HUD Office Seeks Peer Reviewers
Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Office of University Partnerships (OUP) recently announced the beginning of its FY08 funding cycle. OUP currently funds the following programs:
- Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC).
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG).
- Early Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (EDSRG).
- Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC).
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
- Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP).
To help OUP award this year’s round of grants, the office needs qualified individuals to review the applications submitted under these programs. Each year, they bring reviewers to Washington, D.C., for an onsite peer review of their minority-serving institution (MSI) grants. This year, the onsite review is scheduled to occur July 28-August 2, 2008. Additionally, OUP will be conducting an online review for its DDRG and EDSRG grants from June 20-July 9, 2008.
Those who would like to apply to participate in this online doctoral review do not need to travel, but must possess a Ph.D. in a housing - or urban development - related field, must have a computer that can use Microsoft SharePoint, and must be able to respond promptly to e-mail and conference call communications with OUP staff.
Those who are interested in applying to review for onsite MSI review in Washington, D.C., do not need to possess a Ph.D.
Those interested in being a reviewer, please visit the OUP website, www.oup.org, and follow the "Submit a Peer Reviewer Profile" link on the upper right side of the index page. To be considered for this year's reviews, you MUST complete and submit a profile.
Those who submit a peer reviewer profile to review for the online doctoral review, will hear from a review coordinator no later than June 16, 2008, as to whether or not they have been selected to be a reviewer. Those who submit a profile to be considered as a reviewer for onsite review, will hear from OUP by no later than June 30, 2008.
Institutional, University-Wide, or Multi-Disciplinary Opportunity
Advanced Research Enhancement Awards
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 25, 2008
October 25, 2008
February 25, June 25, and October 25, 2009
Through its Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to make a special effort to stimulate research in institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced training but that have not been major recipients of NIH research funding. AREA funds are intended to support new ("type 1") and renewal ("type 2") biomedical and behavioral research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible colleges, universities, schools, and components of domestic institutions. These grants are intended to create a research opportunity for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH programs to support the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. It is anticipated that investigators supported under the AREA program will benefit from the opportunity to conduct independent research; that the grantee institution will benefit from a research environment strengthened through AREA grants and furthered by participation in the diverse extramural programs of the NIH; and that available students will benefit from exposure to and participation in research in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Active involvement of undergraduate and graduate students in the proposed research is encouraged, and reviewers will consider whether the proposed project will expose undergraduate (preferably, if available) and graduate students to meritorious research. However, the application should not focus on training objectives and training plans should not be provided. Types of projects supported include: pilot projects and feasibility studies; development, testing, and refinement of research techniques; secondary analysis of available data sets; and similar discrete research projects that demonstrate research capability. The research objectives of the AREA program are those of the individual NIH institutes or centers to which a proposal is submitted. The AREA program Web site (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/area.htm) lists the program representative for each of the participating Institutes and Centers. The Web site also includes the research objectives of the participating Institutes and Centers with their Web sites. For pre-application guidance, potential applicants are encouraged to contact the program representatives listed for the particular Institutes/Centers with research interests relevant to the applicants’ proposed topics. Awards are for up to 3 years and $150,000 maximum direct costs.
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-042.html
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Innovation Research Program
Agency: HP Labs
Deadline: June 18, 2008
The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world for breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Through this open and competitive call for proposals, HP is soliciting best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations.
The 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research program is seeking proposals within five broad research themes:
- Information explosion: Acquiring, analyzing and delivering the right information to individuals and businesses so they can act on it
- Dynamic cloud services: Developing web platforms and cloud services that are dynamically personalized based on location, preferences, calendar and communities
- Content transformation: Enabling the fluid transformation of content from analog to digital, from device to device, and from digital content to physical products
- Intelligent infrastructure: Designing smarter, more secure computing devices, networks and architectures that work together to connect individuals and businesses to rich, dynamic content and services
- Sustainability: Creating technologies, IT infrastructure, and new business models for the low-carbon economy that save money and leave a lighter footprint on the world
HP Labs is seeking compelling projects in a variety of areas that reflect HP’s broad industry presence and research themes. Based on HP Labs worldwide locations, Universities are invited to address specific research topics as assigned to a number of regional groupings. The research groupings, topics and their complete descriptions are available at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/2008_HPL_IRP_Research_Topics_Americas.pdf
Awards under the HP Labs Innovation Research Program will consist of cash support for one year in the $50,000 to $75,000 range, including any overhead. A key element of each award will be on-campus support for one graduate-student researcher. Larger or partial awards may be made, and awards may be renewed up to a total of three years, based on research outcomes and HP business needs. Proposed projects may begin on a date appropriate to the institution’s academic year. Proposal notifications will be made in August 2008.
URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/
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Agency: US Department of Justice
Deadline(s): June 11, 2008
The Byrne Competitive Program: National Initiatives, administered by the Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), helps improve the capacity of local adult criminal justice systems and provides for national support efforts such as training and technical assistance projects to strategically address needs. The FY 2008 program will focus on funding national efforts within five major categories. National significance refers to the value that may be gleaned or the applicability that may be seen in one project that may assist another project.
Applicants may submit their proposal under any one of the following categories:
- CATEGORY I: PREVENTING CRIME AND DRUG ABUSE: Applications are solicited for crime prevention efforts designed to enhance Neighborhood Watch capacity-building tools; support the replication of promising strategies to prevent crime such as the “High Point Initiative,” and training programs designed to improve safety on school, college, and university campuses. Applications are also solicited for programs designed to identify promising crime prevention strategies and lessons learned, develop crime prevention materials and resources for practitioners; and programs that help build partnerships among law enforcement and community-based organizations. BJA is also soliciting applications for programs to educate the public on prescription drug abuse and assist in engaging parents and others in prevention.
- CATEGORY II: ENHANCING LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: Applications are solicited to improve or enhance the administration and operations of the law enforcement function in local adult criminal justice systems. Applications for programs that build national capacity to prevent and investigate motor vehicle title fraud and theft (including Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) cloning), programs that address the issue of law enforcement officer suicide prevention through training, multimedia programs that engage communities in the prevention of terrorism, programs that support law enforcement efforts to reduce crime through traffic enforcement using innovative strategies such as intelligence-led policing, programs designed to collaboratively assess and offer recommendations to improve law enforcement gang investigations, programs to support law enforcement task force performance measurement and effectiveness, and programs to identify lessons learned and success stories in BJA’s Targeting Violent Crime Initiative (TVCI) as well as programs to provide training and technical assistance to participating task forces on issues such as task force operations and intelligence-led policing. In addition, BJA is soliciting applications in support of a violent crime corridor initiative to be modeled after the BJA-supported I-95 Corridor initiative, which aims to prevent crime and improve enforcement operations along the I-95 corridor. BJA is considering similar initiatives along various interstate corridors across the U.S. and invites applications to support and coordinate these efforts.
- CATEGORY III: ENHANCING LOCAL COURTS: Applications are solicited for programs designed to support BJA’s community prosecution and problem-solving initiatives through training and technical assistance, programs to provide training and technical assistance support to criminal courts around the U.S. at BJA’s direction, programs to provide state and local prosecutor training, and programs to improve the information sharing capacity of state and local court systems by adapting BJA’s data models and developing key exchanges needed for court system improvement.
- CATEGORY IV: ENHANCING LOCAL CORRECTIONS AND OFFENDER REENTRY Applicants are solicited to improve or enhance the administration and operations of the corrections function and offender reentry initiatives in local adult criminal justice systems. Applications are solicited for programs that address the issue of justice system and mental health needs through training and technical assistance, and programs that improve correctional system access to necessary criminal intelligence and support greater collaboration between law enforcement and correctional system personnel for purposes of reducing crime and managing offender populations. BJA is also soliciting applications for training and technical assistance programs that further BJA’s justice reinvestment initiative, a strategic approach to corrections and justice system planning.
- CATEGORY V: FACILITATING JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING Applicants are solicited to improve or enhance the sharing of information within the criminal justice system. Applications are solicited for programs to continue the technical development of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), programs that support the work of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), programs to provide national training and technical assistance on the intelligence-led policing and fusion center concepts and initiatives, programs to improve law enforcement officer access to information consistent with the “one-stop” approach, programs that support local justice system use of BJA’s Justice Information Exchange Model (JIEM), and programs that build national connectivity between gang intelligence systems/fusion centers and pointer files in use by both federal and state and local investigators. BJA is also soliciting applications for the development and use of information systems to accelerate the automation of fingerprint identification processes and criminal justice data.
Approximately $15 million is available under the FY 2008 Byrne Competitive Program. The project period for awards under this program is up to 12 months. The project start date should be on or after November 1, 2008. Because federal funding may not be available in the future, applicants should avoid using funds for hiring personnel, although use of funds for overtime is allowable. While match is not required under this program, a voluntary match is encouraged. Program sustainability must be addressed by every applicant under this program. Applicants are strongly encouraged to avoid unsubstantiated requests for equipment purchases.
URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/08ByrneCompSol.pdf
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