Funding Opportunities Newsletter- December 27, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- December 13, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- November 18, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter- November 1, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- October 1, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- September 13, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- August 30, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- August 9, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- July 26, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- July 15, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter- June 21, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter- June 7, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- May 24, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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- May 3, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter- April 19, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter- April 5, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 Opportunities Newsletter- March 18, 2019 (Links to an external site)

  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 Opportunities Newsletter- March 1, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 Opportunities Newsletter- February 15, 2019 (Links to an external site)

  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 Opportunities Newsletter- February 1, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 Opportunities Newsletter- January 19, 2019 (Links to an external site)

FUNDING NEWS Science and the shutdown: 5 things to watch as US impasse drags on If History Is Any Guide, End of Federal Shutdown Won’t Bring Quick Relief for College Researchers The Government Shutdown Is Reaching Historic Territory. Here’s What That Means for Higher Ed. Government Shutdown Hits Funding, Resources, and Morale in Science Making […]

Funding Opportunities Newsletter- January 4, 2019 (Links to an external site)

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 […]