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Answers About Reopening Research
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With more than 250 PIs and 1,400 researchers back on campus, DOR continues to receive questions from faculty and staff. Be sure to read VP Elnashai's letter this week, which outlines specifics on delivering supplies to labs and what to do if one of your research team members begins to experience symptoms of COVID-19.
Read VP Elnashai's May 26 letter to the research community
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Julia Wellner and other crew members for this year’s Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research Project stepped onto the deck of the research vessel/icebreaker (RV/IB) Nathaniel B. Palmer in January, leaving from a crowded pier in Punta Arenas, Chile, and sailing to the west coast of Antarctica.
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Assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Rose Faghih is not afraid of fear. If continuously monitored, she sees it as a tool to improve mental health treatment. So, she and doctoral student Dilranjan Wickramasuriya in the UH Computational Medicine Lab (CML), who have previously tracked the fear response through sweat, or skin conductance, have now illustrated that the sympathetic nervous system's activation level can be tracked continuously.
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Traffic congestion is a serious problem in the United States, but a new analysis shows that interactive technology – ranging from 511 traffic information systems and roadside cameras to traffic apps like Waze and Google Maps – is helping in cities that use it. Paul Pavlou, dean of the C.T. Bauer College of Business, and colleagues Aaron Cheng of the London School of Economics and Min-Seok Pang of Temple University found that U.S. cities using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) saved money, time and other resources.
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Ask any researcher – proposals are a lot of work and they take a long time to get approved. At least, that’s how it usually goes. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a natural uptick in the amount of funded Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants from the NSF. With an abbreviated timeline, these grants go to the researchers on the frontlines who are doing all types of studies concerning the novel coronavirus.
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VPR Virtual Office Hours
Friday, May 29
Noon-12:30 p.m.
Accept the Zoom invite in the VPR Virtual Office Hours channel on the Research & Innovation Teams site
Online: Programming Parallel Codes with PyCOMPSs
Thursday, May 28
11:30 p.m.-1 p.m.
Register
Online: COVID-19 Related Funding Opportunities for Research
Friday, June 5
1 p.m.-2 p.m.
Register
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Daily PI "To Do" List
As a reminder to research teams back on campus, be sure you and everyone on your team:
- Performs a daily health check
- Wears a mask in close proximity to others
- Washes hands regularly, according to CDC guidelines
- Practices social distancing
- Keeps track of contacts
Checking your temperature daily before coming to campus and wearing a mask when working around other researchers is required for everyone back on campus. It is also required that everyone continue to practice social distancing to prevent the spread of germs.
Thank you for helping keep the UH community safe!
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| View past announcements on the Division of Research website. |
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SELECTED PROBLEMS IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION PHYSICS IN ALICE AT THE LHC
PI/Department: Rene Bellwied, Physics
Co-PIs: Anthony Timmins, Lawrence Pinsky
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
Amount: $2,275,000
PATHOGENIC HETEROGENEITY IN MUCOSAL STEM CELLS IN PEDIATRIC CROHN'S DISEASE
PI/Department: Wa Xian, Biology & Biochemistry
Co-PI: Frank McKeon
Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Amount: $1,976,103
MAXIMIZING THE VALUE OF SQUID MAGNETIC TENSOR DATA WITH MACHINE LEARNING
PI/Department: Jiajia Sun, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Sponsor: De Beers Canada Inc.
Amount: $71,128
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Featured Funding Opportunities
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Funding Agency: Department of Defense (DOD-Dept of the Army)
Title: Vision Research Program, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Pre-Application Deadline: 07/28/2020
The FY20 VRP IIRA is intended to support studies that will yield highly impactful discoveries or major advancements in the research and/or patient care of eye injury and/or visual dysfunction as related to military-relevant trauma.
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Funding Agency: Department of Defense (DOD-Dept of the Army)
Title: DOD Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s, Research Partnership Award
Pre-Application Deadline: 06/22/2020
The intent of the FY20 PRARP RPA is to create an avenue for collaborative research partnerships between/among investigators to address a research problem or question in a manner that would be unachievable through separate efforts as related to the PRARP’s mission.
