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Funding Opportunities Newsletter Funding News New on the Engineering Toolkit: SciENcv for Biosketches and Current & Pending Docs Leadership change in store at International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (InCEES) How the Coronavirus Might — or Might Not — Slow Research Universities’ Ambitions NGA Tech Focus Areas chart path for geospatial technologies Harvard Settles […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DOE Scientific Machine Learning for Modeling and Simulations Required letter of intent due: May 1, 2020 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Harvey Prize — Nominations Requested Deadline for nominations: May 1, 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support for Complex Systems Required pre-application due: May 6, 2020; 5:00 pm ET Full applications […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program — Tier 1 Competition Letter of intent (requested but not required) due: April 29, 2020 Deadline: May 29, 2020 RFP — Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) (Dept. of the Army) Pre-proposals (required for some topics) due: May 01, 2020 Full proposals due: […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: Dear Colleague Letter: Open Science for Research Data D.2 Transformational Tools and Technologies (TTT) Project (NASA) Required NOI due: April 2, 2020 Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Deadline: April 9, 2020 Spectrum Forward Consortium Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) (Dept. of the Army) This Solicitation is a request for […]

Agencies are responding to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic with new and updated funding opportunities for research to support the containment, treatment, and destruction of this novel virus.

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Atmosphere as a Sensor (AtmoSense) Abstract deadline: March 13, 2020 Facebook RFP: Statistics for Improving Insights, Models, and Decisions request for proposals* The following are some specific examples of topics that are important to Facebook, but we will gladly review proposals for areas that are not listed below. Learning […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Habitus Habitus consists of two Technical Areas (TAs) and a Comparative Evaluation (CE) team in support of a government Testing and Evaluation (T&E) team. TA1: Model Development : TA1 will develop scalable and generalizable knowledge elicitation methods to semi-automatically and rapidly derive computational model factors and system level relationships […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA No Manning Required, Ship (NOMARS) This BAA encompasses two independent tracks for NOMARS Phase 1: Track A: Seaframe Design and Integration Phase 1A: Conceptual Design Phase 1B: Preliminary Design and Risk Reduction Track B: Technology Exploration and Maturation Track B Abstract due: February 14, 2020; 2:00 pm ET Full […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: Final Call for InvestMidwest Presenters: Venture Capital Forum Up to 45 companies seeking funding are selected to present. The conference showcases companies in three industry tracks: life sciences, technology/general business and food/ag/bioenergy. Deadline: February 3, 2020 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Travel Grants Deadline: February 12, 2020 National Quantum Information […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Biological Technologies Office – Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) Abstract deadline: January 28, 2020; 4:00 pm ET National Energy Technology Laboratory – Research Associateship Program Provides opportunities to outstanding scientists and engineers at recent postdoctoral and experienced senior levels for tenure as guest researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: Dear Colleague Letter: Research Opportunities for the Directorate for Engineering in Artificial Intelligence Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES): Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales Full proposal deadlines: January 16, 2020; November 9, 2020 (by 5 pm submitter’s local time) Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Required pre-application deadline: January 7, 2020 DARPA Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies (DIGET) Proposal abstract deadline: January 7, 2020; 4:00 pm ET Research Interests of the United States Air Force Academy – USAFA-BAA-2015: Diode Pumped Alkali Laser Physics Research White paper […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) Internal competition letter of intent deadline: November 25, 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award 2020 Focus: Contributions to the development of breakthrough live cell analysis technologies for measuring cellular responses to chemical/pharmaceutical treatments and genetic manipulations, including those that could advance cell-based therapies. Internal […]

View this email in your browser Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Biological Technologies Office – Bridging the Gap Plus (BGPlus) Proposal Abstract due date: November 25, 2019 Economic Development Administration – Accelerate R2 Network Challenge EDA, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Assured Micropatching (AMP) Technical Areas (TAs): • Goal-driven decompilation (TA1) • Assured recompilation (TA2) • Evaluation (TA3) Abstract due date: October 8, 2019, 12:00 pm (ET) Call 002: Lithium Seawater Batteries Project Proposal due: November 7, 2019, before 12:00 noon ET DARPA OFFensive Swarm Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) Proposal due: […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: Google Faculty Research Awards Deadlines: September 18, 2019 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Faculty must be nominated by their university or a Microsoft researcher. A maximum of two nominations per university will be accepted; if more than one is nominated, then at least one nominee should help us increase the opportunities […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Young Faculty Award Topic Areas: 1. Unlocking the Secrets of Roman Concrete 2. In Vivo Biosensor 3. Decision Making Algorithm for Medical Countermeasure Development 4. Microbial Community Modeling 5. Biological Systems for Sensing, Reporting, and Mitigating Air Contamination 6. Distributed Intelligence in Flexible Robots 7. Bioinspired Soft-Matter Electrical Circuits […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Request for Information (RFI) – Directly computable physics models (CompMods) Responses accepted until: 4:00 PM (Eastern) on August 30, 2019 Research Interests of the United States Air Force Academy — USAFA-BAA-2015 Amendment 4: Research on the Use of Autonomy and Unmanned Vehicles in Support of USAF Operations Research areas […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) The program will be divided into three technical areas (TAs): TA1: Constructing Useful ZK Statements TA2: Building Efficient ZK Proof Generation Compilers TA3: Post Quantum ZK Abstracts due: July 31, 2019; 12:00 pm noon ET Proposals due: September 20, 2019 Chan […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Funding News: NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Protection DOD’s Proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Requirements: What We Know and How to Prepare Now Available in Research.gov: Support for Collaborative Proposals with Subawards and New SPO/AOR Email Notification NIH probe of foreign ties has led to undisclosed firings – and refunds from institutions […]

