September 11, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Research Seminar Series
CEER Presents: Dr. Azami Zaharim (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) will present
on "Research & Development in Teaching & Learning"
Friday, September 18, 2015 | 10:30-11:30am | Room 3540 EB
Scientific Computing and Data Science Workshop
The CMSE Department is hosting an inaugural workshop on September 16-17,
2015 to kickoff intellectual discourse throughout MSU. This two-day workshop
will bring together speakers who are intellectual leaders in computational science
and their application to interesting scientific problems. The areas of focus will be
topics in scientific computing and Data Science, their applications, challenges and
open problems.
Kellogg Center | September 16-17, 2015 | Registration Required
VPRGS Research Workshops
 Water Networking Event | September 16, 2015 | 3:30-5:30pm | Kellogg Center
 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 admnistrators 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
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%
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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ARL Research Associateship Program (RAP) W911NF-15-R-0015
Nuclear Power Cell CRNBAA16-002
Time Varying Nuclear Decay CRNBAA16-001
Ultra Short Laser Sources and Concepts CRNBAA16-003
Collaborative Fusion Energy Research in the DIII-D National Program DEFOA-0001375
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ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in
Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) NSF 14-573
Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP): Non- or Minimally-Invasive
Methods to Measure Biochemical Substances during Neonatal and
Perinatal Patient Care and Research (R01) PAR-15-28
Circuit Realization At Faster Timescales (CRAFT) DARPA-BAA-15-55
Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing,
Informatics, and Big Data Science (R01) PA-14-155
Research to Advance Vaccine Safety (R01) PA-15-312
The S3 Collaborative Grant Program
Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Development of Software Tools and
Methods for Biomedical Big Data in Targeted Areas of High Need (U01)
RFA-CA-15-017
Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) NSF 15-576
Air Force Fiscal Year 2016 Young Investigator Research Program BAAAFRL-AFOSR-2015-0003
Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists
Bioenergy Technologies Incubator 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement
DE-FOA-0001320
1) ARL Research Associateship Program (RAP) W911NF-15-R-0015
The purpose of this United States ARL RAP PAA is to solicit offers from interested
Applicants to establish a program to provide scientists, engineers and
postsecondary students of unusual promise and ability opportunities to engage in
research on problems, largely of their own choice, that are compatible with the
interests of the Government and will potentially contribute to the general efforts
of ARL.
Deadline: October 01, 2015
2) Nuclear Power Cell CRNBAA16-002
NSWC Crane is interested in funding research of a long-term, stable, and reliable
nuclear power cell and nuclear energy system (power cells stacked together). This
proposed research is to further advance research to deliver a steady, scalable,
geo-independent, long-lasting energy supply for a wide range of distributed
power applications and capable of delivering approximately 15-Watts of constant
power.
Deadline: October 01, 2015
3) Time Varying Nuclear Decay CRNBAA16-001
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division is interested in receiving proposals
to explore the existence of physical mechanisms of nuclear decay modulation.
Though the mechanisms for the observed time dependence in nuclear decay
parameters are not well understood, the importance of this work is the ability to
account for noise sources associated with microelectronics in radiation
environments.
Deadline: October 01, 2015
4) Ultra Short Laser Sources and Concepts CRNBAA16-003
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division is interested in receiving proposals
for the development of novel ultra short pulsed laser (USPL) component
technologies. In particular, NSWC-Crane is interested in basic research concepts
for non-traditional amplifier concepts, temporal control, and novel methods for
diagnosing USPL pulse properties. Concepts which represent revolutionary
departures from standard Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) techniques, or classic
pulse stretching/compressing methods are of particular interest.
Deadline: October 01, 2015
5) Collaborative Fusion Energy Research in the DIII-D National Program DEFOA-0001375
The mission of the DIII-D program is to establish the scientific basis for the
optimization of the tokamak approach to fusion energy production. The primary
means to accomplish this mission is research utilizing the DIII-D tokamak to
develop the ultimate potential of the tokamak concept as a magnetic
confinement system. The DIII-D program also involves foundational fusion energy
science research to make progress on a broad front toward predictive
understanding of fusion plasmas.
Deadline: October 02, 2015
6) ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in
Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) NSF 14-573
The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to
increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM
careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity
in the STEM academic workforce; and (3) to contribute to the development of a
more diverse science and engineering workforce.
