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A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’. What’s going on with Australian research security?

Brendan Walker-Munro , Southern Cross University

How corporate involvement in psychedelic research could threaten public safety

Elena Koning , Queen's University, Ontario ; Elisa Brietzke , Queen's University, Ontario , and Marco Solmi , L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have scientists up in arms

Elizabeth Finkel , La Trobe University

Alberta’s Bill 18: Who gets the most federal research funding? Danielle Smith might be surprised by what the data shows

Ping Lam Ip , University of Alberta and Andrea DeKeseredy , University of Alberta

Universities Accord: there’s a push for a Higher Education Future Fund, but some unis ‘hate’ it

Gavin Moodie , University of Toronto

Australia may spend hundreds of millions of dollars on quantum computing research. Are we chasing a mirage?

Timothy Duignan , Griffith University

Congress is failing to deliver on its promise of billions more in research spending, threatening America’s long-term economic competitiveness

Jason Owen-Smith , University of Michigan

CRISPR and other new technologies open doors for drug development, but which diseases get prioritized? It comes down to money and science

C. Michael White , University of Connecticut

The Universities Accord draft contains ‘spiky’ ideas, but puts a question mark over the spikiest one of all

Gregory Michael McCarthy , The University of Western Australia

Horizon Europe: how the UK’s delay in rejoining EU funding scheme is damaging scientific research

Fiona Lettice , University of East Anglia

Medical Research Future Fund has $20 billion to spend. Here’s how we prioritise who gets what

Adrian Barnett , Queensland University of Technology and Philip Clarke , University of Oxford

Scientific fraud is rising, and automated systems won’t stop it. We need research detectives

Adrian Barnett , Queensland University of Technology

Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt’s big ideas for how Australia funds and uses research

Brian Schmidt , Australian National University

Canadian science pioneers’ role in the Human Genome Project shows why it’s crucial to fund research

John Bergeron , McGill University

Do glitzy awards like the Earthshot Prize actually help solve problems of climate change? – podcast

Daniel Merino , The Conversation and Nehal El-Hadi , The Conversation

Nigeria needs to take science more seriously - an agenda for the new president

Oyewale Tomori , Nigerian Academy of Science

A review into how university research works in Australia has just begun – it must confront these 3 issues

Gregory Michael McCarthy , The University of Western Australia and Kanishka Jayasuriya , Murdoch University

Jason Clare has just put the Australian Research Council on notice. This brings (some) good news for academics

Sue Bennett , University of Wollongong

Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

Lisa Bero , University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

More money and smarter choices: how to fix Australia’s broken NHMRC medical research funding system

Tony Blakely , The University of Melbourne

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The NIH Common Fund is a funding entity within the NIH that supports bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research. These programs create a space where investigators and multiple NIH Institutes and Centers collaborate on innovative research expected to address high priority challenges for the NIH as a whole and make a broader impact in the scientific community. For more information on specific Common Fund Current Programs, Archived Initiatives, or Common Fund-supported COVID-19 Research, click on each tab below.

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Archived initiatives, covid-19 research.

• 4D Nucleome (4DN)
• Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS)
• Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI)
• Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet)
• Clinical Research in Primary Care
• Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE)
• Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS)
• Complement Animal Research In Experimentation (Complement-ARIE)
• Diversity Program Consortium (DPC): Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH-Funded Workforce
• Extracellular RNA Communication (ExRNA)
• Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST)
• Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First)
• Global Health
• Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa)
• NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA)
• NIH Director's New Innovator Award (NIA)
• NIH Director's Pioneer Award (PA)
• NIH Director's Transformative Research Awards (TRA)
• The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)
• Human Virome Program
• Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG)
• Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans (MoTrPAC)
• Nutrition for Precision Health , powered by the All of Us Research Program
• Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE)
• Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues (SMaHT)
• Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)
• Transformative High Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy (CryoEM)
• Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity
• Venture Program

General Categories of Common Fund Programs

The goals of Common Fund programs align with three general categories:

• Advancing Health Communication Science and Practice
• Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (BrIDGs)
• Building Blocks, Biological Pathways and Networks (BBPN)
• Clinical Research Policy Analysis and Coordination (CRpac)
• Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs)
• Epigenomics
• Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) 
• Glycoscience
• Gulf Oil Spill
• Healthcare Systems Research (HCS) Collaboratory
• Health Economics
• Human Microbiome Project (HMP)
• Interdisciplinary Research (IR)
• Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2)
• Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS)
• Metabolomics
• Molecular Libraries and Imaging
• Nanomedicine
• National Electronics Clinical Trials and Research (NECTAR)
• New Models of Data Stewardship (NMDS)
• NIH Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP)
• Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)
• Protein Capture Reagents Program (PCRP)
• Regenerative Medicine Program (RMP)
• Regulatory Science
• Science of Behavior Change (SOBC)
• Single Cell Analysis Program (SCAP)
• Strengthening the Biomedical Research Workforce
• Structural Biology
• Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)

Former Programs

Common Fund programs capitalize on emerging opportunities to catalyze the rate of progress across multiple biomedical fields. Programs are expected to transform the way a broad spectrum of health research is conducted. Initiatives that comprise Common Fund programs are intended to be catalytic in nature by providing limited term investments in strategic areas to stimulate further research through IC-funded mechanisms.

