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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">FYI…apologies for duplication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Burdsal, Carol <carol.burdsal@ku.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 21, 2021 3:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Research Funding Opportunities <funding-opportunities@ku.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Bornemann, Douglas Joseph <dbornemann@ku.edu>; Alfers, Cari <cariell@ku.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Dept. of Defense/Minerva Research Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>White Papers Due</b>: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 3:00 PM ET
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>Invited Full Proposals Due</b>: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:00 PM ET
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;background:white">The Minerva Research Initiative supports
<b>social science research</b> aimed at improving our basic understanding of security, broadly defined. All supported projects are university-based and unclassified, with the intention that all work be shared
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<b>CURRENT MINERVA RESEARCH INITIATIVE TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">The Minerva program has a <b>strong
</b>interest in supporting interdisciplinary and innovative projects. Projects should utilize both qualitative and quantitative approaches and include validation strategies of the research findings and potential impacts. Further, the program is interested in
how the theoretical and methodical approach of the proposed research is generalizable such that it could influence how similar problem sets are approached.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">The Minerva topics of interest for the current funding competition are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 1: Social Implications of Environmental Change<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 2: Resource Competition, Social Cohesion, and Strategic Climate Resilience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 3: Security Risks in Ungoverned, Semi-Governed, and Differently-Governed Spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 4: Analysis of Foreign Influence Operations in Cross-Cultural Perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 5: Community Studies on Online and Offline Influence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 6: Computational Social Science Research on Difficult-to-Access Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 7: Social and Cultural Implications of Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 8: Humans and Outer Space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Topic 9: Management and Information in the Defense Environment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">Award Info<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Previous Years’ Average Individual Award Amounts: $440 K/year
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Anticipated Period of Performance: 3-5 years
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">For full <span style="color:black">
details please see the attached Funding Opportunity Announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#A6A6A6"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#A6A6A6">KU Office of Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#A6A6A6">Research Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="mailto:carol.burdsal@ku.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;text-decoration:none">carol.burdsal@ku.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#A6A6A6"> | 785-864-3149<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://research.ku.edu/training-and-resources"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">research.ku.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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