Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education

Below is the archive of Sponsored Research News distributed by Dr. Michael Pazzani via email. Click on the SRN link to see an entire newsletter or on the arrow to expand or collapse each newsletter’s contents.

2009

1. SRN — November 15, 2009.
   • Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Proposal Preparation Work...Nov 18
   • Technology Commercialization Fund
   • National Endowment for the Humanities: Institutes for Digital Humanities
   • Venture Forum/Faculty Pitch Fair: November 19@11:00
   • NSF Talk: Transforming Science through Cyberinfrastructure. Dec 4 @10am
   • Distinguished Faculty Lecture: December 7, 2009 @ 3:30pm
   • New Faculty Talk Series: December 7, 2009 @2pm


2. SRN — October 29, 2009.
   • Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Nov 2 at 3:30pm
   • New Faculty Talk Series: Nov 2 at 2:00pm
   • Congressional Compromise: $167.5M Each for NEH and NEA
   • USDA Launches National Institute of Food and Agriculture
   • Venture Forum/Faculty Pitch Fair: Nov 19 11:00am
   • Gap Funding: The University City Science Center QED Program
   • Jefferson Science Fellowships
   • NIH Roadmap Transformative FOA Released
   • Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program


3. SRN — October 13, 2009.
   • DoD: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
   • ACLS: Stimulus for Humanities Job Market
   • Upcoming Events


4. SRN — October 8, 2009.
   • Office of Vice President of Research Update
   • Stay Within the Lines: Returned Without Review
   • Introduction to Effective Grant Writing for NIH: Oct 23.
   • Distinguished Speaker Series: Nov 2.
   • NSF Dissertation Fellowships
   • New Faculty Workshop: Research Funding and Commercialization: Oct 30.
   • NSF Opportunities
   
   
5. SRN — September 13, 2009.
   • Predicting Future Funding Trends
   • Distinguished Faculty Talk Series - Starting Nov 2
   • Office of Technology Commercialization
   • Ki-Bum Lee: The NIH Director's New Innovator Award + Oct 27 Deadline
   • IRB Advisor Schedule
   • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Nov 2 Deadline
   • ARRA Reporting Information Sessions - Sept 16 & 17
   • Back by popular demand - Technology Commercialization Workshop - Sept 17
   • New NCI Funding Opportunities for Small Businesses - Sept 30
   • Speaker at Princeton: Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review - Oct 1
   • Scholarship in the Digital Environment: Opportunities, Challenges, Recognition - Oct 9
   • New Faculty Workshop - Research Funding and Commercialization - Oct 30


6. SRN — August 9, 2009.
   • FY2009 Funding at Rutgers: $391M: A New Record
   • National Endowment for the Humanities: Upcoming Deadlines
   • Research Partnerships with Johnson & Johnson
   • Teacher Quality Partnership Grants Program Recovery Act (ARRA)
   • DoD Funding: Upcoming Deadlines
   • NIH reminder: October 5 R01 Deadline
   • VPR Website: Abstracts of All NSF & NIH grants and All Patents


7. SRN — July 21, 2009.
   • Three Rutgers Professors awarded Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
   • Rutgers Professor receives NIH MERIT Award
   • Department of Energy: Office of Science Early Career Award Opportunity: August 3 LOI
   • New Directors at NIH and DARPA
   • BEST: Faculty-Student Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
   • Coming attractions: Responsible Conduct of Research and Conflict of Interest


8. SRN — May 21, 2009.
   • NSF CAREER Proposals: Sakai Site and May 27 Workshop
   • Federal R&D Budget Highlights
   • Yet another NIH Recovery Act RFA: Health Disparities
   • NSF Dumps grants.gov


9. SRN — April 29, 2009.
   • Cancelled: Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Richard Riman May 4
   • Patenting 101
   • Please be a reviewer for federal proposals
   • NSF Tips by Haym Hirsh
   • Department of Energy's ARPA-E's first solicitation
   • National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipends
   • New NIH Recovery Opportunity for Camden and Newark: Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)
   • New NSF program: Social-Computational Systems
   • Bill Joy and Greg Olsen to speak at Rutgers Entrepreneurship Day - May 13
   
