Grants Bulletin April– May 2011

Grants Bulletin
April– May 2011
22nd Annual Faculty Research Forum and Grants Research Reception

Please join the Office of Grants and Sponsored Research, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Provost at our 22nd Annual Faculty Research Forum and Grants Research Reception.

Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Forum: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Reception: 12:15 p.m.
Location: D'Angelo Center, Room 416

The Recognition Awards presentation will begin at 12:15 p.m.

The 22nd Annual Reception has been established to honor faculty and administrators who have secured new grants, or continuing funding support from external sources during the past year to further the education, research and public service mission of St. John's University. In addition, we recognize the diligent work of individuals who have submitted proposals to external agencies, and applaud all our investigators for their commendable efforts.

On this occasion, special recognition will be given to Zhe-Sheng Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences.

During the months ahead, the Office of Grants and Sponsored Research will continue with efforts to promote grants awareness and cultivate university-wide institutional research partnerships through a series of Research Collaboration Symposiums which will compliment the interests of all departments.

We look forward to seeing you on April 13!
Sincerely,
Jared E. Littman
Director, Office of Grants and Sponsored Research
 

Upcoming NIH Deadlines

Recent Funding Opportunities

The following is a list of current funding opportunities, from both private and federal sponsors, across a wide spectrum of fields. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Mark Flynn (ext. 8225, flynnm@stjohns.edu).

Council for International Exchange of Scholars: Core Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: August 1st, 2011
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to "Increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." With this goal as a starting point, the Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants (chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential) with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared intellectual concerns.

Grand Challenges in Global Health: Grand Challenges Explorations
Deadline: May 19, 2011
Amount: Initial grants will be $100,000 each.
Grand Challenges Explorations is an extension of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's commitment to the Grand Challenges in Global Health, which was launched in 2003 to accelerate the discovery of new technologies to improve global health. To date, the foundation has committed over $450 million to support hundreds of projects on topics such as making childhood vaccines easier to use in poor countries, and creating new ways to control insects that spread disease.

In general, topics are chosen according to three major criteria:

1. The topic fits within the goals of the Grand Challenges in Global Health and the goals and disease priorities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
2. The topic contains a roadblock where radical, new thinking is needed for the discovery of an effective health solution;
3. Potential projects within the topic are likely to be well suited for the phased structure of the initiative.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) - Comprehensive Program
Deadline: May 23, 2011
Amount: $500,000–$750,000 for a three year project period.
The Comprehensive Program supports innovative grants and cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education. It supports reforms, innovations, and significant improvements of postsecondary education that respond to problems of national significance and serve as national models.

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Gang Field Initiated Research and Evaluation Programs
Deadline: May 9, 2011
Amount: Between $200,000 and $1 million total funding for up to 4 years. This grant intends to fund research and evaluation studies to produce practical findings for policy makers and practitioners for the development of evidence-based programs, policies and strategies that effectively address at-risk and gang-involved youth.

Topics to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:

1. youth entry into, involvement in, and desistance from gang-related crime;
2. the effectiveness of prevention approaches targeting youth at risk for gang involvement;
3. the effectiveness of intervention strategies;
4. the nature and scope of youth gangs in juvenile detention and correctional facilities;
5. the effectiveness of reentry approaches; and
6. the assessment of how tribal communities can effectively address gang-related challenges confronting atrisk and gang-involved native youth."

NIH Webinar Grant Application Series

The Office of Grants and Sponsored Research would like to invite you to an instructional series of web based workshops being offered through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Leading experts have carefully designed this series to help investigators learn key facts about the NIH grants process, gain important insights before preparing an application for submission, and to provide the appropriate strategies necessary to form a winning proposal. All webinars are presented live; all attendees must be in the same central location in order to accommodate the cost per webinar. As such, all interested parties should contact Adrianna Berlingerio at extension 6276 or berlinga@stjohns.edu before each scheduled event so that we may confirm attendance and ensure for the proper accommodations.

Newman Hall (Room 115) will be made available to host the webinars being held on June 14, July 7 and August 16. The webinar scheduled for May 12 will be hosted in the Provost's Conference Room (Newman Hall, Room 242).

The remaining series topics and dates include the following:

Thursday May 12, 2011 ~ 1 p.m.
NIH Human Subject Compliance: Are You Including the Right Populations? If your proposal involves using human subjects, you must upload several separate documents indicating who will be involved, why, how they will be impacted and your rationale for including them. Join your expert presenter so you can be sure to include enough information so reviewers will have no questions about what you propose to do.

Tuesday June 14, 2011 ~ 1 p.m.
NIH Institutional Support: Use Your Environmental Section to Convince Reviewers: One of the core criteria National Institutes of Health (NIH) reviewers use to score your grant application is the Environment in which you perform the research. Convince reviewers by using the must have tactics you will receive during this live Webinar.

Thursday July 7, 2011 ~ 1 p.m.
Budgeting Your Research: Budget Strategies That Support Your NIH Proposal: This may sound rather basic, but when applying for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, you have to know how much money you will need to complete your research. Therefore, you will use the budget and associated justifications to present and support all the expenses required to achieve your proposal's objectives. Get expert advice on building budget strategies that support your proposal during this live Webinar.

Tuesday August 16, 2011 ~1 p.m.
The NIH Application Review:
Understanding This Process and Your Role: Do you know what happens to your NIH grant application once you submit it to NIH? During this Webinar, your expert presenter will give you a clear understanding of the criteria and process used to evaluate your proposal.

Funding Databases
In order to provide our investigators with the best resources available to aid and enhance their individual research agendas, the Office of Grants and Sponsored Research has active subscriptions in place for the two most acclaimed and comprehensive funding resource databases widely used throughout the world.

Community of Science (COS) is the largest, most comprehensive database hosting available grant opportunities, providing users with more than 25,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding.

COS provides clear and concise information pertaining to current grant opportunities being offered to scholars throughout the world. Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations, and more. These sponsors provide substantial monies for research in such disciplines as the physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health and medicine, as well as arts and humanities. These monies provide funding for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, as well as capital or operating expenses.

COS provides users with easy and intuitive searching, and offers customized search options for users of all levels, ranging from general to advanced queries. In addition, each COS Funding Opportunities Record prominently notes key information such as program title and abstract, award denomination, sponsor contact information, eligibility requirements, funding alert notices, and deadline notices.

COS is readily available to the entire St. John's community. In order to provide maximum reliability to all registered users, COS can be accessed from both university and private terminals.

The Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) tracks funding programs of over 6,000 government, private, and non-profit sponsors worldwide. Program information is presented in an accurate, and comprehensive format that allows investigators to compare grant opportunities that may compliment their research agendas. Researchers can use SPIN as an additional one-stop resource for identifying a broad array of funding resources. SPIN can only be accessed through a university terminal.

Please contact an OGSR representative in order to establish your own individual accounts. We are happy to assist!