January 2016 Newsletter

Data Management Workshop Set for January 22

Managing research data is becoming increasingly important and more funders are requiring a data management plan (DMP). But how do you create an effective DMP? In an effort to assist faculty with questions associated with data management, the Office of Proposal Development will host a Data Management workshop on January 22 in 005A Strozier Library from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Renaine Julian from FSU Libraries, our speaker for this session, will discuss how to create a data management plan for different funding agencies including NEA, NEH, NSF and NIH. This workshop will provide faculty members and staff who work on proposals effective tools for writing DMPs.

For more information about this workshop, and to register, please visit the workshop page.

IDEA Grants

FSU undergraduate students in all majors can apply for an FSU IDEA Grant (formerly URCAA, MRCE PRSF). Selected applicants will receive a summer stipend of up to $4,000 (or up to $6,000 for groups or $5,000 for the ACC IDEA Grant) to fund their self-designed work on a topic, project, problem, artistic product or performance, or other entrepreneurial or creative idea. Projects must last 8-12 weeks and be under the mentorship of a supervising professor. IDEA Grant applications are due Jan. 28, 2016. For more information and to apply: http://cre.fsu.edu/Students/IDEA-Grants.

NSF Pilots “Virtual NSF Day” Program with FSU

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has engaged in a long standing program called, “NSF Day”, an activity where NSF staff visit a university to teach researchers how to better compete for NSF funding. The trainings have proved beneficial, however the costs and effort associated allows for just 3-5 NSF days annually. The NSF has been considering a virtual FSU day, and this fall it was determined that FSU will be host to the pilot Virtual NSF Day.

Unlike the previous NSF Days, which are one day events, “Virtual NSF Day” will take place over four days, with hour and a half long sessions occurring every day for four days. These sessions will take place over lunchtime and will be held just for FSU researchers, who will be able to access the workshops either at an onsite location or from the comfort of their own computers. Based on the outcome of this pilot program, NSF will consider doing these more widely.

The NSF is very excited about this new program, as are we. The date of these workshops will be February 22-25. Details are still being finalized; however, a website has been created. If you are interested in attending one or all of these sessions, please visit https://research.fsu.edu/research-offices/opd/workshopstraining/virtual-national-science-foundation-nsf-days/ to register and to learn more.

Institute on Copyright in Higher Education

Florida State University Libraries are excited to host a one-day Institute on Copyright in Higher Education on February 26 in the Turnbull Conference Center. The Institute is a free professional development opportunity for academic librarians and other interested faculty members, focused primarily on exploring (1) the importance of fair use in teaching and research and (2) the role of libraries in providing copyright support and education on academic campuses.

The Institute will feature distinguished speakers and a number of interactive sessions and panel discussions. Registration is free and participants are welcome to attend the entire event or individual sessions.

Council on Research and Creativity Updates

The proposal text document for the Equipment & Infrastructure Enhancement Grant (EIEG) program was updated and effective for Spring 2016 submissions. The updated EIEG Request for Proposals (RFP) can be found here.

Arts & Humanities Program Enhancement Grant proposals (including Director/Chair/Dean approvals) are due by January 13, 2016 at 11:59 pm. The Request for Proposals (RFP) can be found here.

Nominations for the Honorary Recognition Programs are due in January and February:

Developing Scholar Award nominations are due by January 22, 2016 at 11:59 pm
Distinguished Research Professor Award nominations are due by February 12, 2016 at 11:59 pm
Distinguished University Scholar Award nominations are due by February 22, 2016 at 11:59 pm

Please visit the DSA, DRP, and/or DUS Requests for Nominations for more details on the requirements.

The Vice President for Research and the Council on Research & Creativity (CRC) congratulate faculty for awards made by the CRC during the Fall 2015 – 2016 Competition Round

Planning Grant Awardees:

Reza Arghaneh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
“Complex Systems Data Analysis for Time-series Anomalies (CSDATA)

David Houle (Biological Science) and Wu-Min Deng (Biological Science)
“Connecting development and evolution of the dorsal appendages of Drosophila eggs”

David Whalley (Computer Science)
“Exploiting Dependent Instruction Level Parallelism”

Scott Burgess (Biological Science)
“Measuring the relative spatial scales of dispersal and mating success in a sessile marine invertebrate”

Yu-Kai Lin (Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Info Systems) and Xinlin Tang (Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Info Systems)
"Understanding the Impacts of Information Technology and Business Analytics in Healthcare”

Anita Poulsen (Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science)
"Marine snow – a vector of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) to the human food web?”

