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Angela Cruze (Inst Future Data Computation)

This Notice of Funding Opportunity solicits applications for the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program (“Competitive Grant Program” or “Program”), the third of three digital equity programs authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, Division F, Title III, Public Law 117-58, 135 Stat. 429, 1209 (November 15, 2021) (“Infrastructure Act”) also known as the (“Digital Equity Act” or “DE Act”). The Digital Equity Act appropriated $2.75 billion to be awarded by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information (“Assistant Secretary”) to promote digital equity and inclusion.

The Digital Equity Act consists of three funding programs:

1. the $60 million State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program;
2. the $1.44 billion State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program; and
3. the $1.25 billion Competitive Grant Program.

The Digital Equity Planning Grant Program was launched in May of 2022 and is now complete. Under the Planning Grant Program, 56 States and U.S. Territories created Digital Equity Plans that identified the barriers to digital equity faced by certain populations defined by the statute (i.e., “Covered Populations”)1 and measurable objectives for addressing those barriers. The State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity was released on March 29, 2024, and will provide funds to States and U.S. Territories to implement the Digital Equity Plans created through the Digital Equity Planning Grant Program, as well as provide funds for Indian Tribes, Alaska Native entities, and Native Hawaiian organizations (“Native Entities”) to address the digital equity needs of the Covered Populations within those communities. The Capacity Grant Program is on-going and will continue to address the needs of the Covered Populations as identified in the State and U.S. Territories’ Digital Equity Plans and as identified by Native Entities.

The Competitive Grant Program will make funds available to a wide range of entities to address barriers to digital equity faced by Covered Populations as defined by 47 U.S.C. §1721(8). The Competitive Grant Program will support efforts to achieve digital equity, promote digital inclusion activities, and spur greater adoption and meaningful use of broadband among the Covered Populations. Specifically, the Digital Equity Act authorizes funds to be used for the development and implementation of digital inclusion activities that benefit the Covered Populations; programs that facilitate the adoption of broadband by Covered Populations to provide educational and employment opportunities; training programs that cover basic, advanced, and applied skills; workforce development programs; access to equipment, instrumentation, networking capability, hardware and software, or digital network technology for broadband services at low or no cost; and the construction or operation of public access computing centers for Covered Populations. Awards will focus on addressing the needs of the Covered Populations not met by the Capacity Grant Program and will strive for a diverse pool of recipients. To ensure funds are directed to the most effective programs with the greatest reach, and to minimize administrative overhead, NTIA encourages proposals that demonstrate a broad partnership of entities with the ability to administer significant resources and address the varied concerns of the Covered Populations.

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Forrest Baker (School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness)

Guidelines for Qualifying Applicants:

Each grant is reviewed by our Medical Advisory Board and recipients are selected based on their grading.

Goal and Focus:

The goal of these grants is to overcome barriers to clinical application of new treatment approaches for childhood cancer. A priority is to fund projects that have already shown great promise, but that have a specific funding need to move forward. The three main focus areas for this RFP are:

• Cancer immunotherapy/Targeted therapy
• High-grade brain tumors or other difficult-to-treat pediatric cancers
• Epigenetic modifying therapy or gene editing

Applications of novel technologies in these areas are welcome.

General Guidelines and Eligibility:

• Limit of one application per institution with endorsement of the Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

• Two types of one-year grants will be awarded:

  • Collaborative: Up to 1 multi-institutional collaborative grant of $300,000 will be awarded
    • There must be at least 2 collaborating divisions of pediatric hematology/oncology.
    • Collaborative project can either include a new proposal or a proposal where preliminary data has already been gathered
  • Individual: 2-4 individual grants of $150,000 each will be awarded

  *Applications to fund correlative studies associated with clinical trials in the focus areas will be considered. Funding for the associated clinical trial must have already been secured and applications must include a description of the developmental pathway for the therapeutic approach.

