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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of October 30, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week's report includes
- An honor for Dornsife faculty member;
- External funding success for 2 College faculty;
- Current external funding opportunities, including 2 limited submissions; and
- The last currently schedules Center for Excelence in Research webinar for the Fall 2023 semester.
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Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolade
Adrian De Leon, American Studies and Ethnicity, is the 2022-2023 winner of the Carleton C. Qualey Memorial Award for his article “Frank Mancao’s ‘Pinoy Image’: Photography, Masculinity, and Respectability in Depression-Era California” (Journal of American Ethnic History, 2022), Immigration and Ethnic History Society
External Funding Success
Jinkook Lee, Center For Economic & Social Research, Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley
Manuel Pastor, Sociology, Enhancing Capacity to Develop Meaningful Power-building Measures for Health Equity, California Endowment
External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
(Very close timeline))
Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Science
Program: Atmospheric System Research
FOA #: DE-FOA-0003194
Synopsis: Supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. This program solicits research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and / or modeling studies that use observations supported by Biological and Environmental Research (BER), including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, to improve understanding and model representation of 1) Aerosol processes at ARM sites; 2) Convective cloud processes; 3) Aerosol and cloud processes from ARM’s Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE); and 4) Mixed-phase cloud and ice cloud processes. All research supported by awards under this FOA is intended to benefit the public through increasing our understanding of the Earth system.
Award details: Anticipate up to $12M in program funds to support projects.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/de-foa-0003194/
External Announcement on website: ASR
USC Internal due date: November 6, 2023.
Letter of Intent due date: November 30, 2023.
External due date: February 13, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
(Very close timeline)
Andrew Mellon Foundation
Program: 2024 Call for Concepts: Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice and Social Justice
Synopsis: Supports humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on any of three topics: Exploring Democracy: Projects that consider the circumstantial conditions that enable US democratic practices to flourish, including how those can best be achieved, nurtured, and sustained within an increasingly complex and fractured society; Environmental Justice Studies: Projects that focus on specific systems (such as food, water, or health), ones that engage interrelated systems in a given community/locale, and ones that come at this topic through discrete analytical or disciplinary lenses; and (3) Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge: Projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with issues of social justice, given the particular investigative and analytical methods they deploy.
Award details: Anticipate $10M for this call for concepts. The final number of proposals selected will depend on the number and substance of the submissions.
USC Internal Announcement:
https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/mellon/
External announcement on website: https://www.mellon.org/article/call-for-concepts-higher-learning-2024
USC Internal due date: November 7, 2023.
External due date: February 15, 2023.
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New York Public Library / Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery
Program: Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access to the Schomburg Center's resources. The Lapidus residency program is designed to (1) encourage research and writing on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic world, (2) to promote and facilitate interaction among the participants including fellows funded by other sources, and (3) to facilitate the dissemination of the researchers' findings through lectures, publications, and the ongoing Schomburg Center Colloquium and Seminar Series. The Fellowship Program is open to post-doctoral scholars studying the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World.
Award details: $30K for a 6-month residential fellowship.
Announcement on website: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/lapidus-center-fellowships
Application due date: December 31, 2023.
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Pershing Square Foundation
Program: MIND Prize (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery)
Synopsis: Supports and empowers early-to-midcareer investigators to rethink conventional paradigms around neurodegenerative diseases. Advancing our fundamental understanding of the brain and cognition to ultimately combat neurodegeneration and related diseases is a goal of increasing urgency. Breakthroughs in basic scientific and translational research will yield critical tools for and knowledge of NDDs, including Alzheimer’s Disease andd ementia, which affect millions of people worldwide. Research domains may include—but are not limited to—neurobiology, brain imaging and mapping, machine learning, drug delivery, and synthetic biology, and projects may range from the invention of novel tools, techniques, and technologies for mapping and analyzing the brain to bold approaches that demonstrate extraordinary therapeutic potential.
Award details:Total award is $250K per year for 3 years. Indirect costs are limited to 10%. 5 to 7 awards are made annually.
Announcement on website: MIND Prize
Letter of Intent due date: 2-page LOI is due November 13, 2023. Selected applicants invited to present at finalist Review Board Meeting to take place Early February 2024.
Project start date: May 2024.
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The Grass Foundation (in partnership with the Kavli Foundation)
Program: 2024 Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports investigator-designed, independent research projects by scientists early in their careers. Successful applicants often take advantage of the model organisms available through the Marine Biological Laboratory’s (MBL) Marine Resource Center. Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems. The Foundation has a longstanding interest in epilepsy-related research. Comparative and integrative neuroscience has been of particular interest in recent years. Anthropogenic environmental impacts – including climate change, chemical and sensory pollution, and ocean acidification – may impact the brain at the cell and circuit level in ways that are not well understood. Investigators at all early career levels are eligible to apply. Former fellows are eligible to apply for a 2nd fellowship as well.
