Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2024-12

2024 NJIT Research Institutes, Centers & Laboratory Showcase

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National Academy of Inventors (NAI)-NJIT Forum on Sustainable Societies: Advances in Material Science & Engineering

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March 21, 2024; 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Ballroom A/B, Campus Center, NJIT

Faculty, Students and Post-Docs are requested to join.

Please register using the 2024 NJIT Research Showcase and NAI-NJIT Forum Registration Form.

The Office of Research hosts the NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Labs (ICL) Showcase annually.  This year, the 2024 NJIT Research Institutes, Centers and Labs Showcase and the National Academy of Inventor (NAI)-NJIT Forum on Sustainable Societies: Advances in Material Science and Engineering will be held on March 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Ballroom A/B of the Campus Center.  Dr. Pradeep Fulay, Program Director, Accelerating Research Translation (ART), NSF and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh will give the Distinguished Keynote talk to start the forum and showcase.

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Reminder: Call For Proposals

NJIT Faculty Seed Grants (FSG): FY 2024-25

(Collaborative FSG: $10,000 and Single PI FSG: $7,500)

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NJIT Collaborative Early Research Translation (CERT)  Seed Grants: FY 2024-2025

($25,000 each CERT project)

Full Announcement Access

Proposal Submission Deadline:

FSG Proposals to Respective College/School Dean: April 3, 2024

CERT Seed Grant Proposals to Respective College/School Dean: April 3, 2024  

Project Funding Period: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025

NJIT Strategic Plan targets substantial increase in academic research and external funding with faculty and student professional development. With recent trends in external research funding favoring large collaborative research and innovation partnerships, NJIT is strategically focusing on creating seed funding opportunities for faculty and students to promote collaborative research, innovation and technology entrepreneurship with a complete spectrum of basic, applied and translational research addressing high impact scientific and societal needs.

Faculty Seed Grants

The purpose of the NJIT Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) initiative is to promote academic research in core and interdisciplinary areas by providing seed funding to obtain preliminary results or establish hypotheses for developing future grant proposals for submission to external funding agencies. The FSG initiative specifically seeks seed funding proposals from faculty to launch new initiatives in core, collaborative and interdisciplinary emerging areas aligned with NJIT strategic tactics to develop critical research mass. It is expected that the FSG funds will be used to promote on-campus collaborative research with faculty and students.

Collaborative Early Research Translation (CERT) Seed Grants

Recent trends in federal and private funding have significantly shifted towards large collaborative research and innovation partnerships-based grants for establishing regional and national research resources, hubs, centers, and institutes in key areas of high technology and economic impact. To compete for these large-scale grants, NJIT needs to enhance its capacity and capabilities for collaborative research synergies, specifically through applied and translational research and innovation as well as technology development and transfer activities with an entrepreneurial commercialization ecosystem. To accelerate NJIT’s trajectory towards increased collaborative research and innovation funding, a new strategic initiative to support Collaborative Early Research Translation (CERT) Seed Grants has been launched to invest in research clusters of high potential impact. These CERT seed grants will initiate early translation of research and innovation, working collaboratively with an external partner, towards developing proof-of-feasibility and potential intellectual property to build foundation to submit competitive proposals for external research translation acceleration funding opportunities, such as NSF ART (Accelerating Research Translation), NSF PFI (Partnerships for Innovation) and NIH Biomedical Research Partnerships, or internal NJIT TITA (Technology Innovation Translation Acceleration) seed grants for further advancement in translational research and market validation.

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POCTRN 2024: Now Accepting Applications

Do you have a groundbreaking point-of-care technology in need of development?

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering’s (NIBIB) Point-of-Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN) is pleased to announce six new funding opportunities from its centers. Advance the development of your transformative point-of-care technology through collaborative efforts that seamlessly blend scientific and technological expertise with clinical needs. Don't miss this chance to propel your innovation forward!

Expression of Interest Due: March 31, 2024 11:59PM ET

Invitations for Full Proposals: April 29, 2024

Full Proposals Due: June 2, 2024, 11:59PM ET

Notification of Successful Applicants: August 5, 2024

Learn more and apply: click here.

NSF: Global Centers; Computer Science for All; Improving Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning; Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education; Ideas Lab: Advancing Cell-Free Systems Toward Increased Range of Use-Inspired Applications; NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

NIH: Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Air Force Fiscal Year 2025 Young Investigator Program (YIP); Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for energy Resilience and Stabilization (ExCURSion); NRL Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs

Department of Energy: FY 2024 Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR); Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program; STEWARDSHIP SCIENCE ACADEMIC ALLIANCES PROGRAM; Research on General Plasma Science Collaborative Research Facilities; Flexible and Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT)

Biden's $1.67 trillion budget boosts tech, AI: President Joe Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2025 federal budget would direct significant funding toward agencies’ adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, while also boosting spending to modernize outdated government services and enhance cybersecurity practices as part of a broader effort to promote U.S. leadership and innovation.  In a press call on Monday, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young said the request for $1.67 trillion in discretionary spending for fiscal year 2025 builds on the vision laid out in Biden’s March 7 State of the Union address by focusing, in part, on “expanding and protecting access to health care, supporting America's workforce and boosting manufacturing, confronting the climate crisis while spurring clean energy innovation, providing national paid leave, advancing cancer research, making our communities safer and more.”

The budget includes $850 billion in defense spending, up $34 billion from 2023 enacted levels. Non-defense discretionary funding is $770 billion. If mandatory spending items like Medicare, Social Security and other obligations are lumped in, the fiscal year budget totals $7.3 trillion. The budget includes significant investments to advance Biden’s October 2023 executive order on the safe and secure development of AI, which officials framed as a key component of efforts to ensure continued U.S. tech leadership. The funding proposal also seeks to invest $20 billion “across major research agencies” to drive further innovative efforts spurred on by passage of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, an increase of $1.2 billion from allocated 2023 funding. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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House Science chairman looks to pass quantum bill: House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., is looking to make a bill authorizing quantum computing research and development a priority for lawmakers. Following a unanimous vote out of committee with 19 amendments in November, the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act is ready to move to the House floor for a final vote. Lucas told Nextgov/FCW that, following the conclusion of appropriations talks, the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act can advance into a vote and future Senate negotiations. The National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act features updates that focus on moving beyond fundamental research in quantum mechanics and related technological systems to address things like developing a workforce fluent in quantum information sciences and building a bridge toward tech commercialization. The 2018 legislation that launched federal research into quantum expired at the end of fiscal year 2023. More information is posted on the NextGov website.