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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of April 1, 2024
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week's report includes
- External funding success obtained by 1 faculty member;
- Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including 2 limited submissions
- A friendly reminder of Wednesday office hours offered by Dornsife Research Administration.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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External Funding Successes
Leland Saito, Sociology, Public Policies and Gentrification: Housing, Race, and Civic Activism in South Los Angeles, Haynes Foundation
External Funding Opportunities
**Limited Submission***
(1 application from USC)
NIH / National Institutes of General Sciences (NIGMS)
Program: Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) (T34— Undergraduate NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants)
NOFO #: PAR-24-137
Synopsis: Supports the development and implementation of effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical undergraduate training and mentoring to support the development of a biomedical research workforce that will benefit from the full range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds needed to advance discovery. NIGMS expects organizations to engage in outreach and recruitment activities to encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to participate in the program. 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.
Award details: Application budgets should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project for a maximum project period of 5 years.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/par-24-137/
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-137.html
USC internal due date: April 19, 2024.
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through 2026. The next due date for all types of applications is May 29, 2024.
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***Limited Submission***
(1 applicaton from USC)
NIH / National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Program: Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) (T34— Undergraduate NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants)
NOFO #: 24-138
Synopsis: Supports the development and implementation of effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical undergraduate training and mentoring to support the development of a biomedical research workforce that will benefit from the full range of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds needed to advance discovery. NIGMS expects organizations to engage in outreach and recruitment activities to encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to participate in the program. 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. This program is limited to applications from baccalaureate degree-granting research-intensive organizations (that is, those with NIH Research Project Grant (RPG) funding averaging greater than or equal to $7.5 million in total costs (direct and F&A/indirect) per year over the last three fiscal years (FY)).
Award details: Application budgets should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project for a maximum project period of 5 years.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/par-24-138/
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-138.html
USC Internal due date: April 19, 2024.
Application due date: Multiple due dates through 2026. The next due date for all types of applications is May 29, 2024.
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American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Program: Henry Luce Foundation’s Collaborative Grant in China Studies
Synopsis: Supports the design and pilot of activities that solve specific, pressing challenges in the field of China Studies (humanities or interpretive social sciences) over a 12- to 18-month period. The collaborative grant will serve to test and refine promising solutions; to produce recommendations for those activities to be adopted at scale in universities and colleges; and to identify strategies for long-term sustainability.
Award details: Up to $150K
Announcement on website: https://www.acls.org/competitions/luce-acls-collaborative-grant-in-china-studies/
Optional draft due date: April 17, 2024.
Application due date: June 13, 2024.
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I Tatti-Dumbarton Oaks
Program: Joint Fellowship for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Synopsis: Supports early and mid-career scholars whose work explores cross-cultural contacts in and beyond the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean. Scholars will spend six months (July–December) as I Tatti Fellows and the spring term as Dumbarton Oaks Fellows. The fellowship will focus on exchanges and interactions between Italy and territories of the East Christian world, widely conceived, encompassing Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine Greek world as well as North and East Africa, the Near East, the Caucasus, the Balkans, India, Russia, and contact zones between Eastern and Western Christianity. This collaboration aims to support early-career scholars whose work explores cross-cultural contacts in and beyond the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean through the study of art, architecture, archaeology, history, literature, material culture, music, philosophy, religion, or science. Preference will be given to projects that draw upon the history and cultural patrimony of Italy as well as that of the East Christian world.
Award details: The stipend is $5,200 per month for Fellows, plus a one-time supplement (maximum $1,500 towards relocation expenses. If an apartment is not available, a housing subsidy will be offered to help offset rental costs.
Announcement on website: https://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-awards/i-tatti-dumbarton-oaks-joint-fellowship
Application due date: Applications are currently not yet open for the academic year 2025-2026, but the annual due date is November 1st.
