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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of September 4, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week report includes
- An honor for a Dornsife faculty member;
- Report of 2 external funding successes;
- A USC internal funding opportunity;
- Current external funding opportunities, including 2 limited submissions;
- Announcement of the 2nd of a 3-part series on SBIR / STTR applications presented by the Center for Excellence in Research; and
- Announcment from DCG on YouTube videos on the NIH grant processes.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolade
Viet Thanh Nguyen, English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature has been chosen as the 2023-2024 prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University. He will deliver the six annual Norton lectures over the course of the academic year. Past Norton Professors include T.S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, and Czeslaw Milosz.
External Funding Successes
Yehuda Ben-Zion, Earth Sciences, Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Quakeworx - An extensible software framework for earthquake simulations, National Science Foundation
Ann Owens, Sociology, Visualizing Equity: Cross-Sector Collaboration for Communicating Residential and School Segregation Data, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
USC Internal Funding Opportunity
USC Visions and Voices
Program: Faculty and Student Grants For Arts In Action 2024 – Request for Preliminary Proposals
Synopsis: Arts in Action invites USC faculty and students to submit preliminary proposals for community-based projects that address social issues, bring people together, facilitate dialogue, and create spaces to imagine and design future change. Embodying USC’s 6 unifying values and building on the University’s commitment to addressing society’s most intractable problems, the mission for Arts in Action is to plant seeds for positive social change by creating and supporting intensive art projects between community partners and USC faculty and students.
Award details: Grants range from $5K to $30K. Currently the program is supporting 8 faculty and / or student-driven projects.
Announcement on website: 2024 Arts in Action
Preliminary proposal due date: October 2, 2023.
Full proposal due date: November 30, 2023.
Awarded grantees should begin their projects no earlier than February 1, 2024.
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External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Program: 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
Synopsis: Open to citizens or permanent residents of the United States whose names have been forwarded by a nominator designated by Carnegie Corporation of New York. For at least the next three years, the program will ask scholars to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion in American society. The next class of fellows will be announced in spring 2024. The expected output of the fellowship is a book or an otherwise major study that can be communicated to a broader audience. Candidates must have a Ph.D., hold a terminal degree, or be a high-level professional working outside of academia. Nominators include heads of independent research institutes and societies, university presidents, leaders of some of the nation’s preeminent think tanks, and directors of major university presses, as well as editors of leading newspapers and magazines. Individuals may not apply for the fellows program via self-nomination.
Award details: $200K.
USC Internal announcement on website: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/2024-andrew-carnegie-fellows/
External Announcement: https://www.carnegie.org/awards/award/andrew-carnegie-fellows/
USC Internal due date: September 22, 2023.
External due date: November 15, 2023.
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***Limited Submission***
(2 awards available)
NSF / Directorate for Geosciences – Division of Earth Sciences
Program: Centers for Innovation and Community Engagement in Solid Earth Geohazards
Solicitation #: NSF 21-628
Synopsis: Supports basic research on Earth processes, as well as the development of new methods needed to advance the science. The program will help facilitate new collaborations within observational, experimental, theoretical and computational domains that will be essential to address the most exciting questions at the cutting edge of Earth science. Centers focus on addressing major, fundamental science challenges for understanding solid Earth geohazards, primarily those related to faulting, volcanoes, mass movements, and other dynamic processes. Centers provide community-scale leadership in two areas: convergence and innovation in systems-level science, and community engagement to develop a diverse and inclusive workforce, as well as a well-prepared and informed public. The Program has two tracks, both of which are described in the solicitation. Track I – Center Catalyst awards will provide resources to catalyze initiatives to develop future centers. These awards would support groups to develop the science, management, and broader impact concepts for of a major research center. Track II – Center Operation awards supports the operation of a fully developed center.
Award details: Track 1: Up to $500K for 2 years; Track 2: Up to $3M per year for 5 years.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/nsf-21-628/
External announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21628/nsf21628.htm
USC Internal due date: October 6, 2023.
Letter of Intent due date: November 16, 2023.
External due date: March 15, 2024.
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Japan Foundation of Los Angeles (JFLA)
Program: Japanese Language Education Project Grant
Synopsis: Supports projects that promote Japanese language education in a wide area (nationwide / statewide / region-wide). Because the project should benefit multiple Japanese language programs and as many teachers as possible, projects that only benefit a single school / institution are NOT eligible for this grant program. JFLA accepts applications from non-profit educational institutions/organizations (Japanese language teachers’ associations, higher educational institutions, etc.) in the U.S., not from individuals. Priority will be given to workshops/ seminars/ conferences that can provide participating teachers with professional development credits / units (university credits, continuing education units, professional development clock hours, etc.) or certificates of attendance, which can be used towards receiving / renewing teacher’s license / credential.
