The NSF Award Terms and Conditions have been updated to implement the revised 2 CFR published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024, by the Office of Management and Budget. As part of its implementation strategy, NSF has archived the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC), and the NSF Agency Specific Requirements. Unless otherwise specified, the Grant General Conditions (GC-1) apply to all recipients of NSF grant awards, including Institutions of Higher Education, non-profit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations (other than Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer recipients), State and local governments, and Tribal Nations.
Join the NSF Policy Office in the Division of Institution and Award Support (DIAS) on September 12 at 2:00 PM EST for a webinar which will provide the framework for these revisions and how they affect NSF proposals and awards. Webinar registration is now available.
The NYU Collaborative Center in Children’s Environmental Health Research and Translation (CEHRT) announced their fourth Pilot Project Request for Applications.
The goal of the Center is to translate existing knowledge to action on issues that affect children’s health. The themes of the Center are endocrine disruption and climate change, although we welcome proposals from other areas as well. The intent of the Center is to support the broader children’s environmental health (CEH) community — applications from NYU and outside institutions are encouraged. The Center will award developmental and translational grants, the former being smaller in size and extendable, and the latter focused on the translation of knowledge to action.
Application Process:
- Applicants submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) by Thursday, September 12th, 2024.
- Applicants selected to proceed into the next stage will be notified of this decision by Friday, September 20th, 2024.
- Applicants will be invited to submit a 3-page proposal due Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 containing additional information to that already included in the LOI
Request for Applications PDF: CEHRT Cycle 4 RFA (2)
Link to Apply: CEHRT 2025 Letter of Interest Form (nyumc.org)
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) recently published the research article, “Estimating the stochastic uncertainty underlying sample-based estimates of infant mortality in the Philippines: a first-time application to a country in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Basin region” in Asian Population Studies. When making health policy decisions, infant mortality is a very important population health statistic that is taken into account, but unfortunately this data is not available for all populations. A newly-developed method was “presented for accounting for the stochastic uncertainty found in infant mortality rates (IMRs) estimated from sample surveys and for the first time applied to a country in the Southeast Asian/Pacific Basin area, the Philippines. The method is founded on the fact that there are two sources of variation in sample-based estimates of IMRs: (1) sample size; and (2) variation of infant deaths. The approach is aimed at taking into account stochastic uncertainty while preserving the information concerning the uncertainty due to sampling. In applying the method to the Philippines, the sample-based IMR estimates appear to perform well in terms of accounting for stochastic uncertainty.” To learn more about this research, visit the link to read the rest of Dr. Swanson’s article.
Through the Transformative Research program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For FY2025, the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grants program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions. Applications are due September 12, 2024. For more information about this research opportunity and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities web page. IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition. Please see the Virtual Technical Assistance web page for additional details.
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Bo Zhao has been invited to present at the AI for Washington State conference, hosted by the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He will be joining a session alongside Mike Goodchild, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Mari Ostendorf, Vice Provost at the University of Washington, to discuss how to build ‘responsible AI.’ The conference will feature several leading figures in AI from Washington State, including Microsoft Chief Scientist Eric Horvitz, State Senator Matt Boehnke, and key research leaders from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This event will take place on September 25 at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. More information can be found here: https://washacad.org/symposium/
CSDE’s very own Budget/Fiscal Analyst Parwati Martin recently competed in the National Physique Committee (NPC) North American Championships 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 28-31. Parwati took 3rd place in her age-range Master Class! When you win 1st place you are granted a procard as part of the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB), which is Parwati’s goal. She wants to train harder until next year’s competition, but will enjoy good food until then! Congratulations Parwati, CSDE is so proud of you!
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, a series which focuses upon cuttingedge topics in family research around the globe, is seeking manuscript submissions for a special volume. The theme of the volume is: ‘Immigration and Families: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2024. Direct all questions to the editors: Josip.obradovic@gmail.com and slblair@buffalo.edu. Authors are encouraged to submit a brief abstract prior to the manuscript deadline. See the full call for papers here.