ORED has an opportunity to hire a consultant with excellent knowledge of DOE and is asking faculty if they would be interested in working with the consultant to get expert review on your applications for DOE funding.
If so, what is your anticipated timeframe for submitting small (Less than $1M), medium ($1M-5M), or large-scale ($5M-20M) applications for DOE funding?
Do you have a specific program or program area in mind?
What is a potential title for such submission?
If interested, please convey to ADR Mark Riley, mriley3@unl.edu.
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UNL recently hosted visitors from the online publication, “The Conversation.” From that discussion, they provided the following information on their approach:
“An independent source of news, analysis and expert commentary, written by academics and researchers working with professional journalists. We commission short (~800 - 1000 word), pieces on current affairs, new research, and topics of interest. We make it easy: Our journalists collaborate, advise, edit and provide support that you won’t find elsewhere. Author approval: pieces must be signed off by the author before we can publish them. All content is Creative Commons licensed: free to read, and free for other media to republish. Authors get access to metrics to show the readership and reach of their articles. Editors provide training, providing academics with the skills and confidence to bring their expertise to a wider audience.”
In brief, the application process asks:
• 50 words on what is the story: why important, why today, why should the public care
• Why are you the expert to write on this?
Stories come in three ways:
• Pitch from potential authors (see link on their page)
• Addressing quick turn-around news
• Editor generated ideas reach out to partner institutions
Pitch an idea on their web site: https://theconversation.com/us/pitches
They reply to a pitch within seven days.
For more information about “The Conversation,” go to the website: https://theconversation.com/us
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You are cordially invited to attend and participate in the 2019 Science, Engineering and Medicine (SEM) Research Retreat from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 8, at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in La Vista. The University will likely provide bus transportation to/from the retreat (more information will be available by the end of February).
The 2019 SEM Research Retreat is jointly sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), and the Great Plains IDeA-Clinical and Translational Research (GP IDeA-CTR). This retreat is part of a multiyear SEM initiative designed to catalyze new interdisciplinary research collaborations to enhance competitiveness for Federal funding.
This half-day SEM Research Retreat targets the following topics:
• biomedical sensing technologies / new diagnostics and therapeutics
• human/biological physical interfaces / human factors engineering
• regenerative medicine / rehabilitation engineering
• health informatics
• bioimaging technologies
• countermeasures to chemical, biological, and/or radiological agents detrimental to health
The goal of the retreat is to assist researchers in finding collaborators to solve challenging problems in the aforementioned topics. We ask that all participants prepare a poster (maximum size of 30" x 40") to describe your research idea or activity that you would like to share with others. You will need to print this poster and bring it with you to the retreat for display on an easel. During the first poster session, UNMC and UNO faculty will display their posters while UNL faculty will visit posters of interest to discuss potential collaborations. During the second poster session, the roles will be reversed with UNL faculty displaying their posters while UNMC and UNO faculty visit these posters. Posters will be organized by topic so everyone will have a chance to find posters that align with their research interests.
A draft agenda is attached. A networking lunch will be provided that includes updates and information on pilot grant funding opportunities from Directors of several COBREs and the Great Plains IDeA-Clinical and Translational Research center.
Following the retreat, interdisciplinary research teams will be invited to submit project proposals for seed funding of up to $100,000 over two years. A request for applications describing this funding opportunity will be available in the near future.
Please RSVP by Monday, February 25 at: https://research.unl.edu/events/event2.php?eventID=3822
Note that the registration site also includes a request for information related to your expertise, research questions you want to address, and innovative tools and technologies you have or are seeking. This information will be shared with everyone who registers to attend the retreat.
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You are invited to attend a meeting and lunch with faculty and staff from the Great Plains IDeA-Clinical and Translational Research (GP IDeA-CTR; https://gpctr.unmc.edu/) on Friday, March 29. The Great Plains IDeA-CTR leadership team is interested in meeting UNL faculty, learning about research projects at UNL, and facilitating research collaborations.
The vision of the GP IDeA-CTR is to build “an effective system and infrastructure to transform and advance clinical and translational research” across the region. According to NIH, translation is “the process of turning observations in the laboratory, clinic and community into interventions that improve the health of individuals and the public–from diagnostics and therapeutics to medical procedures and behavioral changes.” The translational process spans basic research, pre-clinical research, clinical research, clinical implementation, and public health (https://gpctr.unmc.edu/about/what-is-ctr/).
The GP IDeA-CTR is a collaborative effort across nine institutions in the region, including the four University of Nebraska Campuses (UNL, UNO, UNK, UNMC) and Boys Town National Research Hospital, University of Kansas Medical Center, University of South Dakota, University of North Dakota, and North Dakota State University. UNMC serves as the lead institution.
The tentative agenda for the March 29 meeting is:
• 10-11 a.m.: Meetings/informal discussions with faculty associated with the Rural Drug Addiction COBRE and the Minority Health Disparities Initiative (MHDI) (Room B60 in CB3 in the East Stadium; Memorial Stadium)
• 11 a.m.-noon: Lunch and discussion. Matt Rizzo (Chair, Neurological Sciences, UNMC and Director, GP IDeA-CTR) will provide an update on the GP IDeA-CTR and then discuss plans to renew the CTR. (Room B60 in CB3 in the East Stadium; Memorial Stadium)
• Noon-12:30 p.m.: Travel to Othmer Hall (Room 114)
• 12:30-2 p.m.: Meet with faculty doing research with sensors, devices and machine learning that have potential application to a clinical setting (Othmer Room 114)
• 2 p.m.: Wrap-up and adjourn
Please RSVP for one or more of these sessions (including lunch) so there are enough chairs and food:
http://research.unl.edu/events/event.php?eventID=3833