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NOTE: NEW WEB PAGE FOR STIMULUS PACKAGE OPPORTUNITIES ADDED TO UT AUSTIN RESEARCH RESOURCES
The Office of the Vice President for Research has set up a Web page on the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package. The page includes summaries of the act and links to federal agencies that have been charged with dispersing money to stimulate the economy. Funding opportunities available under the stimulus plan will be listed in the Research Alert under the heading RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT.
Research Prizes and Honors
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DUDLEY ELECTED FELLOW OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MICROBIOLOGY
Dr. Jaquelin Dudley, professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, has been elected a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology.
Dudley studies how retroviruses cause mammary tumors in mice, which is a model for breast cancer in humans. She’s been developing a vector system for gene therapy of breast cancer, and in the process, her lab discovered a new viral protein that might help them study HIV.
Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-reviewed process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology.
News and Information
“AUDITS AND THE AUDIT PROCESS” VIDEO SCREENING MARCH 13
A video presentation, “Audits and the Audit Process,” from the National Council of University Research Administrators, will be screened at 9:30 a.m. March 13, 2009 in ACE Room 2.402.
David Dockwiller, assistant director of the awards administration section in the Office of Sponsored Projects, will be available to answer questions. The TxClass registration code is SP201.
The program will discuss the audit process and the differences between audits, reviews, inspections and investigations. It also will look at how auditors approach an audit, and the various institutional roles including that of the institutional audit and compliance officer, the central research administrator, and the departmental research administrator.
QuotedUT Researchers in the News
[A sampling of recent quotes by university faculty members and researchers. To be included in this section, let the Research Alert know when you or a colleague have been quoted.]
Scientific American
March 2009
HEADLINE: Can “Assisted Migration” Save Species from Global Warming?
As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species
[From an article featuring Dr. Camille Parmesan, associate professor of integrative biology, and the idea of assisted migration.]
“As soon as I started to see what an impact climate change was having on wild species and documenting wild species going extinct,” Parmesan says, she began to think about how the species might be saved. Short of the world’s governments paying heed and cutting greenhouse gas emissions sharply to enable Earth to cool down, she and a few others began pondering alternative actions in particular, human assistance. She sees assisted migration, as the concept has come to be called, as the only hope to save at least some species though certainly only a small minority of those in peril.
Research Opportunities
Important university research deadlines:
Awards and Grants
Limited Submissions
RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT
Recovery Act of 2009: NIH Review Criteria, Scoring System, and Suspension of Appeals Process
The “Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1)” which is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is fully supported in Cayuse424. This funding opportunity is currently available for download and development in Cayuse424.
Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research
Deadline: April 27, 2009
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Ovarian Cancer Research Program Ovarian Cancer Academy Award
Deadlines: Pre-Application, May 8, 2009; Application, May 22, 2009
Autism Research Program Concept Award
Deadlines: Pre-Application, June 24, 2009; Application, July 15, 2009
NASA
Atmospheric Composition: Modeling and Analysis
Deadline: Notice of Intent, March 16, 2009; Proposal, May 1, 2009
Space Archaeology
Deadline: May 1, 2009
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY
Standard & Advanced Research Grant Guidelines
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, March 30, 2009; Proposals invited April 28, 2009 (deadline unspecified)
Innovation Research Grant Program
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, March 30, 2009; Proposals invited April 28, 2009 (deadline unspecified)
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Medications Development for the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women with Substance Related Disorders and/or In Utero Substance Exposed Neonates
Deadline: June 5, 2009
Developmental Psychopharmacology
Deadline: June 5, 2009
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
High-End Computing University Research Activity
Deadline: April 15, 2009
Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics
Deadline: July 16, 2009
Advances in Biological Informatics
Deadline: Aug. 11, 2009
Instrument Development for Biological Research
Deadline: Aug. 28, 2009
Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2009
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
Deadline: Oct. 30, 2009
Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
Deadline: Continuous
Solar Terrestrial
Deadline: Continuous
Upper Atmospheric Facilities
Deadline: Continuous
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Preterm Birth Initiative
Deadlines: Letter of Intent for $50,000 Planning Grant, June 1, 2009; Invited Full Proposal, Dec. 1, 2010
Research Project
[Let the Research Alert know about your research projects.]
CODIFYING THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND THE BUILT WORLD
RESEARCHER: Steven Moore, professor, Department of Architecture, principal investigator
AGENCY: National Science Foundation
AMOUNT: $180,075
This project is a study of building codes in the City of Austin. The principal investigator analyzes four historical types of architectural codes–tacit, representational, economic and civil–to assess their potential for including social equity as a publicly acceptable dimension of sustainable development. Each code type has one or more strategies of implementation, employs different technological frames, and relies upon different kinds of authority for implementation. The hypothesis is that civil codes have the most potential for success in legitimizing social equity as a dimension of sustainability. Upon completion of this part of the project, the principal investigator tests a new theory of equitable code-making by drafting an Alley Flat Code for the City of Austin.
The broader impacts of the project lie in its combination of transdisciplinary research and community-based teaching, research engagement with underrepresented communities, and its combination of analysis-oriented social sciences with action-oriented design.
