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

The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge team released its Five-Year Work Plan identifying over 100 research recommendations critical to deliver a 2050 Sustainable LA Implementation Plan for Los Angeles County by 2020. A core team of faculty and researchers from across disciplines met regularly over the past year to develop the Work Plan with input from internal and external scholars.

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.
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.
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.
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. 

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

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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 are 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.
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM) Extended Deadline
ResourcesResearch & Funding Resources

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 - 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 Biomedical Library

 

New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding

 

Research Development & Grant-Writing News

 


 

 

Find Funding

 

Grants.gov

 

SPIN Funding Opportunities

 

NEA - National Endowment for the Arts

 

NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities

 

NIH - National Institutes of Health

 

NSF - National Science Foundation

 

DOD - Department of Defense

 

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 

EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

 

DOED - Department of Education

 

DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services

 

DOE - Department of Energy

 

DOS - Department of State


This newsletter provides 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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