April 10, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Next week’s noontime seminar will feature new faculty Weiyi Lu (CEE) and Mi
Zhang (ECE).
Tuesday, April 14, 2015| 12:00-1:00pm | 3540EB | Pizza and pop provided.
Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement Now Available
The revised NIH Grants Policy Statement includes changes in statutes, regulations,
and policies that have been implemented since the previous version, including the
Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements
for HHS Awards.
Reminder: Biosketch Requirements for Due Dates On or After May 25, 2015
Remember, the modified biosketch format is required for applications submitted
to NIH for due dates on or after May 25, 2015. Biosketch format pages,
instructions, samples and FAQs are available on the Biosketches section of the
SF424 (R&R) Forms and Applications page.
For Grad Students: National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT)
Program NSF 15-542
The NRT program includes two tracks: the Traineeship Track and the Innovations
in Graduate Education (IGE) Track. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective
training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research
areas, through the use of a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative,
evidence-based, aligned with changing workforce and research needs, and
scalable. The IGE Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating
novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate
education, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, to generate the knowledge
required for their customization, implementation, and broader adoption.
Whereas the Traineeship Track promotes building on the current knowledge base
to more effectively train STEM graduate students, the IGE Track supports test-bed
projects with high potential to enrich, improve, and extend the knowledge base
with attention to transferability and innovation. Full proposals are due May 06,
2015.
VPRGS 2015 Research Workshops
 Taking Your Research Abroad. Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th
Floor. April 16, 2015 from 3-4pm.
 Export Controls on Research. FRIB 1200 Lecture Hall. April 23, 2015 from 35pm.
 Bias and Reproducible Research - Dr. John Ioannidis. Registration required.
May 07, 2015 at 3:00pm.
Trifecta Events
 Drop-In Discussion – Technology in Nursing Research. Bott Building for
Nursing Research Room C286-288. April 30, 2015 from 12-1pm.
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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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) NSF 15-541
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NIAMS Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine Resource-based Centers
(P30) RFA-AR-16-004
Academic Collaboration for Cybersecurity of Energy Delivery Systems
Research and Development for the Energy Sector DE-FOA-0001252
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14526
Reconfigurable Electronics for Multifunction Agile RF (REMAR) BAARQKSE-2015-0006
Technologies for Host Resilience (THoR) DARPA-BAA-15-21
Advanced Development of More Effective/Universal Influenza Vaccines 15100-SOL-00014
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant (CEIG) Funding Request
Standoff ILluminator for Measuring Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared
Light Signatures (SILMARILS) IARPA-BAA-15-07
2015 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for
Undergraduate Environmental Study
SECURING WATER FOR FOOD (SWFF) SOL-OAA-15-000049
Dear Colleague Letter: Cybermanufacturing Systems NSF 15-061
AIRBORNE CONNECTIVITY AND DISSEMINATION BAA-RIK-12-08
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) NSF 15-541
The goal of the CPS program is to develop the core system science needed to
engineer complex cyber-physical systems which people can use or interact with
and depend upon. Some of these may require high-confidence or provable
behaviors. The program aims to foster a research community committed to
advancing research and education in CPS and to transitioning CPS science and
technology into engineering practice. By abstracting from the particulars of
specific systems and application domains, the CPS program seeks to reveal crosscutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the
integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors.
Deadline: May 04, 2015
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NIAMS Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine Resource-based Centers
(P30) RFA-AR-16-004
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
requests applications for the NIAMS Resource-based Centers Program (P30) for
research areas within its mission in musculoskeletal biology and medicine. The
Resource-based Centers will provide critical research infrastructure, shared
facilities, services, and/or resources to groups of investigators conducting
research on musculoskeletal biology and medicine, enabling them to conduct
their independently-funded individual and/or collaborative research projects
more efficiently and/or more effectively, with the broad overall goal of
accelerating, enriching, and enhancing the effectiveness of ongoing basic,
translational, and clinical research and promoting new research within the NIAMS
mission.
Deadline: letter of intent due May 11, 2015
Academic Collaboration for Cybersecurity of Energy Delivery Systems
Research and Development for the Energy Sector DE-FOA-0001252
The Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, on behalf of
the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, is seeking applications to
enable an academic collaboration with expertise in power system engineering and
cyber security computer science to innovate and transition cyber security
capabilities to the energy sector to reduce the risk of power disruption resulting
from a cyber-incident.
Deadline: May 12, 2015
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Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14526
The purpose of the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies
(Cyberlearning) program is to integrate opportunities offered by emerging
technologies with advances in what is known about how people learn to further
design of the next generation of learning technologies and increase
understanding of how people learn in technology-rich learning environments. The
program has two goals: (1) to invent, explore, and learn to effectively use the new
technologies that will address society's educational goals and (2) to advance
understanding of how people learn and how to better foster learning in the
context of the new kinds of learning experiences that technology makes possible.
Deadline: letter of intent due May 12, 2015
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Reconfigurable Electronics for Multifunction Agile RF (REMAR) BAARQKSE-2015-0006
The objective is to conduct applied R&D to develop and demonstrate leap-ahead
agile RF front-end systems with multi-function transmit / receive technology by
employing reconfigurable RF & mixed-signal components which enable integrated
Radar, Communications, & EW suites within a single platform. Salient features of
the REMAR module are (1) configurable system architecture, (2) adaptable
frequency plan, (3) tunable instantaneous bandwidth, (4) scalable DC & RF power,
and (5) agile waveform.
