The Office of the Provost has shared some key reminders for the spring and summer quarters. These include key dates, policies, resources and more. See the Office of the Provost website for all the information.

Discussing career paths with students can make a major impact on their lives. Faculty and staff who regularly engage in these conversations are encouraged to join the Career Champions Certificate Program, launched this year by the Steinbright Career Development Center in partnership with Drexel Human Resources. Faculty and professional staff who attend three out of five sessions in the program are eligible to become certified career champions; they can also attend any sessions that speak to them without needing to achieve certification. For more information on the program, see the announcement online.

Overleaf is an online shared/collaborative LaTeX environment for manuscript and thesis typesetting. It has a free version that has limited capabilities and limited sharing of collaborative documents. Many institutions like ours have comprehensive so-called Commons licenses and there are also discounts for group subscriptions. Jon Spanier is hoping to gather information about usage of Overleaf and to determine what subscription level might be appropriate for our college based on current and anticipated usage. Please take a few moments to complete this survey and feel free to share the survey link with students you mentor. 

Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, received an award from Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. This project is a demonstration of the continued and increasing interest in applications of MXenes.

Franco Montalto, PhD, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, is the recipient of an Environmental Sustainability award from NSF. The goal of the Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. Montalto’s project, “CAS-Climate: Crowd-Sourced Just-in-Time Inlet Maintenance as an Urban Strategy for Climate Resilience,” will explore the possibility that, in an era of increasingly decentralized infrastructure investments, urban residents purposefully engaged in maintenance of urban drainage systems can significantly enhance infrastructure system performance.

Richard Cairncross, PhD, professor of chemical and biological engineering, received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. The goal of this program is to invest in agricultural production research, education, and extension projects for more sustainable, productive, and economically viable plant and animal production systems. Cairncross’s project, “Antimicrobial Thermosetting Bio-Polymers Derived from Non-Edible Oils,” will provide samples of waste oils extracted from wastewater for use in the program.

Kapil Dandekar, PhD, E. Warren Colehower Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement award from NSF for his project “MRI: Development of a mmWave Software Defined Radio Network Testbed for Hybrid Measurement and Emulation.” This supplement will provide funding for two undergraduate students to both design and utilize various tools for the evaluation of various software-defined radios using the NSF-funded testbed. 

Vibha Kalra, PhD, George B. Francis chair professor of chemical and biological engineering, was quoted in an April 3 CleanTechnica article about new sulfur battery technology that could extend EV range by 300%.

Yury Gotgotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was quoted in a March 22 Ceramic Tech Today post about his recent publication suggesting that electrochemical energy storage mechanisms exist on a spectrum, rather than being discrete processes.

Full Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: May 5, 2022

Stage 1 Full Proposal Deadline: May 5, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: May 10, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: May 10, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: May 11, 2022

Phase I Full Proposal Deadline: May 12, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: May 16, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: May 23, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: June 21, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: June 27, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: June 27, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: June 30, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: July 13, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: August 24, 2022

Letter of Intent (required) Deadline: September 2, 2022

Letter of Intent (required) Deadline: September 12, 2022

Preliminary Proposal (required) Deadline: September 14, 2022

Letter of Intent (required) Deadline: September 21, 2022

Rolling Deadline

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Full Proposal Deadline: April 26, 2022

Letter of Intent (required) Deadline: April 19, 2022

Full Proposal Deadline: April 20, 2022

NSF will be hosting the CISE-RV Program Webinar (NSF 22-567) on April 13, 2022 at 3pm Eastern. NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) seeks to fund a community-driven organization to lead the community in identifying ambitious new fundamental and translational research directions that align with national and societal priorities and thereby catalyze the computing research community's pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. Find more information and register for the webinar here.

The Spring NSF Virtual Grants Conference will be held from June 6, 2022 to June 10, 2022. Registration will be free of charge and opens on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 at 12pm Eastern. Sign up here to be notified of conference registration details.

Applications for I-Corps Regional Courses are open. In these 4.5 week virtual courses, researches working on a deep tech innovation will have the opportunity to "get out of their comfort zone" and talk with customers (virtually) to identify the best product-market fit. Applicants may apply with a team of 1-3 people. Find more information about the courses and application deadlines here.

On March 28, 2022, the Biden-Harris administration submitted to Congress the President's budget request for Fiscal Year 2023. The budget makes critical investments in American science, innovation, and the workforce that will help lay a stronger foundation for shared growth and prosperity for generations to come. Read the full statement by NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan here.

In accordance with Important Notice No. 147, many National Science Foundation (NSF) program solicitations now require the use of Research.gov for the preparation and submission of proposals. Please be advised that NSF will now start requiring the use of Research.gov for the preparation and submission of proposals in response to program descriptions. As a reminder, FastLane is targeted to be removed as a submission option from all funding opportunities when the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) goes into effect in January 2023. Grants.gov will remain a submission option for most NSF proposals.

DOE requests applications from undergraduate students for the Collegiate Wind Competition. View the full announcement with application deadlines and guidelines here.

Drexel University has finalized the negotiations of the fiscal year 2023 fringe benefit rates for sponsored projects with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The finalized full-time fringe benefit rate decreased to 28.3% from the proposed rate of 31.9%. The part-time rate of 11.7% remains the same as the proposed rate. COEUS and Banner have both been updated to reflect the new rates effective July 1, 2022.

NSF announces the establishment of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) on March 10, 2022. This new directorate builds upon the agency's commitment over seven decades to serve as a beacon of U.S. innovation, advancing the frontiers of research and education across all fields of science and engineering. View the full announcement here.