Limited Submissions

USAID has issued a draft RFP soliciting applications for centers which can develop "creative, science-based approaches that are directed toward the Core Development Objectives outlined in USAID's 2011-2015 Policy Framework.

While this RFP has not been officially released, it is important that interested groups of Tufts faculty are well positioned for a very short time to prepare and submit a competitive application.

For this program, Tufts will be limited in the number of proposals it can submit for single-institution and consortium applications.

If you intend to apply to this program, please contact Amy Gantt at amy.gantt@tufts.edu, Director of Proposal Development, with the following information:

• Names of faculty involved, indicating team lead.
  
• Brief, 1-2 sentence description of the overall objectives of the project.
  

1) Development Labs & Analytics: Serve as an analytical resource for the Agency, and address the Agency's need for development data and analysis to advance development policy, programming and evaluation.

2) Grand Challenges & New Models for Development: Provide support to the identification and articulation of Grand Challenges for Development through creation of novel higher education institution-based, multidisciplinary development centers of excellence that will connect USAID to communities of problem solvers in both the developed and developing world around key development challenges.

3) Support Science, Technology and Engineering for Development: Build science, technology and engineering capacity to promote international scientific cooperation and enable developing countries to address global challenges.

Please note: Only one (1) candidate from Tufts may be nominated.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 1-2 pages)
• Biosketch/CV (limit 4 pages, or NIH or NSF format acceptable)

The Medical Research Program seeks to advance the frontiers of the life sciences by supporting basic research that is high-risk and has the potential to transform its field. Successful projects are distinctive and novel in their approach to problems, push the edge of their field or question the prevailing paradigm.

The Science and Engineering Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field.

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Please note: A limit of one (1) proposal may be submitted by an institution either as a single institution or as a lead institution in a multi-institution proposal.

Please submit the following:

• The name and departmental affiliation of the Principal Investigator and CV
  
• The name(s) and departmental affiliation(s) of the Co-PI(s)
  
• The lead institution and any other participating institutions
• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 2-3 pages), including a statement of the vision and goals of the proposed training program including a brief statement of the interdisciplinary theme

The interdisciplinary theme as well as the collaboration across disciplines should serve as a platform for creating an environment that supports innovation and preparation of the trainees with skills needed for becoming successful innovators. Students should be educated to recognize how their research might be utilized for an economic or societal benefit, and should learn the processes that would be required to implement them in practice through hands-on experience. As an opportunity for faculty to devise new approaches to graduate education, the IGERT project should provide students with experience relevant to both academic and nonacademic careers.

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Please note: Only one (1) candidate from Tufts may be nominated.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 2-3 pages)
• NIH or NSF format biosketch/CV

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Please note: Only one (1) candidate from Tufts may be nominated for the Artwork and/or Challenge America grant program.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 1-2 pages)
• CV

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MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE CAMPUS ONLY

Please note: Only one (1) candidate from Tufts may be nominated.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 1-2 pages)
• CV

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Please note: Only one (1) candidate from Tufts Health Sciences Campus and one (1) candidate from Tufts Medford/Somerville Campus may apply for this award.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 1-2 pages), including name of the LMIC insitution
• CV

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Please note: Only one (1) candidate from Tufts may be nominated.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 1-2 pages)
• CV

The program will entertain proposals in graduate ethics education in science and engineering generally and will continue to support exploration of new ethical questions in engineering, biology, computer science, and other fields. Priority areas include but are not limited to:

• global/international challenges in science and engineering ethics;
  
• a general framework for the ethics of emerging technologies;
  
• issues of privacy and confidentiality in relation to data mining;
  
• fields for which there are few resources in ethics education or research;
  
• ethical issues related to robotics;
  
• intersection of the choices that society makes between natural resource development and utilization (e.g., energy sources) and environmental consequences;
  
• ethical issues associated with natural hazards, risk management, decision-making and the role of scientists in defining and negotiating the consequences of natural hazards in the face of scientific uncertainties.

NSF does not consider proposals for medical research. The EESE program will not consider proposals focused on ethics for medical students or in medical education. The EESE program does, however, encourage proposals that address ethical issues related to medical informatics or systems engineering. EESE will not consider proposals that will start or provide incremental improvements to formal or informal educational activities responsive to Federal mandates for research integrity or human-subjects training requirements.

Please note: Only eight (8) undergraduate students from Tufts may be nominated.

Please submit the following:

• A letter of support from dean/chair
• Brief project description (approx. 1-2 pages)
• CV

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