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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of October 9, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
In the midst of it all, this week's report includes
- External funding success for 3 faculty members;
- 1 Internal funding opportunity;
- Diverse external funding opportunties, including 1 limited submission;
- Announcement of an upcoming workshop from the Center for Excellence in Research; and
- NewsFlash! from the Department of Contracts and Grants regarding Health and Human Services communication on the impact of the Contrinuing Resolution may have on existing and non-compettive award amounts going forward.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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External Funding Successes
Moh El-Naggar, Physics and Astronomy, Electron Spin Selectivity of Chiral Matter, from Molecules and Supramolecular Assemblies to Life, Air Force Research Laboratory
Jeffrey Fields, Political Science and International Relations, The Intersect Project: Connecting National Security Policymakers with Academia, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Soeren Mattke, Center for Economic and Social Research, Alzheimer Diagnosis in older Adults with Chronic Conditions ADACC Network, National Institute on Aging
USC Internal Funding Opportunity
Agilent Technologies / USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
Program: 2024 The Agilent Fellows Program
Synopsis: Supports postdocs who are in their first year or will be entering their first year of postdoctoral training at USC. Applicants should discuss the development of a proposal with their faculty mentor and secure their mentor’s sponsorship before applying. A list of USC faculty who are eligible to sponsor Agilent Fellow applications can be found in the announcement.
Award details: $81K annually for 2 years. The fellowship also includes USC postdoctoral benefits. 1 Agilent Fellow will be selected for the non-renewable fellowship.
Announcement on website: Agilent Fellows Program
Application due date: November 22, 2023.
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External Funding Success
***Limited Submission***
NIH / Multiple Institutes (including the National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
Program: Advancing Research Careers (ARC) Institutionally-Focused Research Education Award to Promote Diversity
NOFO #: PAR-23-221
Synopsis: Supports organizations that can provide robust mentoring and career development opportunities for ARC F99 fellows/ K00 scholars to:
- Develop cohesive and mutually supportive cohorts that span the F99 to K00 award phases;
- Assist ARC scholars with identifying and obtaining postdoctoral positions with strong mentoring and scientific opportunities;
- Provide opportunities for ARC scholars to engage in career development activities that will foster their progression to and success in impactful careers in the biomedical research workforce that benefit from and utilize their postdoctoral training;
- Enhance the scientific and professional networks of ARC scholars beyond their local institutions;
- Identify and connect scholars with additional mentors who can facilitate appropriate career advancement and skills development;
- Provide skills development for scholars in areas such as grant application writing, communication, and mentorship;
- Engage primary research sponsors/mentors of ARC scholars to enhance mentoring relationships, and promote career development of the scholars; and
- Track and publicize outcomes (e.g., publicly available websites).
Award details: The requested direct costs must be reasonable, well documented, fully justified and commensurate with the scope of the proposed program, and with the expectation that the number of ARC scholars will grow over time. That said, the average award is expected to be round $400K.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/par-23-221/
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-221.html
USC Internal due date: December 1, 2023.
External due date: Annual due dates through 2026. Next due date is January 29, 2024.
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The Newberry
Program: 2024-2025 The Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports scholarship related to history and literature in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. Preference will be given to projects focusing on the colonial Americas and Romance cultures, especially translations and topics focusing on Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American Studies. Eligible applicants have a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree.
Award details: $5K per month for 4 to 9 months.
Announcement on website: https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/long-term-fellowships
Application due date: November 1, 2023.
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American Scandinavian Foundation
Program: Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports graduate students (preferably conducting dissertation research) and academic professionals interested in pursuing research or creative arts projects in the Nordic region (Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sámpi, and Sweden). Awards are made in all fields. Priority is given to candidates at the graduate level for dissertation-related research. The number of awards varies each year according to the total funds available. Applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents. Applicants should have some ability in the language of the host country unless the applicants’ project does not require the use of a Nordic language.
Award details: Awards are up to $ 2K for year-long projects. and short-term (1-3 months) fellowships of up to $5K
Announcement on website: https://www.amscan.org/fellowships-and-grants/fellowshipsgrants-to-study-in-scandinavia/
Application due date: November 1, 2023.
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American Association of American Women
Program: Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports women scholars pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full-time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks. American Fellowships are open to women scholars in all fields of study, and three categories of awards are supported through the program: Dissertation (support for final year of writing); Postdoctoral Leave (assists scholars in obtaining tenure by enabling them to spend a year pursuing independent research); Short-Term Research Publication grants (awarded to tenure-track, part-time faculty, and new and established researchers to assist in gaining tenure and promotions — tenured faculty not eligible).
Award details: Dissertation: $25K; Postdoctoral Leave Fellowships: Up to $50K; Short-term Research grants: Up to $8K.
