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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of December 11, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week our report includes
- Accolade for a Dornsife faculty member;
- External funding success obtained by 2 College faculty; and
- Current external funding opportunites including 3 limited submssions and 1 oppotunity from Dornsife Corporate and Foundation Relations.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolade
Anna Krylov, Chemistry, has been awarded an inaugural Barry Prize for her eminent technical achievements, spirited professional investments in mentoring and collaboration, dissemination of scientific knowledge to wider audiences, and advocacy for those seeking opportunity in the natural sciences from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters
External Funding Successes
Sarah Feakins, Earth Sciences, U.S. Science Support Program Office - International Ocean Discovery Program (USSSP-IODP), Columbia University
Kayla de la Haye, Center For Economic & Social Research, Reducing OBesity Using Social Ties (ROBUST), Weill Cornell Medical College
External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
(Time sensitive)
Department of Energy (DoE) – Office of Science (SC) – Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Program: Bioimaging Research and Approaches for the Bioeconomy & the Environment
Funding Opportunity #: DE-FOA-0003231
Synopsis: Supports advanced fundamental research or use-inspired technologies of new bioimaging or sensing approaches. Fundamental research to enhance spatial and temporal resolution, measurement speed, long-term sample stability, selectivity, sensitivity, or chemical specificity of bioimaging technologies is desirable. Applications can be submitted under one of two subtopics: 1) Concept to Validation: Projects can begin at the conceptual (pre-experimental) stage and move through validation by comparing technical performance and biological measurements against accepted standards; or 2) Prototypes for Biological Hypothesis Research: Projects can begin with use-inspired experimental prototypes that will be tested for technical and biological validation but cannot include development to field-ready demonstration prototypes.
Award details: For either subtopic up to $750K may be requested in the first budget period. In subsequent budget periods, applications submitted to subtopic 1 can request a maximum of $750K for each year. In subsequent budget periods, applications submitted to subtopic 2 can request a maximum of $750K plus an additional $5K to support teaming with biologically directed research groups outside of the PI’s direct responsibility to use a prototype system for biological hypothesis testing.
USC Internal Announcement:
https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/de-foa-0003231/
Announcement on website:
Bioimaging Research and Approaches for the Bioeconomy & the Environment
USC Internal due date: December 18, 2023
Pre-Application due date: January 9, 2024.
Full Application due date: March 5, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
United States Department of Agriculture / National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Program: Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Fields (WAMS)
Funding Opportunity #: USDA-NIFA-WAMS-010338
Synopsis: Supports research and extension activities in the training, outreach, and mentoring of rural women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in STEM fields relevant to the USDA mission. It is an expectation that investment of public funds through the WAMS Grant Program will lead to:
- Gains in STEM knowledge, skills, and capabilities, as well as new participants in USDA mission science through outreach activities, new careers, or entrepreneurial enterprise;
- Increased documentation of outputs, and significant activities, including dissemination activities, events, services, or products that contribute toward achieving the goals and objectives of WAMS;
- Increased change in knowledge, actions, or conditions; and
- Increased capacity for carrying out the USDA mission by rural women and underrepresented minorities.
The WAMS program aims to develop and implement robust collaborations to increase the representation, participation, and entrepreneurial skills and abilities of rural women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in STEM careers, thereby contributing to economic prosperity in rural areas across the nation.
Award details: Up to $200K for 24-36 months.
USC Internal Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/nifa-women-and-minorities/
Announcement on website: https://www.nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/FY24-WAMS-RFA-P.pdf
USC Internal due date: January 8, 2024.
External Application due date: February 9, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
U.S. Department of State / Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
Program: FY 2024 English Language Fellow, Specialist, and Virtual Educator Program
NOFO #: SFOP0010149
Synopsis: Supports English Language Fellow, Specialist and Virtual Educator Program to advance ECA’s objectives in the area of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to all regions of the world, and thereby improving English teaching around the world and enhancing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Projects are carried out with host-country ministries of education, universities, teacher-training institutions, NGOs, binational centers, and other English language teaching institutions. Upon completing their projects, the U.S. participants share their experiences and acquired knowledge with their home communities and professional colleagues. EL Fellows and Specialists provide foreign educators, professionals, and students with the communication skills they need to participate in the global economy and to improve their access to accurate information and U.S. perspectives on a broad variety of issues. Detailed eligibility requirements for Fellows and Specialists are found in the solicitation.