For these reasons, programs are intended to transition out of the Common Fund in 10 years or less as they mature.

For more information on specific former Common Fund programs, please refer to the programs listed above.

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Common Fund received approximately $137M to be spent in fiscal years 2009 and 2010. As a result several awards were funded across a range of biomedical research areas. 

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the NIH Common Fund

Support for COVID-19 Research

The NIH Common Fund received $30 Million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, 2020 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally. The Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC), which manages the Common Fund is using these funds to stimulate innovative research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). OSC issued immediate funding opportunities in Fiscal Year 2020 for active Common Fund researchers to conduct SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Awards issued through these funding opportunities are listed below.

Future Research Funding Opportunities

In future years, OSC will use CARES Act funds allocated to the NIH Common Fund for researchers to develop new research projects starting in Fiscal Year 2021. Continue to check this page for updates on future SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research funding opportunities from the NIH Common Fund.

For a list of funding opportunities from multiple NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices — including the NIH Common Fund — please visit the  COVID-19 page of information for NIH applicants and recipients of NIH funding .

Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19

In Fiscal Year 2020, the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC), issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI):  Availability of Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (NOT-RM-20-015)  to stimulate innovative research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

OSC issued emergency competitive revisions to Common Fund grants and cooperative agreements to support innovative research on COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 in areas of research including behavioral/social science, health disparities, and novel therapeutics, that fits within the mission of an emergency response to provide critical expertise, resources or activities. A list of funded projects is available on the Common Fund Support for COVID-19 funded research section below.

Funded Research

Due to the public health emergency, the Transformative Research Award and Early Independence Award issued additional funding opportunities for COVID-19-related research on the prevention of, preparation for, or response to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using funds provided through the  CARES Act .

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Sept. 15, 2023

VCU sets a record for sponsored research funding

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By Mike Porter

Virginia Commonwealth University announced the highest sponsored research funding in its history today, continuing its growing national distinction as a top urban, public research university. The latest institutional record of $464.6 million total sponsored funding for fiscal year 2023 marks a 71% increase over five years ago and a 14% increase since last year.

“I’m proud that research is one of the fastest areas of growth and impact at VCU. Thanks to our faculty and supportive leaders, we continue to set new records for our sponsored research funding and have risen in the national rankings as a top public research university,” said VCU President Michael Rao, Ph.D. “Research is one of the most important ways that VCU as a public institution truly serves the public good. Research is a priority in every school – we’re asking questions that vex society and finding answers that improve and lift lives.”

President Rao shared a preview of fiscal year 2023 sponsored research figures with the VCU Board of Visitors earlier today. Details of the combined awards for sponsored programs, including grants, contracts and other funding types directed toward research and other activities, will become available in the coming weeks.  

In addition to more state and federal funding for VCU’s research portfolio, federal funding, in particular from the National Institutes of Health, has grown exponentially since last year, preliminary analyses show. Research funding grew in nearly every college and school on the MCV, Monroe Park and Qatar campuses.

“In addition to the record sponsored research funding, our impact continues to grow at a rapid pace, reflecting VCU’s deep commitment to knowledge creation and ability to conduct transformative research and innovation,” said P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., vice president for research and innovation.

The increase underscores the university’s commitment to its One VCU Research Strategic Priorities Plan and its investments into four key research initiatives led by innovative and high-impact teams across its three campuses, which are designed to capitalize on VCU’s growing national leadership in many fields of research and scholarship and accelerate transformative innovation.

“This increased funding and impactful research spans the arts, humanities, social sciences as well as the STEM and health fields and will further allow our dedicated and talented faculty, fellows, staff and students to take creative inventions, ideas and innovations into the public domain – whether it is the community marketplace or from the bench to the bedside – to make a difference locally, nationally and globally,” S. Rao said.

On Tuesday, the National Academy of Inventors announced that VCU ranked among the top 100 universities in the U.S. (86th) for utility patents granted, reflecting VCU’s excellence in innovation and research.

Last December, the National Science Foundation ranked VCU 50th among public universities nationwide for federally funded research expenditures.

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Featured Fogarty News and Information

• Bioethics program perseveres in wartime Ukraine Global Health Matters , July/August 2023
• Is Women’s Empowerment a Key to Climate Adaptation?  profile of Fogarty NIH Climate and Health Scholar Praveen Kumar NIH Record , October 13, 2023
• Evolutionary and spatiotemporal analyses reveal multiple introductions and cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 VOC/VOI in Malta , co-authored by Fogarty's Nídia S. Trovão Microbiology Spectrum , October 6, 2023
• Study reveals how young children's immune systems tame SARS-CoV-2 NIH/NIAID news, October 13, 2023
• Filling the Eye Care Gap Down Under NIH Record , October 13, 2023
• Scientists unveil detailed cell maps of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain NIH/NIMH news, October 12, 2023

On behalf of the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the following funding opportunities, notices and announcements may be of interest to those working in the field of global health research. Updates are typically distributed once a week.

Recently Announced NIH Global Health Funding Opportunties

Study of Health & Health Care Disparities in Latin America

NIH has announced two funding opportunities to study health and health care disparities in noncommunicable and chronic diseases in Latin America.

