FUNDAMENTALS Newsletter May 2022
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Research Highlight | Massive eruption of Tongan volcano provides an explosion of data on atmospheric waves
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NIH Issues New Resources for Implementing the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
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New Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program: Matter-to-Life
The new Sloan Foundation program, Matter-to-Life, focuses on understanding the physical principles and mechanisms that make living systems distinctive from inanimate matter. The research of interest spans efforts that focus on identifying novel physics exhibited by living systems, to identifying various mechanisms underlying biological function, to building life-like entities. In general, the program will support basic scientific research at the intersection of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering. While scientific excellence is of primary importance, the Foundation has an interest in supporting both under-represented scientists and early-career scientists. Grant-seekers with a relevant research project or meeting idea should submit a Letter of Inquiry of no more than two pages to Program Director Ernie Glover at mattertolife@sloan.org. Detailed description of the program's scientific focus and a description of how to submit a letter of intent (LOI) can be found on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation webpage. Learn more about this new program.
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NSF Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity
With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) notifies the community of a collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and the Walton Family Foundation to offer Incubator and Conference proposal opportunities that support the development of Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure (RI) efforts, especially those that enable research on the assets and needs of those traditionally left out of STEM and that lead to greater education equity.
This DCL establishes an opportunity for the field to incubate Mid-Scale RI ideas in STEM education, allowing for idea progression through conception and planning, and placing potential PIs on a path to develop future Mid-Scale RI proposals. As one of NSF's Big Ideas, the NSF-wide Mid-Scale RI initiative is designed to support the implementation of research capabilities with total project costs between $6M and $100M. These projects directly enable advances in fundamental STEM in one or more of the research and education domains supported by the NSF (see previous solicitations NSF 21-505 and NSF 21-537). Learn More.
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Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Program
The Fulbright-Hays FRA Program provides fellowships through institutions of higher education (IHEs) to faculty members who propose to conduct research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies to improve their skill in languages and their knowledge of the culture of the people of these countries. To be eligible for the FRA, applicants must meet the absolute priority—a research project that focuses on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).
One institutional application is submitted for all applicants. Your application materials must be submitted to Dean Hale (ssdean@ltsc.ucsb.edu) by June 27, 2022 for final submission.
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Borchard Semester {or Quarter) Scholar-in-Residency Grants in France
Deadline: October 15, 2022 The Borchard Foundation offers grants combining (a) a stipend of $30,000 for research in France for a semester (or quarter) during academic year 2023-24, plus (b) accommodations in a Chateau with all furnishings provided and utilities paid - as a home base for the research and/or writing up the research findings. Out of academic and practical considerations, candidates should be on sabbatical leave. The Foundation expects a scholarly publication to derive from the grant. Candidates may be from any discipline. Grants have been made, for example, in French, English, art, music, theater, philosophy, psychology, history, economics, medicine, dentistry and so on.
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May Research Development & Grant Writing News
The Office of Research subscribes to a Grantwriting Newsletter from Academic Research Funding Strategies. This is a monthly newsletter containing articles relevant to faculty and campus researchers on grant writing, funding agencies, etc., and is available to the UCSB community via the link below. Log into your UCSB Google account to access them.
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Webinars, Awards, Call for Papers
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Spring 2022 NSF Virtual Grants Conference
Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Spring 2022 NSF Virtual Grants Conference! This virtual conference will be broadcast live on Zoom during the week of June 6 – 10, 2022. The NSF Virtual Grants Conference is designed to give new faculty, researchers, and administrators key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF. NSF program officers will be providing up-to-date information about specific funding opportunities and answering attendee questions.
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Research Development Workshops
LEADR: Communication, Trust, and Conflict in Research Teams [Virtual] Michelle Bennett, Chief Collaboration Officer LMBennett Consulting, LLC
Successful scientific teams and organizations require highly collaborative and communicative interactions. Team members must be valued and trusted as individuals yet perform as a high functioning team. This workshop focuses on building trust, promoting and facilitating dialogue in teams; conflict resolution, negotiation, delegation; decision making in team settings; and setting direction and getting buy-in,
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NSF Dear Colleague Letters
Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs) are released as needed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to inform the NSF research community of relevant requests for information, upcoming opportunities, and policy changes.
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The Office of Research administers the campus selection process for most limited submission competitions. Limited Submission programs restrict the number of applications, nominations, or proposals that an institution is eligible to submit to an agency. See the full limited submission procedures and guidelines.
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Find Funding With Pivot
Take advantage of UC Santa Barbara's subscription to Pivot, a comprehensive funding opportunities database that features customized funding searches, funding opportunity tracking, deadline alerts, and more. Pivot is available to faculty, staff and students. Acess is available via campus network, or you may access from off-campus by signing up for an account with your UCSB email address.
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Curated Funding Lists
Research Development maintains curated lists of funding opportunities of relevance to UCSB faculty. These opportunities are anticipated to have broad interest on campus. To access all curated funding opportunities, log into your Pivot account.
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