Award details: $20M. 1 grant will be awarded.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/eca-fy-2024/
External announcement: https://eca.state.gov/files/bureau/fy24_elfsvep_nofo_0.pdf
USC Internal due date: January 8, 2024.
External due date: February 5, 2024.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Program: Evidence for Action (E4A) Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity
Synopsis: Supports U.S.-based studies focused on “upstream” causes of health inequities, such as the systems, structures, laws, policies, norms, and practices that determine the distribution of resources and opportunities, which in turn influence individuals’ options and behaviors. Research should center on the needs and experiences of communities exhibiting the greatest health burdens and be motivated by real-world priorities. It should be able to inform a specific course of action and/or establish beneficial practices, not stop at characterizing or documenting the extent of a problem.
Award details: Budget requests should reflect the need to complete and disseminate findings from your proposed research project—including direct and indirect costs for the entire duration of your grant — up to 36 months. Pilot studies and formative stage research are expected to correspond with lower budgets.
Announcement on website: https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2021/evidence-for-action--innovative-research-to-advance-racial-equity.html
Letter of Intent due date: LOIs are accepted on a rolling basis. Response to LOI is typically 6 weeks. The next due date is December 22, 2023.
Full proposal due date (invited): The proposal is due 2 months after the response to the LOI.
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Spencer Foundation
Program: Research Grants on Education (Large)
Synopsis: Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. Anticipated proposals will span a wide range of topics and disciplines that innovatively investigate questions central to education, including for example education, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, economics, history, or neuroscience, amongst others.
Award details: Spencer anticipates awarding grants with budgets across each of the following funding tiers -- $125,000 to 250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000. Maximum project duration is 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/large-research-grant
Letter of Intent due date: January 24, 2024.
Full proposal due date: February 27, 2024.
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American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) / Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research
Synopsis: Supports postdoctoral fellows (MD, MD / Ph.D., and Ph.D.) whose research is directed towards basic aging mechanisms and / or translational findings that have direct benefits to human aging and health span. Postdoctoral fellows at all levels of training are eligible. Projects investigating age-related diseases, which have potential clinical implications, as well as projects concerning mechanisms underlying common geriatric functional disorders such as frailty will be considered. Projects that are strictly clinical such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, health outcomes, or the social context of aging are not eligible.
Award details: The award is $75K of which a minimum of $54,840 is to be used for salary (see notes on salary in the announcement) and the remainder to be used for allowable expenses (research supplies, equipment, health insurance, travel to scientific meetings where the Fellow is presenting his / her biology of aging research, and relevant research and educational training). Funds for indirect costs or overhead are not allowed.
Announcement on website: https://www.afar.org/grants/glenn-postdoc
Letter of Intent due date: January 25, 2024.
Application due date:(invited): Mid-May 2024.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Program: Climate Change and Human Health Seed
Synopsis: Supports the expansion of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. This program supports work conceived through many kinds of creative thinking. Successful applicants include not only academic scientists, physicians, and public health experts, but also community organizations, science outreach centers, non-biomedical academic departments, and more. Areas of interest include
- linking basic biomedical science to climate-focused thinking;
- health systems impacts of extreme weather events;
- sustainability in health care systems; and
- outreach, communication, and education around climate and human health.
Applications must be submitted by non-profit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada. Applicant organizations may submit multiple proposals, but an individual may only serve as a principal
investigator on one application during each review period.
Award details: Awards are early-stage grants ranging from $2.5K to $50K.
Announcement on website: https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/climate-change-and-human-health/climate-change-and-human-health-seed-grants/
Proposal due date: Proposals accepted through July 2026 with quarterly due dates. The next due date is January 25, 2024.
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Program: Global Challenges: Accelerating Catalyzing Solutions for Climate Change's Impact on Health, Agriculture, and Gender
Synopsis: Supports research and pilot / feasibility projects utilizing transdisciplinary approaches to better adapt to, mitigate, or reverse the combined, deleterious effects of climate change on health, women's lives, and agriculture in the geographies of interest. These innovations include early warning and disease surveillance systems to respond to climate-event-driven surges in malaria and other vector-borne diseases, as well as improved mapping of expanded vector ranges and vector-borne disease transmission. Preference will be given to innovations that are formulated locally or adapted from other contexts. This RFP focuses on the following topic areas: Health Outcomes; Nutrition; Adaptation Strategies for Agriculture and Income Development; Knowledge Management and Data Integration of Climate and Health Databases; and Effective Response and Resilient Supply Chains for Crisis Management.
