Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-03

Reminder: Please Submit Description of Your Research Institute, Center or Lab ASAP

President’s Forum

and

NJIT 2022 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratory Showcase

In Conjunction with

NAI-NJIT Chapter Workshop

Sustainable Societies: Global Healthcare

February 21, 2022; 9.00 AM – 2.00 PM

Ballroom A/B and Gallery, Campus Center, NJIT

NJIT will publish a booklet with summary descriptions of the NJIT research institutes, centers and labs similar to those published in the past and posted on the website https://centers.njit.edu/research-publications. You can also see the 2021 research showcase booklet at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hiHyfTqJsUtENK69tR_xXt36f5ijF_4I/view?usp=sharing 

To prepare 2022 booklet on NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Labs, we are requesting you to fill out a Google Form at  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfURdBypvT9m2oISLQItX8tbgIE-SwZ-ipddu-JbjxIf1YbWA/viewform. Through the Google Form, you can either keep your institute/center/lab summary description if it was included in the 2021 booklet, or update it, or submit a new summary description (maximum 200 words) to be included in the 2022 booklet. 

If you have submitted a response on updating or keeping your institute/center/lab description, THANK YOU very much. You do not need to submit it again.

If you have not submitted your response on updating or keeping your institute/center/lab description, PLEASE submit your response filling out the Google Form ASAP  before January 25, 2022 for your description to have it published in the 2022 booklet. 

NSF: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Equity Resource Center (AISL-ERC); Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (GEOPAths); Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology (MFB): Partnerships to Transform Emerging Industries; Announcement of Upcoming Topics for the 2022 NSF Convergence Accelerator Solicitation; Signals in the Soil (SitS); Accelerating Innovations in Biomanufacturing Approaches through Collaboration Between NSF and the DOE BETO funded Agile BioFoundry (NSF-DOE/ABF Collaboration); EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER); Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE): Use-Inspired Research Challenges on Climate Change and Clean Energy); Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER); Leading Culture Change Through Professional Societies of Biology (BIO-LEAPS); Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB)

NIH: BRAIN Initiative: Standards to Define Experiments Related to the BRAIN Initiative (R01); Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) (R21); Pilot Studies for the Spectrum of Alzheimer’s Disease/Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (R61); High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10); Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10); Biomedical Research Facilities (C06)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Real-Time Assessment and Augmentation of Cognitive Performance in Extreme Environments; Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide; Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS (MCS) BAA

Department of Transportation: FY 2021 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Enhancing Mobility Innovation

Department of Agriculture: Announcement for Program Funding for NRCS’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP); Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program

Department of Labor: NJ Pathways Leading Apprentices to a College Education; Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) Grant Program

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Precision Measurement Grant Program (PMGP); Environmental Literacy Program; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities

Department of Energy: Energy Frontier Research Centers; High-Energy-Density Plasma Laboratory Science; Fiscal Year 2022 Distinguished Early Career Program

NASA: ROSES 2021: Astrophysics Pioneers; ROSES: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology

National Endowment of Humanities: Fellowships; Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Private Foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) Grants

Information Warfare is Moving Beyond Nation States: The United States is dealing with numerous crises simultaneously, including the pandemic, the effects of climate change, supply chain disruptions and inflation, and polarizing, paralyzing partisanship. All of them are being turbocharged by misinformation and disinformation spread at lightning speed through social media and the internet. A panel of experts convened Jan. 20 by the Aspen Digital program at the Aspen Institute offered a dismal, but not hopeless, portrait of the reasons behind the explosion of bad information and ways to combat the phenomenon. “We tend to think of this as extremely novel, but it’s not, [it’s] something perennially with us,” said Alicia Wanless, Director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “We don’t have a good way to look at it holistically,” partly because efforts to address misinformation and disinformation focus on the bad actors promoting them rather than their ecosystems. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Big Tech Anxious About Commerce Plan to Secure Supply Chains from Foreign Influence: The Information Technology Industry Council is uneasy with language in a Commerce Department proposal for securing supply chains that suggests a need to conduct source-code reviews as part of a process for approving U.S. transactions of information and communications technology to guard against threats from China and other foreign adversaries. “We have, on every occasion, pushed back against the examination of source code as a means to promote security and/or as a condition to do business in countries around the world, most notably China,” the trade association wrote in comments to Commerce Jan. 11 on a notice of proposed rulemaking the department was directed to issue under executive orders from Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump.   Fear of information and communications technology used in the U.S. and around the world coming under control of the Chinese government or other foreign adversaries is shared across the political spectrum and the administration is joined by Congress in advancing efforts to scrutinize the supply chains of the critical technologies. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Guidance for U.S. Scientific Research Security that Preserves International Collaboration: The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released  guidance to all federal research agencies on how to implement the requirements in National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33). The complete implementation guidance is posted on the website https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/010422-NSPM-33-Implementation-Guidance.pdf A copy of this guidance document is attached for your quick reference.  The following blog is posted on the CRA (Computing Research Association) website https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2022/01/ostp-research-security-guidance/   "An on-going concern with efforts to crack down on this “research security” problem is that it could lead to singling out people of specific ethnicities, particular those of Chinese descent. OSTP and the National Science and Technology Council were as concerned about not fueling prejudice and xenophobia as they were about protecting research. In fact, the “General Implementation Guidance” (page 1) states that research agencies need to engage with the research community throughout their implementation process, as well as to adopt measures that are “risk-based,” while avoiding retroactive application of measures. While this appears to be a good first step, there is still much work to be do, most significantly each research agency will need to put out their specific policies.

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