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August 2019
This monthly newsletter has been created to
assist FAS researchers across all domains who are looking for funding opportunities related to "Big Data". In response to the need for new conceptual and computational approaches for big data processing and storage, as well as the need for educational opportunities in this area for up and coming researchers, sponsors like NSF, DOD, DOE, NIH and private foundations are offering a growing number of funding opportunities for Big Data research and training programs.
This newsletter will be sent electronically each month. To receive this and other funding opportunity newsletters, please sign up here
. All opportunities will be archived and recipients may unsubscribe at any time. In addition, you may access the Science Division Funding Spotlight here.
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The purpose of this Notice is to encourage grant applications to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (
NIDA) that will use 'big data' analytics to reveal deeper or novel insights into the biological and behavioral processes associated with substance use and addiction by developing more powerful analytical methods and visualization tools that can help capture the richness of different data types and across scales of analysis; including molecular, clinical, and electronic health records.
Through this Request for Information (RFI), NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) seeks information from the scientific community about specific bioinformatics and/or computational support that may be scarce or lacking, and that is needed to advance, translate, and accelerate research into causes and consequences of diabetes and other related endocrine or metabolic diseases.
Responses will be accepted through October 15, 2019.
NIH institutes use the
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01, Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) to support research or health-professional doctoral degree holders through intensive, supervised career development experiences leading to research independence in scientific disciplines of biomedical research need.
In the
July 15, 2019 Guide notice
, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) announced that, beginning with the October 12, 2019 application due date, it will support K01 awards only in the areas of epidemiology and data science. Notably, that includes computational modeling, bioinformatics, big data and advanced statistical analyses in the prevention, treatment, discovery, prediction, or forecasting of infectious, immunologic, or allergic diseases.
This Conference will showcase data science in research and education through panels, keynotes, workshops, and tutorials featuring speakers from across Harvard University, academia, and industry. Apply to attend at this
link.
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Funding Opportunities for Big Data
* Indicates a funding announcement that was updated or added to the newsletter this month.
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Social Science
(Computer) Science and Engineering
Biomedical Science
Education and Training
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Sponsor Deadline: September 13, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 6, 2019
Award Information:
Early career applicants can apply for up to £7,500 in funding and experienced researchers may request up to £30,000. Overhead is not allowed on these awards. Since this amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
CIMA provides grants to experienced research teams globally to undertake research into specific areas of management accounting. CIMA, through its General Charitable Trust, is making funding available to researchers from anywhere in the world to explore two specific topics of interest:
- The business case for investment in new technologies (The term 'new technologies' includes, but is not limited to data visualization, data analytics, robotics or robotic process automation, machine learning, blockchain/ distributed ledgers, digital currency (stablecoin, bitcoin, etc.), cloud-based (ERP) systems, software-as-a-service.)
- Costing and Cost Management in a digital world
Applications from both experienced researchers (those holding a doctorate and having previously published high quality research) and early career researchers (postdoctoral researchers) are welcome.
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Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
Minerva Research Initiative
Sponsor Deadline:
September 26, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 19, 2019
Award Information:
$150,000-$1M per year for three to five years. 10-12 awards are anticipated.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is interested in receiving proposals for the
Minerva Research Initiative
, a university-led defense social science program seeking fundamental understanding of the social and cultural forces shaping U.S. strategic interests globally. OSD is particularly interested in projects that align with and support the
National Defense Strategy
. The Minerva Research Initiative emphasizes questions of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy. It seeks to increase the Department's intellectual capital in the social sciences and improve its ability to address future challenges and build bridges between the Department and the social science community. Minerva brings together universities and other research institutions around the world and supports multidisciplinary and cross-institutional projects addressing specific interest areas determined by the Department of Defense. Proposals will be considered both for single-investigator awards as well as larger teams. Minerva funds basic, not applied, research.
This year's Minerva Research Initiative competition is for research related to nine topic areas, including the following which may be of interest to the Big Data community:
- Topic 6: Multi-Domain Behavioral Complexity and Computational Social Modeling
- Topic 7: Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Ethics, and Social Interactions
- Topic 8: Models and Methods for Understanding Covert Online Influence
- Topic 9: Automated Cyber Vulnerability Analysis
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Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)
Secondary Analyses of Strengthening Families Datasets
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (strongly encouraged):
September 11, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 4, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: October 11, 2019
Award Information: $40,000-$75,000/year for up to 2 years.
Up to 10 cooperative agreements are anticipated.
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) will
fund research to conduct secondary data analysis of archived data, specifically the Building Strong Families (BSF), Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM), and Parents and Children Together (PACT) datasets. These datasets are from large-scale federal evaluation impact studies, which addressed questions related to healthy marriage and/or responsible fatherhood.
Successful applicants will demonstrate a familiarity with the proposed data for their analysis and an adequate understanding of the variables, sampling, methodology, etc. used to construct the dataset necessary for completion of the work proposed in the application. Proposed research should address topics relevant to strengthening families to improve the lives of children and parents, as well as promote economic stability. Topics of interest include, but may not be limited to the following: mediators of healthy marriage, relationship education, and/or fatherhood programs; measurement issues related to healthy marriage, relationship education, and/or fatherhood programs with low-income families; or father involvement in low-income families.
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Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)
Authority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships Notice
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through December 31, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: There are no minimum or maximum award amounts, and the period of performance will be determined by the applicant's proposal and subject to negotiation by HUD. HUD is making approximately $1M available for Research Partnerships. Applicants must
provide cost sharing for at least 50 percent of the total project cost from philanthropic entities or Federal, state or local government agencies. The number of awards will be based on the number of proposals HUD reviews, approves, and funds.
HUD developed the Research Partnerships vehicle to allow greater flexibility in addressing important policy questions and to better utilize external expertise in evaluating the local innovations and effectiveness of programs affecting residents of urban, suburban, rural and tribal areas. Through this notice, HUD can accept unsolicited research proposals that address current research priorities and allow innovative research projects that could inform HUD's policies and programs. The documents that establish a framework for HUD's research priorities are the
HUD Strategic Plan 2018-2022, which specifies the Department's mission and strategic goals for program activities; and the
HUD Research Roadmap: 2017 Update, which is the most recent integration of diverse stakeholder viewpoints into a five-year research and learning agenda. In considering potential research partnerships, PD&R urges organizations to consider ways to take advantage of key research assets, HUD's data infrastructure, that the Roadmap Update identifies as part of HUD's comparative advantage.
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Governance, Norms and Values - Research on the Future Internet
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Unspecified
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation seeks to support fundamental research that addresses issues of rules, norms and governance of the internet and digital platforms. Recent research, policy debates and public controversies have highlighted the absence of uniform consensus on the norms, rights and responsibilities that should govern digital services, in particular social media. The Foundation wishes to fund scholarly inquiry and novel approaches that will strengthen our democracy as the digital age progresses.
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2020 IRIS Researcher Awards
Sponsor Deadline: October 15, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 7, 2019
Award Information: Awards up to $20,000 will be made for a maximum project period of 15 months. 12% in indirect costs
is allowed on these awards. Since this amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) seeks to fund researchers who will use the IRIS UMETRICS data to address questions about the social and economic returns to investments in research. IRIS seeks to enable fundamental research on the results of public and private investments that support discovery, innovation, and education on the campuses of U.S. universities. IRIS accomplishes that goal by: (1) collecting and curating data from universities around the country; (2) cleaning, integrating and protecting that data in its capacity as an IRB approved data repository; (3) partnering with the U.S. Census Bureau to link university data to restricted federal micro-data; and, (4) making the resulting datasets as broadly available to research users as the law and responsible research practice allow. The IRIS UMETRICS dataset is available to researchers within the secure IRIS Virtual Data Enclave (VDE) environment. This dataset is comprised of three collections: (i) core files in which researchers find university financial and personnel administrative data pertaining to sponsored project expenditures at IRIS member universities during a given year; (ii) auxiliary files which provide researchers with look-up and contextual information on institutions, awards, vendors and subaward recipients, and (iii) linkage files in which researchers find crosswalks between IRIS data and external datasets (e.g., publications, patents, and federal award data) at the individual and award level.
Beyond the financial award, IRIS provides a community for researchers as well as training and ongoing support. IRIS will also provide the opportunity for structured mentoring with an experienced researcher. Awarded researchers will receive access to the current IRIS de-identified research data release files.
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2019 EPIC Scholar in Residence Program
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: Review not required for awards made to individuals
Award Information: St
ipend of $30,000, a work space, and access to EPIC's Library and research materials.
The typical period for the Scholar in Residence will be a single semester, though longer or shorter periods may be considered.
The EPIC Scholar in Residence will provide a unique opportunity to pursue work at one of the leading privacy research centers in the world. EPIC, located in Washington, DC, routinely advises Congress, courts, and international organizations about emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. EPIC also litigates significant privacy cases in federal and state courts. The EPIC Library contains several thousand volumes on privacy and related fields, as well as Congressional materials on the development and enactment of US privacy law. EPIC also has an extensive collection of documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, concerning government surveillance, monitoring and related programs.
EPIC encourages applications from post-graduates in law, public policy, and computer science. Terminal degree must be either a J.D. or Ph.D. Mid-career experts in the data protection field are also welcome to apply.
The EPIC Scholar in Residence will be encouraged to participate in the work of EPIC, to meet with outside experts, and to conduct research and writing at EPIC. The expectation is that the individual will produce substantial published work.
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
Sponsor Deadlines: August 29, 2019; January 30, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Approximately $3.76M will be awarded annually to support 15-35 awards. Additional funds may be available from participating federal statistical agencies for competitive research proposals of interest to those agencies.
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics. This solicitation provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms, including standard
research awards; a
wards for conferences and community-development activities;
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants; and
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements.
MMS also supports Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Restricted-Access Research Data Centers (RDCs)
Sponsor Deadline: September 30, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 23, 2019
Award Information:
Investigators may request up to $100,000 a year over a 1-3 year period to cover start-up costs for new RDCs. NSF programs collectively expect to contribute no more than $300,000 per year to new RDC awards, pending availability of appropriations.
This solicitation invites proposals for the establishment of new Research Data Centers (RDCs). RDCs are secure Census Bureau facilities within which external researchers are given access to confidential micro data in accordance with specific statutory requirements. NSF will provide start-up costs for new RDC facilities. RDCs are expected to engage researchers from across the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Potential investigators first must contact Census regarding the feasibility of sponsoring an RDC prior to submitting a proposal to NSF. Information about the current RDCs is available at
https://www.census.gov/ces/rdcresearch.
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Sponsor Deadlines: February 3, 2020; August 3, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Standard research grants up to $400,000 over 2-3 years are available; STS also offers Conference and Workshop grants up to $25,000.
