April 02, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Come meet new faculty members: Dr. Kevin Liu (CSE) & Dr. Erin Prucell (ECE).
Tuesday, April 07, 2015| 12:00-1:00pm | 3540EB | Pizza and pop provided.
NSF Day at MSU
This event will be live video streamed & the link will be e-mailed to registered
participants in advance.
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
 Trifecta Journal Club Planning Meeting. Trifecta Suite – CAS 207. April 8,
2015 from 9-10am.
 Drop-In Discussion – Technology in Nursing Research. Bott Building for
Nursing Research Room C286-288. April 30, 2015 from 12-1pm.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) News Release, March 26,
2015
DARPA released Breakthrough Technologies for National Security, a biennial
report summarizing the Agency's historical mission, current and evolving focus
areas and recent transitions of DARPA-developed technologies to the military
Services and other sectors.
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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Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) NSF 15-538
Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF) NSF 15-539
Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation
(PRIME) NSF 15-540
4) Research Initiatives for Materials State Sensing (RIMSS) II BAA-RQKM2015-0012
5) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) NSF 15-541
6) Federal Railroad Administration Broad Agency Announcement 2015 FRABAA-2015-1
7) U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center: Energy and Water DE-FOA0001285
8) EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards
9) Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration
(MOSAIC) DE-FOA-0001255
10) Mobilizing Research: A Research Resource to Enhance mHealth Research
(U2C) RFA-OD-15-129
11) Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant (CEIG) Funding Request
12) 2015 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for
Undergraduate Environmental Study
1) Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) NSF 15-538
The Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Program was
established in 2009 as a National Science Foundation (NSF) program supported in
partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). In FY 2015,
activities in two focus areas will be supported: (1) Developing High Throughput,
Low Cost Phenotyping Tools and Devices to facilitate assessment of field-based
phenotypes, especially for root and tuber crops (PHENO), and (2) Advancing Basic
Research in Crop Plants Relevant to Smallholder Agriculture in Developing
Countries (ABRDC) to develop critically needed sequence and functional genomics
resources to enable basic and applied research in crop plants important for
smallholder agriculture.
Deadline: April 27, 2015
2) Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF) NSF 15-539
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. 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: April 30, 2015
3) Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation
(PRIME) NSF 15-540
The Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation (PRIME)
program seeks to support research on evaluation with special emphasis on: (1)
exploring innovative approaches for determining the impacts and usefulness of
STEM education projects and programs; (2) building on and expanding the
theoretical foundations for evaluating STEM education and workforce
development initiatives, including translating and adapting approaches from
other fields; and (3) growing the capacity and infrastructure of the evaluation
field. Three types of proposals will be supported by the program: Exploratory
Projects that include proof-of-concept and feasibility studies; more extensive FullScale Projects; and conferences.
Deadline: April 30, 2015
4) Research Initiatives for Materials State Sensing (RIMSS) II BAA-RQKM2015-0012
Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RXC, Materials and Manufacturing
Directorate, Structural Materials is announcing to industry its intent to solicit
proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The overall objective is
to identify further unique technical approaches to accomplish the invention,
advancement, and transition of emerging, novel and innovative Nondestructive
Evaluation / Inspection (NDE/I), Material State Awareness (MSA), and in-situ NDE
-aka Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) - technologies. This effort will
encompass three (3) areas of interest: 1) Research in Materials State Awareness
(MSA); 2) Research in Damage State Awareness (DSA) and 3) Research in Specialty
Coatings and Applications.
Deadline: April 30, 2015
5) 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
6) Federal Railroad Administration Broad Agency Announcement 2015 FRABAA-2015-1
The FRA’s Office of Research, Development and Technology is charged with
conducting research and development in support of improved railroad safety and
national rail transportation policy. Projects shall develop technologies that have a
direct impact on the safety and efficiency of freight and passenger rail operations
in the US. Such technologies will: 1) Reduce the operational and program
deployment risks associated with mixed use rail lines; 2) Improve safety by
reducing human and technology failures; 3) Bring about capital cost reductions
and economy in producing equipment and facilities; 4) Reduce operating costs of
rail service by providing more efficient operations; 5) Improve the reliability of
equipment and infrastructure components by reducing failures and/or reducing
false failure detections; 6) Enhance the social benefits and/or environmental
aspects of rail transportation; and 7) Facilitate the development of domestic
manufacture of rail equipment and infrastructure components.
Deadline: May 04, 2015
7) U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center: Energy and Water DE-FOA0001285
The Department of Energy is soliciting applications for the formation of a
Consortium to pursue five identified R&D topics at the nexus of energy and water.
These topics are: 1) water use reduction at thermoelectric plants; 2) treatment
and management of non-traditional waters; 3) improving sustainable hydropower
design and operation; 4) climate impact modeling, methods, and scenarios to
support improved energy and water systems understanding; and 5) data and
analysis to inform planning, policy, and other decisions. Each responsive proposal
will address all five topics.
Deadline: May 04, 2015
8) EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards
The objective of the EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards is to support scientific
research in energy efficiency and renewable energy by attracting the best
scientists and engineers to pursue breakthrough technologies in a highly
prestigious postdoctoral research program. To meet this objective, EERE Research
Participants will have access to unique education and training opportunities, top
scientists in their field, and state-of-the-art projects and equipment. As a result,
innovative technologies will be developed that will have a real impact on the
economy by providing energy efficient and affordable technologies; on the
environment by providing clean energy technologies; and on the quality of life for
all Americans by enhancing their energy choices.
Deadline: May 07, 2015
9) Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration
(MOSAIC) DE-FOA-0001255
The MOSAIC (Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated
Concentration) Program will fund potentially disruptive technologies and related
system concepts to achieve new performance and cost benchmarks for solarelectric generation from photovoltaics (PV). Specifically, MOSAIC will develop
novel concepts that integrate arrays of high-performance micro-scale
concentrated PV (micro-CPV) elements into modules that are similar in profile and
cost to traditional non-concentrated “flat-plate” (FP) PV, but achieve the
performance level associated with conventional Concentrated Photovoltaics
(CPV). Realization of the aggressive targets of MOSAIC will require the formation
of R&D teams from several communities, including material scientists, electrical
and packaging engineers, optical engineers, micro-scale manufacturing specialists,
and researchers in polymers and opto-electronics.
Deadline: May 07, 2015
10)
Mobilizing Research: A Research Resource to Enhance mHealth
Research (U2C) RFA-OD-15-129
The purpose of this FOA is to support the development of Mobilizing Research a
research resource that would allow researchers to more efficiently and rapidly
evaluate mobile and wireless (mHealth) technologies. This research resource is
intended to develop an infrastructure that works with wireless carriers to create a
registry of potential participants to facilitate mHealth research across a variety of
observational and clinical research studies and settings, and for a range of
diseases and populations. This FOA supports Mobilizing Research for
development of the infrastructure and transition to sustainability. Therefore, the
proposed integrated and centralized resource should be designed and operated in
a way that will facilitate and enable its sustainable functioning in the near future.
Deadline: full proposal due May 08, 2015
11)
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
12)
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
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)