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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Denis Ulicny (Delphi Corporation) - Megatrends to Company Developments
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 completed proposals must be provided to OSP at least three full business days prior to the sponsor's deadline to be considered on time. On-time proposals will take precedence over those considered late. Thank you for your continued cooperation and commitment to improving the process of proposal review, approval and timely submission. See the proposal submission deadline policy for a more detailed description.
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
· 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) GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS) DE-FOA-0001198
2) Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) PD 12-8084
3) Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS) PD 11-8069
4) Expeditions in Computing NSF 14-519
5) Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF-NCS) NSF 14-611
6) Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543
7) Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant Carbohydrates (U01) RFA-RM-14-015
8) Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking, Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM-14-013
9) Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) Instrument Acquisition or Development NSF 15-504
10) Computational Mathematics PD 10-1271
11) Novel IN SITU Imaging and Measurement Technologies for Biological Systems Science DE-FOA-0001192
12) Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14-526
13) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) NSF 14-599
14) Wireless Network Defense Phases 2 and 3 DARPA-BAA-14-44
15) Funding Opportunity Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science, Technology, Engineering ONRFOA14-002
1) GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS) DE-FOA-0001198
The GENSETS Program – GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems – seeks to fund the development of potentially disruptive generator technologies that will enable widespread deployment of residential Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems. Here, CHP is defined as the distributed generation of electricity from piped-in natural gas fuel at a residence or a commercial site complemented by use of exhaust heat for local heating and cooling. If adopted widely by U.S. residential and commercial sectors, GENSETS CHP systems could lead to annual primary energy savings of more than 5 quadrillion BTU (quads). GENSETS systems could also provide annual CO2 emissions reductions of more than 200 million metric tons, which is roughly 10% of the CO2 produced annually from U.S. electricity generation and 4% of total U.S. annual CO2 emissions.
Deadline: concept paper due December 01, 2014
2) Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) PD 12-8084
CDS&E includes the creation, development, and application of the next generation of mathematical and statistical theories and tools that will be essential for addressing the challenges presented to the scientific and engineering communities by the ever expanding role of computational modeling and simulation on the one hand, and the explosion and production of digital and observational data on the other.
Deadline: (Mathematical Sciences) December 09, 2014
3) Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS) PD 11-8069
The CDS&E-MSS program accepts proposals that confront and embrace the host of mathematical and statistical challenges presented to the scientific and engineering communities by the ever-expanding role of computational modeling and simulation on the one hand, and the explosion in production of digital and observational data on the other. The goal of the program is to promote the creation and development of the next generation of mathematical and statistical theories and tools that will be essential for addressing such issues.
Deadline: (Mathematical Sciences) December 09, 2014
4) 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
5) 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
6) Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543
The purpose of this program is to develop next generation health care solutions and encourage existing and new research communities to focus on breakthrough ideas in a variety of areas of value to health, such as sensor technology, networking, information and machine learning technology, decision support systems, modeling of behavioral and cognitive processes, as well as system and process modeling. Effective solutions must satisfy a multitude of constraints arising from clinical/medical needs, social interactions, cognitive limitations, barriers to behavioral change, heterogeneity of data, semantic mismatch and limitations of current cyberphysical systems. Such solutions demand multidisciplinary teams ready to address technical, behavioral and clinical issues ranging from fundamental science to clinical practice.
Deadline: INT Proposals due December 10, 2014
7) Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant Carbohydrates (U01) RFA-RM-14-015
This FOA is intended to support development of new approaches (methods and technologies) to facilitate the rapid and affordable synthesis, production, and/or functionalization of bio-medically relevant glycans and glyco-conjugates representing 1) mammalian glycomes and 2) microbial glycans.
Deadline: December 10, 2014
8) Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking, Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM-14-013
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 end-user; and compatibility of data generated with integration into existing databases.
Deadline: full proposal due December 10, 2014
9) 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
10) Computational Mathematics PD 10-1271
Supports mathematical research in areas of science where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing design, analysis, and implementation of numerical methods and algorithms, and symbolic methods. The prominence of computation with analysis of the computational approach in the research is a hallmark of the program. Proposals ranging from single-investigator projects that develop and analyze innovative computational methods to interdisciplinary team projects that not only create and analyze new mathematical and computational techniques but also use/implement them to model, study, and solve important application problems are encouraged.
Deadline: December 15, 2014
11) Novel IN SITU Imaging and Measurement Technologies for Biological Systems Science DE-FOA-0001192
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will consider applications for the development of novel imaging instrumentation and measurement technologies that support the integrative analysis of communication among subcellular compartments, between individual microbial cells and within multicellular communities/plant tissues. The goal is to develop in situ, dynamic and nondestructive approaches to enable multifunctional imaging, quantitative flux measurements, and multiscale integrative analysis of bioenergy-relevant plant and microbial systems. Ideally, these imaging approaches will pave the way for predictive understanding of the spatial and temporal relationships, physical connections, and chemical exchanges that facilitate the flow of materials and information across membranes and between intracellular spaces.
Deadline: full proposal due December 18, 2014
12) Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14-526
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
13) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) NSF 14-599
The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program welcomes proposals that address Cybersecurity from a Trustworthy Computing Systems (TWC) perspective and/or a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) perspective, or from the Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS).
Deadline: December 19, 2014
14) Wireless Network Defense Phases 2 and 3 DARPA-BAA-14-44
The Wireless Network Defense (WND) program is developing and demonstrating new technology to protect the control protocols of wireless networks from the effects of advanced attacks or other forms of compromise. The program focuses on the protocols at the network and medium access control (MAC) layers of the network stack with the goal of protecting those protocols that coordinate among the distributed devices' management of resources such as spectrum, time, and power, and delivery of information. The development of this technology will both improve the robustness of the class of wireless networks that are being procured and fielded in the near future, and also provide a reliable foundation on which to build the next generation of wireless systems. These new defenses will minimize the impact of attacks on network control and will force attacks to be observable and attributable in order to be effective.
Deadline: December 20, 2014
15) Funding Opportunity Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science, Technology, Engineering ONRFOA14-002
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) seeks proposals for developing innovative solutions that directly support the development and maintenance of a robust Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce. The goal of any proposed effort should be to provide "game changing" solutions that will establish and maintain a diverse pipeline of U.S. citizens who are interested in uniformed or civilian Naval STEM related workforce opportunities.
Deadline: December 31, 2014
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DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)