105
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Air Force Technology Transfer Pilot Project BAA-AFRL-RQKDA2015-0001
The objective of this BAA is to invite proposals from educational agencies,
colleges, universities, and other nonprofit institutions that can assist the Air Force
in supporting technology transfer activities, especially those within the aviation
and aerospace fields. Technology transfer ensures Air Force science and
engineering intellectual property is transferred or intentionally shared with state
and local governments, academia, and industry through the use of technology
transfer mechanisms including, but not limited to: Cooperative Research and
Development Agreements (CRADAs), Patent License Agreements (PLAs), and
Educational Partnership Agreements (EPAs). The exchange of knowledge,
expertise, equipment and testing facilities leverages the Department of Defense
(DoD) research and development investment to address the needs of the Air
Force warfighter and accelerates transition to the warfighter.
Deadline: October 27, 2015
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Research in Engineering Education (REE) PD 10-1340
Competitive proposals advance understanding in engineering education by
grounding the proposed work in theory as well as relevant prior work in
engineering education specifically and education generally. Proposals should
clearly address why the proposed research fills gaps in existing knowledge and
address how evaluation will inform the research effort and allow assessment of
the project's impact and effectiveness.
Deadline: October 29, 2015
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Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE) PD 15-1340
The NSF Engineering (ENG) Directorate has launched a multi-year initiative, the
Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and support an innovative and
inclusive engineering profession for the 21st Century. Professional Formation of
Engineers (PFE) refers to the formal and informal processes and value systems by
which people become engineers. It also includes the ethical responsibility of
practicing engineers to sustain and grow the profession in order to improve
quality of life for all peoples. The engineering profession must be responsive to
national priorities, grand challenges, and dynamic workforce needs; it must be
equally open and accessible to all.
Deadline: October 29, 2015
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Improved Networking Through Embedded Processing and
Sensing BAA-AFRL-RIK-2015-0007
The objective of the BAA is to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate new sources
and methods for improving network connectivity and stability through embedded
processing and sensing. This effort is expected to provide research and
development activities to enhance warfighter mission capabilities and advance
baseline performance beyond what is currently considered satisfactory. Under
the proposed effort, it is anticipated that improved network connectivity research
and development will be conducted in support of Command & Control (C2)
operations.
Deadline: white paper due October 30, 2015
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Innovative Vacuum Electronics Science and Technology (INVEST)
DARPA-BAA-15-40
The DARPA Microsystems Technology Office is soliciting fundamental research
proposals in the area of vacuum electronics science and technology. Proposed
research should investigate innovative approaches to modeling, advanced
manufacturing, theory and design of components, and other focus areas that
enable revolutionary advances in vacuum electron devices at millimeter wave
(mm-wave) frequencies above 75 GHz. Specifically excluded are efforts that
primarily result in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the practice.
Deadline: October 30, 2015
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Next Generation Intelligence Collection and Analyses BAA-AFRLRIK-2015-0006
The objective of the BAA is to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate new sources
and methods for collecting and analyzing intelligence data. This effort is expected
to provide research and development activities to enhance warfighter mission
capabilities and advance baseline performance beyond what is currently
considered satisfactory. Under the proposed announcement, it is anticipated that
intelligence collection and analysis technologies will be used in support of
Strategic, Operational, and Tactical missions. These should include, but are not
limited to, Signals Intelligence, Measurement & Signals Intelligence, and
Electronic Intelligence techniques.
Deadline: white paper due October 30, 2015
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FY 2015 Training Workshop Support Activities for NPDES
Program EPA-OW-OWM-15-01
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals from
eligible applicants to plan, prepare, and provide technical support for delivery of
national training workshops to build the capacity of permitting authorities to
implement the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program.
The two training workshop support activities identified in this announcement are:
Activity I, plan, prepare, and provide technical support for National Stormwater
and Pretreatment Workshops; and Activity II, plan, prepare, and provide technical
support for National NPDES and Nutrient Workshops. Funds awarded under this
announcement for either of the two training workshop support activities may be
used to promote participation and to support travel expenses of non-federal
personnel to attend the workshops.
