May 2015 Newsletter

Perfecting your Elevator Pitch: An Interactive Workshop for Faculty Researchers

Communicating the value of your research is imperative for your success as a scholar and educator, as well as to the success of your grant endeavors. If you would like to improve your ability to discuss the greater importance of your research, plan to attend this informative and engaging workshop. This will not be discipline specific, but will engage and prepare the attendee to communicate their research objectives and broader impacts. Click here for more details and to register.

GAP Competition Slated for May 7

The twice-yearly GAP competition is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. through 11:30 a.m., May 7 at the FSU Foundation Building B. Led by Vice President for Research Gary Ostrander, a panel of judges including local entrepreneurs and business professionals, will hear presentations from FSU researchers who hope to turn their research into commercially viable products. Presentations include work on a safer football helmet, digital camera technology and an anti-fibrotic drug among others.

Pilot Program for Partial Salary Funding of Full-Time Specialized Research Faculty

In an effort to address potential grant compliance issues, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) will provide funding to cover 5 percent of current salary plus applicable fringe benefit coverage for certain full-time specialized research faculty supported exclusively by Federal research contract or grant funds to recognize their participation in proposal development and writing. Applications for funding may be submitted by individuals who are PIs on grants or other key senior individuals who take time away from their funded research to actively engage in successful efforts to obtain additional extramural funding.

Eligibility for this program will be reviewed and confirmed by the OVPR. For clarity the OVPR will provide funding only for the research activities defined in this notice. Funding for other non-project related activities should be sought from departmental or other sources. In no case should individuals engage in activities outside of their funded research if those additional activities would occur while being supported by an unrelated research contract or grant.

It is our intent that upon approval of an application, funding for the applicant could be made available for a period of up to three years contingent upon annual certification that the approved individuals are continually engaged in efforts to obtain extramural research funding. All awards approved under this program will be made at the discretion of the OVPR.

The application form should be used for funding requests and should be submitted to the OVPR for consideration at least five weeks prior to the beginning of the fiscal year funds are needed. To download the application form, visit http://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/sra/policies-procedures/pilot-program/.

Research Photos, Videos, Story Opportunities Needed

Do you take pictures of your research? Capture videos of experiments, creative endeavors, etc.? Do you blog? Do you have a paper ready to be published or a new grant you just received? If any of these even remotely apply, we want to hear from you!

Whether it's @FSUResearch, the FSU research blog, the FSU news website, or news releases in general, we have a variety of ways to promote your research. But we need your help in getting the content so we can communicate it to the masses.

Please contact Tom Butler and Kathleen Haughney with any photos, videos or news opportunities you would like to send along.

University Libraries Ready to Assist with New Federal Open Access Policies

Over the past few months, major funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Department of Defense, as well as others, have announced new public access policies for funded research. What this means is that many faculty and grad students at FSU will soon be required to make journal articles and data sets derived from funding openly accessible as a condition of continued or future funding. This is a major shift in the default research culture, and University Libraries are working to provide information, resources, and support as the campus adjusts to these requirements.

One key change is the requirement, by almost every agency, for a well-developed data management plan along with new proposals. University Libraries Data Services team is available for consultations and assistance in preparing data management plans that meet the requirements of funders. Additionally, FSU researchers can utilize DMPTool, which provides templates for data management plans by agency.

Public access mandates, including data management plans, shared open data and open access to research articles, will expand the worldwide visibility of the important research conducted at FSU, increase the impact of that research, and aid in examining related work at other institutions with whom we compete for grants and contracts.

University Libraries are closely monitoring these policy developments and collaborating with other campus units such as the Office of Research Compliance Programs to assist researchers in meeting these funder requirements. Researchers with questions about public access to funded research or data management planning should contact Digital Scholarship Coordinator Micah Vandegrift and Data Research Librarian Renaine Julian or find more info on the libraries website.

Funding Opportunities

View the document to access some of the latest funding opportunities available for the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM disciplines and medicine.

Innovators Honored by FSU

More than 100 creators, inventors and researchers were honored by Florida State at the 10th Annual Innovators’ Reception in April. The event recognized those who were at some stage of the commercialization process. Go to news.fsu.edu for more information.