Award details: $200K for 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/accelerating-catalyzing-solutions-climate-changes-impact-health-agriculture-and-gender
Application due date: January 31, 2024.
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American Psychological Association
Program: Division 37 (Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice) Diane J. Willis Early Career Award
Synopsis: Supports professional accomplishment in advancing public understanding of mental health and improvement of the well-being of children and families through policy and service. To be eligible, applicants must be psychologists with an EdD, PsyD, or Ph.D. from an accredited university and be no more than 10 years postdoctoral.
Award details: $2.5K
Announcement on website: https://apf.apa.org/funding/willis/
Application due date: January 31, 2023.
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Arthritis National Research Foundation
Program: 2024 Grants
Synopsis: Supports early-career researchers studying arthritis and autoimmune disease. (ANRF defines ‘early-career’ as researchers who have not yet received an R01 grant from the NIH, or K08, DOD or NSF grant plus other support totaling more than $300K per year.) Application may be made for 1 of 2 grants: (1) All Arthritis Grant; or (2) The Psoriatic Arthritis Grant. Preference will be given to senior post-doctoral investigators transitioning to independent investigator status and new assistant professors. Applications that list a Co-PI will not be accepted.
Award details: Awards are $125K per year for 2 years (Maximum $250K). Salaries funded may not exceed the NIH salary cap. Awardees must commit a minimum of 50% protected research time to total research activities.
Announcement on website: https://curearthritis.org/research-grants/
Application due date: Online applications are due January 19, 2023, via ProposalCentral.
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National Psoriasis Foundation
Program: More than Skin Deep: Mental Health Grant
Synopsis: Supports projects focused on mental health in psoriatic disease as well as interventions for addressing this comorbidity, inflammatory processes, stigma, the psychosocial impact of psoriasis, barriers to care, the financial burden of chronic disease, or other related areas. The applicant must hold a Ph.D., M.D., D.O., or equivalent degree and be personally and actively responsible for the conduct of the proposed research, and eligible to apply as principal investigator for research grants under the guidelines of the applicant’s host institution.
Award details: Budget request may be up to $100K for 1 year: August 1 to July 31.
Announcement on website: https://www.psoriasis.org/mental-health-grant/
Application due date: February 1, 2024.
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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Program: 2025 Literature (Poetry) Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports creative writers for fellowships in poetry with the intent to enable recipients of the award to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Through this program, the NEA seeks to sustain and nurture a diverse range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art. The program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. For FY 2025, which is covered by these guidelines, fellowships in poetry are available. Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) will be offered in FY 2026 and guidelines will be available in January 2025. You may apply only once each year.
Award details: $25K
Announcement on website: https://www.arts.gov/grants/creative-writing-fellowships/program-description
Grants.gov submission due date: March 13, 2024. The fellowship may begin anytime between January 2025 and January 2026.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Program: FY2024 National Aquaculture Initiative: Enhancing Production of Coastal, Marine, and Great Lakes Aquaculture Species
Funding Opportunity #: NOAA-OAR-SG-2024-24677
Synopsis: Supports research and programs that will develop and refine methods, protocols, techniques, and / or strategies to enhance the production of one or more life stages of aquaculture species. The overall goal of this competition is to enhance the production of aquaculture species to improve the efficiency, output, and profitability of commercial coastal, marine, and the Great Lakes region aquaculture businesses. Proposals are sought that will support broad, non-proprietary research to address critical issues and / or barriers with respect to the production of aquaculture species; make that information available to U.S. aquaculture businesses; and preferably include participation and involvement of Sea Grant extension personnel and industry stakeholders.
Award details: Up to $25K in federal funds can be requested by individual entities (e.g. a single individual, group, or institution) for research projects addressing the program priorities. Up to $1,200M in federal funds can be requested for projects proposing collaborative, multi-partner efforts addressing the program priorities. The project duration is 3 years starting September 2024.
Announcement on website: Enhancing Production of Coastal, Marine, and Great Lakes Aquaculture Species
Letter of Intent due date: January 17, 2024.
Full application due date: April 3, 2024.
