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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Come meet new faculty members: Dr. Kevin Liu (CSE) & Dr. Erin Prucell (ECE).
Tuesday, April 07, 2015| 12:00-1:00pm | 3540EB | Pizza and pop provided.
NSF Day at MSU
This event will be live video streamed & the link will be e-mailed to registered participants in advance.
VPRGS 2015 Research Workshops
· Taking Your Research Abroad. Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th Floor. April 16, 2015 from 3-4pm.
· Export Controls on Research. FRIB 1200 Lecture Hall. April 23, 2015 from 3-5pm.
· Bias and Reproducible Research - Dr. John Ioannidis. Registration required. May 07, 2015 at 3:00pm.
Trifecta Events
· Trifecta Journal Club Planning Meeting. Trifecta Suite – CAS 207. April 8, 2015 from 9-10am.
· Drop-In Discussion – Technology in Nursing Research. Bott Building for Nursing Research Room C286-288. April 30, 2015 from 12-1pm.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) News Release, March 26,
2015
DARPA released Breakthrough Technologies for National Security, a biennial report summarizing the Agency's historical mission, current and evolving focus areas and recent transitions of DARPA-developed technologies to the military Services and other sectors.
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
Completed proposals must be provided to OSP at least three full business days prior to the sponsor's deadline to be considered on time. On-time proposals will take precedence over those considered late. Thank you for your continued cooperation and commitment to improving the process of proposal review, approval and timely submission.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
1) Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) NSF 15-538
2) Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF) NSF 15-539
3) Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation (PRIME) NSF 15-540
4) Research Initiatives for Materials State Sensing (RIMSS) II BAA-RQKM-2015-0012
5) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) NSF 15-541
6) Federal Railroad Administration Broad Agency Announcement 2015 FRA-BAA-2015-1
7) U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center: Energy and Water DE-FOA-0001285
8) EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards
9) Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration (MOSAIC) DE-FOA-0001255
10) Mobilizing Research: A Research Resource to Enhance mHealth Research (U2C) RFA-OD-15-129
11) Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant (CEIG) Funding Request
12) 2015 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study
1) Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) NSF 15-538
The Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Program was established in 2009 as a National Science Foundation (NSF) program supported in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). In FY 2015, activities in two focus areas will be supported: (1) Developing High Throughput, Low Cost Phenotyping Tools and Devices to facilitate assessment of field-based phenotypes, especially for root and tuber crops (PHENO), and (2) Advancing Basic Research in Crop Plants Relevant to Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries (ABRDC) to develop critically needed sequence and functional genomics resources to enable basic and applied research in crop plants important for smallholder agriculture.
Deadline: April 27, 2015
2) Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF) NSF 15-539
The NSF Engineering (ENG) Directorate has launched a multi-year initiative, the Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and support an innovative and inclusive engineering profession for the 21st Century. Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE) refers to the formal and informal processes and value systems by which people become engineers. It also includes the ethical responsibility of practicing engineers to sustain and grow the profession. The engineering profession must be responsive to national priorities, grand challenges, and dynamic workforce needs; it must be equally open and accessible to all.
Deadline: April 30, 2015
3) Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation (PRIME) NSF 15-540
The Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation (PRIME) program seeks to support research on evaluation with special emphasis on: (1) exploring innovative approaches for determining the impacts and usefulness of STEM education projects and programs; (2) building on and expanding the theoretical foundations for evaluating STEM education and workforce development initiatives, including translating and adapting approaches from other fields; and (3) growing the capacity and infrastructure of the evaluation field. Three types of proposals will be supported by the program: Exploratory Projects that include proof-of-concept and feasibility studies; more extensive Full-Scale Projects; and conferences.
Deadline: April 30, 2015
4) Research Initiatives for Materials State Sensing (RIMSS) II BAA-RQKM-2015-0012
Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RXC, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Structural Materials is announcing to industry its intent to solicit proposals under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The overall objective is to identify further unique technical approaches to accomplish the invention, advancement, and transition of emerging, novel and innovative Nondestructive Evaluation / Inspection (NDE/I), Material State Awareness (MSA), and in-situ NDE -aka Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) - technologies. This effort will encompass three (3) areas of interest: 1) Research in Materials State Awareness (MSA); 2) Research in Damage State Awareness (DSA) and 3) Research in Specialty Coatings and Applications.
