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CSUN Opens 2020-21 RSCA Competition
Proposals for the 2020-21 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards are now being accepted through 5pm on Monday, February 24, 2020. This annual competition open to all CSUN faculty awards mini-grants up to $5,000 or 3 units of reassigned time to support research, scholarship and creative activity. Interpreted as the disciplined quest for broadening human understanding, this quest includes artistic creation and the study of moral values, as well as logical and empirical inquiry into any field appropriate to the functions of the University. Faculty are encouraged to use the activities and results from these awards to pursue external funding, if applicable, to broaden the scope of their research, scholarship and creative activities.
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New RSP Pre-Award Academic Unit Assignments
The Research and Sponsored Programs office has recently restructured our pre-award analyst assignments after welcoming a new staff member, Michael Epping. A former student and longtime CSUN employee of 18 years who most recently worked in The University Corporation's post-award office, Mike joins us as a Grants & Contracts Analyst covering the departments of Mathematics, Geological Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, the College of Humanities, and the Marilyn Magaram Center. Other units have been reassigned to accommodate workload. View the new assignments here.
Your assigned pre-award analyst is your primary point of contact for all research and sponsored program proposals and should be contacted as soon as you plan to apply for an opportunity. They help guide you through the submission process and required deliverables, perform compliance and quality checks, and ensure that your proposal record is routed for the necessary college approvals.
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CSU Research Live Webcast Series Seeking Presenters
The Chancellor's Office, Department of Research, is hosting a series of live webcasts focused on research programs throughout the CSU. Each webcast is centered on a theme and features a variety of faculty speakers who are leading research initiatives at their campus.
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ARTS, MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
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Westridge Grant
SFFILM
The SFFILM Westridge Grant is a fund that supports US-based, independent narrative feature films in the screenwriting phase. Grants are awarded twice annually to projects that address social issues and pressing questions of our time through creative and original storytelling. The SFFILM Westridge Grant is open to US-based filmmakers whose stories take place in the United States. A total of $200,000 will be granted annually through this program, with four or five $20,000–$25,000 grants awarded in each spring and fall. In addition to financial support, grantees receive a range of benefits through SFFILM’s comprehensive and dynamic artist development programs, as well as support and feedback from SFFILM and Westridge Foundation staff.
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Regular deadline:
January 22, 2020
Final deadline:
February 12, 2020
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Roy W. Dean Film Grant
From the Heart Productions
The Roy W. Dean Film Grant funds short films, documentaries, and independent features, and web series that are budgeted under $500,000. They must be films that are unique and make a contribution to society. We fund compelling stories about little known subjects, historical films, and films that touch hearts. We like films that expose, and bring, important information to light; as well as films about little known people when there is a good story. We are story-tellers, and that is the main criteria for entering and winning our grants; stories that can change, heal, and enrich, our lives.
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Applications due:
March 31, 2020
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Economics Program
National Science Foundation
The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.
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Full proposal target date:
January 21, 2020
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Science of Organizations (SoO)
National Science Foundation
Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds.
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Full proposal target date:
February 3, 2020
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Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program
Department of Education
The DHSI Program provides grants to assist Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to expand educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of, Hispanic students. DHSI Program grants enable HSIs to expand and enhance the academic offerings, program quality, faculty quality, and institutional stability of colleges and universities that are educating the majority of Hispanic college students and help large numbers of Hispanic students and other low-income individuals complete postsecondary degrees.
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Deadline for transmittal of applications:
February 10, 2020
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ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
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C4ISR, Information Operations, Cyberspace Operations and Information Technology System Research
Naval Information Warfare Center
The Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific) is soliciting white papers and proposals for competitive selection of basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and advanced component development and prototype for areas relating to the advancement of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities, enabling technologies for Information Operations and Cyberspace Operations, and Information Technology systems. Proposed research should investigate unique and innovative approaches for defining and developing next generation integratable C4ISR capabilities and command suites.
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Closing date:
May 13, 2020
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HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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OSHPD Mini-Grants
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
Mini-Grants are designed to strengthen the educational and social foundations by providing direct and indirect program support for underrepresented and/or disadvantaged individuals interested in pursuing healthcare careers. The Mini-Grants Program awards up to $15,000 to institutions to support conferences, workshops, or career exploration activities, exposing students to health careers. Mini-Grants funded activities focus on introducing participants to a wide variety of health career options in primary health and other other health professions by conducting conferences and/or workshops, and direct exposure through health career exploration.
