Funding Opportunities
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AWIS (Association for Women in Science): New Undergraduate Awards
Award: $500 or $1000
Deadline: Jan. 23 (undergrads); Jan. 30 (predocs) Please notify your students in lab or classes about this opportunity. Small application process, transcripts and letters of recommendation are required. Applications and related information can be found on the AWIS Educational Foundation website.
Mass Department of Higher Ed STEM Pipeline Funding
Award: One-year mini grants up to $20,000
Deadline: Feb. 5, 2009
The Department of Higher Ed has released a Request for Proposals for special round STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)pipeline funding to support one-year mini grants for up to $20,000. The DHE will award grants to teams of mathematics educators to design curriculum modules for use in college mathematics courses for pre-service elementary teachers at the associate, baccalaureate, or post-baccalaureate level. The modules may also be useful for MTEL preparation workshops and in-service professional development. The DHE will post a selection of completed modules from this initiative on their website for public use. Contact Keith Connors at: kconnors@bhe.mass.edu for more information.
Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2): Applications for Medical Device Technology Award: Up to $75K (with matching funds)
Deadline: Feb. 16th
M2D2 welcomes applications from those with a medical device technology. Every application will receive a business analysis. If needed, a medical assessment will be given as well. Some of the benefits that M2D2 offers are: design feedback, medical expertise, connections to Massachusetts VC and Angel network, incubator space with wet labs, access to patient population for clinical trials, facilitate partnership with clinical investigators, help with prototyping (considering cost, schedule and quality), network of private sector design, fabrication and testing firms, regulatory support for FDA submissions, and assistance with SBIR/STTR applications. M2D2 can assist entrepreneurs at any stage from concept formation to implementation. Visit the M2D2 website or contact Michele Bernier ( mbernier@umassp.edu) for more information or an application file.
National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR): Water Supply and Water Availability RFPs
Award: Matching Grants up to $250,000
Application Deadline: Feb. 20, 2009
The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) requests proposals for matching grants to support research on the topics of water supply and water availability. Proposals may be for projects of 1 to 3 years in duration and my request up to $250,000 in federal funds. Successful applicants must match each dollar of the federal grant with one dollar from non-federal sources. Proposals must be filed on the NIWR web site by February 20, 2009 and must be approved by the Water Resources Research Center.
INTERNAL FUNDING
MRI-MRS Pilot Research Grants
Next Deadline: Feb. 13, 2009
Estimated Award Size: Up to $15,000 The Office of Research has budgeted $60,000- $80,000 in each of the next three years to be used as seed money to fund several UMass faculty-led, pilot research projects per year focused on magnetic resonance imaging techniques. Successful pilot projects (maximum $15,000) will describe a project designed to generate preliminary data for an existing federal or national-level funding initiative. For more information, an application and instructions please go to the Pilot Grant website.
FOUNDATION FUNDING Faculty interested in applying for the following foundation-sponsored opportunities are encouraged to contact Susan Worgaftik (413-547-2956) for assistance or more information. The application deadline is listed for each funding opportunity.
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| Announcements |
Registration Open for Campus YouTube Conference/Paper Submission Extended
Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 21, 2009
Early Bird Registration by: Jan. 31, 2009
Registration is now open for "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States", an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst on April 16 & 17. Register before January 31 and receive and Early Bird discount. The deadline for paper submission has been extended to January 21. Visit the YouTube conference website to register, submit papers, and for more information. This conference is sponsored in part by a Research Leadership in Action grant from the office of Research and Engagement.