Date	Course Code and Name	Location/Time
5/5/2015	SRA12 National Institutes of Health	Student Services Building, Rm 301, 8:30-10:30 am
5/7/2015	SRA14 National Science Foundation	Student Services Building, Rm 301, 2:30-4:30 pm
5/11/2015	SRA11 Award Negotiations & Processing - Federal Acquisition Regulation Clauses	Student Services Building, Rm 301, 8:30-10:30 am
5/27/2015	SRA06 Hot Issues in Research - Subrecipient Monitoring	Training Center, 2:30-4:30 pm

NSF FastLane Compliance Checks

Beginning April 24, 2015, proposals submitted in response to Program Solicitations in FastLane will undergo a series of automated proposal compliance validation checks to ensure they comply with requirements outlined in the Proposal & Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (Chapter II.C.2. of the Grants Proposal Guide). These checks will automatically validate a proposal for compliance against proposal sections per type of funding mechanism. For example, an error message will appear if a project description or budget is not provided in proposals submitted in response to a Program Solicitation.

Checks will be triggered when proposers select the “Check Proposal,” “Forward to SPO,” or “Submit Proposal” functions. Depending on the rule being checked, a warning or error message will display when a proposal is found to be non-compliant. If an error message appears, the proposal cannot be submitted until it is compliant.

Please note that these automated compliance checks will not be conducted on proposals submitted to NSF via Grants.gov.

To view a detailed list of all compliance checks, click here.

Please direct any questions to the Policy Office in the Division of Institution & Award Support at policy@nsf.gov, or (703) 292-8243.

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The faculty portal is now open for FSU's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). UROP is a year-long program in which high-achieving first- and second-year students, as well as some transfer and veteran students, serve as research assistants with faculty members working on research or creative projects. The faculty interview and select admitted UROP students for their projects and direct their work during the year. All UROP students attend a year-long research colloquium and present their work at the annual FSU Undergraduate Research Symposium.

As UROP Research Sponsors, faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students can have student research assistants at no cost to them. Faculty can also receive a materials grant for up to $500 and be eligible for a $2,000 Undergraduate Research Mentor award. We encourage you to upload a project for which you would like research assistants (and view previous UROP projects) through the UROP site. For more information on UROP, contact Dr. Joe O'Shea at joshea@fsu.edu.

NIH Warns of 'Serious Consequences' of Application Non-Compliance

A notice issued by NIH on April 15 warned grant hopefuls of serious consequences for submitting applications with errors. "The purpose of this notice is to remind applicants, both investigators and grants office officials, that to be fair to all concerned the NIH needs to consistently apply standards for application compliance. Be mindful that non-compliance can have serious consequences. NIH may withdraw any application identified during the receipt, referral and review process that is not compliant with the instructions" in NIH's application guide, "Funding Opportunity Announcement, and relevant NIH Guide Notices," the announcement said. NIH gave examples of non-compliance, which included improperly completed biosketches. "Applications submitted as new but containing elements of a resubmission or renewal application are noncompliant with the resubmission policy," NIH said, in describing another example. Visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-15-095.html for more information.

Washington Update

View the pdf to learn of recent activities in Washington affecting higher education. Included are budget and appropriations updates, new funding announcements and other important campus related issues.

Award Memorializes Jim Brooks

The Graduate School has created the Dr. James S. “Jim” Brooks Graduate Student Award in Materials Science and Engineering to memorialize the late Physics Department chair who passed away last September. The purpose of the award is to encourage academically motivated graduate students to seek opportunities within this field of study at Florida State University. To learn more about the award, including how you can contribute, visit its website.

Advance Funding Opportunity

The Florida Department of Health anticipates issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on or around May 1, 2015 for the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program and the Bankhead Coley Cancer Research Program. For this FOA, the Department is interested in funding research proposals in the following research priorities: Prevention and treatment, screening, health disparities, tobacco use, obesity and treatment-related morbidities. Visit the Department of Health for more information.

Marine Lab Featured in Tallahassee Magazine

Florida State University’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory was featured in the March/April issue of Tallahassee Magazine. The feature notes the work of Felicia Coleman, Sandra Brooke, Chip Cotton, Chris Koenig and Dean Grubbs. For more, visit Tallahassee Magazine.

FSU Awards Report

A monthly awards report is available online. This report will allow interested faculty, staff and others, to learn more about who has been recently awarded research grants. April’s awards report will be available shortly. Learn more, and access this report at the Research Awards page.

Council on Research and Creativity Updates

The First Year Assistant Professor grant workshop will be held on May 7 at the FSU Alumni Center. All new FYAPs are required to attend this all-day workshop. As part of the workshop, First Year Assistant Professor awardees from 2013-2014 are required to give a poster presentation of their research projects that they have completed and prizes will be given to the best posters.

The workshop will consist of many elements, including presentations from FSU's Sponsored Research staff, as well as afternoon breakout sessions led by successfully funded faculty, who will be available for questions and answers.

