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Thinking of applying to one of these  opportunities? Please email [mailto:si-ori@umich.edu si-ori@umich.edu].
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==== Lockheed Martin Corporate Engineering & Technology - Deadline: May 18, 2008 ====
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'''THIS SITE IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED (MARCH 2011).'''
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Lockheed Martin is pleased to announce the expansion of its university partnerships with the new initiative. Described are two potential areas related to the School of Information research.
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* Bioinformatics:  Computational techniques using biological information which provide advances in multiple fields including medicine
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Please visit our new website at researchoffice.si.umich.edu.
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* Decision Support Systems: Hardware & software for enhancement of decision and action efficiency in complex and/or stressing data/timeline mission environments (e.g., fusion, pattern recognition, data mining and knowledge management)
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Submission is in the form of a 750 word abstract. Note that the abstracts are to be non-proprietary, and will form the basis for inviting a limited number of proposals as described.
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==== Economic and Community Development Research Initiative See Grants - Deadline February 28, 2011 ====
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The Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy (IRLEE) in collaboration with OVPR is launching an annual seed research fund for U-M instructional and research faculty. The program will fund 4-6 proposals ranging from $10,000-15,000 each on topics related to economic and community development.  Possible topic areas include but are not limited to:
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*small and medium-sized business performance and management issues such as technology utilization, improvement processes and sources of capital;
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*new enterprise formation  and job creation - technology and talent issues"
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*consequences of economic dislocation, plant closings, retraining of workers, reuse of facilities;
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*regional economic development policies;
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*community development issues in both urban and rural regions - shrinking cities, structured food systems;
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*evaluation and assessment of intervention service delivery programs administered by universities;
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Please contact si-ori at umich dot edu to obtain the template required for submission.
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[http://irlee.umich.edu/EconomicAndCommunityDevelopmentRFP/RFP-IRLEE.pdf RFP]
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==== NSF - Broadening Participation in Computing - Deadline: May 21, 2008 ====
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==== NSF Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities (DRRC) - Deadline: March 4, 2011 ====
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Deadline post 2008: third wednesday in May
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The Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post secondary degrees in the computing disciplines, with an emphasis on students from communities with longstanding underrepresentation in computing: women, persons with disabilities, and minorities. Included minorities are African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. The BPC program seeks to engage the computing community in developing and implementing innovative methods to improve recruitment and retention of these students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Because the lack of role models in the professoriate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for encouraging individuals to pursue academic careers in computing and become these role models.
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In a joint announcement, the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and NSF call for proposals to advance basic research in engineering and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences on enhancing disaster resilience in rural communities.
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07548/nsf07548.htm NSF 07-548]
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For more informatino please see [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11510/nsf11510.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click NSF Program Solicitation 11-510]
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==== NSF - Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) - Deadline: May 21, 2008 ====
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*Posted 12/6/2010
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The Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. The program supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. The program supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.
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==== NSF Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships - Internal Competition Deadline: March 7, 2011 ====
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08546/nsf08546.htm NSF 08-546]
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*Limit on number of proposals per organization: 3
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*Required Pre-Proposal Deadline: May 30, 2011
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*Full Proposal Deadline: February 3, 2012
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==== NSF - Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems - Deadline: June 2, 2008 ====
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If you are interested in claiming one of (3) three UM's Pre- Proposal slots as a "LEAD" ,
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A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically, but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise they offer for discovery and learning.
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please prepare a four to eight page summary that outlines:
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#The STC concept and why it should be viewed as a priority for the University of Michigan;
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#How it meets the STC Objectives; The outcomes you anticipate if your proposal is successful; Characteristics of the proposed Science and Technology Center; and the Leadership, Management, and Oversight of the proposed  STC
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#Any peer review comments received on this application from any submission
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#The estimated total cost of the project (Voluntary Committed Cost Sharing is Prohibited:)
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#A list of Co-PI's involved in the proposal
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The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports scientific research directed at advancing the understanding of what constitutes effective virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision and management sciences, economics, engineering, organization theory, organizational behavior, social and industrial psychology, public administration, and sociology. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. 
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The summary should be submitted by 5pm on March 7, 2011 to the following email address: fastlane-admin@umich.edu with a copy to Marvin Parnes (mgparnes@umich.edu) and Dave Plawchan(davedrda@umich.edu)
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VOSS funded research must be grounded in theory and rooted in empirical methods. It must produce broadly applicable and transferable results that augment knowledge and practice of virtual organizations as a modality. VOSS does not support proposals that aim to implement or evaluate individual virtual organizations.
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We request that a copy of each summary submitted for review be given to the appropriate Research Dean by the Project Director / Principal Investigator.
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08550/nsf08550.htm NSF 08-550]
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'''SYNOPSIS of PROGRAM:''' The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake significant investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STCs may involve any areas of science and engineering that NSF supports. STC investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.
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==== DHS Center of Excellence in Command Control and INteroperability (C2I) - Deadline: June 15, 2008 ====
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For further information please see [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11522/nsf11522.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click NSF Solicitation 11-522]
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This is an opportunity for $18,000,000 over six years. It is anticipated that there will be one cooperative agreement awarded under this announcement.
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The DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is requesting applications from accredited U.S. colleges and universities to establish and operate a DHS Center of Excellence (COE) in Command Control and Interoperability (C2I). This COE will address issues related to  
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==== Center for Southeast Asian Studies Faculty Grants Competition - Deadline: March 7, 2011 ====
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# dynamic, on-demand data processing and visualization;
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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies offers modest funding opportunities to faculty who work on Southeast Asia.
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# hypothesis-driven data analysis;
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These programs include:
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# visualization of structured, unstructured, and streaming data;
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*research grants,
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# mathematics of discrete and visual analytics;
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*course development grants,
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# scalable information filtering and dissemination;
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*conference travel grants, and
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# visualization and simulation of information;
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*research collaboration grants
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# mobile and light-weight information analytics and sharing.  
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Award amounts range from $250 to $2,500. All awards must be fully spent by August 1, 2011.
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This COE will create the scientific basis and enduring technologies needed to analyze massive amounts of information from multiple sources to more reliably detect threats to the security of the nation and its infrastructures and to the health and welfare of its populace. These new technologies will also improve the dissemination of both information and related technologies.
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Please email si-ori@umich.edu for further information.  
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New methods are needed to give individuals the ability to examine massive, multi-dimensional, multi-source, time-varying information streams, discover and disseminate that information, and make decisions in a time-critical environment. Technologies are needed that will support the application of human judgment to make the best possible use of this information and share it with others as appropriate to prevent, deter, and respond to threats. Consequently, S&T seeks basic research in two new, interdisciplinary fields: visual analytics and discrete sciences.
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==== Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program for PhD Students - Deadline: March 11, 2011 ====
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*Posted 1/6/2011
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When effective, visual analytics enables analysts to make sense rapidly of uncertain, complex and diverse data sources. Examples include numeric data from databases, sensors or computational models, unstructured text from documents and reports, images or videos, and voice or other audio data. Visual analytics uses mathematical and computational algorithms to enable visual assessment and manipulation of diverse data.  
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This is your chance to get an inside look at the big challenges Yahoo! research scientists are working on while driving your research forward. Learn more about the real-world problems facing our industry, then focus on and solve these fundamental challenges alongside the top minds in the field.
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Discrete sciences apply the methods of discrete mathematics to computational science. Their focus is developing simpler, more efficient algorithms and architectures for use in a broad range of data-intensive computing applications, such as knowledge representation, natural language processing, text or information extraction, uncertainty quantification and high-performance computing.  
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PhD students working in each of the core research areas are invited to review the challenges listed. Submit an application between January 24th - March 11th, 2011 to be considered for the Key Scientific Challenges Program.
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Ongoing research in both areas can be applied to address common challenges in the following areas:
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[http://www.labs.yahoo.com/ksc Key Scientific Challenges Program Homepage]
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* Information analysis
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* Knowledge management
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* Threat assessment
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* Situational awareness
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* Decision support
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* Information sharing
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* Interoperable communications
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* Surveillance and investigative operations
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* Cyber infrastructure protection
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For more information please go to [http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41461 Grants.gov Synopsis and link to the Full Announcement]
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[http://www.labs.yahoo.com/ksc/FAQs Program FAQs]
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==== ASIS&T Best Research in Information Science Award - Deadline: June 15, 2008 ====
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[http://www.labs.yahoo.com/ksc/how_to_apply How to Apply]
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The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual or individuals for an outstanding research contribution in the field of information science. The award is intended to be for achievements that have significant impact in the field and is based on recent research or on previous research whose contributions have recently been recognized. The award is for a systematic "program of research" in a single area at a level beyond the single study, but not at the level of a lifetime's work.
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For more information please go to the [http://www.asis.org/awards/awardnominationdeadlines.html ASIS Award Nominations website]
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==== NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 (RII Track-2) - Deadline: March 14, 2011 ====
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==== ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award - Deadline: June 15, 2008 ====
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*'''NOTE''' - One (1) proposal per organization
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The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose research contributes significantly to an understanding of some aspect of information science. The award is intended to encourage participation of new Ph.D.s in the activities of a professional association by providing a forum for presentation of their research and assisting them with some travel support. Dissertations submitted shall fall within the scope of information science, including, but not limited to, any of the following areas of investigation:
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# Automated language processing
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# Classification research
