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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of November 13, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week our report includes
- Honors for 2 faculty members;
- Terrific external success report: new funding for 5 Dornsife faculty;
- Current external funding opportunities including 3 limited submissions and 2 funding opportunties from Corporate & Foundation Relations;
- NewsFlash from Department of Contracts and Grants for Faculty and Department Administrators.
The Weekly Report will pause next week for the Thanksgiving holiday (and return the week of 11/27/2023). We wish you and yours a joyful day of gratitude as we remember and give thanks for all good things great and small!
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolades
Jenny Chio, East Asian Languages and Cultures is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship ‑ Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2021-2024
Jessica Zu, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, is a 2023-2024 Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study for her project Karma, Science, and a Just Society: Buddhist Philosophical Toolboxes for Post-Racial and Post-Caste Worldmaking.
External Funding Successes
James Boedicker, Physics and Astronomy, Engineering electroactive bacteria for tunable synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials, US Army Contracting Command
Iony Danielle Ezawa, Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Immersion: A Randomized Control Trial of Peer-Based Coaching in the Metaverse, Innerworld, Inc.
Karla B. Heidelberg, Sea Grant, Clean Streets, Clean Seas: Innovating Public Works to Intercept Microplastics in Urban Runoff, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Brent C Melot, Chemistry, Development of a Fluoride-Ion Li-CFx Primary Cell, Flion Energy
Marshall Garland, Center For Economic & Social Research, University of Virginia - CTE Study, Rector and Visitors of The University of Virginia
External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
(posted earlier; now with limited submission info)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence
Funding Opportunity #: 20240214-RAI
Synopsis: Supports the creation and sustained collaboration among scholars, i.e. a Center, focused on exploring a specific topic, the humanities implications of AI, through two or more related scholarly activities. NEH particularly encourages Centers interested in equity, privacy, and civil rights topics. Existing AI research centers are not eligible for this competition. A Center may or may not have a physical location, but projects should establish a leadership structure, develop a mission statement, and create a strategy to sustain the Center beyond the period of performance. NEH welcomes international collaboration, but scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project.
Award details: Proposed budgets may be up to $500K of total direct and indirect funding for a period of 36 months, plus an additional $250K in federal matching funds. No single year’s budget may exceed $200K.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/limited-submissions-template/
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/Research%20Centers%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence%2020240214-RAI%20%282%29.pdf
USC Internal due date: December 8, 2023.
Optional draft due date: January 10, 2024.
Application due date: February 14, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
National Coordinator Center on Transition
Program: Transition for Youth with Autism and/or Epilepsy
NOFO #: HRSA-24-041 and HRSA-24-042
Synopsis: Supports the development and advancement of national, state, and local / community-level frameworks that support successful transition from child to adult serving systems for youth with autism and / or epilepsy who have complex health and social needs and require a higher level of family support and coordination . This announcement includes instructions for applying to two separate awards. You may only apply for HRSA-24-042 (DPs) or HRSA-24-041 (NCCT), but not both projects. HRSA will not consider funding applicants who apply to more than one funding opportunity number or focus area.
Award details: Up to $735K
USC Internal Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/hrsa-24-041/
External announcement: Transition for Youth with Autism and Epilepsy (EMMA)
USC Internal due date: January 12, 2024.
External due date: March 11, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
NSF / Directorate for STEM Education – Division of Undergraduate Education
Program: Scholarships in STEM Network (S-STEM-Net)
Solicitation #: NSF-23-536
Synopsis: Supports S-STEM stakeholders to further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The S-STEM-Net stakeholders will collaborate within S-STEM Research Hubs to create synergies and sustain a robust national ecosystem consisting of multi-sector partners supporting domestic low-income STEM students in achieving their career goals, while also ensuring access, inclusion, and adaptability to changing learning needs. The Hubs will investigate evolving barriers to the success of this student population. It will also disseminate the context and circumstances by which interventions and practices that support graduation of domestic low-income students (both undergraduate and graduate) pursuing careers in STEM are successful.
