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Institutionally Limited & Time-Sensitive Opportunities (Weekly Email)

Institutionally Limited & Time-Sensitive Opportunities

Greetings,

Please see below our weekly digest of new limited submissions and time-sensitive opportunities.

This Week’s Announcements:

  • New Nominations
  • New Limited Submissions
  • Other Funding Opportunities of Note

New Nominations:

  • Congratulations to Todd Brun (Viterbi) for his nomination to the NSF 24-599: Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) limited submission.
  • Congratulations to Maral Mousavi (Viterbi) and Yu-Tsun Shao (Viterbi) for their nominations to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Moore Inventor Fellows limited submission.
  • Congratulations to Rima Habre (Keck) for being nominated to the Life Sciences track of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

New Limited Submissions:

Other Opportunities of Note:

  • Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is announcing the fall 2024 call for proposals for five research areas:
    • AI for Information Security;
    • Automated Reasoning;
    • AWS AI: Generative AI, Governance and Responsible AI, ML Compilers, Distributed Training;
    • AWS Cryptography; and
    • Sustainability.
    • The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. PT on Nov. 13, 2024.
      • Proposals will be reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, creativity, and their potential for impact at scale. Proposals related to theory, practice, and novel new techniques are all welcome.
      • ARA provides grant recipients unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits. Funded projects are assigned an Amazon research contact, and recipients also receive training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers.

  • Open Philanthropy: Course Development Grants
    • Purpose: Supports faculty developing new courses.
    • Fundable Course Topics: Technical work on AI alignment, and other topics relevant to understanding the long-run impacts of transformative developments in AI; Global catastrophic biological risks; Global catastrophic risks; Effective altruism; and Longtermism  (Note: Open Philanthropy typically funds courses that are likely to attract substantial enrollments. However, smaller courses including graduate classes and seminars are also possible.)
    • Application Deadline: Rolling. You will receive an application outcome within a few months of submission.
    • Eligibility: Faculty with demonstrated excellence in their fields who propose courses that seem compelling, on-topic, and likely to engage students in productive ways. Joint applications from pairs or groups of faculty members seeking to work together on developing a course are also welcome.
    • How funding can be used: Summer salary; Teaching buyouts; Graduate student assistance; Guest speakers (≤ $10K). IDC up to 10% of direct costs.
    • Grant Amount: Varies based on career stage. (i.e., Grants for mid-career academics applying for grants that cover summer salary/teaching buyouts are ~$30K-$50K.)
    • Please notify Jennifer Lidar, Executive Director of Foundation Relations if you plan to apply

If you are interested in renewing an existing limited submission grant, please contact RII as soon as possible by writing to rii@usc.edu.

Also, if you see a limited submission on our webpage that you wish to submit to, but the internal deadline says “Contact RII,” reach out to rii@usc.edu to submit, as a slot is still available for the call.

 

Best,

Mike Yarsky (he/him)

Program Specialist | Research Initiatives and Infrastructure

yarsky@usc.edu | https://usc.zoom.us/my/yarsky

University of Southern California

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