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# Education for information science
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# Information analysis and evaluation
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# Information policy
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# Information services
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# Information storage and retrieval
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# International information issues
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# Library automation and networks
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# Management of information
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# Office information systems
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# Information generation and publishing
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For more information please go to the [http://www.asis.org/awards/awardnominationdeadlines.html ASIS Award Nominations website]
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The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is a program designed to fulfill the National Science Foundation's (NSF) mandate to promote scientific progress nationwide. The EPSCoR program is directed at those jurisdictions that have historically received lesser amounts of NSF Research and Development (R&D) funding. Twenty-seven states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands are currently eligible  to participate. Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a state's or region's research infrastructure, R&D capacity and hence, its national R&D competitiveness.
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==== HP Labs Innovation Research Program - Deadline: June 18, 2008 5PM EST ====
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Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 (RII Track-2) awards provide up to $2 million per year for up to 3 years to consortia of EPSCoR jurisdictions to support innovation-enabling cyberinfrastructure of regional, thematic, or technological importance. A successful RII Track-2 proposal must describe a clear, comprehensive, and integrated cyberinfrastructure vision to drive discovery, broaden participation in STEM research and education activities, and provide collective solutions to cyberinfrastructure challenges of regional and national importance. The proposal must also describe how robust, reliable environments, capabilities, and capacities will be provided to deliver long term value across science and engineering disciplines. These awards will enhance discovery, learning, and economic development through the use of cyberinfrastructure.
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The HP Labs [http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/ Open Innovation Office's] Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities -- at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world -- for breakthrough collaborative research with HP.  Through this open and competitive Call for Proposals, we are soliciting your best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations.
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[http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11513/nsf11513.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click NSF Program Solicitation 11-513]
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The 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research program is seeking proposals for breakthrough research within five broad research themes:
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* [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/information.html Information explosion]: Acquiring, analyzing and delivering the right information to individuals and businesses so they can act on it 
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==== NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) - Deadline: March 21, 2011 ====
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* [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/cloud.html Dynamic cloud services]: Developing web platforms and cloud services that are dynamically personalized based on your location, preferences, calendar and communities
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* [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/content.html Content transformation] : Enabling the fluid transformation of content from analog to digital, from device to device, and from digital content to physical products
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Within these broad themes, a number of compelling research topics are being proposed for 2008. Details can be found at the [http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/topics.html HP Program 2008 Research Topics site].  Proposals are solicited in line with these topics on a geographic basis.
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NOTE: The solicitation has been updated to: eliminate the Small category of proposals; adjust the proposal size and duration for Medium proposals; encourage development of prototypes and testbeds; invite proposals for research activities that augment and amplify the CPS Virtual Organization; clarify the requirement for integrating CPS disciplinary areas and exploring highly innovative systems concepts; encourage transformative CPS research; and update program contacts.
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Awards under the HP Labs Innovation Research Program will consist of cash support for one year in the USD $50,000 to $75,000 range, including any overhead.  A key element of each award will be on-campus support for one graduate-student researcher.
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As in the previous solicitation, we no longer invite new proposals for the CPS Virtual Organization (CPS-VO). In addition, we again ask that all proposals explicitly identify the theme(s) they address in both the Project Summary and in the Project Description.  
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SYNOPSIS OF PROGRAM:
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* Wednesday, 7 May 2008: Research topics announced and submission tool opens
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* Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 5:00 PM Pacific Time: Deadline for submissions
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Full program guidelines are detailed in the [http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/2008_HPL_Innovation_Research_Program_RFP.pdf Innovation Research Program Request for Proposals], along with other important program documents:
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The term "cyber-physical systems" refers to the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources. We envision that the cyber-physical systems of tomorrow will far exceed those of today in terms of adaptability, autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability. Research advances in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems that respond more quickly (e.g., autonomous collision avoidance), are more precise (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-tolerance manufacturing), work in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., autonomous systems for search and rescue, firefighting, and exploration), provide large-scale, distributed coordination (e.g., automated traffic control), are highly efficient (e.g., zero-net energy buildings), augment human capabilities, and enhance societal wellbeing (e.g., assistive technologies and ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and delivery).
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==== NSF - National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library - Deadline: June 27, 2008 ====
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Congruent with the recommendations in the August 2007 report of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World, NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Engineering (ENG) are spear-heading the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program because of its scientific and technological importance as well as its potential impact on grand challenges in a number of sectors critical to U.S. security and competitiveness, including aerospace, automotive, chemical production, civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, materials and transportation. By abstracting from the particulars of specific applications in these domains, the CPS program aims to reveal cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors. The CPS program will also support the development of methods and tools as well as hardware and software components, run-time substrates, systems based upon these principles to expedite and accelerate the realization of cyber-physical systems in a wide range of applications, and associated prototypes and testbeds. Furthermore, the program aims to augment and amplify the recently-funded CPS Virtual Organization  http://www.cps-vo.org/  in order to create a research and education community committed to the study and application of cyber-physical system innovations, and to hold regular PI meetings.
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This program aims to establish a national network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. The program has four tracks: Pathways projects are expected to provide stewardship for the content and services needed by major communities of learners. Services projects are expected to develop services that support users and resource collection providers that enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the NSDL network. Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services, and other aspects of the development of the NSDL network. The NSDL Resource Center will provide collaboration assistance across all projects; undertake strategic partnership development on behalf of projects particularly with respect to non-academic entities; coordinate and, in some cases, perform thematic research and evaluation studies related to the program; synthesize findings across the portfolio; and disseminate findings of the accomplishments of the NSDL program. In FY2008, within the first three tracks the program will accept proposals for large grants in 1) the Pathways track, 2) a new sub-track: Pathways - Stage II, and 3) specific sub-tracks of Services - including a single Technical network services project to provide technical infrastructure support across the NSDL network. In all tracks, except for the NSDL Resource Center, the program will also accept proposals for small grants that extend or enhance results from existing services, collections, or targeted research activity so as to enlarge the user audience for the NSDL network or improve capabilities for the user.
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08554/nsf08554.htm NSF 08-554]
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The CPS program is seeking proposals that address research challenges in three CPS themes: Foundations; Methods and Tools; and Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems. Foundations research will develop new scientific and engineering principles, algorithms, models, and theories for the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems. Research on Methods and Tools will bridge the gaps between approaches to the cyber and physical elements of systems through innovations such as novel support for multiple views, new programming languages, and algorithms for reasoning about and formally verifying properties of complex integrations of cyber and physical resources. The third CPS theme concerns new hardware and software Components, Run-time Substrates (infrastructure and platforms), and (engineered) Systems motivated by grand challenge applications.  In all CPS themes, concepts should be developed that contribute to new Cyber-Physical Systems science.  These concepts may include fault tolerance, availability, reliability, reconfigurability, and cybersecurity aspects of certifiably-dependable CPS.
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==== NSF - Biological Databases and Informatics - Deadline: July 14, 2008 ====
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Two types of research and education projects will be considered:
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The Biological Databases and Informatics (BD&I) program seeks to encourage new approaches to the management, analysis, and dissemination of biological knowledge for the benefit of both the scientific community and the broader public. The BD&I program is especially interested in the development of informatics tools and resources that have the potential to advance all fields of biology under the purview of the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
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*Medium Projects span one or more CPS themes and include two or more PIs and a research team of students and/or postdocs.  Funding for Medium Projects will be provided at levels ranging from $300,000/year to $500,000/year and durations of three to four years.
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*Large Projects are multi-investigator and multi-university projects involving teams of researchers and their students and/or postdocs representing multiple disciplines in computer science, engineering, and physical application domains, who together address a coherent set of research issues that either cut across multiple CPS themes or that explore in great depth a particular theme.  Funding will be provided at levels up to $1,000,000/year for up to five years.
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05577/nsf05577.htm NSF 05-577]
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[http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11516/nsf11516.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click NSF Program Solicitation 11-516]
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==== ALISE - Research Grant Competition - Deadline: July 15, 2008 ====
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==== Call for Nominations 2011: National Medal of Science - Deadline: March 31, 2011 ====
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The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is now accepting proposals for its 2009 Research Grant Program Competition. An award of one or more grants totaling $5,000 may be made to support research broadly related to education for library and information science. The Research Grant Award cannot be used to support a doctoral dissertation. At least one applicant in a group submitting a proposal must be a personal member of ALISE as of the deadline date.
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The National Science Foundation extended the call for nominations for the [http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/medal.jsp 2011 National Medal of Science]. The new deadline is March 31, 2011. Please review the nomination information and submit your nominations through FastLane. We are especially interested in identifying women, members of minority groups, and persons with disabilities for consideration.
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==== NSF - Cluster Exploratory - Deadline: July 17, 2008 ====
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==== Time Warner Cable Research Program - Deadline: April 1, 2011 (Posted 3/19/10) ====
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In the last five years, the private sector has launched a number of highly effective internet-scale applications powered by massively scaled, highly distributed computing resources.  Academic researchers have expressed a need for access to similar computing resources that will allow them to engage and explore this emerging and pervasive model of computing.
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Through the Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program, NSF-funded researchers will use software and services running on a Google-IBM cluster to explore innovative research ideas in data-intensive computing. Proposals funded are expected to cover a range of activities that first lead to advances in computing research, but that also explore the potential of this computing paradigm to contribute to science and engineering research and to applications that promise benefit to society as a whole.
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Time Warner Cable has a call for proposals to their Program on Digital Communications. These are for small awards ($20 K) intended to support the production of a 25 to 35-page report over a period of six months. Teams of two or more researchers are encouraged. Graduate students may be part of a team submitting a proposal and are eligible to be funded from an award – but they can’t be the primary author of a proposal. Proposals must be focused on one of the seven topics identified by the program:
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08560/nsf08560.htm NSF 08-560]
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#Advertising, two-sided markets, and the role of network operators (ISPs, MSOs)
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#Customer equipment and program navigation devices, guides, and menus
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#Video programming in a digital world
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#The future of cable networking and infrastructure
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#The future of local programming
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#Video convergence and internet video
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#Innovation in broadband networks, network design, and network management
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==== NSF - CAREER: Faculty Early Career Development - Deadline: July 22-24, 2008 ====