Award details: Program funding is $15M for support of 1-5 S-STEM Research Hubs
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/nsf-23-536/
External announcement: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23536/nsf23536.htm
USC Internal due date: January 12, 2024.
External due date: March 27, 2023.
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Pop Culture Collaborative
Program: Major Grants
Synopsis: Supports, broadly, artists, organizers, strategists, and researchers who can create the stories that help the American public understand and interpret the choices we face through the lens of our shared commitment to becoming a pluralist nation. Over the long term, the Collaborative is working to support the growth of pop culture for social change field capable of building the yearning in most Americans (more than 150 million people) to actively co-create a just and pluralist society in which everyone is perceived to belong, inherently, and is treated as such. The Pop Culture Collaborative defines a pluralist society as a culture in which the majority of people in a community and nation are engaged in the hard and delicate work of belonging together in a just and equitable society. To be considered, proposals must engage, affect, center, and/or support at least one of the Collab’s multi-community focus areas: people of color, immigrants, refugees, Indigenous peoples, and / or Muslims, particularly those who are women, queer, transgender, and / or disabled. Initiatives with an intersectional and intentional focus on gender justice, LGBTQIA rights, disability, democratic fairness, pluralist values, and economic justice are highly prioritized. The announcement includes 5 Program Areas in which they have interest.
Award details: $50K-$100K for 1 year; $100K-$200K for 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://popcollab.org/grantmaking/major-grants-guidelines/
Proposal due date: Major grant due dates are late winter / early spring and late summer / early fall. Major grants are awarded in the summer (May/ J une) and winter (November / December) of each year.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Program: Indigenous-Led Solutions to Advance Health Equity and Well-Being
Synopsis: Supports research driven by Indigenous (and affiliated) communities focused on advancing “upstream” solutions to promote health equity and well-being for Indigenous Peoples. The term “upstream” refers to systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ choices and behaviors. In addition to applicant organizations that are Tribal entities, also encouraged are applications from project directors who are American Indian, Alaska Native or otherwise indigenous to the U.S. or its territories; researchers from organizations currently underrepresented among RWJF grantee institutions; and / or first-time applicants for an RWJF grant. Non-indigenous applicants, working in partnership with and with extensive experience working in service of Indigenous communities are also eligible. Research centering the needs, experiences and strengths of Indigenous communities may fall along a continuum of stages from initiating and developing research capacity and infrastructure (Track 1) to later-stage sustained research efforts (Track 2). Both tracks ought to inform a specific course of practice and / or establish beneficial practices.
Award details: Track 1: $100K-$400K total; Track 2: Anticipate awards ranging from $500-$700K total. Preference is for award durations between two and three years (24–36 months), but durations of up to five years (60 months) will be considered with reasonable justification.
Announcement on website: https://anr.rwjf.org/viewCfp.do?cfpId=1709&cfpOverviewId=
Optional applicant date: December 7, 2023. Registration required.
Brief Proposal due date: March 1, 2024.
Full proposal due date (invited): June 28, 2024. Grant starts October 1, 2024.
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American Psychological Association
Program: Charles L Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award
Synopsis: Recognizes a significant career of contributions of a psychologist who has a proven track record as an exceptional teacher of psychology. Nominees will be evaluated on several dimensions including (partial)
- teaching of advanced research methods and / or materials;
- training of teachers of psychology; and
- research on teaching.
Award details: The awardee receives a plaque, a $2,000 award, and a $1,000 travel stipend. Awardees are also invited to give a special address at the APA Annual Convention.
Announcement on website: https://apf.apa.org/funding/brewer-award/
Nominations due date: December 31, 2023.
