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August 2017 Volume X, Issue 1

Published by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Sources of Funding Information for the York College

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) would like to

extend a warm welcome to new and returning faculty and staff. As we embark

on the fall academic year and research endeavors, let us prepare ourselves to

embrace all research possibilities. Internal and external CUNY collaborations can

prove instrumental for junior and senior faculty members, offering different

perspective and insight to one’s research and scholarship.

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs is here to assist faculty

prepare and submit proposals on behalf of the College and in support of the

overall academic institution’s mission.

To ensure submission of best possible proposals, it is vital to adhere to the

following procedures:

All proposals must be submitted to the ORSP for review and approval

prior to external submission;

Proposals must be submitted to the ORSP ten (10) business days prior to

deadline. This will ensure adequate time for feedback and edits;

Proposals must be submitted to the ORSP complete with budget and

budget justification;

Proposal Certification and Conflict of Interest forms must accompany all

proposal submissions to the ORSP.

Looking forward to working collaboratively with each of you to ensure we

adhere to agency guidelines and deadlines. Please stop by to see us to chat

about your research agenda, get acquainted with the proposal process, or just to

say hello. We are located in room 2H05 in the Academic Core Building.

From the Desk of

the

Director …

Inside this Issue:

From the Desk 1

of the Director

Research Spotlight

Policies & Procedures 2

3

Funding At-A-Glance 4-5

Funding Opportunities

Proposals

6-11

Submitted/Awarded 12-14

15 Announcements

ORSP Contact 16-17

Information

Research Inspired!

www.york.cuny.edu/osr

http://www.york.cuny.edu/osr

Policies and Procedures of the

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

for Submitting Applications and Proposals

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) is the only office designated to submit grant proposals to funding agencies on behalf of York College of the City University of New York. As such, the goal of the office is to ensure all research and sponsored programs proposals are prepared and monitored in accordance with all applicable Federal and State regulations; OMB Circular A21, and College and University policies and procedures. In order to do this effectively and efficiently we ask all who are applying for grants to adhere to the following procedures:

Every proposal must be accompanied with agency guidelines, if applicable Every proposal whether it requires a signature or not, must be reviewed and approved by ORSP before submittal Proposals must be submitted to ORSP ten business days prior to the deadline of the funding agency for review, approval and submission Proposals must be complete with budget and budget justification in order to allow sufficient time for adequate review and submission Proposals being submitted electronically must be received with all information uploaded as electronic files for review which will then be submitted by this office via electronic portal. If required, files must be converted to PDF. Proposal Certification and Conflict of Interest forms must accompany proposals at time of submission to the ORSP (forms are located in the ORSP office)

Remember the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs is here to assist you, both in preparing and submitting proposals. Making sure a sound proposal is submitted takes time and teamwork on the part of the Principal Investigator and the office of ORSP.



RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

“The process of evolution can sometimes produce remarkably similar traits and appearances across independent

lineages - for example, tuna and whales have separately evolved a torpedo shape. Biologists since Darwin have

been interested in using these natural examples of convergence to study the process of adaptation. In

collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Alter (Biology Department) is studying a

recently-discovered and unique striking series of multi-trait convergences in diverse fish lineages from the

lower Congo River, an extremely complex high-energy hydrological system characterized by some of the

deepest underwater canyons and the most extensive and powerful rapids on Earth. Within this extreme selective

environment, fishes in distantly related families have independently evolved a suite of traits (many previously

associated only with cave animals) including lack of body pigment, eye loss, body depression, and enhanced

cranial, latero-sensory and gustatory anatomy. With funding from the

National Science Foundation, they are using next-generation sequencing to

produce complete phylogenies for six subclades of fishes; and performing

detailed morphological and anatomical mapping of the taxa to quantify and

characterize the extent of convergence. Dr. Alter recently returned from an

expedition to the Tadi-Bulu region of the lower Congo River where she and

her colleagues were able to obtain new specimens of rare species and

additional data on the environmental context driving the evolution of these

unusual river fauna.”

