Federal Limited Opportunities

NSF 23-518: Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research. *Category I*

Category I, Capacity Resources: production computational resources maximizing the capacity provided to support the broad range of computation and data analytics needs in S&E research.

The intent of this solicitation is to request proposals from organizations who are willing to serve as resource providers within the NSF Advanced Computing Systems and Services (ACSS) program.

Resources proposed in this category are intended to be operational deployments of production computational resources that will provide maximum capacity and throughput to support the broad range of computation and data analytics needs in S&E research. The deployments are expected to adhere to a vision of an advanced computing ecosystem as a federated set of resources and services that are heterogeneous in architecture, resource type, and usage mode to collectively meet the Nation’s foundational needs for world-leading computing capabilities.

The proposed resource must be clearly motivated by the current and future demand for computational and data analytics capacity in the broad and diverse S&E research community. This category particularly targets capabilities and/or services for small- to mid-scale jobs (from one to a few thousand cores per job) across broad areas of S&E, including support for “long-tail science” applications, as well as new classes of applications, such as artificial intelligence/machine learning/deep learning applications.

Proposers are encouraged to explore novel models for future dynamic national cyberinfrastructure federation (such as those enabled by the PATh facility), including in compute resources, software, data, technical expertise, stakeholders, on-demand allocations, and resource provisioning mechanisms. The latter mechanisms can govern regional and/or campus supported resources, and/or commercial cloud services, enabling comprehensive and effective science-based response to a potential future national and/or international urgent need; or be available to fuel AI research and development opening opportunities for the next breakthroughs in science, engineering, and technology.

 LIMIT: Dartmouth can submit one proposal 

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu:

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "ACSS" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: May 03, 2024

Sponsor Deadline: October 29, 2024

Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program

NSF 23-519

The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program (MRI Program Website) serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions. MRI instruments are, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.

MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to obtain next-generation research instruments by developing instruments with new capabilities that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.

Limit Per Institution – Two submissions in Track 1 ( Track 1 is CLOSED), one submission in Track 2, and one submission in Track 3

• Track 1: funds requested from NSF greater than or equal to $100,000 and less than $1,400,000
• Track 2: funds requested from NSF greater than or equal to $1,400,000 up to and including $4,000,000
• Track 3: funds proposal requests that include the acquisition, development, installation, operation, and maintenance of equipment and instrumentation to reduce consumption of helium.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "MRI" as the email subject line.

DEADLINES:

Dartmouth Internal Deadline: July 12, 2024

Sponsor Deadline for Full Application: November 15, 2024

National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program

NSF

Synopsis of Program:

In response to the CHIPS Act of 2022 (Pub.L. 117-167), NSF is establishing the National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program. The purpose of this program is to elevate the profession of STEM teaching by establishing a National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program to recognize outstanding STEM teachers in our Nation’s classrooms, reward them for their accomplishments, elevate their public profile, and create rewarding career paths to which all STEM teachers can aspire, both to prepare future STEM researchers and to create a scientifically literate public.

With this solicitation, NSF is inviting proposals to establish an initial set of Regional Alliances responsible for (a) recruiting eligible applicants to become members of the National STEM Teacher Corps (see definitions in section II.A.); (b) screening, interviewing, and selecting members; and (c) supporting other activities detailed in the Program Description and the law (136 STAT. 1515).

Each Alliance will be awarded as a cooperative agreement that represents the breadth of activities important to National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program and serves to elevate the public profile of STEM teachers within the region. Collectively these Alliances are expected to have a national impact.

LIMIT: Dartmouth may only submit one proposal.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "STEM" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: July 25, 2024

Sponsor Deadline: October 01, 2024

Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation 

Department of Energy

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

To realize a clean, decarbonized economy, we must drive innovation to transform resources, materials, and manufacturing for energy applications. The U.S. ramp up of production of technologies that are needed for this energy transition will require new materials, new manufacturing processes, and new circular materials flows. The modernization of manufacturing can help bring these innovations on-line at the needed scale and quality faster. Smart manufacturing provides a systemic approach for this modernization that holds great promise to significantly improve productivity, efficiency, safety, security, and sustainability of U.S. manufacturing and energy systems.

Smart manufacturing refers to the suite of platform technologies that directly support the digital transformation of the manufacturing enterprise across the entire production lifecycle, which includes design, process, production, supply network, and enterprise levels. Platform technologies are manufacturing technologies that can be applied to manufacture multiple products. This FOA applies smart manufacturing across four topic areas:

Topic 1. Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy
Topic 2. Smart Manufacturing of Tooling and Equipment for Sustainable TransportationTopic 3. Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials
Topic 4. Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive U.S. Mining.

LIMIT: Dartmouth can submit only one Concept Paper and one Full Application for *each* topic area of this FOA. 

