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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of July 10, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
For this warm, mid-summer week we have this to report:
- Terrific external funding success. Congrats to Mathematics for obtaining multiple (count them:4) awards!
- Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including 3 limited submissions. Note the Teagle Foundation opportunity which we reported the week of June 26th without limited info, now has that information and the internal due date is this Friday.
- Information on NIH's DMPTool that can assists researchers when creating data management plans. We will have more info next week on this innovation.
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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External Funding Successes
Aravind Asok, Mathematics, Algebro-geometric applications of unstable motivic homotopy theory, Simons Foundation
James Boedicker, Physics and Astronomy, Investigating energy efficiency, information processing and control architectures of microbial community interaction networks, Army Research Office
Steven Finkel, Molecular Biology, Genetic, Biophysical, and Behavioral Characterization of Microbial Extracellular Electron Transport in Human and Animal Systems, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Sheel Ganatra, Mathematics, Conceptual approaches to Fukaya categories and mirror symmetry, Simons Foundation
Juhi Jang, Mathematics, Singularities and stability in compressible fluids with or without gravity, National Science Foundation
Cris Negron, Mathematics, CAREER: Homotopical representation theory and TQFTs, National Science Foundation
Manuel Pastor, Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity, Disaggregating Asian American Immigrant Pathways to Citizenship and Social Service Utilization, University of California, Riverside
Craig Stanford, Biological Sciences and Anthropology, Tortoise Terraforming: Will the Introduction of Espanñola Galapagos Giant Tortoises Restore Santa Fe Island’s Ecosystem?, Chelonian Research Foundation
Jonathan Stange, Psychology, Ambulatory phenotyping with real-time indices of discordant affect regulation: Exploring opportunities for targeted intervention in depression, National Institute of Mental Health
External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
(Internal due date this Friday, July 14th; announced 2 weeks ago, now with limited submission info - 1 slot)
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.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/teagle/
Announcement on website: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Education-for-American-Civic-Life-RFP
USC Internal due date: July 14, 2023.
Concept paper due date: 3-5 page concept papers are reviewed three times a year. The next due date is August 1, 2023. The foundation will invite full proposals from some applicants. The due date for full proposals will be negotiated between the proposer and the Foundation.
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***Limited Submission***
Johnson & Johnson
Program: Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program
Synopsis: Supports women working in the field(s) of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Manufacturing and Design (STEM2D). Eligible PIs are current Associate or Assistant Professor / Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (or equivalent teaching position) both non-tenure track and tenure track. The awards will fund early to mid-career women working within a STEM2D university department. The goal is to fuel the research passion of the awarded women and inspire career paths in their respective STEM2D fields. Johnson & Johnson is looking to identify global women leading in both their research fields and leading as mentors, to be a vision for girls and other women in STEM2D.
Award details: $150K over 3 years.
USC Internal Announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/wistem2d/
External announcement on website: https://www.jnj.com/wistem2d-university-scholars
USC Internal due date: August 4, 2023.
External due date: September 30, 2023.
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***Limited Submission***
Greenwall Foundation
Program: 2023-2024 Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
Synopsis: Supports junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae. Applicants must hold a faculty appointment (or other long-term research position outside a university) that allows at least 50 percent of their effort to perform research (often this is a faculty position with at least a 60 percent appointment in a tenure-track position or its equivalent). Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure or an equivalent promotion, and whose research will have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice.
Award details: Provides 50% of a Scholar’s salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap with 10 percent institutional costs for the salary and benefits. In addition, the foundation provides $5K per year for program support.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/greenwall/
External announcement: https://greenwall.org/faculty-scholars-program/scholars-rfp-2023-2024
USC Internal due date: August 4, 2023.
Letter of Intent due date: September 18, 2023.
External application due date: January 18, 2024.
