Pilot Projects and Focused Symposia in Homeland Security: Request for Proposals from Rutgers Faculty

The Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative (RUHSRI) announces the availability of funds for pilot research projects and focused symposia in homeland security. The goal of the program is to involve Rutgers faculty in new projects with new collaborators around the university and outside and to aid them in preparing good proposals for funding of research and technology development. (For more about other projects of RUHSRI, see http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/RUHSRI/.) (For examples of projects that have already been funded, see Spring 2004 funded projects)

Thanks to funds provided by Executive Vice President Philip Furmanski, we can support a small number of relatively modest projects.

PROPOSALS: Please send proposals (maximum length three pages, no appendices) to: Christine Spassione (spassion@dimacs.rutgers.edu) no later than September 27, 2004. Funding decisions are to be made by early October.

BUDGET: Projects must start on or after October 1, 2004 and must be completed by June 30, 2005. Budgets can be up to $7500, but most likely no award of more than $5000 will be made and it is very possible that most awards will be even less than that. Budgets may include data collection, travel, student/postdoc salary, visitors, and supplies. We will not pay for faculty time or equipment. For focused meetings, the funds can be used for meeting support and travel for participants from outside the university.

MATCHING: Matching from grants or deans/directors is required.

CRITERIA FOR JUDGING PROPOSALS:
1. Quality of project
2. Likelihood of successful completion
3. Interdisciplinarity
4. Collaboration between individuals who had not previously collaborated
5. Collaboration across units of the university
6. Involvement of students
7. Collaboration with federal or state agencies (not required)
8. Likelihood of attracting future external funding
9. Matching.

REPORTING REQUIREMENT: Funded PIs will be asked to provide a report on their project at the end of the grant period.

MORE INFORMATION: Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about RUHSRI or about this solicitation.

Best wishes,

Fred Roberts
Director, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer
Science (DIMACS) (DIMACS is a consortium of Rutgers and Princeton
Universities, AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, NEC Research Institute, and
Telcordia Technologies, with partners at Avaya Labs, HP Labs, IBM
Research, and Microsoft Research) (http://dimacs.rutgers.edu)

Chair, Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative
(http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/RUHSRI)

email: froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

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Document last modified on September 3, 2004.