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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of June 26, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
The Weekly Report today includes
- An accolade for one Dornsife investigator;
- Great external funding success for 5 College faculty;
- Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including
2 limited submissions
- A couple of announcements from DCG on updated version of diSClose and an update of the Clinical Trials website.
The Weekly will pause the week of the 4th of July holiday and return on July 10, 2023.
Happy and safe 4th everyone!
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolade
Christian Robert Grose, Political Science, and International Relations, has received the Alan Rosenthal Award by the American Political Science Association (ASP). ASP cited Dr. Grose’s journal article, Social Lobbying (Grose, et al., Journal of Politics, 2021) as a significant work that examines issues of importance to legislators and legislative staff, and potentially can be applied to strengthening the practice of representative democracy.
External Funding Success
Ian Ehrenreich, Computational Biology, Bringing Synthetic Bacterial Genomes to Life Using Mitochondria, Keck Foundation
Jinkook Lee, Center For Economic & Social Research, Expanding and Enhancing LASI-DAD for Better Understanding of AD and Dementia, BrightFocus Foundation
Elena Pierpaoli, Physics and Astronomy, Extending the Non-Gaussianity Legacy of the Planck Mission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Anna Saavendra, Center for Economic & Social Research, 2023 Public Opinion Survey about “Teaching and Learning”, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Andrey Vilesov, Chemistry, Superfluidity in Helium Nanodroplets, National Science Foundation
External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
(tight timeline)
US Environmental Protection Agency
Program: National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
Funding Opportunity #: EPA-OCSPP-OPP-2023-002
Synopsis: Supports projects that will provide the public with unbiased, accurate, science-based information on a broad range of pesticide-related issues, in a manner accessible to people who speak different languages at various literacy levels. Applicants for this NPIC award should incorporate environmental justice principles into their project’s proposed activities. Applications will be evaluated based on the extent to which they demonstrate how the project will benefit underserved and vulnerable communities, in particular those that might be impacted by pesticide applications.
Award details: $10M over 5 years.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/epa-npic/
External announcement on website: EPA-OCSPP-OPP-2023-002
USC Internal due date: July 10, 2023.
External due date: August 7, 2023.
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***Limited Submission***
(tight timeline)
Department of Energy (DoE)
Program: Fiscal Year 2024 Scientific Infrastructure Support for Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research
Funding Opportunity #: DE-FOA-0003040
Synopsis: Supports and promotes Research and Development (R&D) that supports nuclear science and engineering (NS&E), NE’s mission, and the nation’s nuclear energy challenges. DoE intends to facilitate the education and training of nuclear scientists, engineers, and policy-makers through graduate and undergraduate study, two-year programs, and R&D that is relevant to the Department and the U.S. nuclear energy industry in general. Overall goals include
- Support, maintain, or enhance the institution’s capacities to attract and teach high quality students interested in nuclear energy-related studies;
- Build the institution’s research or education capabilities; and
- Build the institution’s capabilities to perform R&D that is relevant to NE’s mission.
Award details: Anticipated amount is $2.5M, contingent upon congressional appropriations.
USC Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/de-foa-0003040/
External announcement on website: FY 2024 Scientific Infrastructure Support Nuclear Research
USC Internal due date: July 14, 2023.
External due date: August 24, 2023.
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Pen America
Program: 2024 PEN /BARE Life Review Grants
Synopsis: Supports and recognizes the literary works of immigrant and refugee writers. The project must be a work-in-progress that is either written or translated into English and which will not be published prior to April 1, 2025. In the case of a translated work, the grant will be given to the original author. The work must be fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry. Eligible applicants are foreign-born writers based in the U.S. and to writers living abroad who hold refugee / asylum seeker status.
Award details: $5K
Announcement on website: https://pen.submittable.com/submit/264461/2024-pen-bare-life-review-grants?previousLoginDate=2022-06-28T18%3a50%3a12.2830000Z
Submission due date: July 21, 2023.
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The Teagle Foundation
Program: Education for American Civic Life
Synopsis: Supports college and university efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities. Civic education entails an understanding of American history and the ways our society has met or failed to meet the standard of its own democratic principles. When viewed expansively, this knowledge can guide students to recognize how communities are formed and continually reformed, and can lead students to consider their responsibilities beyond themselves. Civic knowledge lays the groundwork for members of a shared community to appreciate and grapple with their differences, and to build a mutually respectful collective civil life. For this call, the Foundation’s focus is on 2 specific areas of interest: (1) anchoring significant questions in democratic thought in local history and community and (2) strengthening preparation for public service.
Award details: Grants will range from $100K to $300K over a 24-36 month period.
Announcement on website: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Education-for-American-Civic-Life-RFP
Concept paper due date: 3-5 page concept papers are reviewed 3 times a year. Next due date is August 1, 2023. Foundation will invite full proposals from some applicants. Due date for full proposals will be negotiated between proposer and the Foundation.
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Spencer Foundation
Program: Small Grants
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. The 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. This program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their careers. 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: $50K over a 1 to 5-year project period.
