September 18, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
VPRGS Research Workshops
 2015 MSU-FBI Academic Alliance Conference | September 28, 2015 | Kellogg
Center | Registration Required
 Internal and Foundation Grants | Presenters: Doug Gage & Tim Wuchter |
October 08, 2015 | 3:00-5:00pm | Main Library, Reference Instruction Room
 Using UAVs (Drones) for Research | Presenter: Justin Booth | October 22, 2015
| 3:00-5:00pm | Main Library, Reference Instruction Room
 Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Forum | October 22, 2015 | MSU Union Ballroom
 Budget-Building for Grant Proposals | November 11, 2015 | 3:00pm | Main
Library
NCURA Research Administrators Day- September 25, 2015
This day will recognize the significant contributions made by administrators in
support of research innovation, inquiry and discovery.
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
National Academy of Sciences Nominations Due October 01, 2015
Since 1886, the National Academy of Sciences has honored outstanding
achievement in the physical, biological, and social sciences through its awards
program.
Research and Development Funding in FY 2016 Appropriations Current R&D
Scorecard
NIH Grant Submission Assistance Initiative - Fall 2015
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies is currently
offering National Institutes of Health proposal peer-review and editing assistance
to researchers for the Oct. 5, 2015, submission and Nov. 5, 2015, resubmission
deadlines.
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
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:
 Research - 55%
 Other Sponsored Activities - 36%
 Off-Campus - 26%
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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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Photovoltaic Research & Development (PVRD) DE-FOA-0001387
Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543
Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) DARPA-BAA-15-56
NINDS Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse
Research Workforce (R25) NIH PAR-13-256
Physical Sciences-Oncology Network (PS-ON): Physical Sciences-Oncology
Projects (PS-OP) (U01) PAR-15-021
Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant
Carbohydrates (U01) RFA-RM-15-007
Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (R21) RFA-RM15-008
BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex
Data from the Brain (R01) RFA-EB-15-006
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Emergency Response Technology Partnerships Program at Sandia
National Laboratories 15_435
Research Traineeship (NRT) Program--Traineeship Track AND Innovations
in Graduate Education Track NSF 15-542
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Innovative Approaches to Science and Engineering Research on Brain
Function NSF 15-595
2015 U.S.-Russian University Research Competition
FY 2015 Training Workshop Support Activities for NPDES Program EPAOW-OWM-15-01
Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
NSF 15-608
1) Photovoltaic Research & Development (PVRD) DE-FOA-0001387
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support
continued innovation in photovoltaic cell and module technologies. Successful
applicants will demonstrate a convincing ability to improve the power conversion
efficiency, fielded energy output, service lifetime, or manufacturability of
commercial and emerging PV technologies.
Deadline: letter of intent due October 07, 2015
2) Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543
The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program is to accelerate the
development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much
needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to
preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on wellbeing rather than disease.
Deadline: October 13, 2015
3) Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) DARPA-BAA-15-56
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of resilient defenses
against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks. The
XD3 program aims to thwart DDoS attacks by dispersing cyber assets (physically
and/or logically), disguising the characteristics and behaviors of those assets, and
mitigating the attacks (especially low‐volume attacks) that still penetrate the
targeted environment.
Deadline: October 13, 2015
4) NINDS Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse
Research Workforce (R25) NIH PAR-13-256
The purpose of the FOA is to invite applications for mentoring and professional
activities to advance the careers and neuroscience development of diverse
neuroscience researchers. The goal of the NINDS Neuroscience Development for
Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (NDACDRW) is to support
mission relevant development and/or implementation of programs to: (1)
increase the pool of Ph.D.-level research scientists from diverse backgrounds
underrepresented in biomedical research who are neuroscience researchersparticipation is limited to graduate, post-doctoral and/or junior-faculty career
levels only; and (2) facilitate career advancement/transition of the participants to
the next step of their neuroscience careers.
Deadline: October 13, 2015
5) Physical Sciences-Oncology Network (PS-ON): Physical Sciences-Oncology
Projects (PS-OP) (U01) PAR-15-021
The goal of the Physical Science-Oncology Projects (PS-Ops) is to foster the
convergence of physical sciences approaches and perspectives with cancer
research to advance our understanding of cancer biology and oncology by
forming small transdisciplinary teams of physical scientists and cancer
biologists/physician scientists. Examples of physical scientists may include
engineers, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, and computer scientists. The PSOPs, individually and as a collaborative Network along with other PS-OPs and the
Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OC), will support transdisciplinary
research that: (1) establishes a physical sciences perspective within the cancer
research community; (2) facilitates team science and field convergence at the
intersection of physical sciences and cancer research; and (3) collectively tests
physical sciences-based experimental and theoretical concepts of cancer and
promotes innovative solutions to address outstanding questions in cancer
research.
