Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2021-39

NJIT 2021 Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Medal and Prize

13th BOO EIR Award Presentation Ceremony

October 7, 2021; Central King Building - Agile Strategy Lab; 5.30 PM  

NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Medal and Prize is the highest research award presented to faculty in recognition of sustained leadership in basic, applied, and translational research and scholarship with prominent contributions in the respective field that have enhanced the reputation of NJIT. The 2021 BOO Excellence in Research Prize and Medal will be presented to Dr. Gabrielle Esperdy, Professor of Architectural and Urban History, and Dr. Nirwan Ansari, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the 13th BOO EIR Medal Award Presentation Ceremony on October 7, 2021 at 5.30 PM in the Room 170, Central King Building - Agile Strategy Lab. The ceremony will be streamed live at njit.edu/excellenceinresearch. More information about the NJIT BOO Excellence in Research Prize and Medal and past recipients is available on the website https://www5.njit.edu/boards/excellence-research-prize-medal/.

_______________________________

Save the Dates

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.

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.

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.

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: Centers for Innovation and Community Engagement in Solid Earth Geohazards; 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)

NIH: NINDS Institutional AD/ADRD Research Training Program (T32); Systems Biology for Infectious Diseases (U19); 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)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Young Faculty Award (YFA); Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change; Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS (MCS) BAA; 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:  Competition for a Cooperative Institute to Support Water Resources; Environmental Literacy Program; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

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

Department of Energy: Atmospheric System Research (ASR); UNIVERSITY-BASED CYBERSECURITY CENTERS; Early Career Research Program

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

National Endowment of Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Private Foundations: New Jersey Health Foundation: Innovation Grants

Health Technology in Action: One of the rare positives of the COVID-19 pandemic is how it accelerated U.S. government-led research and drove agencies to adopt new digital and health technologies. Since medical facilities and hospitals were overwhelmed with large surges in COVID-19 patients, supply chains were initially bottlenecked, and people were directed to stay home at the start of 2020, federal officials have rapidly implemented tools and policies to cope with new demands and manufactured needed resources on their own grounds. The government also tapped emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and robots to confront the major modern challenges presented by the novel coronavirus. Download the free special report here.

______________________

NASA’s Planning a New Initiative to Train People How to Make Use of Its Space Data: America’s space agency captures massive volumes of data from remote platforms each day—and with plans to launch a couple of new satellites in 2022, its information collection will likely soon be expanding at about 50 petabytes per year. Over the last 18 to 24 months, according to the chief science data officer within its science mission directorate, NASA recognized a need to broaden the diversity of people who can answer local questions via this global data it gathers. A workshop associated with this work, which is ultimately aimed at helping jumpstart the adoption of “open science” across NASA-related communities, is set for next month. The agency has also been implementing DevOps approaches for a while now, Murphy noted. That’s proving useful in this context as it helps accelerate the movement of data in cloud environments and the compilation of diverse datasets, so scientists can gain more of a holistic systems perspective. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

____________________

Grants Management Shared Services Marketplace Set to Launch by End of 2021: The office in charge of building a governmentwide shared services ecosystem for grants management plans to launch a new website and marketplace by the end of 2021 and have all federal service providers onboarded by mid-year. The Quality Service Management Office, or QSMO, idea launched in April 2019 with the goal of creating four shared services centers around key needs for all federal agencies: grants management, cybersecurity, human resources and financial accounting. At that time, leaders in the Office of Management and Budget knew which agencies would likely lead these efforts, though official designations didn’t start coming until a year later. Once designated, the respective lead agencies got to work developing long-term plans to build out marketplaces for shared services, contract vehicles for others to purchase from and governmentwide standards for everyone to follow. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

___________________

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.

Question:       Can I generate budgets for multiple years from the Year-1 budget in Streamlyne?

Answer:         Yes! You only need to input the Year-1 budget and then click on the “generate all periods” button. Stremalyne will create budget sheets for the remaining periods. You can then go to “summary” under the budget tab to review budget sheets for all periods. You can also change specific budget items that you allocated in Year-1 but you do not want to continue them in the following periods.

More FAQs on Streamlyne: Please visit http://www.njit.edu/research/streamlyne/