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Past DER Weekly Newsletters |
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Weekly In Progress Report |
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Hello!
View the 75th edition of the Kuali Research System Implementation Update
online. The contents of this edition include:
- Changes to Research Associate Fringe Benefits
- Congressional District Change to MI-007
- Random system errors in PD and Budget have been fixed
- Delete Proposal and Delete Note are now working
- Reminder – List of KR priorities is on System Implementation webpage
- Reminder - NIH Forms H is coming soon
The Updates are posted on SPA’s website under the Resources/Training section. This issue will be posted shortly.
We truly appreciate your patience as we continue to work through the transition to Kuali Research. Please contact the KR Helpdesk if you have any issues, questions or feedback to report.
Thank you, Office of Sponsored Programs
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November 23, 2022
Hello colleagues. Sponsored Program Administration (SPA), the Office of
Sponsored Programs (OSP), and Contract and Grant Administration (CGA) will be
observing MSU’s 2022 winter break starting December 23, 2022, through January
2, 2023.
How will this impact proposal deadlines?
OSP would encourage campus to follow the Deadline
Policy and have all proposals with deadlines from Friday, December 23, 2022
through Monday, January 2, 2023 to OSP by Monday, December 19.
However, proposals need to be submitted to OSP by 8:00 a.m. on Thursday,
December 22 to be submitted for any deadlines that fall between December 23 and
January 2.
How will this impact other award or reporting deadlines?
All other award or reporting deadlines during this timeframe that require
SPA/OSP/CGA involvement, will need to be submitted to OSP/CGA/SPA by 8:00 a.m.
on December 22. Please communicate known deadlines to the appropriate group
within SPA/OSP/CGA as soon as possible or at least by December 15.
If you have any questions on how the winter break will impact SPA/OSP/CGA
processes, please email the SPA helpdesk
by December 15. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
SPA/OSP/CGA Leadership Team
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Spotlight Opportunities & Information |
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What’s hot in science? Check out NSF research news through December 21, 2022 |
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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.
- NSF spurs use-inspired research and technology development to address food and nutrition security challenges (The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $11 million investment to address challenges related to food and nutrition security. NSF has…)
- NSF appoints Charles 'Chuck' Barber as chief diversity and inclusion officer (The U.S. National Science Foundation has appointed Charles "Chuck" Barber to serve as chief diversity and inclusion officer, a newly created role included in the CHIPS…)
- Scientists characterize sea spray particles that form ice crystals in high altitude clouds (There are many sources of ice-forming particles in the atmosphere, but sea spray aerosols, or SSAs, are a significant source of ice-nucleating…)
- Antarctic summer thaw starts earlier, ends later than previously believed (New research by Colgate University scientists changes the understanding of seasonal thawing in parts of Antarctica. Summer thawing occurs nearly a…)
- Study shows full decarbonization of U.S. aviation sector is within grasp (Every day, 45,000 planes fly across the United States, carrying some 1.7 million passengers. Aviation dominates a frequent traveler's individual…)
- NSF to sustain the world's most powerful magnet lab through 2027 (The U.S. National Science Foundation will invest an additional $195.5 million over the next five years in NSF’s National High Magnetic Field…)
- Using monsoons of the past to predict climate conditions of the future (In recent years, the North American Southwest has been suffering through weather extremes, ranging from searing heat waves and scorching wildfires to…)
- The impact of the U.S. beef network on water resources (As food systems in the U.S. become more interconnected and complex, products — beef products in particular — often impact the environment in…)
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NASA taps hydrology expertise of Narendra Das
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Das joins NASA science team for NISAR mission
Narendra N. Das of Michigan State University has been selected as a science team member of the NISAR mission of NASA. The mission is scheduled to be launched in January 2024 to measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses.
Das is an associate professor in MSU’s departments of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has expertise in hydrology and microwave remote sensing and its geophysical applications.
As a science team member, his prime responsibility is to create an algorithm to generate high-resolution (200 m) soil moisture from the NISAR observations at a global extent. He is creating algorithm software and ancillary data for the mission in his Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Agriculture lab in Farrall Hall.
The high-resolution soil moisture data will have applications in areas including agriculture, watershed management, forest fire prediction, drought monitoring, and flood inundation mapping.
Read more at NISAR mission. Story courtesy of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering.
... Learn more Here.
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Funding Opportunity Announcement: Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Implementation Grants
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: DE-FOA-0002913
Total Estimated Funding: $35 million
- Deadline for Pre Applications (required): January 25, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. ET
- Deadline for Applications: April 4, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET
The DOE Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) announces its interest in receiving new and renewal applications from applicants within eligible jurisdictions for Implementation Grants. DOE follows the National Science Foundation’s eligibility criteria for EPSCoR. Grants awarded under this program are intended to improve research capability through the support of a group of scientists and engineers, including undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, working on a common scientific theme in one or more EPSCoR jurisdictions. These awards are not appropriate mechanisms to provide support for individual faculty science and technology research projects. While the academic, non-profit and industrial research communities are welcome to lead or to participate in applications, a strong component of student education in research is required for all applicants.
Please see the funding opportunity for agency contacts and more details, including eligibility and application information.