Deadline: October 31, 2015
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Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) PD 09-6880
The Chemical Measurement and Imaging Program supports research focusing on
chemically-relevant measurement science and chemical imaging, targeting both
improved understanding of new and existing methods and development of
innovative approaches and instruments.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) PD 09-6883
The Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) Program supports investigations at the
interface of Chemistry and Biology in which the primary knowledge contributions
and innovations are in the chemistry aspects of the project; for example, in the
study of molecular structure and reaction mechanism of biologically important
systems. The research supported by CLP addresses the fundamental chemistry
involved in the function of biomolecules and that of molecules used in probing
biological systems. Projects typically employ experimental and/or theoretical
approaches to study the chemistry of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates or
lipids.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS)
The Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) Program is intended to
spur visionary systems-oriented activities in collaborative, multidisciplinary, and
integrative research. CCSS supports systems research in hardware, signal
processing techniques, and architectures to enable the next generation of cyberphysical systems (CPS) that leverage computation, communication, and
algorithms integrated with physical domains. CCSS supports innovative research
and integrated educational activities in micro- and nano- electromechanical
systems (MEMS/NEMS), communications and sensing systems, and cyber-physical
systems.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering
(CDS&E) PD 12-8084
Advanced computational infrastructure and the ability to perform large-scale
simulations and accumulate massive amounts of data have revolutionized
scientific and engineering disciplines. The goal of the CDS&E program is to
identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering
breakthroughs through new computational and data analysis approaches. The
intellectual drivers may be in an individual discipline or they may cut across more
than one discipline in various Directorates.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) PD 131517
The Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) Program seeks to
improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components based on the
principles of micro- and nano-electronics, optics and photonics, optoelectronics,
magnetics, electromechanics, electromagnetics, and related physical phenomena.
The program supports cooperative efforts with the semiconductor industry on
new nanoelectronics concepts beyond the scaling limits of silicon technology.
EPMD additionally emphasizes emerging areas of diagnostic, wearable and
implantable devices, and supports manipulation and real-time measurement with
nanoscale precision through new approaches to imaging and metrology.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) PD 13-7607
To meet new challenges and societal needs, the Energy, Power, Control and
Networks (EPCN) Program invests in systems and control methods for analysis
and design of cyber-physical systems to ensure stability, performance,
robustness, and security. Topics of interest include modeling, optimization,
learning, and control of networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision
making, and dynamic resource allocation as well as risk management in the
presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures and stochastic disturbances. EPCN
also invests in adaptive dynamic programing, brain-like networked architectures
performing real-time learning, and neuromorphic engineering. EPCN supports
innovative proposals dealing with systems research in such areas as energy,
transportation, and nanotechnology.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) PD 09-6882
The Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) Program supports basic research in
chemistry that promotes the understanding of natural and anthropogenic
chemical processes in our environment. Projects supported by this program
enable fundamentally new avenues of basic research and transformative
technologies. The program is particularly interested in studying molecular
phenomena on surfaces and interfaces in order to understand the inherently
complex and heterogeneous environment. Projects utilize advanced
experimental, modeling and computational approaches, as well as developing
new approaches.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Jefferson Science Fellowship
The Jefferson Science Fellowship is open to tenured, or similarly ranked, faculty
from U.S. institutions of higher learning who are U.S. citizens. Selected Jefferson
Science Fellows spend one year on assignment at the U.S. Department of State or
USAID as science advisors on foreign policy issues. Assignments are tailored to the
needs of the hosting office, while taking into account the Fellows’ interests and
areas of expertise. As part of their assignments, Jefferson Fellows also have the
opportunity to travel to U.S. embassies and missions overseas. Following the
fellowship year, the Jefferson Science Fellow will return to his/her academic
career, but will remain available to the U.S. government as an experienced
consultant for short-term projects.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry (MSN) PD
09-6885
The Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry (MSN) Program focuses
on basic research that addresses fundamental questions regarding the chemistry
of macromolecular, supramolecular and nanoscopic species and other organized
structures and that advances chemistry knowledge in these areas.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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U.S.-India Institutional Partnership Grants
The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) announces an open
competition for the support of projects through the Indo-U.S. 21st Century
Knowledge Initiative awards. Exchange activities may include but are not limited
to curriculum design, research collaboration, team teaching, focused series of
exchanges, seminars, among other activities. Activities should be designed to
develop expertise, advance scholarship and teaching, and promote long-term ties
between partner institutions.
