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Important University Research Deadlines
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The University of Texas at Austin Stimulus Package Web page is online.
Funding Sources
Department of Agriculture
Biomass Research and Development Initiative
Deadlines: Pre-application, April 24, 2012; Invited Full Application, Aug. 3, 2012
Department of Defense
Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Deadline: Open
Announcement
DARPA Robotics Challenge (see more in News and Information)
Deadline: May 31, 2012
Department of Homeland Security
2012 Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Long Range Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2012
Department of Justice
Intelligence Interviewing and Interrogation Research
Deadline: June 4, 2012
NASA
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
NSBRI Announcement Soliciting Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications
Deadline: June 8, 2012
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
Deadline: June 3, 2013
National Institutes of Health
Development of a Vestibular Neural Prosthesis
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Sept. 4, 2012; Application, Oct. 4, 2012
U.S.-China Program for Biomedical Collaborative Research
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Aug. 18, 2012; Application, Sept. 18, 2012
Genetic Screens to Enhance Zebrafish Research
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Aug. 19, 2012; Application, Sept. 19, 2012
Enhancing Zebrafish Research with Research Tools and Techniques
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Aug. 19, 2012; Application, Sept. 19, 2012
Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents Enabled by Nanotechnology
Deadline: July 9, 2012
National Science Foundation
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Engineering
Deadline: July 3, 2012
I/UCRC Research Experiences for Veterans (Supplement to existing I/UCRC awards)
Deadline: July 13, 2012
Earthscope
Deadline: July 16, 2012
Arts, Humanities and Culture
National Endowment for the Humanities
Preservation and Access Research and Development
Deadline: May 16, 2012
Other Funding Opportunities
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Request for LOI: New Biomarkers for HIV Incidence Measurement
Deadline: May 18, 2012
Grand Challenges in Global Health
Deadline: May 15, 2012
Belmont Forum and G8 Research Councils
Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding International Opportunities Fund
Deadlines: Pre-proposals, July 20, 2012; Full proposals, Dec. 20, 2012
Toyota Foundation
Research Grant Program
Deadline: May 18, 2012 (by mail)
The Leakey Foundation
Research Grants
Deadline: July 15, 2012
Research Prizes and Honors
[Have you or a colleague won a research-related prize or honor? Let the Research Alert know.]
Architecture Professor Receives Excellence Award
 Allan W. Shearer, assistant professor in the School of Architecture, received the 2012 Excellence in Research & Creative Works Award (junior faculty level) from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). The award was announced and presented during the annual CELA Conference, held at the University of Illinois, March 28 to 31. CELA is the premier international organization for academics in landscape architecture.
Shearer's research centers on how individuals, communities and societies create scenarios of the future and how these descriptions of possible tomorrows are used to inform present day decisions.
News and Information
DARPA Seeks Teams to Participate in Robotics Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to offer a $2 million prize to whomever can help push the state-of-the-art in robotics beyond today’s capabilities in support of the Department of Defense's disaster recovery mission.
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge will launch in October 2012. Teams are sought to compete in challenges involving staged disaster-response scenarios in which robots will have to successfully navigate a series of physical tasks corresponding to anticipated, real-world disaster-response requirements. (Image from DARPA).
UT Austin Energy Poll Shows Strong Support for More Domestic Energy Production
Consumers strongly support increased production of energy from domestic sources, particularly natural gas and renewables, according to The University of Texas at Austin Energy Poll released this week. It was the second release of the poll, a twice-annual national online survey of energy issues.
The poll also offered insights in how energy issues may affect the upcoming presidential election, with more than 65 percent of the 2,371 poll respondents saying that energy is important to them. Respondents generally favor candidates whose policies would increase domestic energy production, and expanded natural gas development had the most support among consumers, with 61 percent saying they would be more likely to vote for a presidential candidate who backs this issue.
Quoted-UT Researchers in the News
 (Daron Shaw, professor in the Department of Government, comments on why primary elections are different from general elections and that swing voters will be key.)
Daron Shaw, a political scientist at the University of Texas and a Republican campaign adviser, said “there’s no relationship” between the two phases of the 2012 campaign. Primaries are naturally volatile. They force partisans to choose among candidates of similar philosophies and platforms, which swells the importance of subjective, less predictable factors like personality and messaging.
Research Project
 RESEARCHER: Michael Sacks, professor, Institute of Computer Engineering and Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering, principal investigator
AGENCY: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
AMOUNT: $2.48 million
Researchers will work to develop a novel approach for the computational simulation of the functional performance of bio-prosthetic heart valves. The research will be a highly collaborative effort integrating computational biomechanical simulations of biomaterial performance and novel data from large animal studies. The development of these models will enable researchers to determine how to improve the structural durability of bio-prosthetic heart valves, which deteriorate due to calcification and stresses from the mechanical demands of blood flow.
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