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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Save the Date: 2015 MSU-FBI Academic Alliance Conference

Monday, September 28, 2015 from 8:00am-5:00pm. The 2015 FBI-MSU Academic Alliance Conference is full-day program at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. Free event but registration is required.

Export Control Procedures

All PIs and other project personnel are individually responsible for compliance with export controls and trade sanctions. OSP has put together a list of circumstances that require review (follow link in title). Dan Segalman is Engineering’s resource for any export control questions. Email: Phone: 517-432-4904

Clarifying Publication Reporting Instructions for Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR) and Renewal Applications

Attention NIH awardees: Clarifying Publication Reporting Instructions for Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR) and Renewal Applications - This guidance applies to the following activity codes: T15, T32, TL1, T34, TL4, T35, T90, R25, RL5, R90, RL9, K12, KM1, KL2, D43, D71, DP7, U2R, and U45.

•Awardees are responsible for ensuring publications are deposited into the NIHMS upon acceptance for publication.

•Authors can use the Applicability & Submission Method Wizard ( to learn how to bring their publication into compliance and report it to NIH.

•Investigators, authors and delegates can track public access compliance in My Bibliography ( Program Directors/Principal Investigators may wish to track publications they do not author in the collection Other Citations (see the My Bibliography FAQ for more instructions). Other Citations is especially helpful for managing institutional training grants and complex awards.

•NIH recommends investigators or their delegates check the public access compliance of all the papers directly arising from their award at least once a quarter.

RFI - Solar PV on Commercial Buildings

The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) is specifically interested in information on practical, industry-driven, financially enduring, and self-sustaining strategies that facilitate solar deployment for buildings.

SPA (OSP|CGA) Federal Uniform Guidance

Stay up to date with grant regulation changes resulting from Uniform Guidance.

MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy

College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline

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.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

1)Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office Wide DARPA-BAA-14-39

2)Next Generation Marine Energy Systems- Durability and Survivability DE-FOA-0001310

3)Data Concepts and Terminology Standards for the Support of Human Drug Development and Evaluation (U24) RFA-FD-15-033

4)Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) NSF 15-555

5)Dear Colleague Letter: ACI & Career NSF 15-072

6)Biological and Physiological Effects of E-cigarette Aerosol Mixtures(RO1) RFA-DE-16-004

7)Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields (REVEAL) DARPA-BAA-15-44

8)Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) NSF 13-561

9)Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2016-2017

10)Inter-Satellite Communications Links DARPA-BAA-15-43

11)Professional Research Experience Program (PREP-MML) 2015-NIST-PREP-MML-01

12)Make-It DARPA-BAA-15-46

13)Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) NSF 15-575

1)Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office Wide DARPA-BAA-14-39

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to the Information Innovation Office (I2O). I2O explores game-changing technologies in the fields of information science and technology to anticipate and create rapid shifts in the complex national security landscape.

Deadline: July 15, 2015

2)Next Generation Marine Energy Systems- Durability and Survivability DE-FOA-0001310

This FOA focuses on the robustness of innovative MHK design systems with high performance potential and attempts to address questions regarding the costs, reliability, and survivability of innovative and novel system designs.

Deadline: full proposal due July 15, 2015

3)Data Concepts and Terminology Standards for the Support of Human Drug Development and Evaluation (U24) RFA-FD-15-033

The FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research is encouraging applications for projects to expedite development of data concepts and terminology standards, as well as assessments or evaluations of standards for use to support human drug development and evaluation. The primary objective is to support the development of non-proprietary, consensus-based, data standards for use in regulatory data for human drugs and biologics, while ensuring interoperability between clinical research and healthcare standards. Projects may focus on standards development, evaluation, or focus on a particular challenge area related to general clinical and nonclinical study data, specific therapeutic areas, as well as other sections of the regulatory submission (e.g., quality / Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC).

Deadline: July 17, 2015

4)Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) NSF 15-555

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

Deadline: July 22, 2015

5)Dear Colleague Letter: ACI & Career NSF 15-072

The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) invites proposals from junior faculty within the community of scientists, engineers, and educators involved with cyberinfrastructure research to apply to the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. ACI’s research interests include use-inspired and/or applied multidisciplinary research. Additional context for ACI’s interests in this solicitation can be found in “Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21)”

Deadline: July 21, 2015

6)Biological and Physiological Effects of E-cigarette Aerosol Mixtures(RO1) RFA-DE-16-004

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support research aimed at understanding the biological and physiological effects of aerosol mixtures produced by electronic cigarettes (ECs) on cells, tissues and organs of the oral cavity including oral and periodontal epithelia, gingiva, salivary glands, and tooth. This FOA will also support research on elucidation of the effects of ECs on oral microbiome. Research supported by this FOA would provide essential and necessary information on the biological effects of ECs that would in turn lead to evidence based foundational information for health policy decisions.

Deadline: full proposal due July 28, 2015

7)Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields (REVEAL) DARPA-BAA-15-44

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields (REVEAL) program is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of optical imaging and sensing of high dimensional degrees of freedom of light across all photon pathways.

Deadline: July 30, 2015

8)Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) NSF 13-561

The Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) Program supports the development, production, and distribution of novel instrumentation that addresses demonstrated needs in biological research in areas supported by NSF Biology programs. These systems would benefit a broad user community through mass distribution of the technology. Interdisciplinary collaborations are strongly encouraged, as are partnerships with U.S. industries that can facilitate knowledge transfer, commercialization and broad utilization in the research community. The program accepts two types of proposals: Type A – Innovation & Type B – Bridging.

Deadline: July 31, 2015

9)Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2016-2017

The core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program provides approximately 800 teaching and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Grants are available in over 125 countries worldwide.

Deadline: August 03, 2015

10)Inter-Satellite Communications Links DARPA-BAA-15-43

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals for a program to develop lightweight (less than 2 pounds) and low-average-power (less than 3watts) inter-satellite communications links. The links are intended to provide the highest data-rate between microsatellites, consistent with their small size and limited power consumption. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in the capabilities available for inter-satellite communications. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in incremental improvement to the existing state of practice.

Deadline: August 03, 2015

11)Professional Research Experience Program (PREP-MML) 2015-NIST-PREP-MML-01

NIST is soliciting applications from eligible applicants to provide undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows with fellowship opportunities and financial assistance to obtain laboratory experiences within the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Charleston, South Carolina. The recipients will work with NIST to foster collaborative research relationships among NIST staff, undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and the students’ academic institutions.

Deadline: August 07, 2015

12)Make-It DARPA-BAA-15-46

The Make-It program in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of research related to the development of an automated chemical synthesizer that can produce, purify, characterize and scale a wide range of small molecules.

Deadline: September 01, 2015

13)Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) NSF 15-575

Cyberspace has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. The rush to adopt cyberspace, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities: corporations, agencies, national infrastructure and individuals have been victims of cyber-attacks. In December 2011, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) with the cooperation of NSF issued a broad, coordinated Federal strategic plan for cybersecurity research and development to "change the game," minimize the misuses of cyber technology, bolster education and training in cybersecurity, establish a science of cybersecurity, and transition promising cybersecurity research into practice. This challenge requires a dedicated approach to research, development, and education that leverages the disciplines of mathematics and statistics, the social sciences, and engineering together with the computing, communications and information sciences.

Deadline: September 16/24, 2015

All deadlines listed in this announcement indicate the agency’s due date. Please adjust your PPF submission to account for the new deadline policies.

DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)