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "DOE/EERE TOPIC #" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: August 01, 2024

Required Concept Paper Deadline: August 22, 2024

Full Application Sponsor Deadline: November 18, 2024

Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program (T32)

NIH/NIGMS  PAR-24-232

The goal of the Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program is to promote broad participation in the biomedical research workforce by strengthening research training environments and expanding the pool of well-trained master’s students who transition to and complete biomedical Ph.Ds.

Specifically, this funding announcement provides support to eligible, domestic organizations to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical graduate training and mentoring to support the development of a biomedical research workforce that will benefit from the full range of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds needed to advance discovery. NIGMS expects organizations to engage in outreach and recruitment activities to encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to participate in the program. The proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the nation.

This program requires strong partnerships between at least two postsecondary educational organizations: one that supports training at the master’s degree level (Master’s-Training Organization), and a separate organization that supports biomedical Ph.D. training (Ph.D.-Training Organization). Eligible organizations for these partnerships include:

Master’s Training Organization:

*An organization where the highest biomedically-related research degree offered is a master’s degree, OR *An organization that is a Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) or a Tribally Controlled Colleges and University (TCCU), including those that offer biomedical Ph.Ds.

Ph.D.-Training Organization: An organization that grants its own biomedical Ph.Ds.

LIMIT: Dartmouth may only submit one proposal.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "Bridges T32" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: August 02, 2024

Sponsor Deadline: September 27,  2024

Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)

NIH/NIA RFA-AG-25-020

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs) award. The goal of the OAIC program is to establish centers of excellence in geriatrics research and research education to increase scientific knowledge leading to better ways to maintain or restore independence in older persons. OAIC awards are designed to develop or strengthen programs that focus on, and sustain progress in, a key area of aging research related to the mission of the OAIC program.

LIMIT: Dartmouth may only submit one proposal.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "NIA_P30" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: August 02, 2024

Sponsor Deadline: October 11, 2024

Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships

NSF 24-594

The Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships — Concept

The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships-Discovery and Innovation to Address Vexing Scientific and Societal Challenges program supports exceptionally innovative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs focus on creating new scientific paradigms, establishing entirely new scientific disciplines, and developing transformative technologies that have the potential for broad scientific or societal impact. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among institutions of higher education, national laboratories, industrial organizations, other public and private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate.

The STC program supports potentially groundbreaking investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or highly innovative approaches within disciplines. When appropriate, teams are encouraged to embrace convergence to achieve deep integration across disciplines and sectors. STCs may involve any area of science and engineering that NSF supports. STCs exploit opportunities in science, engineering, and technology where the complexity of the research agenda requires the duration, scope, scale, flexibility, and facilities that center support can provide. They catalyze U.S. leadership in research in a world in which discovery, learning, and innovation enterprises are increasingly interconnected and increasingly global. Centers offer the science and engineering community a venue for developing effective mechanisms to integrate scientific and technological research and education activities; to explore better and more effective ways to educate students; to broaden participation of underrepresented groups in science, mathematics and engineering as well as under-resourced institutions; and to ensure the timely transfer of research and education advances made in service to society. STC lead and partner organizations work together as an integrated whole to achieve the shared research, education, broadening participation, and knowledge-transfer goals of the Center. The STC program seeks to ensure a diverse portfolio of talent, skills, abilities and experience at centers including diversity among types of institutions leading centers and diversity amongst center directors.

LIMIT: Dartmouth may submit a maximum of three preliminary proposals as the lead institution.

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "STC" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: August 30, 2024

Required Preliminary Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2024

Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: June 02, 2025

NEH Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions. Centers must focus their scholarly activities on exploring the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI.  

A Center supports collaboration among scholars to explore a specific topic through research, as well as spreading knowledge about that research through educational or outreach activities. Centers may include scholars from diverse disciplines, but must be focused on asking humanities questions and should be led by humanists. Scholars may come from one or more institutions. NEH welcomes international collaboration, but scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project. This program is for establishing new Centers; existing Centers and Institutes are not eligible in this competition.

LIMIT: Dartmouth may submit ONEapplication

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "HRCAI" as the email subject line.

Click HERE to view the Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence Pre-Application Webinar

Internal Deadline: September 20, 2024

NEH optional prospectus due October 02, 2024

Sponsor Proposal Deadline: December 11, 2024

NSF Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research (Category 1 Proposal)

The intent of this solicitation is to request proposals from organizations who are willing to serve as resource providers within the NSF Advanced Computing Systems and Services (ACSS) program. Resource providers would (1) provide advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources in production operations to support the full range of computation, data-analysis, and AI research across all of science and engineering (S&E), and (2) enable democratized and equitable access to the proposed resources.

The current solicitation is focused on Category I, Capacity Resources: production computational resources maximizing the capacity provided to support the broad range of computation and data analytics needs in S&E research.

