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Past DER Weekly Newsletters |
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Weekly In Progress Report |
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Data Management and Sharing - What it means for budget and attachments… |
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Did you know that NIH has implemented changes in the requirements for both document content and document attachment related to Data Management and Sharing? Below is a recap of the changes and a collection of resources to help you better understand these new NIH requirements. These working (already in operation) system updates will impact your upcoming NIH proposal.
The General Instructions for NIH and Other PHS Agencies says:
If a Data Management and Sharing Plan is required in the proposed application (see instructions for the “Other Plan(s)” attachment on the PHS 398 Research Plan Form and the PHS 398 Career Development Award Supplemental Form, as applicable) ... The following requirements apply.
- Note: “If” refers to the NIH activity codes subject to the DMS Policy (e.g., Research activities = R, K, SBIR/STTR, etc.) See more. The DMS Plan is required in any proposal with activities codes subject to the policy See more.
Page numbers noted below are found in the G (general) instructions found here.
Attachments (p. 158, 181, 182, 222):
- Original location: Resource Sharing Plan(s):
- Is now only for Sharing Model Organisms
- New Location: Other Plan(s):
- Is now the DMS Plan, and Genomic Sharing Plan if applicable
- “Elements of a Data Management and Sharing Plan” detailed on page 159, 183.
Must have a DMS line item in the Budget:
- Costs in this line must NOT also be in another line item (p. 99)
- When completing the fillable SF424 form as a subaward (p. 104)
- Using lines 8-17 on the SF424 budget
- Must be labeled “Data Management and Sharing Costs” (without quotation marks but following the exact phrase and spacing).
- Must have $0, if no costs budgeted
Budget Justification:
- Detailed budget:
- It must be clearly labeled as:
- “Data Management and Sharing Justification” (p. 112)
- Even if requesting $0, the justification must be more than “None”. MSU Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) suggests:
- We do not anticipate the purchase of any equipment or funding of any services or contracts to manage data. Rather, the anticipated time of managing data, based on previous experience, is included in our estimations of, and request for salary support of, the Investigators effort.
- Modular budget:
- The Additional Narrative Justification is required at all times. (p. 123)
- Even if requesting $0. OSP suggests:
- Data Management and Sharing Justification: Costs for management of the Data Management and Sharing Plan are already accounted for in the requested compensation for our key scientists to implement. The PI will provide oversight for the Data Management and Sharing Plan, including curating data, developing supporting documentation, formatting data to accepted community standards for transmission/storage at a selected repository, de-identifying data, preparing metadata for interpretation and reuse, and depositing the data into the archival database. We will comply with the All of Us data sharing policy.
Additional Resources:
- Subject Matter: Describe the breadth of the subject matter e.g., data management:
- Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research (p. 172, 215)
- Plan for Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research (p. 195)
- DER Newsletters that mentioned NIH DMS Plan:
- DMPS Related Links from OSP Newsletters:
Remember, DER is here to help you navigate these changed NIH guidelines. If you have questions related to preparing your Data Management and Sharing content for your next NIH proposal, please send an email to proposals@egr.msu.edu. DER is here to help.
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Spotlight Opportunities & Information |
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What’s hot in science? Check out NSF research news through March 1, 2023 |
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NSF NEWS
Keep up with today’s research news from the U.S. National Science Foundation. This is a daily look at noteworthy scientific findings from researchers around the country.
- MagLab makes magic with magnets
(Imagine a fleet of super magnets together in one place where thousands of researchers, engineers and others from hundreds of universities, labs and businesses around the world come to advance discovery across physics, materials sciences, chemistry, biology and engineering. This is the National …)
- Chemical researchers discover catalyst to make renewable paints, coatings and diapers (A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking catalyst technology that converts renewable materials such…)
- Getting under your skin for better health (The next frontier of continuous health monitoring could be skin deep. Biomedical engineers at the University of Cincinnati say interstitial fluid, the…)
- Scientists improve ability to identify and study harmful algal blooms (Harmful algal blooms create challenges around the globe, including water quality and health risks for humans, wildlife and pets. Now, researchers at…)
- Stars disappear before our eyes in light pollution, citizen scientists report (A startling analysis from Globe at Night — a citizen science program run by the U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab — concludes that stars are…)
- New NSF-Australia awards will tackle responsible and ethical artificial intelligence (The U.S. National Science Foundation, in partnership with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is announcing grants totaling $1.8 million on…)
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Shiwang Cheng research shows alcohols are ‘living’ polymers
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Resolving a century-old puzzle on H-bonding dynamics in alcohols
Research at Michigan State University is a step closer at resolving a century-old puzzle on the dynamics of H-bonding -- an atomic interaction that helps better understand large cell components like RNA and DNA.
Shiwang Cheng, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science, found proof that small molecular monohydroxy alcohol liquids turn out to behave like “living” polymers or long molecular chains. The research advances questions on the molecular dynamics of alcohols asked by Peter Debye, a Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1936.
Details of the new study have been published in the respected journal, Physical Review Letters.
Shalin Patil and Ruikun Sun, graduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, are the first and second authors of the article.
