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NSF CAREER Proposals: Sakai Site and May 27 Workshop
The Office of the Vice President
for Research and Graduate and Professional Education will repeat a workshop for
assistant professors interested in submitting an application to the National
Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program on
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in the CAIT Auditorium on the
Busch Campus (100 Brett Rd.). Dr. Michael Pazzani will provide an
overview of the CAREER Program from his perspective as a former program officer
in the NSF's CISE Directorate. Michael Mueller, Senior Grant Facilitator,
will provide information on preparing a successful CAREER proposal, including useful
resource material.
The CAREER Award workshop presentations, examples of successful proposals and
resource material are also available on the Sakai CAREER Award resource
site. Please contact Michael Mueller (micmuell@vpr.rutgers.edu) for
more information and to register for the CAREER workshop and to access the
CAREER Award Sakai resource site. It is suggested that faculty applying
for the NSF Career Award finish a first draft by June 21 and share with the
Michael Muller and your colleagues for comments.
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2010 Federal R&D Budget Highlights
The AAU has a highlight of the
2010 budget and links to the complete budget of National Institutes of
Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense - Department of
Energy - National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Department of
Education- and the National Endowment for the Humanities at http://www.aau.edu/budget/article.aspx?id=8830 on the web. Some highlights are below:
- National Institutes of Health
- Cancer research across NIH is slated to receive $6 billion, initiating an eight-year strategy to double cancer research.
- Autism research at NIH will receive a $19 million, or 16 percent, increase.
- National Science Foundation
- The Administration has requested $203 million for the
Faculty Early Career Development program. This is an increase of $21 million,
or 11.6 percent, above the FY09 amount of $182 million.
- Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI). (44.7 percent increase to $102.63 million) CDI
supports transformative, multidisciplinary science and engineering research
outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational concepts,
methods, models, algorithms, and tools. CDI breakthroughs advance one or more
of the three themes: From Data to Knowledge; Understanding Complexity in
Natural, Built, and Social Systems; Building Virtual Organizations.
- Climate
Research. ($197.26 million; new NSF-wide focus) This is a new
Foundation-wide investment that builds upon CCSP and previous NSF
efforts. It focuses on multidisciplinary research that deepens our
current understanding of complex interactions that influence climate,
through expanded observing capabilities, modeling and simulation,
and fundamental research on ways to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of
a changing climate. Investments will address smart adaptation and
mitigation science, regional and decadal-scale climate modeling,
ecosystem vulnerability, the carbon and water cycles, ocean acidification,
a brupt climate change, and weather extremes.
- Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s
Law. (197.7 percent increase to
$46.68 million) In 10 to 20 years, current silicon technology will reach
the limits of Moore’s Law – the empirical observation that
computing power doubles roughly every 18 months. Activities in FY 2010
will encourage transformational activities as well as creating partnering
opportunities with the private sector and national laboratories to
accelerate innovation.
- Regaining
our Energy Science and Engineering Edge (RE-ENERGYSE). This set of
investments, part of the President’s New Energy for America plan,
focuses on preparing students for careers related to research and
education on clean energy. NSF, working with the Department of Energy,
will leverage existing programs and partnerships to train scientists and
technicians, educate K-12 and undergraduate students, and inform the
public
- Department of Defense –
- The FY10 request would provide $ 1.798 billion for
Defense 6.1 Basic Research programs, which is $ 99.7 million, or 5.9
percent, more than was requested for basic research in FY09.
- Department of Energy –
- The budget proposes $280 million for the establishment of eight new
multi- disciplinary Energy Innovation Hubs focused on addressing basic
science, technology, and economic and policy energy challenges.
- New Clean Energy Education Initiative to receive $115
million The DOE budget includes
funding for a new clean energy education initiative called, REgaining our
ENERGY Science and Engineering Edge (RE-ENERGYSE). Total funding for the
initiative is $115 million. Some $80 million of the total is for higher
education programs including fellowships, internships, post-doctoral
opportunities and development of interdisciplinary masters programs in areas of
clean energy. The remaining $35 million is designated for technical training
programs, mostly at community colleges, and new energy-related K-12 education
efforts.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration –
- Earth Science: NASA has requested $1.4 billion for Earth Science, an increase of $26 million, or
1.9 percent over the FY09 enacted level of $1.3 billion.
- Department of Education-
- Graduate Assistance in
Areas of National Need (GAANN): The budget would flat-fund GAANN at $31
million, supporting 700 fellowships through competitive grants to
institutions of higher education.
- The
budget would fund International Education and Foreign Languages Studies
(IEFLS) at $118.9 million, the same as FY09.
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Research
Programs: $16 million, an increase of $1.5 million or 10.3 percent.
The budget highlights this core research program, noting that the
proposed increase would enable NEH to fund two new categories:
fellowships at digital centers and teaching development fellowships,
which would be jointly administered with the Endowment’s Education
Program Division. Additionally, the number of fellowships and summer
stipend awards for humanities scholars would be increased, as well as
funds to support scholarly editions and other large-scale collaborative
research projects in the humanities.
- The
FY10 budget would enable NEH to establish two new grant categories:
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections, which would support projects
for institutions to plan or implement conservation measures that prolong
the useful life of humanities collections, and Research and Development
grants, which would fund projects that address major challenges in
preserving and providing access to humanities collections and resources.
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Yet another NIH Recovery Act RFA: Health Disparities
NCMHD has announced three RFAs for research in health disparities:
Announcement
Number |
Title |
Issuing
Org |
Receipt Date |
RFA-MD-09-006 |
Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Community
Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research Planning Phase
(R24) |
NCMHD |
06/30/2009 |
RFA-MD-09-007 |
Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Exploratory
Centers of Excellence (P20) |
NCMHD |
07/01/2009 |
RFA-MD-09-008 |
Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Dissertation
Research Award to Increase Diversity (R36) |
NCMHD |
06/30/2009 |
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NSF Dumps Grants.gov
Due to an expected increase in Grants.gov submissions
relating to the processing of Recovery Act proposals, the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) has authorized agencies to use alternative methods for
proposal submission and acceptance. NSF is able to accept directly its full
complement of proposals, both regular submissions and those additional
proposals anticipated under the Recovery Act, using our long-established
FastLane capabilities for proposal submission and acceptance. Therefore, in
order to assist Grants.gov in the effort to alleviate system strain and
increase system capacity, proposers will now be required to prepare and
submit proposals to NSF through use of the NSF FastLane system.
Effective immediately, new funding opportunities issued by NSF will exclusively
require the use of FastLane to prepare and submit proposals. In addition, NSF
plans to revise existing funding opportunity documents to reflect this change
and to remove all active application packages from Grants.gov APPLY. NSF will continue
to post information about available funding opportunities to Grants.gov
FIND.
Detailed instructions regarding the technical aspects of proposal preparation
and submission via FastLane are available at: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/.
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Michael J. Pazzani
Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3 Rutgers Plaza, ASB III-3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559
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