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Grants Bulletin
April 27, 2009
Limited Submission - U.S. Department of State 2009 Fellowships in the Arts: Documentary Filmmaking and Iraq Museum Residencies
To view this and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.
Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
UK's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) website (www.research.uky.edu/arra) provides links, by federal agency, to information on how they plan to allocate ARRA funding and how they will monitor and report their actual spending. New additions include links to NIH's " Academic Research Enhancement Award" and "Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery."
April 20, 2009
Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plans
Beginning in January 2009, NSF grants requesting postdoctoral support must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. From the NSF guide: “Examples of mentoring activities include, but are not limited to: career counseling; training in preparation of grant proposals, publications and presentations; guidance on ways to improve teaching and mentoring skills; guidance on how to effectively collaborate with researchers from diverse backgrounds and disciplinary areas; and training in responsible professional practices.” (see NSF Grant Proposal Guide, pdf)
Multiple programs exist on the UK campus that provide opportunities for postdoctoral career development and are listed below. Each faculty member who must include a mentoring plan in their grant proposal may choose to include information on one or more of these programs, as appropriate to their specific discipline. However, inclusion of additional, discipline-specific activities would likely strengthen this part of the application.
- College of Medicine has had a formal Postdoctoral Resource Office for many years. The Advisory Committee organizes a Career Development Seminar Series, given during the fall and spring semesters, that cover professional skills such as resume writing, poster preparation and presentation, interviewing skills, grant writing and journal article writing. They also present topics such as different career opportunities, ethics and scientific misconduct and managing people as a PI. This series of seminars is available to interested postdoctoral researcher.
The COM Postdoctoral Resource Office also organizes a Postdoctoral Research Seminar Series and Poster Competition in which presenters are critiqued on their presentations; this series is specifically for the COM postdocs. The COM Postdoctoral committee is willing to assist other colleges in developing their own post-doctoral development programs.
- The Graduate School provides various development opportunities for graduate students that are also open to interested postdoctoral trainees.
They run the Preparing Future Faculty Program and students can earn a Graduate Certificate in College Teaching and Learning
The complete list and description of Graduate School courses is shown here: http://www.uky.edu/Registrar/bulletinCurrent/courses/GS.pdf
The Graduate School also offers professional development workshops; this semester’s link is http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/gsevents.html
Limited Submission - NIOSH National Center for Construction Safety and Health (U60)
To view this and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.
Presentation on International Funding Opportunities - April 21
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
102 Mining and Mineral Resources Building
Research administrators from the Research Support Office of Aarhus University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark will deliver a presentation on the European Union’s program for research, known as Framework 7. Topics to be discussed include:
- Introduction to the structure of Framework 7
- Details on programs for which University of Kentucky researchers are eligible
- Structure of an EU proposal
- How to find the necessary information
UK researchers interested in international funding are invited to attend this session and meet the international guests from the Aarhus University Hospital Research Support Office: John Westensee, Director; Birgit Christensen, and Inge Andresen. The presentation will include time for questions.
"Research and Education in Biomedical Informatics: Relevance to Clinical Translational Research" - May 7
All are invited to attend the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, May 7, 2009
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Lunch available at 11:30 a.m.)
Hospital Auditorium, HG611
Edward Shortliffe, MD, PhD, MACP, FACMI, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, President and CEO Designée, American Medical Informatics Association
Objectives:
- Be able to define biomedical informatics and its distinction from bioinformatics, imaging informatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics.
- Understand the role of biomedical informatics as a discipline for research and education in the academic medical center.
- Explain the role of biomedical informatics in support of clinical and translational research, personalized medicine, and hence the CTSA grants program.
Sponsored by C. William Balke, M.D., Associate Provost for Clinical and Translational Science, Jay A. Perman, M.D., Dean, College of Medicine and the Emery A. Wilson Lecture Series
April 6 , 2009
NIH ARRA Funding Considerations for Applications with Meritorious Scores that Fall Beyond the Pay-line
The recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides an unprecedented level of funding ($8.2 billion in extramural funding) to the NIH to help stimulate the United States economy through the support and advancement of scientific research. While NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) have broad flexibility to invest in many types of grant programs, they will follow the spirit of the ARRA by funding projects that will stimulate the economy, create or retain jobs, and have the potential for making scientific progress in 2 years.
