03/29/2024 Edition 121
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2025 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award |
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The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science invites nominations for the 2025 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of the longest running and most prestigious science and technology awards given by the U.S. government. The Lawrence Award is presented by the Secretary of Energy to honor mid-career U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional technical contributions and achievements in research and development supporting DOE’s mission and its programs to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.
Awards will be considered in each of the following nine categories: Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Sciences; Biological and Environmental Sciences; Computer, Information, and Knowledge Sciences; Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences; Energy Science and Innovation; Fusion and Plasma Sciences; High Energy Physics; National Security and Nonproliferation; and Nuclear Physics.
The deadline to submit a nomination is Thursday, May 9, 2024, 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Nominations must include statements summarizing the candidate’s achievements and connection to DOE support, three to six letters of support, a curriculum vitae, and a short bibliography. An independent panel of eminent experts will be convened by DOE to review nominations in each award category and inform award recommendation(s) submitted to the Secretary of Energy. Final award selections are made by the Secretary of Energy. Each Lawrence Award category award winner receives a citation signed by the Secretary, a gold-plated medal bearing the likeness of Ernest O. Lawrence, and a $20,000 honorarium. In the event the award is given to more than one individual within an award category, the recipients share the honorarium equally. To read nomination guidelines and submit a nomination visit Lawrence Award Nomination & Selection Guidelines.
The Lawrence Award was established in 1959 to honor the memory of the late E.O. Lawrence, who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron (a particle accelerator) and after whom two DOE national laboratories, one in Berkeley and the other in Livermore, California, are named. Office of Science Administers the Lawrence Award on behalf of the Department of Energy. DOE encourages nominations of individuals from underrepresented groups and is committed to fostering safe, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible work, research, and funding environments. Read the Office of Science’s Statement of Commitment for more information.
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Applications submitted under this announcement are to be in furtherance of the following objectives:
- (1) Plan, conduct, or otherwise arrange for competent applied and peer-reviewed research that fosters: (A) Improvements in Nevada water supply reliability. (B) The exploration of new ideas that: (i) address state water problems; or (ii) expand our understanding of water and water-related phenomena. (C) The entry of new research scientists, engineers, and technicians into water resources fields. (D) The dissemination of research results to state water managers and the public.
- (2) Cooperate closely with other colleges and universities in the state that have demonstrated capabilities for research, information dissemination, and graduate training to develop a statewide program designed to resolve state and regional water issues and the related land problems and promote regional coordination.
The NWRRI encourages applicants to submit proposals that address the impacts of drought and increased aridity, with a focus on water resources within the state. Proposals addressing these research topics will be given additional consideration during the review process. Emphasis will be placed on proposals that consist of coproduced research involving water purveyors, water users, or similar entities within the state. Letters of support are required from entities outside of the research community to qualify as coproduced research.
Anticipated ~$70,000 of federal funding in FY24. Proposals should be for research and information transfer projects 12 to 24 months in duration. Applicants are required to match each federal dollar requested with at least one non-federal dollars. It is anticipated that three proposals will be funded in 2024, therefore, an upper limit of $35,000 per proposal per year is established.
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NSF Developmental Sciences |
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Developmental Sciences supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.
The Developmental Sciences program supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of perceptual, cognitive, social, emotional, language, and motor development across the lifespan by working with any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults (including aging populations), and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that affect developmental change, including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. The program funds research that incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, and/or longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying development; and integrates different processes (e.g., memory, emotion, perception, cognition), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural) and time scales. The program funds basic research that advances our understanding of developmental processes and mechanisms; the program does not fund clinical trials and research focused primarily on health outcomes.
The Developmental Sciences program also considers proposals for workshops and small conferences on a case-by-case basis. These typically have total cost budgets, including direct and indirect costs, of approximately $35,000. Conference proposals may only be submitted following an invitation from the Program Directors.
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NSF Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM), NSF 24-507. CFDA #s 47.049, 47.074, 47.075 and 93.279. Up to $5,500,000 per year for new awards (up to $3,500,000 from NSF and up to $2,000,000 from NIH/NIDA), subject to availability of funds and receipt of meritorious proposals, with total budgets of up to $1,000,000 for an award duration of 3-4 years. Proposal Deadline: 02/14/2025.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed three important facts about epidemiological modeling:
- Epidemiological models are invaluable, essential tools in combating a pandemic
- Current models are far less useful than they could be for coping with an ongoing pandemic
- A large community of researchers is available and eager to contribute to the development and improvement of these modeling efforts.
Current models have proved insufficient to understanding the course of the pandemic, in part, due to human behavioral and social processes that are missing from the models. These processes include structural characteristics such as differential living conditions and patterns of social interaction, and behavioral characteristics such as responsiveness to incentives and information by different segments of the population. As a result, the mathematical models and, tools for model analyses and simulations that were developed to respond to the pandemic were not as effective or useful as they could have been.
The IHBEM program is motivated by the urgent need to provide more reliable modeling tools to inform decision making and to evaluate public health policies during pandemics and other public health crises, with the premise that important advances may be made by incorporating human behavioral and social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The goal of this program is to minimize unintended outcomes of public health interventions
The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Program supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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Althea Sheets, Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Development Manager, Office of Sponsored Programs, [email protected], 702-895-1880
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