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Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) NSF 14-567

The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) accepts nominations in lieu of proposals or applications. PAESMEM is a honorific awards program and is exempt from NSF merit review criteria. Please review solicitation for eligibility details.

Request for Information (RFI) Acceleration of Distributed Generation from Wind Energy Systems DE-FOA-0001155

Defining distributed wind by technology application, rather than size, has shifted the Research and Development paradigm to include all wind technologies used in distributed applications (small, medium, and large), not just small wind turbines. DOE invites input from the public regarding this shift in perspective and the Wind Program's present research and development focus areas, which include Wind Resource Characterization and Assessment; Turbine Technology; Distributed Grid Integration; and Soft Cost Reduction. Comments that can be used to evaluate DOE's new perspective on distributed wind and research and development focus areas will help inform future activities and priorities.

NSF Grants Conference - Arlington, VA

The conference is considered a must, particularly for new faculty, researchers, educators and administrators who want to gain insight into a wide range of important and timely issues at NSF including: the state of current funding; the proposal and award process; and current and recently updated policies and procedures. October 6-7, 2014

VPRGS 2014 Research Workshops

· Finding Your First Grant Opportunity. Main Library North Conference Room, 4th floor. September 25, 2014 from 3-5pm.

· Sciences and Engineering: Funding your Graduate Experience. Engineering Building Room 3540. September 26, 2014 from 3-4:30pm.

· Faculty Early Career Grant Opportunities. Main Library North Conference Room, 4th floor. October 16, 2014 from 3-4pm.

· Visiting Funding Agencies and Meeting Program Officers. Main Library North Conference Room, 4th floor. November 20, 2014 from 3-4pm.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

1) Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (2015 - 2019) (NHERI) NSF 14-605

2) NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering NSF 13-596

3) ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) NSF 14-573

4) Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT) NSF 14-569

5) Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT) NSF 14-569

6) Advanced Scanning Technology for Imaging Radars (ASTIR) DARPA-BAA-14-53

7) Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543

8) Google’s Faculty Research Awards 2014

9) NINDS CREATE Devices: Translational and Clinical Studies on the Path to 510(k) (UH2/UH3) PAR-14-295

10) NINDS CREATE Devices: Translational and Clinical Studies to Inform Final Device Design (UH2/UH3) PAR-14-297

11) Catalyzing New International Collaborations (CNIC) NSF 13-605

12) Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) NSF 14-504

13) NCI Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (NCI Omnibus R21) PAR-13-146

14) Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships NSF 14-600

15) Biomaterials (BMAT) PD 06-7623

1) Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (2015 - 2019) (NHERI) NSF 14-605

This solicitation will establish operations of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) for 2015 - 2019. During 2015 - 2019, NHERI will be a distributed, multi-user, national facility to provide the natural hazards engineering community with access to research infrastructure (earthquake and wind engineering experimental facilities, cyberinfrastructure, computational modeling and simulation tools, and research data), coupled with education and community outreach activities. NHERI will enable research and educational advances that can contribute knowledge and innovation for the nation's civil infrastructure and communities to prevent natural hazard events from becoming societal disasters.

Deadline: Internal submission due September 25, 2014

2) NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering NSF 13-596

This initiative, a continuation of the successful NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering begun in FY1997, is a response to these fundamental research opportunities in plasma science and engineering. The focus of the initiative continues to be fundamental issues of plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. Proposals should discuss effective ways in which education is integrated within the research programs. The current solicitation also encourages submission of proposals to perform basic plasma experiments on the Large Aperture Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a unique user facility designed to serve the needs of the broader plasma community.

Deadline: October 03, 2014

3) ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) NSF 14-573

The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity in the STEM academic workforce; and (3) to contribute to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE also has as its goal to contribute to and inform the general knowledge base on gender equity in the academic STEM disciplines.

Deadline: full proposal October 03, 2014

4) Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) NSF 12-564

The LSAMP program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM discipline: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiian s, and Native Pacific Islanders. The knowledge generation portfolio of LSAMP supported activities contributes to the body of literature on successful practices in student recruitment, retention, persistence, and attainment of STEM undergraduate and graduate degrees, especially for the previously mentioned populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines.

