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Descripton at end of newsletter Week of August 28, 2023
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Greetings Dornsife Faculty,
This week's report is rather full and includes
- Accolades for 3 faculty members;
- External funding success for 3 Dornsife faculty;
- Current and diverse funding opportunities; and
- NEWSFLASH! (2) from DCG on (1) system-related timelines for NSF platforms; and (2) developing ideas as you think about applying for funding.
Heidi Parker is also available to assist you in developing your grant proposal, especially for federal funding. Please reach out to Dr. Parker at <hkparker@usc.edu>
Best regards,
Renee J. Perez, Vice Dean, Administration & Finance
Cathleen Crayton, Project Specialist
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Accolades
Iony Ezawa, Psychology is a recipient of the very prestigious Marna Barrett Award for Excellence in Psychotherapy at the Society for Psychotherapy Research Annual Meeting held in Dublin, Ireland in the summer of 2023
Juhi Jang, Mathematics, has received a Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science held this past July in Beijing.
Henrike Moll, Psychology, is a recipient of the 2023 American Psychological Foundation (APF) Joseph B. Gittler Award. This award recognizes psychologists who make and will continue to make scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.
External Funding Successes
Peter Chung, Physics and Astronomy, The molecular determinants of surface-templated self-association of intrinsically disordered proteins, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Lynn Dodd, Religion, Access to Every Page of a Woman's Ancient Manuscript in Virtual Space, National Endowment for the Humanities
Janet Hoskins, Anthropology and Religion, Transpacific Studies: New Decade, New Directions, Henry Luce Foundation
External Funding Opportunities
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Program: Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Given the disproportionate effect the pandemic’s social and economic disruptions have had on emerging, independent, and untenured scholars, ACLS will continue in the 2023-24 competition year to offer these fellowships solely to untenured scholars who have earned the Ph.D. within eight years of the application deadline. ACLS welcomes applications from scholars without faculty appointments and scholars off the tenure track.
Award details: Maximum annual award is $60K. Six to twelve months are devoted to full-time research and / or writing, to be initiated between
July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, and to be completed by December 31, 2025. Six months of the fellowship tenure must be consecutive, but any remainder of the fellow’s award term can be taken separately at a later date within the eligible award window.
Announcement on website: https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-fellowships/
Application due date: September 28, 2023.
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German Historical Institute (GHI)
Program: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports European and North American doctoral students as well as postdoctoral scholars to pursue research projects that draw upon primary sources principally located in North America. GHI is interested in research projects that fit into the following fields:
- German and European history
- The history of German-American relations
- The role of Germany and the USA in international relations
- North American history and Pan American, including Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (European doctoral and postdoctoral scholars only)
GHI especially invites applications from ABD doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who currently have no funding from their home institutions. For postdoctoral scholars applying, the preference is for projects that are designed for the "second book" (Habilitation or pre-tenure equivalent).
Award details: Predoctoral: ~$2,100 per month; Postdoctoral: ~$3600 per month. Fellowships are typically 1 to 4 months, with an additional month in some cases.
Announcement on website: https://www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doctoral-and-postdoctoral-research-fellowships
Application due date: Applications are due twice a year. The next application due date is October 1, 2023.
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Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Program: Grants — Early Childhood Welfare; Early Childhood Education and Play; and Parenting Education
Synopsis: Supports promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration, and childcare. This seed money is only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application.
Award details: Recent grants have ranged from $32K to $56K.
Announcement on website: https://earlychildhoodfoundation.org/
Letter of Intent due date: September 30, 2023.
Full Proposal due date (invited): TBD
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RAND Corporation
Program: Technology and Security Policy
Synopsis: Supports fellows from all experience levels — undergraduate students to mid-career professionals — to perform in-depth, independent research on an area of technology and security policy and receive mentorship from RAND policy experts. The specific focus areas are AI threat assessment and the national and international governance of broadly capable artificial intelligence and narrower artificial intelligence for synthetic biology. Fellows will have the opportunity to be associated with RAND client-sponsored research, up to an average of one day per week. Fellowships can be full- or part-time. Fellows must be based in the United States or United Kingdom, working remotely or at one of RAND's U.S. or U.K. offices (Santa Monica; Washington DC; Pittsburgh, PA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, UK.
Award details: Fellows will receive health insurance and an annual stipend that varies with experience from $35K to $150K for full-time fellows.
Announcement on website: https://www.rand.org/jobs/technology-security-policy-fellows.html
Application due date: Online applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with notification of decisions made on a quarterly basis.