The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of STS topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines, including medical science.
Areas of particular interest to STS include ethical, policy, and cultural issues related to big data, surveillance and privacy in an increasingly networked world.
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Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: Review not required for awards made to individuals
Award Information:
PAI is able to provide compensation starting at $6,600/month for Postgraduate and Junior Research Fellows, and compensation starting at $10,000/month for established mid-to-late career Research Fellows and Senior Research Fellows.
Fellowships can last from 6 months to 2 years.
The Partnership on AI (PAI) was jointly created by leading technology companies, civil society organizations, and academic institutions to maximize the benefits and confront the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Partnership seeks to study and formulate best practices on AI, advance the public's understanding of AI, and serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society. Researchers at PAI's member organizations and in the wider AI community are invited to submit applications for residential fellowships based at the Partnership on AI's San Francisco offices.
Three classes of Fellowships are available:
- Postgraduate Research Fellowships are suitable for candidates who are nearing the end of a PhD or equivalent research degree;
- Research Fellowships are suitable for early to mid-career candidates, who have a PhD and a demonstrated track record of research and/or technology policy work; or who have more than a PhD equivalent level research, technical or policy experience and output in non-academic settings;
- Senior Research Fellowships are suitable for well-established, senior researchers who have led successful labs or research teams or have an extensive track record of research and/or policy work.
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Social Media and Democracy Research Grants
Sponsor Deadline:
Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Grantees will receive r
esearch funding up to $50,000 via the SSRC, access to Facebook data via
Social Science One, and peer pre-review services from Social Science One. The first dataset is a database of Facebook URL shares; details about these data, including the codebook, can be found at the Social Science One Dataverse repository. Awards provide support for up to 12 months.
Proposals for the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants should examine the impact of social media and related digital technologies on democracy and elections, generate insights to inform policy at the intersection of media, technology, and democracy, and advance new avenues for future research. This initiative seeks to study these processes in an independent, transparent, and ethical way according to the highest standards of data privacy and academic research, to improve the lives of all. Applicants must demonstrate the technical and methodological skill base to effectively work with large, complex data sets and a commitment to data privacy.
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Call for Research Proposals 2019
Sponsor Deadline:
October 6, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 27, 2019
Award Information:
Short-term research projects may request up to EUR 10,000 for up to six
months. Long-term research projects may request up to EUR 100,000 for a maximum project period of two years.
The Think Forward Initiative (TFI) is a multidisciplinary and open initiative that promotes research and practical solutions with the ambitious goal of empowering more than 100 million people to make better financial decisions. The TFI is supported by a purpose-driven partnership between ING, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Deloitte, Amazon Web Services, and Dell Technologies.
In 2019, the TFI will award funding to short-term and long-term research projects that provide relevant impact-driven insights in the domains of people's (financial) decision-making, financial health, and financial well-being. TFI particularly encourages empirical (interdisciplinary) research at the individual or household level that provides new insights into economic, social, technical or behavioural factors that could inspire effective interventions/solutions to the 1) day-to-day money stress problems and 2) financial future challenges faced by the not financially empowered population in developed countries. Research proposals could request the use of ING anonymised customers' data from the Netherlands, subject to the approval of the ING Data Protection Board. Survey data from the
ING International Survey can be also made available for research projects.
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Essential Open Source Software for Science
Sponsor Deadlines:
February 1, 2020; August 1, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: $50,000-$250,000 (inclusive of up to 15% for indirect/overhead costs) for one year
In a new effort to support open source software for science, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) seeks applications for software projects that are essential to biomedical research, have already demonstrated impact, and can show potential for continued improvement. Grants will be for a one-year period with the potential to apply for renewal in future cycles.
The goal of the program is to support software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement for these critical tools. This RFA is the first of a series. CZI will invite applications during three distinct cycles, with rounds beginning June 18, 2019; mid-December 2019; and mid-June 2020.
Applications for two broad categories of open source projects will be considered in scope:
- Domain-specific software for analyzing, visualizing, and otherwise working with the specific data types that arise in biomedical science (e.g., genomic sequences, microscopy images, molecular structures).
- Foundational tools and infrastructure that enable a wide variety of downstream software across several domains of science and computational research (e.g., numerical computation, data structures, workflows, reproducibility).
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National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science
Sponsor Deadlines for Letters of Intent: Requirements vary by priority area. For the FACT program, LOIs are only required for Conference proposals and must be submitted at least 135 days before the conference begins.
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals:
Deadlines vary by priority area
. Deadline for FACT proposals is April 16, 2020.
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Awards vary by priority area. Standard, Conference and FASE (Strengthening Standard New Investigator, Strengthening Conference, Seed, Equipment, and Sabbatical) grants are available in the FACT program for Research Projects or Integrated (research, education and /or extension) Projects.
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America's flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. In this RFA, NIFA requests applications for six AFRI priority areas through the Foundational and Applied Science Program for FY 2019 and FY 2020: 1. Plant health and production and plant products; 2. Animal health and production and animal products; 3. Food safety, nutrition, and health; 4. Bioenergy, natural resources, and environment; 5. Agriculture systems and technology; and 6. Agriculture economics and rural communities. A number of these priority areas call for proposals specifically dealing with issues related to big data.
In addition, NIFA invites proposals for
Food and Agriculture Cyber informatics Tools (FACT) which address the priority areas listed above. The FACT program focuses on data science to enable systems and communities to effectively utilize data, improve resource management, and integrate new technologies and approaches to further U.S. food and agriculture enterprises. The program encourages university-based research as well as public and private partnerships. This program area priority will support projects that examine the value of data for small and large farmers, as well as the agricultural and food industries, and gain an understanding of how data can impact the agricultural supply chain, reduce food waste and loss, improve consumer health, environmental and natural resource management, affect the structure of U.S. food and agriculture sectors, and increase U.S. competitiveness. The most competitive FACT proposals will be equally well grounded in the agricultural sciences and data science component.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grants Program
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through April 30, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: In FY 2019, the ITL anticipates funding individual projects in the $10,000-$500,000 per year range and with project performance periods of up to five years. The MML anticipates funding individual projects in the $5,000-$12M per year range and with project performance periods of up to five years.
NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Grant Program provides financial assistance to support the conduct of research or a recipient's portion of collaborative research in the broad areas of Advanced Network Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biometrics, Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cybersecurity, Forensic Science, Health Information Technology, Human Factors and Usability, Information Access, Information Processing and Understanding, Internet of Things (IoT), Metrology Infrastructure for Modeling and Simulation, Privacy Engineering, Quantum Information Science, and Statistics for Metrology.
See
http://www.nist.gov/itl/ for more information about ITL. Financial support may be provided to attend education and outreach programs, conferences, workshops, or other technical research meetings that are relevant to the mission of the ITL. Financial support may also be provided to organizations sponsoring conferences, workshops, or other technical events that are relevant to the mission of the ITL. However, NIST cannot be an official sponsor or cosponsor for any event funded through this program.
NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) supports the NIST mission by serving as the national reference laboratory for measurements in the chemical, biological, and material sciences. MML's Office of Data and Informatics (ODI) supports researchers and institutions in the biological, chemical, and materials sciences who need to leverage both large and information-rich data sets now common in many disciplines. The ODI supports MML research programs where advanced manipulation, visualization, and analysis of large data sets are needed to advance knowledge.
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United States Department of Defense (DoD)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling (current BAAs are active until superseded)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Research proposals budgeting between $200,000 and $400,000 per year are encouraged. Most awards are 3 years in duration, and may not exceed 5 years. Conference and workshop grants up to $1M are also available. AFOSR commits the bulk of its funding by the fall of each year.
AFOSR's focus is on research areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to our national warfighting and peacekeeping capabilities. These areas are organized and managed in two scientific Branches: Engineering and Information Sciences (RTA), and Physical and Biological Sciences (RTB). Of interest to the Big Data community, the Information and Networks Team within the Engineering and Information Science Branch is organized to support many U.S. Air Force priority areas including autonomy, space situational awareness, and cyber security. The research programs within this team lead the discovery and development of foundational issues in mathematical, information and network oriented sciences. They are organized along three themes: Information, Decision Making, and Networks. The information theme addresses the critical challenges faced by the U.S. Air Force which lie at the intersection of the ability to collect, mathematically analyze, and disseminate large quantities of information in a time critical fashion with assurances of operation and security. Closely aligned with the mathematical analysis of information is the need for autonomous decision making. Research in this theme focuses on the discovery of mathematical laws, foundational scientific principles, and new, reliable and robust algorithms, which underlie intelligent, mixed human-machine decision-making to achieve accurate real-time projection of expertise and knowledge into and out of the battle space. Information analysis and decision making rarely occur in the context of a single source. The networks theme addresses critical issues involving how the organization and interaction among large collections of information providers and consumers contributes to an understanding of the dynamics of complex information systems.
In addition to research grants, AFOSR also provides partial support for conferences and workshops in areas of science that bring experts together to discuss recent research or educational findings, or to expose other researchers or advanced graduate students to new research and educational techniques in its areas of research interest. Proposals must be submitted at least 6 months prior to the conference or workshop start date to be considered.
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Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research for Fiscal Years 2017 through 2022
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling (current BAA is active until March 31, 2022 or until superseded)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: There are no specific funding restrictions associated with this BAA (e.g. direct costs, indirect costs, etc.).
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the Department of the Army's corporate laboratory and sole fundamental research laboratory. The ARL BAA identifies topics of interest to the ARL Directorates (Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate, Vehicle and Technology Directorate, and Weapons and Materials Research Directorate). The Directorates focus on executing in-house research programs, with a significant emphasis on collaborative research with other organizations in an
Open Campus setting. The Directorates fund a modest amount of extramural research in certain specific areas, and those areas are described in this BAA.
The ARL BAA seeks proposals from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and for-profit organizations (i.e. large and small businesses) for research based on the following S&T campaigns: Computational Sciences, Materials Research, Sciences for Maneuver, Information Sciences, Sciences for Lethality and Protection, Human Sciences, and Assessment and Analysis. Please see the BAA for a more detailed description of these topic areas. Proposals are sought for cutting-edge innovative research that could produce discoveries with a significant impact to enable new and improved Army technologies and related operational capabilities and related technologies. The specific research areas and topics of interest should be viewed as suggestive, rather than limiting.
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Army Research Office (ARO)
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Fundamental Research for Fiscal Years 2017 through 2022
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling (current BAA is active until March 31, 2022 or until superseded)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: There are no specific funding restrictions associated with this BAA (e.g. direct costs, indirect costs, etc.). ARO prefers proposals to cover a 3-year period.