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Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Program: Forced Migration Request for Applications
Synopsis: Supports internationally oriented, multidimensional research projects on forced migration that address questions that link theoretical core research with concepts vital to social, humanitarian, and political praxis. Proposals that engage in comparisons across regions and periods, as well as those that incorporate intersectional perspectives and issues, are encouraged. Cooperation with local knowledge producers (researchers as well as civil society actors), or people affected by displacement within countries of origin or asylum (particularly in the Global South), is strongly encouraged. The special program is aimed at researchers across several disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Law, and Economics.
Award details: Not specified; based upon award type and length.
Announcement on website: https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/forced_migration
Application due date: May 3, 2024.
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Mental Research Institute (MRI)
Program: Grants
Synopsis: Supports the development of innovative interactional systemic approaches to understanding and improving human relationships. Academics whose work aligns with the Institute’s mission are invited to apply for investigator-initiated research projects. Award details: Up to $25K
Announcement on website: https://mri.org/
Application due date: 2-step application process. MRI accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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American Physiological Society
Program: John F. Perkins, Jr. Research Career Enhancement Award
Synopsis: Supports career enhancement potential early career of recipients who are members of the APS who have been in good standing 2 consecutive years before applying for the award. Eligible applicants must hold the rank of Assistant Professor or above
Award details: $20K
Announcement on website: https://www.physiology.org/meetings-awards/awards/researchers/rcea?SSO=Y
Application due date: May 31, 2024.
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Program: Digital Projects for the Public
Funding Opportunity Number: 20240612-MD-MN-MT
Synopsis: Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.
Award details: Discover awards: $30K; Prototyping Grants: $100K; Production Grants: $400K
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public
Optional draft due date: May 1, 2024.
Application due date: June 12, 2024.
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Synopsis: Supports scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Projects may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve partnerships between organizations. Collaboration between humanities experts and information professionals is essential to broaden the scope of, and audiences for, proposed collections or reference resources. Projects should expand participation in cultural heritage and promote engagement with primary sources.
Award details: Implementation projects: Maximum award is $350K for 3 years; Foundations projects: $50K (NEH offers an additional $10K to support inter-institutional planning and pilot activities) for 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources
Application due date (anticipated): July 16, 2024. The application is expected to be available on April 16, 2024.
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NASA / ROSES
Program: Euclid General Investigator Program (EGIP)
Synopsis: Supports basic research focused on data from the ESA Euclid mission to which NASA contributed infrared detectors. The primary goal of this mission is to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. This space telescope will map the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history. It will expand our understanding of the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter. Euclid data will also find broad use across a wide range of ancillary science applications. Research areas of interest include
- analysis of data from the beginning of science operations or the development of data analysis techniques and tools. Investigators will be required D.18-2 to make software a
- support observations that are directly relevant to the Euclid science objectives and would augment the science return of the mission and the selected investigations. Such investigations must specifically address how the anticipated results will advance Euclid science objectives and/or the broader astrophysics applications of Euclid data.
- theoretical investigations that will advance the scientific return of the Euclid mission. Such investigations must address how the anticipated results will advance Euclid's science objectives.
EGIP will accept proposals from PIs from U.S. organizations, but will not accept proposals for bilateral work with the People's Republic of China (PRC), a PI affiliated with the PRC, or those proposals directly from PRC institutions.
Award details: 10-15 awards anticipated from $4M first-year program funds. The maximum project period is 3 years.
Announcement on website: EUCLID
Notice of Intent due date (mandatory): July 15, 2024.
Proposal due date: August 22, 2024.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services /Administration for Children and Families / Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
Program: Behavioral Intervention Scholars
Opportunity #: HHS-2024-ACF-OPRE-PD-0126
Synopsis: Supports dissertation research by advanced graduate students in the field of behavioral science. Behavioral science seeks to understand how individuals make decisions and what drives their behavior, drawing on the fields of behavioral, social, and cognitive psychology; economics; and other social sciences. Students’ research supported through these awards must be related to programs and policies that affect children, adults, and families with low incomes. These awards build the body of research that applies a behavioral science lens to social services and support faculty mentorship of high-quality doctoral students. The goal of this work is to learn how tools from behavioral science can be used to deliver programs more effectively to improve the well-being of children, adults, and families with low incomes. Proposals must identify a PI who has committed to serve as a mentor to a doctoral-level student who will be funded for the life of the project. The project must be grounded in behavioral science.
