Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-20

Orientation Event: 10.00 AM – 3.00 PM; Atrium, Campus Center

Undergraduate research provides students a unique opportunity to learn necessary and important skills to research and innovate towards taking a leadership role in the society. As a student-centered research institution, NJIT is committed to providing opportunities for research participation to all undergraduate students. This year, the URI Summer Research Program hosts about 150 undergraduate students from provost summer research fellowship, NSF REU sites, NSF iCorps and other research grants. All undergraduate students working on research projects during this summer are invited to attend the URI Summer Research Program orientation event on May 23, 2022 at 10.00 AM in the Atrium, Campus Center. After the summer research, all students will present their research work at the NJIT International Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on July 28-29, 2022. Please mark you calendar to join us at the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium to encourage and support student researchers.

            The agenda of the URI Summer Research Program orientation event is as follows:

10:00 AM - Welcome Remarks

        Introductions

        Review of key dates

        Review of program expectations

12:00 PM - Lunch & Networking

1:00 PM -   Lab Safety Training

3:00 PM -   Orientation concludes

The 2022 URI Summer Research Program events include:

The 2022 URI Summer Research Program events include:

• May 23, 2022: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Campus Center Atrium: Orientation Event    

             Atam Dhawan & Mitchell Gayer

• June 2, 2022: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Room 116 Central King Building: Lab Safety Training

            Mitchell Gayer

• June 15, 2022: 11:00 – 1:00 PM, Ballroom A, Campus Center: Graduate Programs

            Sotorios Ziavras

• June 28, 2022: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Virtual via WebEx: Research Ethics  

           J. Britt Holbtook

• July 7, 2022: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Agile Strategies Lab (Central King Building): Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship      

            Atam Dhawan, William Lutz and Sanjiv Chokshi

• July 28-29, 2022: 8.30 AM – 4.30 PM, Ballrooms A & B, Campus Center: 2022 URI International Summer Research Symposium

Special thanks to all faculty advisors for supervising the undergraduate student researchers in their laboratories. Most of the Provost Research Fellowship recipient undergraduate students will host high school students who are accepted in the 2022 NJIT High School Summer Research Internship (HSSRI) internship program. If any faculty advising undergraduate or high school student has not yet contacted Kathleen O-Neill, Assistant Director, Research Operations in the Office of Research, please contact Kathleen immediately at ko86@njit.edu.

NSF: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII); Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI); Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity; Disaster Resilience Research Grants (DRRG); NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) Program; Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC); Partnership for Prototyping of CMOS+X Systems; Quantum Manufacturing

NIH: NINDS Interdisciplinary Team Science Grant (RM1 Clinical Trial Optional); NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards (R01); NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional); NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1); NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Defense Manufacturing Communities Support Program; DoD Vision, Investigator- Initiated Research Award; FY22 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) – RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC); DoD Multiple Sclerosis, Investigator-Initiated Research Award; Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Young Investigator Program

Department of Transportation: Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) and MEGA Grants

Department of Agriculture: Higher Education Challenge Grants Program; FY 2022 Scientific Cooperation Research Program; Conservation Innovation Grants New Jersey State Program

Department of Labor: Growth Opportunities

Department of Commerce/EDA:  2022 Build to Scale Program; Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM

Department of Energy: Carbon Management

NASA: ROSES 2022: Space Weather Centers of Excellence; ROSES 2022: Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics Networks; Early Stage Innovations (ESI22); ROSES 2022: Advanced Component Technology

National Endowment of Humanities: Public Humanities Projects; Summer Stipends

Private Foundations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grant Challenges Partnership Network

Energy Department Provides $53 Million in Funding for Climate Change Tech: The Department of Energy added to recent investments in clean energy Thursday, announcing $53 million in funding for small businesses pursuing cutting-edge technologies to address climate change. The funding is spread across 259 projects in 38 states and range from cybersecurity solutions, nanotechnology, renewable energy, energy storage, carbon capture, security and resilience and fusion energy. Energy’s push to provide investments in clean energy is part of President Joe Biden’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050. The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs will administer the funding. Historically, Energy awardees of similar grants have reported more than $1.7 billion in sales, according to the department. More information is posted on the NextGov website. 

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NIST Report Documents Success In Commerce’s Technology Transfer Initiative: 2021 saw a large volume of technology transfer initiatives between federal agencies thanks to increased efforts by the Department of Commerce to better disseminate viable technological products from federal laboratories and control for gaps in the research and development space. Outlined in a new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, technology transfer operations were present across at least three studied agencies: NIST, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. This ultimately yielded thousands of peer-reviewed publications and hundreds of new patent filings and applications. “Technology transfer is a critical component of the DOC mission to create conditions for economic growth and opportunities for all communities,” said Mojdeh Bahar, the associate director of innovation and industry services at NIST. “By transferring technologies to the commercial market, the DOC laboratories help drive U.S. economic competitiveness, strengthen domestic industry and spur job creation.” More information is posted on the NextGov website. 

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Pentagon’s Five-Year Strategy: For those who are unfamiliar with Pentagon jargon and timelines: from January to July, the services build their five-year budget proposals, called “the Program.” Since the 2023 budget now lies with Congress, the armed services are currently building the 2024-29 Program, which will be submitted to the Office of the Secretary of Defense in July. The services build their program based upon the Defense Planning Guidance, detailed instructions and resource levels given to them by OSD. From August to November, the services defend these programs to the OSD staff, much in the same way a doctoral candidate defends their thesis. In December, the President’s Office of Management and Budget provides final topline financial guidance and in January, the budget goes to the printer to be submitted to Congress in February. (Of course, this schedule is in an ideal world.)  The services are making their final programming decisions, such as which weapons are terminated, which force structure gets cut, and what levels of readiness they will maintain. Given what we are learning with the war in Ukraine, there are four crucial lessons to learn that would, if accepted, upend the current strategy that is underpinning the building of the defense budget. Pentagon has “next war-itis.” In the case of the current 2024 program-build, the strategy is to be prepared for war with China in 2030s by taking risk in the 2020s. This is seen, for example, in the proposal to spend nearly as much on research and development  ($130 billion) as on procurement ($145 billion). But Russia has shown us that a declining power will strike sooner rather than later. Many believe that China’s growth is no longer assured, and this may make Beijing much more dangerous in 2027 than in 2037. More information is posted on the NextGov website. 

Question:       How can I add another investigator or my research ambassador to my proposal in order to help on budget preparation and edit proposal details?

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