The purpose of this BAA is to solicit research proposals in the engineering, physical, life, and information sciences for submission to the Army Research Office (ARO) for consideration for possible funding. ARO is focused exclusively on extramural basic research, and is responsible for the vast majority of ARL's extramural research programs and funding.
Proposals are sought from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and for-profit organizations (i.e. large and small businesses) for scientific research in mechanical sciences, mathematical sciences, electronics, computing science, physics, chemistry, life sciences, materials science, network science, and environmental sciences.
In addition to standard research grants, the following funding mechanisms are also available:
- Short-Term Innovative Research (STIR) Program: Grants of $60k or less to support rapid, short-term investigations to assess the merit of innovative new concepts in basic research.
- Young Investigator Program: To attract outstanding young university faculty members to pursue fundamental research in areas relevant to the Army. This program is open to U.S. citizens, U.S. Nationals, and Permanent Resident Aliens holding tenure-track positions at U.S. institutions of higher education, who have held their graduate degrees (Ph.D. or equivalent) for fewer than five years at the time of application. Proposals may be submitted at any time. YIP awards will not exceed $120,000 per year for three years.
- Research Instrumentation: To improve the capabilities of U.S. institutions of higher education to conduct research and educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense. Of the funds available to support ARO mission research described in this BAA, funds may be provided to purchase instrumentation in support of this research or in the development of new research capabilities.
- Conference and Symposia Grants: In areas of science that bring experts together to discuss recent research or educational findings or to expose other researchers or advanced graduate students to new research and educational techniques.
- High School Apprenticeship Program (HSAP)/Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP): The HSAP funds the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) apprenticeship of promising high school juniors and seniors to work in a university structured research environment under the direction of ARO sponsored PIs serving as mentors. The URAP provides similar opportunities for undergraduate students.
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Broad Agency Announcement
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through June 12, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
The level of funding for individual awards made available under this BAA has not been predetermined and will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. Multiple awards are anticipated.
The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is to identify and create the next generation of scientific discovery by pursuing high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines and transforming these initiatives into disruptive technologies for U.S. national security. In support of this mission, the DSO Office-wide BAA invites proposers to submit innovative basic or applied research concepts that address one of several technical domains, including Frontiers in Math, Computation & Design. Topics of interest under this domain include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) mathematical, computational, and design frameworks and tools that provide robust solutions to challenging DoD problems such as planning, optimization, and platform design; (2) fundamental scientific underpinnings and limits of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI); and (3) alternative computing models, architectures, and substrates for faster, more robust decision making.
Prior to submitting a full proposal, proposers are strongly encouraged to first submit an executive summary and/or abstract. This process allows a proposer to ascertain whether the proposed concept is: (1) applicable to the DSO Office-wide BAA and (2) currently of interest.
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Information Innovation Office (I2O) Broad Agency Announcement
Sponsor Deadline:
Rolling through August 28, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
The level of funding for individual awards made available under this BAA has not been predetermined and will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. Multiple awards are anticipated.
The Information Innovation Office (I2O) develops game-changing information science and technology to ensure information advantage for the U.S. and its allies. To accomplish this, I2O sponsors basic and applied research in three thrust areas: Cyber, Analytics and Symbiosis. I2O may also consider submissions outside these areas if the proposal involves the development of novel software-based capabilities having promise to provide decisive information advantage for the U.S. and its allies. I2O seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, challenge accepted assumptions, and have the potential to radically change established practice. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, technology, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art.
This BAA seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing I2O programs or other published solicitations. Potential proposers are highly encouraged to review the current I2O programs (
http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/offices/i2o) and solicitations (
http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities) to avoid proposing efforts that duplicate existing activities or that are responsive to other published I2O solicitations.
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U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
2019 ERDC Broad Agency Announcement
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Proposals (required): Rolling through January 31, 2020
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: TBD
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Research and Conference/Symposia Grants are available.
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) includes the
Coastal and Hydraulics Lab (CHL), the Geotechnical and Structures Lab (GSL), the
Reachback Operations Center (UROC), the Environmental Lab (EL) and the Information
Technology Lab (ITL) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Lab (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Construction Engineering Research Lab
(CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, and the Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) in Alexandria,
Virginia. The ERDC is responsible for conducting research in the broad fields of hydraulics,
dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical
engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions,
military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water
quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/
chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental
issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy,
facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental
processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes. This research is
conducted by Government personnel and by contract with educational institutions, non-profit
organizations and private industries.
The Information Technology Lab (ITL) conducts research, development, and studies and provides technical assistance and operational support in information technology (IT) and closely related fields. One of ITL's research areas is Big Data Analytics. There is an interest to leverage High Performance Computing resources to develop an ecosystem approach to manage and conduct big data analytics with extreme data sets created by physics based, high-fidelity model processes. It is desirable for these new and innovative big data analytic techniques to use an integrated hardware platform that may include CPUs, GPUs, and storage systems. Data analytics in context of this BAA may include big data processes such as; data capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, and visualization.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Academic Research Program (NARP) 2018
Sponsor Deadline:
Rolling (current BAA is active until December 31, 2021)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Varies by award type
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United States Department of Defense (DoD)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
FY19 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
Sponsor Deadline:
Rolling (current BAA is active until September 30, 2019 or until superseded)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: The funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award may vary depending on the research area and the technical approach to be pursued by the offeror selected.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science and Technology (S&T) Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Information about ONR's areas of interest is provided on the
ONR website.
Areas of interest related to big data include:
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Photonics, Power & Energy, Atmospherics, and Quantum Science
- Computational Methods for Decision Making
- Computational Neuroscience
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Decision Support, AI, Machine Learning and Graph Analysis
- Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence
- Mathematical Data Science
Prior to preparing proposals, potential offerors are strongly encouraged to contact the ONR point of contact (POC) identified for each research area.
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Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Special Program Announcement for 2019 ONR Basic and Applied Research Opportunity: Science of Artificial Intelligence - Basic and Applied Research for the Naval Domain
Sponsor Deadline: October 15, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 7, 2019
Award Information:
The funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award may vary depending on the research area and the technical approach to be pursued by the offeror selected.
- Topic 1: AI for Predictive Maintenance (AI Applied Research)
- Topic 2: Rapid Learning of Task Procedures (AI Applied Research)
- Topic 3: Scalable Verification and Validation Tools for Artificial Intelligence in the Naval Domain (AI Fundamental and Applied Research)
- Topic 4: Brain-Inspired Deep Learning with Spiking Neurons (AI Fundamental Research)
- Topic 5: Brain-based computation (AI Fundamental Research)
- Topic 6: Explainable AI Systems (AI Fundamental and Applied Research)
- Topic 7: Mission-focused AI (AI fundamental and applied Research)
- Topic 8: Predictive Adaptations to Support Human Performance and Injury Prevention (Applied Research)
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Office of Science (SC)
FY 2019 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Sponsor Deadline:
Rolling (current solicitation is active until September 30, 2019 or until superseded)
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Awards in FY17 ranged from $2,000/year to $4M/year. It is anticipated that approximately $250M will be available for DOE Office of Science new, renewal, and supplemental grants and cooperative agreement awards under this and other, more targeted FOAs in FY19. Approximately 200-350 new awards will be funded. Awards are expected to be made for a project period of 6 months to 5 years as befitting the project, with the most common project period being 3 years in duration.
Through this FOA, the Department of Energy (DOE)'s Office of Science (SC) announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics.
Most relevant to big data is the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program. Its mission is to advance applied mathematics and computer science; deliver the most advanced computational scientific applications in partnership with disciplinary science; advance computing and networking capabilities; and develop future generations of computing hardware and software tools for science, in partnership with the research community, including U.S. industry. The strategy to accomplish this has two thrusts: developing and maintaining world-class computing and network facilities for science; and advancing research in applied mathematics, computer science and advanced networking.
The priority areas for ASCR include the following:
- Develop mathematical models, methods and algorithms to accurately describe and predict the behavior of complex systems involving processes that span vastly different time and/or length scales.
- Advance key areas of computer science that enable the design and development of extreme scale computing systems and their effective use in the path to scientific discoveries; and transform extreme scale data from experiments and simulations into scientific insight.
- Advance key areas of computational science and discovery that support the missions of the Office of Science through mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Develop and deliver forefront computational, networking and collaboration tools and facilities that enable scientists worldwide to work together to extend the frontiers of science.
Please note that pre-applications are optional yet encouraged.
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Advanced Technology Group (ATG)
NetApp ATG Faculty Fellowship Program
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information
: Award
amounts vary, however they usually cover a significant amount of the cost for a graduate student to work on the project for a year. FAS and SEAS applicants must request an indirect cost rate of 69% on sponsored research applications to industry.
The NetApp Faculty Fellowship (NFF) program was established to encourage leading-edge research in storage and data management and to foster relationships between academic researchers and NetApp's technical community. The NFF program accepts research proposals from full-time faculty and post-graduate researchers employed by an accredited university that has a PhD program in the field of the proposal's principal investigators.
The NFF program is interested in proposals that describe an innovative project that a researcher desires to pursue over the next one to three years and the proposed research has some alignment with NetApp core technology and business interests (storage and data management). A sponsor from NetApp will be assigned to communicate and in some cases may collaborate with project's PI(s) and team.
Topics of particular interest include:
- Data security in next generation data centers
- Data management and security in hybrid clouds
- Data center and enterprise networking
- Novel data systems, including NoSQL databases, big data systems, and data streaming systems
- IoT and real time analytics
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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)
Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS)
Sponsor Deadline: February 10, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 3, 2020
Award Information
:
The estimated number of awards and funding amounts are subject to the availability of funds. The total anticipated funding amount for AMPS is $1.2M for approximately 4-10 awards.
The Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Sponsor Deadline: November 25, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 18, 2019
Award Information
:
Award sizes for Research Projects (both domestic and international) are expected to range from approximately $100,000-$250,000 per year in direct costs, with durations of 3-5 years.
Awards for Data Sharing Projects will be scaled according to the needs of the project; typically they will be smaller in size than research awards. It is anticipated that a minimum of $5M will be available each year for this competition, with potentially $15-$20M annually, depending on the quality of proposals and availability of funds.
Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding complex neurobiological systems, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines. Through the CRCNS program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR), the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and the State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) and National Institute of Health Carlos III (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII), both of Spain, support collaborative activities that will advance the understanding of nervous system structure and function, mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies used by the nervous system.
Two classes of proposals will be considered in response to this solicitation:
- Research Proposals describing collaborative research projects, and
- Data Sharing Proposals to enable sharing of data and other resources.
