November 21, 2022
Federal Funding News and Opportunities
The Annual Program Statement (APS) for the Climate Smart and Disaster Ready program, announces U.S. Agency for International Development intent to fund multiple awards that implement innovative and applicable adaptation solutions in communities at greatest risk to climate-related disasters in current and foreseeable humanitarian settings. This APS focuses on local, inclusive climate solutions and partnerships. It will work across communities to reduce the risk of climate-related disasters and improve communities’ resilience to climate change.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise. The YFA program will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative DoD capabilities. Ultimately, the YFA program is developing the next generations of researchers focused on national security issues.
Atmospheric System Research supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. This funding opportunity solicits research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use observations supported by Budget Execution Reviews, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, to improve understanding and model representation of: 1) Cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and thermodynamic processes from ARM’s Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER); 2) Cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiation processes from ARM’s Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL); 3) Warm boundary layer atmospheric processes; and 4) Southeast U.S. atmospheric processes through early use of observations from the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3). All research supported by awards under this funding opportunity is intended to benefit the public through increasing our understanding of the Earth system.
The U.S. Department of Energy is releasing this funding opportunity to solicit emerging Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) demonstration projects capable of delivering electricity for 10-24 hours or longer to support a low-cost, reliable, carbon-free electric grid. This effort seeks LDES demonstration projects that will validate new technologies, enhance the capabilities of customers and communities to integrate LDES more effectively, and sustain American global leadership in energy storage. LDES demonstration projects are encouraged to have substantial engagement with local and regional stakeholders to ensure that they generate local, regional, and national benefits. Demonstration projects will be expected to carry out meaningful community and labor engagement; invest in America’s workforce by creating good-paying jobs with the free and fair choice to join a union; advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; and contribute to the President’s Justice40 Initiative goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments, including those in climate change, clean energy and energy efficiency.
The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by the Office of Science (SC). SC’s mission is to deliver the scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security.
The Department of Energy’s SC’s program in Nuclear Physics (NP) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research and development (R&D) efforts directed at artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for autonomous optimization and control of accelerators and detectors of relevance to current or next generation NP accelerator facilities and scientific instrumentation. Current and planned NP facilities and scientific instrumentation face a variety of technical challenges in simulations, control, data acquisition, and analysis. AI methods and techniques promise to address these challenges and shorten the timeline for experimental and computational discovery. NP supports a broad range of activities aimed at R&D related to the science, engineering, and technology of heavy ion, electron, and proton accelerators and associated systems, as well as a 2 suite of NP scientific instrumentation that operate at facilities around the world, and standalone. NP operates four accelerator-based national user facilities in accomplishing its mission: the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Facility (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU). Finally, NP is constructing a high energy, polarized electron ion collider (EIC) that will be located at BNL.
The purpose of this program is to support primary care residency programs that integrate behavioral health care and primary care, by providing longitudinal clinical experiences (rotations) in integrated primary care and behavioral health settings and/or certified community behavioral health clinics, particularly those serving rural and underserved populations.
The Transformative Educational Advancement and Mentoring (TEAM) Network will pilot test the use of training champions (TCs) at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to support the development of educational activities and scientific career development programs and promote the diversity of the cancer research workforce. The career development levels of focus for this funding opportunity will include predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage investigators. TCs are defined as personnel located within the MSI who can assist potential scholars with their plans to apply, attain, or transition to an independent grant award. This request for applications will leverage TCs to assist scholars in identifying funding opportunities, networking with appropriate National Institutes of Health program directors, and locating resources for competitive application preparation. TCs will also provide additional training support, navigation, and resources to enhance the skills required to successfully identify, prepare, submit, and obtain grants and career development opportunities.
This program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and strengthen institutional resilience, i.e., the ability to anticipate and respond to disasters resulting from natural or human activity.
Institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. Most fundamentally, institutes allow immersive study of humanities topics; foster new fields of study and/or revitalize existing areas of inquiry; strengthen humanities teaching and learning in the classroom; and build lasting communities that foster participants’ intellectual and professional collaboration. Institutes should:
- Ground the study in significant humanities texts and related resources
- Explore multiple, rigorous approaches to the topic
- Consider how the topic engages recent developments in the scholarship, teaching, and curricula of participants’ professional settings
- Provide opportunities for deep and collaborative engagement with the topic
- Model excellent scholarship, teaching, and collegial dialogue
- Reach the widest possible audience for whom the topic is relevant
The program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation that enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities. Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops (Landmarks) situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching about diverse histories, cultures, traditions, languages, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.
The goal of this program is to support use-inspired research that tackles pressing societal challenges. Principles that govern living systems, their architecture, metabolism, physiology, communication, and regulation provide valuable insights into how those systems effectively interact with each other and with the environment. Cells, organisms, ecosystems, and biomes all develop mechanisms to utilize and share resources, recycle nutrients and materials, and adapt to environmental perturbations, both individually and collectively, thereby addressing challenges similar to those faced by society today.
National Science Foundation Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences proposals due February 16, 2023
The Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences program invites the submission of proposals to establish networks to support full-time research, mentoring, and training for recent college graduates who have had few or no research or training opportunities during college in research fields typically supported by the Directorate of Biological Sciences. A strategic focus of the National Science Foundation is to foster the growth of a globally-competitive and diverse research workforce. To that end, proposals submitted to this program are expected to create strong evidence-based, inclusive and culturally-aware mentorship programs that will advance the goal of creating a competitive and highly representative STEM workforce in the U.S. with a focus on the biological sciences. Projects are expected to train individuals for a range of potential career pathways in the biological sciences including: research-focused M.S. or Ph.D. graduate programs; entry-level positions in industry, federal, tribal, or state agencies, education and research centers, or not-for-profit science-based organizations; or other STEM careers.
The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects.
The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to obtain next-generation research instruments by developing instruments with new capabilities that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.
National Science Foundation releases Paleoclimate Grant solicitation
The goals of the paleoclimate program are to: provide a baseline for present climate variability and future climate trends, and improve the understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence climate variability and trends over the long-term. Research topics include observational and modeling studies of past climate variability and its drivers and studies that develop new paleoclimate proxies and records. Competitive proposals will address specific aspects of scientific uncertainty for their proposed research. Proposals are welcome at any time during the year for the Paleoclimate Program but, investigators are encouraged to submit proposals early in the fiscal year.