Award details: Includes stipend, laboratory space, animals, equipment, and supplies for one summer at the MBL. Additionally, the investigator, his/her spouse or legal domestic partner, and dependent children are provided housing and round-trip travel to the MBL.
Announcement on website: https://grassfoundation.org/fellowship-overview/
Application due date: December 1, 2023. 2024 Fellowship begins May 27, 2024, through Saturday, August 31, 2024.
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Program: Data Insights Cycle 3
Synopsis: Supports projects focused on advancing tools and resources that make it possible to gain greater insights into health and disease from single-cell biology datasets. Applications are encouraged from computational experts outside the field of single-cell biology but with expertise relevant to overcoming current bottlenecks and driving discoveries in the single-cell biology field. Projects may include dedicated efforts to democratize access and usability of existing datasets; demonstration of utility by leveraging existing datasets to address impactful and challenging biological questions; and developing methods that enable greater biological insight and other major challenges brought forward. This program does not support experimental data generation.
Award details: Grants will be awarded at 2 levels: Focused Projects at $200K total costs (inclusive of up to 15% indirect costs) for grants that primarily support the effort of one to two full-time employees (FTEs) working on a given project. Expanded Projects at $400K total costs (inclusive of up to 15% indirect costs) for networked grants that will require the participation of two to four full-time equivalent investigators that may require dedicated effort from multiple projects for more extensive analysis that will yield insight into a specific biological question etc. All projects are 18 months in duration.
Announcement on website: Data Insights Cycle 3
Application due date: December 5, 2023. Awards are expected to begin August 1, 2024.
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Rita Allen Foundation (in partnership with the U.S. Association for the Study of Pain (USASP))
Program: Rita Allen Foundation Scholars in Pain
Synopsis: Supports early-career scholars in basic pain research. Proposed research projects should be directed toward investigating the molecular biology of pain and/ o r basic science topics related to developing new analgesics for managing pain. Eligible applicants are within 3 years of the start date of their tenure track appointment; have start-up funds and independent lab space as verified by their Department or Division Chair; and who have a demonstrated commitment to pain research.
Award details: $150K for direct costs over 3 years. No indirect costs are included in the award.
Announcement on website: https://ritaallen.org/pain-scholars/
Application due date: December 14, 2023.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Synopsis: Supports environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies
to preserve humanities collections — including libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations — for future generations in the face of climate change. By using environmentally sustainable methods, institutions reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to ensure collections are better protected from current and future disasters.
Award details: 3 levels of funding: Planning projects t(up to $50K) o develop and assess environmentally preventive strategies: $50K; Implementation Level I (up to $100K) provides funding for small to mid-sized institutions to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address specific, discrete preservation challenges that have been identified through an assessment. Implementation Level II (up to $350K) provides funding for institutions of any size to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address large or multifaceted preservation challenges that have been identified through assessments and planning conducted by a multidisciplinary collaborative professional team appropriate to the goals of the project.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections
Optional draft due date: December 7, 2023.
Proposal due date: January 12, 2024.
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Department of Insular Affairs (OIA)
Program: 2024 Coral Reef and Natural Resources Initiative (CRNR)
Funding Opportunity #: OIA-CRNR-2024
Synopsis: Supports projects that aim to protect the health of coral reef ecosystems in the U.S. insular areas for the long-term economic and social benefit to their island populations including control, prevention, rapid response, eradication, and other efforts to combat invasive species and restore native species. These resources are experiencing a variety of stresses including poor water quality, over-harvesting, coastal development, disease, flooding, erosion, and bleaching, directly related to climate change and related extreme weather events. The Coral Reef Initiative and Natural Resources program is expected to continue to provide financial assistance to the insular areas to protect natural resources and to combat invasive species related to focal themes and focal species identified in the Regional Biosecurity Plan. Projects that support and bolster the efforts and resilience of each U.S. territory and the freely associated states to set their own priorities for natural resource management are encouraged. Projects should benefit underserved or disadvantaged communities and describe how so in the proposal. In addition, priority will be given to projects that may not have alternate sources of federal funds. Priority is given to projects that address a variety of threats to natural resources including (partial):
- Invasive projects, including aquatic and terrestrial plant, insect, and animal species;
- Projects that replant native species, restore native vegetation, and/or restore damaged lands due to natural or human-related activities.
- Projects that replant native species, restore native vegetation, and/or restore damaged lands due to natural or human-related activities.