Award details: Maximum award is $25K for 2 years. Minimum 1% cost share required. For example a $25K award requires a $253 recipient cost share. The total award in this case is $25,253.
Announcement on website: Behavioral Intervention Scholars
Application due date: June 7, 2024.
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Department of Defense (DoD) / Department of Health / Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Program: Ovarian Cancer Research Program – Ovarian Cancer Academy – Early Career Investigator Award
Funding Opportunity Number: HT942524OCRPOCAECI
Synopsis: Supports patient-centered research to prevent, detect, treat, and cure ovarian cancer to enhance the health and well-being of Service Members, Veterans, their Family members, and all women impacted by this disease. The Ovarian Cancer Academy (OCA) is a unique, interactive virtual academy providing intensive mentoring, national networking, collaborations, and a peer group for junior faculty. The overarching goal of the OCA is to develop successful, highly productive ovarian cancer researchers in a collaborative research and career development environment. This FY24 program announcement/funding opportunity is soliciting additional ECIs to join the existing OCA. This award mechanism enables the ECI (the investigator named as the PI on the application) to pursue an ovarian cancer project that may involve basic, translational, and/or clinical research. The Designated Mentor is not required to be at the same institution as the ECI.
Award details: Estimated program funding is $2.230K.
Announcement on website: OAR
Pre-Application due date: May 14, 2024.
Application due date (invited): August 6, 2024.
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NSF / Across Dornsife-Relevant Directorates (including STEM, GEO, SBE, MPS and BIO) and the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation
Program: Data Science Corps
Solicitation #: 24-560
Synopsis: Supports efforts to engage data science undergraduate students in real-world data science implementation projects. This engagement will help bridge the data-to-knowledge gap in organizations and communities at all levels, including local, state, and national, and will empower better use of data for more effective decision-making. Data Science Corps participants will be able to sharpen their skills in data science by working on real-world projects focused on specific community needs, including rural communities, urban communities, academia, industry, or government. This partnership between communities and data scientists will serve the nation by helping produce a workforce-ready cohort of data scientists and technologists, who have experience with data science in action in real-world settings. The program welcomes proposals that seek to broaden participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM education. Proposals must implement one or more of the 4 following mechanisms
- Learning in the community. PIs are encouraged to engage students with stakeholder communities so that students can obtain immersive educational and training experiences via hands-on training.
- Flexible educational pathways with multiple points of entry can be effective
mechanisms to integrate and provide data science education and training to students with varied educational backgrounds and experiences, skill levels, and technical maturity.
- Across the Data Life Cycle: Foundational data science education and training need to expose students to various disciplinary approaches that track the full data life cycle, from data collection, processing, and storage, to data management, analytics, and decision-making.
- Data Science in STEM: NSF welcomes proposals that provide data science training to students pursuing their primary studies in diverse scientific and engineering disciplines and so drive data-centric inquiry and innovation in the sciences.
Award details: Program funding is $10M of which an estimated 10-15 awards will be made. Awards will typically be in the range of $800K to $1,2M for three years.
Announcement on website: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf24560.pdf?VersionId=LYuKaQVVVK1h7x_tvZoMcSAOE2yfDsm5
Full proposal target date: June 21, 2024.
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NSF / Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences – Division of Mathematical Sciences
Solicitation #: PD 18-1263
Program: Probability
Synopsis: Supports research on the theory and applications of probability. Subfields include discrete probability, stochastic processes, limit theory, interacting particle systems, stochastic differential and partial differential equations, and Markov processes. Research in probability which involves applications to other areas of science and engineering is especially encouraged.