Elizabeth Alter Assistant professor in Biology

FUNDING AT-A-GLANCE Areas of

Research

Funding Agency Program Title Deadlines Amount Page

Accounting &

Business

Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation

Research Grant

Program Open $25,000 6

Biology National Science

Foundation (NSF)

Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) 09/8/2017 TBD

6

Collaborative Research

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Innovations in

Graduate Education

(ICE) Program 10/25/2017 $300,000 -

$500,000 7

National Science Focused Research Foundation (NSF) Groups in the

Mathematical

Sciences (FRGMS)

09/15/2017 TBD 7

Earth & Physical National Science NSF/DOE Partnership Science Foundation (NSF) in Basic Plasma 8

Science and

Engineering

10/20/2017 TBD

Economics The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation

The Calvin K.

Kazanjian Economics Foundation 09/15/2017 TBD

8

English Lannan

Foundation

Literary Arts

Open TBD 9

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FUNDING AT- A- GLANCE Areas of

Research

Funding Agency Program Title Deadlines Amount Page

Fellowships

American

Antiquarian Society Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers

10/05/2017 TBD 9

American Council of Learned Societies

(ACLS)

ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship 09/27/2017 $40,000 -

$70,000 9

National Science

Foundation (NSF)

Mathematical

Sciences

Postdoctoral

Research

Fellowship (MSPRF)

10/18/2017 $150,000 10

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

NEA Literature

Fellowships:

Translation

Projects

FY2019

12/05/2017 $25,000 10

Teacher Education

National Science

Foundation (NSF)

Robert Noyce

Teacher

Scholarship

Program

09/06/2017 TBD 11



FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Accounting & Finance

Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation http://www.leasefoundation.org/Grants/rfps.cfm

Deadline: Open

Research Grant Program

For more than 20 years, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation have supported ongoing research within the equipment lease financing industry. The Foundation works directly with industry consultants and professor to conduct research. Annually, the Foundation provides research grants for approved studies. Research grants are available to encourage industry consultants and academic in all fields of scholarships to study topics of interest to the equipment finance industry.

General topics of research interest are: Funding; Economics; Industry compensation models; Portfolio management; Strategic management/planning; Contracts/documentation; Accounting/financial reporting; and finance; Technology benchmarking; Tax and legislative/regulatory; Strategic importance of captives; Credit/collections; Operations; and best practices

The Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, whose objectives are to increase the body of knowledge in the equipment lease and financing field.

Amount of Award: $ 25,000

Biology National Science Foundation

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15582/nsf15582.pdf

Deadline: September 8, 2017

Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI)

The Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) program

seeks to encourage new approaches to the analysis and

dissemination of biological knowledge for the benefit of

both the scientific community and the broader public.

The ABI program is especially interested in the

development of informatics tools and resources that

have the potential to advance- or transform- research in

biology supported by the Directorate for Biological

Sciences at the National Science Foundation. The ABI

program accepts three major types of proposals:

Innovation awards that seek to pioneer new approaches

to the application of informatics to biological problems,

Development awards that seek to provide robust

cyberinfrastructure that will enable transformative

biological research, and Sustaining awards that

seek to support ongoing operations and maintenance of

existing cyberinfrastructure that is critical for continued

advancement of priority biological research.

Amount of Award: To Be Determined

http://www.leasefoundation.org/Grants/rfps.cfm



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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Collaborative Research

National Science Foundation

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505

Deadline: October 25, 2017

Innovations in Graduate Education (ICE) Program:

The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. The program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. IGE focuses on projects aimed at piloting, testing, and validating innovative and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education. IGE projects are intended to generate the knowledge required for their customization, implementation, and broader adoption. The program supports testing of novel models or activities with high potential to enrich and extend the knowledge base on effective graduate education approaches. The program addresses both workforce development, emphasizing broad participation, and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education. Strategic collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, national laboratories, field stations, teaching and learning centers, informal science centers, and academic partners are encouraged.

Amount of Award: $300,000 - $500,000

National Science Foundation https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf 16577


Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences

(FRGMS)

The purpose of the Focused Research Group activity is to

support collaborative groups employing innovative methods to

solve specific, major research challenges in the mathematical

sciences. A major challenge is an outstanding problem of

significant importance that requires the focused and synergistic

efforts of a collaborative group to solve, and whose solution

will have wide impacts in the mathematical sciences and

potentially in other areas. Groups may include, in addition to

statisticians and mathematicians, researchers from other

science and engineering disciplines appropriate for the

proposed research. Risky projects are welcome.

Interdisciplinary projects are welcome. Projects should be

timely, limited in duration to up to three years, and substantial

in their scope and impact for the mathematical sciences.