Deadline: November 02, 2015
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Call for Partnership Concept Papers in Support of Power Africa
Initiative under Existing Global Development Alliance Annual
Program Statement APS No.:.APS-OAA- 14-000001 RFA-623-14000002
This announcement is call to submit Partnership Concept Papers focused on
advancing the success and achieving the goals of the Power Africa Initiative. More
specifically, USAID’s Power Africa Initiative, USAID’s Bureau for Africa, and other
offices within USAID/Washington, and USAID Missions in priority Power Africa
countries, are seeking to engage with interested parties to develop activities or
projects that can pool funds, talent, and resources from USAID, other government
agencies, and private sector partners to support the Power Africa Initiative.
Deadline: November 13, 2015
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BRAIN Initiative: Technology Sharing and Propagation (R03)
RFA-MH-16-725
The purpose of this Brain Research through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
is to encourage the transfer of new technologies and new data analysis
techniques into a research laboratory. One of the key goals of the BRAIN
Initiative is to develop new technologies to improve our understanding of the
brain. In order for those technologies to be useful, they need to be broadly
disseminated beyond the laboratory or company where they originated. This FOA
promotes this goal by providing funds to enable the incorporation of new
technologies or data analysis techniques into research programs that further the
aims of the BRAIN initiative.
Deadline: January 06, 2016
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Wellcome Trust Our Planet, Our Health funding opportunities
As research continues to improve our understanding of the vital links between
health and the environment, we become better equipped to develop solutions
that reduce threats to our health and the environment that sustains it. There are
already clear opportunities for change, but more research is needed: it’s crucial
that we improve the evidence for links between the environment and health,
identify co-benefits, and build interdisciplinary relationships across research
themes.
Deadline: January 29, 2016
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Broad Agency Announcement for Science, Technology,
Innovation and Partnership (STIP) BAA-LAB-STIP-2015
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, codesign, co-invest, and collaborate in the research, development, piloting, testing,
and scaling of innovative, practical and cost-effective interventions to leverage
the enormous potential of Science, Technology, Innovation and Partnership (STIP)
to help solve humanity’s greatest challenges. The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) invites organizations and companies to
participate with USAID in response to STIP BAA Addenda issued under this BAA, as
described below, to apply STIP approaches to support sustainable development
outcomes. This BAA serves to inform the public of the opportunity for funding for
STIP in USAID. Actual opportunities for funding and partnering to address
development challenges will be issued as Addenda to the BAA. The terms of the
BAA apply to each STIP BAA Addendum. Individual STIP BAA Addenda may have
specific requirements for evaluation criteria and administrative information, such
as the requirements for expressions of interest, concept papers, and response
deadlines. The USAID Global Development Lab will issue periodic Addenda to the
BAA that will present specific development challenges. The STIP BAA Addenda will
address problems, solutions, scalability opportunities, feasibility studies, and
other research and development initiatives requiring STIP approaches to support
sustainable development outcomes.
Deadline: August 31, 2016
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Global Innovation Fund
GIF invests in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of
millions of people in the developing world. GIF seeks solutions that can scale up
commercially, through the public/philanthropic sector, or through a combination
of both in order to achieve widespread adoption.
All deadlines listed in this announcement indicate the agency’s due date. Please
adjust your PPF submission to account for the new deadline policies.
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)