Division of Engineering Research
E-Funding News & Announcements
November 07, 2014 edition
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Dan Evon and Stacy Salisbury from CGA- Contract and Grant Effort Reporting:
What you need to know but were afraid to ask!
November 11, 2014; 12:00-1:00 pm, 3540 EB; pizza and refreshments provided.
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 complete
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.
2014/2015 PEER Applicant Information Webinar
This webinar will introduce potential applicants to the PEER Program. During the
webinar, PEER staff will explain eligibility guidelines for applicants and partners,
go over general research fields and special focus areas in which pre-proposals are
invited, and provide guidance on finding a partner. Advance registration is
required.
VPRGS 2014 & 2015 Research Workshops
 MSU's NSF ADVANCE Grant: What we've done, what we've learned, and
what we're doing next. Kellogg Center, Big Ten C. November 13, 2014 from
8am-1pm.
 Faculty Early Career Grant Opportunities. Main Library North Conference
Room, 4th floor. November 20, 2014 from 3-4pm.
 Visiting Funding Agencies and Meeting Program Officers. Location TBD.
December 04, 2014 from 3-4pm.
 Write Winning Grant Proposals Workshop. Chemistry Building Room 138.
January 08, 2015 from 8am-5pm.
 Campus Research Resources to Help You. International Center Spartan
Rooms A&B. January 15, 2015 from 3-5pm.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
1. MSU MTRAC for the BioEconomy
2. Nuclear Organization and Function Interdisciplinary Consortium
(NOFIC)(U54) RFA-RM-14-006
3. Hydrologic Sciences NSF 13-531
4. Wellcome Trust: Translating innovative and ambitious, applied R&D
projects with an unmet healthcare need
5. Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research (P50)
RFA-ES-14-010
6. Expeditions in Computing NSF 14-519
7. Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM14-013
8. Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems
(NSF-NCS) NSF 14-611
9. Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships NSF 14-600
10.Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) Instrument Acquisition or
Development NSF 15-504
11.NINDS Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse
Research Workforce (R25) Grant PAR-13-256
12.Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14526
Short summaries and deadlines:
1) MSU MTRAC for the BioEconomy
The MSU MTRAC program is focused on commercializing Ag/Bio related
technologies that are developed at MSU. The funds are focused on technical and
commercial de-risking rather than basic research. Eligible projects span a broad
range and generally fit under the USDA definition of Food, Fuel & Fiber or
anything related to these areas, either as inputs or outputs. Grants are up to
$100K per year and can be renewed for up to three years. For more detail on the
program, contact information and types of activities funded, please see the
website referenced above.
Deadline: November 17, 2014
2) Nuclear Organization and Function Interdisciplinary Consortium
(NOFIC)(U54) RFA-RM-14-006
This FOA seeks to establish technology-development and data-production centers
whose mission will be to develop, benchmark, standardize, and validate the next
generation of high-throughput technologies that can produce three dimensional
physical and functional maps of mammalian genomes, develop predictive models
of mammalian genome structure-function relationships, and test the relevance of
new nuclear organizational principles within the context of specific biological
paradigms and systems.
Deadline: LOI due November 16, 2014
3) Hydrologic Sciences NSF 13-531
The Hydrologic Sciences Program focuses on the fluxes of water in the
environment that constitute the water cycle as well as the mass and energy
transport function of the water cycle in the environment. The Program supports
studying processes from rainfall to runoff to infiltration and streamflow;
evaporation and transpiration; as well as the flow of water in soils and aquifers
and the transport of suspended, dissolved and colloidal components. The
Hydrologic Sciences Program retains a strong focus on linking the fluxes of water
and the components carried by water across the boundaries between various
interacting components of the terrestrial system and the mechanisms by which
these fluxes co-organize over a variety of timescales and/or alter the
fundamentals of the interacting components. The Program is also interested in
how water interacts with the solid phase, the landscape and the ecosystem as
well as how such interactions and couplings are altered by land use and climate
change. Studies may address aqueous geochemistry and solid phase interactions
as well as physical, chemical, and biological processes as coupled to water
transport.
