Weekly Funding Opportunity Announcement 9.2.2015
Weekly Funding Opportunity Announcement – 9.2.2015
CongratulationstoBara Alsalaheen, Jamie Haines, Amy Yorke, Kayla Stockdale, and Steven Brogliofor their recent publication, “Reliability and Concurrent Validity of Instrumented Balance Error Scoring System Using a Portable Force Plate System” in The Physician and Sportsmedicine.Drs. Alsalaheen, Haines, and Yorke teach in the UM-Flint Physical Therapy department.Kayla Stockdale is a Flint Physical Therapy graduate student and research assistant. Dr. Broglio is from the NeuroSport Research Laboratory at UM-Ann Arbor. The articleresulted from research performed with the support of Dr. Alsalaheen’s Research and Creative Activity grant. The abstract is available at
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Dr. Van Allen is happy to meet with faculty individually or in groups and teams in consulting with them on their research agendas and funding opportunities.He will also consult on individual career development and/or interdisciplinary collaborations of research. Please contact him for an appointment or meeting at phone extension 6-6842 or email address .
September Faculty Research Spotlight
Please join us on September 23from 12:30 to 1:30 for the first Faculty Research Spotlight of the academic year. Victoria Morckel from the Earth and Resource Science department will discuss her research,A Method for Prioritizing Demolitions in a Legacy City.
Wednesday, September 23 in the Harding Mott University Center (UCEN), Michigan Room B
Please encourage your students to attend. Pizza will be served.
2015-2016 Student Research Conferences
During the upcoming academic year, there will be two opportunities for students to present their research. Please encourage your student researchersto sharethe results of their hard work at one or both of these conferences. Students can submit a paper, a research poster, or both.
On November 13, 2015, we will host the Flint Student Research Symposium (FSRS), which will feature graduate and undergraduate students from UM-Flint and Kettering University. For more information and to register, please visit
Meeting of Minds (MOM) will be held on May 13, 2016, and features undergraduate students from UM-Flint, UM-Dearborn, Kettering, and Oakland University. Please watch future announcements for more information.
We’re looking forward to the first-time partnership with Kettering University, and are excited to welcome their student presenters. Both conferences are scheduled to be held at the Riverfront Center.
This is an opportunity to highlight student achievements, and recognize what can be accomplished with the help of faculty mentors. Please encourage your students to make this part of their academic experience.
Augment Your Research Team with Students from UROP
Faculty: you are invited to submit your research projects to the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). UROP offers students an opportunity to earn paid experiences as research assistants on faculty-led projects. For many students, working closely with a faculty mentor represents one of the highlights of their academic career. At the same time, faculty can also benefit by having enthusiastic and engaged students working directly alongside them. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!
For more information, please visit under the “Faculty” tab or contact Andre Louis at .
Register for Upcoming Workshop
The Office of Research, the Faculty Mentoring Program, and the UM-Flint School of Health Professions and Studies will host a proposal writing workshop during the upcoming Fall semester.
Friday, October 30, 2015 from noon until 5pm, Proposal Writing workshop with Christine Black.
This workshop will guide faculty members through the proposal development process, with an emphasis on responding to federal announcements. Black supports UM Medical School faculty and the research enterprise in proposal development, faculty training and internal foundation reviews. She has mentored hundreds of faculty and is noted for her ability to work with both seasoned researchers, as well as novice investigators initiating their first proposal. Lunch will be served at noon, and the workshop will begin at 12:30.
Please register here:
Indirect Costs
Indirect costs are the operational costs that accompany all grant activity at the University. They are sometimes called IDC, Facilities and Administrative costs, or F&A. The federal government determines the amount of IDC the University is allowed to recover as part of a grant award. Unless otherwise noted in the sponsor guidelines, these are the current IDC recovery rates:
All Sponsors*July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
- Research: on campus:55%|off campus:26.0%
- Instruction: on campus:54.0%|off campus:26.0%
- Other Sponsored Activity: on campus:29.0%|off campus:26.0%
These rates are provisional after June 30, 2016 until a new agreement is negotiated.
For more information, please see the UM-Ann Arbor Office of Research website.
All Funds for FY2016 International Travel Have Been Awarded
The Office of Research is no longer accepting applications for International Travel grants. All funds have been awarded for the year.
Grant Searches
Visit our website, for help with external funding searches. Or contact Maria Schell at .Need help with statistics for your research?
Visit our statistics support page.
Below is the list of funding opportunities and program announcements for this week.
Please note: prior to preparing and submitting a proposal,
Applicants must contact the UM-Flint Office of Research
Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Computational Mathematics
ROSES 2015: Discovery Data Analysis Program
ROSES 2015: Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations
Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences
FON:
15-602
AGENCY:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
ITEM:
Notice seeking proposals to supportuser-friendly large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research in social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Funds support efforts to create new databases and analytic techniques.
ACTION:
Proposals are due by February 29, 2016. Approximately $4.5 million is available to supportthree to four awards.
LINKS:
Solicitation,Grants.gov
Computational Mathematics
FON:
PD-16-1271
AGENCY:
National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
ITEM:
Notice seeking proposals supporting mathematical research in areas of science where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing analysis, development and implementation of numerical methods and algorithms, and symbolic methods.
ACTION:
Proposal windowis fromNovember 16, 2015 to December 1, 2015.
LINKS:
Solicitation,Grants.gov
ROSES 2015: Discovery Data Analysis Program
FON:
NNH15ZDA001N-DDAP
AGENCY:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ITEM:
Notice seeking applications tosupportresearch and technology in space and Earth sciences, including, but not limited to: theory, modeling, and analysis of SMD science data; aircraft, scientific balloon, sounding rocket, International Space Station, CubeSat and suborbital reusable launch vehicle investigations.
ACTION:
Step 1 applications are due September 10, 2015.Step 2 applications are due November 20, 2015.Approximately $1.5 million is available to support 10 to 13 awards.
LINKS:
Solicitation,Grants.gov
ROSES 2015: Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations
FON:
NNH15ZDA001N-PICASSO
AGENCY:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ITEM:
Notice seeking applications tosupportinvestigations of all classes of objects in the Solar System, except those focused on the Earth and Sun, consistent with the strategy for Solar System Exploration embodied in the Solar System Roadmap 2006.
ACTION:
Step 1 applications are due September14,2015. Step 2 applications are due November 13, 3015.Approximately $3.5 million is available to support 12 awards.
LINKS:
Solicitation,Grants.gov