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Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts.
Click here for previous event videos and presentation materials.
 
Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.
 
OIP-ISR hosts and co-sponsors seminars, conferences, and networking events designed to help guide UCLA inventors forming startups, protecting intellectual property, and developing collaborations with industry.
 
View upcoming events hosted by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute by following the link above.
 
Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.
 
CEILS creates a collaborative community of instructors committed to advancing teaching excellence, assessment, diversity, and scholarship, resulting in the enhancement of student learning experiences in the life sciences at UCLA.
 
UCLA OIP-ISR wants to help you license research tools you've created to assist in conducting your research. This usually results in money going right back to your lab! See the flyer for more information.
 
ICCA is pleased to announce two funding opportunities. These opportunities are open to all UCLA faculty members in the regular professor series and are due October 30 2015. Details as follows:
NCFDD is an organization that provides professional development and mentoring opportunities for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs. UCLA's institutional membership allows access to various webinars, slides and transcripts of workshops, and the organization's online career center as well as numerous other professional resources. 

UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge and UCLA Library are hosting a full day symposium to explore the challenges of sustainability and civic, open, and urban data. We've invited collectors, producers, curators, visualizers, and scholars of data and the city to share theory and practice in a series of conversations that can inform new directions in data practice to meet the sustainability challenges of Los Angeles as a cosmopolis. The symposium takes place October 23.
We are pleased to announce the first call for proposals for research grants in furtherance of achieving the goals of 100-percent renewable energy, 100-percent locally sourced water, and enhanced ecosystem health and human health and well-being by 2050 in Los Angeles County as described in detail in the Sustainable LA Five-Year Work Plan. The purpose is to fund research identified in the Work Plan, and to catalyze new lines of research and new collaborations across campus. the deadline is October 26.
You have an opportunity to submit and/or vote for ideas to reduce compliance burden related to grants and contracts through an on-line survey initiated by the Federal Government. 
To participate, log in to the website established for grantee responses and register. You can vote for existing ideas by clicking the "UP" arrow above the number of votes for each entry. Clicking the "DOWN" arrow reduces the number of votes. Please note that votes cannot be changed, and exercise caution when clicking. You can also submit new ideas of your own.

In a world where a growing number of people lack food, water and sources of energy, providing these resources has become a challenge. To find new answers, the NSF has funded 17 grants, totaling $1.2 million, to support workshops on the interactions of food, energy and water, or FEW. Additionally, $6.4 million will supplement existing grants, enabling scientists to conduct additional research.
October is National Energy Action Month (EAM), and showcases a national effort to underscore how critical energy is to our national prosperity, security, and environmental well-being. In commemoration of National Energy Action Month, the DoD is hosting a month of energy events and activities. More information in the link above. 
 
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October 29 will provide faculty with an opportunity to hear firsthand from medical research and other institutional health funders on what good stewardship means to them. More info above. 
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Interested applicants: please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for information or assistance.
Limited Submission Opportunities
Please note: All Limited Submissions Opportunities are announced through our LSO newsletter. Please click here for archives of our most recent announcements.
  
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ResourcesResearch & Funding Resources

This newsletter provides summarized information about selected opportunities as a resource to the UCLA campus research community. Please be sure to carefully review any announcement before commencing an application. 

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