The Stimulus Package and CSUN

1. The Stimulus Package and CSUN “Getting Our Share”

2. Background • On February 17, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), authorizing a number of agencies to inject $787 billion into the American economy over a 19-month period.  Sixty percent ($476 B) will be in the form of tax relief and entitlements.  Most of the remainder will be devoted to rebuildingAmerica's infrastructure through immediate job creation.  2.7% will go toward the longer-term prospects of reawakening America's research portfolio. • Still, 2.7% of this large number is $21.506 billion, or a 37% increase in federal research support--injected as a step function.  It must be expended by September 30, 2010. There are 16 federal agencies, institutes, foundations, and endowments through which the funds will be distributed.

3. Do the Work, Hire People, Spend the Money Two points that are common to all the agencies:   • (1) You must be able to do the work in two years, and • (2) You need to hire people to get the work done.   • This is, after all, a plan to put the unemployed to work, with benefits to research as a desirable, if secondary, outcome.  

4. Supplements To Existing Grants • Much of the funding will be awarded as supplements to existing grants, or by liberalizing pay-lines for reviewed proposals. • If you had a proposal rejected (NIH, NSF) in the past nine months talk to your program director.

5. Supplements Continued • If you have an active grant, please call your program officer and discuss how you might move a rejected proposal into the funded range, or arrange for a supplement to your existing award.

6. Stimulus Funding to Fed Agencies

7. Stimulus Funding to Fed. Agencies

8. Stimulus Funding to Fed. Agencies

9. Stimulus Funding to Fed. Agencies

10. ARRA Funds to Federal Agencies • NIH: The distribution of $21.506 billion: $10.4 B (48%) to the NIH.  **New Challenge Awards. • NSF: $3.0 B (14%) to the NSF.**New: Academic Research Infrastructure: $200M • DOE: $  4.1 B (19%) to DOE Office of Science and for worker training.  The remainder is for ARPA and advanced fossil fuel technology.

11. FEDERAL AGENCIES CONTINUED • NOAA: $  1.2B (6%) to NOAA, which could interest our ecologists. • NASA: $  1.0B  (5%) to NASA, from which we derive little support. • HHS: $  0.7B (3%) to HHS outside NIH, for healthcare. Nursing???. • NIST: $  0.6B (4%) to NIST (Standards and Technology)

12. Federal Agencies Continued • DOD: $  0.2B (1%) to DOD's science initiatives • USDA: $  0.2B (1%) to USDA; not of much use to us. • USGS: $  0.1B (0%) to USGS for national centers. • USDE: $50B for K-12, about $5B of which will be distributed largely at the discretion of Education Secretary Arne Duncan to reward schools which close the achievement gap. 

13. USDE: Distribution Schedule

14. USDE: Distribution Schedule cont.

15. NIH Programs/Deadlines

16. NIH Programs/Deadlines

17. NIH Programs/Deadlines

18. NIH Programs/Deadlines

19. NIH-Challenge Grantsin Health and Science (New) • This initiative will receive at least $200 million of Recovery Act funds to support 200 or more grants (up to a million each). Applications are due by April 27, 2009. The program will support research that focuses on specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods—see topics.

20. Challenge Grant Topics • (01) Behavior, Behavior Change, and Prevention • (02) Bioethics • (03) Biomarker Discovery and Validation • (04) Clinical Research • (05) Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) • (06) Enabling Technologies • (07) Enhancing Clinical Trails • (08) Genomics • (09) Health Disparities • (10) Information Technology for Processing Health Care Data • (11) Regenerative Medicine • (12) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Educ (STEM) • (13) Smart Biomaterials - Theranostics • (14) Stem Cells • (15) Translational Science

21. AREAS-New Set Aside • Title: RFA-OD-09-007--Recovery Act Limited Competition: AcademicResearch Enhancement Award (AREA) (R15)                                     • Maximum budget- $300K plus F&A over 3 years.   • Deadline: September 24, 2009.  50 awards will be made in 2010. • The AREA program is primarily a research grant program and not a training or fellowship program. • Grants are intended to support small-scale health-related research projects proposed by faculty members. • Active involvement of undergraduate and graduate students in the proposed research is encouraged, however, the application should not focus on training objectives and training plans should not be provided. 

