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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of October 16,, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week report includes
- An honor conferred upon 1 Dornsife faculty member;
- New external funding success achieved by 4 College faculty members;
- A USC internal funding opportunity;
- Current external funding opportunity, including an anticipated limited submission;
- An anouncement of CER workshop; and
- NewsFlash! from the Department of Contracts and Grants.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolade
Robin Coste Lewis, English, has been awarded the 2023 Pen/Voelker Award for poetry
for her collection, To The Realization of Perfect Helplessness (Knopf, 2022)
External Funding Successes
Gouping Huang, Spatial Sciences Institute, The Global Climate Geodesign, University of Minnesota
Scott Kanoski, Human and Evolutionary Biology, Connections Between Early Life Obesogenic Diet, the gut microbiome and neurocognition, The Obesity Society
Peter Kuhn, Convergent Science Institute in Cancer, Convergent Science Cancer Consortium, Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Santiago Morales, Psychology, EEG Neuromodeling, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
USC Internal Funding Opportunity
External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
(limited submission information forthcoming)
NIH / Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) and National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Program: Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations
NOFO #: PAR-24-028
Synopsis: Supports the purchase of the latest equipment that will enhance and modernize research-supporting operations of existing shared biomedical research facilities. Targeted are laboratory research core facilities, animal research facilities, and other similar shared-use research spaces. The goal of this NOFO is to strengthen research-auxiliary activities of biomedical research facilities and to enhance the efficiency of their operations. This is a limited submission.
Award details: The maximum award budget is $350K, direct costs only. Applications with a budget less than $50K will not be considered.
USC Internal Announcement: TBA
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-028.html
USC Internal due date: TBA
External due date: November 15, 2023.
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Graham Foundation
Program: 2024 Carter Manny Award — The Writing Award (for graduate students)
Synopsis: Supports graduate students who are in the final writing phase of their doctoral dissertation. Eligible dissertation projects must focus on architecture, though scholarly investigations may be grounded in a range of academic disciplines and fields of inquiry that align with the mission of the Graham Foundation. These include: architecture and architectural history; art and art history; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urbanism; and other related fields. Applicants for a Writing Award must submit a writing sample (excerpt from a dissertation chapter), a dissertation table of contents, and a writing schedule. Students must be nominated by their departments to apply for this award.
Award details: $20K
Announcement on website: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/
Application due date: November 15, 2023.
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Collegeville Institute
Program: 2024-2025 Resident Scholar Program / Donald Ottenhoff Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports scholars who plan to conduct their research over the course of one semester or a full academic year. This fellowship is designed for those who will (1) Explore the relationship between art and lived religion; (2) Bring theological or religious resources to bear on current social, political, or cultural circumstances.
Award details: The fellowship includes fee-free housing at the Collegeville Institute, up to $2,K to cover travel and research expenses, and all privileges afforded to Resident Scholars or Short-Term Resident Scholars.
Announcement on website: https://collegevilleinstitute.org/residencies/available-fellowships/
Application due date: November 1, 2023.
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Russell Sage Foundation
Program: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Synopsis: Supports research projects from a range of disciplines that will advance our understanding of economic, social and political decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing / criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial / ethnic relations and immigration. Examples of broad areas of interest are:
- Biases and Misconceptions
- Institutions, Policies, Social Structures and Network
- Habits, Time Preferences, Mental Bandwidth and Behavior Change
- Affect and Emotions
Award details: Trustee Grants are capped at $200K including 15% indirect costs; Presidential Grants are capped at $50K (no indirect costs). PI may request up to $75K (no indirect costs) when the proposed project has special needs for gathering data, or when the proposal budget includes salary support for multiple assistant professor PIs. Project periods is 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.russellsage.org/research/funding/behavioral-science-decision-making
Letter of Intent due date: November 7, 2023.
Proposal due date (invited): February 21, 2024.