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You will need a three-page project description and a resume (maximum of three pages per author).
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CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
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For more information please go to [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08557/nsf08557.htm NSF 08-557]
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More detail on these topics, as well as specific application instructions, can be found on the [http://twcresearchprogram.com/ Time Warner Cable Research Website]
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==== NEH - Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources - Deadline July 31, 2008 ====
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If you are interested in this program, please contact Becky O’Brien.
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The possibilities presented by advances in digital technology require a new grant category that encompasses the range of activities funded through the previous programs and encourages the development of digital methods and tools to increase the availability and long-term preservation of humanities collections and resources. Grants support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. To ensure that significant collections are preserved and available for research, education, or public programming in the humanities, applications may be submitted for the following activities:
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==== NSF Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) - Deadline: April 27, 2011 (Posted 9/27/10) ====
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The Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) program aims to build a computationally savvy 21st century workforce that positions the US to demonstrate a leadership role in the global economy. Innovations in computing and more broadly, information technology (IT), drive our economy, underlie many new advances in science and engineering, and contribute to our national security. Projected job growth in IT is very strong.  
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==== NSF - Science, Technology and Society  - Deadline: August 1, 2008 ====
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The CE21 program focuses special attention on activities targeted at the middle and high school levels (i.e., secondary education) and in early undergraduate education.  
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STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society. STS has four components:
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*History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS),
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*Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS),
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*Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
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The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area. STS encourages the submission of hybrid proposals that strive to integrate research involving two or more of these core areas.
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STS provides the following modes of support:
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The goals of the CE21 program are to:
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* Scholars Awards,
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* Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research,
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*Increase the number and diversity of early postsecondary students who are engaged and have the background in computing necessary to successfully pursue degrees in computing-related and computationally-intensive fields of study.
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* Postdoctoral Fellowships,
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* Professional Development Fellowships,
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* Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants,
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* Small Grants for Training and Research,
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* Conference and Workshop Awards,
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* Other Funding Opportunities.
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For more information please visit the [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08553/nsf08553.htm NSF Program Solicitation NSF 08-553]
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*Type I proposals will contribute to the research base on the effective teaching and learning of computing, draw on partnerships of informed and committed stakeholders, and create and study the effectiveness of new instructional materials and interventions and/or strategies to develop K-14 teaching expertise. Type I proposals typically describe smaller scale efficacy studies.
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*Type II proposals will contribute to the research base on the effective teaching and learning of computing, draw on partnerships of informed and committed stakeholders, and create and study the effectiveness of new instructional materials and interventions and strategies to develop K-14 teaching expertise. Type II proposals demonstrate implementations at scale, where the interventions to be taken to scale have already proven effective in smaller-scale efficacy studies (studies that may or may not have been funded by NSF).
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==== NSF CISE Computing Research Infrastructure - Deadline: August 5, 2008 ====
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For more information please see [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10619/nsf10619.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click NSF Solicitation 10-619]
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The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program supports the acquisition, development, enhancement, and operation of research infrastructure that enables discovery, learning, and innovation in all computing fields supported by CISE. Supported infrastructure includes instrumentation needed by research or research and education projects, major experimental facilities for an entire department or for multi-institutional projects, and testbeds or data archives for an entire subfield of CISE researchers.
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[http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11034/nsf11034.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click FAQs for NSF 10-619]
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The CRI program aims at providing infrastructure that enables high-quality computing research and education and extending the set of individuals and departments that are able to conduct such activities. The CRI program is committed to maintaining a broad portfolio that supports research and education across a diverse population and lessens the digital divide. The program encourages proposals that are from or that include minority-serving institutions.
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==== NIH Social Network Analysis and Health (R01) - Deadline: May 11, 2011 (posted 6/8/10) ====
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The CRI program is designed to complement the funding available in CISE research programs: Infrastructure Acquisition/Development awards support infrastructure that is used for the proposing team's research; and, Community Resource Development awards support the development of resources that serve broad research communities.
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*This FOA encourages research that aims to accomplish one or more specific goals: (1) generate new theories that would enhance the capabilities and value of Social Network Analysis (SNA); (2) address fundamental questions about social interactions and processes in social networks; (3) address fundamental questions about social networks in relation to health and health-related behaviors; (4) develop innovative methodologies and technologies to facilitate, improve, and expand the capabilities of SNA.
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Applicants should strive to ensure that their proposed research responds to one or more of these four goals of the FOA. Detailed information on each of these goals and illustrative examples of specific types of research sought under each goal are provided below in subsection III, under Research Objectives.
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[http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-145.html Social Network and Analysis Health FOA]
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The CRI program will support a variety of infrastructure needs, such as general or specialized research equipment, technical support, and/or software. CRI will also support the development of infrastructure that can be used by others, such as data archives or libraries of software tools. The infrastructure must facilitate high-quality research and related education, and cannot be acquired or developed without funding resources beyond those available from individual research and education grants and the host institution.
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==== NIH Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R01 & R21) - Deadline: May 19, 2011====
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The CRI program will make three kinds of awards.
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'''Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R01)'''
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* Infrastructure Acquisition/Development. These awards have budgets from $50,000 and up to $2,000,000.
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[http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-020.html RFP for R01]
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* Community Resource Development. These awards have budgets from $300,000 to $2,000,000.  Community Resource Development projects create a resource for an entire CISE research community, such as a testbed for evaluating research results or a large data resource for use by a research community (e.g., annotated speech data).
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* Planning. These awards facilitate the preparation of a proposal for a medium or large Infrastructure Acquisition/Development or Community Resource Development grant. They have budgets up to $50,000 for one institution or up to $100,000 if more than one institution is involved.
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The program supports projects in four size categories:  large projects have budget requests from $800,000 and  up to $2,000,000; medium projects have budget requests from $300,000 and up to $799,999; small projects have budgets from $50,000 and up to $299,999; Planning proposals may request budgets up to $50,000 for one institution or $100,000 for two or more institutions.  Project sizes affect page limits, review processes, and eligibility.
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The CRI program replaces and expands upon three previous CISE programs: Minority Institutional Infrastructure (MII), Research Infrastructure (RI), and Research Resources (RR). The most significant changes from the former programs are that CRI will support Community Resource Development grants in addition to Infrastructure Acquisition/Development grants.
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This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications for research, development, and evaluation of systems that monitor health, inform clinical decisions, or deliver therapies in a real-time and minimally obtrusive way. These are technologies that enable monitoring of personal motion, vital signs, and physiological measures in a manner that minimizes disruption to an individual’s daily routine and at all times protects their privacy, dignity and comfort.  These systems are expected to integrate, process, analyze, communicate, and present data so that the individuals are engaged and empowered in their own healthcare with reduced burden to care providers. Effective application of home-based and mobile technologies has the potential to increase adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens, reduce incidence of avoidable post-acute complications, and improve self-care management of chronic conditions.
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For more information please go to the [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06597/nsf06597.htm NSF Program Announcement NSF 06-597]
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* Activity monitoring systems to detect personal care needs
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* Activity monitoring systems to detect acute medical events
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* Systems to ensure adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens
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* Real-time monitoring and management of chronic conditions
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* Monitoring systems to detect progressive decline in physical and cognitive abilities
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* Therapeutic or management systems to address physical or cognitive decline
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* Fall detection or prevention systems
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* Systems to monitor and facilitate sleep health
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* Technologies aimed at helping the lay care-giver or professional provider
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==== Air Force Office of Scientific Research FY08 BAA - Deadline: Open through FY08 ====
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'''Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21)'''
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Some specific areas of interest to the school of information are found in section c of the BAA - Mathematics, Information and Life Sciences. See specifically section 2) Complex Networks, 4) Distributed Intelligence and Information Fusion, 6) Mathematical Modeling of Cognition and Decision, 9) Sensory Information Systems, and 10) Collective Behavior and Socio-Cultural Modeling.
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For more information please go to [http://www.wpafb.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080212-048.pdf AFOSR FY08 General BAA]
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[http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-021.html RFP for R21]
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This FOA encourages Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (R21) applications for research and development of novel technologies that monitor health, inform clinical decisions, or deliver therapies in a real-time and minimally obtrusive way.  These are technologies that enable monitoring of personal motion, vital signs, and physiological measures in a manner that minimizes disruption to an individual’s daily routine and at all times protects their privacy, dignity and comfort.  These systems are expected to integrate, process, analyze, communicate, and present data so that the individuals are engaged and empowered in their own healthcare with reduced burden to care providers.  Effective application of home-based and mobile technologies has the potential to increase adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens, reduce incidence of avoidable post-acute complications, and improve self-care management of chronic conditions.
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Some examples of appropriate topics for this FOA include but are not limited to:
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* Activity monitoring devices or sensors to detect personal care needs
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* Activity monitoring devices or sensors to detect acute medical events
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* Devices to ensure adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens
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* Real-time monitoring and management of chronic conditions
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* Monitoring systems to detect progressive decline in physical and cognitive abilities
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* Therapeutic or management systems to address physical or cognitive decline
 +
* Fall detection or prevention systems
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* Devices to monitor and facilitate sleep health
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* Technologies aimed at helping the lay care-giver or professional provider
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* Research and development for improved human-computer interfaces for home-use technologies
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'''Related to Both calls:'''
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Health care and medicine rely on effective detection and characterization of a person's physical and mental states and of significant changes to those states.  Current methods to assess these indicators of well-being are performed at the convenience of the care provider and usually assume that observations during an office visit represent typical function.  Furthermore, these methods may involve contrived or burdensome tests or depend heavily on recall.  Thus, current methods may miss significant acute events or important signals of declining function or may poorly characterize detected events.