• Interventions on Health and Healthcare Disparities on Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Improving Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere (R01 - Clinical Trial Required) (PAR-23-304)
• Unveiling Health and Healthcare Disparities in Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Setting the Stage for Better Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere (R01 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed) (PAR-23-303)
• Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcements

Implementation Science in Care for HIV-affected adolescents

Fogarty has signed onto a funding opportunity with the Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care Continuum for HIV-affected Adolescents in Resource Constrained Settings Implementation Science Network (PATC3H-IN) to expand and/or improve successes achieved by PATC3H to new geographic settings with limited implementation science (IS) research capacity and/or risk populations who are poorly represented in international adolescent HIV research

• Funding opportunity notice (RFA-HD-24-009)
• Application due date: December 6, 2023

US Government Jobs in Global Health

Vacancy is only open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Nationals. Foreign nationals or legal permanent residents are not eligible for consideration.

Join the CDC as Director of the Division for Global Health Protection

CDC seeks to identify an exceptional candidate to join CDC’s Global Health leadership team as the Director of the Division for Global Health Protection (DGHP) in the Global Health Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We will be recruiting for a US citizen Distinguished Consultant (Medical Officer/Health Scientist).

• CDC Director of the Division for Global Health Protection, Health Scientist
• CDC Director of the Division for Global Health Protection - Medical Officer
• Application deadline: October 24, 2023

Upcoming Deadlines for Fogarty Funding Opportunities

• Emerging Global Leader Application deadline: November 3, 2023
• Global Brain Disorders Research Application deadline: November 15, 2023
• HIV-associated Noncommunicable Diseases Research at LMIC Institutions Application deadline: December 8, 2023
• Global Brain Disorders Research Application deadline: December 11, 2023
• Emerging Global Leader Application deadline: December 11, 2023

Upcoming deadlines for all Fogarty funding opportunities

Administrative supplements for current grantees:

Current Fogarty grantees can apply for supplementary funds via the notices below:

• Opportunities for Research in Epidemiology of Alzheimer's -Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) and Cognitive Resilience Application due date: November 13, 2023
• Stimulating Research to Understand and Address Hunger, Food and Nutrition Insecurity Application due date: November 28, 2023

All administrative supplements

Funding Opportunities

NIH and FDA funding opportunities focusing on global health and foreign collaboration:

• Developing Measures to Advance Access and Quality in Global Mental Health Services (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-MH-23-300 Application due date: October 18, 2023
• Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care Continuum for HIV-affected Adolescents in Resource Constrained Settings Implementation Science Network (PATC³H-IN) Implementation Science Coordinating Center (UM2 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-HD-24-009) Application due date: December 6, 2023
• Building Neuroscience Research Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) in Africa (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Application due date: February 14, 2024

More NIH global health funding opportunities

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations and/or foreign components of U.S. organizations may apply:

• Multidisciplinary Research to Accelerate Hepatitis B Cure in Persons Living with HIV and HBV (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AI-23-057) Application due date: March 13, 2024
• Revision Applications for Validation of Biomarker Assays Developed Through NIH-Supported Research Grants (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-24-047) Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcements

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign components may apply:

• Human Islet Research Network - Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Diabetes (HIRN-CMAD) (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-DK-23-004) Application due date: March 20, 2024

Other Funding News

Other funding updates that may be of interest to global health researchers.

General NIH notices:

• NIGMS' Expanded Program Eligibility for PA-23-189 Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
• Reminder: Annual Reports to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare due December 1, 2023
• Development of Vaccine Candidates for Biodefense, Antimicrobial Resistant (AMR) Infections, and Emerging Infectious Diseases, HHS-NIH-NIAID-BAA2024-1 Available in Sam.gov Response date: October 18, 2023
• Request for Information: Developing Consent Language for Research Using Digital Health Technologies Response date: December 12, 2023
• Request for Information (RFI): National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Strategic Vision Refresh Response date:  December 15, 2023

Notices of changes to NIH funding opportunities:

• Notice of additional Receipt Date for RFA-EY-23-001 BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Notices of intent to publish funding opportunities:

• Funding Opportunity Announcement for Centers of Excellence for Translational Research (CETR) (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Non-NIH funding opportunities:

• Strengthening Health and Disease Modeling for Public Health Decision Making in Africa from Global Grand Challenges is accepting proposals for innovative modeling projects that increase connectedness between African modeling institutes. Application deadline: October 23, 2023
• The African Epidemic Service fellowship program from Africa CDC is accepting qualified applicants from Africa Union Member states interested in practicing applied epidemiology. Application deadline: October 26, 2023
• German-African Cooperation Projects in Infectiology is accepting draft proposals of joint research projects between scientists in Germany and Africa focusing on neglected tropical infectious diseases in humans and animals. Application deadline: October 30, 2023
• The Rising Tide Foundation's Advancing Cancer Research in Sub-Saharan Africa program is accepting proposals for cancer interventions focused on early detection and diagnosis, treatment, delivery of care, and palliative care. Application deadline: December 1, 2023
• The US- Egypt Collaborative Research Grants program from the National Academies is accepting applications. The program fosters research collaboration between Egyptian and U.S. scientists Researchers from U.S. and Egyptian scientific institutes, universities, and research centers are eligible to apply. Application deadline: December 7, 2023
• Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations program (AccelNet) from the National Science Foundation is accepting proposals. AccelNet aims to help launch international research network of networks and recruit and foster a diverse and internationally competent US-based workforce. Application deadline: December 11, 2023
• More non-NIH funding opportunities

