Physical Sciences & Engineering

NIH ARPA-H-SOL-24-101: 2024 ARPA-H Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT)

No Applicants // Limit: 2 // Tickets Available: 2 

 

 

The PRINT program aims to transform organ biofabrication by leveraging recent advances in 3D bioprinting, cell manufacturing, biomaterials, modeling, and tissue engineering. The PRINT program will assemble the necessary tools to facilitate production from a human cell source to a patient matched biofabricated organ to restore at least 40% normal organ function as demonstrated in a large animal model. 

Areas of Interest:

  • Technical Area 1 (TA1): Generation of all necessary organ cell types (Phase I)
  • Technical Area 2 (TA2): Large scale manufacturing of organ cell types (Phase I & II)
  • Technical Area 3 (TA3): Organ Biofabrication and in vivo testing (Phase I and II)
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
05/28/2024

2024 Sloan Research Fellowships

Limit: 3 nominations per department.

  • A. Favela  (School of Plant Sciences)
  • R. Shomer  (School of Plant Sciences)
  • M. Corty (Neuroscience)
  • M.  Wohlgemuth (Neuroscience)
  • S. He (Systems & Industrial Engineering)
  • T. Lawson (DPS, College of Education)
  • F. Willomitzer (College of Optical Sciences)

 

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

Successful candidates for a Fellowship generally have a strong record of significant independent research accomplishments that demonstrate creativity and the potential to become future leaders in the scientific community. Nominated candidates are normally several years past the completion of their Ph.D. in order to accumulate a competitive record of independent, significant research. The Fellowship amount is $75,000 for a two-year term.

Eligibility:

  • Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.
  • Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15 of the nomination year.
  • Candidate’s faculty position must carry a regular teaching obligation.

*Due to the competitive nature of this funding program, the internal competition is run based on the anticipated September 15, 2024 nomination deadline.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
09/15/2024
Solicitation Type

DOE DE-FOA-0003264: 2024 Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Science

No Applicants  // Limit: 3 // Tickets Available: 3 

 

Applicant institutions are limited to no more than 3 letters of intent, pre-applications, or applications as the lead institution per research area. There is no limitation to the number of applications on which an institution appears as a subrecipient or for which the institution is not the lead in a multi-institution team using collaborative applications.

 

The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science. Specifically, advancements in this area are sought that can enable the development of: 

  • Foundation models for computational science;
  • Automated scientific workflows and laboratories;
  • Scientific programming and scientific-knowledge-management systems;
  • Federated and privacy-preserving training for foundation and other AI models for science; and
  • Energy-efficient AI algorithms and hardware for science.
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
05/21/2024

Pew Charitable Trusts: 2025 Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research

Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

 

The 2025 Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research upports assistant professors of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of a cure for cancer.

This program does not fund clinical trials research. Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and pioneering approaches to basic, translational, and applied cancer research. Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged.

An award of $75,000 per year for four years will be provided. Pew-Stewart scholars will spend at least 80 percent of their time in work related to their overall research goals.

Eligibility:

  • Candidates must have been awarded a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine or a related field.
  • As of Aug. 28, 2024 nominees must be at the rank of assistant professor.
  • Candidates must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 10, 2020. 
  • Candidates may apply two times in total
  • Candidates may not be nominated for the Pew Scholars Program and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research in the same year.


For more information please contact UACC-preaward@arizona.edu.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
05/15/2024
Solicitation Type

NSF 22-622: 2024 Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)

Limit: 5* // Tickets Available: 2

 

L. Davis (Arizona Institute for Resilience) - Design & Development Launch Pilots (DDLPs)

J. Thangavelautham (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) - Collaborative Change Consortia

M. Franco  ( HSI Initiatives) - Alliances

 

*Only 1 submission per project type/institution:

  1. Design & Development Launch Pilot = $600K for up to 2 years.
  2. Collaborative Change Consortia = $5M for up to 5 years.
  3. Alliances = $10M for up to 5 years.
  4. Network Connectors = $500K for up to 2 years.
  5. Conferences = $100k for 1 year.

NSF INCLUDES is a comprehensive, national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discovery and innovation, focused on NSF's commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in STEM fields, as communicated in the NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 - 2026. The vision of NSF INCLUDES is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to work collaboratively for inclusive change, resulting in a STEM workforce that reflects the diversity of the Nation's population. More specifically, NSF INCLUDES seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance equity and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM fields at scale. Significant advancement in the inclusion of groups that have historically been excluded from or under-served in STEM will result in a new generation of STEM talent and leadership to secure the Nation's future and long-term economic competitiveness.

With this solicitation, NSF offers support for five types of projects that connect and contribute to the National Network: (1) Design and Development Launch Pilots, (2) Collaborative Change Consortia, (3) Alliances, (4) Network Connectors, and (5) Conferences. The NSF INCLUDES National Network is a multifaceted collaboration of agencies, organizations, and individuals working collectively to broaden participation in STEM. The NSF INCLUDES National Network serves as a testbed for designing, implementing, studying, refining, and scaling collaborative change models and is composed of:

  • NSF INCLUDES funded projects
  • Other NSF funded projects
  • Subcommittee on Federal Coordination in STEM Education (FC-STEM) agencies
  • Scholars engaged in broadening participation research and evaluation, and
  • Organizations that support the development of talent from all sectors of society to build an inclusive STEM workforce.

