January 09, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
All proposals due to the sponsor on or after December 1, 2014 must follow the
new OSP proposal deadline policy. The new policy requires that 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. See the proposal submission deadline policy for a
more detailed description.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures must be completed by February 28, 2015
VPRGS 2015 Research Workshops
 Campus Research Resources to Help You. International Center Spartan
Rooms A&B. January 15, 2015 from 3-5pm.
 NIH Funding for Non-Medical Projects. Main Library- North Conference
Room, 4th Floor. February 19, 2015 from 3-5pm.
 Sciences and Engineering: Funding Your Graduate Experience. 3540EB.
February 20, 2015 from 3-4:30pm.
 Taking Your Research Abroad. Main Library, North Conference Room,
4th Floor. April 16, 2015 from 3-4pm.
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Noontime Seminars will resume: January 27, 2015. Guest speaker: Lori Hudson,
Director Export Control and Trade Sanctions Office of Research Facilitation and
Dissemination.
New Grant Proposal Guide and Award & Administration Guide NSF 15-001
Effective for all new awards and funding increments to existing awards made on
or after December 26, 2014.
Simplifying the NIH Policy for Late Application Submission NOT-OD-15-039
This Notice provides information about a new simplified policy for late application
submission. Specifically, there is now a two week window of consideration after
the application due date, during which time NIH might consider accepting a late
application.
New Biographical Sketch Format Required for NIH and AHRQ Grant Applications
Submitted for Due Dates on or After January 25, 2015 NOT-OD-15-024
The revised forms and instructions are now available on the SF 424 (R&R) Forms
and Applications page. The new format extends the page limit from four to five
pages, and allows researchers to describe up to five of their most significant
contributions to science, along with the historical background that framed their
research. Investigators can outline the central findings of prior work and the
influence of those findings on the investigator’s field. Investigators involved in
Team Science are provided the opportunity to describe their specific role(s) in the
work. Each description can be accompanied by a listing of up to four relevant
peer-reviewed publications or other non-publication research products, including
audio or video products; patents; data and research materials; databases;
educational aids or curricula; instruments or equipment; models; protocols; and
software or netware that are relevant to the described contribution. In addition
to the descriptions of specific contributions and documentation, researchers will
be allowed to include a link to a full list of their published work as found in a
publicly available digital database such as MyBibliography or SciENcv .
International Technology Alliance W911NF-15-R-0003- US Opportunity Day
The DAIS ITA program seeks to develop the fundamental underpinning research
required to enable secure, dynamic, semantically-aware, distributed analytics for
deriving situational understanding in coalition operations. Opportunity Day
meetings will be held to discuss this PA and to encourage dialogue, interchange
and teaming related to responding to the PA. The first meeting will be held at US
ARL, Adelphi, MD on Thursday, January 29, 2015.
Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) and the Office of Sponsored Programs
(OSP) announce the release of Activity Log
The Activity Log is a new web-based system tracking proposal and award activities
handled through OSP and Business-CONNECT, and it provides the following:
 Transparency for the campus community in viewing the status of a
proposal or an award negotiation.
 Better organization and tracking of activities resulting in enhanced
cross-utilization of staff and the ability to prioritize workflow in a
consistent manner.
 More detailed, complete and consistent metrics for proposals and
awards providing tools to identify areas for increased efficiency and
client support.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
1) Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) NSF 14610
2) National Academy of Science - Exploratory Grants – Award Year 2015
3) 4D Nucleome Imaging Tools (U01) RFA-RM-14-009
4) Benchmarks of Realistic Scientific Application Performance of Large-Scale
Computing Systems (BRAP) PD 15-7685
5) CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information
Science NSF 15-512
6) Nucleomics Tools (U01) RFA-RM-14-007
7) Science of Organizations (SoO) PD 11-8031
8) Science, Technology, and Society (STS) NSF 15-506
9) Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE (SI2 - SSE&SSI) NSF
14-520
10) Study of Nuclear Bodies and Compartments (U01) RFA-RM-14-008
11) EHR Core Research (ECR) Fundamental Research in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education NSF 15-509
12) Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Vascular Contributions to
Alzheimer's Disease (R01) RFA-AG-15-010
13) Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) DARPA-BAA-15-16
14) 2014-2014 Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP-P)
15) Fulbright Arctic Initiative
1)Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) NSF 14-
610
The Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program
supports academe-industry partnerships, which are led by an interdisciplinary
academic research team with a least one industry partner to build technological,
human, and service system innovation capacity. These partnerships focus on the
integration of technologies into a specified human-centered smart service system
with the potential to achieve transformational change in an existing service
system or to spur an entirely new service system. These technologies have been
inspired by existing breakthrough discoveries.
External deadline for internally accepted: January 28, 2015
2)National Academy of Science - Exploratory Grants – Award Year 2015
The Gulf Research Program exploratory grants aim to jumpstart innovations and
transformative ideas by providing seed money for research in its early conceptual
phase, activities that can accelerate concept to testing, or development of novel
approaches. The funding opportunity encourages innovators to explore and test
ideas, collect preliminary data, or use the lessons learned from failed ideas to
change course. The grants also could support the use of novel approaches,
application of new expertise, or engagement of non-traditional disciplinary or
interdisciplinary perspectives to break new ground on an old or a new problem.
Deadline: Letter of Intent due: January 29, 2015
4D Nucleome Imaging Tools (U01) RFA-RM-14-009
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications that will accelerate the
development and validation of imaging technologies for visualizing the structural
and functional organization of the mammalian genome and its spatiotemporal
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dynamics. Projects must propose innovative, high resolution, high throughput,
quantitative technologies that can be used to study a statistically significant
number of single cells to address critical unmet needs in our understanding of
nuclear organization.