One of the ways NIH will implement the ARRA is to select existing peer-reviewed, meritorious grant applications, that can be accomplished in two years or less, meet the goals of the ARRA, and meet the mission priorities of an NIH IC. In general, existing applications eligible for consideration of 2-year funding under the ARRA are defined as applications submitted for funding with FY 2008 or FY 2009 funds that: (a) received meritorious priority scores from the initial peer-review process; (b) received approval from an Advisory Council or Board prior to September 30, 2009; and (c) received priority scores that could not otherwise be paid in FY 2008 or 2009.
This policy includes consideration of applications in response to previously announced funding opportunities (e.g., RFAs, PAs, PARs), including those that will be peer reviewed by mid-summer and scheduled to receive Advisory Council or Board review prior to September 30, 2009. Individual NIH ICs have more detailed information on their own Web sites regarding specific previously announced funding opportunities being considered for ARRA funding.
NIH program directors will contact applicant project directors/principal investigators (PD/PIs) about applications under consideration to discuss potential modifications of the Abstract, Specific Aims, Public Health Relevance, and budget.
NIH ARRA Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions: Clarifications on Programmatic Limitations and use of Modular Budgets
In March, 2009, the NIH announced the availability of funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for project expansions via competitive revisions (NOT-OD-09-058) and administrative supplements (NOT-OD-09-056), including administrative supplements providing summer research experiences for students and science educators (NOT-OD-09-060).
This notice serves to clarify that requests in response to the notices cited above may be made in excess of programmatic cost limitations or ceilings associated with a program or activity code (e.g., direct costs stipulated for Small Research Grants [R03], Exploratory/Developmental Grants [R21]).
If a project was previously funded under a program or activity code with budget limitations or ceilings, these limitations or ceilings are not applicable to ARRA competitive revision and/or administrative supplement requests. Note: All budget requests must be commensurate with the scope of the programmatic request and will be subject to a cost analysis prior to award. In addition, budgets submitted in competing revisions will be subject to the peer review.
Concerning modular budgets and competitive revision applications, the modular grant concept applies. Therefore, for electronic submissions, budget requests for competitive revisions equal to or less than $250,000 direct costs per year must still use a modular budget component; requests over $250,000 direct costs per year must use the detailed budget component. (For paper PHS 398 applications (e.g., P01), a detailed budget is always required.) Please note the flexibility to switch from a modular to a detailed budget is only available for those Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) where both the detailed budget and modular budget components are part of the application package. (For FOAs where only the modular budget component is available (e.g., SC1, SC2, SC3) competitive revisions will be submitted using the modular format for no more than $250,000 direct costs per year.) Note that this flexibility to switch from a modular budget to a detailed budget only applies to ARRA competing revision requests and is not a change in our general practice.
Institutions and Project Directors/Principal Investigators should be aware that they will receive a validation warning when submitting a competitive revision through Grants.gov if the parent application was submitted using a modular budget and they are now submitting a detailed budget. The warning will read: “The parent grant for this revision uses the modular format; in most cases, this application must be submitted with a modular budget. If the budget caps permitted by the FOA exceed the modular limit of $250k, the application must be submitted with a detailed budget.” Please disregard this warning. It will not affect submission of the application.
Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
UK's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) website (www.research.uky.edu/arra) provides links, by federal agency, to information on how they plan to allocate ARRA funding and how they will monitor and report their actual spending. New additions include links to frequently asked questions about ARRA funding at NSF.
Limited Submissions
- Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30)
- NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)
- NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (R25)
- NIH Bridges to the Doctorate Program (R25)
To view these and other limited submission competitions, visit the Proposal Development Office's site.
"Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS)" - April 17
C. William Balke, M.D., Associate Provost for Clinical and Translational Science
Friday, April 17, 2009
CTW 014 (Wethington Basement Auditorium)
Lunch: 11:30 a.m., Presentation: Noon to 1 p.m.
Registration: Please call or e-mail the UK CR-DOC office by Monday, April 13, 2009, to reserve your place (323-8545 or crdoc@email.uky.edu).