Award details: Maximum award is $300K
Announcement on website: 2024 Coral Reef and Natural Resources Initiative
Application due date: March 15, 2024. Award expected September 2024.
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U.S. Department of State / Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN / CTR)
Program: Advancing Nuclear Safety, Security, and Nonproliferation through the FIRST Program
Synopsis: Supports efforts that focus on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD-related delivery systems proliferation and security threats from non-state actors and proliferator states. An underlying aim of all ISN / CTR’s efforts is long- -term sustainability to maximize programmatic impact while minimizing the need for foreign partners to rely on outside financial or technical assistance. In fiscal year 2024, FIRST will fund activities that align with and support one or more of its 2 goals. Proposals should indicate which of the 2 goals the work is intended to support. (1) Empower potential nuclear energy newcomer countries to prioritize nuclear security, nonproliferation, and safety considerations from the outset when evaluating civil nuclear reactor technologies, with an emphasis on SMRs and other advanced reactor designs. (2) Strengthen partner countries’ capacities to mitigate the nuclear security, proliferation, safety, liability, and sovereignty risks associated with the aggressive deployment of early-to-market FNPPs by third countries.
Award details: Awards will range from $50K to $250K for 12 months.
Announcement on website: Advancing Nuclear Safety, Security, and Nonproliferation
Application due date: January 31, 2024. The anticipated start date is October 1, 2024.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Program: Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness (PE) Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports the Analytics and Modeling Track as an option within the fellowship. The goal of this track is to grow CDC’s capabilities around advanced analytics and infectious disease modeling. The PE Fellowship builds the CDC’s capacity to assess the effectiveness and value of public health interventions and evidence-based decision-making. The goal of this fellowship is to ensure there are well-trained health economists with expertise in policy analysis and skills to consider economic issues in public health programs. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in decision science (e.g., economics or applied economics, health services research, or other related quantitative degree) with all requirements completed prior to the start of the PE Fellowship.
Award details: Fellows are full-time CDC employees during their 2-year fellowship.
Announcement on website: https://www.cdc.gov/pef/index.html
Application due date: Online application is due January 5, 2024.
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Department of Energy (DoE) / Office of Science /Biological and Environmental Science
Program: Environmental System Science
FOA #: DE-FOA-000316
Synopsis: Supports research that advances an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes, with an emphasis on understudied ecosystems. ESS research includes lab- and field-based studies as well as model development, and will continue to use the Modeling-Experimental (ModEx) paradigm to examine terrestrial and watershed system properties that exhibit large uncertainties in their functions, feedbacks, and dynamics, and that are insufficiently captured in open-source or community models. Such models are used to generate predictions, and these are compared against laboratory as well as field observations to identify critical uncertainties and inform future research directions. Broadly, ESS seeks r projects in the following 3 Science Research Areas (SRAs)
(1) Plant-microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere
(2) Consequences of Large-scale Shifts in Vegetation Composition
(3) Synthesis Studies
Award details: Total, maximum awards over 1-3 year performance period are as follows: SRAs 1&2:$1M; SRA 3: $400K. The minimum total award for all SRAs is $100K.
Announcement on website: 2024 ESS
Pre-Application due date: November 29, 2023.
Application submission due date: February 29, 2024.
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Program: Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-wide BAA
Funding Opportunity #: HR001124S0003
Synopsis: Supports revolutionary research projects for topics not being addressed by ongoing I2O programs or other published solicitations. The Information Innovation Office (I2O) creates groundbreaking science and develops transformational capabilities in the informational and computational spheres to surprise adversaries and maintain enduring advantages for national security. I2O programs address elements of four key thrust areas:
- Proficient artificial intelligence. The predominant research challenge on the path to proficient AI is defining and creating trustworthy AI systems, including in the face of attacks by skilled, high-resource adversaries. I
- Resilient, adaptable, and secure systems. Aims to dramatically enhance the
security and resilience of both new and legacy software, with a focus on practical
and scalable approaches.
- Advantage in cyber operations. Efforts in this thrust anticipate adversary countermeasures to create enduring capabilities.
- Confidence in the information domain. Focuses on protecting, detecting attacks on, and measuring the health of the information domain, broadly construed.
The solicitation urges potential proposers to survey projects already being funded and includes websites for which to view existing projects.
Award details: Multiple awards are anticipated. The amount of resources made available under this BAA depends on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds.
Announcement on website: 2024 I20 BAA
Abstract due date: September 27, 2024.
Proposal due date: October 29, 2024.