CCPH Call for Nominations
Deadline: Jan. 30, 2009
Community Campus Partnerships for Health Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher education institutions that build on each other's strengths to improve higher education, civic engagement, and the overall health of communities. The intent of the award is to highlight the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice. Get the nomination guidelines here. NSF Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Application Deadline: March 2, 2009
Applications are invited from qualified and motivated undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and rising seniors - science and engineering) for this 10-week summer program in interdisciplinary watershed sciences and engineering from all U.S. colleges/universities. May 31-August 7 at Virginia Tech. Application materials and other information available here. Contact: Dr. Tamim Younos (540) 231-8039. For information on summer REUs offered on the UMass Amherst campus, visit the summer REU website. |
| Events |
Research Area Brown Bag Lunch Series
Jan. 15, 21, 28; Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25; March 4, 12: noon - 1 p.m., Brown Bag Lunch Series, Research Administration Building, Room 104, 70 Butterfield Terrace; Jan. 15: Proposal Flow through OGCA (including the award process); Jan. 21: Export Controls; Jan. 28: Collaborators, subcontractors and consultants; who's who? - Why it is important to know and how to identify them; Feb. 4: What's Different about Foundation Funding?; Feb. 11: Conflict of Interest; Feb. 18: NIH Minority/Diversity Supplement Submission: Q & A Session; Feb. 25: Props & Awards; March 4: Querying the OGCA database for sponsored activities information - How to use Jordan On-Line (JOL); March 12: Post-Award Changes (Sabbatical, No-Cost Extension Procedure, Change of institution, Dealing with cost changes that occur after funding is secured). To confirm attendance or for further information, please contact Helen Bishop at 545-0698. More information, including dates and topics for the rest of the spring semester, is here.
For a complete list of campus events, check out www.umass.edu/umhome/events
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| OGCA Histograms |
OGCA processed 155 proposals for a total of $22,705,831 in December 2008. How does that stock up against last year and previous months? Take a look at the histograms to find out.
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December Grants & Contracts Snapshot |
Each month ACCESS includes a selection of grants and contracts awarded to faculty from across campus to provide a sense of what's going on in research at UMass Amherst. These listings reflect only a small fraction of the total sponsored activity for any given month. Since this is just a snapshot in time and grant/contract terms vary, actual award totals may be higher than the amounts listed.
Joseph S. Elkinton
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Sponsor: Forest Service
Title: Survey of Winter Moth Distribution and Spread
Total Award: $30,000
Todd S. Emrick
Polymer Science and Engineering
Sponsor: SciDose LLC
Title: CUMIRP Part III: SciDose
Total Award: $50,000
Mauro Giavalisco
Astronomy
Sponsor: Space Telescope Science Institute
Title: NICMOS: Confirmation of Candidates of the Most Luminous Galaxies at z>7
Total Award: $21,480
Ronald K. Hambleton
Educational Policy Research & Admin
Sponsor: Measured Progress
Title: Score Equating Analyses and Other Technical Work for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System FY'09
Total Award: $150,000
Michael A. Henson
Chemical Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Title: The Third International Conference on Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE 2009)
Total Award: $15,000
Michael A. Knodler
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Development of a Crash Prediction Model for Older Drivers
Total Award: $81,370
Derek Lovley
Microbiology
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Title: Electrodes as an Electron Acceptor to Accelerate the Microbial Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Marine Sediments
Total Award: $123,941
Frances X. Mangan
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Sponsor: US Dept of Agriculture
Title: Development of Innovative Risk Management Tools for Ethnic Crop Production and Marketing Specifically to Assist Socially Disadvantaged
Total Award: $125,000
David J. McClements
Food Science
Sponsor: Coop State Res, Educ and Ext Service
Title: Design of Nano-laminated Coatings to Control Bioavailability of Lipophilic Food Components
Total Award: $355,120
Maria R. Rodriguez-Mongu
Public Health
Sponsor: Universidad de La Rioja
Title: International Trends in Health Care and Pharmaceutical Services Delivery
Total Award: $16,908
Hava Siegelmann
Computer Science
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Title: Symbolic and Continuous Representation in Adaptive Memory with Efficient Inference
Total Award: $175,000
Donna M. Zucker
School of Nursing
Sponsor: Int'l Nurses Society on Addictions
Title: Labyrinth Walking to Enhance Wellness in Incarcerated Substance Abusers
Total Award: $1,000
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