Deadline: LOI due October 14, 2015
6) Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant
Carbohydrates (U01) RFA-RM-15-007
This program will enable investigators who might not otherwise conduct research
in the glycosciences, to undertake the study of carbohydrate structure and
function. In support of these aims, this FOA is intended to develop new
approaches (catalytic methods, chemical/chemo-enzymatic methods, and
technologies) to facilitate the rapid, robust, and affordable synthesis, and/or
functionalization of bio-medically relevant glycans and glyco-conjugates
representing 1) mammalian glycomes and 2) microbial glycans.
Deadline: October 15, 2015
7) Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (R21) RFA-RM15-008
This FOA solicits development of new, more easily accessible tools, reagents, and
technologies to facilitate identification, tracking, manipulation, and analysis of
glycans with their biological binding partners and determine their functions. This
initiative may build on efforts that interface with existing technologies and
procedures to make them easier to access and use. As applicable, efforts must
consider: factors for scale-up; efforts to make instrumentation broadly accessible
and cost-effective for the end-user; and compatibility of data generated with
integration into existing databases.
Deadline: October 15, 2015
8) BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex
Data from the Brain (R01) RFA-EB-15-006
This FOA solicits new theories, computational models, and statistical methods to
derive understanding of brain function from complex neuroscience data.
Approaches could include the creation of new theories, ideas, and conceptual
frameworks to organize/unify data and infer general principles of brain function;
new computational models to develop testable hypotheses and design/drive
experiments; and new mathematical and statistical methods to support or refute
a stated hypothesis about brain function, and/or assist in detecting features in
complex brain data.
Deadline: full proposal due October 21, 2015
9) Emergency Response Technology Partnerships Program at Sandia
National Laboratories 15_435
Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), a government-owned/contractor-operated
(GOCO), Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), wishes to
provide notice of its active Technology Partnerships Program. Sandia's mission
through science and technology, people, infrastructure, and partnerships, is to
address national needs in five key areas: Nuclear Weapons, Energy and
Infrastructure Assurance, Nonproliferation, Defense Systems and Assessments
and Homeland Security.
Deadline: full proposal due October 21, 2015
10) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program--Traineeship Track AND Innovations
in Graduate Education Track NSF 15-542
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the
development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and
scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The NRT program seeks
proposals that ensure that graduate students in research-based master’s and
doctoral degree programs develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies
needed to pursue a range of STEM careers.
Internal Deadline: October 27, 2015
11) Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Innovative Approaches to Science and Engineering Research on Brain
Function NSF 15-595
Through the CRCNS program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), the French National
Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR), and the United StatesIsrael Binational Science Foundation (BSF) support collaborative activities that will
advance the understanding of nervous system structure and function,
mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies
used by the nervous system.
Deadline: October 29, 2015
12) 2015 U.S.-Russian University Research Competition
CRDF Global is accepting proposals for the 2015 U.S.-Russian University Research
Competition. The primary goals of the competition are to: 1. Support high-quality,
innovative international research by teams of U.S. and Russian researchers in
nanotechnology as it applies to either clean energy or agriculture; 2. Encourage
diversity in the international science community, and 3. Establish sustainable joint
U.S.- Russia university research collaborations.
Deadline: October 30, 2015
13) FY 2015 Training Workshop Support Activities for NPDES Program EPAOW-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.
Deadline: October 31, 2015
14) Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
NSF 15-608
DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials
Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. MGI recognizes the
importance of materials science to the well-being and advancement of society
and aims to "deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at
a fraction of the cost." DMREF integrates materials discovery, development,
property optimization, and systems design and optimization, with each employing
a toolset to be developed within a materials innovation infrastructure. The toolset
will synergistically integrate advanced computational methods and visual
analytics with data-enabled scientific discovery and innovative experimental
techniques to revolutionize our approach to materials science and engineering.
Deadline: January 19, 2016
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)