Domestic and international projects will be considered. As detailed in the solicitation, international components of collaborative projects may be funded in parallel by the participating agencies. Specific CRCNS opportunities for parallel funding are available for bilateral US-German Research Proposals, US-German Data Sharing Proposals, US-French Research Proposals, US-French Data Sharing Proposals, US-Israeli Research Proposals, US-Israeli Data Sharing Proposals, US-Japanese Research Proposals, US-Japanese Data Sharing Proposals, US-Spanish Research Proposals, US-Spanish Data Sharing Proposals, and multilateral proposals involving the United States and two or more CRCNS partner countries (please see Section VIII of the solicitation for country-specific instructions, areas of interest and limitations). NSF will coordinate and manage the review of proposals jointly with participating domestic and foreign funding organizations, through a joint panel review process used by all participating funders.
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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (required): November 12, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals:
January 9, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information
:
The majority of the
New awards will be made in the $750,000-$1.5M Medium range, for up to 3 years. A small number of Grand awards may be made in the $1.5M-$5M range for up to 5 years. The majority of the Planning awards will be made in the $50,000-$100,000 range for up to 1.5 years. The majority of the ENS awards will be made in the $750,000-$2M range for up to 3 years
. Up to 10 New awards, up to 5 ENS awards, and 3-5 Planning awards are anticipated in each competition.
The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI) program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE disciplines of the three participating divisions [(Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS), and Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)] by funding the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure. This research infrastructure will specifically support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering. This support involves developing the accompanying user services and engagement needed to attract, nurture, and grow a robust research community that is actively involved in determining directions for the infrastructure as well as management of the infrastructure. This should lead to infrastructure that can be sustained through community involvement and community leadership, and that will enable advances not possible with existing research infrastructure. Further, through the CCRI program, CISE seeks to ensure that researchers from a diverse range of academic institutions, including minority-serving and predominantly undergraduate institutions, as well as researchers from non-profit, non-academic organizations, have access to such infrastructure.
The CCRI program supports two classes of awards:
- New awards support the creation of new CISE community research infrastructure with integrated tools, resources, user services, and community outreach to enable innovative CISE research opportunities to advance the frontiers of the CISE core research areas. The New award class includes Grand Ensemble (Grand), Medium Ensemble (Medium), and Planning awards.
- Enhance/sustain (ENS) awards support the enhancement and sustainment of an existing CISE community infrastructure to enable world-class CISE research opportunities for broad-based communities of CISE researchers that extend well beyond the awardee organization(s).
In each annual competition, an individual may participate in at most one proposal, across all classes, as PI, co-PI, or Senior Personnel. Infrastructures that have received CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) SUSTAIN awards are not eligible for funds from the CCRI program.
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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs
Sponsor Full Proposal Windows:
September 20-30, 2019 for Medium and Large Projects; October 31-November 14, 2019 for Small Projects
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information
:
Small Projects with total budgets up to $500,000 and durations up to three years may be submitted to OAC, CCF, CNS, and IIS. Medium Projects with total budgets from $500,001 to $1,200,000 and durations up to four years may be submitted to CCF, CNS, and IIS only.
Large Projects with total budgets from $1,200,001 to $3,000,000 and durations up to five years may be submitted to CNS only.
The NSF CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, as well as advanced cyberinfrastructure, through the following core programs:
Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC):
- OAC Core Research (OAC Core) program;
Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF):
- Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program;
- Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) program;
- Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET) program; and
- Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program;
Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS):
- CNS Core (CNS Core) program;
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS):
- Cyber-Human Systems (CHS) program;
- Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and
- Robust Intelligence (RI) program.
In any contiguous September through November period, an individual may participate as PI, co-PI or Senior Personnel in no more than two proposals across all size classes submitted in response to this solicitation.
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Sponsor Deadline: Varies by program
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information
:
Varies by program.
Supplemental requests to existing awards will be considered in addition to proposals for new awards.
The goal of the CDS&E program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering breakthroughs through new computational and data analysis approaches. The intellectual drivers may be in an individual discipline or they may cut across more than one discipline in various Directorates. The key identifying factor is that the outcome relies on the development, adaptation, and utilization of one or more of the capabilities offered by advancement of both research and infrastructure in computation and data, either through cross-cutting or disciplinary programs. The CDS&E program is not intended to replace existing programs that make awards that involve computation and the analysis of large data sets. Rather, the CDS&E program is meant to fund awards that have a significant component of cyber development or cyber science that goes well beyond what would normally be included in these programs.
The CDS&E program welcomes proposals in any area of research supported through the participating divisions that address at least one of the following criteria:
- Promote the creation, development, and application of the next generation of mathematical, computational and statistical theories and tools that are essential for addressing the challenges presented to the scientific and engineering communities by the ever-expanding role of computational modeling and simulation and the explosion and production of digital experimental and observational data.
- Promote and encourage integrated research projects that create, develop and apply novel computational, mathematical and statistical methods, algorithms, software, data curation, analysis, visualization and mining tools to address major, heretofore intractable questions in core science and engineering disciplines, including large-scale simulations and analysis of large and heterogeneous collections of data.
- Encourage adventurous ideas that generate new paradigms and that create and apply novel techniques, generating and utilizing digital data in innovative ways to complement or dramatically enhance traditional computational, experimental, observational, and theoretical tools for scientific discovery and application.
- Encourage ideas at the interface between scientific frameworks, computing capability, measurements and physical systems that enable advances well beyond the expected natural progression of individual activities, including development of science-driven algorithms to address pivotal problems in science and engineering and efficient methods to access, mine, and utilize large data sets.
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Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS)
Sponsor Full Proposal Window: September 1-16, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information
: Unspecified
The CDS&E-MSS program accepts proposals that confront and embrace the host of mathematical and statistical challenges presented to the scientific and engineering communities by the ever-expanding role of computational modeling and simulation on the one hand, and the explosion in production of digital and observational data on the other. The goal of the program is to promote the creation and development of the next generation of mathematical and statistical theories and tools that will be essential for addressing such issues. To this end, the program will support fundamental research in mathematics and statistics whose primary emphasis will be on meeting the aforementioned computational and data-related challenges. This program is part of the wider
Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) enterprise at NSF that seeks to address this emerging discipline.
The research supported by the CDS&E-MSS program will aim to advance mathematics or statistics in a significant way and will address computational or big-data challenges. Proposals of interest to the program will include a Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator who is a researcher in the mathematical or statistical sciences in an area supported by the Division of Mathematical Sciences. The program encourages submission of proposals that include multidisciplinary collaborations or the training of mathematicians and statisticians in CDS&E.
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Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Computational Physics
Sponsor Deadline: December 3, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 22, 2019
Award Information
: Award size and duration will be commensurate with the scope of the proposed project.
Computational Physics (CP) supports research for computational and data-enabled science. The program emphasizes novel methods for high-performance computing, such as algorithm development and efficient use of novel architectures, that require significant code development. Priority will be given to proposals that, in addition to compelling scientific goals, have a computational advance or new enabling capability.
Computational Physics is the program through which the Physics Division participates in the Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) program. The Computational Physics program is focused on investigations relevant to disciplines supported by the Physics Division, while encouraging broader impacts on other disciplines. Disciplines within the purview of the Physics Division include: atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, elementary particle, nuclear, gravitational and biological physics, particle astrophysics, and accelerator science. Proposals with intellectual focus in areas supported by other NSF Divisions should be submitted to those divisions directly. Proposals that cross Divisional lines are welcome, but the Physics Division encourages PIs to request a co-review by naming other Divisional programs on the cover sheet. This facilitates the co-review and participation of other programs in the review process.
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Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
Cyberinfrastructure for Biological Research (CIBR)
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: The size and duration of any individual request should be justified by the amount and complexity of the work to be accomplished. As a rule, the larger the budget, the greater the expected impact on the biological research community.
Biological processes at all scales from molecules to ecosystems are determined through the encoding, exchange, and interpretation of information. Advances in the biological sciences are enabled by our capacity to acquire, manage, represent, and analyze biological information through the use of modern instrumentation and computational tools. Proposals are invited that offer potentially transformative outcomes through the development of informatics tools and resources that: (1) offer novel and significant advances in the use of biological data and/or (2) will enable and stimulate advances through their impact on a significant segment of the biological research community supported by the NSF BIO Directorate.
Awards in CIBR should produce, or substantially expand a finished product that will have demonstrable impact in advancing biological research. Proposals should convey their likelihood of success through greater attention to user engagement, design quality, engineering practices, management plan, and dissemination. Budgets and award durations should accommodate the iterative process of bringing a proof of concept into a robust, broadly-adopted cyberinfrastructure. Development proposals are more outcome-driven than Innovation awards and are typically assessed on their perceived contribution to a broad portfolio of cyberinfrastructure resources. Synergies with, and leveraging of, other existing and ongoing resources are taken into consideration. Full proposals may be submitted anytime through the
Infrastructure Capacity for Biology Core Program (ICB).
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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER)
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Unspecified
The Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER) program aims to catalyze new science and engineering discovery pathways through early-stage collaborative activities between disciplinary scientists and engineers as well as developers/implementers of innovative cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities, services, and approaches.
CESER accepts proposals pursuant to this Program Description year-round. From time to time, NSF may also issue Dear Colleague Letters pursuant to CESER to signal special thematic interests and opportunities. CESER employs existing NSF funding mechanisms to accomplish the program's goals such as EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and Conference proposals.
Successful CESER projects typically involve co-funding from the relevant disciplinary research programs within NSF. Consequently, before submitting a proposal to CESER, proposers
must first
(1) discuss their ideas with a cognizant CESER Program Officer to ensure that CESER is the appropriate venue for the proposal and (2) discuss their ideas with the relevant NSF disciplinary science and engineering research program(s) to ensure there is adequate disciplinary interest in the proposed effort.
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Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): Elements and Framework Implementations
Sponsor Deadline: November 1, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 25, 2019
Award Information: Elements awards shall not exceed a total of $600,000 and 3 years duration. Framework Implementations awards shall range from $200,000 to $1M per year, and shall be 3 to 5 years in duration. Up to $15M is expected to be available for ~25 Elements awards, and up to $31.5M is expected to be available for ~10 Framework Implementations awards.
The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) umbrella program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure. This program continues the CSSI program by removing the distinction between software and data elements/framework implementations, and instead emphasizing integrated cyberinfrastructure services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.
This particular CSSI solicitation requests proposals for the following classes of awards:
- Elements: These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
- Framework Implementations: These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, resulting in a sustainable community framework providing Cyberinfrastructure (CI) services to a diverse community or communities.