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Louisville Institute
Program: Pastoral Study Project
Synopsis: Support independent or collaborative projects—the engaging study of Christian life, religious practices, and institutions, or significant issues for the church, communities, and the wider world. PSP grants are awarded to skilled and innovative clergy, lay leaders, and staff working in diverse Christian contexts in North America. Grantees share their research through books and other publications, blogs and websites, podcasts, digital media and film, exhibits, worship, music, public presentations, classes, and more. Previous projects have examined topics like aging and dementia in congregations, social justice and racism in hospital chaplaincy, theologies of online worship, and spiritual practices for college students from diverse backgrounds, and trauma and resilience in Black, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ Christian communities. Eligible candidates have received theological education, training, and/or mentoring to be Christian leaders and work in diverse ministry contexts in the United States and Canada.
Award details: Up to $15K for a project period of January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
Announcement on website: https://louisville-institute.org/programs-grants-and-fellowships/grants/pastoral-study-project/
Application due date: August 1, 2023.
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The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Program: Grants for Private Education and Interfaith Leadership & Literacy
Synopsis: Private Education grants support colleges and universities prioritizing undergraduate education and emphasizing the liberal arts. Grants typically support projects that improve student outcomes or enhance faculty leadership.
Interfaith Leadership & Religious Literacy grants support programming that improves Americans’ religious literacy or facilitates understanding, appreciation, and cooperation between individuals and groups across religious traditions. These grants support various activities, including improving educational curricula, creating meaningful engagement between religious communities, and enhancing the public understanding of religious beliefs and practices.
Award details: Recent grants (2023) for both programs have ranged up to >$300K for 1 or 2-year project periods.
Announcement on website: https://www.avdf.org/grant-seekers/apply-for-grant/
Letter of Intent due date: August 25, 2023.
Full application due date (invited): November 9, 2023.
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The Story Exchange
Program: Women In Science Incentive Prize
Synopsis: Supports U.S.-based women working to find innovative, science-based solutions as climate change disrupts and depletes our natural resources. This year, the focus is on women leading efforts in soil. (Previous prizes focused on women working in water and in air) Eligible candidates for the Women In Science Incentive Prize will be scientists with advanced degrees in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, agronomy, environmental science, or closely related fields; or entrepreneurs with advanced degrees who are creating science-based products and technologies to help mitigate / reduce the impact of climate change through innovative practices focused on natural soils.
Award details: $5K cash prize
Announcement on website: https://thestoryexchange.org/women-in-science-incentive-prize-2023/
Application due date: July 31, 2023.
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Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Program: Hirshberg Foundation 2023 Seed Program
Synopsis: Supports basic and clinical scientists for research in basic science, cancer biology, prevention / metabolism, diagnosis etc. Goals for this program are to fund
basic scientists and clinicians
- to test innovative ideas for improving diagnosis and to develop new treatment modalities for pancreatic cancer.
- obtain preliminary data required for additional funding from other agencies for pancreatic cancer research.
- to impact on the understanding of pancreatic cancer cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, morphology and response to therapy.
- to establish collaborations within the field for mutual projects that can be considered for further funding.
The Foundation has added a new funding mechanism, the Collaborative Seed Grant that encourages joint projects with 2 independent researchers. Eligible applicants for both funding mechanisms are all academic researchers, including research-track and clinical-track faculty, staff scientists, and postdoctoral trainees.
Award details: $75K for a single investigator; $150K for 2 investigator collaborative projects. No indirect costs are allowed.
Announcement on website: https://pancreatic.org/research/seed-grant-program/
Application due date: August 15, 2023. The earliest award start date is November 15, 2023.
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Simons Foundation
Program: Scientific Software Research Faculty Award
Synopsis: Support new research professor positions in existing host institution’s academic departments to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments by creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path. Eligible candidates have a Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) in mathematics, astronomy or theoretical physics and have played a leading role in developing or maintaining scientific software in one or more of these fields
Award details: provides five years of 50 percent salary support of the awardee’s academic-year salary and fringe benefits, whether normally paid over 9 or 12 months, along with a yearly $50,000 research allowance for the awardee, as well as indirect costs for the host institution (limited to 20 percent of the modified total direct costs. The host university is expected to provide the other 50 percent of salary support for teaching work through existing department channels. This funding is potentially renewable.