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Technologies designed for home and mobile monitoring are intended to overcome these limitations.  They have the potential to capture rare, irregular, or transient events; symptoms that are difficult for a patient to report; and changes in condition that evolve slowly over time.  These improvements, in turn, could yield more accurate and earlier detection of changes that may interfere with healthy and independent living.
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==== Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies - Deadline: June 1, 2011 ====
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This program seeds new interdisciplinary research programs in sustainable energy science, techology, and policy with funding for ''Phoenix Energy Institute Research Fellow''. Successful proposals will combine innovative research plans with concret timelines for establishing independent funding.
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For more information please email si-ori@umich.edu or visit [http://www.energy.umich.edu/info/um-funding.html energy.umich.edu]
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==== Google Faculty Research Awards Program - Next Deadline: August 1, 2011 ====
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The purpose of this program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards program is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Google funds Research Awards unrestricted and retains no intellectual property from the research. We prefer if the results from the research are open sourced and widely published. Awards through this program are for one year in the range from $10K-$150K
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[http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html Google Research Awards Program Page]
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 +
[http://research.google.com/university/relations/FAQ.html Google Research Awards FAQs]
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==== CIES 2012-2013 Fulbright Competitions - Deadline: August 1, 2011 ====
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*Posted 1/24/2011
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*Description: The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the US State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in roughly 140 countries to over 800 US scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields.  These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.
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*Eligibility: Eligible applicants must be US citizens, normally must have relevant postdoctoral academic lecturing experience if they wish to lecture—or a doctorate (or other terminal degree, including a master’s in some fields) or equivalent professional qualifications if they want to do research abroad, and for some countries must possess sufficient language competence for the project they wish to undertake.
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*Benefits: Awardees generally receive roundtrip travel, a living allowance that varies with the country and number of dependents, and a small allowance for local travel abroad, books, and services. The duration of the grants usually range from 2 to 12 months.
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*Deadline: The competition for 2012-13 awards is open between February 1, 2011, and the application due date on August 1, 2011.
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*Submission: Interested applicants must apply online directly to CIES at www.cies.org, where complete application materials and information are also available.
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*Assistance: Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provideinformation, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition: e-mail Beni at unlisted@umich.edu.
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==== NSF Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) (Posted 3/13/09) ====
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The RAPID funding mechanism is used for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. PI(s) must contact the NSF program officer(s) whose expertise is most germane to the proposal topic before submitting a RAPID proposal. This will facilitate determining whether the proposed work is appropriate for RAPID funding.
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*The Project Description is expected to be brief (two to five pages) and include clear statements as to why the proposed research is of an urgent nature and why a RAPID award would be the most appropriate mechanism for supporting the proposed work. Note this proposal preparation instruction deviates from the standard proposal preparation instructions contained in this Guide; RAPID proposals must otherwise be compliant with the GPG.
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*The box for “RAPID” must be checked on the Cover Sheet.
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*Only internal merit review is required for RAPID proposals. Under rare circumstances, program officers may elect to obtain external reviews to inform their decision. If external review is to be obtained, then the PI will be so informed in the interest of maintaining the transparency of the review and recommendation process. The two standard NSB-approved merit review criteria will apply.
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*Requests may be for up to $200K and of one year duration. The award size, however, will be consistent with the project scope and of a size comparable to grants in similar areas.
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*No-cost extensions, and requests for supplemental funding, will be processed in accordance with standard NSF policies and procedures.
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*Renewed funding of RAPID awards may be requested only through submission of a proposal that will be subject to full external merit review. Such proposals would be designated as “RAPID renewals.”
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==== Army Research Laboratory - Basic and Applied Research - Deadline: Open through FY11 ====
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The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) solicits proposals for basic and scientific research in chemistry, electronics, environmental sciences, life sciences, materials science, mathematical and computer sciences, mechanical sciences, physics, computational and information sciences, sensors and electron devices, survivability/lethality analysis, and weapons and materials research.
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In order to conserve valuable offeror and Government resources and to facilitate determining whether a proposed research idea meets the guidelines described herein, prospective offerors contemplating submission of a white paper or proposal are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate technical point of contact (TPOC) before submission. The TPOCs’ names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses are listed immediately after each research area of interest.
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Some areas of Interest for SI (see the [[Media:ARL_BAA_thru_06-30-11.pdf|BAA for details]], page numbers listed below):
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1.7 Database Technology (page 11)
==== New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan - Deadline: Open ====
==== New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan - Deadline: Open ====
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For more information please go to [http://www.neweconomyinitiative.org/media/NEI_Grant_Guidelines_final.pdf New Economy Initiative Program Description]
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==== Google Research Awards - Deadline: Open ====
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OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated, and OCLC Research in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) announce the Library and Information Science Research Grant (LISRG) program for 2009 and invite research proposals. In recognition of the importance of research to the advancement of librarianship and information science, OCLC and ALISE promote independent research that helps librarians integrate new technologies into areas of traditional competence and contributes to a better understanding of the library environment. To aid new researchers, priority will be given when possible to proposals from junior faculty and applicants who have not previously received LISRG fund.
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NOTE: This is actually awarded as a gift and not a grant.  Therefore there is no indirect cost recovery and there are tax implications for SI.  '''Applications for gifts need to be approved by the dean prior to submission'''. (Contact the research office at si-ori@umich.edu if you are interested in submitting a proposal for a gift)
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== NIH Parent Announcements (For Unsolicited or Investigator-Initiated Applications)==
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== Past Funding Announcements (new RFP expected next year) ==
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==== NSF CISE Large Core & Cross Cutting Programs - Deadline: November 23, 2010 (Posted 6/16/10)====
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*Admin Shell material and Final Budget due November 16th
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[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13707&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund Link to IIS Program RFP]
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IIS is also responsible for managing the review process for proposals in computer graphics and visualization; these proposals may be submitted to any of the three core programs described above.
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*HCC – William Bainbridge & Ephraim Glinert
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*III – Lawrence Brandt & Maria Zemankova
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*RI – Douglas Fisher & Kenneth Whang
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Awards Anticipated:
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===== Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Program =====
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[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12765&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund Link to CNS Program RFP]
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The Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education activities that invent new computing and networking technologies and that explore new ways to make use of existing technologies. The Division seeks to develop a better understanding of the fundamental properties of computer and network systems and to create better abstractions and tools for designing, building, analyzing, and measuring future systems.
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*NeTS – Alhussein Abouzeid
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Awards Anticipated:
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===== Computing and Communicatiosn Foundations (CCF) Program =====
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[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503220&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund Link to CCF Program RFP]
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The Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that explore the foundations of computing and communication devices and their usage. The Division seeks advances in computing and communication theory, algorithms for computer and computational sciences, and architecture and design of computers and software. CCF-supported projects also investigate revolutionary computing models and technologies based on emerging scientific ideas and integrate research and education activities to prepare future generations of computer science and engineering workers.
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*Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF)
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Program Officers:
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*AF – Dmitry Maslov
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*CIF – John Cozzens
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*SHF – Sol Greenspan
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Awards Anticipated:
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*120 to 160 across the various sizes and programs
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===== Cross-Cutting Program =====
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[http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10575/nsf10575.htm Link to Cross-Cutting Program RFP]
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This solicitation seeks proposals in cross-cutting areas that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields.
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Program Officers:
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*95 to 120 – up to 40 in SHB, 25 in NetSE, and 60 in TC
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==== Packard Fellowships ====
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Internal Nomination Deadline: February 12, 2010
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Packard Deadline: April
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Notes for Next Year:
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*Letter Writeres
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**Bios will be required for Letter Writers
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**Nomination Committee will be looking for letter writers with a mix of the following credentials
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***Prior Packard Fellowship receipient
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***MacArthur Fellow
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***Elected to NAS, NAE, or IOE
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***Nobel Loreate/Fields Medal/or Touring Award
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*SI Letter of Nomination
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**Say upfront what area our nominee is eligible for (most likely Computer Science)
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**Frame the letter writers - explain their background & qualifications (see above)
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**2-3 pages in length seems most appropriate
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*Statement
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**define some big picture problem
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**outline a innovative and unusually creative way to solve this problem
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**should be something no likely to be funded from another source (a little out there/high risk)
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**should not be clinical or national security related
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**Cannot be a piece of some larger research you have going on
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*Benchmarks
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**Previous Computer Science winners - Klienburgh and Von Ahn
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==== NSF REESE - Deadline: November 15, 2010 (Posted 7/16/2010)====
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The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program seeks to advance research at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, and to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to improve STEM teaching and learning at all educational levels and in all settings.
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This solicitation calls for four types of proposals:
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*Pathways
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*Synthesis
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*Empirical Research
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*Large Empirical Research.
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The goals of the REESE program are:
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*to catalyze discovery and innovation at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation;
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*to stimulate the field to produce high quality and robust research results through the progress of theory, method, and human resources; and
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*to coordinate and transform advances in education, learning research, and evaluation.
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REESE pursues its mission by developing an interdisciplinary research portfolio focusing on core scientific questions about STEM learning in current and emerging learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, and from before school through to graduate school and beyond into the workforce. REESE places particular importance upon the involvement of young investigators in the projects, at doctoral, postdoctoral, and early career stages, as well as the involvement of STEM disciplinary experts. In addition, research questions related to educational research methodology and evaluation are central to the REESE activity.
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[edit] Economic and Community Development Research Initiative See Grants - Deadline February 28, 2011

The Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy (IRLEE) in collaboration with OVPR is launching an annual seed research fund for U-M instructional and research faculty. The program will fund 4-6 proposals ranging from $10,000-15,000 each on topics related to economic and community development. Possible topic areas include but are not limited to:

  • small and medium-sized business performance and management issues such as technology utilization, improvement processes and sources of capital;
  • new enterprise formation and job creation - technology and talent issues"
  • consequences of economic dislocation, plant closings, retraining of workers, reuse of facilities;
  • regional economic development policies;
  • community development issues in both urban and rural regions - shrinking cities, structured food systems;
  • evaluation and assessment of intervention service delivery programs administered by universities;

RFP

[edit] NSF Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities (DRRC) - Deadline: March 4, 2011

In a joint announcement, the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and NSF call for proposals to advance basic research in engineering and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences on enhancing disaster resilience in rural communities.

For more informatino please see NSF Program Solicitation 11-510

  • Posted 12/6/2010

[edit] NSF Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships - Internal Competition Deadline: March 7, 2011

  • Limit on number of proposals per organization: 3
  • Required Pre-Proposal Deadline: May 30, 2011
  • Full Proposal Deadline: February 3, 2012

If you are interested in claiming one of (3) three UM's Pre- Proposal slots as a "LEAD" , please prepare a four to eight page summary that outlines:

  1. The STC concept and why it should be viewed as a priority for the University of Michigan;
  2. How it meets the STC Objectives; The outcomes you anticipate if your proposal is successful; Characteristics of the proposed Science and Technology Center; and the Leadership, Management, and Oversight of the proposed STC
  3. Any peer review comments received on this application from any submission
  4. The estimated total cost of the project (Voluntary Committed Cost Sharing is Prohibited:)
  5. A list of Co-PI's involved in the proposal

The summary should be submitted by 5pm on March 7, 2011 to the following email address: fastlane-admin@umich.edu with a copy to Marvin Parnes (mgparnes@umich.edu) and Dave Plawchan(davedrda@umich.edu)

We request that a copy of each summary submitted for review be given to the appropriate Research Dean by the Project Director / Principal Investigator.