Manuscript, Abstract & Poster Submission Opportunities

• Journal of Health and Pollution (JHP) is now accepting manuscript submissions . JHP is focused on research addressing environmental health issues in lower-resource areas with less-developed research infrastructures.
• Meeting dates: June 14-17, 2024
• Submission deadline: October 31, 2023
• Submission deadline: November 30, 2023
• Submission deadline: February 15, 2024

Events for global health researchers:

• Date: October 15-17
• Location: Berlin, Germany
• Date: October 15-19
• Location: Montreal, Canada
• Date: October 16-17
• Location: Long Beach, CA, USA
• Sponsored by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
• Date: October 16 & 17
• Location: Virtual
• Hosted by NIMH's Global Mental Health Team
• Date: October 17
• Join experts from the NIH Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA) for a walk-through of subaward agreements
• Date: October 18
• Location: Bethesda, MD, USA & Virtual
• Speaker: Professor Elmi Muller, Dean, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Part of NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds
• Date: October 18-22
• Location: Chicago, IL, USA
• Fogarty calendar of events

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Research Grants In the News

EPA Awards Nearly $2.2M to Small Businesses to Advance Innovative Environmental Technologies  (December 2023) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $2,198,867 in research funding to 22 small businesses to develop technologies that will help protect human health and the environment. The 22 small businesses will use EPA funding to develop their novel projects, including an AI-based mapping tool to support first responders during disasters, a reactor to remove PFAS from sewage waste, and a self-cleaning indoor air purification system for use during wildfires.

EPA Awards $4.6M in Research Grants to Quantify and Mitigate Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills  (November 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $4.6 million in grant funding to five institutions for research to quantify and mitigate emissions from municipal solid waste landfills.

EPA Awards $3.8M in Research Grants to Establish Research Centers to Address Children’s Health in Underserved, Rural Agricultural Communities (October 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,798,738 in grant funding to two institutions to establish research centers to address children’s cumulative health impacts from agricultural and non-chemical exposures.

EPA Awards Nearly $8M for Research Grants to Advance Groundwater Availability and Quality  (September 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $7,837,196 in funding to four institutions to research the use and risks of enhanced aquifer recharge (EAR) to improve groundwater availability and quality.

EPA Awards Nearly $8.5M in Research Grants to Ensure Cleaner and Safer Drinking Water   (August 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $8,492,000 in grant funding to four institutions for research on the occurrence and concentration of pathogens and disinfection by-products and the environmental conditions favorable to their growth in drinking water distribution systems.

EPA Awards $11M in Research Grants to Address Energy Transitions in Underserved Communities  (August 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $11 million in grant funding to 11 institutions for research to address the drivers and environmental impacts of energy transitions in underserved and Tribal communities.

EPA Awards Research Grants to 21 Student Teams to Develop Innovative Solutions to Environmental and Public Health Challenges  (July 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $523,796 in funding to 21 student teams for their research and innovative solutions to address environmental and public health challenges as part of the Agency’s People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program.

EPA Awards $1.3M in Research Funding to the University of Wisconsin-Madison  ( July 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $1.3 million in funding to a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Madison, Wisconsin, to develop nanosensor technology that can detect, monitor, and degrade commonly used pesticides found in water that can harm human health.

EPA Awards Nearly $2.5M to Texas Tech University for Research to Assess Perchlorate after Firework Events  (May 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $2,499,579 in research grant funding to Texas Tech University for research on the behavior of perchlorate after fireworks events near water sources.

EPA Awards Nearly $500,000 to Student Teams for Environmental Technologies  (May 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $500,000 in research funding to five student teams to further develop their innovative ideas to solve environmental challenges. These awards are part of  EPA’s People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program.

EPA Awards Nearly $1.5M in Research Grants to Reduce U.S. Household Food Waste   (April 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,471,426 in research grant funding to two universities to develop, apply, and test innovative and creative community-engaged approaches to reduce household food waste in the United States.

EPA Announces $21M in Research Grant Funding to Investigate Cumulative Health Impacts of Climate Change on Underserved Communities  (February 2023) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $21,410,211 in grant funding to 16 institutions for community-based research to examine how climate change may compound adverse environmental conditions and stressors for vulnerable populations in underserved communities.

EPA Awards $7.7 Million for Research Grants to Improve Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures in the Environment  (November 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $7,770,044 in research grant funding to 11 institutions to develop and evaluate innovative methods and approaches to inform our understanding of the human health risks that may result from exposure to chemical mixtures in the environment.

EPA Awards $1 Million to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for COVID-19 Research on Wastewater Systems to Track Current and Future Pandemics   (October 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.

EPA Awards $6.4M for Research to Support National Water Reuse Efforts   (October 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced research grants totaling $6.4 million to Iowa State University and the Water Research Foundation for research to support national efforts to reduce technological and institutional barriers for expanded water reuse. 