Announcement on website: https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/current-opportunities/american/
Application due date: November 15, 2023.
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American Council of Learned Socities / Henry Luce Foundation
Program: Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Flexible
Synopsis: Supports recent Ph.Ds (without tenure and within eight years of the Ph.D) with heavy teaching and service responsibilities to carry out research and writing towards a significant scholarly product. These flexible, short-term awards may be used for access to online archives, travel, conference participation, childcare or other familial responsibilities, and other needs identified in the application essay for accomplishing the proposed objectives. Possible project outcomes include but are not limited to, contributions to the development of one or more of the following: monographs, scholarly articles, conference papers, book chapters, or books on a topic in the humanities or interpretive social sciences. ACLS also encourages projects that have the potential to contribute to:
- Pedagogical tools that make meaningful connections between a scholar’s research and teaching.
- Works that bridge scholarly and creative practice.
- Community-engaged projects grounded in scholarly research but geared toward a public audience. Potential or actual community and/or student engagement with the research project is encouraged, as is the dissemination of the research to audiences across higher education.
Award details: $5K for the equivalent of 3 months. Flexible fellowships do not require leave from university responsibilities and do not require three months’ work to run consecutively.
Announcement on website: https://www.acls.org/competitions/luce-acls-early-career-fellowships-in-china-studies-flexible/
Application due date: November 16, 2023.
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The Teagle Foundation
Program: Education for American Civic Life
Synopsis: Supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities. The Foundation seeks ambitious projects that confront gaps in undergraduates’ civic knowledge and prepare them for the intellectual demands of democratic participation. Successful proposals will seek to promote learning about the formation of the American Republic, the crafting of its Constitution, the history of contention over the interpretation of the Constitution, the development of representative political structures, and the principles of democracy. The initiative is focused on funding in two particular areas: (1) anchoring significant questions in democratic thought in local history and community and (2) strengthening preparation for public service.
Award details: Grants of varying amounts, ranging from $100,000-$300,000 over a 24-36-month period, will be made to each funded project participating in this initiative. Requests from both single institutions and multiple institutions partnering together will be considered. The size of the grant will be based on the scope of the project. Proposals for planning grants in the range of $25,000 over 6-12 months are strongly encouraged.
Announcement on website: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Education-for-American-Civic-Life-RFP
Concept Paper due: Concept papers are reviewed 3 times a year. The next due date is December 1, 2023. Invited proposals will be negotiated with the applicant and Teagle program staff to determine an appropriate timeline for full proposal submission.
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Wellcome
Program: Mental Health Award
Synopsis: Supports researchers anywhere in the world (except China) to investigate the causal mechanisms through which brain, body, and environment interact over time in the development, persistence, and resolution of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders. Knowing more about these mechanisms will help us find better ways to identify these problems and intervene at an early stage. Specifically, supports research for populations in and / or across low- and middle-income countries, to better understand how different contexts may impact the trajectory of anxiety-related problems. Prioritizes research that considers multiple levels of explanation.
Award details: $4.8M over a 5-year project period.
Announcement on website: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/understanding-anxiety-and-trauma-related-problems
Pre-Application due date: November 14, 2023.
Full application (invited): March 5, 2023.
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Amazon Science
Program: Amazon Research Awards Call for Proposals
Synopsis: Supports research in the following areas: AI for Information Security; Automated Reasoning; AWS AI; AWS Cryptography and Privacy; AWS Database Services; and Sustainability. Amazon retains no intellectual property rights to the resulting work. Recipients are encouraged to publish outcomes and commit related code to open-source repositories. Recipients are assigned an Amazon research contact who offers consultation and advice along with opportunities to participate in Amazon events and training sessions.
Award details: Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the PI's academic institution or organization
Announcement on website: https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals
Submission due date: November 1, 2023.
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Southern California Center for Latino Health (funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities)
Program: 2023 Pilot Projects Program
Synopsis: Supports pilot projects that will advance understanding and address health disparities related to chronic diseases among Latinos, including but not limited to disparities in obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and dyslipidemia. They will prioritize research that is led by investigators who are early career, new to the field, and / or from underrepresented minorities (URM) in the research workforce (i.e., underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, sexual minorities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds), to support their transition to independent funding. They will also prioritize supporting projects that integrate multidisciplinary team science, and that involve community partnerships and community-based participatory research approaches.
Award details; $70K for 1 year, with a possibility of a 2nd year, contingent on satisfactory progress.
Announcement on the website: 2023 Pilot Projects
Letter of Intent due date: November 17, 2023.
Full application due date (invited): February 9, 2024.
