The Chronicle of Higher Education published an interesting article on the potential changes being proposed at NIH. These changes will most definitely change the way universities compete for and conduct NIH-funded research. Read the entire article here.
Category: Federal Agency Developments
NSF Announces Oceans Sciences Education Competition
The National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences seeks to establish new and/or renewed Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) Centers in a network of coordinated centers that faciliate collaborations and communications between ocean science researchers and educators. These Centers foster the integration of ocean research into high-quality educational materials, enable ocean researchers to gain a better understanding of educational organizations and pedagogy, provide educators with an enhanced capacity to understand and deliver high-quality educational programs in the ocean sciences, and provide material to the public that promotes a deeper understanding of the ocean and its influence on each person’s quality of life and our national prosperity.
Award Information
Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant
Estimated Number of Awards: 7 awards in total: seven COSEE Centers for up to five years at a maximum of $530,000/year for the first year, increasing by up to $20,000/year up to $610,000/year, with a budget review after 3 years.
Anticipated Funding Amount: $3,710,000 is the approximate total for the first year of all awards, pending availability of funds and quality of proposals.
Proposals due April 15th
DARPA Young Faculty Award Released
Full Proposals are due by 4:00PM ET, February 5, 2010
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency often selects its research efforts through the Research Announcement (RA) process. The RA will appear on the Grants.gov website http://www.grants.gov/. The following information is for those wishing to respond to the RA.
The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program will identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions in academia and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program will provide high-impact funding to these rising stars early in their careers in order to develop their research ideas in the context of DoD issues. The long term goal is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and National Security issues.
This RA solicits single investigator proposals for research and development in the areas of the Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics of interest to DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), and Social Sciences of interest to DARPA’s Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) as described in the topic list below. Proposed research should focus on innovations that will enable revolutionary advances in the selected topic area. High-risk/high-payoff ideas are strongly encouraged. Thus proposals that offer only incremental advances over state of the art will be deemed nonresponsive to this RA.
This solicitation is limited to participation by young investigators as defined in the Proposer Eligibility, Section III.
This solicitation seeks proposals for a 24 month research activity consisting of a 12 month base period and a 12 month option period, with a maximum funding level of $150K per each 12 month period ($300K maximum total funding). Continue reading “DARPA Young Faculty Award Released”
ARPA-E Fellowship Opportunity Announced
December 8, 2009
Department of Energy Announces Fellows Program for Advance Research Energy Projects
Announcement comes on the heels of ARPA-E’s 2nd Funding Opportunity
Cambridge, MA – The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) announced today the creation of the ARPA-E Fellows Program at an event with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s students. ARPA-E Director, Dr. Arun Majumdar, made the announcement during a presentation to the MIT Energy Club and called on the next generation of energy leaders to join ARPA-E. Today’s announcement follows US Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s announcement that the Department is making $100 million in Recovery Act funding available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create jobs.
“We need the best and the brightest to help shape our nation’s energy future,” said Dr. Majumdar. “The ARPA-E Fellows Program gives us the opportunity to invest in our up and coming researchers and entrepreneurs as we continue to look for creative and inventive approaches to transform the global energy landscape while advancing America’s technology leadership.”
The ARPA-E Fellows Program will consist of highly technical scientists and researchers, who will actively help create the strategic direction and vision of the country’s first agency devoted exclusively to transformational energy technology research and development. Fellows will support ARPA-E’s Program Directors in program creation, while also undertaking independent explorations of promising future research areas for the agency. Fellows will also engage with world class researchers and innovators to develop theses for high impact ARPA-E research program areas, prepare energy technology and economic analyses, and make recommendations to DOE senior management.
Program participants will be expected to have strong technical backgrounds and deep expertise in at least one energy technology related field. Senior Fellows should have more than three years of relevant work experience in energy innovation related fields, while Fellows will represent postdoctoral researchers and recent graduates with less than three years of work experience. Participants will be competitively selected from the best and the brightest up and coming researchers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. energy sector.
ARPA-E Fellow terms will not exceed two years. All ARPA-E Fellows and Senior Fellows are full-time federal employees paid at a competitive salary.
Interested candidates should visit ARPA-E’s Job Opportunities page to learn more.
Media contact(s):
(202) 586-4940
New ARPA-E Grant Opportunities Announced
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that a second round of funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects is available through ARPA-E. At a joint event with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Secretary Chu reported that $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create jobs. The announcement comes in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Note: Concept Papers are Due on January 15, 2010