View Funding Opportunity
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Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs
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Through this FOA, DOE makes available up to $1.236 billion of funding to begin the process of conceptualizing, designing, planning, constructing, and operating the DAC Hubs, with additional funding opportunities expected to follow in the coming years.
This FOA (i.e., DE-FOA-0002735) offers potential Applicants three different options for seeking DAC Hub funding:
- Topic Area One (TA-1) is designed to support earlier-stage efforts to explore the feasibility of a potential DAC Hub’s location, ownership structure, business model, CO2 storage/utilization option(s), and technology partner(s) during Phase 0.
For Topic Area One, this FOA provides up to $3 million per project in federal funds, for up to twelve (12) awards, at an 80 percent maximum federal cost-share.
- Topic Area Two (TA-2) is designed for DAC Hub projects ready to pursue a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a Hub’s initial capture capacity and supporting infrastructure during Phase 1.
To be eligible for TA-2, Applicants must:
- be ready to design a DAC Hub that captures at least 50,000 tonnes of CO2 per year (50 KTA),
- provide evidence from prior operations to support that scale-up, and
- present a DAC Hub Capacity Build-Out Plan to eventually reach the goal of at least 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year (1 MTA), among other requirements.
This FOA provides up to $12.5 million per project in federal funds, for up to eight (8) awards, at a 50 percent maximum federal cost share.
- Topic Area Three (TA-3) is designed for DAC Hub projects that have already completed a FEED study and are seeking support for project development for a potential Hub.
To be eligible for TA-3, Applicants must:
- be ready to perform a detailed design, and build a DAC Hub that captures at least 50 KTA CO2,
- provide evidence from prior operations to support that scale- up, and
- present a DAC Hub Capacity Build-Out Plan to eventually reach the goal of at least 1 MTA CO2, among other requirements.
This FOA provides up to $50 million per project in federal funds, for up to two (2) awards, at a 50 percent maximum federal cost share to complete the detailed design and permitting phase (Phase 2). Following a competitive (down)-selection process, this FOA provides up to $500 million per project in federal funds, for up to two (2) awards, at a 50 percent maximum federal cost share, to execute and complete procurement, construction, and operation phases (Phases 3-4) for the initial DAC Hub capacity, and the DAC Hub Capacity Build-out Plan, if applicable.
This FOA (i.e., DE-FOA-0002735) is designed to enable a range of entities to apply for DAC Hubs including, non-profits, state and local governments, academic institutions, civil society organizations, companies with relevant energy or CO2 storage resources, etc.—in addition to DAC technology developers.
969D of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) (42 U.S.C. 16298d). Section 40308 of the BIL amended EPAct 2005 and added the DAC Hubs provision which is focused on providing funding for eligible projects that contribute to the development of the DAC Hubs. Each of the Regional DAC Hubs:
- facilitates the deployment of direct air capture projects;
- has the capacity to capture and sequester, utilize, or sequester and utilize at least 1,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually from a single unit or multiple interconnected units;
- demonstrates the capture, processing, delivery, and sequestration or end-use of captured carbon; and
- could be developed into a regional or interregional carbon network to facilitate sequestration or carbon utilization.
The solicitation may be accessed online by following this link.
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Funding Opportunity Announcement: Distributed Resilient Systems
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: DE-FOA-0002902
Total Estimated Funding: $45 million
- Deadline for Pre Applications (required): February 9, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. ET
- Deadline for Applications: March 30, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET
ASCR is interested in receiving proposals focusing on basic research in computer science that explores innovative approaches to creating distributed resilient systems for science. Such systems might be national or global in scale, linking geographically-distributed computing systems and scientific instruments, and might involve a large number of edge devices or sensors, but regardless, must manage computation and data in scalable and fault-tolerant manner. Important research challenges involve techniques for advanced middleware and operating and runtime systems, with this FOA targeting two research areas: 1) scalable system modeling, and 2) adaptive management and partitioning of resources. Advances in these areas will contribute to scaling-up our increasingly complex and interconnected scientific enterprise.
Please see the funding opportunity for agency contacts and more details, including eligibility and application information.
View Funding Opportunity
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NSF: Transport Phenomena Research at the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth
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The Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is partnering with The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) to solicit research projects in the general field of fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and fire systems, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions that can utilize the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to conduct research that will benefit life on Earth.
NSF awards under this solicitation will provide PIs with support to conduct fundamental and translational research, to prepare experiments for execution onboard the ISS, to collaborate with service providers as necessary, to provide preliminary analysis to conduct the experiment, to analyze and interpret data, and to disseminate results broadly. CASIS operations will assist grantees in translating ground-based experiments and technologies into an appropriate ISS certified hardware solution where possible. All costs associated with the translation of the proposed experiments to flight experiments onboard the ISS, including training of ISS crews, transporting the experiment payload and equipment to the ISS, and conducting experiments on the ISS, will be supported by CASIS through their cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Award size: $3.6M total program funding for approx. 9 awards
Feasibility review form deadline: January 12, 2023
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The chart above shows DER's Proposal Volume from 2019 to 2022 as of (12/16/2022).
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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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NSF News Releases |
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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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