22. NIH ARRA Opportunities: Administrative Supplements • For a list of participating NIH Institutes and Centers, see: http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ • NIGMS, NIMH are two of the Institutes of interest to CSUN • Supplement levels vary -- $200K appears common • Due Dates vary by Institute or Center • Most important to talk to Program Officer • Typical asks: • Equipment purchases (costing under $100,000) • Research employment opportunities for pre-doctoral students, including medical students in “off years” (e.g., medical, dental, veterinary, clinical psychology, nursing students) seeking extended time off for research experience) or on shorter term breaks.  • Research employment opportunities for postdoctoral students, including extending support for senior postdocs. • Research employment opportunities for recent college and master’s degree graduates. • Comparative effectiveness research • Note: There is a special category of administrative supplement that will provide summerresearch experiences for students and science educators

23. NIH ARRA Opportunities: Equipment and Infrastructure • Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement (G20) – RFA-RR-09-007. • Due: September 17, 2009 • Budget: between $1M and $10M, including up to $100,000 in equipment. • This project cannot be for new space nor for “shell” space. • Limit 2 applications per campus. • G20 RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-007.html • G20 FAQs http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/the_american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act/construction_programs/g20_Q&A.asp

24. NIH ARRA Infrastructure Opportunities (continued) • Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program (CO6) – RFA-RR-008 • Budget: between $2M and $5M - Due: May 6, 2009 between $5M and $10M - Due: July 17, 2009 between $10M and $15M - Due: June 17, 2009 • These projects can be for new space or renovation of existing space. Fixed equipment is allowed (i.e., built-in equipment such as autoclaves), but not movable equipment. • Limit 3 applications per campus. • CO6 RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-008.html http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/the_american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act/construction_programs/c06_Q&A.asp

25. NIH ARRA Infrastructure Opportunities (Summary) • General info on Recovery Act Construction Programs: http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/the_american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act/construction_programs/ • Videocast on G20/CO6 FAQs http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/the_american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act/construction_programs/post-videocast_q&a.asp

26. NSF – ARRA Plans Still • NSF is planning to use the majority of the $2 billion available in Research and Related Activities for proposals that are already in house and will be reviewed and/or awarded prior to Sept. 30, 2009. NO SUPPLEMENTS TO EXISTING GRANTS COTEMPLATED. • All grants issued with Recovery Act funds will be standard grants with durations of up to 5 years. • Funding of new Principal Investigators and high-risk, high-return research will be a top priority. • NSF will use ARRA funds to increase the number of CAREER and IGERT awards. CAREER grants support the research and education activities of junior faculty and IGERT grants support interdisciplinary research and training of graduate students. • In addition to R&RA grants, the ARRA also allocated funding for NSF's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program and an Academic Research Infrastructure (ARI) program. NSF plans to issue new solicitations for proposals for these programs soon. • NSF also will consider proposals declined on or after October 1, 2008. Reversals of declined proposals will be based on both the high quality of the initial reviews, and the lack of available funding at the time of the original decision. NSF program officers will contact institutions when a reversal is being considered by NSF • NSF is currently working on a solicitation for a Science Masters Program, a new activity created under ARRA. • NSF will use ARRA funds for awards under the Robert Noyce Scholarship program and the Math and Science Partnership program following merit review of proposals already submitted to those programs.

27. NSF Robert Noyce Scholars ARRA Programs • Robert Noyce Scholars programs augmented by $60M in the ARRA • CSU already had 17 Robert Noyce Scholars programs in place at 15 campuses • 17 NEW CSU applications went in for the Robert Noyce ARRA opportunity in March 2009 • Estimate aggregate amount proposed ~$20M • Decisions will be made within the next few months

28. Other NSF Opportunities: Overview • Professional Science Masters’: $15M • Academic Research Infrastructure: $200M • Major Research Instrumentation: $300M • As of 4/9/2009, solicitations for these programs have not been published by the National Science Foundation

29. Professional Science Masters’ (PSM) Opportunities • CSU should be very competitive • CSU has been very successful in creating Professional Science Masters’ programs with funding from the Sloan Foundation • Although the NSF solicitation has not been published yet, people interested in the PSM might look first at what CSU is already doing – see: http://www.calstate.edu/psm/

30. NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) • Major state-of-the-art instrumentation – relatively “big ticket” equipment only Usual minimum -- $100,000 Usual maximum -- $4M • Added emphasis: equipment that takes advantage of investments in cyberinfrastructure See NSF document, “Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the 21st Century”(http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp) for further information; • Instrument development – particularly academic-industry collaborations supported • Many CSU principal investigators have been successful with MRI

31. NSF: Academic Research Infrastructure • ???parameters still unknown • Modeled after a previous NSF program discontinued in 1996 • Used to be a “companion” program to the MRI • Facilities modernization focus • Possibly analogous to NIH infrastructure programs