October 24, 2019

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Meaningful Engagement in Climate Change Research
The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), in partnership with the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), recently facilitated a high-level discussion about shifting the research paradigm in California. The objective of the meeting was to connect people from a broad diversity of institutions, perspectives, and roles and begin a conversation around creating fruitful climate research partnerships that reach beyond academia. Discussions throughout the day focused on some key challenges and potential solutions across the state of California, including the public sector and both public and private academic and research institutions. The discussion uncovered shared challenges faced by potential partners, and suggestions for ways various institutions can move forward to encourage meaningful engagement in research. Read the summary.

CSUN Hosts Workshop on SciENcv and ORCID
On Wednesday, November 6th from 1-2pm, Shirley Lang, Senior Grants & Contracts Analyst from CSUN's Research and Sponsored Programs will lead the SciENcv and ORCID Workshop, where faculty can learn about the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) tool to help create biographical sketches in the required format for grant applications. The workshop will also cover how to set up your required Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) and link it to your eRA Commons personal profile. Please RSVP.

FastLane and Research.gov Scheduled Outage
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is migrating its business applications to a modern and flexible platform from November 8 at 8:00 PM EST through November 12 at 6:00 AM EST. During this outage, there will be no access to these websites, proposals cannot be prepared or submitted in FastLane and Research.gov, and project reports and cash requests cannot be submitted in Research.gov. However, previously saved information and uploaded documents in FastLane and Research.gov, including in-progress proposals and project reports, will be accessible after the migration is completed.

Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summer Research Team (SRT) Program is to increase and enhance the scientific leadership at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in research areas that support the mission and goals of DHS. This program provides faculty and student research teams with the opportunity to conduct research at university-based DHS Centers of Excellence. See website for a list of participating centers and further information on how to apply.

National Institutes of Health Grant Writing Coaching Group
If you are an early stage researcher ready to write a new or revised NIH-style proposal and are interested in receiving coaching support while you write, then consider applying for entry into the University of Utah Grant Writing Coaching Research Study funded by the NIH Common Fund (grant U01 GM132366; administered by the NIGMS). This study will compare variations of an established grant writing group coaching process to identify features that influence its effectiveness.

NIH Loan Repayment Programs for Researchers
The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are a set of programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. The escalating costs of advanced education and training in medicine and clinical specialties are forcing some scientists to abandon their research careers for higher-paying private industry or private practice careers. The LRPs counteract that financial pressure by repaying up to $50,000 annually of a researcher's qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research. Applications open thru November 15, 2019.

