Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2021-38

NSF Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) Supplement Support to NSF Grants Awardees

The National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering (NSF/ENG) continually seeks to advance scientific progress in research and innovation while broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. If you currently have an active NSF grant, please contact your program director for supplemental funding for additional support for having undergraduate and high-school students in your lab on the funded project(s).   The REM Program supports the active involvement of research participants (high school students, STEM teachers, undergraduate STEM students, faculty, and veterans) in hands-on research to bring participants into collaboration with suitable STEM mentors and expose them to this rich research experience. Research participants will be recruited as cohorts to facilitate mentoring and research activities, community building, and provide mutual support. The program directors in different NSF directorate may have discretionary funds for supplement grants to active research grants. They will advise you on the application protocol for supplement grants.

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Office of Research Events: Fall 2021

Event: Undergraduate Research and Innovation (URI) Workshop with Student Presentations  

When:  October 28, 2021; 2.00 PM to 5.30 PM

Where: Ballroom A, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: Undergraduate students competing for URI Student Seed Grants will present their proposals with 5-minutes ppt presentations to the URI External Advisory Board. URI Phase-1 Student Seed Grants provide $500 per project to pursue preliminary research or demonstrate an initial proof-of-concept/prototypes. URI Phase-2 Student Seed Grants provide up to $3,000 per project to further pursue application-based research or develop a complete technology development prototype.

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Event: NJIT NSF CAREER Award Panel Discussion

When:  November 4, 2021; 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM

Where: Ballroom B, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: All faculty interested in NSF CAREER award submission are invited to 2021 NJIT NSF CAREER Award Panel Discussion event. The event will highlight the requirements for NSF CAREER award. NJIT faculty who have recently received the prestigious NSF CAREER award will share their experience and discuss the best practices on successful proposal preparation. The detailed agenda will be announced shortly.

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Event: National Academy of Inventors (NAI) – NJIT Chapter Workshop: Sustainable Societies and Climate Change

When:  November 15, 2021; 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM (Lunch at 12.00 PM followed by the Faculty Research Showcase)

Where: Ballroom A&B, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: The Sustainable Societies and Climate Change workshop is sponsored by the Office of Research and National Academy of Inventors (NAI) – NJIT Chapter as a part of the workshop series on “Innovations to Sustainable Solutions” focused on NJIT Research Grand Challenges: Healthcare Innovations, Sustainable Communities, and Next-Generation Computing and Cyberinfrastructure. The workshop will feature a Distinguished keynote address, panel discussions and round-table discussions with faculty and multidisciplinary stakeholders from academia, industry, businesses, and government. All faculty, students and researchers are invited to attend. More details about the program agenda will be announced shortly.

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Event:  Faculty Research Showcase

When:  November 15, 2021, from 12.00 PM to 3.00 PM

Where: Ballroom A&B, Student Campus Center

Brief Description: The Faculty Research Showcase will introduce new faculty who joined NJIT in AY22 with individual 3-minutes ppt podium presentations. The showcase will also feature podium ppt presentations by FY22 Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) recipients. The showcase will be held in the in-person mode at the campus but will also be streamed live via WebEx for additional remote audience. The showcase will provide a unique opportunity to learn about research expertise of our new faculty towards developing future research collaborations. Through Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) presentations, you will know more about some of the recent multidisciplinary basic, applied, and translational research initiatives of high potential impact. All faculty, students and researchers are invited to attend. The detailed program agenda will be announced shortly.

NSF: NSF-DFG Lead Agency Activity in Chemistry and Transport in Confined Spaces (NSF-DFG Confine); Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC); Japan-U.S. Network Opportunity (JUNO); Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS); Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO); Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (HEGS-DDRI); Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC); Biology Integration Institutes (BII); Facilitator of Polar STEAM (Polar STEAM); Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI)

NIH: Limited Competition: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Research Training Grant for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program (T32); Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan (R21); NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K08)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS (MCS) BAA; 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;

Department of Agriculture: Centers of Excellence at 1890 Institutions

Department of Labor: Workforce System Technical Assistance Collaborative

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change; Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) Program; FY 2021 STEM Talent Challenge Program; Climate Program Office FY2022; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: FY22 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD ASSESSMENT GRANTS; FY22 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD CLEANUP

Department of Energy: UNIVERSITY-BASED CYBERSECURITY CENTERS; Early Career Research Program

NASA: Strategic Astrophysics Technology; Physical Sciences Informatics; 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

President’s Science and Technology Council: Highlighting a historic level of diversity, White House officials released the names of 30 individuals from industry and academia who will advise the president on science and technology issues. “The members represent the most diverse [Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology] in U.S. history,” according to a White House announcement Wednesday. “This PCAST reflects the president’s commitment to build an administration that truly looks like America: For the first time ever, women make up half of PCAST, and people of color and immigrants make up more than one-third of PCAST.” The new council “include[s] experts in astrophysics and agriculture, biochemistry and computer engineering, ecology and entrepreneurship, immunology and nanotechnology, neuroscience and national security, social science and cybersecurity, and more,” the White House release said. The council will be co-chaired by Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Eric Lander, and—for the first time—two women. One, Frances Arnold, is a biochemical engineer who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry and started companies working on agriculture and sustainable fuels. The other, Maria Zuber, is a trailblazer for women in geophysics and planetary science with experience leading experiments on missions at NASA. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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10 Universities Picked to Help HHS Build Up Health IT Workforce: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced $73 million in grants to support career training and job placement for 4,000 new health IT workers. The funding is part of $80 million given to HHS as part of the second pandemic stimulus package—the American Rescue Plan—set aside for the Public Health Informatics and Technology Workforce Development Program, or PHIT. The program is being administered by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, or ONC, which Wednesday announced 10 awards focused on bringing more minority and underserved communities into health IT. ONC officials initially planned to award up to $75 million—with $5 million reserved for program administration—for up to 30 projects. After three months of sifting through project proposals, the team chose 10 awardees:

• Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
• California State University, Long Beach Research Foundation, Long Beach, CA
• Dominican College of Blauvelt, Inc., Orangeburg, NY
• Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
• Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
• Regents of The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
• University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA
• University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
• University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC

The organizations will group to “form multiple consortia” that will provide training and job placement assistance for more than 4,000 people over the next four years.

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