EPA Awards Nearly $2 Million to UC Berkeley for Research to Advance Water Management and Security   (September 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced nearly $2 million in research funding to the University of California, Berkeley to develop a cost-benefit tool to support enhanced aquifer recharge (EAR) as a viable, safe, and cost-effective water management strategy. EAR is the practice of using excess surface water to intentionally replenish and supplement existing groundwater supplies for storage and potential reuse.

EPA Awards Grants to 18 Student Teams for Innovative Technology Projects (July 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced approximately $447,000 in funding for 18 teams of undergraduate and graduate students across the country through its People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition Program. Each team will receive a Phase I grant of up to $25,000 to develop their sustainable designs that will help solve important environmental and public health challenges.

EPA Awards $4.7M for Research to Advance Detection of Air Toxics (May 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing more than $4.7M in research grants to seven institutions for research to advance measurement and monitoring methods for air toxics and contaminants of emerging concern in the atmosphere.

EPA Awards Nearly $300,000 to Three Student Teams through its 16th Annual People, Prosperity, and the Planet Program   (April 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced it awarded $299,661 in funding to three interdisciplinary student teams for their innovative solutions to environmental problems as part of its People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Program. Funded projects include a system to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water, eco-friendly substitutes for microplastics in packaging, and a technology to remove arsenic from groundwater.

EPA Awards More Than $3 Million in Funding to U.S. Small Businesses to Commercialize Environmental Technologies (January 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,599,571 in funding for nine small businesses to further develop and commercialize technologies to protect the environment and public health. The funded technologies are focused on addressing issues including PFAS destruction, ethylene oxide monitoring, water reuse, and sustainable construction materials.

EPA Announces Over $3 Million in Funding to Small Businesses to Develop Environmental Technologies   (December 14, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,089,894 in funding to 30 American small businesses to develop novel technologies to address pressing environmental and public health problems. These companies are employing innovative approaches like an automated waste sorting system at the point of disposal; a system that employs technology to capture and destroy airborne bacteria and viruses; and a monitoring system that can map methane concentrations and emissions over large areas.

EPA Awards $6 Million in Funding to Research Human Viruses Found in Wastewater Intended for Reuse (October 27, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $6,198,689 in funding for five grants to support research on existing and novel surrogates for detecting and monitoring viruses that are excreted with feces in wastewater that is intended for water reuse applications.

EPA Awards Nearly $6 Million for Research on Potential Risks from Pollutants Found in Biosolids from Wastewater Treatment  (September 28, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $5,976,976 in funding to four institutions for research to support states, municipalities, and utilities in determining the potential risks to human health and the environment from pollutants found in biosolids, also known as treated sewage sludge. Results from this research may inform the development of standards and policies for biosolids management.

EPA awards nearly $1 million research grant to Arlington, Va. group to support small drinking water systems   (September 20, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an award of $965,395 in research funding to the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA) in Arlington, Virginia, to develop and validate approaches that states can use to obtain approval for new or alternative technologies for very small drinking water systems.

EPA Awards Over $7 Million for Research to Help Communities Reduce their Exposure to Wildland Fire Smoke (August 23, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $7 million in funding to ten research projects that will address interventions and communication strategies to reduce exposure and the associated health risks from wildland fire smoke.

EPA Awards Over $9 Million for Research to Better Understand Exposure of Young Children to Chemicals in Soil and Dust  (August  6, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $9,272,545 in funding to seven institutions for research to better estimate children’s chemical exposures from soil and dust ingestion.

EPA Announces Request for Applications for Childrens’ Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income and/or Minority Communities Grant  (July 2021)  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3.8 million in funding to create two EPA STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Centers for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors. The new centers will focus on early life stage exposures to chemicals and non-chemical environmental stressors and how these exposures may impact early childhood developmental health.

EPA Awards Over $3 Million Towards Research to Assess Health and Environmental Impacts of Biotechnology Products   (July 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,041,583 in funding to five institutions to develop science-based approaches to evaluate the potential human health and environmental impacts of new biotechnology products.

EPA Awards Over $3 Million to Small Businesses to Support Commercialization of Environmental Technologies  (April 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,192,989 in total funding for eight small businesses to further develop and commercialize technologies to protect public health and the environment.

EPA Announces Nearly $2.5 Million in Funding to Small Businesses to Develop Environmental Technologies  (April 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $2,499,229 in awards to 24 U.S. small businesses to develop innovative technologies that help support EPA’s mission of protecting human health and the environment. 

EPA Awards Grants to 32 Student Teams for Innovative Technology Products (December 2020) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced approximately $792,036 in funding for 32 student teams through its People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant program. Each team will receive funding to develop and demonstrate projects that help address environmental and public health challenges.

EPA Awards Funding to Student Teams to Solve Environmental and Public Health Challenges  (October 2020) The eight teams are being awarded Phase II funding to develop their proposed solutions to pressing environmental problems including determining trace levels of lead in drinking water, controlling harmful algal blooms, and removing Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from wastewater effluent for reuse in agriculture.

EPA Announces Over $6 Million in Funding to Research How to Control and Prevent Harmful Algal Blooms (September 2020) The awards will fund research how to prevent and control harmful algal blooms using current and new technologies.