Prospective Principal Investigators (PIs) should be aware that this is a multi-directorate activity and that they are encouraged to submit proposals with broad, interdisciplinary interests. Further, not all divisions are participating at the same level and division-specific priorities differ. Thus, PIs interested in responding to this solicitation are encouraged to refer to core program descriptions, Dear Colleague Letters, and recently posted descriptions on directorate and divisional home pages to gain insight about the priorities for the relevant areas of science and engineering to which their proposals may be responsive. Prospective PIs should also refer to the directorate/division-specific descriptions contained in Section II of this solicitation. Finally, it is strongly recommended that prospective PIs contact program officer(s) from the list of Cognizant Program Officers in the division(s) that typically support the scientists and engineers who would make use of the proposed work, to gain insight into the priorities for the relevant areas of science and engineering to which their proposals should be responsive. As part of contacting Cognizant Program Officers, prospective PIs are also encouraged to ascertain that the focus and budget of their proposed work are appropriate for this solicitation.
An individual may participate as PI, co-PI, or other Senior Personnel on at most one proposal across the Elements and Framework Implementations for this solicitation.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Models for Uncovering Rules and Unexpected Phenomena in Biological Systems (MODULUS)
Sponsor Deadline:
For proposals submitted to MCB, the deadline is April 1, 2020 to be considered for FY20 funding. Proposals may be submitted to the Mathematical Biology program during its regular submission window, August 20-September 5, 2019.
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Unspecified
The National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), in collaboration with the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), seeks to promote interdisciplinary research that enables novel mathematical and computational approaches that capture and explore the full range of mechanisms and biological variability needed to better understand biological systems behavior across multiple scales.
Funding opportunities are available in fiscal years FY2019 and FY2020 to provide support for proposals from interdisciplinary teams comprised of mathematical, computational, and biological scientists to develop MODels for Uncovering Rules and Unexpected Phenomena in Biological Systems (MODULUS). This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to encourage researchers involved in the biosciences and the mathematical sciences to collaborate formatively in biological investigations using novel mechanistic mathematical models to guide biological exploration and discovery of new rules in living systems.
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Growing Convergence Research (GCR)
Sponsor Deadline: February 3, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 27, 2020
Award Information:
Interested researchers may request up to $1.2M in total costs for the first two years and $2.4M for the last three years.
Successful proposals will be funded initially for two years and t
eams that show significant progress during the first two years will receive funding for an additional three years. Approximately 10 awards are anticipated.
Growing Convergence Research is a new NSF-wide program. NSF identified Growing Convergence Research (GCR) as one of
10 Big Ideas. Convergence research is a means for solving vexing research problems, in particular, complex problems focusing on societal needs. It entails integrating knowledge, methods, and expertise from different disciplines and forming novel frameworks to catalyze scientific discovery and innovation.
This GCR solicitation targets multi-disciplinary team research that crosses directorate or division boundaries and is currently not supported by NSF programs, initiatives and research-focused Big Ideas. Proposers must make a convincing case that the research to be conducted is within NSF's purview and cannot be supported by existing NSF programs and multidisciplinary initiatives. A PI or a co-PI may participate in only one proposal in response to this solicitation. They may not participate in any role in any other proposal.
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (required):
January 8, 2020 for FOUNDATIONS Awards; CORE+ SUPPLEMENTS proposals do not require an LOI
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals:
February 26, 2020 for FOUNDATIONS Awards and CORE+ SUPPLEMENTS Awards
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Total budgets for FOUNDATIONS awards will typically range from a total of $500,000-$1M (including direct and indirect costs), with durations of 2-4 years. The NCS program also welcomes proposals for smaller FOUNDATIONS projects (typically requesting less than $250,000) that would lead to ambitious new research agendas. CORE+ SUPPLEMENTS funding may be requested up to 20% of the existing award, not to exceed $200,000.
This program calls for innovative, convergent, boundary-crossing proposals that can best capture new opportunities to understand complex aspects of neural and cognitive systems through integrative multidisciplinary approaches and map out new research frontiers. NSF seeks proposals that are bold and risky, and transcend the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research efforts. The program focuses on four aspects of neural and cognitive systems including
Data-Intensive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. Proposals must address both risk and reward: high-risk, high-payoff approaches are expected. Proposals must also be consistent with the missions of the participating directorates, while going beyond the scope of any NSF core program, or they will not be considered responsive to the solicitation.
FOUNDATIONS awards (CISE, EHR, ENG, and SBE Directorates; referred to as INTEGRATIVE FOUNDATIONS in earlier NCS solicitations) will support high-risk, high-payoff projects that advance the foundations of one or more NCS focus areas. CORE+ SUPPLEMENTS (CISE, EHR, and ENG Directorates) will provide additional support to existing funded projects in the participating directorates, to enable activities that will connect those projects to significant new integrative opportunities in neural and cognitive systems.
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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: See below for details. In FY 2019, NSF anticipates approximately 10 EDU awards, 55 Small awards, and 28 Medium awards.
The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both encouraged.
Proposals must be submitted pursuant to one of the following designations, each of which may have additional restrictions and administrative obligations as specified in this program solicitation.
- CORE: This designation is the main focus of the SaTC research program, spanning the interests of NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE).
- EDU: The Education (EDU) designation will be used to label proposals focusing entirely on cybersecurity education.
- TTP: The Transition to Practice (TTP) designation will be used to label proposals that are focused exclusively on transitioning existing research results to practice.
CORE and TTP proposals may be submitted in one of the following project size classes:
- Small projects: up to $500,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years;
- Medium projects: $500,001 to $1,200,000 in total budget, with durations of up to four years.
EDU proposals are limited to $500,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years.
An individual can participate as a PI, co-PI or senior personnel on no more than three SaTC proposals (one designated as CORE, one designated as TTP, one designated as EDU).
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Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)
Statistics
Sponsor Full Proposal Window: December 1-16, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Unspecified
The Statistics Program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering. The Program encourages proposals ranging from single-investigator projects to interdisciplinary team projects. Conference and workshop proposals should be submitted eight months before the requested starting date.
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Intel
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
NSF/Intel Partnership on Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS)
Sponsor Deadline: October 29, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 22, 2019
Award Information: NSF anticipates that 10 to 15 awards will be made, with an award size of $300,000-$1,500,000, for periods of up to 3 years.
This program seeks to accelerate fundamental, broad-based research on wireless-specific machine learning (ML) techniques, towards a new wireless system and architecture design, which can dynamically access shared spectrum, efficiently operate with limited radio and network resources, and scale to address the diverse and stringent quality-of-service requirements of future wireless applications. In parallel, this program also targets research on reliable distributed ML by addressing the challenge of computation over wireless edge networks to enable ML for wireless and future applications. Model-based approaches for designing the wireless network stack have proven quite efficient in delivering the networks in wide use today; research enabled by this program is expected to identify realistic problems that can be best solved by ML and to address fundamental questions about expected improvements from using ML over model-based methods.
Smaller-scale projects are well-suited to one or two investigators (PI and one co-PI or other Senior Personnel) and a small number of students and/or postdocs. Larger-scale projects are well-suited to a small number of investigators (PI, co-PI and/or other Senior Personnel) and several students and/or postdocs. Larger-scale projects are encouraged to be inclusive of a prototyping effort for the researched solutions.
Proposals may address one or more Research Vectors (RVs): ML for Wireless Networks; ML for Spectrum Management; and Distributed ML over Wireless Edge Networks. Equal consideration will be provided across all RVs in award decisions.
An individual may participate as PI, co-PI, or senior personnel in no more than one proposal submitted in response to this solicitation.
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Digital Information Technology - Data and Computational Research
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling, requires Letter of Inquiry
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Two types of applications, <$125,000 and >$125,000. Awards >$125,000 provide overhead up to 15%.
Overhead is not allowed on awards <$125,000. Since t
his amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
This program seeks to support the efficient management and sharing of research data and code from acquisition through analysis; and grow the current and future scientific data work force.
Grants in this program tend to fall into four broad types:
- Software grants support technology development ranging from prototyping funds to substantial scaling resources;
- Training grants aim at supporting work force training and curricular initiatives as well as targeted adoption of new technologies by specific communities;
- Research grants bring historical, ethnographic, and economic research methods to bear on our understanding of scholarly activities in a changing technological context;
- Community grants build networks for knowledge exchange across disciplines as well as institutions that serve to incubate sustainable research and software projects.
Grant requests can be made at any time. A brief letter of inquiry is the first step for an applicant.
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Sponsor Deadline: Rolling, requires Letter of Inquiry
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Two types of applications, <$125,000 and >$125,000. Awards >$125,000 provide overhead up to 15%.
Overhead is not allowed on awards <$125,000. Since t
his amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
This program seeks to advance understanding about the economic, environmental, security, and policy trade-offs associated with the increased deployment of low- and no-carbon resources and technologies across the energy system and the resulting impacts on the quality of American life.
Grants in this program focus on investigating underexplored research questions related to energy sources (supply), transmission and distribution, energy use (demand), new energy technologies, the economics of energy transmission and distribution, big data, energy efficiency, and transportation.
Grant requests can be made at any time. A brief letter of inquiry is the first step for an applicant.
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Sponsor Deadline: September 15, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 6, 2019
Award Information:
Faculty Innovation Awards will be made up to $100,000 for 1 year, and Focused Research Awards will be made up to $150,000 for 1 year. FAS and SEAS grant applications must request Harvard's full indirect cost rate from industry sponsors.
The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers.
Full professors, associate professors, and assistant professors are eligible to apply.
Faculty Innovation Awards support cutting-edge research in Sony's general areas of interest, which include Computer Vision (Multimodal Sensor Data Fusion); and Machine Learning (Correcting Data Bias by Learning).
Focused Research Awards support research in the areas of Sony's immediate interests including: Advanced Image Processing enabled by AI; Deep Learning based Video Editing for Content Creation; Neural Architecture Search with Distributed Deep Learning; Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications; and Counterfactual Machine Learning.
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International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Grants
Sponsor Deadline: October 15, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 7, 2019
Award Information:
Annual funding levels range between $5,000 and $10,000. Project period is up to five years.
These grants are
intended for networking and capacity building and
must be used exclusively to support meetings or workshops. Areas of interest include: efficient, safe and sustainable earth resources exploration and extraction; innovative renewable energy production and CO2 mitigation; and better understanding and prediction of climate change and geohazards. One of this year's Special Topics is Big data, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences. Projects must focus, inter alia, on high-quality science, be of international importance and societal relevance, show interdisciplinary cooperation, and constitute international participation, including scientists from developing countries. These limited funds provide 'seed money' to assist in the acquisition of additional funds from other sources. Past experience indicates that successful IGCP projects are able to secure significant additional funding from other sources.