Spotlight Opportunities: Semiconductor Research Corp: Call for Research in Analog/Mixed Signal Circuits, Systems, Devices + Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE)​ Deadline for White Papers: July 1, 2019 Leading Engineering for America’s Prosperity, Health, and Infrastructure (LEAP HI) Letter of Intent (LOI) due July 15, 2019 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Full Proposal Deadline […]

Spotlight Opportunities: DTRA – Materials Science in Extreme Environments University Research Alliance (MSEE-URA) Research areas: Materials Development and Manufacturing for Synergistic Effects – (a) Develop structure-function-property relationships of additively manufactured reactive materials, additive manufacturing of multifunctional nanocomposites, ignition/combustion, dynamic imaging of post combustion fields; (b) Fabricate multifunctional shielding materials that incorporate electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shielding […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: U.S. Army Research Office – TrojAI The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) in partnership with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) seeks research and development of technology and techniques for detection of Trojans in Artificial Intelligence. TrojAI is envisioned to be a 2-year effort with multiple awardees coming together […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter Spotlight Opportunities: NASA Research Opportunities in Aeronautics 2018 (ROA-2018): B.5 System-Wide Safety (SWS) Project The System-Wide Safety (SWS) project will perform research to (1) explore, discover, and understand the impact on safety of the growing complexity introduced by advances aimed at improving the efficiency of flight, the access to airspace, and/or the […]

Spotlight Opportunities: DARPA Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Devices (ONISQ) Abstract due April 22, 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Foundation Awards Deadlines vary from May 1 to October 1, 2019 National Water Research Institute Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize Deadline for nominations: May 31, 2019 NASA Instrument Incubator Program (ROSES 2019) Notice of […]

Spotlight Opportunities: Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Research at the Intersection of Agricultural Science, Big Data, Informatics, and Smart Communities, a joint effort between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA/NIFA) Proposals Pursuant to this DCL may be submitted to one of the three programs […]

  FUNDING NEWS Here’s What Trump’s 2020 Budget Proposal Means for Higher Ed NIH letters asking about undisclosed foreign ties rattle U.S. universities Surprising research funded by the National Science Foundation, which may lose $1 billion Men get larger first NIH grants, but is the news all bad for female scientists? How to be – […]

FUNDING NEWS White House Science Adviser Outlines Vision In his first major address, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy emphasized the roles of the private sector and the federal government. Update: U.S. science agencies see gains in final 2019 spending bills How to Explain Your Research Faculty Development Matters […]

  FUNDING NEWS EXCLUSIVE: The first interview with Trump’s new science adviser NIH asks inspector general to investigate 12 allegations of foreign influence in U.S. research U.S. Government Escalates Opposition to Chinese Talent Recruitment Programs Rookies lead the way on House science panel Bigger Is Not Always Better for Team Science The Zero-Sum Game Faculty […]

FUNDING NEWS Science Agencies Grappling with Shutdown Aftermath End of U.S. shutdown won’t mean return to business as usual for research agencies The Shutdown’s Lingering Effects on Research Top officials at research institutions make case for long-term funding deal and say the effects of the shutdown will last for weeks or months. End of Government […]

FUNDING NEWS For American Colleges, China Could Be the New Travel Ban — but Worse Federal Shutdown Includes Agencies Supporting Research Government Shutdown Affects NSF, FDA, Other Science Agencies House Democrats ready strategy to reopen government, deny Trump wall money U.S. shutdown begins: ‘It’s disheartening,…discouraging,…deflating’ Schools with Affected Research Grants Decry Shutdown Will the world […]

FUNDING NEWS NIST Proposes Overhaul of Federal Technology Transfer Policies Tenured Biology Professor Sacked for Research Misconduct Fei Wang, fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, falsified data on grant applications. House Democrats gear up to block planned move of USDA research agencies FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES DARPA Panacea DARPA seeks to develop new technological approaches […]

FUNDING NEWS China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students Trump’s nominee for USDA science post calls new U.S. climate report ‘genuine’ Crashing the boards: Neuroscientist Maureen Condic brings a different voice to NSF oversight body WUSTL OVCR: International Partnerships – disclosing and reporting requirements FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program […]

  FUNDING NEWS US Creating New Export Controls for ‘Emerging Technologies’ Research Universities and the Public Good Trump to Nominate Andrew Wheeler for EPA Head If confirmed, the acting administrator and former coal lobbyist will permanently replace former boss Scott Pruitt. Open-access plan draws online protest Public Colloquium Outlines Increasing Need for Effective Science Communication […]

FUNDING NEWS The new NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) has been issued Chairman Grassley Seeks Transparency from NIH on Foreign Threats to Research Grant Process FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES DARPA SIGMA + Network and Analytics Abstract Due Date: November 20, 2018; 4;00 pm DARPA Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES) Abstract […]

FUNDING NEWS EPA Postpones Decision on Rule to Restrict Scientific Input Update on NIH Extension Policy for Early Stage Investigator Status (ESI) What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’ FY2018 OVCR Annual Report Now Available Check out Engineering’s new Research Toolkit FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES DARPA Accelerated Molecular Discovery (AMD) DARPA […]

FUNDING NEWS How Academic Corruption Works Teaching in Teams: A Planning Guide for Successful Collaborations Do Universities Value Public Engagement? Not Much, Their Policies Suggest NSF Statement on 2018 Manufacturing Day AAU Submits Joint Statement to NIH on Proposed Changes to NIH Guidelines Biologists Irate at NSF’s new one-proposal cap AAS CEO Defends Scientific Evidence, […]