Funding Opportunities

ARTS, MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
National Digital Newspaper Program
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress (LC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the LC and will be freely accessible via the Internet. An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. Over a period of two years, successful applicants will select newspapers—published in their state or territory between 1690 and 1963—and convert approximately 100,000 pages into digital files (preferably from microfilm), according to the technical guidelines (PDF) outlined by the LC.
Applications due:
January 15, 2020
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Research Grants in Behavioral Economics
Russell Sage Foundation
The program on Behavioral Economics supports novel research that uses insights and methods from psychology, economics, sociology, political science and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions in the United States. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the social, economic and political consequences of actual behaviors and decisions. RSF is especially interested in research at the intersection of behavioral economics and behavioral sciences and its other programs—Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political and Economic Inequality. Priority will be given to field experiments, as opposed to lab experiments. Projects that can contribute to a more unified theory of human behavior to eventually eliminate the distinction between behavioral economics and the rest of economics are also of interest.
Letters of Inquiry due:
November 26, 2019
EDUCATION
Research Grants on Education: Large
Spencer Foundation
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
Applications due:
January 14, 2020
ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF)
National Science Foundation
The Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF) program aims to bring together researchers in formal methods with researchers in other areas of computer and information science and engineering to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for designing and implementing correct-by-construction systems and applications with provable guarantees. FMitF encourages close collaboration between two groups of researchers. This solicitation limits the field to the following areas that stand to directly benefit from a grounding in formal methods: computer networks, cyber-human systems, distributed /operating systems, embedded systems, and machine learning.
Full proposal deadline:
January 22, 2020
IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED)
National Science Foundation
Limited submission: two per institution. The RED program supports two tracks: RED Innovation and RED Adaptation and Implementation (RED-A&I). RED Innovation projects will develop new, revolutionary approaches and change strategies that enable the transformation of undergraduate engineering education. RED Adaptation and Implementation projects will adapt and implement evidence-based organizational change strategies and actions to the local context, which helps propagate this transformation of undergraduate engineering education. Projects in both tracks will include consideration of the cultural, organizational, structural, and pedagogical changes needed to transform the department to one in which students are engaged, develop their technical and professional skills, and establish identities as professional engineers. 
Full proposal deadline:
February 7, 2020
Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science & Technology
Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research (ONR), ONR Global, and the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL) are interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science and Technology (S&T) Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR’s broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines.
Application closing date:
September 30, 2020
HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Utilizing Health Information Technology to Scale and Spread Successful Practice Models Using Patient-reported Outcomes (R18)
National Institutes of Health
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites R18 grant applications for research that demonstrates how health information technology (IT) can improve patient-centered health outcomes and quality of care in primary care and other ambulatory settings through the scale and spread of successful, health IT-enabled practice models that use patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures to achieve these objectives. For the purposes of this FOA, successful models are defined as models that demonstrate measurable impact on factors such as patient and clinician adoption, patient health outcomes, or quality of care.
Applications due:
January 25, May 25, or September 25, 2020
HUMANITIES
Collaborative Research Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities
Debate, exchange of ideas, and working together—all are basic activities that advance humanities knowledge and foster rich scholarship that would not be possible by researchers working on their own. The Collaborative Research grant program encourages collaboration that proposes diverse approaches to topics, incorporates multiple points of view, and explores new avenues of inquiry that lead to publications and other resources for humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Collaborative Research grants support groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities. The program seeks to encourage projects in a single field of study, as well as interdisciplinary work, both within the humanities and beyond. 
Applications due:
December 4, 2019
Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program makes awards to organizations to support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available only in inadequate editions or translations. Textual editing and translation are vital endeavors for the humanities, providing the very foundations for research and teaching. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, may also be the subject of an edition. Projects must be undertaken by at least two scholars working collaboratively.  
Applications due:
December 4, 2019
Public Humanities Projects
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. This program supports projects in three categories: Exhibitions (permanent, temporary, or traveling); interpretive programs at Historic Places; and Humanities Discussions related to the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
Applications due:
January 15, 2020
Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
National Endowment for the Humanities
Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities by developing new humanities programs, resources, or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. Applicants are encouraged to draw on the knowledge of outside scholars who would contribute expertise and fresh insights to the project. Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes drawn from areas of study in the humanities such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, and composition and writing skills.
Applications due:
June 25, 2020
LIBRARY
Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
Library and Information Technology Association
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) welcome submissions for the Frederick G. Kilgour Award to bring attention to research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, or the processes by which information and data is manipulated and managed. The intent is to recognize a body of work probably spanning years, if not the majority of a career.
Nominations due:
December 31, 2019
SCIENCE & MATH
National Competitive Harmful Algal Bloom Programs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This program seeks to:  (1) Add to and improve scientific understanding of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and hypoxia, and their causes and effects, as well as improve testing and research methods. (2) Strengthen and integrate new and existing monitoring programs. (3) Improve predictive capabilities by developing and enhancing HAB and hypoxia modeling programs; improve disease surveillance for human and animal exposure, illnesses, and death. (4) Improve stakeholder communications, including having more effective and readilyavailable public advisories, stronger connections with susceptible communities, and a better understanding of the socioeconomic and health-related impacts of HABs and hypoxia. (5) Continue and expand collaborations in research, management, and policy-related arenas.
Letter of Intent due:
November 11, 2019
Full application due:
January 10, 2020
Living With a Star Science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Living With a Star (LWS) Program emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the Sun and Earth’s space environment that affect life and society. The ultimate goal of the LWS Program is to provide a scientific understanding of the system that leads to predictive capability of the space environment conditions at Earth, other planetary systems, and in the interplanetary medium. The LWS program objectives are as follows: (1) Understand how the Sun varies and what drives solar variability. (2) Understand how the Earth and planetary systems respond to dynamic external and internal drivers. (3) Understand how and in what ways dynamic space environments affect human and robotic exploration activities.
Step-1 proposals due:
December 5, 2019
Step-2 proposals due:
February 27, 2020
Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS)
National Science Foundation
The AMPS program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Full proposal deadline:
February 10, 2020
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Broad Agency Announcement
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA is soliciting competitive cooperative agreement proposals from eligible applicants to support the management objectives of NOAA that fit within the intent of the National CESU Network Program: to provide research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners in biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context.
Applications accepted
on a rolling basis thru
September 30, 2021
Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research (Transitions)
National Science Foundation
