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Congratulations to those who received awards in May! Thanks to all of their talents and hard work, as of May 31, 2024, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted proposals budgeting a total of $82,867,803 and received $85,367,617 in awards.
A special congratulations also to Dr. Thomas Luhring who is the principal investigator for a prestigious National Science Foundation five-year CAREER award in the amount of $995,327.00. The research project is titled “ Drying and Warming Impact Interactions Between Organisms and Ionomes” and was awarded under the NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences’ Division of Environmental Biology. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Luhring on this incredible achievement.
If you have questions about the content of this newsletter, please contact research@wichita.edu.
AWARDS
NETWORKED FOR CHANGE EVENT
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship
Amount: $8,550
ONGOING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: City of Lawrence
Amount: $20,800
WORKFORCE INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2024
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $56,967
WORKFORCE INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2024
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce / Department of Labor
Amount: $56,967
WSU TECH STRATEGIC PLANNING
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: WSU Tech - WSU Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology
Amount: $35,400
CREATIVE COLLABORATION IN LIMA AND CUSCU, PERU
PI/Department: Robert Bubp, School of Art & Design
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
CONFERENCE: ORGANIZING THE FOURTH HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SECURITY WORKSHOP
PI/Department: Ryan Doll, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Oklahoma State University / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $42,721
SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES FOR THE BODYBRAIN
PI/Department: Mina Estrada, School of Performing Arts
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
CPB COMMUNITY SERVICE GRANT (CSG) FY 2024
PI/Department: Debra Fraser, KMUW
Sponsor: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Amount: $62,025
KECHI FINANCIAL PLAN
PI/Department: Hai Guo, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: City of Kechi
Amount: $18,416
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CAPILLARY-CONTROLLED THERMAL DIODE USING HETEROGENEOUS NANOSTRUCTURES
PI/Department: Gisuk Hwang, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $159,986
VALIDATION OF THE SWAY APP FOR VISUAL MOTION SENSITIVITY TESTS
PI/Department: Michael Jorgensen, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Co-PI/Department: Nils Hakansson, Biomedical Engineering | Richard Sack, Engineering Technology
Sponsor: Sway Medical
Amount: $3,729
INFERRING BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS BY MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
PI/Department: Yuan Liu, Mathematics & Statistics
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
MBA TO NYC
PI/Department: Sheldon Mba, School of Performing Arts
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
LATIN AMERICAN COSMIC AND SPACE ARTS
PI/Department: Claudia Pederson, School of Art & Design
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
DOCUMENTING TYPOGRAPHIC CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE BALKANS
PI/Department: Irma Puskarevic, School of Art & Design
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,000
A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO OPTIMIZING IMMUNO-RADIOTHERAPY OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS
PI/Department: Ehsan Salari, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
SOWING AND GROWING THROUGH MINDFULNESS WITH NATURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR AN INDIGENOUS-INFORMED CREATIVE ARTS PRAXIS
PI/Department: Lori Santos, School of Art & Design
Co-PI/Department: Susan Castro, Philosophy | Susan Sterrett, Philosophy
Sponsor: State of Kansas - MURPA
Amount: $7,500
CDRR DATA GATHERING, PRESENTATION AND FACILITATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: County of Marion
Amount: $3,387
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Sumner County Health Department
Amount: $12,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Goodland Regional Medical Center
Amount: $11,392
EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION SURVEY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Association of Community Foundations
Amount: $4,900
MATERNAL HEALTH INNOVATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $32,244
MORRIS AND CHASE COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Morris County Health Department
Amount: $25,100
STRATEGIC PLANNING
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Oral Health Kansas, Inc.
Amount: $8,750
WORKING GENIUS TRAINING KDHE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas
Amount: $2,999
HOW TO TALK ABOUT FEELING BAD 'ZINE REPRINT
PI/Department: Marci Young, HOPE Services
Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
Amount: $4,272
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $8,819,504 OF WHICH THE ENTIRE AMOUNT BELONGS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AVIATION RESEARCH (NIAR).
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
Please reach out early and as soon as you have found a potential opportunity that you wish to apply for. Early notifications allow the Office of Research to minimize the risk of missing agency deadlines, to fix potential errors, to ensure compliance with WSU policies and procedures, and to ensure the best service from our office. For access to WSU’s Pivotaccount to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized search please contact funding@wichita.edu. Again, if any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.eduas soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. Visit Pre-Award Servicesto find out more about applying for external funding.
LIMITED Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Summer Stipends
Application Deadline: Limited Because WSU may only submit one nomination, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.eduby July 11, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is July 25, 2024. If selected, Full Application due September 18, 2024.
Purpose: “The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication.”