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Applications due:
March 1, 2020
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The Anna Lalor Burdick Program
The Lalor Foundation
The Anna Lalor Burdick (ALB) Program supports programs that offer sexual and reproductive health education to young women. It is interested in programs serving young women who are disadvantaged by poverty, discrimination, geographic isolation, lack of comprehensive sex education, hostile public policy, or other factors leading to inadequate sexual and reproductive health. The ALB Program is particularly interested in supporting new programs or initiatives, or innovations in successful programs. The ALB Program typically does not support general operations, ongoing programs, or existing staff positions.
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Concept papers due:
May 1, 2020
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Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH)
National Endowment for the Humanities
The IATDH program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. Applicants may apply to create institutes that are a single opportunity or are offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks and held at a single site or at multiples sites; virtual institutes are also permissible.conversations and forums, and interactive and experiential activities.
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Optional draft due:
January 29, 2020
Application due: March 5, 2020
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Humanities for All Project Grants
California Humanities
Humanities for All is a grant program that supports locally-initiated public humanities projects. This program responds to the needs and interests of Californians, encourages greater public participation in humanities programming, particularly by new and/or underserved audiences, and promotes understanding and empathy among all our state’s peoples in order to cultivate a thriving democracy. Project Grants will be awarded twice a year for larger public humanities projects of up to two-years duration from the award date. Appropriate programming formats include but are not limited to interpretive exhibits, community dialogue and discussion series, workshops and participatory activities, presentations and lectures, conversations and forums, and interactive and experiential activities.
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Applications due:
February 3, 2020
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Preservation and Access Education and Training
National Endowment for the Humanities
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants are awarded to organizations that offer national, regional, or statewide education and training programs across the pedagogical landscape and at all stages of development. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants support projects that prepare the next generation of preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce heritage practitioners to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
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Optional draft due:
April 3, 2020
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Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Simons Foundation
The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for its Targeted Grants in MPS program. The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis. The Targeted Grant in MPS program provides funding for up to five years. The funding level and duration is flexible and should be appropriate based on the type of support requested in the proposal. There is no recommended or assumed funding level for this program.
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Letters of Intent accepted
on a rolling basis
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Transgender People: Immunity, Prevention, and Treatment of HIV and STIs (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health
The purpose of this FOA is to support hypothesis-generating research in transgender people with the objective of characterizing the biological and immunological impact of the interventions (hormones, drugs and surgical) used for gender reassignment and their impact on susceptibility to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). Behavioral and social factors, such as poverty, violence, food and housing insecurity, and social stigma have been identified as contributors to the high rate of HIV infection in transgender women and possibly men. Significant research resources have been devoted to understanding the impact of these factors on transgender people. However, there has been limited research into the biological and immunological factors that might contribute to health disparities that transgender people may encounter, such as increased HIV and STI susceptibility and infection.
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Application due date:
May 11, 2020
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SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
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Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program
National Science Foundation
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is a standing, interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). MMS supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. The Program interacts with the other programs in SBE as well as other programs in the Foundation. The Program also partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics.
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Full proposal deadline:
January 30, 2020
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Methods and Measurement in Research with Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (R21- Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health
The goal of this FOA is to support methods and measurement research relevant to sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations. Research projects are solicited in two areas: (1) measurement of SGM status and (2) measurement of SGM-related constructs. These areas are described in more detail in the “Specific Areas of Research Interest” section of the solicitation. Projects must involve measurement research, i.e., research that examines the performance, utility, and acceptability of new or existing measures. Projects that simply use SGM-related measures to answer specific research questions will not be supported. Projects may involve the development and testing of new or adapted measures and/or the examination of the performance or utility of existing measures with SGM populations.
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Letter of Intent due:
February 12, 2020
Application due:
March 13, 2020
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Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program
USDA - NIFA
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. In this RFA, NIFA requests applications for six AFRI priority areas through the Foundational and Applied Science Program for FY 2020. The goal of this program is to invest in agricultural production research, education, and extension projects for more sustainable, productive and economically viable plant and animal production systems.
