February 20, 2020

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RSCA Proposals Due - Mon, Feb 24th
Proposals for the 2020-21 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards are accepted through 5pm on Monday, February 24th. 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.

RSP Resource Fair - Wed, Feb 26th
Research & Sponsored Programs will host its annual Resource Fair in the Jack & Florence Ferman Presentation Room at Oviatt Library on Wednesday, February 26th. Drop in between 9:00-11:30am or 1:00-4:00pm to visit booths staffed by the Pre-Award and Post-Award teams to discuss your project or proposal and have your questions answered. There will also be short workshops throughout the day covering eTime, IRB, SciENcv, ORCID, TUC HR Procedures, and Cost Share 101. View schedule here. Please RSVP.

CAP Conference - Wed, Feb 26th
Faculty members, staff, and scholars are invited to the CSUN Conference on Community-Academic Partnerships (CAP), a conference focused on collaborating for change, featuring roundtable discussions, funding opportunities, poster sessions, and thematic paper sessions. If you work with a community partner, are interested in working with a community partner, want to get students involved in your partnership, or simply want to know more about who is partnering with the community, RSVP for the CAP Conference, held Wednesday, February 26th, 9:30am to 12:00pm at the Northridge Center. RSVP by February 12th to present and/or be included in the directory.

Onsite Grant Consulting - Mon, March 2nd
Hanover Research will be onsite Monday, March 2nd to host 1:1 consultations and specialized grant workshops geared toward new, early-career and mid-stage faculty.

  • The Funding Opportunities for New and Early Career sessions, offered from 9:00-10:00am and 1:00-2:00pm, provide an overview of how to break into the funding landscape as an early-stage researcher and how to establish competitiveness over the course of your career. Discussion will include introduction to early-career specific opportunities.  
  • The Research Career Development Mid-Stage sessions, offered from 10:00-11:00am and 2:00-3:00pm, provides an overview of shifting PI demographics at major funding agencies and how mid-career researchers can build competitiveness. Attendees will walk through federal and foundation programs well-suited to mid-career researchers and discuss diversification in grantseeking (including potential alternatives to the NIH R15 mechanism).
All sessions will take place at Extended Learning University Building, Room EU 101. Please reserve your tickets through the links above.

If you are actively working toward a specific grant opportunity, the 20-30 min 1:1 consultations allow you to speak directly with a grants expert, ask questions, and discuss strategy. Consultations will occur between 11:00am-12:00pm and 3:00-5:00pm. Please complete the brief sign-up form to reserve your spot.

Summer Grant Presentations
Research and Sponsored Programs invites the campus community to join us on three upcoming dates for presentations from faculty who received funding from the RSP 2019 Summer Grant Program. The schedule includes faculty from six colleges and 12 departments. Please RSVP thru the links below.

RSP Academic Unit Assignments
The Research and Sponsored Programs office has recently restructured our pre-award analyst assignments. 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. View the new assignments here.