SYNOPSIS of PROGRAM: The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake significant investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STCs may involve any areas of science and engineering that NSF supports. STC investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.

For further information please see NSF Solicitation 11-522

[edit] Center for Southeast Asian Studies Faculty Grants Competition - Deadline: March 7, 2011

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies offers modest funding opportunities to faculty who work on Southeast Asia. These programs include:

  • research grants,
  • course development grants,
  • conference travel grants, and
  • research collaboration grants

Award amounts range from $250 to $2,500. All awards must be fully spent by August 1, 2011.

Please email si-ori@umich.edu for further information.

[edit] Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program for PhD Students - Deadline: March 11, 2011

  • Posted 1/6/2011

This is your chance to get an inside look at the big challenges Yahoo! research scientists are working on while driving your research forward. Learn more about the real-world problems facing our industry, then focus on and solve these fundamental challenges alongside the top minds in the field.

PhD students working in each of the core research areas are invited to review the challenges listed. Submit an application between January 24th - March 11th, 2011 to be considered for the Key Scientific Challenges Program.

Key Scientific Challenges Program Homepage

Program FAQs

How to Apply

[edit] NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 (RII Track-2) - Deadline: March 14, 2011

  • NOTE - One (1) proposal per organization

The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is a program designed to fulfill the National Science Foundation's (NSF) mandate to promote scientific progress nationwide. The EPSCoR program is directed at those jurisdictions that have historically received lesser amounts of NSF Research and Development (R&D) funding. Twenty-seven states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands are currently eligible to participate. Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a state's or region's research infrastructure, R&D capacity and hence, its national R&D competitiveness.

Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 (RII Track-2) awards provide up to $2 million per year for up to 3 years to consortia of EPSCoR jurisdictions to support innovation-enabling cyberinfrastructure of regional, thematic, or technological importance. A successful RII Track-2 proposal must describe a clear, comprehensive, and integrated cyberinfrastructure vision to drive discovery, broaden participation in STEM research and education activities, and provide collective solutions to cyberinfrastructure challenges of regional and national importance. The proposal must also describe how robust, reliable environments, capabilities, and capacities will be provided to deliver long term value across science and engineering disciplines. These awards will enhance discovery, learning, and economic development through the use of cyberinfrastructure.

NSF Program Solicitation 11-513

[edit] NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) - Deadline: March 21, 2011

  • Posted 12/23/10

NOTE: The solicitation has been updated to: eliminate the Small category of proposals; adjust the proposal size and duration for Medium proposals; encourage development of prototypes and testbeds; invite proposals for research activities that augment and amplify the CPS Virtual Organization; clarify the requirement for integrating CPS disciplinary areas and exploring highly innovative systems concepts; encourage transformative CPS research; and update program contacts.

As in the previous solicitation, we no longer invite new proposals for the CPS Virtual Organization (CPS-VO). In addition, we again ask that all proposals explicitly identify the theme(s) they address in both the Project Summary and in the Project Description.

SYNOPSIS OF PROGRAM:

The term "cyber-physical systems" refers to the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources. We envision that the cyber-physical systems of tomorrow will far exceed those of today in terms of adaptability, autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability. Research advances in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems that respond more quickly (e.g., autonomous collision avoidance), are more precise (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-tolerance manufacturing), work in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., autonomous systems for search and rescue, firefighting, and exploration), provide large-scale, distributed coordination (e.g., automated traffic control), are highly efficient (e.g., zero-net energy buildings), augment human capabilities, and enhance societal wellbeing (e.g., assistive technologies and ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and delivery).

Congruent with the recommendations in the August 2007 report of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World, NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Engineering (ENG) are spear-heading the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program because of its scientific and technological importance as well as its potential impact on grand challenges in a number of sectors critical to U.S. security and competitiveness, including aerospace, automotive, chemical production, civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, materials and transportation. By abstracting from the particulars of specific applications in these domains, the CPS program aims to reveal cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors. The CPS program will also support the development of methods and tools as well as hardware and software components, run-time substrates, systems based upon these principles to expedite and accelerate the realization of cyber-physical systems in a wide range of applications, and associated prototypes and testbeds. Furthermore, the program aims to augment and amplify the recently-funded CPS Virtual Organization http://www.cps-vo.org/ in order to create a research and education community committed to the study and application of cyber-physical system innovations, and to hold regular PI meetings.

The CPS program is seeking proposals that address research challenges in three CPS themes: Foundations; Methods and Tools; and Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems. Foundations research will develop new scientific and engineering principles, algorithms, models, and theories for the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems. Research on Methods and Tools will bridge the gaps between approaches to the cyber and physical elements of systems through innovations such as novel support for multiple views, new programming languages, and algorithms for reasoning about and formally verifying properties of complex integrations of cyber and physical resources. The third CPS theme concerns new hardware and software Components, Run-time Substrates (infrastructure and platforms), and (engineered) Systems motivated by grand challenge applications. In all CPS themes, concepts should be developed that contribute to new Cyber-Physical Systems science. These concepts may include fault tolerance, availability, reliability, reconfigurability, and cybersecurity aspects of certifiably-dependable CPS.

Two types of research and education projects will be considered:

  • Medium Projects span one or more CPS themes and include two or more PIs and a research team of students and/or postdocs. Funding for Medium Projects will be provided at levels ranging from $300,000/year to $500,000/year and durations of three to four years.
  • Large Projects are multi-investigator and multi-university projects involving teams of researchers and their students and/or postdocs representing multiple disciplines in computer science, engineering, and physical application domains, who together address a coherent set of research issues that either cut across multiple CPS themes or that explore in great depth a particular theme. Funding will be provided at levels up to $1,000,000/year for up to five years.

NSF Program Solicitation 11-516

[edit] Call for Nominations 2011: National Medal of Science - Deadline: March 31, 2011

The National Science Foundation extended the call for nominations for the 2011 National Medal of Science. The new deadline is March 31, 2011. Please review the nomination information and submit your nominations through FastLane. We are especially interested in identifying women, members of minority groups, and persons with disabilities for consideration.

[edit] Time Warner Cable Research Program - Deadline: April 1, 2011 (Posted 3/19/10)

Time Warner Cable has a call for proposals to their Program on Digital Communications. These are for small awards ($20 K) intended to support the production of a 25 to 35-page report over a period of six months. Teams of two or more researchers are encouraged. Graduate students may be part of a team submitting a proposal and are eligible to be funded from an award – but they can’t be the primary author of a proposal. Proposals must be focused on one of the seven topics identified by the program:

  1. Advertising, two-sided markets, and the role of network operators (ISPs, MSOs)
  2. Customer equipment and program navigation devices, guides, and menus
  3. Video programming in a digital world
  4. The future of cable networking and infrastructure
  5. The future of local programming
  6. Video convergence and internet video
  7. Innovation in broadband networks, network design, and network management

You will need a three-page project description and a resume (maximum of three pages per author).

More detail on these topics, as well as specific application instructions, can be found on the Time Warner Cable Research Website

If you are interested in this program, please contact Becky O’Brien.

[edit] NSF Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) - Deadline: April 27, 2011 (Posted 9/27/10)

The Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) program aims to build a computationally savvy 21st century workforce that positions the US to demonstrate a leadership role in the global economy. Innovations in computing and more broadly, information technology (IT), drive our economy, underlie many new advances in science and engineering, and contribute to our national security. Projected job growth in IT is very strong.

The CE21 program focuses special attention on activities targeted at the middle and high school levels (i.e., secondary education) and in early undergraduate education.