Deadline: full proposal due February 02, 2015
Benchmarks of Realistic Scientific Application Performance of Large-Scale
Computing Systems (BRAP) PD 15-7685
Given the emergence of inference-based computing, the growing role of data
analysis, changes in scientific workflow due to dynamic availability of sensor and
instrument data, the expanding use of large-scale computing in all scientific
disciplines, the growing role of clouds, and a diversity of architectural approaches,
NSF sees a timely opportunity to engage the community in benchmarking analysis
and development activities. NSF welcomes benchmarking proposals in the
following general areas: (1) the analysis, evaluation, and assessment of the
effectiveness of one or more existing benchmarks used in industry and academe
today; (2) the development (including algorithm development and prototype
implementation) and experimental use of one or more new benchmarks; or (3)
workshops and community engagement events to advance discussion,
dissemination, and community building around benchmarks. Proposals focused in
areas 1 and 2 must include some work in area 3. Industry engagement is
encouraged.
Deadline: February 02, 2015
4)
CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information
Science NSF 15-512
The CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science
is designed to promote research in the area of Quantum Information Science
(QIS) by providing resources to allow QIS researchers and researchers from the
CISE or MPS disciplines to actively engage in joint research efforts, addressing
problems at the interface between the mathematical and physical sciences and
computer and information sciences through long-term visits to a host institution.
Deadline: February 02, 2015
5)
Nucleomics Tools (U01) RFA-RM-14-007
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit
applications that propose to develop and validate physical, chemical and
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biochemical approaches for measuring properties and dynamics of the threedimensional organization of the genome that cannot be measured adequately
using existing methodologies.
Deadline: full proposal due February 02, 2015
Science of Organizations (SoO) PD 11-8031
SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how
organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use
scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and
frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Funded research is
aimed at yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business
practitioner, policy-maker and research communities.
Deadline: full proposal due February 02, 2015
7)
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) NSF 15-506
The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program supports research that uses
historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the
intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering
and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of STS
topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy
issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines, including medical science.
Deadline: February 02, 2015
8)
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation - SSE (SI2 - SSE&SSI) NSF
14-520
NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and
education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the
cyberinfrastructure. SI2's intent is to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help
researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution,
and accuracy by integrating computation, data, networking, observations and
experiments in novel ways.
Deadline: February 02, 2015
9)
Study of Nuclear Bodies and Compartments (U01) RFA-RM-14-008
The purpose of this FOA is to support projects to develop tools and strategies for
studying: 1. the three dimensional architecture of the nucleus in relationship to
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the topography of nuclear bodies and transcriptional machineries, 2. the structure
and function of poorly characterized nuclear structures, or 3. the role of
specialized proteins and RNAs in the assembly, organization, and function of
nuclear bodies, nuclear structures, and specialized subnuclear domains.
Deadline: full proposal due February 02, 2015
EHR Core Research (ECR) Fundamental Research in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education NSF 15-509
The EHR Core Research (ECR) program of fundamental research in STEM
education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and
enduring. EHR seeks proposals that will help synthesize, build and/or expand
research foundations in the following focal areas: STEM learning, STEM learning
environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in
STEM.
Deadline: February 03, 2015
11)
Interdisciplinary Research to Understand the Vascular Contributions to
Alzheimer's Disease (R01) RFA-AG-15-010
The development of effective biological markers and interventions to prevent or
delay the onset of AD is critically dependent on gaining an in-depth understanding
of how multiple etiologies and prodromal phenotypes lead to neurodegenerative
changes that result in cognitive decline and dementia. The goal of this funding
opportunity is to enable greater understanding of the mechanisms by which
vascular factors contribute to the complex etiology and heterogeneity of
Alzheimer's and related dementias.
Deadline: February 03, 2015
12)
Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) DARPA-BAA-15-16
The Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program will explore non-traditional
perception and autonomy methods that enable new classes of minimalistic
algorithms for high-speed navigation in cluttered environments. Through this
exploration, the program will develop and demonstrate the capability for small
and fast unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to fly autonomously through complex,
cluttered environments. The FLA program focuses on autonomy algorithms and
software specifically on sensing, perception, planning, and control rather than on
the flight hardware platform.
Deadline: February 05, 2015
13)
2014-2014 Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP-P)
The HARP Production program provides funds, when research is complete, to help
subsidize the costs of book publication, permissions to use copyrighted materials,
CD recording and production, the creation and mounting of exhibits, and other
expenses associated with producing the results of a completed creative or
research project. A contract from the publisher will be required if funds are being
requested to publish a book. Proposals requesting funds to complete text books
will not be considered.
Deadline: February 05, 2015
14)
Fulbright Arctic Initiative
At its core, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative will create a network to stimulate
international scientific collaboration on Arctic issues while increasing mutual
understanding between people of the United States and the people of other
countries. Using a collaborative model to translate theory into practice, program
participants will address public-policy research questions relevant to Arctic
nations’ shared challenges. Selected scholars will participate in an individual
Fulbright exchange of a minimum of six weeks up to three months, as well as inperson seminars and ongoing virtual communication, all supporting the scholars’
collaborative research projects. Scholars will focus on collaborative work in
multidisciplinary and multinational research teams, and will propose and carry
out an individual exchange element.
Deadline: February 16, 2014
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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)