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Sponsor Deadline:
October 7, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline:
September 30, 2019
Award Information:
$30,000 for 1 year. Favorable consideration will be given to proposals that include committed budgetary match and/or other financial support. 1 award will be made. Overhead is typically not allowed on these awards. Since this amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
The Academy of Architecture for Health (AAHF) awards annual research grants each fall and supports research to enhance environments for health and healthcare. The Foundation is seeking proposals on all areas related to advancing healthcare environments. One of the Foundation's priority areas this year is I
ntegration of Big Data related to Outcomes -
Developing and/or thoughtfully implementing standard tools and approaches to examine the connection between patient health outcomes, financial outcomes, patient satisfaction (e.g., CAHPS) and other measures of success in a healthcare or health setting. Emphasis should be on measures that are routinely-collected to create a feedback loop to enhance the effectiveness of healthcare design. Only research that takes place in the United States, at least in part, and has at least one principal investigator in the United States, will be considered.
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Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (required): October 1, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): January 20, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 10, 2020
Award Information:
$1M-$5M over 4 years. 10% in indirect costs is allowed on these awards. Since this amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy, please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
ALSF has launched the Crazy 8 Initiative with the purpose of detailing roadmaps for cures for specific, hard-to-treat childhood cancers and pressing topics of the childhood cancer community. The Crazy 8 Initiative Award will fund research into innovative and rigorous approaches that directly address the most intractable issues in pediatric cancer research today. One of the eight disciplines in which Crazy 8 is soliciting proposals is big data.
This award is designed to coalesce cross-disciplinary cores of scientists working collaboratively in order to accelerate the pace of discovering new cures. Investigations may involve the exploration of a novel scientific hypothesis or the development of new model systems, tools or technologies that have the potential for significant impact on the field of childhood cancer. Collaboration and data sharing are a priority for this research program. In addition to the full requested budget, applicants may elect to use the ALSF Childhood Cancer Data Lab (CCDL) for single-cell and/or bulk gene expression analysis. The CCDL is also available for consultations regarding the management and sharing of grantee's research data which is a required element of this award.
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United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
FY18-FY22 Broad Agency Announcement for Extramural Medical Research
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Proposals (required): Rolling through September 30, 2022
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline:
5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: No budget limits; award duration for research projects is up to 4 or 5 years; for conference/symposium awards, duration is up to 2 years.
The USAMRMC mission is to provide solutions to medical problems of importance to the American Service member at home and abroad, as well as to the general public at large. Projects must be for scientific study and experimentation directed toward advancing the state of the art or increasing knowledge or understanding rather than focusing on a specific system or hardware solution. Research and development funded through this BAA are intended and expected to benefit and inform both military and civilian medical practice and knowledge. Support for conferences and symposia is also available, in addition to research funding.
Under USAMRMC's Medical Simulation and Information Sciences Research Program, the Health Information Technology and Informatics (HITI) Portfolio solicits applications in the area of Health Information Technology Infrastructure and Data Management, specifically about improvements to data availability, management, storage, and operational use of Enterprise Health Data. Proposed objectives should ensure the unique identification of each patient, as well as aggregated data strategies for population health and big data.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R01 and R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadlines:
October 5, 2019; February 5, 2020 for R01 applications; October 16, 2019; February 16, 2020 for R21 applications
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Budgets for direct costs of up to $250,000 per year and a project duration of up to five years may be requested in R01 applications. The combined budget for direct costs for the R21 two-year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year of the R21 budget.
The
Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood. These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of these Funding Opportunity Announcements is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.
The Research Project (R01) grant is an award made to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing the investigator's specific interest and competencies. The R21 grant mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory/developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of project development.
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BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested):
30 days prior to the proposal deadline
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals: September 6, 2019; March 6, 2020; September 9, 2020; March 4, 2021
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 3 years. NIH intends to commit an estimated total of $4M to fund 10 awards.
This FOA solicits applications to develop informatics tools for analyzing, visualizing, and integrating data related to the BRAIN Initiative or to enhance our understanding of the brain. Tools that integrate different types of data may link data across multiple scales or across different species. The focus for integration tools in this FOA is mainly in finding the data and applying metrics for data alignment, standardization and normalization for further analysis. The tools must be user-friendly in accessing and analyzing data from appropriate data archives. Ultimately, it is expected that much of the BRAIN Initiative data will be stored in a cloud environment, although that may not be initially true. In general, the tools supported under this FOA should analyze/visualize data without the need to download them. The tools should allow data to be combined for analysis/visualization from multiple locations.
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BRAIN Initiative: Secondary Analysis and Archiving of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested):
30 days prior to the proposal deadline
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals: September 6, 2019; June 11, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Maximum of $300,000 in direct costs per year for up to 3 years. NIH intends to commit an estimated total of $4M to fund 8 awards in FY2020.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages secondary analysis of the large amounts of existing data related to the BRAIN Initiative. The data do not need to be held in one of the funded BRAIN Initiative data archives, but the data must be held in a data archive that is readily accessible to the research community. Support will be provided for innovative analysis of relevant existing datasets using conventional or novel analytic methods, data science techniques, and machine learning approaches. Support may also be requested to prepare and submit existing data into any of the BRAIN Initiative data archives. Investigators should not underestimate the time and effort that may be necessary to curate or harmonize data.
Analyzed data, models and analytical tools generated under this FOA are expected to be deposited into an appropriate data archive. Since the BRAIN Initiative data archives are mostly making the data available to the research community through cloud-based storage, depositing the analyzed data, models and tools are expected to enhance opportunities to create a data sandbox where investigators can easily compare the results of their analysis with those from other research groups.
The goal of this FOA is to promote studies that will significantly advance new discoveries and accelerate the pace of research of the BRAIN Initiative through harnessing the big data and machine learning opportunities. Awardees are expected to enhance the value of existing data, improve the overall data integration and analysis capability, and strengthen the statistical power and rigor and reproducibility of BRAIN Initiative related data.
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Getting to Zero: Understanding HIV Viral Suppression and Transmission in the United States (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline: March 13, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: March 6, 2020
Award Information:
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years. NIH
intends to commit an estimated total of $3.25M to fund 3-5 awards in fiscal year 2019. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations.
The purpose of this FOA is to support grants to improve measurement and understanding of viral suppression and HIV transmission in the United States using population-level epidemiology and novel tools from Big Data Science approaches and m/eHealth. The outcome of this research will uncover new knowledge from data to build more effective and context-specific HIV control strategies for the U.S. epidemic.
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Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor Deadlines: September 7, 2019; January 7, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years.
The purpose of this FOA is to promote research that transforms understanding of HIV transmission, the HIV care continuum, and HIV comorbidities using Big Data Science (BDS).
This FOA will support projects to assemble diverse big data sources, conduct robust and reproducible analyses, and create meaningful visualizations of big data, as well as engage ethical experts where appropriate to ensure the development of this scientific area is guided by ethical principles.
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): October 20, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: November 20, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 13, 2019
Award Information: Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two year period. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year. NCI intends to commit $1,240,000 in FY 2020 to fund 6 awards.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to invite exploratory/developmental research grant applications (R21) for the development of innovative methods and algorithms in biomedical computing, informatics, and data science addressing priority needs across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (
ITCR
) Program, this FOA encourages applications focused on the development of novel computational, mathematical, and statistical algorithms and methods that can considerably improve acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of relevant data and/or knowledge. The central mission of ITCR is to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research. In order to be successful, there must be a clear rationale for how the proposed informatics method or algorithm is novel and how it will benefit the cancer research field.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U01 and U24 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): October 20, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: November 20, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 13, 2019
Award Information: Early-Stage Development awards are limited to $300,000 in direct costs (excluding consortium F&A) per year, for up to 3 years. Advanced Development awards are limited to $600,000 in direct costs (excluding consortium F&A) per year, for up to 5 years. Budgets for Sustained Support awards are not limited and have a maximum project period of 5 years.
The purpose of these Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) is to invite Cooperative Agreement applications for informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities.
These FOAs are issued as part of NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (
ITCR
) Program, which aims
to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research.
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National Eye Institute (NEI)
NEI Research Grant for Vision-Related Secondary Data Analysis (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals: October 16
, 2019; February 16, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: The NEI permits direct costs up to $275,000 for the entire two-year project period, plus applicable F&A for consortia. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year.
This FOA encourages applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct vision-related secondary data analyses utilizing existing database resources. Applications may be related to, but must be distinct from, the specific aims of the original data collection. The NEI supports an extensive portfolio of clinical trials and large-scale epidemiologic research projects wherein numerous data collection activities are required to meet each project's specific aims. The resultant wealth of data generated by these studies often provides unique, cost-effective opportunities to investigate additional research questions or develop new analytical approaches secondary to a project's originally-intended purpose. Data are not limited to those collected under NEI support, but such data are of the highest programmatic interest. The purpose of this FOA is for secondary data analysis using existing data sets from vision-related clinical trials, epidemiologic, and other clinical research studies. This FOA may be used to develop new statistical methodologies or test hypotheses using existing data, but this FOA must not be used to support the collection of new data.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Investigator Initiated Research in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R01 and R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): 30 days prior to the deadline
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals: November 16, 2019; July 16, 2020; November 16, 2020; July 16, 2021
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: R01
application budgets
are limited to $500,000 in direct costs per year
. The maximum project period for an R01 is 5 years. The combined budget for direct costs for a two year R21 project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single R21 budget year.
The purpose of these funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) is to invite applications for a broad range of research efforts in computational genomics, data science, statistics, and bioinformatics relevant to one or both of basic or clinical genomic science, and broadly applicable to human health and disease. These FOAs support fundamental genomics research developing innovative analytical methodologies and approaches, early stage development of tools and software, and refinement or hardening of software and tools of high value to the biomedical genomics community. Work supported under these FOAs should be enabling for genomics and be generalizable or broadly applicable across diseases and biological systems. All applications should address how the methods would scale to address larger and larger data sets.
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Data Coordinating Center for Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials (Collaborative U24 Clinical Trial Required)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): 30 days prior to the deadline
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals: October 11
, 2019; February 11, 2020; June 10, 2020; October 14, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Application budgets are not limited. The combined budgets of the CCC and DCC will be used to determine whether the policy regarding direct costs of $500,000 or more in any year will be applied. The period of award is expected to be 5 years. Up to 7 years may be requested if strongly justified.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports applications for a collaborating Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trials including efficacy, comparative effectiveness, pragmatic and/or implementation research clinical trials. These trials may include ones that test different therapeutic, behavioral, and/or prevention strategies. Trials for which this FOA applies must be relevant to the research mission of the NHLBI and meet the NIH definition of a clinical trial (see
NOT-OD-15-015
). For additional information about the mission, strategic vision, and research priorities of the NHLBI, applicants are encouraged to consult the
NHLBI website.