The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) has developed a new opportunity to enable researchers with a strong track record of prior accomplishment to pursue a new avenue of research or inquiry. This funding mechanism is designed to facilitate and promote a PI's ability to effectively adopt empowering technologies that might not be readily accessible in the PI's current research environment or collaboration network. Transformative research likely spans disciplines and minimizing the practical barriers to doing so will strengthen research programs poised to make significant contributions. The award is intended to allow mid-career or later-stage researchers (Associate or Full Professor, or equivalent) to expand or make a transition in their research programs via a sabbatical leave or similar mechanism of professional development and then develop that research program in their own lab.
Proposals accepted
anytime
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core Programs
National Science Foundation
The DEB Core Track  supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time.  The Rules of Life (RoL) Track supports integrative research and training that aims to identify the underlying general principles that operate across subsets of hierarchical levels of living systems, ranging from molecules to organisms to ecosystems. These projects should explain emergent properties, e.g., robustness, adaptability. 
Proposals accepted
anytime
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Research on biopsychosocial factors of social connectedness and isolation on health, wellbeing, illness, and recovery (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health
This FOA solicits research projects that seek to model the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing. Both animal and human subjects research projects are welcome. Research areas of interest include understanding differences and similarities between objective social isolatedness and loneliness, how complex biopsychosocial processes are regulated in the body, what occurs in response to dysregulation, and antecedent processes that influence responses to the trajectories of social relationships. Studies that involve neurobiological approaches—for example, how social or isolated settings influence neurobiological systems, brain function, and/or behavior are welcome. Projects designed to study how changes in the quantity and/or quality of social connections influence health behaviors and outcomes are encouraged.
Applications due:
March 17, 2020
Post-Ph.D. Research Grants in Anthropology
Wenner-Gren Foundation
This program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
Application deadlines:
May 1, 2020 or November 1, 2020
MULTI-DISCIPLINE
The Intersection of Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Disease (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes of Health
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite R01 applications on the influence and intersection of sex and gender in health and disease including:  (1) research applications that examine sex and gender factors and their intersection in understanding health and disease; and (2) research that addresses one of the five objectives from Strategic Goal 1 of the new 2019-2023 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research "Advancing Science for the Health of Women." 
Applications due:
November 25, 2019, November 25, 2020, or November 26, 2021
LOI due: 30 days prior
Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) FY 2020-21 Request for Proposals
CSU Agricultural Research Institute
The ARI exemplifies the California State University System (CSU) working for California through university-industry partnerships. The ARI primarily focuses on finding immediate and practical solutions for high-priority challenges facing California agriculture. ARI provides a diversified, multi-campus applied research program that annually matches $4.37 million in State General Funds with at least one-to-one external support for research on high-priority issues facing California agriculture. The ARI focuses on the following agricultural and natural resource issues that have the potential to affect the sustainability and profitability of California agriculture: Water; Labor; Environment; Regulations. The ARI funds applied research projects within the following research topics: Advanced Technologies; Animals; Business and Economics; Environment; Farming and Ranching; Food Science; Health; Human Sciences; Natural Resources; Plants.
Pre-proposal due:
November 13, 2019
Full proposal due:
February 26, 2020
Environmental Literacy Grants: Supporting the education of K-12 students and the public for community resilience
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The goal of this funding opportunity is to build environmental literacy of K-12 students and the public so they are knowledgeable of the ways in which their community can become more resilient to extreme weather and/or other environmental hazards, and become involved in achieving that resilience. Projects should build the collective environmental literacy necessary for communities to become more resilient to the extreme weather and other environmental hazards they face in the short- and long-term. Projects should demonstrate how they will engage community members to build these capabilities, particularly through active learning, during the award period.
Priority 1: Pre-applications due:
November 25, 2019 
Full applications due:
March 26, 2020
Priority 2: Full applications due:
February 11, 2020
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR)
National Science Foundation
The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EHR supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education.
Multiple deadlines beginning:
December 4, 2019
Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research (R01, R03 & R21)
National Institutes of Health
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications for research to examine 1) the impact of HAI on typical and atypical child development and health; 2) the evaluation of animal-assisted intervention for children and adults with disabilities or in need of rehabilitative services; 3) the effects of animals on public health, including cost effectiveness of involving animals in reducing and preventing disease.
Applications due:
December 20, 2019, November 30, 2020, or November 30, 2021
LOI due: 30 days prior
National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
National Science Foundation
AI has advanced tremendously and today promises personalized healthcare; enhanced national security; improved transportation; and more effective education, to name just a few benefits. Increased computing power, the availability of large datasets and streaming data, and algorithmic advances in machine learning (ML) have made it possible for AI development to create new sectors of the economy and revitalize industries. Continued advancement, enabled by sustained federal investment and channeled toward issues of national importance, holds the potential for further economic impact and quality-of-life improvements. This program seeks to enable such research through AI Research Institutes. This program solicitation describes two tracks: Planning and Institute tracks.
Full proposal deadline:
January 28, 2020
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
The purpose of the HSI Education Grants Program is to encourage innovative teaching or education proposals with potential to impact and become models for other institutions that serve underrepresented students, at the regional or national level. Projects supported by this program: 1) Attract and support undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups in order to prepare them for careers related to the food, agriculture, natural resources and human (FANH) sciences in the United States. 2) Enhance the quality of postsecondary instruction within the above disciplines. 3) Provide opportunities and access to FANH careers in the public and private sector. 4) Align the efforts of HSIs and other non-profit organizations to support academic development and career attainment of underrepresented groups.
Applications due:
January 28, 2020
CSUPERB Curriculum Development Grant Program
California State University
CSUPERB aims to innovate biotechnology education across the CSU system. Education researchers, federal agencies, employers and professional societies have called for change in undergraduate life science education and other biotechnology-related disciplines. The 2020 Curriculum Development grant program will support the development of innovative general education courses, laboratories, and first-year experiences, as well as revisions to lower-level or introductory biotechnology-related courses. CSUPERB emphasizes the system-wide dissemination of curricular materials and outcomes across the CSU system to engage, impact and prepare students in biotechnology.
Applications due:
February 3, 2020
CSUPERB Faculty-Student Collaborative Research: New Investigator Grant Program
California State University
CSUPERB aims to increase the number of externally-funded biotechnology researchers across the CSU system. CSUPERB recognizes the importance of research experiences in biotechnology student success. Research is a form of engaged learning, but also offers students the opportunity to acquire abilities on which to build a life science career. The Faculty-Student Collaborative Research New Investigator Grant program aims to provide CSU faculty with the resources required not only to successfully compete for externally funded grants, but also to involve CSU students in their scholarship and research programs.
Applications due:
February 3, 2020
CSUPERB Faculty-Student Collaborative Research: Development Grant Program
California State University
CSUPERB aims to increase the overall number of externally funded biotechnology research investigators across the CSU system. In addition CSUPERB recognizes the importance of research experiences in biotechnology student success. Research is a form of engaged learning, but also offers students the opportunity to acquire abilities on which to build a life science career. The Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Development (RD) Grant program aims to provide CSU faculty with continuing resources to fill gaps in external funding for ongoing research projects or to pilot new, but as-yet unfunded, research directions for established investigators. The RD grants will also support continued involvement of CSU students in faculty scholarship and research programs. 
Applications due:
February 3, 2020
EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR:BCSER)
National Science Foundation
The Directorate for Education & Human Resources' ECR: BCSER solicitation supports projects that build individuals’ capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research that will enhance the nation’s STEM education enterprise and broaden the pool of researchers that can conduct fundamental research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM workforce development. Specifically, ECR: BCSER supports activities that enable early and mid-career researchers to acquire the requisite expertise and skills to conduct rigorous fundamental research in STEM education. 
Full proposal deadline:
June 5, 2020