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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Program: 2024 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize
Synopsis: Awards nonprofit organizations, judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering. A worldwide call for nominations engages the global community of humanitarian leaders and organizations each year. Receiving approximately 300 nominations annually, organizations undergo an extensive evaluation by Hilton Humanitarian staff, and a shortlist of finalists is then submitted to an independent, international jury that makes the final selection.
Award details: The current $2.5M level, increased in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the Prize, maintains it as the world’s largest humanitarian prize presented to a nonprofit organization.
Announcement on website: https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/humanitarian-prize/nominations
Application due date: September 27, 2023
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Carnegie Corporation
Program: Democracy; Education; International Peace and Security; and Higher Education
Synopsis: Supports the many dimensions of democracy that foster fairness, diversity, and vibrancy and that welcomes and offers opportunities to all.
Carnegie’s 4 areas of interest include:
- Democracy supports civic integration of immigrants;
- Education to ensure American public education prepares students to participate in our democracy;
- International Peace and Security to build a more secure, peaceful, and prosperous world through independent analysis and action addressing global challenges;
- Higher Education and Research in Africa to strengthen Africa’s higher education sector by improving the training, retention, and research productivity of academics in select countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Award details: The median for 2023 grants would be around $450K
Announcement on website: https://www.carnegie.org/programs/strengthening-democracy/
Further inquiries: If interested in seeking support from Carnegie for any of these program areas, please contact https://www.carnegie.org/contact-us/ to learn more about the application process.
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Whitehall Foundation
Program(s): Research Grants and Grants-in-aid
Synopsis: Supports both young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest in bioscience. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, specifically, invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior. While the PI need not be tenure track, eligible PIs must be at the assistant professor level. Research Grants: Supports established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States. Research grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose.
Grants-in-Aid: Supports researchers who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-aid can also be made to senior scientists.
Award details: Research Grants: Up to $100K for 2-3 year period of performance; Grants-in-aid: $30K for 1 year period of performance.
Announcement on website: http://whitehall.org/grants/
Letter of Intent due date: Whitehall reviews LOIs 3 times a year. The next due date is October 1, 2023.
Application due date (invited): Next due date is February 15, 2024.
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Program: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG)
Synopsis: Supports innovative, experimental, and / or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their life cycles that respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:
- research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
- enhancement or design of digital infrastructure that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms
- evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.
Award details: Level I: $75K; Level II: $150K; Level III: $350K, with an additional $100K in matching funds.
Announcement on website: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-advancement-grants
Optional draft due: November 13, 2023.
Application due date: January 11, 2024.
Project Start date: September 1, 2024 – November 1, 2024.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / National Ocean Service (NOS)
Program: FY24 NOAA Marine Debris Removal under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
FOA #: NOAA-NOS-ORR-2024-2007993
Synopsis: Supports impactful, large marine debris removal projects that will improve the resilience of the coastal and marine environment. This competition considers impactful projects to be those that will have long-lasting, transformational benefits to marine and coastal NOAA Trust Resources, coastal communities, and/or local economies. To accomplish this, the Marine Debris Program seeks proposals for impactful projects that remove and dispose of large marine debris (such as abandoned and derelict vessels, derelict fishing gear, and other large debris) and prevent the re-accumulation of marine debris in the environment. The highest priority for this funding opportunity is to support impactful, large marine debris removal projects. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, “large debris” is defined as abandoned and derelict vessels (ADVs), derelict fishing gear (DFG), and other debris that is unable to be easily collected by hand. Priority will be placed on proposals that clearly demonstrate the beneficial impacts the removal project will have on NOAA trust resources, and the surrounding coastal environment or community.
Award details: The anticipated amount of the majority of the funded projects is between $1M and $4M. The minimum federal request for this solicitation is $800,000 and in some cases, up to $6M may be awarded.
Announcement on website: FY24 NOAA Marine Debris Removal under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Letter of Intent due date (pre-proposal): October 27, 2023.
Full proposal due date (invited): February 23, 2024.
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NASA / Space Technology Mission Directorate
Program: Space Technology Research Grants Program — NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities – Fall 2024 (NSTGRO2024)
Appendix #: 80HQTR23NOA01-24NSTGRO-B4
Synopsis: Supports proposals on behalf of individuals pursuing or planning to pursue master’s or Ph.D. degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at accredited U.S. universities. The Space Technology Mission Directorate seeks to sponsor U.S. citizen, U.S. national, and permanent resident graduate student research that has significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration, and economic future.
Award details: $84K per year which includes student stipend: $40K; student support allowance: $11K; visiting technologist experience allowance: $10K; health insurance allowance: $2.5K; tuition and fees: $20.5K.
Announcement on website: Space Technology Research Grants Program
Proposal due date: November 1, 2023.