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Misophonia Research Foundation
Program: 2024 Request for Proposals
Synopsis: Supports research projects led by independent investigators, as well as postdoctoral fellows, at qualifying research-based institutions who hold doctoral-level degrees (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., Psy.D., Au.D.). The MRF requests proposals that address clear gaps in the field and / or that generate new knowledge about misophonia and build upon previous findings using demonstrably rigorous study methods. The scientific focus of proposals shall address one or more of the following 3 prioritized focus areas in human, animal, or relevant research models.
- Characterization of misophonia;
- Development of validation of objective methods;
- Clinical and/or animal model study of interventional approaches.
Award details: Postdoc awards: Up to a total of $200K over a 2-3-year project period. Independent investigators may request up to a total of $500K over a 2-3-year project period.
Announcement on website: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDur97jEtvqsEwaShDZgzECNnl36ZcL5/view
Letter of Intent due date: Online LOI due December 8, 2023.
Formal proposal due date (invited): March 9, 2024.
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American Lung Association
Program: Dalsemer Interstitial Research Grant
Synopsis: Supports mentored research seed money to junior investigators (those with a full-time faculty position or equivalent position, with demonstrated institutional support) on the path to independence for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease. When applicable, researchers are encouraged to investigate hypothesis-driven research about health disparities including those that will inform evidence-based clinical practice or policy in historically underrepresented and underserved populations especially those in communities that have limited health care access. This research might improve health in diverse communities, including those with disproportionately impacted populations to reduce health inequity in healthcare. Populations with health disparities may include the following Black Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian Americans, American Natives, Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved populations, underserved rural populations, sexual and gender underrepresented populations, those with a lack of access of health care and the uninsured/underinsured.
Award details: $50K per year for 2 years, the 2nd year contingent upon satisfactory progress based upon annual review.
Announcement on website: https://www.lung.org/getmedia/ac89b7aa-ba64-4d13-860c-974c4905205d/2023_2024-Dalsemer-RFP_-(002).pdf
Application due date: December 15, 2023. The award begins on July 1, 2024.
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National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Program: RFA: Generating Knowledge and Tools to Promote Remyelination and Neuroprotection in Multiple Sclerosis
Synopsis: Supports research that addresses gaps in our knowledge of the underlying biology of CNS remyelination in MS, the factors or processes that modulate this process, and methods to measure remyelination. Additionally, research into neuroprotective mechanisms with the potential to prolong neuronal viability for remyelination is encouraged. The supported research is intended to lay the foundation for the next generation of therapeutic approaches. Specific areas of research interest include (partial)
- Studies of factors that modulate remyelination in MS;
- In vivo and in vitro model systems that more closely mimic MS pathology with utility to study interventions supporting remyelination; and
- Studies of factors that modulate remyelination in MS.
Award details: Up to $1M total costs (including indirect costs where applicable) for up to 3 years of support will be provided and must be justified based on the scientific work plan. Applicants with proposed budgets over this amount and project duration are urged to contact the RFA program officer to discuss an alternative funding mechanism.
Announcement on website: Generating Knowledge and Tools
Pre-application due date: January 3, 2024.
Full application due date: January 10, 2024.
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U.S. Department of State / Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)
Program: Supporting Critical Open-Source Technologies That Enable a Free and Open Internet
NOFO #: SFOP0010120
Synopsis: Supports projects to strengthen the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms online through an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure global Internet, with a focus on technology development. Competitive proposals will develop and implement programs to develop, improve, implement, and sustain open-source technologies that serve as critical foundations for a free and open Internet. The successful program will enable and encourage the protection and exercise of fundamental freedoms and human rights in contexts in which those rights are not otherwise respected using technologies that can restore or protect those rights and freedoms by design. Specifically seeks proposals that
- develop, improve, or implement Internet communication protocols, software suites, or core Internet services, such as browsers or secure and resilient traffic routing and encryption, in ways that are necessary to and supportive of an open Internet, with a focus on non-user-facing technologies.
- advance technical standards or policies that govern Internet communication technologies, which enable and / or protect censorship resistance and / or security properties of open-source Internet technology, including in contexts such as international standard-setting bodies, to better serve the needs of at-risk and marginalized communities.