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Department of Defense (DoD) / Army Research Office
Program: LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC) Broad Agency Announcement
Research Opportunity #: W911NF-21-S-0009-1
Synopsis: Supports research under 3 categories: Incubator, Collaboration, and Fellowship research proposals (for graduate students and postdocs) for participation in the LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC). The mission of the LQC can be captured with 3 broad goals: 1) pursue disruptive fundamental research and enabling technologies with a focus on qubit development for quantum computing and other applications (such as sensing); 2) grow deep, collaborative partnerships to tackle the most difficult and relevant long-term problems in quantum information science and technology; and 3) build a quantum workforce of tomorrow through research experiences in government at LPS and at LQC partners. The LQC will offer a mechanism for collaborative research between LPS and academia, industry, federally funded research development centers (FFRDCs), and Government Laboratories to advance foundational and transformative research on challenging problems that have hindered progress in quantum information processing and associated technologies.
Award details: Anticipated awards will be made in the form of procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, and are subject to the availability of appropriations.
Announcement on website: https://arl.devcom.army.mil/collaborate-with-us/opportunity/lqc/
White Paper Requirement: White papers must be submitted for Incubator and Collaboration applications before proposals are submitted. Applicants will be provided feedback and will be able to make a determination if to submit a proposal.
Proposal due date: BAA is continuous until April 30, 2026.
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NIH / Multiple Institutes
Program: Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (U24 Resource-Related Research Projects – Cooperative Agreement)
NOFO #: RFA-AT-24-006
Synopsis: Supports the development and maintenance of a Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research through a cooperative agreement funding mechanism. Such a Center will address challenges and barriers to researching cannabis and its constituents as well as enable researchers to successfully generate more rigorous scientific evidence across a variety of research domains in both basic and clinical research. The Center is expected to be a focal point for researchers entering the cannabis research space and to support the development and establishment of research tools and studies that will improve and eventually change the landscape of cannabis research. Overall, the Center will facilitate research advances through synergistic interactions among experts in relevant commercial, basic science, clinical, and regulatory areas both within the Center itself and in collaboration with the extramural community. Proposals must address the 3 mandated cores of the Center: (1) Regulatory Guidance Core; (2) Research Standards Core; and (3) Research Support Core.
Award details: Application budgets must reflect the actual cost of the project for a maximum 5-year project period.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AT-24-006.html
Letter of Intent due date: March 16, 2024.
Application due date: April 16, 2024.
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NIH / Multiple Institutes (and relevant proposals may be co-sponsored by the Institutes on Women’s Health and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences)
Program: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research
NOFO #: PAR-23-293
Synopsis: Supports projects to study the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genetic or genomic research. Applications may propose studies using either single or mixed methods. Approaches may include but are not limited to empirical qualitative and quantitative methods, and conceptual, legal, and normative analyses. Applied research designed to address ELSI issues in genetics and genomics will also be considered responsive. Direct engagement with communities and other interested groups is encouraged, but not required. This NOFO requires a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP), which will be assessed as part of the scientific and technical peer-review evaluation. Applications that fail to include a PEDP will be considered incomplete and will be withdrawn. Examples of areas of interest include (partial):
- Genomics and Sociocultural Structures and Values: These projects may explore and elucidate the personal, social, and cultural factors that shape the generation, interpretation, understanding, and use of genetic and genomic information and associated technologies.
- Studies on the anticipated and actual psycho-social and behavioral impact of genetic and genomic information on affected individuals, their families, and populations; including studies on the adoption of risk-reduction health behaviors (diet, physical activity, obesity/weight loss) after receiving genetic/genomic testing results.
- Impact of germline gene editing technologies on the consent and autonomy of future generations.
Award details: Application budgets should reflect the needs of the project over a maximum 5-year project period.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-293.html
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through October 2026. Next due date for new applications is February 20, 2024.
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigtor
Office of Research and Innovation
Center for Excellence in Research
Upcoming Workshop
Regulatory Science Resources for Clinical Researchers
Attendees will get a general overview of the regulatory resources available from Southern California Clinical and Translational Institute and USC Mann’s DK Kim International Center for Regulatory Science. The presentation will focus on regulatory science training and educational programs that can help advance the work of clinical researchers.
Date: November 16, 2023 Date: 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual
Register here
Presenter: Karen Manrique , Project Administrator for the Regulatory Knowledge and Support (RKS) core within the Southern California Clinical and Translational Institute.
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Image: Figure shows urban air quality using an array of AQ sensors made by the Berkeley BEACO2N group. They are deployed around mid-city at LAUSD schools. Subtle variations in carbon dioxide and other constituent concentration both in time of increase and decrease helps identify sources and sinks of these parameters. With colleagues in SSI and Architecture, the Berelson Lab also has an Urban Trees Initiative that uses hand-held, USC-built sensors to detect small variation in pollution gases (CO and NO2) and Particulate Matter (PM) in and around trees. Courtesy Will Berelson, Earth Sciences
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