Funding-Limited Submission – Dept. of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – Advanced Materials Center of Excellence; July 16, 2013

NIST is soliciting applications to establish an Advanced Materials Center of Excellence in which NIST researchers collaborate with interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry on advanced materials development through innovations in measurement science and in new modeling, simulation, data, and informatics tools. NST expects to make one award for a total of approximately $300,000 for eighteen months.

Competitive applications for a Center should demonstrate the applicant’s ability to create and manage a

world-class research program aimed at broadly accelerating the design, discovery, development and deployment of advanced materials by the nation’s academic and industry enterprises. Proposed Centers should address two broad challenges through a partnership with NIST:

1. Foster the development of integrated computational, modeling and other data-driven tools needed to achieve the accelerated development of advanced materials as envisioned in the administration’s Materials Genome Initiative;
2. Foster the discovery of revolutionary new materials by academic and industry researchers by leveraging and amplifying access to the world-class, often unique facilities and expertise for materials characterization at NIST

Limited Submission: An organization may only be the lead organization on one proposal.

See the complete solicitation for additional details and requirements:  http://www.nist.gov/coe/advmat/upload/coe-advmat-ffo.pdf

Because NIST only allows an organization to submit one proposal as the lead organization under this competition, the University of Kentucky has established an internal selection process.  Individuals or departments interested in administering this program are to submit the following materials electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, July 16, 2013:

· Names and departments of Project Director and key personnel

· Brief project description (2 pages maximum) including the research focus areas, engagement plan, computational tools, and the evaluation metrics.

A committee will be appointed to review the information and make a recommendation. The NIST deadline is August 12, 2013.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).