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Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NCCIH Natural Product Mid Phase Clinical Trial Cooperative Agreement (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
LOI Deadline: 06/20/2020
Application Deadline: 07/20/2020
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites cooperative agreement applications for investigator-initiated mid-phase clinical trials of natural products. All applications submitted under this FOA must be supported by sufficient preliminary data of bioavailability and documentation that the natural product produces a replicable and measurable impact on a biological signature (i.e., measure of the mechanism of action). Only in cases when it is not possible/practical to measure a biological signature in the patient population of interest or when there is a fundamental understanding of the product’s mechanism of action will this preliminary data requirement be waived.
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Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIDDK Centers for Diabetes Translation Research (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
LOI Deadline: 09/20/2020
Application Deadline: 10/20/2020
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications that propose a Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR) to advance research along the spectrum of diabetes T2-T4 translational research (i.e., bedside to clinical practice and community settings, dissemination and implementation).
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Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: 09/11/2020
The NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of NIH. For the program to support the best possible researchers and research, applications are sought which reflect the full diversity of the nation’s research workforce.
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Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Directors Emergency Transformative Research Awards (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: 09/30/2020
This FOA solicits applications responsive only to the COVID-19 public health emergency through support of the CARES Act. All other Transformative Research Award applications must be submitted in response to RFA-RM-20-013. The NIH Directors Transformative Research Award Program supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies.
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Funding Agency: Department of Defense (DOD-Dept of the Air Force)
Title: Interactive Learning for Mission Planning
White Paper Deadline: 06/19/2020
The Interactive Learning for Mission Planning (ILMP) program will test the merit of Interactive Learning (IL) when applied to AF planning problems, and will develop the software system required to prove the applicability of IL to this problem space.
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Funding Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Title: COVID-19 Seedling Research Topics
Application Deadline: 07/07/2020
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage. The current COVID-19 pandemic focuses attention on the need for technologies to assist with:
• detection and sensing;
• supply chain management and integrity;
• geo-spatio-temporal monitoring and mapping, with privacy protection;
• information reliability and collaboration tools; and
• modeling, simulation, and predictive analytics.
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF-DFG Lead Agency Activity in Electrosynthesis and Electrocatalysis (NSF-DFG EChem)
Expression of Interest (EOI) Deadline: 07/01/2020
Application Deadline: 09/30/2020
We are particularly interested in novel and fundamental electrochemical reactions and studies addressing transformations in organic and polymer synthesis, water splitting (hydrogen/oxygen evolution), and nitrogen reduction (ammonia production).
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Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: FY20 Advanced Manufacturing Office Multi-Topic FOA
Concept Paper Deadline: 06/25/2020
Application Deadline: 08/26/2020
The purpose of this FOA is to enhance manufacturing competitiveness through technological innovation by focusing in three main areas: 1) next-generation manufacturing for advancing process technologies that improve energy efficiency in energy intensive and energy dependent processes; 2) modular, hybrid, and/or catalytic processes to improve energy efficiency in chemical manufacturing; and 3) connected, flexible, and efficient manufacturing facilities, products and energy systems.
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Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: FY2020 AMO Critical Materials FOA: Next-Generation Technologies and Field Validation
Concept Paper Deadline: 06/25/2020
Application Deadline: 08/11/2020
Through this funding opportunity announcement (FOA), the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) seeks to address gaps in domestic supply chains for key critical materials for clean energy technologies to:
- Enable domestic manufacturing of high energy efficiency and high energy density clean energy technologies;
- Diversify the domestic supply of critical materials; and
- Validate and demonstrate domestic innovative technologies to support the transition to U.S. manufacturing.
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Funding Agency: Department of State
Title: Combatting COVID-19 Pandemic and Proliferation Threats
Application Deadline: 05/29/2020
Build EXBS partner capacity to continue to safely prevent, contain, and mitigate threats and impacts posed by the rapid spread of destabilizing biological and chemical threats at national borders and points of entry, including infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Institute of Education Sciences (IES): Research Grants Focused on Systematic Replication
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Education Research and Development
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Education Research
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Research Grants Focused on NAEP Process Data for Learners with Disabilities
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Special Education Research
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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Funding Agency: Department of Education
Title: Research Training Programs in Special Education
Application Deadline: 08/20/2020
In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).
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| For more information about available grants, visit our Pivot system or Grants.gov. |
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