EPA Announces $4 Million in Research Funding to Build Resilience and Protect Vulnerable Groups from Environmental Impacts of Natural Disasters (September 2020) These grants will help protect our communities and provide the information they need to be prepared and stay safe.

EPA Awards Nearly $5 Million for New Research on Managing PFAS in Agricultural and Rural Communities  (August 2020) Building on technical assistance provided to more than 30 states, Trump Administration continues its commitment to supporting rural and agricultural communities in addressing PFAS.

EPA Awards $4 Million to Develop New Approaches for Evaluating Chemical Toxicokinetics   (August 2020) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,980,782 in funding to five academic research teams to develop New Approach Methods (NAMs) for evaluating chemical toxicokinetics, an important aspect of evaluating the impacts of chemicals on human health and the environment.

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The decision came after a scorching hearing in which lawmakers barraged EcoHealth Alliance’s president with claims of misrepresenting work with Chinese virologists.

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The Biden administration, under acute pressure from House lawmakers, moved on Wednesday to ban funding for a prominent virus-hunting nonprofit group whose work with Chinese scientists had put it at the heart of theories that Covid leaked from a lab.

The decision, announced in a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services, came on the heels of a scorching congressional hearing this month at which lawmakers barraged the group’s president with suggestions that he had misrepresented work with virologists in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic began. Republicans went further, demanding that Peter Daszak, the president of the nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, be criminally investigated.

For EcoHealth, which relied on federal funding to study the threat of wild animal viruses, the loss of funding is another twist in a saga that has long dominated discussions of how the pandemic began.

In April 2020, under orders from the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health terminated a grant to EcoHealth amid President Donald J. Trump’s feud with China over the origin of the coronavirus. Three years later, an internal federal watchdog agency determined that the N.I.H. had failed to give a proper cause for ending the grant, which supplied an average of roughly $625,000 per year. The N.I.H. restarted a pared-back version of the award.

Now, with Republicans stepping up their campaign against EcoHealth, and Democrats joining in the anger, the Biden administration has cut off funding for EcoHealth again.

Health officials said they were suspending three active N.I.H. grants to EcoHealth that totaled $2.6 million for last year. And they proposed barring the group from receiving future federal research funding. Such bans, they said, usually last no more than three years, but could be longer or shorter.

In explaining the decision, health officials cited a series of lapses that the N.I.H. had first reported nearly three years ago . Chief among them was EcoHealth’s failure to promptly report findings from studies on how well bat coronaviruses grow in mice, health officials said.

“I have determined that the immediate suspension of EHA is necessary to protect the public interest,” wrote Henrietta K. Brisbon, a health department official, referring to EcoHealth Alliance.

She cited problems in EcoHealth’s monitoring of work done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where some of EcoHealth’s grant money was apportioned; the late submission of a progress report; and the possibility that a risky experiment had violated the terms of a grant.

EcoHealth said that it would contest the proposal to bar it from federal funding.

“We disagree strongly with the decision and will present evidence to refute each of these allegations and to show that N.I.H.’s continued support of EcoHealth Alliance is in the public interest,” the nonprofit said in a statement.

EcoHealth has also faced suspicion over a federal grant proposal that it made in 2018 to team up with the same Wuhan virology lab on coronavirus experiments that Republicans believe could have led to the pandemic, despite that project’s never receiving funding.

But for all the scrutiny of EcoHealth, there remains no evidence linking it directly with the beginning of the pandemic.

Federal health officials have said repeatedly that the viruses being studied with taxpayer funding at the Wuhan lab bore no resemblance to the one that set off the coronavirus outbreak, making it impossible that they had been responsible for the public health crisis.

Many scientists, including some whose criticisms of EcoHealth have been cited by House lawmakers in recent weeks, say that early cases and viral genomes point to a different origin for the pandemic: an illegal wild-animal market in Wuhan. Samples collected from the market were revealed last year to contain genetic material from the coronavirus and from animals like raccoon dogs, a scenario that scientists have said is consistent with a market origin.

Representative Brad Wenstrup of Ohio, a Republican who serves as the chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which held the hearing this month, celebrated the suspension of EcoHealth’s funding. He called it “not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide.”

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2 Promising UCF Researchers Earn 2024 NSF CAREER Awards

Early-career professors Fan Yao and Li Fang are receiving significant research funding to continue catalyzing their work as part of an annual NSF grant program.

By Eddy Duryea ’13 | May 20, 2024

UCF assistant professors Li Fang and Fan Yao have been named 2024 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development program (CAREER) award winners. The recipients were awarded funding through five years for their submitted projects.

Fang, who is an assistant professor in UCF’s Department of Physics within the College of Sciences , is using the CAREER award to study the precise movement of electrons induced by light and to help educate others in her field.

Yao is an assistant professor in UCF’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Cyber Security and Privacy faculty cluster. He’ll use his CAREER award to identify lapses in computer processing security at the micro level and find ways to defend against them.

The annual award supports an estimated 500 early-career STEM faculty from either institutes of higher education or academic nonprofit organizations who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Through their NSF CAREER awards, both Fang and Yao are continuing to build upon their research and contribute to key components of their respective fields.