Announcement on website: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant
Application due dates: Accepts applications 3 times a year. The next due dates for 2023 are August 9, 2023, and early December 2023.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Program: Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH)
Synopsis: Supports investigators at the assistant professor level to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human infectious diseases. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for accomplished investigators to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones. Recipients of this award will have the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold the potential for significantly advancing understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.
Award details: $500K over 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/infectious-diseases/investigators-in-the-pathogenesis-of-infectious-disease/
Letter of Intent due date: July 17, 2023.
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BrightFocus Foundation
Program: Macular Degeneration Research Grants
Synopsis: Supports scientists from diverse backgrounds to pursue pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of age-related macular degeneration. The foundation encourages scientists from underrepresented backgrounds to consider applying for any of the following funding opportunities:
- Postdoctoral Fellowship program provides salary support for young postdocs during their final stages of mentored training, and whose research contributes to understanding the biological causes and/or new clinical treatment of macular degeneration.
- New Investigator Grant program supports investigators during their early years as an independent investigator involved in studies that have an impact on the causes and/or treatment of macular degeneration.
- Innovative Research grant supports established investigator for high-risk/high-gain age-related macular degeneration research.
Award details: Postdoc Fellowship: $100K per year for 2 years; New Investigator grant: $150K per year for 3 years; Innovative Research grant: $200K per year for 3 years.
Announcement on website: https://science.brightfocus.org/research/macular-degeneration-research-program/rfp
Letter of Intent due date: July 31, 2023.
Application due date (invited): December 5, 2023.
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American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF)
Program: 2024 AHRF Discovery Grants
Synopsis: Supports research that investigates various aspects of hearing and balance disorders related to the inner ear. Both basic and clinical studies may be proposed that investigate aspects of the auditory and vestibular systems including but not limited to genetics, neurotology, anatomy, auditory processing, molecular and cellular biology, therapeutic studies, and investigations of current or experimental devices (i.e., cochlear implants). AHRF also now includes as special interests Causes of Sudden Hearing Loss and Meniere’s disease. Priority is given to investigators early in their careers who need seed funds to generate results and data that can be used to support applications for larger grants (i.e., NIH grants) in the future.
Award details: $50K for the grant period January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024.
Announcement on website: https://www.american-hearing.org/research-grants/grant-process/
Application due date: August 15, 2023.
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Department of Defense (DoD)
Program: The Role of the DOD in Federal Indian Boarding Schools
Notice of Funding Opportunity #: HQ003423NFOEASD11
Synopsis: Supports research projects that will improve knowledge and understanding of the history of Indian boarding schools, policies, and DoD’s role that will lead to more informed decision-making, accountability, and consultation with American Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations. The historical legacy of these schools has caused harm to former students, their families, and greater American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. This research will be part of the background research necessary for DoD to fulfill its requirement from the FY23 National Defense Authorization to document its role in the establishment and sustainment of Indian boarding schools in the United States from 1819 through the 1960s. Additionally, the research will support the U.S. Department of the Interior in its efforts to locate any records that may relate to the Federal Indian boarding school system. In recent times, the Department of the Army has accounted for, engaged with families, and where desired, disinterred and returned the remains of American Indian and Alaska Native students who died at the Department of the Interior (DOI)-operated Carlisle Indian Industrial School (PA). However, without a full accounting of the Department of Defense's role (then known as the War Department) during the Federal Indian boarding school era, the DOI cannot provide similar information to other families of former students.
Award details: Maximum award is $250K for 1 year commencing August or September 2023. Possibility of an additional year option.
Announcement on website: Federal Indian Boarding Schools
Application due date: July 25, 2023.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education
Synopsis: Supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities. Eligible applicants include small- to medium-size two- and four-year institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations whose work advances the humanities at these institutions and among their faculty and students. The expected outcomes and products of this program are community partnerships, curriculum; faculty development and teaching resources.
Award details: $25K for Exploration grants for up to 1 year; $60K for up to 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/program/spotlight-humanities-higher-education
Anticipated application window: July 18, 2023 to October 11, 2023.
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) / Information Innovation Office (I2O)
Program: I2O Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Funding Opportunity #: HR001123S0001
Synopsis: Supports projects, including fundamental research, that have the potential to produce revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing I2O programs or other published solicitations. The mission of the I20 is to ensure enduring advantage for the United States and its allies across a broad range of information technologies through the advancement of core technical foundations and the design of novel application concepts based on these foundations. I2O’s core technical work ranges from artificial intelligence and data analysis to secure engineering and formal methods. The 4 thrust areas of I20 programs are
- Proficient artificial intelligence
- Advantage in cyber operations
- Confidence in the information domain
- Resilient, adaptable, and secure systems.
Award details: Award amounts are subject to the quality of the proposal and the availability of funds. Cost-sharing may be allowed, particularly if the project has potential commercialization prospects.
