- Author: Kathleen P Nolan
UCRI is pleased to release the Program Announcement for the 2018 Laboratory Fees Research Program funding opportunities. The UC Laboratory Fees Research Program enhances partnerships between UC researchers and laboratory scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Awards from this program promote the development of projects and collaborations that advance the missions of the national laboratories and UC.
Targeted UC Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research and Training (UC-NL CRT) will provide awards in one of three key strategic areas (total anticipated funding available for all awards in this opportunity: up to $15 million over 3 years). This targeted one-time opportunity is intended to spur novel collaborations in topics of strategic scientific and national security importance that will position UC and its national laboratory partners as leaders in three critical areas:
- Climate science: Interdisciplinary research aimed at improving understanding of climate change and the effects of extreme weather events on complex systems, including related environmental, social, economic, and infrastructure impacts, through advances in theory, modeling, methodology, and computation, and innovative approaches to measurements.
- Cybersecurity: Multidisciplinary research aimed at advancing the security of information and critical network infrastructure through theoretical, applied, and computational approaches, including research on cyber-physical systems; data science at scale; hardware, software, and user-based solutions for cyber-defense; quantum computation; analyses of economic and technological risks; and other approaches.
- National security through social sciences: Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research in the social sciences, arts and/or humanities, including through the application of computational sciences and exploration of immersive visualization, large data sets, or complex networks, that advances scholarship and investigates solutions to national security challenges. Research scope may address peace and conflict studies; nuclear proliferation and WMDs; the implications of economic, social and political movements or system failures; terrorism; forensics; catastrophic events; and other topics related to the laboratories' missions.
Project leadership is constituted by a Lead (Applicant) Principal Investigator from a UC campus. Each collaborating institution (UC campus or national lab) must identify one (and only one) site lead/Co-Principal Investigator. Each proposal must include a minimum of four collaborating UC campuses (including the host campus), and either Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or Los Alamos National Laboratory. Proposals may also include both national labs, additional UC campuses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or other UC systemwide research entities. Examples of other systemwide collaborators include researchers from the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Agricultural Research Stations, the UC Natural Reserve System, any of the five UC medical centers, and the Hastings School of Law. Letters of Intent are due Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 12:00 noon PST. Invited full proposals are due on Thursday, July 27.
In conjunction with the Laboratory Fees Research Program, the UC campus Vice Chancellors for Research are organizing one thematic workshop in each of the three areas targeted by the UC-NL Collaborative Research and Training Awards. Interested researchers who would like information about a specific workshop may request it here: http://bit.ly/labfee-wkshp
Topic: National Security through Social Sciences
Dates: May 8-9, 2017
Location: UC Irvine Student Center
Campus Contact: Stephanie Beckham (Stephanie.Beckham@uci.edu)
Topic: Cybersecurity
Date: May 11, 2017
Location: UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus – 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara
Campus Contact: Tedd Siegel (tssiegel@ucsc.edu)
Topic: Climate Science
Dates: May 30-31, 2017