This FOA will utilize a cooperative agreement mechanism of award and runs in parallel with a companion FOA (
PAR-19-329
)
that encourages applications for a collaborating Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC). The objective of the DCC application is to present a comprehensive plan to provide overall project coordination, administration, data management, and biostatistical support for the clinical trial proposed in the collaborating CCC application. Both a DCC application and a collaborating CCC application must be submitted on the same application due date for consideration by NHLBI.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Leveraging Big Data Science to Elucidate the Mechanisms of HIV Activity and Interaction with Substance Use Disorder (R01 and R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): October 14, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: November 14, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 6, 2019
Award Information: R01 budgets are limited to direct costs of $350k, with project periods not to exceed 5 years. In R21 proposals, the combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000, and no more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year. NIDA intends to commit $1M in FY2020 to fund 3-5 awards from the R01 and the R21 FOAs.
The purpose of these FOAs is to attract data and computational scientists to propose novel ways to integrate data of different types and scales to allow new types of analysis through big data science approaches. It is expected that the development and application of novel computational, bioinformatics, statistical, and analytical approaches can be leveraged to reveal the effects of the interaction of the HIV virus and drugs of abuse on viral activity, latency, and disease progression, as well as new aspects of addiction biology.
Applicants with preliminary data may wish to apply to the R01 FOA. High risk/high payoff projects that lack preliminary data are most appropriate for the R21 FOA.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Leveraging Big Data Science to Elucidate the Neural Mechanisms of Addiction and Substance Use Disorder (R01 and R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): October 14, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: November 14, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 6, 2019
Award Information: R01 budgets are limited to direct costs of $350k, with project periods not to exceed 5 years. In R21 proposals, the combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000, and no more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year. NIDA intends to commit $1M in FY2020 to fund 3-5 awards from the R01 and the R21 FOAs.
The purpose of these FOAs is to attract data and computational scientists to propose novel ways to integrate data of different types and scales to allow new types of analysis. It is expected that with the development and application of novel computational, bioinformatics, statistical, and analytical approaches, previously inaccessible insights will reveal new aspects of addiction biology.
Applicants with preliminary data may wish to apply to the R01 FOA. High risk/high payoff projects that lack preliminary data are most appropriate for the R21 FOA. For both the R01 and R21, NIDA is interested in the development of tools or technologies that may significantly improve our ability to understand novel aspects of addiction biology.
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National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): December 31, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 24, 2020
Award Information:
Application budgets are limited to $250,000 in direct costs per year for up to 4 years.
NLM wishes to accelerate the availability of and access to secure, complete data sets and computational models that can serve as the basis of transformative biomedical discoveries by improving the speed and scope of the curation processes.
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National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Data Science Research: Personal Health Libraries for Consumers and Patients (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): 30 days prior to full proposal deadline
Sponsor Deadlines for Full Proposals: January 17, 2020; July 31, 2020; January 19, 2021; July 30, 2021
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Up to $250,000 direct costs may be requested in any single year. The total project period may not exceed 4 years.
The National Library of Medicine seeks applications for novel informatics and data science approaches that can help individuals gather, manage and use data and information about their personal health. A goal of this program is to advance research and application by patients and the research community through broadly sharing the results via publication, and through open source mechanisms for data or resource sharing.
Please note that organizations are limited to submitting one proposal in response to this Program Solicitation. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Erin Hale in FAS Research Development at erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu.
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National Library of Medicine (NLM)
NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Sponsor Deadlines: October 5, 2019; February 5, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Application budgets are limited to $250,000 per year in direct costs.
The maximum project period is 4 years.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization and management of health-related digital objects. Biomedical informatics and data science draw upon many fields, including mathematics, statistics, information science, computer science and engineering, and social/behavioral sciences. Application domains include health care delivery, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, precision medicine, public health, biosurveillance, health information management in disasters, and similar areas. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal representation, organization, management, integration and presentation of information relevant to human health and biology. NIH defines data science as the interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data.
In March 2019, NIH issued a
Notice of Special Interest: Computational and Statistical Methods to Enhance Discovery from Health Data to highlight its interest in receiving grant applications
through this program that focus on research to reduce or mitigate gaps and errors in health data sets. NLM invites research grant applications that propose state of the art methods and approaches to address problems with large health data sets or tools used to analyze them, whether the data are drawn from electronic health records or public health data sets, biomedical imaging, omics repositories or other biomedical or social/behavioral data sets.
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadlines: October 16, 2019; February 16, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year project period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year.
The purpose of this FOA is to support projects that utilize open-access data, alone or in combination with other datasets, to address knowledge gaps in basic and/or clinical research in infectious diseases.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sponsor Deadline:
July 12, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: July 5, 2020
Award Information:
Award budgets are composed of salary and other program-related expenses. Participating NIH Institutes and Centers will contribute up to $80,000 per year toward the salary of the career award recipient and $25,000 per year toward the research development costs of the award recipient
. The total project period may not exceed 2 years.
The goal of this program is to support the development of research capability in mobile and wireless health technology (e.g., wearable devices, mobile applications, electronic health records, data analytics). Special emphasis will be given to independent behavioral and social sciences investigators who seek to train in a STEM discipline (e.g., big data analysis, computational modeling, engineering, computer science, and mathematics) or to STEM scientists who wish to train in a behavioral and social science discipline. Before submitting the application, the candidate must identify a mentor who will supervise the proposed career development and research experience.
By the time of award, the individual must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (i.e., possess a currently valid Permanent Resident Card USCIS Form I-551, or other legal verification of such status). Candidates for the K18 award must have a research or health-professional doctoral degree. This award is intended for well-established investigators who have established records of independent, peer-reviewed Federal or private research grant funding. Applicants are not required to have active research grant support at the time of application for this award. Candidates are required to commit a minimum of 75% of full-time professional effort (i.e., a minimum of 9 person-months) to their program of career development during the mentored phase.
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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
High-Priority Areas for Research Leveraging EHR and Large-Scale Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadlines:
October 5, 2019; February 5, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages research project grant (R01) applications to leverage large-scale, real-world data from electronic health records (EHRs) from a variety of systems (e.g., the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrative claims, as well as public or private health care systems and networks) to understand risk, onset, course, and impact of treatments and services for mental and neurological disorders and to identify promising new mental health and neurological disorders research. There is particular interest in leveraging EHRs and administrative data to: 1) understand and improve the treatment of post traumatic psychopathology, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and risk for suicide; and 2) characterize post-trauma multi-symptom recovery trajectory patterns of TBI, that may include post traumatic stress disorder, depression, cognitive impairment, pain, substance abuse disorder and risk for suicide. NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) also invites innovative approaches to use EHR and administrative data to understand risk, onset, course, and impact of treatments and services for mental disorders more broadly.
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE)
Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Sponsor Deadlines: February 11, 2020; August 13, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Average award size is ~$175,000 per year (including both direct and indirect costs) and the average duration is 3 years
The cognitive neuroscience program seeks to fund highly innovative proposals that employ brain-based measurements in order to advance our understanding of the neural systems that mediate cognitive processes.
New frontiers in cognitive neuroscience research have emerged from investigations that integrate data at different spatial and temporal scales.
Human cognitive science encompasses a wide range of topics, including attention, learning, memory, decision-making, language, social cognition, and emotions. Proposals will be considered that investigate a particular cognitive process using human brain data.
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Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
Sponsor Deadline: November 20, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: November 13, 2019
Award Information: $1M-$2.5M for up to 5 years for research grants.
The maximum award size for RCN proposals is $500,000.
The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of transmission among humans, non-human animals, and/or plants. Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne, vector-borne, or enteric pathogens of either terrestrial or aquatic systems and organisms, including diseases of animals and plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental systems. Proposals for research on disease systems of public health concern to developing countries are strongly encouraged, as are disease systems of concern in agricultural systems. Investigators are encouraged to develop the appropriate multidisciplinary team, including for example, anthropologists, modelers, ecologists, bioinformaticians, genomics researchers, social scientists, economists, oceanographers, mathematical scientists, epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, entomologists, parasitologists, microbiologists, bacteriologists, virologists, pathologists or veterinarians, with the goal of integrating knowledge across disciplines to enhance our ability to predict and control infectious diseases.
In addition to funding standard research grants, the EEID program will accept proposals to establish
Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) that focus on issues involving infectious disease ecology, socio-ecology, and evolution.
In a given year, an individual may participate as a PI, co-PI, or sub-award lead on no more than two proposals submitted in response to this solicitation. This limit does not include RCN proposals.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences (DMS/NIGMS)
Sponsor Full Proposal Window: September 1-18, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Awards for high-risk, high-reward exploratory projects, or those from new teams of collaborators, are expected to range from $100,000 to $200,000 (total costs) per year for 3 years. Awards for projects of larger scope from well-established teams are expected to range from $200,000 to $400,000 (total costs) per year with durations of 3-4 years. Approximately $5M per year will be made available for new applications (up to $2M from NSF and up to $3M from NIGMS), subject to availability of funds and receipt of meritorious proposals.
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plan to support fundamental research in mathematics and statistics necessary to answer questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. Both agencies recognize the need to promote research at the interface between mathematical and life sciences. This program is designed to encourage new collaborations, as well as to support innovative activities by existing teams. Awards from this competition may be made by either NSF or NIH at the option of the agencies, not the grantee.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Smart and Connected Health (SCH): Connecting Data, People and Systems
Sponsor Deadline: December 11, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: December 4, 2019
Award Information: U
p to $300,000 per year for up to 4 years. 8-16 awards per year are anticipated.
The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is to support the development of technologies, analytics and models supporting next generation health and medical research through high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering and technology, behavior and cognition. Collaborations between academic, industry, and other organizations are strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science, medicine and healthcare practice and technology development, deployment and use. This solicitation is aligned with national reports calling for new partnerships to facilitate major changes in health and medicine, as well as healthcare delivery and is aimed at the fundamental research to enable these changes. Realizing the promise of disruptive transformation in health, medicine and/or healthcare will require well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches that draw from the computer and information sciences, engineering, social, behavioral, cognitive and economic sciences, biomedical and health research.
The solicitation invites applications for Integrative projects (INT) which undertake research addressing key application areas by solving problems in multiple scientific domains. The work must make fundamental contributions to two or more disciplines. Projects are expected to include several students and postdocs. Scientists from all disciplines are encouraged to participate. Collaborations with researchers in the health application domains are required.