Deadline: December 05, 2014
4) Wellcome Trust: Translating innovative and ambitious, applied R&D
projects with an unmet healthcare need
The aim of Translation Awards is to develop innovative and ground breaking new
technologies in the biomedical area. Projects must have already demonstrated
proof of principle, supported by experimental data. Applications should bridge
the funding gap in commercialization of new technologies in the biomedical area
and must plan to take the product, technology or intervention to a stage at which
it is sufficiently developed to be attractive to another party.
Deadline: proposal due December 08, 2014
5) Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research (P50)
RFA-ES-14-010
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to
support Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research to
stimulate basic and applied research on environmental health disparities. The
proposed research is expected to develop innovative approaches to understand
environmentally-driven health disparities and improve access to healthy
environments for vulnerable populations and communities. The proposed Centers
are expected to support research efforts, mentoring, research translation and
information dissemination.
Deadline: LOI due December 09, 2014
6) Expeditions in Computing NSF 14-519
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has
created the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to provide the CISE
research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious,
fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing
and information. In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are encouraged to
come together within or across departments or institutions to combine their
creative talents in the identification of compelling, transformative research
agendas that promise disruptive innovations in computing and information for
many years to come.
Deadline: December 10, 2014
7) Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM14-013
The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience:
Integration and Accessibility- aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools
and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will enable researchers in all
biomedical fields to dramatically advance our understanding of the roles of these
complex molecules in health and disease and to not abandon glycan discovery
due to the difficulty or inability to study them. 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 enduser; and compatibility of data generated with integration into existing databases.
Deadline: full proposal due December 10, 2014
8) Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems
(NSF-NCS) NSF 14-611
This solicitation describes the first phase of a new NSF program to support
transformative and integrative research that will accelerate understanding of
neural and cognitive systems. For FY 2015, this competition is organized around
two research themes: Neuroengineering and Brain-Inspired Concepts and Designs
and Individuality and Variation. Within each theme, general advances in theory
and methods, technological innovations, educational approaches, enabling
research infrastructure, and workforce development are all of significant interest.
Competitive proposals must be consistent with the missions of the participating
directorates. Potentially groundbreaking approaches that entail significant risk are
encouraged.
Deadline: LOI due December 10, 2014
9) Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships NSF 14-600
The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program
supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education
projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs conduct world-class
research through partnerships among academic institutions, national
laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via
international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake
significant investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches
within disciplines. STCs may involve any area of science and engineering that NSF
supports. STC investments support the NSF vision of creating and exploiting new
concepts in science and engineering and providing global leadership in research
and education.
Deadline: December 11, 2014
10) Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) Instrument Acquisition or
Development NSF 15-504
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to
shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training
in our Nation's institutions of higher education, and not-for-profit museums,
science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations. This program
especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and
research training in science and engineering, by supporting proposals for shared
instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in
research-intensive learning environments. Each MRI proposal may request
support for the acquisition (Track 1) or development (Track 2) of a single research
instrument for shared inter- and/or intra-organizational use; development efforts
that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument
development capacity at MRI submission-eligible organizations are encouraged.
Deadline: Internal submission due December 12, 2014
11) NINDS Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse
Research Workforce (R25) Grant 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: Internal submission due December 15, 2014
12) Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14526
The intention of this program is to advance technologies that specifically focus on
the experiences of learners; innovations that simply focus on making teaching
easier will not be funded. Proposals that focus on teachers or facilitators as
learners are invited; the aim in these proposals should be to help teachers and
facilitators learn to make the learning experiences of learners more effective.
Deadline: Exploration Projects (EXPs) due December 19, 2014
Please take advantage of our online Proposal Processing Form:
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)