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NSF / Multiple Directorates; NIH / Multiple Institutes; Department of Energy; Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany; French National Research Agency; U.S. – Israel Binational Science Fdtn; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; and State Research Agency, Spain
Program: Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) - Innovative Approaches to Science and Engineering Research on Brain Function
Solicitation #: 24-510
Synopsis: Supports collaborative activities spanning a broad spectrum of computational neuroscience research, as appropriate, to the missions and strategic objectives of each agency. 2 classes of proposals will be considered: Research and Data Sharing proposals. The participating funding organizations have released parallel documents with further agency-specific information. A small sample of research interests we include here:
- Computational strategies for human neuroscience that reduce model bias towards underrepresented groups and improve data coverage, access, equity, and fairness;
- Theoretical and computational methods that can be applied to common pathways, circuits, and mechanisms underlying multiple diseases in the nervous system;
- Judgment, choice formation, and social-behavioral phenomena such as trust, competitiveness, and cooperation, including the role of emotion;
- Language and Communication;
- Normal and abnormal sensory processing (vision, audition, olfaction, taste, balance, proprioception, and somatic sensation);
- Modulation of central and /or peripheral neural processes by complementary and integrative health approaches.
Award details: Award sizes for CRCNS projects (including all CRCNS-funded project components, inside and outside of the United States) have typically ranged from approximately $100K to $250K per year, with durations of 3 to 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf24510/nsf24510.pdf
Full Proposal due dates: Multiple due dates through November 2025. The next due date is March 7, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Program: Undergraduate Research Education Program (UP) to Enhance Diversity in the Environmental Health Sciences (R25 – Education Projects)
NOFO #: RFA-ES-23-012
Synopsis: Supports students from diverse backgrounds, such as those from underrepresented groups, for up to 2 years of their undergraduate education, typically beginning as rising juniors, to gain hands-on experience with research activities in the Environmental Health Sciences. The undergraduate students will be supported for up to 15 hours per week during the academic year and 40 hours per week during the summer. Students may be appointed as participants beginning the summer before their junior year through the summer after their senior or final year. Applicant programs need to demonstrate an association with a strong graduate program in the Environmental Health Sciences as evidenced by the presence of a funded NIEHS T32 Training program, a strong base of funded research in the environmental health sciences, or a graduate program with a focus on environmental health sciences research training. An applicant can propose collaboration between their undergraduate UP program and a graduate program in the environmental health sciences at another institution.
Award details: Budgets may not exceed $125K in direct costs per year for a project period of 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-23-012.html
Application due date: February 1, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Program: Integrated Functional Mapping and Molecular Profiling of Cell Ensembles Encoding the Effects of Addictive Substances in Rodents (R01)
NOFO #: RFA-DA-25-023
Synopsis: Supports research programs that adopt innovative scalable technologies to inventory, register, and molecularly profile distributed cell ensembles encoding the effects of addictive substances, across various stages of exposure (acute, chronic, withdrawal, abstinence, relapse). Emphasis is on approaches capable of integrating data generated through population-scale measurements of cellular activity dynamics in behaving rodents, with other granular data modalities, collected from the same cells at single-cell resolution, such as transcriptomic class, epigenetic state, connectivity, and spatial localization. The overarching goal is to inform new models for the mechanisms whereby cells are recruited into neuronal ensembles to encode addiction-associated neurobehavioral states.
Award details: Budget requests may not exceed $700K for direct costs for any 1-year. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-023.html
Application due dates: Multiple due dates for new, resubmissions, renewals, and revised applications through 2026. Next application due date is February 21, 2024.
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***From Corporate and Foundation Relations***
(Please reach out to Kerri Bennett for more info at <kerriben@usc.edu>)
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Program: Environment
Synopsis: Supports sustainable solutions to altering root causes of environmental damage and encourages education for consumers and decision-makers. Priorities of this program include
- Climate and Energy – To reduce the consequences of climate change in the United States;
- Toxics and Waste – To reduce damage to the environment and human health caused by the manufacture, use, and disposal of consumer and industrial products.
- Clean Water – To protect and restore the quality of freshwater, coastal, and nearby oceanic areas of the United States.
Award details: Will consider grant requests of $25K to $75K for specific projects or programs that improve the environment at a multi-state, national, and / or systems level. Typical costs funded include project management, contracted services, education and outreach programs, applied research, and innovations that could lead to public policy solutions.
Announcement on website: https://rahuntfdn.org/environment/
Letter of submission due date: January 17, 2024 (for consideration at the June 2024 meeting); June 14, 2024 (for consideration at the November 2024 meeting).
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Book Cover: New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in Honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
(Johns Benjamin Publising Company, April 2022) Andrew Simpson, Linguistics
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