Funding Opportunities

ARTS, MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
Research Grants in the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
Research Grants in the Arts support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Research Grants in the Arts provides an opportunity to engage with the National Endowment for the Arts’ five-year agenda for 2017-2021. The research agenda offers guidance on the types of study questions and topics that to appeal to the agency’s long-term research goals.
Applications due:
March 30, 2020
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs
Economic Development Administration
Under this NOFO, EDA solicits applications from applicants in order to provide investments that support construction, non-construction, planning, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under EDA’s Public Works program and EAA program (which includes Assistance to Coal Communities). Grants and cooperative agreements made under these programs are designed to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities, including those negatively impacted by changes to the coal economy.
Applications accepted
on an ongoing basis
EDUCATION
Transforming Early Educator Lead Teacher Preparation Programs through Multi-Partner Innovation
Early Educator Investment Collaborative
The Collaborative’s latest grant opportunity will provide two-year grants to support partnerships in expanding or implementing innovative teacher preparation programs in state/territory/Tribal Nation early childhood education (ECE) systems. We are seeking proposals that take the current systemic realities and barriers into account and strive to address them through contextually and culturally relevant ways. In particular, we’re looking for proposals that consider things like recruitment and retention of racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse students, curricula informed by recent developmental science, induction supports provided in the early years of teaching, or financial supports for educators to access and complete programs.
Letter of Intent due:
March 2, 2020
ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Manufacturing Science Program
Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for the ONR Manufacturing Science (ManScience) program. The objective of this research opportunity is to support fundamental (6.1) scientific research programs that will facilitate or enable advances in Naval manufacturing. Preference will be given to Naval-unique or Naval-centric topics that will develop a fundamental understanding of manufacturing processes and/or materials and thereby provide scientific understanding to support advances in the manufacturing technology of Naval components.
White papers due:
March 6, 2020
Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP)
DARPA Microsystems Technology Office
DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop wideband, adaptive RF filters and cancellers that selectively attenuate interference and protect wideband digital radios from saturation. When exposed to interference/self-interference, the filters and cancellers will automatically sense and adapt to the electromagnetic environment through the intelligent control of its adaptive hardware. WARP will ultimately enable the use of wideband software defined radios in congested and contested environments.
Abstracts due:
March 9, 2020
Open Programmable Secure 5G (OPS-5G)
DARPA Information Innovation Office
DARPA’s Open Programmable Secure 5G (OPS-5G) program will create open source software and systems enabling secure 5G and follow-on mobile networks. OPS-5G creates capabilities to address feature velocity in open source software, a trillion-node Botnet of Things (BoT), network slicing on suspect gear and adaptive adversaries operating at scale. The long-term objective is a US-friendly ecosystem.
Proposals due:
March 17, 2020
Computer Science for All (CSforAll: Research and RPPs)
National Science Foundation
This program aims to provide all U.S. students with the opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) focuses on both research and researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools. Specifically, this solicitation aims to provide (1) high school teachers with the preparation, professional development (PD) and ongoing support they need to teach rigorous computer science courses; (2) preK-8 teachers with the instructional materials and preparation they need to integrate CS and CT into their teaching; and (3) schools and districts with the resources needed to define and evaluate multi-grade pathways in CS and CT.
Full proposal deadline:
April 13, 2020
HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO): Public Health Capacity
Health Resources & Services Administration
Limited submission: one per institution per track. The purpose of this program is to assist states and local authorities in preserving and improving public health; building capacity to address other public health matters and support and enforce regulations intended to improve the public’s health; and preventing and suppressing communicable diseases. Public Health Capacity is one of three NOSLO tracks.
Applications due:
April 10, 2020
National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO): Health Legislation and Governance
Health Resources & Services Administration
Limited submission: one per institution per track. The purpose of this program is to assist states and local authorities in preserving and improving public health; building capacity to address other public health matters and support and enforce regulations intended to improve the public’s health; and preventing and suppressing communicable diseases. Health Legislation and Governance is one of three NOSLO tracks.
Applications due:
April 10, 2020
National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO) : Health Care Payment and Financing
Health Resources & Services Administration
Limited submission: one per institution per track. The purpose of this program is to assist states and local authorities in preserving and improving public health; building capacity to address other public health matters and support and enforce regulations intended to improve the public’s health; and preventing and suppressing communicable diseases.  Health Care Payment and Financing is one of three NOSLO tracks.
Applications due:
April 10, 2020
Children’s Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Program
Health Resources & Services Administration
Limited submission: one per institution. The specific objective of the Children’s Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Program is to develop three state models in Maternal & Child Health (MCH) nutrition integration, which can then be implemented and replicated in states nationwide. These state models will focus on (1) increasing the MCH nutrition competency of the state Title V workforce and (2) optimizing MCH nutrition-related data sources to contribute to data-driven programs and activities related to assessment, policy development, and assurance. The state models will increase access to high-quality, evidence-based nutrition services for MCH populations, including all women of childbearing age and their children, using innovative strategies to build state capacity to integrate nutrition statewide into Title V programs.
Applications due:
April 16, 2020
HUMANITIES
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
National Endowment for the Humanities
The NEH Awards for Faculty program seeks to strengthen the humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions by encouraging and expanding humanities research opportunities for individual faculty and staff members.  Awards support individuals pursuing scholarly research that is of value to humanities scholars, students, and/or general audiences. The program is open to all faculty and staff members, including full time, part time, adjunct, and retired faculty and staff at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.  Awards support individuals who work between half time and full time on their projects. Projects may be at any stage of development.
Applications due:
April 8, 2020
Academic Cross-Training (ACT) Fellowship
John Templeton Foundation
The ACT Fellowship program is intended to equip recently tenured (after September 2009) philosophers and theologians with the skills and knowledge needed to study Big Questions that require substantive and high-level engagement with empirical science. Each ACT Fellowship will provide up to $220,000 (US dollars) for up to 33 months of contiguous support for a systematic and sustained course of study in an empirical science such as physics, psychology, biology, genetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, or sociology. All fellows must have a faculty mentor in their cross-training discipline.