Limit one submission:

Doane, CJ. (UAC)

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Husain Al Yusuf (ECE/CompSci/SIE)

Yu-Zheng Lin (ECE/SIE)

Sujan Ghimire (SFWE/SIE)

Trevor Stanfil (OpSci/Physics)

Nominations are being accepted for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program

IBM invites applications for the IBM PhD Fellowship Awards from students whose graduate research work aligns with IBM’s strategic directions in Semiconductor Technology, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Multi-Cloud Computing and Hybrid Cloud Platforms for AI, Security, and Responsible Computing. Current topics of interest within these areas include:

• Two-Dimensional (2D) Materials
• Back-End-Of-Line (BEOL) Interconnects
• Quantum Algorithms Theory
• Quantum Algorithms Engineering
• Building a Vibrant AI Hardware Ecosystem
• Tools for AI Model and Application Building
• Expanding the Ecosystem of Open Models and Datasets
• Generative AI for Security
• Security of Generative AI
• Quantum-safe cryptography.

Please see the website for complete details, full eligibility, and submission guidelines: https://research.ibm.com/university/awards/index.html

UA Research Development Services (RDS) has advised that faculty should coordinate their nomination(s) with their department chair because there is a limit of three nominations per department. Four nominations are allowed from each university. If four nominations are submitted, it is IBM Global University program’s expectation that two of the four applications are for diversity candidates or underrepresented populations in technology. Contact RDS at limitedsubmissions@arizona.edu with questions on the limits.

All nominees must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member; students cannot nominate themselves.

The nomination period for the 2024 PhD Fellowships will be open from July 15, 2024, through August 30, 2024, 11:59PM Eastern Time.

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Patriricia Thompson-Carino (Cancer Center)

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Organizations may submit no more than two (2) SOIs and only one (1) SOI per category. The applicant must explicitly identify the category for each SOI submitted.

This solicitation is specific to Costa Rica and includes two (2) categories under which applicants may submit SOIs:
1) Workforce Development
2) Policy and Regulatory Reform

The submission of the SOI is the first step in a two-step process. Applicants must first submit a concise no more than three (3) page statement of interest designed to clearly communicate the program idea and objectives. This is not a full proposal. The purpose of the SOI process is to allow applicants to submit program ideas for evaluation prior to requiring the development of a full proposal application. Upon a merit review of eligible SOIs, selected applicants will be invited to expand on their program idea(s) by submitting a full proposal application. Full proposals will go through a second merit review before final funding decisions are made.  

EB administers a portion of the ITSI Fund, the “ITSI Promote” line of effort, to help expand international semiconductor assembly, testing, and packaging (“ATP” or “downstream”) capacity in key partner countries that will in turn diversify the global semiconductor supply chain. EB’s objectives under the ITSI Fund are to: 1) Expand and diversify the required workforce for semiconductor ATP facilities to ensure growth; and 2) Improve regulatory environments that will encourage private sector efforts that generate additional capabilities in ATP facilities. 

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Organizations may submit no more than two (2) SOIs and only one (1) SOI per category. The applicant must explicitly identify the category for each SOI submitted.

This solicitation is specific to the Philippines and includes two (2) categories under which applicants may submit SOIs: 

1) Workforce Development
2) Policy and Regulatory Reform.

The submission of the SOI is the first step in a two-step process. Applicants must first submit a concise no more than three (3) page statement of interest designed to clearly communicate the program idea and objectives. This is not a full proposal. The purpose of the SOI process is to allow applicants to submit program ideas for evaluation prior to requiring the development of a full proposal application. Upon a merit review of eligible SOIs, selected applicants will be invited to expand on their program idea(s) by submitting a full proposal application. Full proposals will go through a second merit review before final funding decisions are made.  

EB administers a portion of the ITSI Fund, the “ITSI Promote” line of effort, to help expand international semiconductor assembly, testing, and packaging (“ATP” or “downstream”) capacity in key partner countries that will in turn diversify the global semiconductor supply chain. EB’s objectives under the ITSI Fund are to: 1) Expand and diversify the required workforce for semiconductor ATP facilities to ensure growth; and 2) Improve regulatory environments that will encourage private sector efforts that generate additional capabilities in ATP facilities.