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UCLA Research Enhancement Series- Upcoming Programs

Stay tuned for upcoming webinar and workshop events to further develop and support your funding efforts.

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Research Development & Grant-Writing News

Monthly newsletter with tips, best practices, and insider advice on applying for grants and strengthening proposal applications.

UCLA Office of Intellectual Property - Upcoming Events

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.

UCLA CTSI - Upcoming Events

View upcoming events hosted by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute by following the link above.

StartupUCLA- Upcoming Events

Startup UCLA seeks to develop a culture of startup thinking on campus by connecting UCLA students with LA's digital startup scene.

UCLA Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS)

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.

NEW! LSO Portal, Online Application, and Newsletter

All Limited Submission Opportunities can now be found online on our LSO Portal. Please visit the VCR LSO webpage for more complete information on the new system and how to apply through our new online application platform.

The LSO Newsletter will now be a brief weekly update, announcing LSO processes that have recently been published to the LSO Portal. If you would like to receive these announcements, please subscribe.

SERDP & ESTCP Webinar Series - Watershed Assessment and Stormwater Management Optimization Tools
SERDP and ESTCP have launched a webinar series to promote the transfer of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions developed through projects funded in five program areas. The next webinar will take pace on December 17, 2015. Register in the link above.

Call for Applications to Attend Gender Summit 8 in Mexico

The Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity is currently seeking applicants who are interested in attending the Gender Summit 8 (GS8), in Mexico City, for one week travel from April 25 to May 1, 2016. The summit is focused on gender issues in scientific research and is organized under the theme of Science without Borders, Breaking gender, geographic, disciplinary and educaitonal barriers throught science. Application deadline is January 7, 2015.

Have You Invented a Useful Research Tool? OIP-ISR Wants to Help You License It!

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.

Federal Opportunities

Upcoming NSF Opportunities:

Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering

Dear Colleague Letter: Enabling US-Netherlands Collaboration for Privacy Research

Dear Colleague Letter: Germination of Research Ideas for Large Opportunities and Critical Societal Needs

Dear Colleague Letter: Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education

Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys - R&D, U.S. S&T Competitiveness, STEM Education, S&T Workforce

Other Federal Opportunities:

AFRL - Thin Wall Castings for Military Applications Project

AFRL - University Cooperative Agreement

DOE - Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Smart Manufacturing: Advanced Sensors, Controls, Platforms, and Modeling for Manufacturing

DOE - Photovoltaics Research and Development

DOS - Global Nuclear Security Engagement Activities

NIH - Advancing Research in Voice Disorders (R21)

NIH - BRAIN Initiative: New Technologies and Novel Approaches for Large-Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (U01)

NIH - BRAIN Initiative: Non-Invasive Neuromodulation - New Tools and Techniques for Spatiotemporal Precision

NIH - Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (R21)

NIH - Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV (R01)

NIH - Modeling Social Behavior (R01)

NIH - Research Centers in Injury and Peri-operative Sciences (P50)

NIH - Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics (P41)

NIH - Turkey-US Collaborative Program for Affordable Medical Technologies (R01)

NIH - Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award (DP2)

NOAA - EPP/MSI Undergraduate Scholarship Program

NRC - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant, Faculty Development Grant, and Trade School and Community College Scholarship Grant

ONR - Navy and Marine Corps Science, Technology, Engineering

ONR - Real-Time Full Spectrum Cyber Science and Technology

ONR - Undersea Technologies for Autonomous Detection and Communications

SBIR and STTR Opportunities:

Please note: These opportunities are open to Small Business concerns, and while UCLA is not eligible to lead, we may be able to partner with eligible entities. Please carefully review all eligibility requirements.

DOE - Sunshot Technology to Market

NIH - NINDS Renewal Awards of SBIR Phase II Grants (Phase IIB) for Pre-Clinical Research (R44)

Non-Federal Opportunities

American Gastroenterological Association - AGA-Covidien Research & Development Pilot Award in Technology

American Geophysical Union - Congressional Science Fellowship

American Meteorological Society - AMS Graduate Fellowships

Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science - Graduate Fellowship

European Commission - Grants for European Research Infrastructures

Link Foundation - Advanced Simulation & Training Fellowship Program

Link Foundation - Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Ph.D. Fellowship

Materials Research Society - MRS/OSA Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - Crafoord Prize

Society for Naval Architects and Ocean Professionals - Graduate Scholarship Program

Society in Science - The Branco Weiss Fellowship

University of Kansas - Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship

Foundation Opportunities

Interested applicants: please contact UCLA Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for information or assistance regarding these opportunities.

IBM - Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences

Limited Submission Opportunities

Please note: All Limited Submissions Opportunities can now be found online on the VCR website in our LSO Portal!

Once an opportunity has been reviewed by our office and assigned a process and an internal deadline, it will be available to campus applicants under the "Open Opportunities" tab. For more information on the LSO process and portal, please visit our webpage.

If you would like to be made aware of LSO processes as they are published, please subscribe to our weekly LSO newsletter.

If you already thinking about applying to a specific opportunity, let us know by filling out an

Express Interest Form. This form is non-binding and helps us streamline the application process and get information to you faster.

Nonhuman Primate Reagent Resource (U24) Extended Deadline
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program Open
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM) Open
NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM) Open

Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award (R01) Open

Camille Dreyfus 2016 Teacher-Scholar Awards Program Open

Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42) Upcoming

UCLA Research Links

* OVCR - Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

* OCGA - Office of Contracts and Grants Administration - Proposal Preparation Guidelines

* ORA - Office of Research Administration

* OIP/ISR- Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research

* CFRR - Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations

* UCLA Graduate & Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database

* UCLA Graduate Writing Center

UCLA Science and Engineering Library

* UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute - Open Funding Opportunities

* Challenge.gov

*New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding

*Research Development & Grant-Writing News

Find Funding

* Grants.gov

* SPIN Funding Opportunities

* NSF - National Science Foundation

* DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

* NIH - National Institutes of Health

* DOD - Department of Defense

* NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

* DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services

* DOE - Department of Energy

* DOS - Department of State

* ONR - Office of Naval Research

* NEA - National Endowment for the Arts

* NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities

* DOED - Department of Education

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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