Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2021-40

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Office of Research Events: Fall 2021

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: Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES); Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS); National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes Accelerating Research; Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPS-Ascend); Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO); 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)

NIH: Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (ViCTER) (R01): Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01); SPARC Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technologies (HORNET) Initiative (U41); NINDS Institutional AD/ADRD Research Training Program (T32); Systems Biology for Infectious Diseases (U19)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) 2022 Broad Agency Announcement; 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: Solid Waste Management Grant Program; 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: Development of Innovative Approaches to Assess the Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures; 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

Supply Chain Crisis Office Within Commerce Department: Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House Wednesday this week would create a Supply Chain Resiliency and Crisis Office within the Commerce Department to address shortages of critical goods and services, industrial equipment and certain manufacturing technologies. According to Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., the Building Resilient Supply Chains Act, the bill would solidify U.S. supply chains and spur domestic manufacturing. The legislation would authorize up to $45 billion for the newly-created office to issue grants or loans to support expanded domestic manufacturing. Other sponsors for the bipartisan legislation include Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. According to the legislation, the new Commerce office results in part from President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan and Executive Order 14017 in February. A subsequent review by multiple agencies of critical products, including semiconductors, rare minerals and high-capacity batteries underscored the need for such an office. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Federal CISO Considers Including Technology Modernization in Cybersecurity Metrics: Chris De Rusha is also thinking about how to use the Technology Modernization Fund to create a new shared services program for zero-trust implementation. Examining use of a recently bolstered modernization fund to implement cybersecurity measures could be one way the federal chief information security officer assesses the government’s risk posture going forward. “I want to see tons of [Technology Modernization Fund] projects being implemented that are drawing down security [risks],” Chris De Rusha said, noting that is “another metric that I'll look at for judging how well we're doing.”  The TMF—a central loan fund for agency IT upgrades—received a $1 billion boost as part of the American Rescue Plan and a mandate to relax the repayment requirements for critical cybersecurity and pandemic-related projects. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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America’s First Exascale Supercomputer Is ‘On Track’ for 2021 Deployment: After years of preparation and a change of plans, the United States’ first exascale supercomputer will soon be in full function. “Frontier is being installed now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” Morgan McCorkle, ORNL’s media relations manager confirmed on Monday. Exascale systems are at the core of the next-generation of high performance supercomputing. They will be capable of operating at one quintillion calculations per second, which is immensely faster than most modern systems. Using them, researchers could process massive amounts of data and conduct potentially groundbreaking simulations spanning many fields at much more rapid rates. Such systems require a great deal of power and generate substantial heat. So, a new, more than two-mile power line recently had to be installed and other renovations had to be made to provide for roughly 40 megawatts of power and cooling for Frontier—before the massive machine’s components could even be staged on the floor of the Oak Ridge facility.

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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.

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