Category I – Capacity Resources

Resources proposed in this category are intended to be operational deployments of production computational resources that will provide maximum capacity and throughput to support the broad range of computation, data analytics and AI needs in S&E research. The deployments are expected to adhere to a vision of an advanced computing ecosystem as a federated set of resources and services that are heterogeneous in architecture, resource type, and usage mode to collectively meet the Nation’s foundational needs for world-leading computing capabilities.

The proposed resource must be clearly motivated by the current and future demand for simulation, data analysis, and AI use cases for the broad disciplinary and geographically diverse S&E research communities.

Proposers are encouraged to explore novel models for future dynamic national cyberinfrastructure federation including in compute resources, software, data, technical expertise, stakeholders, on-demand allocations, and resource provisioning mechanisms. The latter mechanisms can govern regional and/or campus supported resources, and/or commercial cloud services, enabling comprehensive and effective science-based response to a potential future national and/or international urgent need; or be available to fuel AI research and developments enabling advances towards safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence, as elements opening opportunities for the next breakthroughs in science, engineering, and technology. Competitive proposals in Category I must address the following themes in the Project Description (to be discussed in a specific subsection as described in Section V.A. Proposal Preparation Instructions, if noted):

• A clear plan for provisioning a resource that addresses the current and future demand for computational, data analytics, and AI use cases in the broad S&E computational research community;
• A description of how the resource will support S&E research communities that require a national-scale, on-demand, compute, data-analytics and AI resource with a flexible and accessible software environment
• A comprehensive set of system-level performance and reliability metrics, including minimization of carbon output and energy usage, that will be used by NSF for acceptance of the resource or service (to be discussed in the S&E Application Performance and Resource Reliability and Usability sections);
• A detailed risk-mitigated deployment plan to ensure that the proposed resource will be in production operations and available for allocation to the open S&E research community no later than 12 months from the time of award (to be discussed in the Project Management and Risk Mitigation section);
• A clear concept of operations for the project duration with a clear set of operational performance monitoring and science impact metrics to ensure the resource will be an asset for the nation’s S&E research community, as informed by the ACCESS Program’s Integration Roadmaps for new resource providers (to be discussed in the Concept of Operations section);
• A persuasive articulation as to how the resource will support less traditional and/or underrepresented computational S&E communities if appropriate and how models of engagement with campus-supported CI will be explored (to be discussed in the Broader Impacts section).
  
  

LIMIT: Dartmouth may submit ONE application

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "ACSS" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: September 23, 2024

Sponsor Proposal Deadline: October 29, 2024

State-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to Accelerate Implementation of Actionable Knowledge into Practice (U19)

RFA-HS-24-004Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)  

This NOFO invites applications to establish and support State-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives (referred to as Cooperatives) to conduct an initiative that is based on PCOR evidence to improve care for medically underserved people; the initiative's focus must be on behavioral healthcare. 

LIMIT: Dartmouth may submit ONEapplication

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "Healthcare Extension" as the email subject line.

Internal Deadline: September 27, 2024

Sponsor Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2024

Enhancing Science, Technology, EnginEering, and Math Educational Diversity (ESTEEMED) Research Education Experiences (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

NIH

PAR-23-114

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support educational activities with a primary focus on:

Courses for Skills DevelopmentResearch Experiences

The ESTEEMED program is designed to foster the development of undergraduate freshmen and sophomores from diverse backgrounds to pursue further studies and careers in bioengineering or STEM fields relevant to NIBIB’s scientific mission. Applications are encouraged to propose integrated educational activities that include 3 elements: a summer bridge program for incoming freshmen, and in the freshman and sophomore years, academic year activities and summer research experiences. The ESTEEMED program is intended to expose students to bioengineering research early in their college careers while also providing students didactic, mentoring and career development opportunities. This will prepare students to join, in their junior and senior years, an honors program that promotes STEM and entrance into a Ph.D. program. The ultimate goal is for the participants to pursue a doctoral degree and a subsequent research career in bioengineering or NIBIB-relevant field.

LIMIT: Only ONE applicaton per instution is allowed. 

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "ESTEEMED" as the email subject line.

Deadlines:

Internal Deadline: October 11, 2024

Optional Letter of Intent Due Date: December 17, 2024Application Due Date: Jan. 17, 2025

National Digital Newspaper Program

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

This notice solicits applications for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

NDNP is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress (LOC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions. LOC will permanently maintain this freely accessible, searchable online database (Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers). An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During its partnership with NEH, LOC will digitize and contribute a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections to Chronicling America.

LIMIT: Only ONE application per institution is allowed. 

To apply for this opportunity, email the following to limitedfunding@dartmouth.edu

Overview/abstract of proposal (one page maximum)
Total request amountCurriculum Vitae (CV)
Use "NEH_Newspaper" as the email subject line.

Deadlines:

Internal Deadline: October 25, 2024

Optional Draft: December 02, 2024Application Due Date: Jan. 10, 2025