Funding Opportunity: Joint Fire Science Program Releases 2024 Funding Announcements

The Interagency Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), a partnership across seven federal wildland fire management and research agencies, has posted its 2024 notice of funding opportunity. There are three  separate solicitations:   JFSP Primary Announcement, including six new research task statements;  Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Program; and Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN) Program. This is the […]

Funding Opportunity: Campus Climate Lab

The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), in collaboration with BU Sustainability and the Office of Research, invites research proposals from student and mentor (faculty or graduate student) teams to generate new knowledge on the impacts, adaptation, and/or mitigation of climate change that can be implemented at BU and beyond. 

TikTok Ban on Devices used for Federal Contracts

TO: Boston University Faculty with Federal Contracts and Subcontracts FROM: Kate Mellouk, Associate Vice President, Research Compliance DATE: July 27, 2023 SUBJECT: TikTok Ban on Devices used for Federal Contracts In June, the US government issued an interim rule for federal contracts prohibiting the use of the social networking service TikTok and other applications from parent company […]

Funding Opportunity: DOD Releases FOA for FY 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) released the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) funding opportunity announcement (FOA).  ONR, facilitator of the program on behalf of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), is seeking single investigators to conduct basic, unclassified research in Department of Defense (DOD) areas of interest.  […]

Call for Proposals: 2023 Sony Research Award Program

We are inviting all faculty to participate in the 2023 Sony Research Award Program. The program is intended to foster partnerships between Sony Corporation and BU faculty and researchers. Sony is accepting proposals for awards up to $100,000 for their Faculty Innovation Award and proposals for awards up to $150,000 for their Focused Research Award in the following areas: […]

Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: Schmidt Science Polymaths 2023

OBJECTIVES: The key goal of the Schmidt Science Polymath program (“the program”) is to encourage the best “polymath” scientists to expand their research portfolio by exploring new lines of research that are substantively different from their ongoing and proven research activities. The program will offer long-term research support to recently-tenured professors (within the past 3 years) with […]

DARPA Announces Disruptioneering Opportunities

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a program announcement for the Disruptioneering program.  DSO, commonly referred to as “DARPA’s DARPA” given it’s high-risk, high-reward focus, is seeking performers who can “rapidly investigate new and nascent technologies.” Under this program announcement, DARPA will issue Distribution Opportunities (DO) through pre-soliticitation […]

Trans-Atlantic Platform Call on Democracy, Governance and Trust

The Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP) has released a new call for proposals. The T-AP call on Democracy, Governance and Trust (DGT) seeks to understand how democracy, governance and trust are integral to tackling both short-term crises and long-term challenges and are themselves a focus of the discontent and disruption facing many societies. The […]

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