Award details: Up to 5K.
Announcement on website: https://www.jflalc.org/grants-jle-project
Application due date: 2 months prior to the project start date. Projects must be completed by March 31, 2024.
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The Dirksen Congressional Center
Program: Congressional Research Grants
Synopsis: Supports political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, independent researchers, and journalists’ research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply. The grants program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
Award details: A grant can cover almost any aspect of a qualified research project, such as travel to conduct research, duplication of research material, purchase of data sets, and costs of clerical, secretarial, research, or transcription assistance. For larger projects, especially those exceeding an annual $10K, The Center will require more stringent accountability as determined by The Center’s Board of Directors on a per-project basis. Stipends will be awarded to individuals (not organizations) on a competitive basis. Grants will typically extend for one year. In some circumstances, the Center will make more than one grant to a single individual in consecutive years, but not more than three grants to the same person in a five-year period.
Announcement on website: https://www.dirksencenter.org/grants-scholarships-and-publications/congressional-research-grants
Applications due date: Applications may be accepted anytime.
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Horowitz Foundation
Program: Horowitz Foundation for 2023 Social Policy Grant
Synopsis: Supports dissertation-level predocs for projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level. Applications are evaluated based on the Trustees’ assessment of criteria such as the significance of the policy issue; feasibility, applicability, and originality of the project; methodology; evidence that the project is theoretically informed and/or the research is empirically rich; and recommendations. No specific weight is given to any one area. Proposals are evaluated based on the overall merit of all aspects of the application.
Award details: $5K
Announcement on website: https://apply.mykaleidoscope.com/scholarships/HorowitzFoundation2023Application
Application due date: December 1, 2023.
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The Charles Koch Foundation
Program: Ending Endless Wars in the Middle East
Synopsis: Supports projects that offer solutions to U.S. involvement in long-standing conflicts in the Middle East. Areas of interest include (partial)
- Studies of the economic and security opportunity costs of continued U.S. engagement in the Middle East, including trade-offs in foreign and domestic policy;
- Examine ways that the United States might effectively de-escalate tensions with Iran while meeting our security needs.
- Examine social / political/ economic / humanitarian effects of long-term conflict on local populations. Explore the local population’s perception of the United States in countries that were targets of U.S. armed interventions.
Award details: Funding levels are commensurate with the requirements of the research and the potential for the research to advance an understanding of critical issues. Accepted proposals may also receive support to disseminate the research findings.
Announcement on website: https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/ending-endless-wars-in-the-middle-east/
Proposal due date: Proposals are accepted and evaluated on a rolling basis.
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American Psychological Foundation
Program: Scott and Paul Pearsall Grant
Synopsis: Supports early career investigators (10 years or less postdoctoral) for research that advances our understanding of the psychological pain and stigma experienced by adults with physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy. Program goals include (1) the encouragement of psychologists whose focus is on the area of the psychological stigma of individuals with physical disabilities; (2) the development of strategies that enlighten the public’s awareness in this area; and (3) utilizing the media and other means to dissemination information and increase awareness.
Award details: $10K
Announcement on website: https://apf.apa.org/
Application due date: October 1, 2023.
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The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Program: Dr. David L. Epstein Award
Synopsis: Supports ARVO members who are senior-level investigators with a documented history of conducting eye and vision research in glaucoma and who have a record of successfully mentoring clinician-scientists to independent academic and research careers. The award will fund a research project that supports the applicant’s mentee in the applicant’s lab. Applicants (1) must be the PI of an active research program and have a history of obtaining at least two NIH grants in the U or R series (or two grant equivalents if the applicant is from outside the United States), at least one of which is current; (2) must agree that funds will be used specifically to support a clinician-scientist, within five years of completion of formal training in the awaree's lab (more details about this requirement in the solicitation); and (3) mentee must be committed to becoming a clinician-scientist and have either an MD or an OD.
Award details: $100K.
Announcement on website: https://www.arvo.org/awards-grants-and-fellowships/research-awards/dr.-david-l.-epstein-award/
Application due date: October 1, 2023.
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Smithsonian / Office of Academic Appointments and Internships
Program: Edward B. and Phyllis E. Reed Research Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports independent research by graduate students through senior researchers on North American freshwater copepods. Proposals utilizing the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Copepod Collection will be given preference. All copepod biologists actively engaged in research that includes North America freshwater copepods, whether it be collections-based (e.g., systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, comparative morphology, functional morphology, diversity), ecology, conservation or other areas are eligible. Awardees are not required to be in residence in the Washington, D.C. area nor to spend a significant amount of time working in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Department of Invertebrate Zoology during their tenure. Researchers must reside in the United States during their tenure.