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Asian Cultural Council (ACC)
Program: 2024 Grants
Synopsis: Supports the advancement of international dialogue, mutual understanding, and respect through supporting cultural exchange projects by individuals and organizations between Asia and the US and between Asian countries. As such the ACC offers a suite of funding opportunities: (1) New York Fellowship: A six-month fellowship program based in New York City, with logistical and programmatic support from ACC staff. Fellowships may involve targeted research projects or open-ended exploration. (2) Individual Fellowship: One- to six-month fellowships for individuals, or small groups of collaborators, undertaking self-directed research. Programmatic support from ACC staff may be available by region. (3) Graduate Fellowship: A living stipend for students from Asia pursuing graduate degrees in the U.S., with priority given to students who do not have access to comparable programs at home, and to those studying in fields that are underrepresented in their home countries. (4) Organization Grant: Support for cultural exchange opportunities for specific project participants who will benefit from the experience as individual fellowship recipients do – through cultural immersion, research, specialized training, exchange of knowledge among peers, and other process-oriented activities.
Award details: New York Fellowship: $36K for 6 months. Individual Fellowship: $35K; Graduate Fellowship: $15K for 1 academic year; opportunity for renewed additional year; Organization Grant: $50K.
Announcement on website: https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/our-work/programs/fellowships-and-grants
Application window: November 1, 2023 to November 30, 2023.
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The Retirement Research Foundation (RRF)
Program: Foundation for Aging
Synopsis: Supports research on aging in the following priority areas: Caregiving; Economic Security in Later Life; Housing; and Social and Intergenerational Connectedness. RRF intends to support innovative and effective projects that support the ability of older people to live fully in community settings. While the priority areas reflect RRF’s primary funding interests, RFF remains open to considering compelling applications addressing other topics on a limited basis.
Award details: Proposed budgets ought to reflect the needs of the project. RFF allows 10% of direct costs for indirect costs. The average of awards for 2023 was ~$126K.
Announcement on website: https://www.rrf.org/what-we-fund/
Letter of Inquiry due date: Multiple due dates. Next due date is November 1, 2023. There are 3 funding cycles throughout the year.
Full proposal due date: February 5, 2024 for this round. Funding decisions for this cycle are made in May.
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National Academy of Education
Program: National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports early-career scholars working in critical areas of education research. To that end, the NAEd seeks to fund proposals that promise to make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education and to advance the careers of the recipients. Eligible applicants must have received their PhD, EdD, or equivalent research degree between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2022, and must not yet be tenured. Fellows may not receive other concurrent funding for their project during the tenure of the fellowship. Fellows may not hold a separate grant from the Spencer Foundation during their fellowship period.
Award details: $70K. As this is a non-residential fellowship, fellows may elect to take the fellowship full-time over one year or half-time over two years.
Announcement on website: https://naeducation.org/naedspencer-postdoctoral-fellowship-guidelines/
Application due date: Online application must be received by November 15, 2023.
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American Psychological Foundation
Program: Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant
Synopsis: Supports the study of LGBTQA+ family psychology and therapy through its support of promising young investigators whose graduate research is oriented toward issues in this general area. Among the program goals of this program include advancing the understanding of problems faced by LGBTQA+ families including those associated with cultural, racial, socioeconomic, and family structure diversity; advancing the understanding of successful coping mechanisms sources of support and resilience for family members; and advancing the understanding of clinical issues and interventions in the domain of LGBTQA+. Eligible candidates are advanced graduate students in good standing who have the endorsement of a supervising professor.
Award details: $8K
Announcement on website: https://apf.apa.org/funding/scrivner-grant/
Application due date: November 15, 2023.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and NIH / Global Grand Challenges
Program: Women’s Health Innovation
Synopsis: Supports proposals that address gaps in research and development in women’s health. Specifically, seeks proposals to address the following topics: (1) Collecting more granular data, strengthening capacity for sex and gender-informed data collection, and filling critical data gaps; (2) Advancing sex- and gender-intentional research design, methods, and analysis (3) Implementing sex- and gender-intentional regulatory and science policy frameworks that promote the development of innovations that improve the health of women; (4) Strengthening the innovation ecosystem and pathways for women’s health solutions to scale; (5) Social and structural determinants; (6) Training and careers; (7) Communicable diseases; and (8) Researching the etiology and progression of gynecological, reproductive, maternal, and life stage conditions, supporting new methods for data collection and sharing, and developing innovations to prevent, diagnose, monitor and treat female-specific conditions. The solicitation provides more information regarding specific research in each of the above topic areas is requested.