Amount: $8,000
Funding Agency: Kansas Fights Addiction Grant Review Board
Title: Kansas Fights Addiction (KFA) Request for Proposals Third Round
Application Deadlines: Confirmation of Intent due July 11, 2024; Full Application due August 2, 2024
Purpose: “The Kansas Fights Addiction Grant Review Board, Kansas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), and Sunflower Foundation are accepting applications for the 2024 Kansas Fights Addiction grant program. The purpose of this program is to prevent, reduce, treat, or mitigate the effects of substance abuse and addiction. The KFA grant program is funded by the Kansas opioid settlements obtained by the OAG. Sunflower Foundation serves as the grant administrator for the KFA Grant Review Board.”
Amount: Up to $300,000
Funding Agency: ECMC Foundation
Title: Rural Impact Initiative
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due July 14, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due August 27, 2024
Purpose: “Research projects selected for funding through this RFP will be those that examine one of three priority areas: 1) college experiences of rural learners with intersecting identities; 2) roles of rural postsecondary institutions; and/or 3) policies that affect rural postsecondary education.”
Amount: $450,000
LIMITED Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Climate Smart Humanities Organizations
Application Deadline: Limited Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.eduby July 17, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is July 31, 2024. If selected, Optional Draft due August 9, 2024 with Full Application due September 18, 2024.
Purpose: “Through the Climate Smart program, your humanities organization can undertake activities such as energy audits, risk assessments, and meetings with consultants. The resulting climate smart plan helps you establish goals and prioritize actions that reduce your organization’s impacts on the environment through mitigation and vulnerability from extreme events through adaptation. Together, mitigation and adaptation can inform a robust road map that addresses climate challenges, protects assets, and facilitates collaboration between internal and external stakeholders. Strategic planning for climate change is an essential part of sustaining humanities organizations’ operations and activities—becoming climate smart.”
Amount: $300,000; Note, cost share is required.
Funding Agency: M&C Saatchi Group
Title: Art for Change Prize
Application Deadline: July 17, 2024
Purpose: “Open to emerging artists around the world in the first five years of active practice. This year’s prize asks artists to creatively respond to the theme 'Tomorrow'ing: Visions of a better future'. As part of a shared mission in making art, culture, and creativity accessible to everyone, this prize is a celebration of emerging artistic talent. It will highlight and stimulate dialogue around visual arts as a medium for positive global and social change and give exposure to emerging artists worldwide.”
Amount: $2,000-$10,000 prizes available
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE): Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO)
Title: Fiscal Year 2024 Solar Energy Supply Chain Incubator
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Concept Paper due July 19, 2024; If invited, Full Application due October 7, 2024
Purpose: “The research and development and demonstration activities to be funded under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection. Specifically, this FOA will support the DOE decarbonization goals by advancing innovative solar hardware, software, and manufacturing processes across a broad range of technology readiness levels, from laboratory-scale to pilot-scale testing and prototype demonstration. Technologies of interest include photovoltaics (PV), systems integration, and concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) technologies, as well as those that connect solar with storage or electric vehicles and dual-use PV applications like agrivoltaics and vehicle-integrated PV. SETO encourages for-profit applicants to team with diverse institutions including academic institutions, non-profits, state and local governments, and Tribal governments. The FOA also seeks projects that provide outreach, education, or technology development for software that delivers an automated permit review and approval process for rooftop solar PV with or without energy storage. Both for-profit and non-profit entities are eligible to apply under this topic.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$5,000,000 depending on topic; Note, Cost Share required.
Funding Agency: Greenwall Foundation
Title: Bridging Bioethics Research and Policymaking: 2024 Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: July 22, 2024
Purpose: “The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking grant initiative, which supports the innovative and practical integration of bioethics into policy. This initiative does not fund bioethics research but, rather, supports bioethics researchers, policymakers, and others to take the next step and bridge the divide between research results and policymaking. Rapid developments in healthcare, science, and technology raise exciting possibilities to advance our health and well-being, but also raise complex ethical dilemmas. Strengthening the relationship between bioethics and policy can help decision-makers navigate conflicting points of view and find the best way forward.”
Amount: Not specified
Funding Agency: Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
Title: Assessing the Use of Health IT by U.S. Physicians Providing Outpatient Care
Application Deadline: July 22, 2024
Purpose: “The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is accepting applications for a cooperative agreement to measure the use of health information technology (IT) among office-based physicians. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to measure U.S. office-based physicians' use of interoperable health IT, their experience using health IT, and the impact of health IT on the care they deliver. The cooperative agreement is intended to produce detailed data on interoperability and use of health IT by office-based physicians. These data will result in insights on the implementation and effects of federal health IT policies, allow for identification of disparities in the physicians adopting and using interoperable health IT in terms of the populations they serve or unintended consequences such as increased burden on clinicians resulting from the implementation of health IT, and will inform ONC's ongoing efforts to achieve better health enabled by data through coordination and regulation. The cooperative agreement recipient is encouraged to make the key findings of the cooperative agreement publicly available via their website; peer-reviewed publications in biomedical journals; presentations at conferences; webinars, or blog posts.”