Deadline: May 12, 2015
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Technologies for Host Resilience (THoR) DARPA-BAA-15-21
This program strives to discover host tolerance mechanisms in order to identify a
suite of interventions suitable for use in humans to mitigate the deleterious
effects of infectious diseases. THoR is seeking novel methods and technologies to
discover and understand these responses in hosts that are resilient when exposed
to infectious diseases. Specifically, DARPA aims to discover the fundamental
biological relationships that underlie host tolerance to infection in animal
populations in order to provide the foundational knowledge required to develop
interventions for potential transition into clinical use. This program is organized
into three Technical Areas (TAs): 1) Identification and characterization of animal
hosts with tolerant phenotypes; 2) Discovery of biological mechanisms that
underlie tolerance; and 3) Identification of interventions that utilize tolerance
mechanisms with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality due to infection.
Deadline: May 12, 2015
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Advanced Development of More Effective/Universal Influenza Vaccines
15-100-SOL-00014
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Biomedical
Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), is launching a new
initiative supporting the advanced development of influenza vaccine candidates
with the goal to provide enhanced, long-lasting protection from a broad range of
antigenically divergent influenza viruses within and across subtypes. These new
vaccines will be more effective than current vaccines in providing protection from
influenza infection in people of all ages and in people generally considered highrisk for severe disease associated with influenza infection. Additionally, these new
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vaccines may serve as a priming dose during non-pandemic periods to enable a
single dose of a pandemic influenza vaccine to be effective. As such, promising
experimental data providing evidence that the new vaccine may serve as a primer
for a pandemic influenza vaccine booster will be evaluated favorably. Offerors are
required to develop these vaccine candidates towards final FDA licensure for
prophylaxis against disease caused by seasonal and pandemic influenza.
Deadline: May 15, 2015
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant (CEIG) Funding Request
The request for proposals includes opportunities for nonrecurring funding of
college and academic unit projects or programs and nonrecurring funding for
proposals from other academic and administrative units, individuals or groups
(faculty and staff) that are intended to create and support an inclusive university.
Deadline: May 18, 2015
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Standoff ILluminator for Measuring Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared
Light Signatures (SILMARILS) IARPA-BAA-15-07
The SILMARILS program aims to develop a portable system for real-time standoff
detection and identification of trace chemical residues on surfaces using active
infrared spectroscopy at a 30 meter range. Program goals include: high chemical
sensitivity and specificity across a broad range of target classes; effective
operation in a real-world environment accounting for issues such as gas phase
and surface-adsorbed clutter, varying substrates, temperature, humidity,
indoor/outdoor background light; a system that is eye-safe and has a visually
unobservable illumination beam; human-portable size and power draw
commensurate with limited-duration battery operation; and a rapid scan rate.
Deadline: May 18, 2015
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2015 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for
Undergraduate Environmental Study
The GRO program enhances and supports quality environmental education for
undergraduates, and thereby encourages them to continue their education
beyond the baccalaureate level, and pursue careers in environmentally-related
fields, such as biology, health, the social sciences, and engineering. This fellowship
is intended to help defray costs associated with environmentally-oriented study
leading to a bachelor’s degree.
Deadline: May 19, 2015
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SECURING WATER FOR FOOD (SWFF) SOL-OAA-15-000049
Through Grand Challenges for Development (GCD), the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) and its partners are sourcing, selecting, and
accelerating science, technology, and business model innovations that have the
potential to achieve large-scale development impact. Securing Water for Food: A
Grand Challenge for Development (SWFF) is part of a portfolio of 6 GCDs, each
tackling a critical and complex development challenge. SWFF’s objective is to
enable the production of more food with less water and/or make more water
available for food production, processing, and distribution in developing and
emerging countries.
Deadline May 22, 2015
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Dear Colleague Letter: Cybermanufacturing Systems NSF 15-061
With this Dear Colleague letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) is
announcing its intention to accept EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research
(EAGER) proposals in FY 2015 to support researchers who are pursuing novel,
early-stage, multi-disciplinary, and high-risk/high-reward research on
cybermanufacturing systems. Requests may be for up to $300,000 and of up to
two years duration. Approximately 25 EAGER awards will be made in FY 2015.
Submission of EAGER proposals is requested by June 1, 2015, but earlier
submissions are encouraged and decisions will be made on an ongoing basis until
available funds are exhausted.
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AIRBORNE CONNECTIVITY AND DISSEMINATION BAA-RIK-12-08
The objective of the BAA is to conceive, develop and demonstrate innovative and
affordable technologies that provide agile and secure information transmission,
network and dissemination capabilities to airborne platforms that enable the
sharing of quality information within resource and policy constraints. The intent is
to expand the Global Information grid (GIG) to connect three major domains of
warfare: Air, Space, and Terrestrial. The goal is to deliver timely, reliable, and
actionable information to war-fighters and systems across the United States Air
Force enterprise to support Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance.
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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)