Deadline: October 05, 2015
7) Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP): Non- or Minimally-Invasive
Methods to Measure Biochemical Substances during Neonatal and
Perinatal Patient Care and Research (R01) PAR-15-285
The goal for a Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) is to drive the
development and speed the adoption of promising tools and technologies that
can address important biomedical research problems for which there is a scarcity
of solutions. The use of engineering principles is encouraged to establish these
tools and technologies as robust, well-characterized solutions that fulfill an unmet
need. A synergistic partnership between the engineering, and biomedical
professions is required, where the unique skills of each discipline combine to
enhance our understanding of life science processes or the practice of medicine.
Deadline: October 05, 2015
8) Circuit Realization At Faster Timescales (CRAFT) DARPA-BAA-15-55
DARPA seeks to develop a custom integrated circuit design flow and methodology
that will: 1) sharply reduce the amount of effort required to design highperformance custom integrated circuits, 2) greatly facilitate porting of integrated
circuit designs to secondary foundries and/or more advanced technology nodes,
and 3) strongly increase reuse of integrated circuit elements (IP).
Deadline: October 05, 2015
9) Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing,
Informatics, and Big Data Science (R01) PA-14-155
The NIH is interested in promoting a broad base of research and development of
technologies in biomedical computing, informatics, and Big Data Science that will
support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. It
is expected that this research and development is conducted in the context of
important biomedical and behavioral research problems.
Deadline: October 05, 2015
10) Research to Advance Vaccine Safety (R01) PA-15-312
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support
research that will contribute to the overall understanding of vaccine safety. This
research opportunity encourages studies that address scientific areas potentially
relevant to vaccine safety such as 1) physiological and immunological responses
to vaccines and vaccine components, 2) how genetic variations affect
immune/physiological responses that may impact vaccine safety, 3) identification
of risk factors and biological markers that may be used to assess whether there is
a relationship between certain diseases or disorders and licensed vaccines, 4)
creation/evaluation of statistical methodologies for analyzing data on vaccine
safety, including data available from existing data sources such as passive
reporting systems or healthcare databases, or 5) the application of
genomic/molecular technologies and systems biology approaches to evaluate
vaccine safety.
Deadline: October 05, 2015
11) The S3 Collaborative Grant Program
The S3 Collaborative Grant seeks to stimulate new or emerging interdisciplinary
collaborations between MSU's science studies scholars (scholars who study
science and/or scientists from the perspective of the humanities and/or social
sciences) and MSU STEM and health sciences professionals. These
interdisciplinary seed grants will be used to help create opportunities for
developing collaborative research projects, hopefully resulting in increased
applications for external funding, publications, and visibility for STEM and science
studies research at MSU.
Deadline: October 05, 2015
12) Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Development of Software Tools and
Methods for Biomedical Big Data in Targeted Areas of High Need (U01)
RFA-CA-15-017
The purpose of this BD2K Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit
development of software tools and methods in the three topic areas of Data
Privacy, Data Repurposing, and Applying Metadata, all as part of the overall BD2K
initiative. While this FOA is intended to foster new development, submissions
consisting of significant adaptations of existing methods and software are also
invited.
Deadline: October 06, 2015
13) Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) NSF 15-576
This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data
documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to
advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information
(including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United
States.
Deadline: October 09, 2015
14) Air Force Fiscal Year 2016 Young Investigator Research Program BAAAFRL-AFOSR-2015-0003
AFOSR’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports scientists and
engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees no earlier than 01
January 2010 and showed exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic
research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in
science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young
investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize
the Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering.
AFOSR is seeking unclassified proposals addressing the research areas of interest
for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Deadline: October 09, 2015
15) Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists
The aim of this particular program is to support short-term research stays and
thus promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues.
Grants are awarded for research and working projects and cannot be used for
travel only.
October 15, 2015
16) Bioenergy Technologies Incubator 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement
DE-FOA-0001320
The overall strategic goal of the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is to
develop commercially viable bioenergy and bioproducts to enable sustainable,
nationwide production of biofuels that are compatible with today’s transportation
infrastructure, can reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions relative to petroleumderived fuels, and can displace a share of petroleum-derived fuels to reduce U.S.
dependence on foreign oil and encourage the creation of a new domestic
bioenergy industry.
Deadline: full proposal due November 13, 2015 (concept paper due September
21, 2015)
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)
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