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NASA / Science Mission Directorate
Program: Planetary Science Early Career Program
Funding Opportunity #: NNH23ZDA001N-ECA
Synopsis: Supports promising young scientists to play an increased and meaningful role in the planetary science community and pursue professional development in areas relevant to the Planetary Science Division. The applicant must be the Principal Investigator or a Co-investigator designated as the Science-PI, on an award (referred to in the announcement as the "parent award") from a participating program element solicited in ROSES-2021 or ROSES-2022. The proposal must show the applicant’s potential for future impact, leadership, and involvement in the planetary science community - based on their career goals, engagement in the community, and previous leadership experience (at all scales).
Award details: $200K over a maximum project period of 5 years.
Announcement on website: Planetary Science ECP
Proposal due date: December 7, 2023.
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NSF / Multiple Directorates; NIH; NIFA; United Kingdom Research and Innovation; U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation; and National Natural Science Foundation of China
Program: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
Solicitation #: 23-616
Synopsis: Supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative, mathematical, or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease (re) emergence and transmission and test mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of (re) emergence and transmission among any host species, including but not limited to humans, non-human animals, and / or plants.
Award details: The maximum award size for all years for the US component is $3M, including indirect costs. The minimum award size is $1.5M total project costs for all years, except for international collaborative proposals (US-UK, US-Israel, and US-China Collaborative Projects) that have a minimum award size of $1.0M for the US component. Those collaborative projects can request additional funding for the international component of the project. For US-Israel Collaborative Projects, the maximum award size for the Israeli portion is $600K. For US-China Collaborative Projects, the maximum award size for the Chinese portion is ¥4.5M total project costs for all years.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23616/nsf23616.pdf
Proposal due date: November 15, 2023.
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NSF / Directorate of Mathematics and Physical Sciences – Division of Physics
Program: Plasma Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Program
NSF #: PD 23-1242
Synopsis: Supports research in fundamental plasma physics including the study of magnetized plasmas, high-energy-density plasmas, low-temperature plasmas, strongly coupled plasmas, non-neutral plasmas, and intense field-matter interaction in plasmas.
Award details: Approximately $120M will be committed for all new awards in each year.
Announcement on website: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/plasma-physics
Proposal due date: November 20, 2023.
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NSF / Across All Directorates
Program: Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet)
Solicitation #: 23-619
Synopsis: Supports activities that build on NSF investments in research networks, research infrastructure, large-scale research facilities, and research centers inside and outside the U.S. The AccelNet Program has two tracks. The Design Track allows PIs to build on prior NSF research awards by providing time and resources for building capacity across teams to launch a synergistic international Network of Networks (NoN). The Implementation Track allows PIs to build on prior research or networking awards, such as AccelNet Design or Research Coordination Networks (RCN) by providing time and resources to implement an international NoN. There are 2 phases to the Implementation Track. Phase 1 funding is for activities related exclusively to NoN activities and is open to all PIs, including but not limited to prior successful Design Track PIs. Phase 2 funding is for early concept research arising from Phase 1 activities and is only open to Phase 1 PIs who have identified a critical research gap during synergistic networking activities in the first 18-24 months of Phase 1 awards.
Award details: Design Track Awards: Up to $300K for 1-2 years; Implementation Track, Phase 1 Awards: up to $1.5 million for 3-4 years; Implementation Track, Phase 2: up to $350,000 for 1-2 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23619/nsf23619.pdf
Proposal due date: December 11, 2023.
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NSF / Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Division of Social and Economic Sciences
Program: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DRMS-DDRIG)
Solicitation #: NSF 23-618
Synopsis: Supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision-making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues, and have strong broader impacts. DRMS funds doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIGs) in the following areas (partial):
- Risk analysis, perception, and communication.
- Societal and public-policy decision-making.
- Management science and organizational design.
Award details: $450K to $675K for 1 year.
Annoucment on website: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23618/nsf23618.pdf
Proposal target date: January 18, 2024.
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NSF / Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
Program: Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences via Dear Colleague Letter (DCL)
NSF #: 23-145
Synopsis: As a part of a new or renewal NSF proposal or as a supplemental funding request to an existing NSF Award, the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) will consider requests that:
- Foster interest in the pursuit of studies in the Biological Sciences; and
- Broaden participation of high school students, particularly individuals from those groups underrepresented in STEM to encourage participation of the full spectrum of diverse talent that society has to offer.
For new or renewal proposals that include a RAHSS component, the Project Description should include relevant information about the broader impacts of the activity (e.g., the meaningful and challenging activities in which the student(s) will be involved and how the student(s) will be mentored). Supplemental funding requests to an active BIO award must be prepared and submitted through Research.gov.