Award details: Maximum award is $12K for projects ranging from 1 week to 6 months. Supports direct expenses required to complete the proposed research. This includes travel for field work or to collaborate with distant colleagues, small research equipment, consumables, sequencing, or other research costs.
Announcement on website: https://fellowships.si.edu/Reed
Application due date: November 1, 2023 for tenure beginning in March 2024 to September 2024; June 15, 2024 for tenure beginning September, 2024 to March 2025.
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Department of the Interior / National Park Service
Program: Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program
NOFO #: P24AS00023
Synopsis: Supports entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history, including private nonprofit organizations; educational institutions; state, local, and tribal governments; and other public entities, for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites — defined as the ten War Relocation Authority sites (Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake), as well as other historically significant locations —as determined by the Secretary of the Interior — where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. Examples of projects eligible for funding include (partial):
- Oral history interviews: including recording, transcribing, digitally processing, and sharing the interviews;
- Documentation including identification, research, and evaluation of historic confinement sites; projects may include archeological surveys, National Register of Historic Places nominations, and National Historic Landmark nominations; and
- Interpretation and education related to historic confinement sites: Projects may
include wayside exhibits, creative arts, and educational curricula.
Award details: Amount of funding to be determined during review of application requests. There is a 2:1 federal to non-federal cost share requirement. The non-federal cost share may be in-kind contributions.
Announcement on website: Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program
Application due date: November 1, 2023. Anticipated award announcement in Spring 2024.
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention / National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Program: Rigorous Evaluation of Policies for their Impacts on the Primary Prevention of Multiple Forms of Violence
NOFO #: RFA-CE-24-034
Synopsis: Supports research to expand the evidence base for policy approaches for the primary prevention of multiple forms of violence experienced by children, youth, and adults. Specifically, this funding opportunity supports applications that investigate policies that address social and structural conditions to reduce the disproportionate burden of violence experienced by some groups and communities. Applications should empirically examine the health equity implications of selected policies on population(s) disproportionately impacted by violence. Policies that promote the social and economic well-being of populations and address community characteristics associated with violence have the potential to not only reduce rates of multiple forms of violence, including the five forms that are the focus of this announcement: child abuse and neglect, youth violence, community violence, intimate partner violence (including teen dating violence), and sexual violence but also impact health equity.
Award details: $350K maximum award per year for 3 years (includes direct and indirect costs).
Announcement on website: Policies for their Impacts on the Primary Prevention of Multiple Forms of Violence
Application due date: December 1, 2023.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NST)
Program: Standards Development Organization Grants for Forensic Science Standards (SDO GFSS)
NOFO #: 2023-NIST-SDO-01
Synopsis: Supports the development, approval, dissemination, maintenance, and review of forensic science voluntary consensus standards and best practices to be made available to the public free of charge. Specifically, it supports the development of forensic science standards or the planning to develop forensic science standards in one or more of the forensic science disciplines supported by the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC), e.g., Biology; Chemistry: Seized Drugs & Toxicology: Trace Evidence; Digital / Multimedia; Medicine; Physics / Pattern Interpretation; or Scene Examination. The standards development process involves many steps which include but are not limited to initiating the development of a new standard, resolving comments submitted on a draft standard, and finally publishing a completed standard for use by the forensic science community. Standards and Development Organizations (SDOs) are eligible to seek support for the activities included in the standards development process for their existing standards under development and initiating new standards development activities. SDOs are not required to identify the specific existing standards that will be supported under this NOFO. The NOFO includes several areas that must be addressed in all proposals.
Award details: Awards will range from $50K to $500K for a 1-year project period. NISH anticipates funding up to 5 projects.
Announcement on website: FY2023 NIST SDO For Forensic Standards
Application due date: September 30, 2023.
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NSF
Program: Fostering Harassment-Free STEM Education, Research, and Workplace Environments
Solicitation #: 23-140
Synopsis: Supports projects that focus and align with NSF’s efforts to eliminate harassment wherever STEM-related research, teaching, and technology development is conducted. NSF classifies harassment in 3 categories (1) gender harassment (verbal and nonverbal behaviors that convey hostility, objectification, exclusion, or second-class status about members of one gender); (2) unwanted sexual attention (verbal or physical unwelcome sexual advances, which can include assault); and (3) sexual coercion (when favorable professional or educational treatment is conditioned on sexual activity). NSF is soliciting 2 types of proposals:
- Research on Anti-Harassment in STEM Education and Research Settings and
Workplaces, and
- Culture Change and Organizational Policy Structure Projects to Create Harassment Free STEM Education and Research Settings and Workplaces
Regarding the first type, Anti-Harassment in STEM Education and Research Settings and Workplaces, to determine whether a research idea is appropriate for a particular NSF program, 2 prospective principal investigators are strongly encouraged to contact, prior to submitting proposals, the directorate/office liaison(s) for this DCL that is most closely aligned with the research activities to be proposed. Proposals will be submitted to existing NSF funding opportunities and should follow the guidance and requirements of the relevant NSF program(s), For the second type of proposals, culture change projects, proposals should be submitted to the Directorate that best represents the sector and disciplines of science and engineering whose culture would be impacted by the proposed activities.