Award details: Up to $150K for 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/opportunities-advance-womens-health-innovation
Application due date: December 8, 2023.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Landmarks of American History and Culture
Synopsis: Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation that enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals. The program situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching about diverse histories, cultures, traditions, languages, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions. Landmarks workshops offer participants a variety of possible workshop formats, a range of topics, and may occur in-person
and / or virtually, and include multiple place types.
Award details: $190K for 15 months.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshops-school-teachers
Application submission window (anticipated): November 7, 2023 to February 7, 2024. Project start date is October 1, 2024.
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Department of Energy (DoE)
Program: ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC)
Synopsis: The ASCR (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to the DoE, with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff scientific campaigns enabled via high-performance computing (HPC) in areas directly related to the DOE mission, that respond to national emergencies, or that broaden the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources. ALCC is currently soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2024-2025 allocation year. High performance computing (HPC) platforms available for the current allocation cycle include Frontier, the new exascale system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); early access on Aurora, the new exascale system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Polaris, a new 44-petaflop accelerated system at ALCF; 6-month allocations on Theta at ALCF; and Perlmutter, a new accelerated system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). 10% to 30% of the allocatable computing time will be made available on each of these machines to the ALCC program.
Award details: Small-medium (no more than 25% of available ALCC hours at a given facility. See Allocation Request Cap) for 1 year (renewable)
Announcement on website: ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC)
Pre-Proposal due date: November 13, 2023.
Proposal due date: February 12, 2024.
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Department of Energy (DoE) / Office of Science / Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Program: Climate Resilience Center
FOA #: DE-FOA-0003181
Synopsis: Supports proposals from the scientific community for Climate Resilience Centers (CRCs) that will improve the availability and utility of BER research, data, models, and capabilities to address climate resiliency, particularly by underrepresented or vulnerable communities. Examples of science challenges that the CRCs may address include:
- Developing contextualized, community-based definitions and models of resilience, illuminating the dynamic processes, quantifiable dimensions, and metrics that can be incorporated to measure progress.
- Developing new and insightful prediction tools and exploring their use through stress
testing to evaluate adaptation strategies that can achieve desired levels of equitable
resilience over time horizons of interest.
- Building or extending observational capabilities to provide the necessary data for new
predictions or improve prediction accuracy in support of resilience strategies.
Award details: Awards will range up to $1M for a multi-institutional team to $100K total award for 3 years.
Announcement on website: Climate Resilience Center
Pre-Application due date: December 14, 2023.
Application due date: March 7, 2024.
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NSF / Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences — Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Program: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
NSF #: PD-24-1699
Synopsis: Supports projects that advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically advance theories in cognitive neuroscience by relating precise and rich quantifications of physiology, cognition and behavior with each other (Intellectual Merit). Funded proposals also typically strengthen the field through, for example, outreach, mentoring the next generation of diverse cognitive neuroscientists and / or increasing awareness and utilization of the research the field produces (Broader Impacts).
Award details: Recent awards have ranged up to $900K for 3 years. Average awards are around $350K
Announcement on website: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cognitive-neuroscience-cogneuro-0
Submission window dates: January 15, 2024 – February 1, 2024; August 1, 2024 – August 15, 2024.
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NSF / Directorates for Engineering (ENG), STEM Education (EDU), and Technology Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)
Program: Aligning Fundamental Research and Education in Advanced Manufacturing with the Objectives of the Manufacturing USA Institutes via Dear Colleague Letter (DCL)
Solicitation #: 24-014
Synopsis: Supports research and educational projects that align with the technical focus areas of the Manufacturing USA Institutes to established NSF programs in the ENG, EDU, and TIP Directorates. Manufacturing USA Institutes cover a wide range of topical areas that span the challenging and high-tech world of advanced manufacturing, from biopharmaceutical production and tissue printing to robotics and cybersecurity. NSF is interested in receiving proposals addressing critical fundamental research on and workforce development needs for advanced manufacturing that enable innovations in the technical focus areas of one or more of the Manufacturing USA Institutes. Proposal submissions should detail explicit collaborations with Institutes to facilitate the transition of promising research results and educational programs to them, leverage the programs, facilities, infrastructure, expertise, and member companies of one or more Institutes, and / or provide experiential learning opportunities for students.
