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Connecting the Rutgers Research Community                                 May 22, 2018
TechAdvance ® Fund Advances Rutgers Technologies Toward Commercialization with 21 Awards Totaling $1.36M To Date

Rutgers' TechAdvance Fund was created to advance early stage technologies toward commercialization by providing grants of up to $100,000 to Rutgers researchers whose inventions have the potential to become marketable products. To date, 21 Rutgers researchers have received $1.36M in TechAdvance grants since the program's launch in June 2017. In addition, the first technology funded by the TechAdvance program has been licensed to a third party. 

Funded projects range from life science and medical devices to materials science and engineering. All applications are evaluated by external industry reviewers to validate the market potential of each proposed technology and the goal is to support technologies that can be marketed via licensing to existing companies or the creation of new startups. Read more
Effort Certification & Reporting Required for Funded Research

Principal Investigators are required to certify their effort cards as well as the individuals that work on their sponsored projects. E ffort certification is required to assure sponsors  that remuneration charged to grants are reasonable, accurate, allocable, and justifiable. It is also required to  comply with University policy AND 2 CFR Part 200.430 (Standards of Documentation). The certification applies to federal, state, local government, and pass-through funding. Please contact pacer@ored.rutgers.edu with any questions regarding effort certification. Read more


Now Accepting Applications for Allocation of Computing Resources on Caliburn

Caliburn, New Jersey's largest academic supercomputing facility, provides high-performance computing capabilities to academic researchers across the state to accelerate research programs that use or develop highly scalable computing applications. Information on the call for proposals for Caliburn allocations for the second half of 2018 is available online. Additionally,  startup allocations are also welcome. Startup applications are provided as a means to have full access with a limited time usage allocation; they can be converted into awarded allocations during the next call for proposal cycle. Applications from any academic/research institution in New Jersey are welcome.  Read more 
Siemens Hosts FutureMakers Challenge at Rutgers

Siemens Corporate Technology partnered with Rutgers to host a FutureMakers Challenge on campus in an effort to bolster the company's innovation pipeline and empower the nation's top talent. Rutgers, one of six leading U.S. universities selected based on its technical strengths, alignment with Siemens' current initiatives and projects, and history of collaboration, hosted the event on May 17. During the day-long challenge, six teams of undergraduate and doctoral Rutgers students developed next-generation software concepts around the theme of " Autonomous Agricultural Production Using Robotics and Artificial Intelligence." Siemens  is investing $140,000 in the first-place winning team from Rutgers   (pictured above), and inviting the members  to work with its teams over the course of six months to bring their technology from concept to reality.
Three Early Career Faculty Receive Prestigious NSF Awards

Three assistant professors at Rutgers University's School of Engineering have been awarded prestigious CAREER awards:  Janne Lindqvist  (Electrical and Computer Engineering),  Ronke Olabisi
(Biomedical Engineerin g), and  George Tsilomelekis  (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering). The honors from the National Science Foundation come with grants totaling more than $1.5 million for campus-based research that will include dozens of Rutgers graduate students and undergraduates during the next five years.  The 2018 awardees come from three departments that are involved diverse areas of research: cell phone security, tissue engineering for wound healing and more efficient production of materials used in a range of goods.  The awards are given to early career faculty who show excellence in integrating teaching and research.  Read more
Open and Affordable Textbooks Program at Rutgers University

Textbook prices have risen more than 800% over the  last 30 years, with the average annual cost now exceeding $1,200 per student. The Open and Affordable Textbooks Program, managed by Rutgers University Libraries, supports textbook  affordability efforts, promotes the use of open educational resources, and empowers faculty and teaching staff to innovate their teaching throug h the use of open, free, or library-licensed materials an d teaching aid.  The program has brought an estimated savings of over $2.1 million to students at Rutge rs since its inception. Read more
Information Sessions on RDI2's Advance Cyber Infrastructure

Information sessions about the 2018-2019 operations calendar of Caliburn, New Jersey's largest academic supercomputing facility, will be hosted on campus this week by Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2). During the sessions, which will be held in New Brunswick on May 23 and in Camden on May 25, RDI2 leaders will provide an introduction to RDI2's Advanced Cyber Infrastructure and answer questions on the call for proposals for Caliburn allocations. Read more
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Grant Announcements
Congratulations...  to the following Rutgers researchers for their recently-awarded grants: 

Olga Ilnytska  - School of  Environmental and Biological Sciences
Veronique Dartois - New Jersey Medical School 
Dario Pompili - School of Engineering 
Javier Diez-Garias - School of Engineering
Jingang Yi - School of Engineering
G. Charles Dismukes - School of Arts and Sciences
Bonnie Firestein - School of Arts and Sciences

Learn about their research under Grant Announcements.
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