Announcement on website: Fostering Harassment-Free STEM Education, Research, and Workplace Environments.
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NSF / Directorate for Biological Sciences
Program: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
Solicitation #: 23-620
Synopsis: Supports recent postdocs for research and training in selected areas supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and with special goals for human resource development in biology. For proposals under this solicitation, these areas are (1) Broadening Participation of Groups Underrepresented in Biology, (2) Integrative Research Investigating the Rules of Life Governing Interactions Between Genomes, Environment, and Phenotypes, and (3) Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.
Award details: Stipend of $60K ($5K a month paid directly to the Fellow) and a research and training allowance of $20K. The award duration is 3 years and is made the following spring.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23620/nsf23620.pdf
Application due dates: November 29, 2023, and November 7, 2024.
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NSF and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) of the Government of India
Program: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) of India Collaborative Research Opportunities via Dear Colleague Letter (DCL)
Solicitation #: NSF 23-139
Synopsis: NSF and MeitY have signed an Implementation Arrangement on research cooperation. The Implementation Arrangement provides a framework to encourage collaborations between U.S. and Indian research communities and sets out the principles by which joint activities might be supported. Through this research agency partnership, U.S. researchers may receive funding from NSF, and Indian researchers may receive funding from MeitY. The collaborative opportunity focuses on research and technological development in areas of mutual interest listed through the participating NSF programs that develop new knowledge in semiconductor research, next-generation communication systems, cyber-security, sustainability and green technologies, and intelligent transportation systems. Technology development / demonstrations may be in terms of the development of prototypes, pilot scale demonstrations, field deployment, and other efforts to accelerate technology transfer. Proposing teams of U.S. and Indian investigators are strongly encouraged to develop appropriate partnerships with test bed providers, local communities, and industry partners to ensure that necessary resources and expertise are available for the success of their project. Proposals for collaborative research will be accepted from several NSF Directorates, including the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research.
Award details: The budget submitted by the U.S. proposer must be within the limitation specified in the NSF program from which funding is sought and will reflect the U.S. research activities only.
Announcement on website: NSF / MeitY
Proposal target date: January 5, 2024.
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NIH / National Institute of Mental Health
Program: Systems-Level Risk Detection and Interventions to Reduce Suicide, Ideation, and Behaviors in Youth from Underserved Populations
NOFO #’s: RFA-MH —25-126 (R01); RFA-MH-25-126 (R34 — Planning Grant)
Synopsis: Supports research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene to reduce the risk of suicide, suicide ideation and behavior (SIB), and / or non-suicidal self-harm (NSSI) specifically among children, adolescents, and transition-age youth/young adults from underserved populations. Specifically, this project encourages services research aimed at testing easily implemented systems-level interventions and strategies that improve systematic risk identification, coordinated referral to, or engagement and retention in quality care for prevention of SIB and/or NSSI among adolescents and children from the targeted populations. The companion R34 supports pilot studies in preparation for the larger-scale studies described here. This NOFO is focused on service interventions for use in settings that primarily serve underserved youth.
Award details: R01: Budgets are not restricted but must meet the requirements of a maximum 5-year project period. R34: Maximum award is $450K over a maximum project period of 3 years, with no single year’s budget exceeding $225K.
Announcements on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-25-126.html
Application due dates: February 20, 2024 for new non-AIDS applications. February 24, 2024, for resubmissions, renewal and revised applications.
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigators
Office of Research and Innovation
Center for Excellence in Research
Upcoming Workshop
Structure of an SBIR / STTR Application
Second of a 3-part series on SBIR / STTR programs, this session,t will cover the requisite sections of an SBIR/ STTR grant application, including budget preparation. The review process of the NIH / SBIR / STTR r will also be described as well as a look at common pitfalls to avoid.
Date: September 21, 2023 Time: 10:30 a.m. to noon
Presenter: JoAnne Goodnight, Independent consultant
Registration: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/structure_of_an_sbirsttr_application
Department of Contracts and Grants
NewsFlash!
Are you new to the world of NIH grants or looking for a refresher? The National Institutes of Health has curated a playlist of YouTube videos designed to provide an overview of the NIH grants process, the different funding programs available, key tools to use as you develop your application, and grant writing advice straight from NIH staff.
Crash Course in NIH Grants Fundamentals
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Book Cover: I Walk Between the Raindrops - Stories (Ecco September 3, 2022) T.C. Boyle, English
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