- Provide or implement a sustainability plan, addressing issues such as ongoing maintenance of existing rights-enabling open-source technologies or protocols.
Award details: Awards may range from a total of $500K to $1M over 2-3 years. 1-2 awards are anticipated.
Announcement on website: Open Source Technologies
Application due date: January 10, 2024.
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Department of the Interior / Bureau of Land Management
Program: FY24 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management MT/ DAK Cultural and Paleontology Resource Management
NOFO #: L24AS00115
Synopsis: Seeks to establish partnerships with collaborators to improve access to, and use of heritage resources and to promote their educational, scientific, cultural, and recreational values in a manner that meets the U.S. Department of the Interior priorities and Culture Heritage and Paleontology Program goals. To that end, this NOFO will support projects that will achieve a list of objectives, only a few we will list here
- Conduct studies, including inventory, excavation, records research, and collection-based research to improve the understanding of America’s natural and cultural history;
- Monitor and stabilize at-risk resources to track trends in condition and project effectiveness;
- Promote engagement with Native American communities and foster partnerships with tribal governments and programs;
- Train future cultural resources practitioners and paleontologists through research projects, field schools and internships that highlight BLM resources.
Award details: Awards range from $10K to $750K for maximum project duration of 5 years.
Announcement on website: Cultural and Paleontology Resource Management
Application due date: January 15, 2023.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / National Ocean Service (NOS)
Program: Conservation Program - Ruth D. Gates Grant Program: Local and National Capacity Building Support Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Funding #: NOAA-NOS-OCM-2024-2008253
Synopsis: Supports local interested stakeholder groups to build their capacity to participate in coral reef stewardship partnerships, as they are established. A coral reef stewardship partnership is a group established to further community-based stewardship of federal and non-federal coral reef units. This will be accomplished through direct funding to local coral reef conservation and community groups, and support to regional or national projects that will provide tools, training, and skills development to the coral conservation community free of charge. To further community-based stewardship of coral reefs, the Act permits the establishment of coral reef stewardship partnerships. These partnerships are intended to include various Federal agency representatives, State (defined as the states of Florida and Hawaii; territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands; or any other territory or possession of the United States or separate sovereign in free association with the United States that contains a coral reef ecosystem) or county resource management agency representatives, coral reef research centers, nongovernmental organizations, Native entities culturally affiliated with the subject reef, and other members deemed appropriate, such as interested stakeholder groups. Applicants should clearly identify which of 2 priorities (tracks) their proposal falls under:
Priority 1: Local Coral Community Group Support: This priority is intended to directly support the development of local interested stakeholder groups that could be eligible members of a coral reef stewardship partnership; Priority 2: National Coral Conservation Support: This priority supports regional or national organizations to increase coral conservation and resilience knowledge and build capacity across multiple States.
Award details: Priority 1: $50K; Priority 2: No more than $75K in Federal funds per year for projects with regional beneficiaries and no more than $150K per year in Federal funds for projects with national beneficiaries.
Announcement on website: FY 2024 NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program
Proposal due date: February 15, 2024.
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United States Department of Agriculture / Food and Nutrition Service
Program: Participation in WIC (Women, Infants and Children) & Prevalence of Health Risks Associated with Maternal Mortality
Funding #: USDA-FNS-OPS-PHRAMM-24
Synopsis: Supports rigorous academic research into WIC’s relationship to maternal health outcomes. The grantee is expected to propose a robust academic subgrant program to investigate this relationship using existing secondary data identifying and constructing novel data sets to further examine this relationship, and by supporting and growing a diverse academic community that is invested in sustaining research related to the relationship between WIC and maternal health outcomes. Subgrant program analyses will be required to examine the prevalence of these conditions by participating in WIC overall and by race, ethnicity, and age. The findings from this analysis will inform actions to improve maternal health in groups at highest risk for maternal morbidity and mortality.