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The U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
Program: Research Grants Program
Synopsis: Supports U.S. and Israeli scientists who wish to collaborate on research projects that address topics in basic science. Applications reviewed in odd years as in 2023 are in the areas of Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences, Medicine, and Psychobiology. Applications to the program are made jointly by U.S. and Israeli researchers. No prior collaboration is required, but the synergy between the researchers must be evident. In addition to scientific excellence, BSF collaboration between the PIs from the two countries is essential.
Award details: The total maximum award is $250K to be shared between the 2 PIs over 4 years. Typically the maximum award involves experimental or pilot projects.
Announcement on website: https://www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/bsf-research-grants/about/
Application due date: November 29, 2023.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Scholarly Editions and Translations
Synopsis: Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but works in other humanities fields may also be the subject of an edition. At least two scholars must work collaboratively on the project. The program also supports a 2-year planning phase to determine the scope of the corpus, collect documents, establish the editorial and translation policies, evaluate the target audiences and determine their needs, select collaborators, and plan for dissemination and digital sustainability.
Award details: $65K for up to 2 years. Up to $450K for total award.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants
Application due date: November 29, 2023.
Anticipated notification date: August 31, 2024.
Project start date: October 1, 2024, to September 1, 2025.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Public Scholars
Synopsis: Synopsis: Supports individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. Writers with or without an academic affiliation may apply, and no advanced degree is required. The program encourages non-academic writers to deepen their engagement with the humanities by strengthening the research underlying their books. It also encourages academic writers in the humanities to communicate the significance of their research to the broadest possible range of readers. NEH especially encourages applications from independent writers, researchers, scholars, and journalists.
Award details: $5K for 6-12 months.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program
Application due date: November 29, 2023.
Project start date: Anytime between September 1, 2024, and September 1, 2025.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Program: Research for Understanding PFAs (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) Uptake and Bioaccumulation in Plants and Animals in Agricultural, Rural, and Tribal Communities
NOFO #: EPA-G2023-STAR-J1
Synopsis: Supports research to reduce human PFAS exposure via the
food supply and promote farm viability. The research will provide scientific foundations to advance EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment through the collection of PFAS bioaccumulation data in agricultural settings and exploring strategies for preventing PFAS exposure. Strong research proposals should leverage any existing scientific research regarding PFAS plant and animal uptake in agricultural operations and incorporate approaches to understanding PFAS accumulation in agricultural environments. The development of different agricultural PFAS management perspectives and outlooks should also be a facet of the proposed research. More specific research interests include (partial)
- PFAS contamination and bioaccumulation in livestock (including aquaculture) from feed and water.
- PFAS contamination and bioaccumulation through biosolid agricultural use and approaches to ensure biosolid application does not contribute to PFAS soil
concentration.
Award details: Maximum award is $1.6M over a maximum 4-year project period.
Announcement on website: Understanding PFAs Uptake and Bioaccumulation in Plants and Animals
Application due date: December 6, 2023.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / National Ocean Service (NOS)
Program: FY2024 Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed Project
NOFO #: NOAA-NOS-IOOS-2024-2008197
Synopsis: Supports projects that advance new or existing solutions that address long-standing and emerging coastal modeling and forecast product development challenges. Specifically funds activities needed to progress through the transitional stages from research toward full operations (such as system integration, testing, validation, and verification). Projects will be expected to participate in and advance in a community-modeling environment. Funding will be targeted to models, tools, or products, with demonstrated operators and end users, that are sufficiently mature for evaluation and transition to long-term operations. Priorities of this program:
- Advancing the Coastal Component of the Unified Forecast System
- Coastal Resilience and Ecosystem Modeling
Award details: $300K for up to 5-year project duration.
Announcement on website: FY2024 Coastal and Ocean Modeling Tested Project
Application due date: February 26, 2024.
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (forcasted)
Program: Demonstration Projects to Research and Evaluate Strategies Aligned with CDC’s What Works in Schools Approach
NOFO #: RFA-PS-24-038
Synopsis: Supports projects to conduct evaluation research that builds the evidence base for innovative, school-based, or school-linked strategies to promote the health of youth across multiple health domains. Strategies aim to improve sexual and reproductive health, improve mental and behavioral health, reduce suicidality, decrease substance use and experiences of violence, and address health equity among youth in the United States are of particular interest. This NOFO provides funding to evaluate the Implementation and effectiveness of school-based approaches aligned with CDC’s What Works in Schools (WWIS) approach to promoting positive student health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes in state / territorial, and local Education agencies and youth-serving organizations.
Award details: Awards will range from $350 to $500K
Announcement on website: What Works in Schools Approach
Estimated post date: December 5, 2023.
Estimated Application due date: February 3, 2024.