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LOI and application due dates vary by program area;
Closing date:
November 18, 2020
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Leveraging Population-based Cancer Registry Data to Study Health Disparities (R21)
National Institutes of Health
The goal of this FOA is to efficiently use the existing cancer registry infrastructure by augmenting data already collected with additional information needed to understand health disparities among people diagnosed with cancer. Specifically, this FOA will support the study of factors influencing observed health disparities within the framework of population-based cancer registries by the inclusion of data not routinely collected by or linked to the registries. The studies should be hypothesis-driven and multidisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Investigators are encouraged to leverage the data already collected by the registries to investigate the determinates of health disparities.
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Cycle I due date:
February 16, 2020
Letter of Intent due 30 days prior
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Blueprint Program for Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Education Experiences (BP-ENDURE) (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health
Limited submission: one per institution. The fully integrated educational activities should prepare undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral sciences to enter Ph.D. degree programs in the neurosciences. To accomplish this goal, this initiative will provide institutional awards to develop neuroscience research education programs comprised of collaborative partnerships integrated across different educational institution types.
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Letter of Intent due:
January 19, 2020
Application due:
February 19, 2020
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Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets in Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health
The goal of this funding opportunity is to stimulate the use of existing human datasets for well-focused secondary analyses to investigate novel scientific ideas or new models, systems, tools, methods, or technologies that have the potential for significant impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research in areas relevant to the NHLBI mission. This FOA actively supports the use of existing database resources to conduct additional analyses secondary to a project's originally-intended primary purpose. Applications may be related to, but must be distinct from, the specific aims of the original data collection. It will not support the collection of new data.
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Cycle I due date:
February 26, 2020
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Emotional Well-Being: High-Priority Research Networks (U24, Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes of Health
This FOA invites applications that focus on developing resources by refining and testing key concepts that will advance and further support the study of emotional well-being. This infrastructure grant mechanism will facilitate research networks through meetings, conferences, small-scale pilot research, multidisciplinary cross training (such as intensive workshops, summer institutes, or visiting scholar programs), and information dissemination to foster the growth and development of research in the following priority areas: (1) Ontology and measurement of emotional well-being; (2) Mechanistic research on the role of emotional well-being in health; (3) Biomarkers of emotional well-being; (4) Prevention research (mechanism-focused intervention development in target populations); (5) Technology and outcome measure development for mechanistic studies; (6) Development and validation of well-being measures.
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Letter of Intent due:
March 22, 2020
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Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize
Duke University
First announced in 1990, the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize was created by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. Like Lange and Taylor, and all serious documentarians, the competitive applicants to this prize have a point of view derived from an in-depth understanding of place, history, and the current situation, in concert with a personal relationship to the proposed work. Ultimately, their commitment is to use documentary expression to motivate the thinking and reflection of others.
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Submissions due:
May 15, 2020
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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 Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC), Humanities, Mathematics, Geological Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Liza Johnston x3441 Strength United, MCCAMC, Engineering & Computer Science
Shirley Lang x3151 Academic Affairs, Center for Assessment, Research & Evaluation (CARE), Institute for Sustainability, Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS), Institute for Community Health & Well-Being, Student Affairs, David Nazarian College of Business and Economics (DNCBAE), Tseng College of Extended Learning, MDECOE
Charlene Manzueta x5008 Health & Human Development, BUILD-II, Biology
Ángel Vazquez-Lozada x3348 Physics & Astronomy, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Oviatt Library
POST-AWARD ANALYSTS
Cristian Contreras x5413 Institute for Community Health & Well-Being, Student Affairs, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Dakota Hughes x3061 MCCAMC, Institute for Sustainability, Strength United, MCCAMC, Humanities, Physics & Astronomy
Nicholas Nugent x2909 DNCBAE, Health & Human Development, MMC, Mathematics, Oviatt Library
Matt Nyby x3379 ARCS, MDECOE, Engineering & Computer Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Biology
Grace Slavik x3498 Academic Affairs, CARE, Tseng College of Extended Learning, BUILD-II, Geological Sciences
Vanessa Wampler x5416 Areas to be determined
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