Announcement on website: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/scientific-software-research-faculty-award/?mc_cid=eb6ff69362&mc_eid=b0f58ae0de
Letter of Intent due date: December 8, 2023.
Application due date: February 28, 2023.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Program: Landmarks of American History and Culture (forcasted)
Synopsis: Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities. Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops (Landmarks) situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching about diverse histories, cultures, traditions, languages, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions. Landmarks workshops may examine a range of topics, take a variety of forms, occur in-person and/or virtually, and include multiple place types.
Award details: Budget requests may be up to $190K for a period of performance of 15 months with an anticipated start day of October 1, 2024.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshops-school-teachers
Application submission window: November 7, 2023 – February 7, 2024 (anticipated).
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Library of Congress
Program: Of the People: Widening the Path: Community Collections Grant to Individuals
NOFO #: 030ADV23R0050
Synopsis: Supports contemporary cultural documentation focusing on the culture and traditions of diverse, often underrepresented communities in the United States today. These projects will result in archival collections preserved at the American Folklife Center and made accessible through the Library of Congress web site. The major goals of this program are to enable communities to document their cultural traditions, practices, and experiences from their own perspectives while enhancing the Library’s holdings with materials featuring creativity and knowledge found at the local level. As such, successful proposals will come from applicants within or closely affiliated with the community they propose to document. For examples, cultural documentation can include (partial):
- Exploration of a community festival or other culturally-meaningful celebration through interviews with organizers and participants, audio-visual documentation of activities affiliated with the event (including planning, set up, and post-event activity), and any ephemera or material culture;
- Seasonal or periodic documentation of institutions or gathering places, such as farmers markets, informal social hang-outs, craft fairs, or other periodic spaces that might serve as anchors or markers of community; and
- Community history of a neighborhood or other type of geographically-delimited collective space that tracks change and continuity from the perspective of current residents, both long-term and newly arrived, via multi-format documentation.
Note: The Library will host a series of online informational webinars to answer questions about this funding opportunity on July 12 and July 20, 2023 and August 3, 2023.
Award details: Up to $50K for a 1-year grant period.
Announcement on website: Community Collections Grant to Individuals
Application due date: August 18, 2023. The expected start date is November 30, 2023.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / CMS Office of Minority Health
Program: Health Equity Data Access Program (HEDAP)
NOFO #: CMS-2L2-23-001
Synopsis: Supports researchers in gaining access to CMS-restricted data for minority health research by providing funding for three (3) “seats' ' in the CMS Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC). Seats, in this context are defined as an individual user with VRDC access. These researchers will conduct health services research focusing on, but not limited to racial and ethnic minority groups; people with disabilities; members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community; individuals with limited English proficiency; individuals residing in rural areas; and individuals adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality. The HEDAP supports specific applied research projects related to creative and innovative methods utilizing CMS data to identify, document, assess, and evaluate health disparities among Medicare and Medicaid and CHIP enrollees. The project should enhance the capacity of the researcher to understand and utilize CMS data in future research projects.
Award details: Maximum award is $90K over 3 years. 3 awards are anticipated.
Announcement on website: HEDAP
Letter of Intent due date: July 16, 2023.
Electronic Application due date: August 15, 2023.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
Program: Climate Program Office
Funding Opportunity Number: NOAA-OAR-CPO-2024-2007735
Synopsis: Supports high-priority climate science, assessments, decision-support research, outreach, education, and capacity-building activities to advance our understanding of the Earth’s climate system, and to foster the application and use of this knowledge to improve the resilience of the U.S. and itspartners. Under the auspices of the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), two competitions will be funded:
- NIHHHIS Center of Excellence - Center for Community Climate & Health Observations, Monitoring & Evaluation
- NIHHIS Center of Excellence - Center for Climate and Health Assessments, Policy, and Practice
Both competitions will create virtual centers that will provide scientific support services to community-serving, community-based, and government entities working to address community climate and health issues (with a focus on heat and health) via targeted projects.