The Vice President for Research and the Council on Research & Creativity (CRC) congratulate faculty for awards made by the CRC during the Spring 2014 – 2015 Competition Round

First Year Assistant Professor Awardees:

Margareta Ackerman (Computer Science) "Foundations of Incremental Clustering"
Sergio Almaraz-Calderon (Physics) "Measurement of nuclear reactions relevant for Novae and X-ray bursts nucleosynthesis"
Christianne Beekman (Physics) "Frustration in strained pyrochlore thin films"
Daniel Belcher (Voice) "Performance and Recording of New Operas and Chamber Music"
Bethany Blair (Family & Child Sciences) "Examining the Transactional Nature of Social Development"
Shamra Boel-Studt (Social Work) "Estimating patterns and social-ecological influences of childhood victimization by race/ethnicity from early childhood through late adolescence"
Malia Bruker (Communication) "Another Knowing "
Scott Burgess (Biological Science) "The ecological causes of local adaptation in coastal marine invertebrates"
Graig Chow (EPLS) "Enhancing the utilization of sport psychology services in collegiate athletes"
Ho Yong Chung (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering) "New polymers for biomedical applications: Synthesis and application of innovative biomedical adhesives"
Sabrina Dickey (Nursing) "Prostate Cancer Screening Among African American Men: An Educational Intervention"
Mikhail Dmitriev (Economics) "Rules or Discretion: Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound"
David Folch (Geography) "Pseudo Margins of Error for Metrics Based on American Community Survey Data"
James Frederich (Chemistry & Biochemistry) "Complexity-building cascade reactions initiated by [4+4]-photocycloaddition"
Mariana Fuentes (EOAS) "Forecasting range expansion of marine turtles and their exposure to coastal development"
Lucinda Graven (Nursing) "Feasibility of the Coping in Heart Failure (COPE-HF) Partnership: A Telephone-Based Intervention Study"
Brian Graves (Communication) "Public Communication and the Preservation of North Florida's Gullah/Geechee History and Culture"
Elizabeth Hammock (Psychology) "Neural mechanisms of social support in development"
Summer Harlow (Communication) "Regenerating Journalism: A Study of the Rise of Online-Native Media in Latin America"
Christopher Holmes (EOAS) "Impacts of air pollution on the global biosphere and climate"
Skip Horack (English) "Epulu: The Story of an African Massacre"
Yan-Yan Hu (Chemistry & Biochemistry) "Ionic Conduction Mechanisms in Low-cost and Rare-earthfree Fast Ion Conductors"
Chen Huang (Scientific Computing) "Potential-functional embedding theory: a simple and non-empirical approach to solving strongly correlated materials"
Noyan Ilk (ESIS) "Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources for Big Data Mining"
Erin Ingvalson (Communication Science & Disorders) "Mechanisms of Non-Native Speech Learning in Older Adults"
Sarah Ivy (Teacher Education) "Reinforcement Strategies for Learners with Visual Impairment and Additional Disabilities"
Evan Jones III (Voice) "Application of Class Voice in the Training of Music Educators"
Justin Kennemur (Chemistry & Biochemistry) "New Material Opportunities from Renewable Biomass: Revisiting the Emulsion Polymerization of Vinyl Furan"
Carl Kitchens (Economics) "Placed Based Development Policies and Infrastructure Investments throughout the 20th Century"
Michael Kofler (Psychology) "Evaluating the Feasibility of Central Executive Training for Children with ADHD"
Shelley Krach (EPLS) "Efficacy of Computer-Based Social Skills Training in Elementary School"
Sven Kranz (EOAS) "Physiological Responses of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis to Climate Change"
Mary Lawhon (Geography) "Situated, Networked Environmentalisms in the South African Press"
Hannah Lee (RMPD) "The Role of Organic Food Consumption in Perceived Well-being for Consumers with Chronic Diseases"
Joshua Lee (Accounting) "Using Big Data Techniques to Improve Our Understanding of Accruals"
Virginia Lewis (Classics) "Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes"
Shangchao Lin (Mechanical Engineering) "Computational Phonon Engineering of Carbon-Based Nanofluids and Nanocomposites for High-Performance Thermal Management"
Michael McFarland (Sociology) "Exploiting a Natural Experiment to Understand Health Disparities: The Effect of Hurricane Sandy on Infant and Maternal Health"
Leithen M'Gonigle (Biological Science) "Speciation and species coexistence by sexual selection"
Katherine Mooney (History) ""It is a very small article": Constructing Families in 19th-Century America"
Nick Moore (Mathematics) "Moving boundary problems for how solids dissolve in fluid flows"
Antje Muntendam (Modern Languages & Linguistics) "The role of stress position in bilingual word recognition: Cognate processing in Turkish and Dutch"
Philip Osteen (Social Work) "Suicide Prevention Training for Community Gatekeepers: A Meta-Analysis"
So Hyun Park (Nursing) "Factors Influencing Obesity Among Preschoolers: Multi Level Approach"
Christina Parker-Flynn (English) "Postmodern/Postmortem Film"
Spencer Pierce (Accounting) "Creditor Intervention and Non-GAAP Reporting: Evidence from Debt Covenant Violations"
Matthew Pietryka (Political Science) "Motivation, Misinformation, and Strategic Communication in Political Discussion"
Courtney Preston (ELPS) "Teacher Preparation and Beginning Teacher Retention"
Ann Rowson Love (Art Education) "Research on Three Art Museums' Strategies for Collaborative, Interactive Gallery Interpretation and Implications at the Ringling Museum of Art"
Hannah Schwadron (Dance) "Book Manuscript – Return of the Sexy Jewess"
Guangzhi Shang (Marketing) "Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Consumer Product Returns"
Sara Shields (Art Education) "Artful Pedagogy"
Robert Spencer (EOAS) "Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change and Fire on Terrestrial Organic Matter Export to the Arctic Ocean"
Michael Stukel (EOAS) "Assessing spatial patterns of carbon and nitrogen fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico"
Robert Tomko (Biomedical Sciences) "Quality Control of Eukaryotic Proteasome Biogenesis"
Dan Torop (Art) "Autumn Express"
Corbin Treacy (Modern Languages & Linguistics) "After Algeria's Wars: The Cinema of Tariq Teguia and Merzak Allouache"
Hui Wang (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering) "Three-Level Physics Guided Stochastic Modeling of Nanostructure Variations in Nanomaterial Manufacturing Processes"
Wenxia Wang (Teacher Education) "Learning to Teach Chinese in U.S. K-12 Schools: Bridging theory to practice"
Laurie Wood (History) "Risks & Realities: Death and Credit in the French Tropics"
Jie Yang (Computer Science) "Towards Understanding the Advertiser's Perspective of Smartphone User Privacy"
Seth Young (EOAS) "Discerning Mechanisms of Environmental and Climatic Changes Associated with the Late Silurian Extinction Event"
Zhibin Yu (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering) "Synergetic Crystallinity and Morphology Control in Hybrid Perovskite Thin-Films for Next Generation Solar Panels"
Henry Zhang (Statistics) "New sufficient dimension reduction approaches for modern scientific data with complex structures"

Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) Awardees:

Amod Agashe (Mathematics) "Stark's conjecture and Hilbert's twelfth problem"
Ioanna Armata (Biomedical Sciences) "Dopamine Responsive Dystonia as a model for upstream Open Reading Frame (uORF) diseases"
Peter Beerli (Scientific Computing) "Simulating Deep Sea Shark populations, explorations to improve population genetic inference from genomic data"
Michael Bishop (Philosophy) "Critical Thinking: A New Approach"
Kristina Buhrman (Religion) "Information and Expertise in 12th-century Japan: A Study and Preliminary Translation of Fujiwara no Tametaka's Eishōki"
Michael Carrasco (Art History) "An Anthology of Classic Maya Literature"
Annika Culver (History) "For the Birds: An American Ornithologist's Interactions with Japanese Scientists in US-Occupied Japan, 1946-1949:"
Emily DuVal (Biological Sciences) "Understanding the genetic basis of mate choice: the role of major histocompatibility complex variation in a lekking suboscine passerine."
Barry Faulk (English) "Beat Connections: William S. Burroughs and British Rock"
Joann Gardner (English) "The Deaf Island: Poems"
Matthew Goff (Religion) ""Let No Wise Proverbs Escape You" (Sir. 6:35): A Commentary on the Book of Ben Sira"
Stanley Gontarski (English) "The Archive as Text: An Engagement with Literary Composition"
Joel Hastings (Music) "The Unknown Piano Music of Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954)"
Eriko Hironaka (Mathematics) "Dynamics, polynomials and entropy"
Martin Kavka (Religion) "A Jewish Bacchanalian Revel: The Place of Hegel in Jewish Philosophy"
Pamela Keel (Psychology) "Identification of Biomarkers of Illness Trajectory in Bulimic Syndromes"
James Kimbrell (English) "Stanzas from Earth, Son of Zig, and The Parameters of Grace"
Megan MacPherson (Communication Science & Disorders) "Autonomic-Motor Interactions in the Disordered Speech Production of Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: Acoustic and Physiologic Indices"
Michael McVicar (Religion) "Constructing the Red Menace: Domestic Intelligence Gathering and Religious Activism During the Cold War"
Mesterton-Gibbons (Mathematics) "Toward a More Expansive Theory of Animal Contest Behavior"
Paul Niell (Art History) "Landscapes of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico"
Toby Park (ELPS) "Student Baccalaureate Degree Attainment: A Preliminary Analysis of Community College Baccalaureate Programs"
Lara Reglero (Modern Languages & Linguistics) "The intonation of in situ questions in Spanish"
Diane Roberts (English) "The Zuleika Dobson Society"
Gloria Salazar (NFES) "Determining the Protective Role of Various Berry Polyphenol Extracts in Vascular Senescence in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells"
Martin Swanbrow Becker (EPLS) "The Impact of Training on Resident and Resident Assistants' Health"
David Tandberg (ELPS) "State Higher Education Policy ‘Innovativeness' and Student Success"
Kenneth Taylor (IMB/Biological Science) "The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Drosophila Z-Disc"
Theresa Van Lith (Art Education) "Understanding the significance of art therapy for clients with mental health issues."
Jimmy Yu (Religion) "Chinese Buddhist Modernity"

