Please note for all proposals that must be submitted via Grants.gov,
the Office of University Research Services must have the final
complete proposal, with all required attachments, no later
than 48 hours prior to the agency deadline. Because of the
higher possibility of technical difficulties with this new
submission engine, the OURS cannot guarantee that proposals
received later than 48 hours prior to the deadline will be
submitted on time. Please direct any questions to the Office
of University Research Services, 4-2236 or ours@towson.edu.
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American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI-R²): Call for Letters of Intent
Agency: Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics
Deadline: June 12, 2009
The National Science Foundation has announced a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program that is separate from the standard January submission deadline. Awards made in response to this solicitation will be funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), and have special award conditions.
Eligible organizations may submit a maximum of three (3) proposals, independent of the number of proposals that may have been submitted under the NSF 09-502 MRI competition. However, proposals that wholly or substantially duplicate those that were accepted for review under the former competition will not be accepted for this competition. A maximum of two submissions can be for instrument acquisition. If three proposals are submitted, at least one submission must be for instrument development.
Anticipating strong interest in this program, and due to the limit on the number of submissions being accepted, the Dean’s Office in the Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics is calling for an internal review and selection procedure. Interested applicants should submit a letter of intent (1-2 pages) outlining the substance of the request, a list of key personnel, and an estimate of total project costs with justification to the Dean’s office by June 12. Selected proposals, will be notified by June 19 in order to prepare for the August 10th deadline (see announcement below).
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Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI-R²)
Agency: National Science Foundation
Deadline: August 10, 2009
The primary purpose of the MRI-R2 program is to facilitate scientific and engineering research and research training through the acquisition or development of research instrumentation. Therefore, the MRI-R2 program will not support the acquisition or development of instrumentation used primarily for standard science and engineering education courses, or for general purpose instrumentation that does not have a common or specific research focus. Other uses of the instrumentation may serve to facilitate the broader impacts of the project.
Proposals to the MRI-R2 program should conform to one or more of its goals:
- Supporting the acquisition of major state-of-the-art instrumentation, thereby improving access to, and increased use of, modern research and research training instrumentation by scientists, engineers, and graduate and undergraduate students;
- Fostering the development of the next generation of instrumentation, resulting in new instruments that are more widely used, and/or open up new areas of research and research training;
- Enabling academic departments, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary units, and multi-organization collaborations to create well-equipped research environments that integrate research with education;
- Supporting the acquisition and development of instrumentation that contributes to advancements in supercomputing technology, and/or takes advantage of existing investments in cyberinfrastructure while avoiding duplication of services already provisioned by NSF investments. The NSF document, “Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the 21st Century”
(http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp) provides an evolving vision that will help guide the Foundation's future investments in cyberinfrastructure;
- Promoting substantive and meaningful partnerships for instrument development between the academic and private sectors (i.e., small businesses). Such partnerships have the potential to build capacity for instrument development in academic settings and to create new products with wide scientific and commercial impact. Partnerships with applicability to the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs) program are encouraged.
Proposal budgets may include requests up to $6 million from non-Ph.D-granting institutions for an award period up to three years for acquisition proposals and up to five years for development proposals. The anticipated earliest starting date is December 31, 2009. NSF estimates that it will make up to 400 awards.
Proposals must meet administrative and technical requirements to be accepted for the MRI-R2 competition. Interested applicants are encouraged to review the program guidelines in their entirety and contact the Program Officer, Dr. Randy L. Phelps to discuss their proposal ideas. Please refer to preliminary proposal guidelines for the Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics above.
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
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Institutional, University-Wide, or Cross-Disciplinary Opportunity
Compulsive Gambling Prevalence Study
Agency: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Deadline: June 15, 2009 (extended from June 3, 2009)
This funding announcement is being re-run to announce the extended deadline.
The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration (ADAA) of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) is announcing a solicitation for proposals to conduct a statewide compulsive gambling/gambling addiction prevalence study. Offerors must represent academic institutions in Maryland that are eligible to contract with the State via Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The prevalence study should detail plans for measuring adult participation in all forms of commercial and private gambling, and for reliably estimating the baseline prevalence of problem gambling and its impact on the lives of Marylanders, including its human and financial costs. The Department plans to contract for a replication study for comparison against the baseline within 5 years, but this solicitation and funding is for the baseline study proposal only. Awards will be made based on the availability of funds during FY 2010.
The successful proposal will outline a baseline academic study that:
- Investigates socio-demographic and other factors associated with gambling and problem gambling, including income, levels of education and occupation, place of residence, primary language and rates for age, gender, race and ethnicity;
- Explores gambling frequency, preferred gambling venues, amounts of funds gambled and lost, and debt accumulated;
- Identifies other variables of interest, including, at a minimum, the following:
co-morbid conditions (alcohol and drug use, psychiatric and medical disorders), and the employment, financial and interpersonal problems that result from gambling;
- Assesses attitudes and perceptions of gambling individuals and those in their immediate circle of family and friends regarding the nature of the gambling problem, their knowledge of how and where to take advantage of treatment for problem gambling, and perceived barriers to seeking treatment; and
- Provides a statewide estimate of the number of individuals in need of treatment for problem gambling, estimates for each of the following sub-state regions, and justifications for sample size calculations for each region and the state.
Due to the complexity of the desired research project, a research team with multiple types of expertise is required. At least one member of the team should possess specialized expertise and proven experience in performing large-scale prevalence studies, and at least one member should have specialized expertise and proven experience in performing studies related to problem gambling. Offerors are invited to subcontract with other researchers or consultants to ensure that their research team conforms to these requirements. The ADAA reserves the right to approve the selection of consultants.
It is anticipated that any agreement resulting from this solicitation shall begin on or about July 1, 2009. The term of the agreement shall be for a period of 18 months. To request a copy of the solicitation, please contact OURS. Any questions regarding this solicitation shall be directed in writing to Priscilla Benway at pbenway@dhmh.state.md.us.
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