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Sponsor Deadline: September 25, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: September 18, 2019
Award Information: Awards for Research Grants are up to $25,000 for 1 year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2 year projects. Overhead is not allowed on AERA Resarch Grants.
This amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
This program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that:
- develop or benefit from new quantitative measures or methodological approaches for addressing education issues;
- include interdisciplinary teams with subject matter expertise, especially when studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning;
- analyze TIMSS, PISA, or other international data resources; or
- include the integration and analysis of more than one data set.
Research projects related to at least one of the strands above and to science and/or mathematics education are especially encouraged. Other topics of interest include policies and practices related to student achievement in STEM, contextual factors in education, educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through graduate school), early childhood education, and postsecondary education.
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United States Department of Defense (DoD)*
U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA)
Research Interests of the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) CALL 008: Research on the Use of Autonomy and Unmanned Vehicles in Support of USAF Operations
Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (required):
August 30, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information:
The Government anticipates awarding one Cooperative Agreement totaling $420,000 for 36 months as a result of this CALL.
The Academy Center for Cyberspace Research (ACCR) conducts research in a wide range of areas within the fields of Computer and Cyber Science in support of the Air Force (AF), DoD and other government and commercial sponsors. All cadets in the Computer Science and Cyber Science majors receive research experience through independent studies, course projects and summer research opportunities. ACCR has four primary research focus areas: system security analysis, immersive environments (augmented and virtual reality), artificial intelligence and autonomy, and big-data analytics. In addition to these four primary focus areas, ACCR can conduct research in any topics related to the field of Computer and Cyber Science provided there is sufficient faculty and cadet interest.
This CALL is focused on fundamental research that can lead to the development of new novel pedagogical approaches to Artificial Intelligence/Autonomous Systems (AI/AS) education. Research areas should fall within autonomy and AI to include algorithms and techniques for such, as well as researching educational best practices, techniques and pedagogical approaches. USAFA is interested in data that could potentially lead to the external development of lesson plans, exercises, and classroom activities that embody those techniques/approaches, which could be used as the basis for new AI/AS curricula at USAFA and for public educational institutions. Research should be conducted utilizing hands-on mentoring with cadets in support of senior capstone projects addressing AI/AS system concepts and rapid deployment of newly developed concepts in an effort to answer critical research questions in real time. The results and methodologies discovered, to include the focused research conducted in capstone projects, will form the basis of scholarly work presented at conferences or in journal articles. In addition to briefings and presentations it is expected the effort will culminate in a final report which will cover research elements derived entirety from the AI/AS studies.
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National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS)
NIGMS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Institutional Research Training Grant (T32)
Sponsor Deadlines: September 25, 2019; January 25, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: Application budgets are not limited. The maximum project period is 5 years.
The goal of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) program is to develop a diverse pool of well-trained scientists available to address the Nation's biomedical research agenda. Specifically, this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) provides support to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and implement effective, evidence-based approaches to biomedical graduate training and mentoring that will keep pace with the rapid evolution of the biomedical research enterprise. NIGMS expects that the proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. NIGMS will accept predoctoral training grant applications in a
broad range of basic biomedical sciences.
NIGMS recently issued a
Notice announcing an expansion of the focus of its predoctoral training program in bioinformatics and computational biology to include the newly arising fields of data sciences, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and virtual-reality technologies. Accordingly, this training program area has been renamed as
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Data Science to reflect these changes.
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Workshops on the Use of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Data (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (requested): September 17, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: October 17, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: October 9, 2019
Award Information: Application budgets are not limited. The maximum project period is 2 years.
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this NIDA/NIMH R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs in the use of ABCD data.
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on
Courses for Skills Development
. In particular, NIDA/NIMH are interested in supporting short-term workshops that will allow participants to explore the hands-on use of ABCD data, through cooperative or competitive approaches.
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Computer Science for All (CSforAll:RPP)
Sponsor Deadline: February 11, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: February 4, 2020
Award Information
:
Small
proposals can request up to $300,000 for up to 2 years.
Medium
proposals may request up to $1M for up to 3 years. Large proposals can request a maximum of $2M for up to 4 years. NSF anticipates making approximately 10 small, 11 medium, and 3 large awards, totaling $20M, under this program.
This program aims to provide all U.S. students the opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) focuses on researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools. Specifically, this solicitation aims to provide high school teachers with the preparation, professional development (PD) and ongoing support that they need to teach rigorous computer science courses; preK-8 teachers with the instructional materials and preparation they need to integrate CS and CT into their teaching; and schools and districts the resources needed to define and evaluate multi-grade pathways in CS and CT.
CT refers to the thought processes involved in formulating problems and their solutions in such a way that the solutions can be effectively carried out by an information-processing agent (usually a computer). CT activities do not require the presence of a computing tool, but involve the requisite reasoning needed to capitalize on the use of computational tools. CS, as used in this solicitation, includes CT but also the broad range of understandings, competencies, and skills needed to apply computation in our digital world. It includes topics of problem specification and representation; algorithm development; software design, programming, and debugging; the Internet and networking; big data; cybersecurity; and application across a wide range of disciplines, including the associated societal impact and ethical considerations. This solicitation focuses on CS and CT instruction, as distinct from the mere use of computers or the use of common computational tools such as word processors or video editing or presentation software. The ability to use such tools is often referred to as computational literacy. This solicitation supports education beyond computational literacy.
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Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science
Sponsor Deadline: September 18, 2019 for RET Sites; RET Supplements may be requested at any time
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Information: The maximum total request for a Site is $600,000 for a duration of up to 3 years. Supplements are limited to a maximum of $10,000 per teacher and/or community college faculty for a duration of 1 year. It is anticipated that approximately 9 Site awards will be made per year, and the total anticipated funding in FY 2019 and FY 2020 for both Sites and Supplements is approximately $5.8M per year.
NSF's Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) have joined to support the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science program. This program supports active long-term collaborative partnerships between K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, Computer and Information Science, and Mathematics (STEM) in-service and pre-service teachers, full-time community college faculty, and university faculty and students to enhance the scientific disciplinary knowledge and capacity of the STEM teachers and/or community college faculty through participation in authentic summer research experiences with engineering and computer science faculty researchers. The research projects and experiences all revolve around a focused research area related to engineering and/or computer science that will provide a common cohort experience to the participating educators. The K-12 STEM teachers and/or full-time community college faculty also translate their research experiences and new scientific knowledge into their classroom activities and curricula. The university team will include faculty, graduate and undergraduate students as well as industrial advisors. Involvement of graduate students in support of academic-year classroom activities is particularly encouraged. Partnerships with inner city, rural or other high needs schools are especially encouraged, as is participation by underrepresented minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities.
As part of the long-term partnership arrangements, university undergraduate/graduate students will partner with pre-college/community college faculty in their classrooms during the academic year to support the integration of the RET curricular materials into classroom activities.
This announcement features two mechanisms for support of in-service and pre-service K-12 STEM teachers and full-time community college faculty: (1) RET supplements to ongoing ENG and CISE awards and (2) new RET Site awards. RET supplements may be included outside this solicitation in proposals for new or renewed ENG and CISE grants or as supplements to ongoing ENG- and CISE-funded projects. RET in Engineering and Computer Science Sites, through this solicitation, are based on independent proposals from engineering and/or computer and/or information science departments, schools or colleges to initiate and conduct research participation projects for K-12 STEM teachers and/or full-time community college faculty.
Please note that organizations are limited to submitting three RET Site proposals in response to this solicitation. No
more than two of the three proposals may have an engineering focus
and only one of the three proposals may have a computer and/or information science focus
. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Erin Hale in FAS Research Development at
erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu .
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE)
Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys - R&D, U.S. S&T Competitiveness, STEM Education, S&T Workforce
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020
Award Information: The total maximum amount for all awards in FY18 is $750,000. 7-12 awards are anticipated.
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public. The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys, and to engage in the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES data for research on the science and technology enterprise, to develop improved survey methodologies for NCSES surveys, to create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, and strengthen methodologies to analyze and disseminate S&T statistical data. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research and data collection and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys.
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NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
Internal Deadline for Harvard Pre-Proposals: September 23, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Intent (required, if nominated): December 6, 2019
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 30, 2020
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 6, 2020
Award Information: U
p to $3M for up to 5 years
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The NRT program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master's and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to the effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas through the use of a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Proposals are requested in any interdisciplinary or
convergent research theme of national priority, with special emphasis on six high priority areas (
NSF Research Big Ideas), including
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR).
An individual may serve as Lead Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on only one proposal submitted to the NRT program per annual competition. The PI must be on the faculty of the submitting institution.
Please note that organizations are limited to participating in two proposals in consideration for this opportunity.
Participation includes serving as the lead organization, non-lead organization, or subawardee on any proposal. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is facilitating the internal application process to identify proposals. To be considered for the Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal
here
.
The NSF Solicitation for the NRT program is available
here
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Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
Sponsor Deadline: January 15, 2020
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: January 8, 2020
Award Information:
Pilot
Projects will be funded up to $300,000 in total costs with durations up to 2 years.
Implementation Projects may be requested at the Small level (with total budgets of up to $500,000) or Medium (with total budgets of up to $1M) for durations of up to 4 years; and
Large-scale Project Conceptualization Projects will be funded up to $500,000 in total costs with durations up to 2 years. Up to 4 Pilot, 8 Small and 3 Medium Implementation, and 3 Large-scale Project Conceptualization awards are anticipated.
This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering research and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers' abilities to lead the development of new CI; and (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven science and engineering into the Nation's educational curriculum/instructional material fabric spanning undergraduate and graduate courses for advancing fundamental research. Pilot and Implementation projects may target one or both of the solicitation goals, while Large-scale Project Conceptualization projects must address both goals. For the purpose of this solicitation, advanced CI is broadly defined as the set of resources, tools, methods, and services for advanced computation, large-scale data handling and analytics, and networking and security for large-scale systems that collectively enable potentially transformative fundamental research.
Three classes of proposals are being accepted:
- Pilot projects are exploratory activities that may lead to Implementation projects.
- Implementation projects make CI training and educational activities or curriculum/instructional materials broadly accessible to a significant portion of a community for one or more disciplines.
- Large-scale Project Conceptualization awards are planning grants for potential future large-scale (at the level of institutes) CyberTraining projects.
To ensure relevance to community needs and to facilitate adoption, those proposals of interest to one or more domain divisions must include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to the targeted research discipline. All proposals shall include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to OAC. An individual may serve as PI or co-PI on only one Pilot or Implementation proposal submitted to the CyberTraining program per competition. There are no restrictions or limits on Large-scale Project Conceptualization Project proposals.
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Jennifer Corby
Research Development Officer
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