Amy Ai (Social Work)
“A collaborative study with Tallahassee Memorial Hospital on Missing Appointments at the Transitional Care Center"

Lisa Eckel (Psychology)
“Estrogenic Control of Food Intake”

Stephanie Pau (Geography)
“Linking satellite measures of forest cover to diverse coffee cultivation practices and associated ecosystem functions in Sumatra, Indonesia”

Geoffrey Strouse (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
“Observing the Correlated Cellular Response to Therapeutic Delivery in Skin Cancer Cells”

Michael Ormsbee (Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences)
“The influence of a pre-exercise low-glycemic index carbohydrate supplement on fat metabolism and running performance – a pilot study”

Youneng Tang (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Gang Chen (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
“Elemental Selenium Nanoparticle Recovery from Agricultural Drainage”

Paul Niell (Art History)
“Travel and Planning Support for Caribes, Virtual Research Interface for Caribbean Architecture and Cultural Landscapes”

S. Kathleen Krach (Educational Psychology and Learning Systems)
“Is the future now? An analysis of a tablet-based language assessment”

Rob Duarte (Art)
“Startup Funding for REBOOT Laboratory”

Pradeep Bhide (Biomedical Sciences)
“Nicotine induced epigenetic changes in the DNA of brain and germ cells”

Lei Zhu (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
“Developing Fluorescent Indicators for Glutamate for Co-imaging Intracellular Zn(II) and Glutamate”

Small Grant Awardees:

Abby Scheel (University Libraries)
“Humanities Graduate Students and Information Literacy”

Malia Bruker (Communication) and Hannah Schwadron (Dance)
“Klasse: Dance Film for Conscious Classrooms”

Lynn Jones (Art History)
“Anagyroi and Funerary Chapels in Cappadocia”

Matthew Pietryka (Political Science)
“Deliberation and Motivated Reasoning in Political Discussion Networks”

Equipment and Infrastructure Enhancement Program Awardees:

Peng Xiong (Physics), Biwu Ma (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering), Daniel Hallinan (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering), Eden Steven (Physics), Hanwei Gao (Physics), Jingjiao Guan (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering), Joseph Schlenoff (Chemistry & Biochemistry) and Zhibin Yu (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering)
“PF-TUNA Module Upgrade for Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy”

Henry Carretta (Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine), Alexandra Nowakowski (Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine), Dan McGee (Statistics), Glenn Mitchell (Claude Pepper Center), Jeffrey Harman (Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine) and Miles Taylor (Sociology)
"Big Data for Health Services and Health Policy Research: National Medicaid and Medicare Beneficiary Claims and Survey Files"

M. Beth Stroupe (Biological Science), Claudius Mundoma (Inst. of Molecular Biophysics), Fanxiu Zhu (Biological Science), Hong Li (Chemistry & Biochemistry), Hong-Guo Yu (Biological Science), Kathryn Jones (Biological Science), Kenneth Taylor (Biological Science), Robert Tomko (Biomedical Sciences), Scott Stagg (Chemistry & Biochemistry) and Thayumanasamy Somasundaram (Inst. of Molecular Biophysics)
"Density Gradient Fractionator for Biological Molecule Sample Preparation"

Samuel Grant (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering) and Jens Rosenberg (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering)
"Small animal imaging facility updates at the NHMFL and FSU-FAMU COE"

Gershon Tenenbaum (Educational Psychology and Learning Systems), Christopher Patrick (Psychology), John Sobanjo (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Jonathan Folstein (Psychology), Lauren Weingarden (Art History), Neil Charness (Psychology), Walter Boot (Psychology) and Wen Li (Psychology)
"EEG Dry-Cap Technology for Testing Underlying Mechanisms in Performance"

Multidisciplinary Support Grant Awardees:

Tarez Samra Graban (English) and Urban Richard (Information)
“Linked Women Pedagogues Project: A Case Study in Interstitial Data Modeling for Humanities Representation”

Colleen Ganley (Psychology), Nancy Rogers (Music), Jane Piper Clendinning (Music) and Sara Hart (Psychology)
“Psychology and Music Theory: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Math-Music Link”

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. Click here to access the latest report.

Funding Opportunities

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

Finding Proposal Collaborators

Are you looking for a collaborator for your proposal? Faculty members can now use the Office of Proposal Development’s electronic form to help find collaborating partners in different departments.