Capturing Energy in a Fraction of a Second

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Title: Photo-induced Ultrafast Electron-nuclear Dynamics in Molecules

Award: $813,981 over five years

Li Fang is examining some of the smallest components of matter in some of the shortest amounts of time.

She studies how electrons move after their initial absorption of photo-energy as they attempt to interact, break or form a bond with other molecular components. The purpose of examining these molecular dynamics is crucial in better understanding physics and energy, Fang says.

“The dynamics of these charged particles will provide fundamental knowledge about energy absorption, dissipation and rearrangement in building blocks of materials and therefore is relevant to energy storage and harvest,” Fang says. “We implement spectroscopic tools to track the extremely fast motion of these charges. An electron’s motion is the first step in all chemical and photo reactions and ions are the subjects of chemical bonds that exist basically in all materials.”

Fang measures these movements in attoseconds and femtoseconds, which are one billion billionths of a second and one million billionths of a second, respectively.

Attoseconds are the natural time scale for electrons moving inside an atom while femtoseconds are the natural time scale for measuring nuclei moving within a molecule.

Fang’s NSF CAREER project will help her further uncover and measure how light can instigate changes at the molecular level and then share her research with the greater scientific community.

“The goal is to understand the ultrafast electron motion induced by intense laser beams and its correlation with the motion of the nuclei in a molecule,” she says. “An equally important part of my NSF CAREER award is the educational subproject, the goal of which is to introduce my research field ‘ultrafast science’ to a broader audience through media and local events and enhance diversity of workforce in science.”

Fang came to UCF in 2020 from the Ohio State University.

Since arriving, she has garnered significant funding and support for her projects. In 2020, Fang was one of 76 recipients – and the only recipient from Florida – to be awarded an early career research program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy .

She also was instrumental in securing NSF funding of nearly $2 million for a powerful laser in 2021, aiming to build a user facility at UCF to continue studying electrons and molecular bonds using precise measurements in attoseconds.

Fang says it was extremely gratifying to earn her NSF CAREER award, and it represents a culmination of her previous scientific endeavors.

“It definitely fit into my career and will help me fulfill my goals as a researcher and an educator,” she says.

Fang is thankful for the assistance of her peers and collaborators in cultivating her studies and developing her NSF CAREER proposal.

“The NSF CAREER program at UCF organized by Saiful Khondaker is very helpful with improving the writing of the educational subproject, which is crucial to the NSF CAREER project,” she says.

UCF has provided Fang with the opportunity to excel in her research, and she anticipates many more impactful discoveries to come.

“I am looking forward to carrying out real scientific experiments and discovering new findings with the state-of-the-art lasers and the spectroscopy systems we have,” Fang says. “Getting a prestigious CAREER award is just the start.”

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Title: Understanding and Ensuring Secure-by-design Microarchitecture in Modern Era of Computing

Award: $556,875

Effective computer system security requires searching high and low within its infrastructure to address vulnerabilities that could be overlooked and exploited.

Fan Yao has dedicated his research to thoroughly poring through potential weaknesses within the architectural and microarchitectural designs of computing and memory units to see how they can be safeguarded against malicious hacks and data breaches.

“In today’s interconnected digital landscape, we depend on computing devices to store and process our sensitive and personal data,” he says. “Given that hardware forms the foundational bedrock of all computing systems, its security is paramount. A computer with compromised hardware security is akin to a skyscraper built on shaky ground.”

Specifically, Yao is using his NSF CAREER project to examine computer processors and analyze side channel leakage, which is compromised access to information or infrastructure through indirect means.

“Through the automation of microarchitectural security analysis, we aim to uncover hidden hardware-level states prone to leakage, as well as to develop software-level patterns that can exploit these vulnerabilities to quantify their leakage potential,” he says. “Subsequently, the project will focus on designing robust defense strategies to prevent microarchitectural information leakage, thereby ensuring stronger protection for future generations of processors.”

The awarded funds will continue to catalyze Yao’s research and allow him to further challenge the limits of computer security. He is hopeful that the results will serve as an educational cornerstone to both aspiring students and his peers, he says.

“This grant allows us to explore innovative security solutions more deeply and to train the next generation of researchers in this critical field,” Yao says.  “This award fits perfectly into my career goals, as it enables me to establish a sustainable research program that can make meaningful contributions to both academia and industry.”

Yao arrived at UCF in the fall of 2018 after receiving his doctoral degree in computer engineering from the George Washington University.

The support and mentorship from UCF’s academic community and administration at UCF has been crucial to helping him achieve his research aspirations, he says.

“UCF has been extremely supportive in junior faculty career development,” Yao says. “Many of the preliminary results for this project were achieved through experiments facilitated by this support. I am also profoundly grateful for the comprehensive assistance received during the development of this proposal. This includes invaluable guidance from the UCF CAREER mentoring program and the insightful feedback on my proposal provided by senior faculty members in our department.”

Yao is proud to have been awarded an NSF CAREER grant, and says he is excited to further his research.

“Receiving the NSF CAREER grant is an incredible honor and a pivotal moment in my career,” he says. “It not only validates the importance and potential impact of our work on microarchitecture security, but also provides a substantial platform to expand our research efforts.”

