Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2021-36

National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG)

NSF 22-1 Effective Date October 4, 2021

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg22_1/index.jsp

NSF has included some significant changes in the proposal submission requirements. The new 2022 PAPPG with a summary of changes is posted on the NSF PAPPG website.  The new requirements and policers will be effective October 4, 2021. Significant Changes and Clarifications to the PAPPG include:

• Chapter II.A.2, Requests for Reasonable and Accessibility Accommodations, is an entirely new section which provides guidance on the process for submitting requests for reasonable accommodations regarding the proposal process or requests for accessibility accommodations to access NSF’s electronic systems, websites, and other digital content.
• Chapter II.C.2.f, Biographical Sketches, has been revised to increase the page limit for biographical sketch(es) to three pages. This section also has been updated to include reference to a new table entitled NSF Pre-award and Post-award Disclosures Relating to the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support. The table has been developed to assist users in completion of these sections of the proposal.
• Chapter II.C.2.h, Current and Pending Support, has been updated to require that information on objectives and overlap with other projects be provided, to help NSF and reviewers assess overlap/duplication. This section also has been updated to include reference to a new table entitled NSF Pre-award and Post-award Disclosures Relating to the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support.
• Chapter II.E.1, Planning Proposal, provides coverage on the policies and procedures associated with this new type of proposal.
• Chapter II.E.8, Career-Life Balance (CLB) Supplemental Funding Requests, has been added as a new "Other Proposal Type". This section includes guidance on submission of such requests.
• Chapter VII.D.5, Grant Closeout, incorporates new requirements specified in 2 CFR §200.344(i). If a grantee does not submit all required reports within one year of the period of performance end date, NSF must report the grantee’s material failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the award with the OMB-designated integrity and performance system.

NSF Proposal and Award Policy Update Webinar

NSF will offer Proposal and Award Policy Update Webinar to the research community on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from 2:00 – 3:00pm EST. Please visit https://nsfpolicyoutreach.com/21-pappg/ to register for the Zoom Webinar. For questions prior to the webinar, please contact us at grants_conference@nsf.gov.

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NJIT  I-Corps Site Mini-Grant Funding Opportunities

Proposal Submission Deadline: September 17, 2021

https://centers.njit.edu/icorp/

NJIT has been designated as an NSF I-Corps Site and through the NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management, Leir Research Institute, and NJ Innovation Acceleration Center, we will provide specialized training and mini grants of up to $3,000 to teams interested in exploring the commercial viability of their ideas for products and businesses that are based on their own inventions or NJIT intellectual property.

I-Corps mini grants are available to teams made up NJIT students and faculty. Each team must have:

- an entrepreneurial lead (typically an NJIT undergraduate or graduate student)

- an academic lead researcher/advisor (faculty member)

- a business mentor with significant entrepreneurial business experience.

For additional information, please visit the ICorps website or contact Dr. Michael Ehrlich, Director of the Leir Research Institute and NJ Innovation Acceleration Center at ehrlich@njit.edu.

NSF: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI); Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Core Programs Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI); Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB); Coastlines and People Hubs for Research and Broadening Participation (CoPe); EHR Core Research - Resource Coordination Hub (ECR Hub); Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP); Partnerships for Research and Education in Physics (PREP)

NIH: NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K08); Translational and Basic Science Research in Early Lesions: Coordinating and Data Management Center (U24); NCI Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: FY22 Young Investigator Program; Reimagining Protein Manufacturing (RPM); Science, Innovation and Technology Partnership Intermediary Agreement; Defense Sciences Office Office-wide; Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Department of Transportation: DDETFP Transportation Fellowship Program; High Priority Program – Innovative Technology Deployment (HP-ITD)

Department of Agriculture: Farm of the Future

Department of Labor: Workforce System Technical Assistance Collaborative

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) Program; FY 2021 STEM Talent Challenge Program; American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Statewide Planning, Research, and Networks; Climate Program Office FY2022; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet; FY22 Brownfields Job Training Grants; Water Innovation, Science, Engagement to Advance Water Reuse

Department of Energy: Early Career Research Program; FY 2022 SBIR/STTR Phase I; FY2022 Research Opportunities in High Energy Physics; Advanced Manufacturing Office Multi-Topic FOA

NASA: ROSES 2021: Terrestrial Ecology; ROSES 2021: Heliophysics Living with a Star Infrastructure; ROSES 2021

National Endowment of Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Private Foundations: New Jersey Health Foundation: Innovation Grants; NSF-BSF Funding Opportunities: BSF and NSF-BSF Funding Opportunities; Johnson & Johnson Innovation: Packaging Design QuickFire Challenge: Unit Dose Technologies

House Reconciliation Markups Begin: This week, the House returned from its August recess to begin to undertake committee markups of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, formally titled the “Build Back Better Act.” The committees which held markups are Agriculture, Education & Labor, Natural Resources, Oversight, Science, Space, & Technology, Small Business, and Ways & Means. Below, you’ll find the committee documents on the bills:

• Agriculture
• Education & Labor
• Natural Resources
• Oversight
• Science, Space, & Technology
• Small Business
• Ways & Means

Next week, the Energy & Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation & Infrastructure, and Veterans’ Affairs committees will hold markups as well. Below, you’ll find the committee documents on the bills where available:

• Energy & Commerce
• Financial Services
• Transportation & Infrastructure

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House Reconciliation Package Includes $3 Billion for Federal IT: The House Committee on Oversight and Reform adopted an amendment offered by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., that earmarks more than $3 billion in spending on federal IT modernization efforts. The committee voted to approve the amendment after a markup of the reconciliation package current under draft in the House. The amendment supplements IT modernization funding in three ways. First, it adds $1 billion in funding to the Technology Modernization Fund—the same amount it received under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. Those numbers represent approximately ten times more than Congress had ever previously allotted for TMF. But speaking during the markup Thursday, Connolly said more than 100 agencies have submitted applications for IT modernization projects to TMF, and “new applications continue to flood in.” More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Data Science Education Lacks a Much-Needed Focus on Ethics: Undergraduate training for data scientists - dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review - falls short in preparing students for the ethical use of data science, our new study found. Data science lies at the nexus of statistics and computer science applied to a particular field such as astronomy, linguistics, medicine, psychology or sociology. The idea behind this data crunching is to use big data to address otherwise unsolvable problems, such as how health care providers can create personalized medicine based on a patient’s genes and how businesses can make purchase predictions based on customers’ behavior. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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