Friday, April 10, 2020
7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
The Ritz-Carlton, Bacara, Santa Barbara

Join your colleagues, fellow researchers and community members at the Collaborative Research Symposium for clinicians, healthcare providers, fellows, residents, faculty & staff and post docs.

The 2020 Symposium will include a national keynote address, more than 20 individual research presentations, disease-specific lunch discussions and plenty of time to meet your fellow attendees.

Breakfast and lunch are provided. This event is free of charge.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office (BTO) announces the opportunity for researchers to meet with a BTO Program Manager (PM) to discuss mutual research interests and potential funding opportunities. These meetings will be held in conjunction with the DARPA Biotech Summit scheduled for June 3 – 4, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. A limited number of in-person meetings with PMs are available. Those who wish to attend the summit may do so regardless of whether they are selected for an in-person meeting with a PM. Nearer the event, DARPA will publish a separate announcement to provide additional event and registration details.

BTO staff will review the executive summaries and – based on their context and the interest they generate within BTO – will choose respondents for in-person meetings with BTO PM(s) to discuss the executive summary’s contents in more detail. Those chosen to participate will be able to register for the DARPA Biotech Summit in advance of the general public.

NSF has issued a set of Current and Pending Support Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that accompany the revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1), effective June 1, 2020.  The FAQs address policy questions related to the PAPPG clarifications to the current and pending support coverage, as well as questions regarding use of an NSF-approved format for current and pending support.  The FAQs will be updated periodically as appropriate.   

If you have any questions regarding the 2020 PAPPG, please contact the DIAS/Policy Office by email at policy@nsf.gov.

Dear Colleague Letter: Build and Broaden: Enabling New Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Collaborations with Minority-Serving Institutions
February 24, 2020

Dear Colleague Letter: Plant Synthetic Biology
February 18, 2020 

Dear Colleague Letter: Supplemental Funding Requests to Conduct Experimental Research on the NSF-funded Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR)
February 18, 2020

Dear Colleague Letter: Conferences and other training events for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
February 18, 2020 

Dear Colleague Letter: IMAGiNE 2020: Organisms in a Dynamic Environment
February 14, 2020

Dear Colleague Letter: Secure Analog-RF Electronics and Electromagnetics (SARE)
February 6, 2020

Dear Colleague Letter: Exploring the NSF 2026 Idea Machine
February 4, 2020 

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03/02/2020 - Campus Pre-proposal
05/01/2020 - Application Deadline

Coffee & Consultation / Write on Site

Every Monday, 9am - 12pm, Ellison 2824
Research Development is hosting weekly Write on Site (WOS) sessions to provide a space for UCSB faculty to drink coffee and work on their research funding proposals and other writing projects. Our staff will also be available if you want to stop by to discuss a proposal or possible research project. If you'd like to attend other Write on Site sessions on and off campus, click here for the schedule.

The Endowment Fund supports innovative research through three competitive annual awards that seek out investigators whose research shows promise in bringing society closer to preventing, treating, and curing many devastating diseases. Research supported by the Endowment Fund has furthered understanding of such impairments as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, and many others.

The Endowment Fund for Neuroscience administers three awards. For information on each award—including application deadlines, eligibility requirements, past recipients, and other details—follow this link.

Programs support purchases of state-of-the-art commercially available instruments to enhance research of NIH–funded investigators. Instruments that are awarded are typically too expensive to be obtained by an individual investigator with a research project grant. Every instrument awarded by an S10 grant is used on a shared basis, which makes the programs cost-efficient and beneficial to thousands of investigators in hundreds of institutions nationwide

Types of instruments supported by S10 funding include, but are not limited to X-ray diffraction systems, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and confocal microscopes, cell-sorters, and biomedical imagers. Click here for links to the current RFPs.

This announcement seeks proposals from universities to purchase equipment and instrumentation in support of research in areas of interest to the DoD. DoD interests include the areas of research supported by the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

Research Development maintains curated lists of funding opportunities of relevance to UCSB faculty. These are a good introduction to Pivot, and a great place to start in your search for research funding.