Award details: Up to $1M. It is anticipated 1 award will be made.
Announcement on website: Health Risks Associated with Maternal Mortality
Letter of intent due date: December 15, 2023. LOI may be sent via email.
Full application due date: February 14, 2024.
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NSF / Multiple Directorates (MPS, BIO, SBE) & NIH / National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Program: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)
NSF Solicitation #: 24-507
Synopsis: Supports interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and / or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. Projects supported under this activity should be collaborative in nature and depend for their advancement on the coordinated interaction of two or more PIs/co-PIs, with balanced participation from both the mathematical sciences and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Additional participants from other disciplines, especially the biological sciences, are also welcome. Each project should focus on a significant and well-delineated research challenge that integrates behavioral and social processes into mathematical epidemiological models. Examples of some of the challenges that may be addressed in this solicitation include
- Behavioral realism and sensitivity analysis — the challenge to incorporate realism while at the same time maintaining the tractability of the models.
- Incorporation of population heterogeneity and policy models.
- Incorporation of multiple environments: climate, seasonal, political, social
- Using technology and advanced statistical methods to inform our understanding of both social, behavioral, and neurobiological components of drug use that are strongly influenced by diverse environmental and social factors in the context of responding to public health crises such as drug overdose, HIV, and HCV.
Award details: Up to $1M total budget for a maximum 4-year project duration. The program anticipates funding 10-15 projects.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf24507/nsf24507.pdf
Proposal submission window: February 1, 2024, to February 14, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Program: Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (MSD) (T32 — Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA))
NOFO #: PAR-24-031
Synopsis: Supports eligible, domestic organizations to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical graduate training and mentoring that will keep pace with the rapid evolution of the biomedical research enterprise. NIGMS expects that the proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the nation. The overarching objective of the Initiative for the MSD program is to strengthen research training environments and promote broader participation in the biomedical research workforce by expanding the pool of well-trained scientists earning Ph.D. degrees, for example, encouraging the inclusion of individuals from underrepresented groups.
Award details: Application budgets must reflect the needs of the proposed project for a project duration of up to 5 years and is renewable. Kirschstein-NRSA awards provide stipends as a subsistence allowance to help defray living expenses during the research training experience. NIH will contribute to the combined cost of tuition and fees at the rate in place at the time of award.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-031.html
Application due date: January 29, 2024, for new, resubmitted and renewal applications.
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NIH / National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Program: Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (G-RISE) T32 — Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA)
NOFO #: PAR-24-032
Synopsis: Similar to the MSD program — above — G-RISE supports domestic organizations to develop and implement evidence-informed approaches to biomedical graduate training and mentoring to keep pace with advances in the biomedical research enterprise. As with the MSD program, the development of a diverse pool of scientists earning a Ph.D., who have the skills to successfully transition into careers in the biomedical research workforce is the overarching goal. Potential applicants are urged to contact the NIGMS program staff before preparing or submitting an application to verify that the proposed program is eligible and in alignment with NIGMS funding priorities.
Award details: Application budgets must reflect the needs of a proposed project for a project duration of up to 5 years and is renewable. Kirschstein-NRSA awards provide stipends as a subsistence allowance to help defray living expenses during the research training experience. NIH will contribute to the combined cost of tuition and fees at the rate in place at the time of award.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-032.html
Application due date: January 29, 2024, for new, resubmitted, and renewal applications.
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External funding Opportunities courtesy Dornsife Corporate & Foundation Relations (CFR)
(Contact Kerri Bennett <kerriben@usc.edu> for more information if interested)
Following are 2 funding opportunities from HALO Sciences
Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigators
Office of USC Research and Innovation
Department of Contracts and Grants
DCG has issued a NewsFlash! providing informatiion, assessment tools and checklist to be submitted to DCG for faculty who are transferring to the Universtiy and for those who are transferring from USC to another institution.
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Book Cover: The Ethical University — Transforming Higher Education (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, September 2022) Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln, Political Science and International Relations
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