Deadline: April 30, 2015
5) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) NSF 15-541
The goal of the CPS program is to develop the core system science needed to engineer complex cyber-physical systems which people can use or interact with and depend upon. Some of these may require high-confidence or provable behaviors. The program aims to foster a research community committed to advancing research and education in CPS and to transitioning CPS science and technology into engineering practice. By abstracting from the particulars of specific systems and application domains, the CPS program seeks to reveal cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors.
Deadline: May 04, 2015
6) Federal Railroad Administration Broad Agency Announcement 2015 FRA-BAA-2015-1
The FRA’s Office of Research, Development and Technology is charged with conducting research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy. Projects shall develop technologies that have a direct impact on the safety and efficiency of freight and passenger rail operations in the US. Such technologies will: 1) Reduce the operational and program deployment risks associated with mixed use rail lines; 2) Improve safety by reducing human and technology failures; 3) Bring about capital cost reductions and economy in producing equipment and facilities; 4) Reduce operating costs of rail service by providing more efficient operations; 5) Improve the reliability of equipment and infrastructure components by reducing failures and/or reducing false failure detections; 6) Enhance the social benefits and/or environmental aspects of rail transportation; and 7) Facilitate the development of domestic manufacture of rail equipment and infrastructure components.
Deadline: May 04, 2015
7) U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center: Energy and Water DE-FOA-0001285
The Department of Energy is soliciting applications for the formation of a Consortium to pursue five identified R&D topics at the nexus of energy and water. These topics are: 1) water use reduction at thermoelectric plants; 2) treatment and management of non-traditional waters; 3) improving sustainable hydropower design and operation; 4) climate impact modeling, methods, and scenarios to support improved energy and water systems understanding; and 5) data and analysis to inform planning, policy, and other decisions. Each responsive proposal will address all five topics.
Deadline: May 04, 2015
8) EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards
The objective of the EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards is to support scientific research in energy efficiency and renewable energy by attracting the best scientists and engineers to pursue breakthrough technologies in a highly prestigious postdoctoral research program. To meet this objective, EERE Research Participants will have access to unique education and training opportunities, top scientists in their field, and state-of-the-art projects and equipment. As a result, innovative technologies will be developed that will have a real impact on the economy by providing energy efficient and affordable technologies; on the environment by providing clean energy technologies; and on the quality of life for all Americans by enhancing their energy choices.
Deadline: May 07, 2015
9) Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration (MOSAIC) DE-FOA-0001255
The MOSAIC (Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration) Program will fund potentially disruptive technologies and related system concepts to achieve new performance and cost benchmarks for solar-electric generation from photovoltaics (PV). Specifically, MOSAIC will develop novel concepts that integrate arrays of high-performance micro-scale concentrated PV (micro-CPV) elements into modules that are similar in profile and cost to traditional non-concentrated “flat-plate” (FP) PV, but achieve the performance level associated with conventional Concentrated Photovoltaics (CPV). Realization of the aggressive targets of MOSAIC will require the formation of R&D teams from several communities, including material scientists, electrical and packaging engineers, optical engineers, micro-scale manufacturing specialists, and researchers in polymers and opto-electronics.
Deadline: May 07, 2015
10) Mobilizing Research: A Research Resource to Enhance mHealth Research (U2C) RFA-OD-15-129
The purpose of this FOA is to support the development of Mobilizing Research a research resource that would allow researchers to more efficiently and rapidly evaluate mobile and wireless (mHealth) technologies. This research resource is intended to develop an infrastructure that works with wireless carriers to create a registry of potential participants to facilitate mHealth research across a variety of observational and clinical research studies and settings, and for a range of diseases and populations. This FOA supports Mobilizing Research for development of the infrastructure and transition to sustainability. Therefore, the proposed integrated and centralized resource should be designed and operated in a way that will facilitate and enable its sustainable functioning in the near future.
Deadline: full proposal due May 08, 2015
11) Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant (CEIG) Funding Request
The request for proposals includes opportunities for nonrecurring funding of college and academic unit projects or programs and nonrecurring funding for proposals from other academic and administrative units, individuals or groups (faculty and staff) that are intended to create and support an inclusive university.
Deadline: May 18, 2015
12) 2015 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study
The GRO program enhances and supports quality environmental education for undergraduates, and thereby encourages them to continue their education beyond the baccalaureate level, and pursue careers in environmentally-related fields, such as biology, health, the social sciences, and engineering. This fellowship is intended to help defray costs associated with environmentally-oriented study leading to a bachelor’s degree.
Deadline: May 19, 2015
All deadlines listed in this announcement indicate the agency’s due date. Please adjust your PPF submission to account for the new deadline policies.
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)