   
10. SRN — April 12, 2009.
    • Presentations on Federal Agencies and Stimulus Programs
    • Help with publicizing your research
    • NIH review criteria for challenge grants and other recovery RFAs
    • Gap funding for commercializing life sciences research
    • New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
    • Urban Long-Term Research Funding (NSF)
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM - Monday, April 13 (Joan Marter)
    • Patenting 101
    • Bill Joy and Greg Olsen to speak at Rutgers Entrepreneurship Day - May 13


11. SRN — April 1, 2009.
    • 2009 Federal Budget
    • Stimulus Package Update
    • Is your proposal shovel ready?
    • Proposal Proofreading
    • Patenting 101
    • NIST TIP Program
    • Department of Education Solicitations
    • NIH Reviewer Panel of RU Faculty - May 11
    • Talk by Haym Hirsh, Division Director at NSF - April 20
    • Federal Stimulus Program & Federal Funding Meetings, April 1, 2, and 13
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: Monday April 6 and 13, May 4
    • Bill Joy to speak at Rutgers Entrepreneurship Day - May 13
    • Submitting NIH proposals via text messaging


12. SRN — March 1, 2009.
    • Keeping up with Federal Agency Implementation of Federal Stimulus Funds
    • NIST Technology Innovation Program: March 9 White Papers
    • Dean of Engineering Candidate Talks: March 2, 6 and 11
    • NSF CAREER Workshops - Mar 4 (NB) & Mar 6 (Newark & Camden)
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM - Monday, Mar 2 (Joan Marter)
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM - Monday, April 6 (Karl Herrup)
    
    
13. SRN — February 14, 2009.
    • Economic Stimulus and Federal Agencies
    • Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need
    • NSF CAREER Workshops – Mar 4 (NB) & Mar 6 (Newark & Camden)
    • Research Misconduct:  NSF
    • Getting undergraduates and high school students involved in research
    • General Electric Talk – Feb 16
    • NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research at Rutgers - Feb 20
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM – Mar 2 (Joan Marter)
    • The Rutgers Green Computing Initiative – CCC 2^nd Call for Proposals Due Apr 6
    • Research Council Grant Program – Due Apr 6
    • Error in Last Newsletter: $191M not $191K
    • NSF Opportunities
    
    
14. SRN — January 30, 2009.
    • Economic Stimulus Package
    • Can Obama fix grants.gov? Feb 5, NIH deadline
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM - Feb 2 (Glenn Shafer)
    • General Electric Talk - Feb 16
    • NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research at Rutgers Feb 20
    • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM - Mar 2 (Joan Marter)
    • NIH Funding at Rutgers
    • IRB Advisor
    • National Endowment for the Humanities-Digging into Data Challenge
    • NSF Grants for education and diversity
    • Busch Biomedical Award Announcement
    • Academic Excellence Fund Announcement
    • Sorry the newsletter is so long

1. SRN — January 4, 2009.
   • Happy New Year
   • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM First Monday of every month - Feb 2
   • Three Rutgers Faculty Selected AAAS Fellows
   • Major Changes in NIH Policies
   • NIH: - Request the Study Section to Best Review Your Proposal
   • DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) Program - Feb 16
   • NSF Funding Rates
   • Jefferson Science Fellowship Applications - Jan 15