The goals of the CE21 program are to:

  • Increase the number and diversity of K-14 students and teachers who develop and practice computational competencies in a variety of contexts; and
  • Increase the number and diversity of early postsecondary students who are engaged and have the background in computing necessary to successfully pursue degrees in computing-related and computationally-intensive fields of study.
  • Type I proposals will contribute to the research base on the effective teaching and learning of computing, draw on partnerships of informed and committed stakeholders, and create and study the effectiveness of new instructional materials and interventions and/or strategies to develop K-14 teaching expertise. Type I proposals typically describe smaller scale efficacy studies.
  • Type II proposals will contribute to the research base on the effective teaching and learning of computing, draw on partnerships of informed and committed stakeholders, and create and study the effectiveness of new instructional materials and interventions and strategies to develop K-14 teaching expertise. Type II proposals demonstrate implementations at scale, where the interventions to be taken to scale have already proven effective in smaller-scale efficacy studies (studies that may or may not have been funded by NSF).

For more information please see NSF Solicitation 10-619

FAQs for NSF 10-619

[edit] NIH Social Network Analysis and Health (R01) - Deadline: May 11, 2011 (posted 6/8/10)

  • This FOA encourages research that aims to accomplish one or more specific goals: (1) generate new theories that would enhance the capabilities and value of Social Network Analysis (SNA); (2) address fundamental questions about social interactions and processes in social networks; (3) address fundamental questions about social networks in relation to health and health-related behaviors; (4) develop innovative methodologies and technologies to facilitate, improve, and expand the capabilities of SNA.

Applicants should strive to ensure that their proposed research responds to one or more of these four goals of the FOA. Detailed information on each of these goals and illustrative examples of specific types of research sought under each goal are provided below in subsection III, under Research Objectives.

Social Network and Analysis Health FOA

[edit] NIH Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R01 & R21) - Deadline: May 19, 2011

Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R01)

RFP for R01

This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications for research, development, and evaluation of systems that monitor health, inform clinical decisions, or deliver therapies in a real-time and minimally obtrusive way. These are technologies that enable monitoring of personal motion, vital signs, and physiological measures in a manner that minimizes disruption to an individual’s daily routine and at all times protects their privacy, dignity and comfort. These systems are expected to integrate, process, analyze, communicate, and present data so that the individuals are engaged and empowered in their own healthcare with reduced burden to care providers. Effective application of home-based and mobile technologies has the potential to increase adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens, reduce incidence of avoidable post-acute complications, and improve self-care management of chronic conditions.

Some examples of appropriate topics for this FOA include but are not limited to:

  • Activity monitoring systems to detect personal care needs
  • Activity monitoring systems to detect acute medical events
  • Systems to ensure adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens
  • Real-time monitoring and management of chronic conditions
  • Monitoring systems to detect progressive decline in physical and cognitive abilities
  • Therapeutic or management systems to address physical or cognitive decline
  • Fall detection or prevention systems
  • Systems to monitor and facilitate sleep health
  • Technologies aimed at helping the lay care-giver or professional provider

Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21)

RFP for R21

This FOA encourages Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (R21) applications for research and development of novel technologies that monitor health, inform clinical decisions, or deliver therapies in a real-time and minimally obtrusive way. These are technologies that enable monitoring of personal motion, vital signs, and physiological measures in a manner that minimizes disruption to an individual’s daily routine and at all times protects their privacy, dignity and comfort. These systems are expected to integrate, process, analyze, communicate, and present data so that the individuals are engaged and empowered in their own healthcare with reduced burden to care providers. Effective application of home-based and mobile technologies has the potential to increase adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens, reduce incidence of avoidable post-acute complications, and improve self-care management of chronic conditions.

Some examples of appropriate topics for this FOA include but are not limited to:

  • Activity monitoring devices or sensors to detect personal care needs
  • Activity monitoring devices or sensors to detect acute medical events
  • Devices to ensure adherence to rehabilitation and medical regimens
  • Real-time monitoring and management of chronic conditions
  • Monitoring systems to detect progressive decline in physical and cognitive abilities
  • Therapeutic or management systems to address physical or cognitive decline
  • Fall detection or prevention systems
  • Devices to monitor and facilitate sleep health
  • Technologies aimed at helping the lay care-giver or professional provider
  • Research and development for improved human-computer interfaces for home-use technologies

Related to Both calls:

Health care and medicine rely on effective detection and characterization of a person's physical and mental states and of significant changes to those states. Current methods to assess these indicators of well-being are performed at the convenience of the care provider and usually assume that observations during an office visit represent typical function. Furthermore, these methods may involve contrived or burdensome tests or depend heavily on recall. Thus, current methods may miss significant acute events or important signals of declining function or may poorly characterize detected events.

Technologies designed for home and mobile monitoring are intended to overcome these limitations. They have the potential to capture rare, irregular, or transient events; symptoms that are difficult for a patient to report; and changes in condition that evolve slowly over time. These improvements, in turn, could yield more accurate and earlier detection of changes that may interfere with healthy and independent living.

[edit] Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies - Deadline: June 1, 2011

This program seeds new interdisciplinary research programs in sustainable energy science, techology, and policy with funding for Phoenix Energy Institute Research Fellow. Successful proposals will combine innovative research plans with concret timelines for establishing independent funding.

For more information please email si-ori@umich.edu or visit energy.umich.edu

[edit] Google Faculty Research Awards Program - Next Deadline: August 1, 2011

The purpose of this program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards program is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Google funds Research Awards unrestricted and retains no intellectual property from the research. We prefer if the results from the research are open sourced and widely published. Awards through this program are for one year in the range from $10K-$150K

Google Research Awards Program Page

Google Research Awards FAQs

[edit] CIES 2012-2013 Fulbright Competitions - Deadline: August 1, 2011

  • Posted 1/24/2011
  • Description: The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, on behalf of the US State Department, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program,” which annually makes available fellowships in roughly 140 countries to over 800 US scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.
  • Eligibility: Eligible applicants must be US citizens, normally must have relevant postdoctoral academic lecturing experience if they wish to lecture—or a doctorate (or other terminal degree, including a master’s in some fields) or equivalent professional qualifications if they want to do research abroad, and for some countries must possess sufficient language competence for the project they wish to undertake.
  • Benefits: Awardees generally receive roundtrip travel, a living allowance that varies with the country and number of dependents, and a small allowance for local travel abroad, books, and services. The duration of the grants usually range from 2 to 12 months.
  • Deadline: The competition for 2012-13 awards is open between February 1, 2011, and the application due date on August 1, 2011.
  • Submission: Interested applicants must apply online directly to CIES at www.cies.org, where complete application materials and information are also available.
  • Assistance: Although the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provideinformation, instructions, editorial assistance, review criteria tailored to each application, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition: e-mail Beni at unlisted@umich.edu.

[edit] NSF Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) (Posted 3/13/09)

The RAPID funding mechanism is used for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. PI(s) must contact the NSF program officer(s) whose expertise is most germane to the proposal topic before submitting a RAPID proposal. This will facilitate determining whether the proposed work is appropriate for RAPID funding.

  • The Project Description is expected to be brief (two to five pages) and include clear statements as to why the proposed research is of an urgent nature and why a RAPID award would be the most appropriate mechanism for supporting the proposed work. Note this proposal preparation instruction deviates from the standard proposal preparation instructions contained in this Guide; RAPID proposals must otherwise be compliant with the GPG.
  • The box for “RAPID” must be checked on the Cover Sheet.
  • Only internal merit review is required for RAPID proposals. Under rare circumstances, program officers may elect to obtain external reviews to inform their decision. If external review is to be obtained, then the PI will be so informed in the interest of maintaining the transparency of the review and recommendation process. The two standard NSB-approved merit review criteria will apply.
  • Requests may be for up to $200K and of one year duration. The award size, however, will be consistent with the project scope and of a size comparable to grants in similar areas.
  • No-cost extensions, and requests for supplemental funding, will be processed in accordance with standard NSF policies and procedures.
  • Renewed funding of RAPID awards may be requested only through submission of a proposal that will be subject to full external merit review. Such proposals would be designated as “RAPID renewals.”