Contacts

GRANTS OFFICERS
Joshua Einhorn-Martinez x6881 Michael D. Eisner College of Education (MDECOE)
Teresa Morrison x6964 Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication (MCCAMC)
Laura Serrano x6776 Central Grants Officer
Frances Solano x6135 Social & Behavioral Sciences

PRE-AWARD ANALYSTS
Michael Epping x7975 Areas to be determined
Liza Johnston x3441 MCCAMC, Engineering & Computer Science, Health & Human Development, Strength United
Shirley Lang  x3151 David Nazarian College of Business and Economics (DNCBAE), MDECOE, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, University Administration, ReLAY Institute, Institute for Sustainability
Charlene Manzueta  x5008 Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC), Biology, Mathematics, BUILD-II
Ángel Vazquez-Lozada x3348 Geological Sciences, Physics & Astronomy, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Oviatt Library
 
POST-AWARD ANALYSTS
Cristian Contreras x5413 Social & Behavioral Sciences, Student Affairs
Dakota Hughes x3061 MCCAMC, Humanities, Physics & Astronomy, Strength United, Institute for Sustainability
Nicholas Nugent x2909 DNCBAE, Mathematics, Bookstein Institute, Health & Human Development, Oviatt Library
Matt Nyby x3379 MDECOE, Engineering & Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Grace Slavik x3498 BUILD-II, Extended Learning, Academic Affairs, Geological Sciences
 
 






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