Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2024-46

Office of Research Faculty Research Advisory Board Meeting and Open House

November 20, 2024; 12.00 PM - 2.00 PM; Ballroom A (with Light Lunch)

Your input and feedback is extremely important to us to develop strategic resources and infrastructure support to serve you and NJIT research and innovation enterprise better.

Please RSVP using the Google Form (click here) by November 13

The Office of Research provides institutional support and services, as well as fosters new opportunities to enhance NJIT research, innovation and scholarship enterprise engaging faculty, staff, students and external stakeholders towards building a strong research, innovation and technology entrepreneurship ecosystem through collaborative research and innovation partnerships. 

We are committed to providing support and services to NJIT faculty, students and community to support interdisciplinary research and scholarship with the utmost professional integrity for their success and accomplishments of their professional development goals. 

The Office of Research (OR) will host the Faculty Research Advisory Board (FRAB) meeting and open house to share and discuss with faculty, deans and chairs the ongoing OR strategic plan initiatives to further enhance NJIT collaborative research and innovation enterprise and research infrastructure support services. 

We will have short presentations to provide an overview of the key services offered by NJIT's Office of Research, including pre-award services, post-award management, research compliance and integrity, research security, and technology transfer. Each presentation is designed to inform faculty, researchers, and research support staff about enhancements to service offerings, recent compliance updates, and practical steps for navigating the research administration process more effectively. The event aims to support the research community’s success and maintain adherence to evolving regulatory standards.

To help manage the meeting logistics, please RSVP using the short Google Form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRh_PhKd6Noui9Qh5k1D4H5HcZEDMDa-0ZMXz10bWzGhA8jw/viewform 

NSF: Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB); Equitable and Transformative Approaches to Educating the Semiconductor Workforce (ETA-ESW); Growing Research Compliance Support and Service Infrastructure for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity; Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF); Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS); Build and Broaden: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions (B2); Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC); Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT)

NIH: NINDS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Training of Postdoctoral Fellows (F32); Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01); Engineering Next-Generation Human Nervous System Microphysiological Systems (R21); BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UH3); BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UG3/UH3); Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Joint Airborne Mission Survivability IPT; Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide; Young Faculty Award (YFA)

Department of Energy: Environmental System Science (ESS); Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3)

NASA: ROSES 2024: F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology

An agency-by-agency look at Trump's plan to overhaul government: President-elect Trump’s victory promises to bring wholesale shakeups to government operations, as the former commander-in-chief re-enters office with far-ranging ideas to change agency missions.  Trump has vowed to relocate agency headquarters, end the merit-based civil service for some segments of the federal workforce, require government employees to take constitutional exams and other changes to executive branch management. Some of his more signature policy ideas, however, will also require sweeping changes to how agencies operate. Trump has vowed to sidestep any efforts to block his agenda, in part by fighting in court or Congress to revoke the 1974 Impoundment Control Act. That law prohibits the executive branch from withholding Congressionally appropriated funds for policy reasons. The president-elect has not yet said whether he would institute a governmentwide hiring freeze upon taking office, as he did in 2017. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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NIST approves 14 new quantum encryption algorithms for standardization: The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a new series of digital signature algorithms ready for the agency’s post-quantum cryptographic standardization process, following the finalization of the inaugural three earlier this year. 14 new algorithms are now candidates for PQC standardization after over a year of evaluation, the agency confirmed. These algorithms are intended to be implemented in networks prior to the advent of a potential fault-tolerant quantum computer. The algorithms are designed to protect against that future quantum computer's ability to process sufficiently large volumes of data and break the standard encryption schemes that protect today’s sensitive digital information.  The algorithms’ names include CROSS, FAEST, HAWK, LESS, MAYO, Mirath, MQOM, PERK, QR-UOV, RYDE, SDitH, SNOVA, SQIsign, UOV. These candidates will now enter the second round for standardization, which the agency expects to take 12 to 18 months. From NextGov website.