Deadline: October 03, 2014

5) Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT) NSF 14-569

The PFI: AIR-TT solicitation serves as an early opportunity to move previously NSF-funded research results with promising commercial potential along the path toward commercialization. Projects are supported to demonstrate proof-of concept, prototype, or scale-up while engaging faculty and students in entrepreneurial/innovative thinking.

Deadline: full proposal due October 02, 2014

6) Advanced Scanning Technology for Imaging Radars (ASTIR) DARPA-BAA-14-53

DARPA is soliciting innovative research approaches imaging radar architecture that use an electronic sub-reflector to produce a more readily available, cost effective sensor solution that does not require platform or target motion.

Deadline: October 10, 2014

7) Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543

Approaches that partner technology-based solutions with biobehavioral health research are supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The purpose of this program is to develop next generation health care solutions and encourage existing and new research communities to focus on breakthrough ideas in a variety of areas of value to health, such as sensor technology, networking, information and machine learning technology, decision support systems, modeling of behavioral and cognitive processes, as well as system and process modeling.

Deadline: October 10, 2014

8) Google’s Faculty Research Awards 2014

The intent of the Google Research Awards is to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world.

Deadline: October 15, 2014

9) NINDS CREATE Devices: Translational and Clinical Studies on the Path to 510(k) (UH2/UH3) PAR-14-295

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications to pursue translational and clinical studies for therapeutic devices to treat neurological disorders. The program will utilize a cooperative agreement mechanism to support the submission of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) or IRB approval for a Non-Significant Risk (NSR) study and the following clinical study. Activities supported in this program include implementation of clinical prototype devices, preclinical safety and efficacy testing, design verification and validation activities, pursuit of regulatory approval for the clinical study, and a small clinical study.

Deadline: October 21, 2014

10) NINDS CREATE Devices: Translational and Clinical Studies to Inform Final Device Design (UH2/UH3) PAR-14-297

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications to pursue translational and clinical studies for therapeutic devices to treat neurological disorders. The program will utilize a cooperative agreement mechanism to support the submission of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) or IRB approval for a Non-Significant Risk (NSR) study and the following clinical study. It is expected that the clinical study will inform a final device design that would have to go through most, if not all, of the preclinical testing on the path to more advanced clinical trials and market approval. This program also supports development of a device to test scientific hypotheses that are not feasible or practical to conduct in animal models, but are critical to enable next-generation devices. Activities supported in this program include implementation of clinical prototype devices, preclinical safety and efficacy testing, design verification and validation activities, pursuit of regulatory approval for the clinical study, and a small clinical study.

Deadline: October 21, 2014

11) Catalyzing New International Collaborations (CNIC) NSF 13-605

The Catalyzing New International Collaboration (CNIC) program is designed to promote professional development of US Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) researchers and to advance their research through international engagement. This program offers support for the initial phase of international collaborations with clear expectations that the next phase will be submission by the US investigators of follow-on proposals to NSF core programs for continued funding of the research initiated with CNIC awards.

Deadline: October 22, 2014

12) Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) NSF 14-504

Through the CRCNS program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR), and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) support collaborative activities that will advance the understanding of nervous system structure and function, mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies used by the nervous system. Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding complex neurobiological systems, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines.

Deadline: October 28, 2014

13) NCI Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (NCI Omnibus R21) PAR-13-146

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) funding opportunity supports the development of new research activities in all areas of cancer research. The R21 mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of cancer research (biomedical, behavioral, or clinical).

Deadline: October 28, 2014

14) Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships NSF 14-600

The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake significant investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STCs may involve any area of science and engineering that NSF supports. STC investments support the NSF vision of creating and exploiting new concepts in science and engineering and providing global leadership in research and education.

Deadline: Internal Submission due October 30, 2014

15) Biomaterials (BMAT) PD 06-7623

The Biomaterials program supports fundamental materials research related to (1) biological materials, (2) biomimetic, bioinspired, and bioenabled materials, (3) synthetic materials intended for applications in contact with biological systems, and (4) the processes through which nature produces biological materials. Projects are typically interdisciplinary and may encompass scales from the nanoscopic to the bulk. They may involve characterization, design, preparation, and modification; studies of structure-property relationships and interfacial behavior; and combinations of experiment, theory, and/or simulation. The emphasis is on novel materials design and development and discovery of new phenomena.

Deadline: October 31, 2014

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