Announcement on website: Manufacturing USA Institutes
Additional Information: As this is not a new program, proposals ought to be made to the relevant directorates.
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NIH / National Cancer Institute
Program: Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE)
NOFO #: PAR-23-308 (U54 Specialized Center – Cooperative Agreement
Synopsis: Supports the Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) Program. The CPACHE Program develops and maintains comprehensive, long-term, and mutually beneficial partnerships between institutions serving underserved health disparity populations and underrepresented students (ISUPSs) and NCI-designated Cancer Centers (CCs). The program aims to achieve a stronger national cancer program and address challenges in cancer and cancer disparities research, education, and outreach, as well as cancer's impact on underserved populations. The institutions in each partnership are expected to work collaboratively to: 1) increase the cancer research and cancer research education capacity of the ISUPSs; 2) promote the diversity of the cancer research workforce; 3) improve the effectiveness of CCs in developing and sustaining research programs focused on cancer health disparities and increase the number of investigators and students conducting cancer health disparities research; and 4) develop and implement cancer-related outreach and education initiatives that benefit the surrounding underserved communities.
Award details: Application budgets are limited to $1.7M in direct costs per year for partnerships of two institutions and $2.2 million in direct costs per year for partnerships of three institutions. Project period is 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-308.html
Letter of Intent due date: December 16, 2023.
Application due date: January 16, 2024.
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NIH / Multiple Institutes
Program: Unveiling Health and Healthcare Disparities in Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases (NCDs) in Latin America: Setting the Stage for Better Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere
NOFO #: PAR-23-303
Synopsis: Supports collaborative and interdisciplinary research focused on clinical epidemiology, evaluation of public and / or health care policies, and validation of measurements that address health and health care disparities related to non-NCDs with the highest disease burden and mortality in Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics / Latinos. Those NCDs are many and include obesity, diabetes and related complications, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia/dyslipidemia, cancer, chronic lung disease (including asthma), chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, as well as chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. In addition, sleep disordered breathing, cognitive impairment and dementia, geriatric conditions and longevity, and mental and behavioral health conditions have been increasingly studied in Hispanic / Latino persons in the U.S. and throughout Latin America, yet their diagnosis is often delayed. Specific areas of interest include (partial)
- Describe access to and utilization of health services, quality of care and associated clinical and health outcomes related to NCDs, especially among underserved populations including Indigenous, Afro-Latino, and rural and suburban communities.
- Evaluate the effective integration of social services (e.g., food security, housing, education) with healthcare and its impact on health disparities and health outcomes.
- Assess the conceptualization of community and the contextualization of social determinants of health (SDoH), and how these can be optimally integrated into community-engaged research and the assessment of health / health care disparities across the region.
- Explore the conceptualization of race, ethnicity, and colorism throughout Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics / Latinos, and how it relates to racism and discrimination, SDoH, health care and health outcomes to inform how to intervene to improve health outcomes.
Award details: Application budgets must reflect the needs of a maximum 5-year project.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-303.html
Application due date: February 5, 2024
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigators
Office of Research and Innovation
Center for Excellence in Research
Upcoming Workshop
Developing a Successful Humanities / Social Sciences Agency Grant
Federal agencies have many funding opportunities in the humanities and social sciences, including NSF’s SBE; HHS’s ACL and ACF; DOD’s ARI and MINERVA; DOJ’s NIJ and OJJDP; NEH; and IMLS/NARA/LOC. Create winning proposals with tips and strategies for specific opportunities offered by the various agencies, followed by a discussion from USC faculty who've been successful in such competitions.
Date: October 26, 2023 Time: 12 noon - 2:00 PM
Virtual Registration: https://rii.usc.edu/cer/
Presenter: Jim Murday, Director of Physical Sciences, USC Office of Advancement
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Department of Contracts and Grants
NewsFlash!
The Extramural Trainee Reporting and Career Tracking (xTRACT) module within eRA Commons has alreagy begun to feature refreshed screens and new user-friendly features. All xTRACT screens will move to the new visual appearance being adopted by other eRA modules, as part of a required technology upgrade. However, the capabilities will remain the same. For more info go here.
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Book Cover: The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy) (Routledge, 1st Edition, Forchcoming December 2023) Clayton Littlejohn (Editor)
Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Editor), Philosophy
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