Estimated project start date: September 1, 2024
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DoD / Army Research Directorate
Program: DEVCOM ARL BAA for Foundational Research
NOFO #: W911NF-23-S-0001
Synopsis: Supports projects within the purview of the Army Research Office (ARO) and the Army Research Directorate. The document link provides current Army Research Laboratory (ARL) research topics as of the noted print date. ARL maintains a daily static snapshot of a research topic website to ensure submissions are aligned with listed research topics on the day of submission. The available ARO topics are listed alphabetically followed by an alphabetical listing of the Army Research Directorate topics. Interested parties are encouraged to continually browse the ARL research topic website and review the ARL BAA for submission instructions. And we will keep an eye out too.
Document: Topics for the DEVCOM ARL BAA For Foundational Research
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NSF / Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economics Sciences (SBE)
Program: The Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program (RISBS)
NSF Program #: PD 23-277Y
Synopsis: Supports projects that create computational tools and data to facilitate basic research in the social and behavioral sciences that can lead to improved health, prosperity and security. Projects should be aimed at creating computational tools and data to enable research by social scientists. Examples include, but are not limited to, data collection or assembly efforts that result in new resources for a community of researchers or software platforms that facilitate data collection efforts by others. RISBS does not support research by PIs except in service of creation of the infrastructure. RISBS directly supports three key longitudinal surveys and panel studies that provide researchers with data on how American society functions and changes over time:
- 2024 American National Election Study Composition (AMES)
- General Social Survey Competition
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics Competition
Prospective PIs may also be interested in the Human Networks and Data Science Program – Infrastructure (HNDS-I), which supports proposals addressing the development of data resources and relevant analytic techniques that support research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences.
Award details: $4K to $2M.
Announcement on website: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/research-infrastructure-social-behavioral-sciences
Proposal due date: Proposals accepted anytime. Prospective PIs are strongly encouraged to contact the RISBS program officers and/or program officers from other SBE programs that may be applicable to the proposal before submitting to RISBS
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NIH / National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Program: Predoctoral Basic Biomedical Science Research Training Program (T32 — Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA)
NOFO #: PAR-23-228
Synopsis: Supports 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. Through this funding opportunity, NIGMS will accept predoctoral training grant applications for programs in one of the following areas: Behavioral-Biomedical Sciences Interface; Biostatistics; Biotechnology; Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences; Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI); Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Data Science; Genetics; Molecular Biophysics; Molecular Medicine; Pharmacological Sciences; Systems and Integrative Biology, and Transdisciplinary Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Award details: Application budgets are not limited but must reflect the actual needs of a maximum 5-year project.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-228.html
Application due date: Multiple dates for new, renewals, and resubmission applications through 2026. The next due date for all 3 categories is January 25, 2024.
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NIH / Multiple Directorates
Program: Short Courses on Techniques for Measuring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Different Populations (R25 Education Projects)
NOFO #: RFA-OD-24-002
Synopsis: Supports courses for skills development in the measurement of intimate partner violence (IPV) in populations of pregnant and postpartum people, consistent with the goals of the Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) initiative. This is an opportunity for leaders in the field to share their knowledge with the next generation of IPV researchers or with established researchers who would like to broaden the scope of their expertise and research agendas to include or integrate IPV and IPV-related preventive intervention research. Integrating IPV knowledge into existing maternal mortality research will also build capacity in the field. Applicants are encouraged to develop programs that reach an audience broader than attendees to an in-person course.
Award details: Application budgets are not restricted, but must reflect the actual needs of a 2-year project period.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-24-002.html
Letter of Intent due date: November 1, 2023.
Application due date: December 1, 2023.
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigators
Office of Research and Innovation
Center for Excellence in Research
Upcoming Workshop
Developing a Successful Mission Agency Grant
In this workshop you will learn how to determine which of the vast number of federal agencies that support university research fits your specific interests, contact the appropriate program officers, develop a winning proposal and and work with agency officials to get your proposal funded. The focus is on agencies that fund science and engineering other than NSF and NIH, but those two are used to provide comparisons.
Date: October 18, 2023. Time: 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM
Location: Virtual Registration: https://rii.usc.edu/cer/
Presenter: Jim Murday, Director of Physical Sciences, Office of Research Advancement
Panelists: Smaranda Marinescu, Associate Professor of Chemistry, USC Dornsife
Stephen Cronin, Professor of ECE Electrophysics, USC Viterbi
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Department of Contracts and Grants
Due to the continuing resolution passed by Congress and signed by President Biden through November 17, 2023, and consistent with NIH practices during the CRs of FYs 2006-2007, NIH Institutes and / or Centers may, at their discretion, issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award. Upward adjustments to awarded levels will be considered after FY 2024 appropriations are enacted, but NIH expects institutions to monitor their expenditures carefully during this period. See DCG’s NewsFlash! for more info.
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Book Cover: H.D.'s Dramatic Poetics — Tragedy, Translation & Processional Poems (Dalkey Archive Scholarly, 2023) Catherine Theis, English
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