Letters of Intent due:
May 1, 2020
LIBRARY
No opportunities at this time. Please check back or browse the multidisciplinary category.
SCIENCE & MATH
Geothermal Technologies Office Hydrothermal and Low Temperature Multi-Topic FOA
U.S. Department of Energy
The Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), supports early-stage research and development (R&D) to strengthen the body of knowledge upon which industry can accelerate the development and deployment of innovative geothermal energy technologies.  This multi-topic funding opportunity aims to drive down costs and risks associated with the discovery of hidden geothermal systems in the Basin & Range region of the U.S., and to enhance energy system resilience through the utilization of Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage (RTES), Deep Direct-Use (DDU) and other geothermal direct use applications on university campuses, military installations, hospital complexes, and other large energy end-uses across the U.S.
Letter of Intent due:
March 2, 2020
Bioenergy Technologies Multi-Topic FOA
U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) develops technologies that convert domestic biomass and other waste resources into fuels, products, and power to enable affordable energy, economic growth, and innovation in renewable energy and chemicals production – the bioeconomy. This FOA will provide funding to address BETO’s highest priority R&D areas. It includes Topic Areas from five BETO programs: Feedstock Supply and Logistics; Advanced Algal Systems; Conversion Technologies; Advanced Development and Optimization; and Strategic Analysis and Crosscutting Sustainability. Each Topic Area supports BETO’s objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources.
Concept papers due:
March 5, 2020
American Lobster Research Program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Research topics suitable for study on American lobster under this NOFO should have a geographic focus on the Gulf of Maine, Georges Banks, and/or southern New England and address one or more of the following: (1) Increased understanding of life history parameters, including but not limited to, growth, maturity, and species interactions; (2) Larval ecology and early biology; (3) Spatial distribution and migration, including but not limited to, habitat and trophic interactions; and/or (4) socio-ecological investigations to inform future management decisions, including but not limited to, research exploring bait alternatives to herring and their implications for the lobster fishery.
Applications due:
March 19, 2020
Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This program element solicits proposals that advance the goals and objectives of NASA’s Earth Science Division by conducting unique research to investigate 1) unforeseen or unpredictable Earth system events and opportunities that require a rapid response, and 2) novel ideas of potential high merit and relevance for ESD science to advance Earth remote sensing that have not otherwise been solicited by NASA in the past three years.
Proposals due:
March 27, 2020
Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)
National Science Foundation
The Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) program supports genomic research that addresses the mechanistic basis of complex traits in diverse organisms within the context (environmental, developmental, social, and/or genomic) in which they function. The EDGE program also continues to support the development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification of the causal mechanisms connecting genes and phenotypes.
Proposals
accepted anytime
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation program on Race, Ethnicity & Immigration seeks investigator-initiated research proposals on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. We are especially interested in innovative research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.
Letter of Inquiry due:
May 21, 2020
Social, Political and Economic Inequality
Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the many factors that contribute to social, political and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including equality of access and opportunity, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage within and across generations.
Letter of Inquiry due:
May 21, 2020
High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (HRRBAA)
National Science Foundation
Anthropological research may be conducted under unusual circumstances, often in distant locations. As a result the ability to conduct potentially important research may hinge on factors that are impossible to assess from a distance and some projects with potentially great payoffs may face difficulties in securing funding. This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. It is required that the proposed activity be clearly high risk in nature. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program.
Proposals
accepted anytime
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
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.
LOI and application due dates vary by program area;
Closing date:
November 18, 2020
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.
Letter of Intent due:
March 22, 2020
Autism Applied Research Competition
Organization for Autism Research
Through this competition, OAR intends to promote evidence-based practices delivered from research in the following areas: (1) the analysis, evaluation, or comparison of current models of assessment, intervention, or systems of service delivery, including policy analysis; (2) applied aspects of educational, behavioral, or social/communicative intervention; (3) effective intervention across the lifespan for individuals considered to be severely impacted by autism; (4) adult issues such as continuing education, employment, residential supports, sexuality instruction, quality-of-life determinants, and “later intervention”; (5) issues related to family support, social and community integration, assessment and intervention with challenging behavior, and the use of technology in support of learners with ASD.
Pre-proposals due:
March 23, 2020
NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
National Science Foundation
Limited submission: one per college. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships and to advance the adaptation, implementation, and study of effective evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.
Full proposal deadline:
March 25, 2020
State Science Information Needs Program (SSINP): Round 1: Microplastics and Microfibers
CSU Council on Ocean Affairs, Science & Technology (COAST)
With funding from a one-time appropriation of funds in the FY 2019-2020 state budget, the CSU Council on Ocean Affairs, Science & Technology (COAST) has established a new research funding program called the State Science Information Needs Program (SSINP). The overall purpose of SSINP is to fund research to support the state of California’s highest priority marine, coastal, and coastal-watershed science information needs. For Round 1 of SSINP funding, COAST will accept proposals that address the topic of microplastics and microfibers. Webinar on February 5th.
Applications due:
March 25, 2020
Special Research Grants Program Aquaculture Research
USDA-NIFA
The purpose of the Aquaculture Research program is to support the development of an environmentally and economically sustainable aquaculture industry in the U.S. and generate new science-based information and innovation to address industry constraints. The Aquaculture Research program will fund projects that directly address major constraints to the U.S. aquaculture industry and focus on one or more of the following program priorities: (1) genetics of commercial aquaculture species; (2) critical disease issues impacting aquaculture species; (3) design of environmentally and economically sustainable aquaculture production systems; and (4) economic research for increasing aquaculture profitability.
Closing date:
April 22, 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. 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. The August 4th deadline applies to the following two tracks: Engaged Student Learning and Institutional and Community Transformation Level 1; and Institutional and Community Transformation Capacity-Building.
Full proposal deadline:
August 4, 2020
December 1, 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 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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