“Monohydroxy alcohols, composed of one alkyl group and one hydroxyl group, are among the simplest H-bonding liquids and are ideal candidates for H-bonding interactions and H-bonding dynamics,” Cheng said. “H-bonding interaction is one of the most important interatomic interaction in nature because it presents in alcohols, water, and bio-macromolecules like proteins, RNA, and DNA.”
Cheng said H-bonding interactions are heavily utilized for engineering applications involving molecular recognition, sensing, medication, new materials development, and enhanced polymer recyclability.
“This research offers a new perspective for a long-standing scientific challenge regarding the Debye relaxation of monohydroxy alcohols,” Cheng explained, “a type of supramolecular dynamics due to the H-bonding interactions. It challenges the prevailing theoretical models, like the transient chain model or the dipole-dipole cross-correlation for Debye relaxation. However, a clear description of the hydrogen bonding interactions and the H-bonding dynamics are still a grand scientific challenge,” he added. ... Learn more Here.
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EGLE releases draft materials for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program
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The National Electric Vehicle (NEVI) Formula Program is a new funding opportunity resultant from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that will provide funding to States to strategically deploy electric vehicle fast charging infrastructure and establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability.
The State of Michigan will receive approximately $110 million for the NEVI Formula Program, through fiscal year 2026. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) will lead the administration of this program, in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Transportation, Michigan Public Service Commission, and Office of Future Mobility and Electrification.
With help from program partners, EGLE has developed a draft version – non-final and subject to further change – of the NEVI Formula Program materials. These draft documents include the request for proposals, application, and evaluation form, and are intended only for public awareness, transparency, and review. These draft documents may be accessed on EGLE’s NEVI Formula Program Website.
EGLE intends to publish a final version of the program materials in the coming months.
Questions and comments about the NEVI Formula Program draft documents may be sent to the following email: EGLE-MMD-NEVI@Michigan.gov.
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DOE's REMADE Institute Announces $10 Million to Advance Circular Economy Technologies
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute today announced up to $10 million to support projects that develop and demonstrate tools and technologies that bolster the circular economy and dramatically reduce the embodied energy and carbon emissions associated with industrial-scale materials production and processing. These goals that work toward an advanced circular economy in the United States advance President Biden’s clean energy goals to increase industrial efficiency and achieve a net-zero-emissions economy by 2050.
This Request for Proposals (RFP) solicits proposals for projects in two areas:
- Traditional Research and Development (R&D) – Projects that will develop tools and technologies consistent with the research priorities in the REMADE Roadmap.
- Technology Research, Development & Demonstration (RD&D)
– Projects that demonstrate the potential to transform the recycling and remanufacturing industries through technological innovation.
Selected projects must be consistent with the REMADE Institute’s goals to reduce energy and emissions, achieve “better than cost and energy parity,” and promote the widespread application of new enabling technologies across multiple industries. The intended impact of these demonstrations will motivate industry investments required to complete development and deploy these technologies across the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem.
The REMADE Institute is one of DOE’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institutes, led by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) and is a part of Manufacturing USA®, a network of federally funded institutes working to increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and promote a robust and sustainable national manufacturing R&D infrastructure.
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Funding Opportunity Announcement Number: DE-FOA-0002963
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), in collaboration with the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Projects.
Awards made under this FOA will be funded with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
Since DOE-FECM R&D efforts for carbon capture technologies began in the early 2000s, improvements in energy and process efficiencies have led to a reduction in both capital and operating costs. Supporting carbon capture large-scale pilot projects under field settings before advancing to commercial-scale demonstration and deployment will benefit entities intending to commercialize and deploy integrated CCS projects. Successful execution of these pilots can help to accelerate CCS deployment to achieve our climate goals while achieving other societal objectives. Also, this FOA further allows development of these technologies in different industrial and hard to decarbonize sectors.
Carbon capture large-scale pilot projects will provide the support needed to test novel technologies at intermediate scale and under relevant conditions in both the power and industrial sector to:
- De-risk transformational carbon capture technologies and address community concerns through meaningful engagement and robust analysis of impacts, risks and benefits such as emissions, water usage, and jobs; and
- Catalyze significant follow-on investments from the private sector for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial-scale demonstrations on carbon emission sources across the power and industrial sectors.
Through this FOA, DOE makes available up to $820 million of federal funding at a maximum of 70% federal cost share for up to ten (10) carbon capture large-scale pilot projects designed to further the development of transformational technologies that capture carbon emissions from existing coal or natural gas electric generation facilities and existing industrial facilities not purposed for electric generation.
These carbon capture large-scale pilot projects must be integrated with commercial plant operations and conducted in the United States. DOE may issue additional carbon capture large-scale pilot FOAs in the future. Using multiple FOAs can help enable the validation of transformational carbon capture technologies with different maturation timelines in a large-scale pilot project once they reach the appropriate technology readiness level.