2008

1. SRN — November 30, 2008.
   • National Endowment for the Humanities
   • New Invention Disclosure Form
   • Ticketmaster and grants.gov
   • ORSP Proposal Deadlines and the Winter Break
   • New Animal Charges Effective January 1, 2009
   • The Rutgers Green Computing Initiative Computing Coordination Council (CCC)
   • NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10) (PAR-09-028) - Mar 23
   • NIH Reminder and Clarification on NIH/AHRQ/CDC/FDA Transition to Adobe-based forms for SF424 Research and Related (R&R) Electronic Submissions through Grants.gov
   • NIH Implementing the Early Stage Investigator Policy: Updating eRA Commons Profiles to Include Degree and Residency Completion Dates
   • NSF New Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide Effective Jan 5, 2009 (NSF 091)
   • Department of Education: Technical Assistance Workshop - Feb 2-3
   • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: 4:00 PM First Monday of every month
2. SRN — September 14, 2008
   • Welcome back
   • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: First Monday of every month
   • Don't worry about the Government
   • Finding Grant Opportunities
   • National Endowment for the Humanities: Enduring Questions
   • DOD: Multidisciplinary University REsearch Initiaive
   • NIH: Transformative R01
   • NSF: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
   • Export Controls, Fundamental Research and Avoiding Jail
3. SRN — August 10, 2008
   • Talk: Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives at NSF, Dr. Stephen Meacham Thursday 8/14 1pm
     Save the date: Challenges and Opportunities in Peer Review at NIH: A Vision for Ensuring Its Strategic National Value- Dr. Antonio Scarpa, Talk Oct 22.
   • Rutgers Distinguished Faculty Talk Series: First Monday of every month
   • How to Smoothly and Successfully Complete the Process for IRB Submission
   • NSF, The Department of Defense, and Social Science Research
   • Reminder: State of New Jersey Matching Funds for Center and Training Grant Proposals
   • NASA Solicitations
   • Dean of Engineering Search
4. SRN — June 16, 2008
   • Johnson & Johnson collaborations and focused funding program.
   • DoD National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship Program (NSSEFF)
   • SBIR Faculty Seminar – June 26
   • Visit by CEO of Vidar Systems Corp on July 1 (Medical imaging & Microarrays)
   • US Dept. of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)
   • DoD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
   • NEH Humanities High Performance Computing Program
   • AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
   • DOD solicitation for social science research - Minerva Research Initiative
   • Why you should submit your grants early to ORSP.
5. SRN — May 3, 2008
   • Workshops: NSF CAREER Awards
   • Talk: How DuPont Works with Universities
   • Associate Vice President for Corporate Liaison
   • Rutgers Advanced Technology Extension
   • Patent Screening Committee
   • Proposal advice from Jay Tischfield and Wayne Gretzky
6. SRN — March 29, 2008
   • Talk: Social Behavioral and Economic Funding at NSF- April 9
   • Talk: Patents 101- April 14
   • Talk: Johnson and Johnson Focused Funding Programs- April 23
   • New staff in OCLTT and New Brunswick ORSP
   • Template Corporate Sponsored Research Contract
   • Resources for proposal development: NSF and NIH
   • DoD Funding for basic research
   • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
7. SRN — February 22, 2008
   • NIH Bridge Awards
   • Busch Biomedical Awards
   • Senior Grant Facilitator
   • NSF: Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement
   • Webcast and discussion of NIH Publication Policy
   • Indirect Costs on Grants
   • Non-Disclosure Agreements
   • Principle Investigator or Principal Investigator?
8. SRN — February 10, 2008
   • NSF Sweet Spots
   • NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
   • Equipment Grants
   • Interview and Survey Research and IRB approval
   • Federal Budget For R&D
   • NSF Priorities
   • Working with the Rutgers Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education
   • Working with the Bloustein Center for Survey Research
   • WebConference Series: Creating and Funding University Startups
9. SRN — January 11, 2008
   • Incentives to be an NIH Reviewer
   • New DOD Faculty Fellowship Research Program
   • WebConference Series: Creating and Funding University Startups
   • NSF-Research on Gender in Science and Engineering – Feb 25
   • Final FY 2008 Research Appropriations
   • Free Access to Results of NIH-Funded Research

2007

1. SRN — December 2, 2007
2. SRN — November 27, 2007
3. SRN — October 28, 2007
4. SRN — October 11, 2007
5. SRN — September 9, 2007
6. SRN — June 24, 2007
7. SRN — May 2, 2007
8. SRN — March 28, 2007
9. SRN — January 27, 2007

2006

1. SRN — November 30, 2006
2. SRN — September 20, 2006
3. SRN — July 24, 2006
4. SRN — March 9, 2006