Funded projects that show substantial progress in their first

two years may be recommended for a creativity extension for

up to an additional two years.

Amount of Award: TBD



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FUNDING OPPORTUNITES

Earth & Physical Science Economics National Science Foundation https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5602


NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering

Plasma Physics is a study of matter and physical systems whose intrinsic properties are governed by collective interactions of large ensembles of free charged particles. 99.9% of the visible Universe is thought to consist of plasmas. The underlying physics of the collective behavior in plasmas has applications to space physics and astrophysics, materials science, applied mathematics, fusion science, accelerator science, and many branches of engineering.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), with participation of the Directorates for Engineering, Geosciences, and Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences are continuing the joint Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering begun in FY1997 and renewed several times since. As stated in the original solicitation (NSF 97-39), which is superseded by the present solicitation, the goal of the initiative is to enhance basic plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The current solicitation also encourages submission of proposals to perform basic plasma experiments at NSF and DOE supported user facilities, such as the Basic Plasma Science Facility at the University of California, Los Angeles and facilities located at DOE national laboratories, designed to serve the needs of the broader plasma community . Amount of Award: To Be Determined

The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation http://www.kazanjian.org/grants/apply


Economics

Projects supported by the Foundation should:

(a) Disseminate economic thinking and knowledge by all

available means, to the end that greater happiness and

prosperity may come to all through better economic

understanding; (b) Produce materials, conduct seminars and

workshops that promote discussions and assist in the

development of greater economic literacy; (c) Promote the

interchange of ideas and experiences among students of

economic theory, those teaching it, and those engaged in solving

practical economic problems in business and government; (d)

Further these purposes through cooperation with schools,

colleges and universities, foundations or other organizations by

financial support or other means.





http://www.kazanjian.org/grants/apply


English Lannan Foundation

http://www.lannan.org/about/grant-

guidelines/

Deadline: Open

Literary Arts Grants

Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities.

The Foundation recognizes the profound and often unquantifiable value of the creative process and is willing to take risks and make substantial investments in ambitious and experimental thinking. Understanding that globalization threatens all cultures and ecosystems, the Foundation is particularly interested in projects that encourage freedom of inquiry, imagination, and expression.

Literary Arts supports the creation of exceptional English-language literature and seeks to develop a wider audience For contemporary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Areas of

interest include funding organizations that support diverse writers through publication, presentation, and distribution.


Fellowships American Antiquarian Society

http://www.americanantiquarian.org/ar

tistfellowships


Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and learned society of American history and culture, is calling for applications for visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history. Successful applicants are those whose work is for the general public rather than for academic or educational audiences. The Society’s goal in sponsoring this program is to multiply and improve the ways in which an understanding of history is communicated to the American people. The fellowships will provide the recipients with the opportunity for a period of uninterrupted research, reading, and collegial discussion at the Society, located in Worcester, Massachusetts.


American Council of Learned Societies http://www.acls.org/programs/acls/


American Council of Learned Societies

ACLS invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. Faculty appointments are not required. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, digital publication(s), critical edition, or other scholarly resources. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

Amount of Award: $40,000 - $70,000



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Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)

The purpose of the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) is to provide increased flexibility for Fellows in choosing postdoctoral research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development. The Fellows will have two options for receipt of a stipend:

The Research Fellowship option provides full- time support for any eighteen academic-year months in a three-year period, in intervals not shorter than three consecutive months.

The Research Instructorship option provides a combination of full-time and half-time support over a period of three academic years, usually one academic year full-time and two academic years half time.

Under both options, the award includes six summer months; however, no more than two summer months of support may be received in any calendar year.

Under both options, the stipend support for 24 months (18 academic-year months plus 6 summer months) will be provided within the 48-month duration of the award.

Amount of Award: $150,000

https://www.arts.gov/grants-individuals/translation-projects

Deadline: December 05, 2017

NEA Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects FY2019

Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. We encourage translations of writers and of work that are not well represented in English translation. All proposed projects must be for creative translations of literary material into English. The work to be transla ould be of interest for its literary excellence and v will be given to projects that involve work that has n ously been translated into English. Competition for fellowships is rigorous. Potential applicants should consider carefully whether their work will be competitive at the national level.

