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UArizona may submit one application.

This emergency cooperative agreement FOA provides an expedited funding mechanism as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) initiative to accelerate innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of technologies for COVID-19 testing. This FOA seeks to fund a single RADx Tribal Data Repository (RADx TDR). The RADx TDR is intended to be an independent research data repository governed under the principles and practices of tribal sovereignty. The RADx TDR will provide responsible data sharing and access to researchers and their collaborators who are generating or interested in working with RADx American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) research data.

Ticket #1: L. Brandimarte and D. Sidi - Tranche 1 application
Ticket #2: C. Brooks and W. Simmons - Tranche 2 application
Ticket #3: B. Carter - Tranche 1 application

UArizona may submit three new projects.

The PIT University Network Challenge seeks to encourage new ideas, foster collaborations, and incentivize resource- and information-sharing among network members. PIT-UN launched the challenge in 2019. In 2021—PIT-UN’s third year—37 proposals from 28 institutions were awarded a total of $4,161,270 in grant funds.

Limited submissions language from the solicitation
There is a limit to the number of proposals an institution can submit: 

• New 2022 PIT-UN Network members can submit a total of three proposals for new projects. Only one proposal can fall within Tranche 2: up to $180,000 ($90,001-$180,000) for direct and indirect costs. 
• Current PIT-UN Network members can submit three proposals for new projects.
• Current PIT-UN Network members can also submit any number of proposals for additional funding to continue and/or scale a previously funded project that meets the eligibility requirements noted below.* Any number of these projects can fall within Tranche 2: up to $180,000 ($90,001-$180,000) for direct and indirect costs.

C.K. Kwoh

B. Greene is the Coordinating PI. PIs interested in available categories should Contact the UArizona Coordinating PI and not the NAAF Program Officer or sponsor regarding this funding opportunity.

Contact RDS with questions

UArizona is eligible to submit toward the September 27, 2022, deadline but not to the May 17, 2022, deadline.

An internal competition for the September 27, 2022, deadline will be available on UA Competition Space in summer, 2022.

UArizona may submit four Letters of Intent.

Ticket #1: T. Eifler

The DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) hereby announces its interest in new applications for support of Artificial Intelligence Research for High Energy Physics. This FOA refers to research into and development of computational systems that take action to achieve a goal as Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and may include Machine Learning (ML) techniques as appropriate. This Announcement invites applications for AI research in three topic areas: AI research for HEP, HEP for AI research, and development of an HEP AI Ecosystem. The HEP program explicitly encourages applications from non-traditional HEP institutions and researchers that may broaden the participation in HEP research and the AI sub-field.

No applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1 

The purpose of the TPEC program is to establish resource hubs that support the placement of early childhood development (ECD) experts into pediatric practices that serve a high percentage of prenatal-to-five-year-old (P–5) populations who are eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or are uninsured.

UArizona may submit one proposal.

The Foundation’s Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education grants will support institutional pathways from MSIs to master’s and doctoral degree programs in astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, data science, Earth sciences, economics, engineering, marine science, mathematics, physics, and statistics. The intent is to facilitate the creation and strengthening of diverse, inclusive, and equitable pathways to and through STEM graduate education with the recognition that student pathways are too often disrupted by systemic racism, discrimination, and bias through prevailing institutional and departmental policy and practice.

D. Carter
J. Duran
A. McComb Sanchez

UArizona is limited to three concept papers total.

Submission will be coordinated with the UA Foundation.

Note: UAF and RDS will work with the selected applicants to provide the "letter from leadership" that is required by the Mellon Foundation for the April 20th registration step. A leadership letter is not required as part of this expedited internal UArizona competition.

In the interest of maintaining a grantmaking portfolio that supports inquiry into issues of vital social, cultural, and historical import, the Higher Learning program at the Mellon Foundation invites ideas for research and/or curricular projects focused on any of the three areas outlined below:

• Civic Engagement and Voting Rights
• Race and Racialization in the United States
• Social Justice and the Literary Imagination

Please see the Mellon Foundation website for full concept paper guidelines.

Hee-Dae Kim

UArizona may submit four Concept Papers in medical sciences and four Concept papers in physical sciences and engineering.

The W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program uses a three-step process for this opportunity. The first step is a Concept paper. The Undergraduate Education program is currently not accepting concept papers. The next steps are by the foundation’s invitation. UArizona review criteria reflect previous interactions with the W.M. Keck Foundation. Proposals should focus on basic, fundamental science with broad applications.

The proposed work should show a significant leap forward rather than an extension of existing work. 

To be considered by Keck, applicants must have a statement from a federal program officer expressing that the project is not a good fit due to risk (rather than technical or theoretical fit) or a decline from a federal program where the summary statement or individual reviews highlight the incredible novelty, but the high-risk nature that makes it difficult to fund at the federal level.