All NSF INCLUDES funded projects must operationalize five design elements of collaborative infrastructure - (1) shared vision, (2) partnerships, (3) goals and metrics, (4) leadership and communication, and (5) expansion, sustainability, and scale - to create systemic change that will lead to the substantially broadened participation of individuals from historically excluded and undeserved groups in STEM.

DOE DE-FOA-0003300: 2024 Exploratory Research for Extreme Scale Science (EXPRESS)

No Applicants  // Limit: 5 // Tickets Available: 5 

 

Applicant institutions are limited to both: 

  • No more than a total of five pre-applications or applications as the lead institution in a single- or multi-institutional team.
  • No more than one pre-application or application for each PI at the applicant institution.

Extreme-scale science recognizes that disruptive technology changes are occurring across science applications, algorithms, computer architectures and ecosystems. Recent reports point to emerging trends and advances in high-end computing, massive datasets, visualization, and artificial intelligence on increasingly heterogeneous architectures. Significant innovation will be required in the development of effective paradigms and approaches for realizing the full potential of scientific computing from emerging technologies. Proposed research should not focus on a specific science use case, but rather on creating the body of knowledge and understanding that will inform future advances in extreme-scale science. Consequently, the funding from this FOA is not intended to incrementally extend current research in the area of the proposed project. It is expected that the proposed projects will significantly benefit from the exploration of innovative ideas or from the development of unconventional approaches.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
05/02/2024

NSF 24-565: 2024 Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines)

Institutionally Coordinated // Limit: 1 //  K. Luxbacher  (Mining and Geological Engineering)

 

 

The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program creates regional-scale, technology-driven, inclusive innovation ecosystems throughout the United States by accelerating key technologies, addressing regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategic challenges, driving economic growth, creating and retaining quality jobs, expanding equitable pathways into careers, and strengthening national competitiveness and security. Each NSF Engine represents a formal coalition of regional partners, led by a full-time Chief Executive Officer (CEO), tasked to carry out an integrated and comprehensive set of activities spanning use-inspired research, translation of innovation to practice, entrepreneurship, workforce development, community engagement, and ecosystem building, to nurture and accelerate the growth of regional innovation ecosystems grounded in technological innovation and regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategic challenges. The mission of an NSF Engine must be clearly rooted in regional interests and reflect the aspiration that a regional innovation ecosystem can help build strong communities where all residents can thrive. This includes the equitable development of regional talent, intentional community engagement, and attention to impacts on a region’s identities and cultures. The NSF Engines program is a placed-based innovation funding initiative, where the emphasis on “regions” expresses NSF’s aim to stimulate innovation-driven economic growth within a particular place or region of service. The emphasis of the NSF Engines program further includes creating new business and economic growth in sectors that are critical to American competitiveness and in those regions of America that have not fully participated in the technology boom of the past several decades.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
06/18/2024 (LOI) - 08/06/2024 ( Proposal)
Solicitation Type

NSF 24-562: 2024 Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology - Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering

UArizona is not eligible for this opportunity. 
For more information, please contact RDS. 

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
03/03/2024
Solicitation Type

CDC/NIOSH 75D301-24-R-72911: 2024 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) - University Health and Safety Research for the Mining Industry

Institutionally Coordinated // Limit: 1 // A. Anani (Mining and Geological Engineering)

 

Partners/collaborators shall submit only one (1) proposal by the primary (lead) institution with any other institution(s) identified as a subcontractor.

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is issued on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) pursuant to the authority of FAR 35.016 and FAR 6.102(d)(2) which provide for the competitive selection of research proposals.  Contracts awarded based on responses to this BAA are considered the result of full and open competition and are therefore in full compliance with the requirements of PL 98-369, "The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984."

Only Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) accredited educational institutions eligible under this BAA.

Within the meaning of FAR 6.102 and 35.016, this announcement constitutes the Government’s only solicitation and the Government will not issue any other formal solicitation for the requirement(s) outlined herein.  Offerors are advised that solicitation amendments may be issued via www.sam.gov and that proposal submissions shall comply with the most current amended solicitation documents and/or attachments.

This announcement is an opportunity for the award of contracts to universities for mining systems health and safety research. 

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
04/09/2024

DOS DFOP0009897: 2024 Semiconductor Security Academy

Limit: 1// S. Salehi (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

 

 

To ensure countries have the necessary measures in place to safeguard chips and related technology from diversion and misuse. Under this NOFO, ITSI Funds may benefit countries in the Americas, initially in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama, and countries in the Indo-Pacific region, initially in Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and others as identified by ISN/ECC. ISN/ECC has identified crucial areas in which we can work with partners in enhancing their capacity to safeguard semiconductor-related technologies.

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
05/03/2024