Participants must meet military service requirements stipulated in the authorizing statute and be low-income, prospective first-generation college students who are preparing to enter a postsecondary institution. The program requires that at least two-thirds of the participants in a project be both low-income and first-generation.

Amount of Award: $12,500 - $25,000



https://www.arts.gov/grants-individuals/translation-projects



Teacher Education

National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13526/nsf13526.pdf


Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The Noyce Scholarship Track provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and post-baccalaureate students holding STEM degrees who earn a teaching credential and commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts. The NSF Teaching Fellowship/Master Teaching Fellowship Track provides funding to support STEM professionals who enroll as NSF Teaching Fellows in master's degree programs leading to teacher certification by providing academic courses, professional development, and salary supplements while they are fulfilling a four-year teaching commitment in a high-need school district. This track also supports the development of NSF Master Teaching Fellows by providing professional development and salary supplements for exemplary mathematics and science teachers to become Master Teachers in high-need school districts. Capacity Building Projects support the development of new programs and activities to increase the capacity for institutions to provide innovative teacher preparation programs that enable increasing numbers of STEM majors and STEM professionals to become effective K-12 mathematics and science teachers and to develop the capacity to prepare Master science and mathematics teachers.





Proposals Submitted January 1, 2017 – July 31, 2017

Name Project Title Agency Amount

ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS

Harry Wells The NYS MWBE Certification Assistance Program

United States Small Business Association

(US SBA)

$330,000

Oslene Carrington York College Small Business Accelerator

United States Small Business Association

(US SBA)

$240,088

BIOLOGY

Elizabeth Alter Applying Environmental DNA Analysis to Species Detection in

the Hudson River Watershed

Hudson River Foundation

via Queens

College/CUNY

$35,632

Elizabeth Alter “SG/RUI: collaborative Research: The evolution of

extreme phenotypic convergence across fish

lineages in the hyper-diverse lower Congo River”

NSF in collaboration with The American Museum of Natural

History

$86,530

CHEMISTRY

Ruel Desamero Mechanistic Implications of Conformational Dynamics in

Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

National Institute of Health (NIH)

$2,083,000

Francois Fay A Microfluidic-Based Approach to Generate Multimodal Contrast

Agents for Atherosclerosis

City University of New York

(CUNY - ASRC)

$10,000

COLABORATIVE

Danielle Musumeci / Nazrul Khandaker

Institutional Support-based STEM Offering to the Low

Income, Academically Talented Undergraduates


$1,000,000

EARTH & PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Kevin Lynch / James Popp

Ion Beam Stripping: Improving the Geant4 Simulation Tool Kit

Department of Defense (DOD)

$600,000

Timothy Paglione CUNY–CCA Undergraduate Research Program

Simons Foundation $58,255.20



I Name Project Title Agency Amount

ENGLISH

Andrea Silva Paratextual Remediation in Early Modern England

City University of New York (CUNY - Book)

$5,000

Heather Robinson Making Translinguality Visible: Language Identities and

Transnational Realities in the US College Classroom


$3,000

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY

Kiran Jayaram Hitting the Books and Pounding the Pavement: Haitian Educational and Labor

Migrants in the Dominican Republic


$4,620

NURSING

Claudette McFarquhar Queens Healthy Babies Health Fair

March of Dimes $2,000

Claudette McFarquhar Queens Healthy Babies Health Fair

March of Dimes $2,000

PERFORMING & FINE ARTS

Carly Gieseler Pranktainment: The Art of the Dare


$3,668

STUDENT DEVELOPMENT

Cynthia Clendenin Childcare Access Means Parents in School

Department of Education (DOE)

$477,744

Proposals Awarded January 1, 2017 – July 31, 2017


BIOLOGY

Elizabeth Alter The Evolution of Extreme Phenotypic Convergence Across

Fish Lineages in the Hyper-Diverse Lower Congo River


$86,530

Elizabeth Alter Applying Environmental DNA Analysis to Species Detection in

the Hudson River Watershed

Hudson River Foundation

via Queens

College/CUNY

$35,632




CHEMISRTY

Yolanda Small Controlling Optical Properties of Silver Nanoclusters with DNA

Scaffolds

National Institutes of Health

$166,190

EARTH & PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Timothy Paglione CUNY –CCA Undergraduate Research Program

Simons Foundation $58,255.20

ENGLISH

Andrea Silva Paratextual Remediation in Early Modern England


$5,000



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