Award details: For new, renewal and supplemental proposals the award is generally under $6K per student.
Announcement on website: Research Asst for High School (BIO)
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NIH / Multiple Institutes
Program: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Senior Fellowship (Parent F33)
NOFO #: PA-23-263
Synopsis: Supports senior individual research training fellowships to experienced scientists who wish to make major changes in the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of participating NIH Institutes and Centers. NOFO is designed specifically to allow candidates to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor.
Award details: Individuals may receive up to 5 years of aggregate Kirschstein-NRSA support at the predoctoral level (up to 6 years for dual degree training, e.g., MD/PhD), and up to 3 years of aggregate Kirschstein-NRSA support at the postdoctoral level, including any combination of support from institutional training grants (e.g., T32) and an individual fellowship award. Senior fellowship (F33) support is typically requested for 2 years or less.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-23-263.html
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through 2025. The next due date is December 8, 2023.
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NIH / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Program: Broadening Opportunities for Computational Genomics and Data Science Education
NOFO #: RFA-HG-23-002
Synopsis: Supports educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. This NOFO will support educational activities with a primary focus on curriculum or methods development, the development of undergraduate and master’s degree-level classroom content, and hands-on as well as online exercises related to computational genomics, data science, cloud computing, or a combination of these topics, tailored towards students attending institutions with a mission to serve historically underrepresented populations in biomedical research as described further in the NOFO.
Award details: $150K direct costs per year for a project period of 3 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-23-002.html
Letter of Intent due date: September 10, 2023.
Application due date: October 10, 2023.
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NIH / National Cancer Institute
Program: Mechanisms that Impact Cancer Risk with Use of Incretin Mimetics (R21; R01)
NOFO #'s: PAR 23-280; PAR 23-279
Synopsis: Supports investigator-initiated studies addressing mechanisms by which incretin mimetics, specifically glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 or dual GLP-1/glucose-dependent insulin tropic polypeptide (GIP)-1 receptor agonists (RAs), impact cancer risk. The focus on these agents is due to their reported effects on thyroid, prostate, and other cancer risks, and the generally more favorable efficacy and side effect profile compared to other classes of incretin mimetics. In addition, this NOFO seeks to draw in talented scientists to the cancer biology field who may study incretin mimetic effects on diseases other than cancer. Investigators wishing to study incretin mimetics other than GLP-1 RAs or GLP-1/GIP-1 RAs, such as dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP)-4 inhibitors, must justify why the agent(s) they propose to study are more effective and/or have a more favorable side effect profile than GLP-1 or GLP-1/GIP-1 RAs.
Award details: R21: Application budget direct costs are limited to $275K over a maximum two-year period, with no more than $200K in any single year. R01: Application budgets are not limited but must reflect the needs of the projects over a 5-year project period.
Announcements on the website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-280.html; https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-279.html
Application due dates for NEW applications: Multiple due dates through 2026 for both funding mechanisms. Next due date: R21: February 16, 2024; R01: February 5, 2023.
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NIH / National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Program: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Biospecimen Access (X01 — Resource Access Award)
FOA #: PAR-24-027
Synopsis: Provides the scientific community with biospecimens (urine, plasma, serum, and genomics DNA) and related research data on behaviors, attitudes, biomarkers, and health outcomes associated with tobacco use in the U.S. This NOFO allows investigators to apply for access to the biospecimens from the PATH Study objectives that expand the knowledge of tobacco use and / or tobacco-related health outcomes will also be considered but will be a lower priority.
Award details: Not Applicable; funds are not awarded via the X01 mechanism.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-027.html
Application due dates: Multiple due dates through 2026. The next due date is April 30, 2024.
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Announcements of Interest to Dornsife Invetigators
USC Research and Innovation
Department of Contracts and Grants
NewsFLash! Please review the following system-related critical deadline dates in relation to FastLane, Research.gov, and Grants.gov for NSF proposals. If you have any questions regarding the upcoming deadlines, feel free to reach out to your DCG Officer or post your question in the DCG Slack Channel.
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NewsFLash! If you are new to writing grant applications, sometimes seeing how someone else has presented their idea can help as you are developing your own application. With the gracious permission of successful investigators, some institutes have provided samples of funded R01, R03, R15, R21, SBIR/STTR, K, and F applications, sharing plans, leadership plans, and more. They have even provided sample summary statements so you can know what to expect to receive as the outcome of the review of your application. Samples
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Book Cover: Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship (Indiana Univesity Press, February 2023) Slava Greenberg, School of Cinematic Arts and Gender and Sexuality Studies
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