RESTORE Act Website Now Available

The Office of Proposal Development has created a site to provide information about RESTORE Act funding. Funding will be available for areas such as sustainability, economic development, planning and restoration. This new site, along with other funding opportunity resources, can be found at http://research.fsu.edu/research-offices/opd/funding-opportunities.

Stay Up to Date with FSU Research News

Did you hear about the work Tim Cross is doing at the MagLab to help figure out the flu virus? What about Jose Mendoza-Cortes’ progress in creating an artificial material that can mimic photosynthesis? These and many, many more stories await you at http://news.fsu.edu/, the main source of news at FSU.
And if you are on Twitter, why not jump on and follow @FSUResearch while you are at it? There’s lots of great research-related information being shared daily to help keep you in the know.

Upcoming NSF PAPPG Changes Effective January 25

Beginning January 25, 2016, NSF is implementing policy changes as specified in the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 16-1). Only Authorized Organizational Representatives (AORs) will be able to submit Proposals, Proposal File Updates, Revised Budgets, Notifications and Requests, Proposal Withdrawals, PI Transfers, and Supplemental Funding Requests. Sponsored Projects Office (SPO) representatives who do not have AOR permissions will not be able to submit documents to NSF. Please note that if you choose the AOR permission for a user in FastLane or Research.gov, the user will automatically have SPO permissions as well.

To ensure clear and consistent implementation of these policy changes, NSF is consolidating the permissions related to research administration into three roles: Authorized Organizational Representative, Sponsored Projects Officer, and View Only. These three roles will be consistently implemented across Research.gov and FastLane services.

As an institution user administrator, you will be able to elevate permissions for any SPO user to an AOR role to enable them to sign and submit documents to NSF. If an Institution does not have an AOR assigned and they have a proposal deadline on Jan 25 or beyond, the institution will have to assign an AOR in FastLane or Research.gov.

If you have any questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-673-6188, or ithelpcentral@nsf.gov.

Date	Course Code and Name	Location/Time
01/11/2016	SRA01 Proposal Basic/ Electronic Submission Systems	UCA1203 2:30-4:30
01/14/2016	SRA03 SRA Financial Management	Dirac 2:30-4:30
01/21/2016	SRA02 Advances/ Cost Transfers	SSB301 8:30-10:30

NIH Announces Revised Grants Policy Statement & Application Guide

NIH has announced it has published a revised grants policy statement as well as revised SF424 application guides and instructions. See the links below for more details.

Revised SF424 (R&R) application guides and supplemental instructions available for application due dates on and between Jan. 25, 2016 and May 24, 2016
(NOT-OD-16-029)
Publication of the revised NIH grants policy statement (Rev. 11/2015) for FY 2016
(NOT-OD-16-030)

New Faces in the Office of Research

Four new team members have recently joined the Office of Research family. Please join us in giving them a warm welcome.

Alisha Johnson
Say hi to Alisha, who has joined the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) as a grants compliance analyst. Alisha will assist with pre and post award for Faculty located at the Southwest Campus (Innovation Park) for an assigned group of PIs and their research teams. Alisha graduated from Florida State University with a BS in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. She previously worked for Florida State University in the College of Medicine as a grants compliance analyst and then moved on to the Department of Education.

David (Brad) Wonsch
Sponsored Research Administration has added Brad as its newest SRA cost analyst. He will be responsible for approval and monitoring of auxiliary charges to sponsored projects as well as the preparation of reports and analysis of accounting data related to the university's sponsored research activities. Brad is in the position previously held by Amie Bennett. He comes to SRA from Leon County Schools.

Nancy Faragalla
The next time you visit Sponsored Research Administration, say hi to Nancy, an OPS student who will assist with both pre-award and post-award administrative duties. Nancy is in the position previously held by Keelyn Robey. Nancy is a sophomore at FSU majoring in hospitality and has previous experience working as an administrative assistant at an accounting firm. She is also currently taking an online business class and says she is looking forward to applying her new skills in a real-world environment.

Susan Walker
If you are headed over to the FSU Research Foundation, say hello to Susan, a program coordinator who will be responsible for overseeing the buildings managed by the foundation (tenant relations, maintenance, security, and coordination with work by FSU Facilities and outside vendors). Susan graduated from Auburn with a BS in Business Administration. She has more than 15 years of professional experience and most recently worked for Accent Office Interiors in Tallahassee. She is replacing Adriane Tinsley, who is retiring Dec. 16.