Announcement on website: Information Innovation Office 2023
Abstract due date: September 22, 2023. The abstract is highly recommended to determine if a proposal is within the areas of interest for I20.
Application due date: October 27, 2023.
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NSF / Across All Directorates
Program: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (and including description of NSF Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Solicitation #: 22-586
Synopsis: Supports the career development with 2 of NSF’s most prestigious awards:
- CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
PECASE: Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious recent CAREER awardees. Selection for this award is based on three important criteria: The criteria are 1) performance of innovative research at the frontiers of science, engineering, and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency, 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach, and 3) commitment to STEM equity, diversity, accessibility, and/or inclusion.
Award details: Anticipated program funding $250M.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22586/nsf22586.htm
Proposal submission due date: July 27, 2023 — 4th Wednesday in July thereafter.
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NSF / Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnership
Program: Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO)
Solicitation #: NSF-23-600
Synopsis: Supports research and development of causal models that accurately describe past and future technology outcomes, specifically the capabilities, production, and use of specific technologies. These models should be able to predict likely future outcomes for specific technologies and what intentional investments could reliably change or accelerate those outcomes by correctly capturing the various causal relationships. Building and testing these models will require significant amounts of specialized data gathered from a variety of sources, e.g., historical sources, experimentation, expert elicitation, and others. Data extraction and processing tools may need to be developed as part of that effort. APTO will support a cohort of projects that will work in collaboration on the research and development of Technology Outcome Models and in the development / preparation of Data Sets and related Tools. Building effective technology outcome models will likely require a generalized understanding of technology evolution across all technologies. The solicitation lists areas of research, including
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy, and related advances;
- Technology for natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation; and
- Biotechnology, medical technology, genomics, and synthetic biology.
Award details: Up to a total of $30 million may be awarded annually subject to the availability of funds. Awards may be 1 to 5 years in duration. Awards are expected to have an annual budget of $500K to $4M. Awards of longer than 1 year will be made as cooperative agreements. Awards may be made for 1-year efforts for pilots, planning, and preparation for larger subsequent efforts to be submitted to future APTO program solicitations.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23600/nsf23600.pdf
Preliminary proposal due date: August 21, 2023.
Full proposal due date: October 30, 2023.
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NSF / Directorate for Biological Sciences
Program: Tool Development for Molecular and Cell Biology (Tools4Cells) via Dear Colleague Letter (DCL)
NSF #: 23-121
Synopsis: Supports the development of novel tools and methods that improve scientists’ abilities to measure, analyze, manipulate, or control critical aspects of cellular properties and functions in order to continue to push boundaries and open new avenues of inquiry in molecular and cellular biosciences. Technological breakthroughs have had a profound and catalytic influence on molecular and cell biology – through the application of existing tools to study molecular and cellular processes in new and creative ways, or through the development of novel tools to study areas that were previously inaccessible. Recent examples include novel gene-editing technologies; single-cell multi-omics; single-cell and single-molecule imaging of dynamic processes; cryo-EM and x-ray free electron lasers to study macromolecular dynamics at atomic resolution; and molecular dynamics simulations at increasing spatiotemporal scales and complexity.
Announcement on website: Tools4Cells
Proposal Submission Info: Proposals may be submitted to any core program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) – if the proposed tool or method addresses a specific research question or hypothesis defined by and to be used primarily by an individual user or group of researchers; or Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) Program in the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) – if the proposed tool or method is applicable to a broad class of biological research questions or topics and will meet the needs of a well-defined community of researchers.
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NIH / Office of the Director (for graduate students)
Program: Maximizing the Scientific Value of Data Generated by the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) (R36 — Dissertation Award)
NOFO #: RFA-OD-23-020
Synopsis: Supports doctoral candidates studying high-priority areas of child health for the completion of their doctoral dissertation research project. Prenatal and child exposure data include physical, chemical, social, behavioral, and biological factors. ECHO’s five primary pediatric outcome areas are pre-, peri-, and postnatal outcomes, upper and lower airway, obesity, neurodevelopment, and positive health. This award will facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into the field of early environmental exposures and child health research, enhancing the pool of highly talented researchers.
Award details: The initial award project period requested must be at least 12 months and may not exceed twenty-four months. Application budgets may request to cover, per year, a salary consistent with the current fiscal year National Research Service Award (NRSA) predoctoral stipend and up to $15,000 for additional expenses such as fringe benefits in accordance with institutional policies including health insurance for self and family members, travel to scientific meetings, and dissertation research costs. NIH requires dissertation research activities and associated didactics to be one hundred percent effort.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-23-020.html
Letter of Intent due date: October 1, 2023.
Application due date: November 1, 2023.
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigtor
Office of Research and Innovation
Department of Contracts and Grants
DCG has issued a NewsFlash providing info on the updated Clinical Trials website.
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DCG issued a NewsFlash on the availability of the new version of disclose which is available on the usual website: https://disclose.usc.edu/
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Cover Image: A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury Academic, November 2022) Martha Bayless, Eric Weitz and Andrew McConnell Stott, English
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