[edit] Army Research Laboratory - Basic and Applied Research - Deadline: Open through FY11

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) solicits proposals for basic and scientific research in chemistry, electronics, environmental sciences, life sciences, materials science, mathematical and computer sciences, mechanical sciences, physics, computational and information sciences, sensors and electron devices, survivability/lethality analysis, and weapons and materials research.

In order to conserve valuable offeror and Government resources and to facilitate determining whether a proposed research idea meets the guidelines described herein, prospective offerors contemplating submission of a white paper or proposal are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate technical point of contact (TPOC) before submission. The TPOCs’ names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses are listed immediately after each research area of interest.

Some areas of Interest for SI (see the BAA for details, page numbers listed below):

1.2 Information Science and Technology (pages 7-8)

d. Information and data fusion/visualization
e. Data mining/Social network analysis

1.7 Database Technology (page 11)

[edit] New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan - Deadline: Open

New Economy Initiative grants support the efforts of nonprofit organizations, charities, and government agencies to transform the economy of southeast Michigan and return prosperity to the region. Grants are available for a variety of activities, but proposed activities must be focused on helping to achieve the goal of the New Economy Initiative and its objectives focused on talent, innovation and culture change.

For more information please go to New Economy Initiative Program Description

[edit] Google Research Awards - Deadline: Open

Awards through this program are typically either monetary awards (in the range from $5K-$150K) and/or potential access to anonymized data for research purposes. The awards are intended to help promote and support academic research aimed at improving information access defined broadly. Areas that are of particular interest are included in the RFP.

Participants in the award program are expected to have a primary contact at Google through which they can discuss research directions, provide updates on progress, engage in knowledge transfer, etc. Google maintains an academic environment that we would like award recipients to participate in by giving talks on their work and engaging in discussions with our research group.

By sharing new ideas and key insights, we hope that both Google and award recipients can mutually benefit from the program. Generally, we will invite the writers of promising award proposals to come to our Mountain View offices to discuss their research further with researchers here. After the research is completed, we will once again invite the award recipient to Google to discuss the results of their work. The purpose of this program is both to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also develop a strong relationship and partnership with universities.

NOTE: This is actually awarded as a gift and not a grant. Therefore there is no indirect cost recovery and there are tax implications for SI. Applications for gifts need to be approved by the dean prior to submission. (Contact the research office at si-ori@umich.edu if you are interested in submitting a proposal for a gift)

For more information please see the RFP

[edit] NIH Parent Announcements (For Unsolicited or Investigator-Initiated Applications)

For more information about the parent announcements follow this link.

For details on the deadlines, please follow this link.

[edit] Past Funding Announcements (new RFP expected next year)

[edit] NSF CISE Large Core & Cross Cutting Programs - Deadline: November 23, 2010 (Posted 6/16/10)

Internal Deadlines:

  • Draft Budget due November 9th
  • Admin Shell material and Final Budget due November 16th
  • Final Material due November 22nd by 8am

Large Specific Information:

  • Total budget between $1,200,001-3,000,000
  • typically 2 or more investigators or oehter Senior Personnel and a team of GSRAs/PostDocs
  • A Collaboration Plan is Required for all Large proposals.
  • Duration up to 5 years
[edit] Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Program

Link to IIS Program RFP

CISE’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:

  • The Human-Centered Computing program
  • The Information Integration and Informatics program
  • The Robust Intelligence program.

The full descriptions of these programs can be found in the II. Program Description section of the IIS RFP (see link above).

IIS is also responsible for managing the review process for proposals in computer graphics and visualization; these proposals may be submitted to any of the three core programs described above.

Program Officers:

  • HCC – William Bainbridge & Ephraim Glinert
  • III – Lawrence Brandt & Maria Zemankova
  • RI – Douglas Fisher & Kenneth Whang

Awards Anticipated:

  • 200 across the various sizes and programs
[edit] Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Program

Link to CNS Program RFP

The Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education activities that invent new computing and networking technologies and that explore new ways to make use of existing technologies. The Division seeks to develop a better understanding of the fundamental properties of computer and network systems and to create better abstractions and tools for designing, building, analyzing, and measuring future systems.

CNS supports two core programs:

  • Computer Systems Research (CSR)
  • Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)

The full descriptions of these programs can be found in the II. Program Description section of the CNS RFP (see link above).

Program Officers:

  • CSR – Krishna Kant
  • NeTS – Alhussein Abouzeid

Awards Anticipated:

  • 80 to 120 across the various sizes and programs
[edit] Computing and Communicatiosn Foundations (CCF) Program

Link to CCF Program RFP

The Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that explore the foundations of computing and communication devices and their usage. The Division seeks advances in computing and communication theory, algorithms for computer and computational sciences, and architecture and design of computers and software. CCF-supported projects also investigate revolutionary computing models and technologies based on emerging scientific ideas and integrate research and education activities to prepare future generations of computer science and engineering workers.

CCF supports three core programs

  • Algorithmic Foundations (AF)
  • Communications and Information Foundations (CIF)
  • Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF)

The full descriptions of these programs can be found in the II. Program Description section of the CCF RFP (see link above).

Program Officers:

  • AF – Dmitry Maslov
  • CIF – John Cozzens
  • SHF – Sol Greenspan

Awards Anticipated:

  • 120 to 160 across the various sizes and programs
[edit] Cross-Cutting Program

Link to Cross-Cutting Program RFP

This solicitation seeks proposals in cross-cutting areas that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields.

The cross-cutting programs for are:

  • Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB)
  • Network Science and Engineering (NetSE)
    • NOTE: The NetSE program will accept proposals ONLY in the Medium and Large project classes.
  • Trustworthy Computing (TC)

The full descriptions of these programs can be found in the II. Program Description section of the Cross-cutting RFP (see link above). CISE expects that over time, these cross-cutting programs will evolve or be absorbed into the core programs, and that new cross-cutting programs will be introduced.

Program Officers:

  • SHB - Jie Yang
  • NetSE – Darleen Fisher
  • TC – Carl Landwehr

Awards Anticipated:

  • 95 to 120 – up to 40 in SHB, 25 in NetSE, and 60 in TC


[edit] Packard Fellowships

Internal Nomination Deadline: February 12, 2010

Packard Deadline: April

Notes for Next Year:

  • Letter Writeres
    • Bios will be required for Letter Writers
    • Nomination Committee will be looking for letter writers with a mix of the following credentials
      • Prior Packard Fellowship receipient
      • MacArthur Fellow
      • Elected to NAS, NAE, or IOE
      • Nobel Loreate/Fields Medal/or Touring Award
  • SI Letter of Nomination
    • Say upfront what area our nominee is eligible for (most likely Computer Science)
    • Frame the letter writers - explain their background & qualifications (see above)
    • 2-3 pages in length seems most appropriate
  • Statement
    • define some big picture problem
    • outline a innovative and unusually creative way to solve this problem
    • should be something no likely to be funded from another source (a little out there/high risk)
    • should not be clinical or national security related
    • Cannot be a piece of some larger research you have going on
  • Benchmarks
    • Previous Computer Science winners - Klienburgh and Von Ahn

[edit] NSF REESE - Deadline: November 15, 2010 (Posted 7/16/2010)

The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program seeks to advance research at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, and to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to improve STEM teaching and learning at all educational levels and in all settings.

This solicitation calls for four types of proposals:

  • Pathways
  • Synthesis
  • Empirical Research
  • Large Empirical Research.

The goals of the REESE program are:

  • to catalyze discovery and innovation at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation;
  • to stimulate the field to produce high quality and robust research results through the progress of theory, method, and human resources; and
  • to coordinate and transform advances in education, learning research, and evaluation.

REESE pursues its mission by developing an interdisciplinary research portfolio focusing on core scientific questions about STEM learning in current and emerging learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, and from before school through to graduate school and beyond into the workforce. REESE places particular importance upon the involvement of young investigators in the projects, at doctoral, postdoctoral, and early career stages, as well as the involvement of STEM disciplinary experts. In addition, research questions related to educational research methodology and evaluation are central to the REESE activity.

Link to RFP

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