Pursuant to section 962(a)(1) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as amended (42 U.S.C. § 16292(a)(1)), the term "large-scale pilot project" means a pilot project that:
- represents the scale of technology development beyond laboratory development and bench scale testing, but not yet advanced to the point of being tested under real operational conditions at commercial scale;
- represents the scale of technology necessary to gain the operational data needed to understand the technical and performance risks of the technology before the application of that technology at commercial scale or in commercial-scale demonstration; and is large enough-
- to validate scaling factors; and
- to demonstrate the interaction between major components so that control philosophies for a new process can be developed and enable the technology to advance from large-scale pilot project application to commercial-scale demonstration or application.
The carbon capture large-scale pilot projects funded under this FOA will generate operational data for verification and validation of the commercial potential of innovative technologies, including data on technology performance, non-CO2 air emissions, process models, life cycle impacts, costs, scaling factors, and community benefits or negative impacts of carbon capture technologies.
These pilots will help mitigate risks and aid in commercial adoption as learnings obtained from these pilots are expected to inform subsequent large-scale demonstration or commercial deployment plans. For further information, please see the Full Funding Opportunity Announcement at https://oced-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx. All application materials must be submitted through the OCED Funding Opportunity Exchange.
Award Size: $4M up to $136M / Concept papers are due: April 5, 2023
... Learn more Here.
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Broader Impacts Workshop Series Spring 2023
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Attention: Faculty, Research and Academic Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students
This nine-part series of workshops will introduce participants to all aspects of building a Broader Impacts (BI) plan. Participants can register for one workshop or all sessions. But be sure to register only for the sessions that you want to attend.
Winning Strategies for NSF CAREER Proposals
March 14, 2023 | 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Zoom
In this panel discussion, Dr. Angela Wilson, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and former Director of the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation and faculty members who have won CAREER awards offer their insights into how to write successful CAREER proposals that integrate their research and education plans.
Broadening Participation in STEM Education and Careers: The Role of Inclusive Recruitment and Mentoring
March 29, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Zoom
A key National Science Foundation broader impacts goal is to increase the participation of historically underrepresented groups in STEM education and CAREERS. In this panel discussion, participants will learn about the critical role of inclusive recruitment and mentoring practices in broadening participation from faculty who have successfully recruited, mentored, and helped to launch the STEM careers of underrepresented students.
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Funding Opportunity Announcement: LaserNetUS for Discovery Science and Inertial Fusion Energy
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: DE-FOA-0002982
Total Estimated Funding: $30 million
- Deadline for Letters of Intent (required): March 14, 2023, at 5:00pm ET
- Deadline for Applications: April 18, 2023, at 11:59pm ET
The goal of this FOA is to select LaserNetUS nodes that will advance the frontiers of laser science and applications, provide students and scientists with broad access to unique facilities and enabling technologies, foster collaboration among researchers and networks from around the world, and develop the workforce needed to advance high intensity laser science and Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE).
Please see the funding opportunity for agency contacts and more details, including eligibility and application information.
... Learn more Here.
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(NEW DATE) 2023 CAREER Award Workshop - Session 1 (Fri, March 17, 2023 - 12-2 PM)
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Event Description: The 2023 CAREER Award Workshop (Session 1),
presented by Dr. John Verboncoeur (Senior Associate Dean for Research
and Graduate Studies) & Dr. Robert Ofoli (Associate Professor), will
lead a discussion of the competition format, along with best practices
and strategies for producing successful NSF Career proposals. Session 1
will also include presentations by previous CAREER award winners, and
presentations from other key resources from around campus.
... Learn more Here.
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Together we are Spartan Strong.
... Learn more Here.
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The chart above shows DER's Proposal Volume from 2019 to 2023 as of (3/03/2023).
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Description: DER has a catalog of research and funding seminars available on demand. Seminar topics range from critical instruction for new faculty through advanced training for senior research faculty. These presentations include instruction from experts regarding themes that include best practices in research, MSU policy, sponsor compliance, industry specific seminars, and more. Check them out today and utilize this incredible resource to help streamline your proposal development and promote success in your research. Watch now on demand!!!
Recent seminar presentations include:
- DER is Here to Help (proposal & proposal development resources geared to promote success)
- Tips for Writing a Persuasive Grant Proposal (grant writing to ‘sell’ a project to funders)
- Finding Funding (tips for finding funding to support your research)
- Roles and Responsibilities (tips for understanding roles and responsibilities at each stage of the project)
- CAREER Award Workshop - Session 1 (best practices and strategies for producing successful NSF Career proposals)
- And many more…
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Internal Funding Notifications & News |
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Does effort reporting for your grants and contracts seem more cumbersome than it should be? CGA has compiled a very
helpful list of answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Topics range from reporting deadlines, to resolving errors, and everything in between!
As you peruse this list, you might notice that there is a dedicated email address for any questions or issues you may have when submitting effort reporting. Please use effortreporting@cga.msu.edu to expedite service.
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External Sponsor Notifications & News |
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Ongoing Updates and Posts |
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NAMC Opportunities |
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Ongoing Updates and Posts |
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Press Releases and Funding Opportunities |
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U.S. Department of Defense |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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National Institutes of Health |
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National Science Foundation |
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Office of Naval Research |
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Research in Germany - Land of Ideas |
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U.S. Department of Energy |
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United States Department of Agriculture |
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