Award details: Not specified
Announcement on website: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/probability
Full Proposal Target date: September 17, 2024.
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NIH / Across All Institutes
Program: Support for Research Excellence — First Independent Research (SuRE-First)
NOFO #: PAR-24-145
Synopsis: Support faculty investigators who have not had prior independent external research grants, to furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences and to enhance the institutional scientific research culture. Proposals for this program should include a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP). To support the best science, the NIH encourages inclusivity in research. Examples of structures that promote diverse perspectives include but are not limited to
- Trans-disciplinary research projects and collaborations among investigators conducting biomedical research.
- Engagement from different types of institutions and organizations (e.g., research-intensive, undergraduate-focused, minority-serving, community-based).
- Individual applications and partnerships that enhance geographic and regional heterogeneity.
- Investigations and teams composed of researchers at different career stages.
- Participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds, including groups historically underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce such as underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, those with disabilities, those from disadvantaged backgrounds, and women.
- Project-based opportunities to enhance the research environment to benefit early- and mid-career investigators.
Award details: Budget requests may be made for up to $125K direct costs for a total project period of 4 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-145.html
Application due date: Due dates through 2026. The next due date for new applications is May 29, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke & National Institute on Aging
Program: Tools and resources to understand the vascular pathophysiology of in vivo neuroimaging findings in Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA)
NOFO #: RFA-NS-24-034
Synopsis: Supports the development and distribution of innovative technologies, methods, protocols, and biomedical materials that enhance combined human neuropathology and neuroimaging research aimed at understanding the vascular pathogenesis and pathophysiology of anti-Aβ monoclonal antibody (mAb) induced ARIA. Resources developed under this NOFO include tools and techniques, such as innovative technologies, methods, protocols, and biomedical materials, and it is expected that they demonstrate reproducibility and feasibility of use by the broader research community. Resource development topics of interest include but are not limited to (partial)
- Comparisons of various types of techniques, such as fixation techniques or solutions, methods to avoid fixation before MR, blocking/sectioning techniques, 3D mold types, etc., to demonstrate which lead to the best preservation of the tissue, MR signal, and genetic material.
- Development and discovery of biomedical materials such as new antibodies for staining and processing brain tissue.
- Development of atlases to be used in co-registering MRI and neuropathology images.
Award details: Application budgets are limited to $1.0M in direct costs per year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-24-034.html
Application due date: May 31, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Program: Partnerships for the Development of Tools to Advance Therapeutic Discover for Select Antibiotic-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria (R01 — Research Project Grant)
NOFO #: RFA-AI-24-021
Synopsis: Supports milestone-driven projects focused on developing and utilizing novel predictive models, assays, tools, and/or platforms based on penetration and efflux of small molecules to facilitate therapeutic discovery for select Gram-negative bacterial pathogens: carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (of which proposals must address one these). Examples of assay and model development activities include, but are not limited to
- Quantitative cellular (or model system) assays to measure drug penetration and efflux, independent from standard minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) testing;
- Innovative quantitative assays to measure drug concentrations in the bacterial cytoplasm and/or periplasmic space;
- Innovative technologies for dissecting and assessment of the kinetics of drug penetration and efflux from bacteria; and
- Computational algorithms for describing / predicting physical-chemical properties/guidelines needed by small molecules for optimal Gram-negative penetration and efflux avoidance.
Award details: Budget requests up to a maximum of $750K for direct cost per year for a maximum project period of 5 years will be considered.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-24-021.html
Letter of Intent due date: 30 days prior to submission of application.
Application due date: August 20, 2024.
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Faculty
Dornsife Research Administration
Dornsife Research Office is offering weekly online office hours on Wednesday afternoon from 3pm-4pm via Zoom. Feel free to drop in with a question and connect with Dornsife research staff.
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