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Twenty-four Stanford affiliates are recipients of grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2023-24 academic year, including seniors, graduate students, and alumni.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards grants annually to more than 1,900 diverse U.S. students, artists, and early career professionals who pursue special projects in more than 140 countries. The newest Stanford grantees will travel to 17 countries, including Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico, and Norway, where they will carry out individually designed research projects, pursue graduate study programs, or take part in English teaching assistant programs during the 2023-24 academic year.

Following are the 2023-24 Fulbright recipients affiliated with Stanford.

Anuj Amin (PhD student, Religious Studies) will work with antiquities officials and historians in Israel. Amin will also study the provenance of Aramaic incantation bowls to better understand their ritual function and their transmission into the modern day.

Leah Balter (BA Human Biology ’23) will conduct a mixed methods case study on Norway’s overlapping COVID-19 pandemic and Ukrainian refugee crisis responses.

Madeline Casas (BS Physics, BA Comparative Literature ’23) will analyze the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation using novel denoising techniques while taking courses in the master’s program in fundamental physics at l’École normale supérieure in Paris.

Danielle Cruz (BS Symbolic Systems, MS Computer Science ’23) will teach English in Brazil and produce a podcast series capturing stories and perspectives from local community members. She also plans to take dance classes in traditional Brazilian styles.

Isaiah Dawid (BA French, BS Biology ’23) will travel to France to study periodontal disease through the creation of an organoid replicating the junctional epithelium. Dawid will specifically focus on the hard tissue/soft tissue interaction.

Jierui Fang (MS Design Impact Engineering ’23) will travel to the Netherlands to investigate mycelium material futures toward wearable applications in dexterity-affected diseases. She will also examine biodesign and sociocultural influences of emerging materials.

Jessica Femenias (BA Philosophy, BA History ’23) will produce a critical historical and theoretical analysis of Haitian migrant labor in rural Dominican Republic, paying special attention to the recent wave of deportations of Dominican-Haitians.

Lauren Gillespie (PhD student, Computer Science) will combine deep learning techniques developed during her PhD, citizen science biodiversity data, and remote sensing imagery to detect patterns of plant biodiversity from the skies in Brazil.

Allison Gross (MA International Education Policy Analysis ’23) will teach English in Indonesia and explore the nuances of Indonesian culture and educational systems.

Chloe Haydel Brown (BS Symbolic Systems ’23, MS Sustainability ’25) will teach English in Argentina, with a side project teaching yoga, dance, and other movement classes.

Alex Heyer (PhD student, Chemistry) will work at KU Leuven in Belgium researching methods for low-temperature methane combustion using zeolites with applications in lowering methane’s greenhouse gas contribution.

Charlie Hoffs (BS Chemical Engineering, MS Community Health and Prevention Research ’23) will travel to Chile to work with Dr. Manuel Prieto and a coalition of Aymara herders, farmers, and organizers to develop policy strategies redirecting water, land, and public investment back to rural Arica.

Darrow Hornik (BA Spanish, MA Latin American Studies ’23) will teach English in Mexico, as well as research Mexican and Latin American artists who create work surrounding the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and understanding the contentious space.

Hannah Johnston (PhD student, History) will conduct archival research in Italy on procurers (“pimps”) and their connections to the broader working worlds of Venice and Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Meagan Khoury (PhD student, Art History) will travel to Italy to research and redirect ideas about early modern feminism away from only the most visible women, and instead center on women’s collective labor and creative networks through the lens of 17th-century Italian embroidery.

Christopher Knight (PhD student, Biology) will use unique underwater CO 2 vent systems in Ischia, Italy, to investigate how ocean acidification will impact the nutritional quality of seafood and its implications for human health.

Elizabeth Nguyen (BS Computer Science ’23) will write a short story collection – inspired by research in Vietnam’s history of militarized women – spanning the Trung sisters and modern-day mandatory military training.

Erica Okine (BA Psychology ’23) will travel to Germany to study the impact of orthodontic tooth movement on jaw tissues, which can enhance treatment accessibility, benefiting oral health.

Stephen Queener (BA International Relations ’23) will study human rights at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Nuremberg, Germany, to prepare for an impactful career focused on uplifting the voices of atrocity victims.

Andrew Song (BS Human Biology ’23) will pursue an MSc in bioinformatics and theoretical systems biology at Imperial College London. He will conduct research in axonal regeneration and restorative neuroscience, host music therapy sessions at hospitals, and open a tennis clinic for children with autism.

Lauren Urbont (PhD student, History) will conduct research in Israel on practices related to death and mourning among the Jews of medieval German lands between 1100 and 1350.

Valerie Wang (MS Applied Physics ’22) will investigate predictive precursors to multiple sclerosis using magnetic resonance brain imaging and AI approaches at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland.

Katherine Whatley (PhD student, Japanese Literature) will investigate the connection between text and song in pre-modern Japan and examine the musical aspects of classical Japanese literature to create original compositions for the koto (transverse Japanese harp) inspired by ancient Japanese songs and poems.

Emily Wong (BS Mechanical Engineering ’23) will travel to Germany to create a robotic fish that uses artificial intelligence to imitate the electric organ discharges of Mormyrid weakly electric fish, to better understand this method of communication.