Planning Grant Awardees:

Jeff Beekman (Art) "Battlefield Project"
Carolina Gonzalez (Modern Languages & Linguistics) & Anel Brandl (Modern Languages & Linguistics) "The Development of Intonation in Second Language Spanish"
Daniel Hallinan, Jr (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering) "Electrochemical Recovery of Thermal Energy Using Polymer Electrolytes"
Kevin Huffenberger (Physics) "Diagnosing Polarized Dust Contamination to the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Angela Knapp (EOAS) "Collecting and characterizing marine diazotrophs in the Gulf of Mexico"
Susan Latturner (Chemistry & Biochemistry) "Synthesis of Metal Sulfides in S/I2 Flux"
Karen McGinnis (Biological Science) "Genome-wide distribution and targeting of maize silencing proteins."
Brian Miller (Chemistry & Biochemistry) "Single-molecule fluorescence studies of human glucokinase"
Jill Pable (Interior Design) "Housing for the Homeless Knowledge Resource"
Chiwoo Park (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering) "In-situ Processing of Massive Scientific Image Data"
Darin Rokyta (Biological Science) "Centipede Venomics and the Experimental Evolution of Resistance"
An-I Wang (Computer Science) "Better Computer Storage Reliability through Implicit Replicas"
Carol Weissert (Political Science) "Why Do They Do It? Understanding Legislative Agenda Setting in Florida"
Heidi Williams (Music) "The American Voice: Musical Narrative through Sonatas and Songs"
Laurie Wood (History) "Archipelago of Justice: Law in France's Early Modern Empire"

Small Grant Awardees:

Tarez Graben (English) "Rhetoric, Irony, and Transnational Feminism"
Irene Zanini-Cordi (Modern Languages & Linguistics) "Tales of Nationhood and Identity in the Risorgimento"

Equipment and Infrastructure Enhancement Program Awardees:

Richard Hyson (Psychology), Frank Johnson (Psychology), Richard Bertram (Mathematics) & Wei Wu (Statistics) "Patch clamp for interdisciplinary collaboration"
Ducan Sousa (Biological Science), Kenneth Taylor (IMB/Biological Science), M. Elizabeth Stroupe (IMB/Biological Science), Scott Stagg (IMB/Chemistry & Biochemistry), Jose Pinto (Biomedical Sciences), Hong Li (IMB/Chemistry & Biochemistry) & Anant Paravastu (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering) "Purchase of a vacuum evaporator for the BSIR"
Kevin Speer (EOAS), Mark Bourassa (COAPS), Ming Cai ( EOAS), David Collins (Physics), Markus Huettel (EOAS) & Nick Moore (Mathematics) "Thermal Imaging for Environmental Research at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute"
Dennis Slice (Scientific Computing), Michael Carrasco (Art History), Greg Erickson (Biological Science) & Scott Steppan (Biological Science) "3D surface scanning systems for morphometric data acquisition"

Arts & Humanities Program Enhancement Grant Awardees:

Andrea De Giorgi (Classics) "Sustainability in Roman Times. The Baths at Cosa."
Nancy De Grummond (Classics) "The Context of the Etruscan Well at Cetamura del Chianti: Landscape and Environment"
Peter Weishar (Museum of Fine Arts) "Cuban Art in the Twentieth Century"