Award details: Funding floor of $1.0M in year 1 and $0.75M in years 2 and 3 for a total of $2.5M. The project period is 3 years.
Announcement on website: NHHHIS
Letter of Intent due date: August 14, 2023.
Full application due date: October 16, 2023.
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NASA / ROSES
Program: Astrophysics Decadal Survey Precursor Science (ADSPS)
Synopsis: Supports research in areas related to the recommendations from the National Academy of Science and Engineering report, "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s``. Research proposals to ADSPS should describe how scientific progress in the areas being investigated will either reduce the design and development risk for either one or both of these future missions: 1) a large Infrared/Optical/Ultraviolet space mission to search for biosignatures from nearby exoplanets and to perform transformative astrophysics investigations, 2) a large Far Infrared mission, and 3) a large X-ray mission. Research findings will help define the requirements such missions must meet to enable transformative discoveries. Proposals to ADSPS will be evaluated using the dual-anonymous peer review process. The participation of graduate students and early career scientists is strongly encouraged. In such cases, brief details of the educational goals and training of the participants as well as their role in the investigation should be included in the proposal.
Award details: $2.5M programmatic budget. Anticipate making 10-15 awards of varying sizes and scope for 3-year project period.
Announcement on website: Astrophysics Decadal Survey Precursor Science
Notice of Intent due date (mandatory): March 24, 2024.
Full proposal due date: April 26, 2024.
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NSF
Program: U.S.-UK Research Collaboration under the NSF-UKRI/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Lead Agency Opportunity via Dear Colleague Letter
NSF #: 23-128
Synopsis: Supports international collaboration under this NSF- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UKRI Lead Agency Opportunity. This activity aims to promote transatlantic collaborative research by reducing some of the barriers to conducting international research that researchers may encounter. The NSF-EPSRC Lead Agency Opportunity allows U.S. and UK researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process. The DCL provides guidelines on how to submit the proposal. Proposals will be reviewed in accordance with the lead agency's review criteria. While not identical, NSF and UKRI ask reviewers to evaluate research on both its scientific or intellectual merit as well as its broader or societal impacts.
Announcement on website: NSF-UKRI
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NIH / National Institute of Mental Health
Program: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders
NOFO #: PAR-24-024
Synopsis: Supports research on the biology of high-confidence risk factors associated with complex brain disorders (i.e., a multifactorial contribution to risk (e.g., polygenic and / or environmental) and / or highly distributed functional features of the brain disorder)
with a focus on the intracellular, transcellular, and circuit substrates of neural function. Studies may be either hypothesis-generating (unbiased discovery) or hypothesis-testing in design and may utilize in vivo, in situ, or in vitro experimental paradigms, e.g., model organisms or human cell-based assays. Examples of relevant research include
- Investigations of mechanisms by which high confidence environmental risk factors influence molecular, cellular, or circuit-level processes, alone or by interaction with genetic risk factors.
- Inclusion of computational approaches to analyze large unbiased datasets and identify specific, common or convergent pathways (molecular, cellular, synaptic, circuit) affected by variation associated with disease risk factors; identification of causal linkages across these biological scales; identification of potential therapeutic targets from such analysis.
- Development / Optimization of new biological tools or scalable technologies for reporting or manipulating the activity levels and neurobiological functions of brain signaling / effector molecules relevant to complex brain disorders.
Award details: Budgets must reflect the needs of the project for a maximum of 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-024.html
Application due dates: Multiple due dates for new applications through 2026. Next due date is October 5, 2023.
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Announcement of Interest for Dornsife Investigators
Office of Research and Innovation
Department of Contracts and Grants
DMPTool
As a result of the new Policy for Data Management and Sharing, a free, open source, community-supported application that can be used to create and share data management plans has been created, called DMPTool. Anyone can use DMPTool to create data management plans. It provides a click-through wizard for creating a DMP that complies with funder requirements. Click on DMPTool for more info and for templates available for researchers who need to create a data management plan.
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Book Cover: The Age of Revolutions — And the Generations Who Made It (Basic Books, Forthcoming February 2024) Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, History, Spatial Sciences & Law
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