Amount: $100,000-$425,000
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE): Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO)
Title: Geothermal Resources’ Value in Implementing Decarbonization (GRID)
Application Deadlines: Required Letters of Intent due July 24, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due September 9, 2024
Purpose: “The GTO GRID aims to quantify the role of geothermal power in an equitable, decarbonized grid. This work will address the challenge of grid stability through detailed studies on how clean, firm geothermal power can support and stabilize the grid as it incorporates higher shares of variable renewable energy sources. Innovative valuation metrics developed under this Funding Opportunity Announcement will provide a deeper understanding of geothermal energy's economic and reliability benefits, fostering informed decision making for future energy policies and investments, alongside research on supporting an equitable transition through geothermal deployment.”
Amount: $500,000-$1,500,000; Note, Cost Share encouraged but not required.
REMINDER - Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Application Deadline: July 24, 2024
Purpose: “Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.”
Amount: $400,000-$500,000 depending on NSF Directorate
Funding Agency: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Title: Monarch Butterflies and Pollinators Conservation Fund 2024
Application Deadline: July 24, 2024
Purpose: “The most competitive projects will demonstrate clear benefits to both monarch butterfly and additional at-risk native insect pollinator species (i.e., federally listed, candidate, or proposed native insect pollinator species). Special consideration will be given to projects benefiting rusty patched bumble bee, Franklin’s bumble bee, Karner blue butterfly, Dakota skipper, Poweshiek skipperling, and Mitchell’s satyr. Grants will be awarded in two categories: Technical Assistance for Private Working Lands and Habitat Improvement.”
Amount: $150,000-500,000 depending on topic; Cost match is voluntary and considered as part of the competition process.
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Core Research Grants and Special Initiatives
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry accepted until July 24, 2024
Purpose: “RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under all of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that address the effects of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the U.S.”
Amount: Varies based on opportunity
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF): National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)
Application Deadline: July 25, 2024
Purpose: “to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in the processing, formatting, standardization, and integration of data to support activities that are integral to statistical agencies’ production of high-quality statistics and data products.”
Amount: $750,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Title: Solar Technologies’ Rapid Integration and Validation for Energy Systems (STRIVES)
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Concept Paper due July 25, 2024; Full Applications due October 17, 2024
Purpose: “…research, development, and demonstration projects to improve power systems simulation software tools and demonstrate new business models for distribution systems operations to integrate and optimize the value of inverter-based resources (IBRs) and distributed energy resources including solar generation, wind generation, energy storage, and other technologies such as buildings and electric vehicles. Topic Area 1: Robust Experimentation and Advanced Learning for Distribution System Operators; Topic Area 2: Improved Simulation Tools for Large-Scale IBR Transient and Dynamic Studies.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$3,000,000 depending on topic area; Note, cost share is required.
Funding Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Title: Promoting Readiness and Enhancing Proficiency to Advance Reporting and Data (PREPARED)
Application Deadline: July 29, 2024
Purpose: “The EPA is seeking additional applications from eligible public and private nonprofit entities to assist current or prospective EPA grant recipients more effectively address their grant progress and performance requirements of their EPA-funded grant agreements. Reporting requirements involve gathering data, administering reports, and addressing evidence-building metrics. Applicants also may place special emphasis on aiding EPA-funded recipients and subrecipients of Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water programs, as well as grant recipients representing small, underserved, and/or tribal communities that are applying for or receiving EPA grant funding, including but not limited to funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.”
Amount: Up to $500,000
Funding Agency: Bezos Earth Fund
Title: AI for Climate and Nature Grant Challenge
Application Deadline: Phase 1 submissions due July 30, 2024
Purpose: “The AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge is a global $100 million initiative from the Bezos Earth Fund. The Grand Challenge is exploring new ideas for multiplying the impact of climate and nature efforts using modern AI. The first round of awards will focus on sustainable proteins, power grid optimization, and biodiversity conservation, in addition to embracing visionary wildcard solutions for climate and nature.”
Amount: $50,000 for Phase 1
Funding Agency: Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR)
Title: Greenwald Family Award for Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention Research Excellence
Application Deadline: Nominations due July 31, 2024
Purpose: “This new prize competition, sponsored by the Greenwald Foundation, will annually recognize one or two outstanding research papers on firearm violence and injury prevention. The authors of the winning paper(s) will share a $5000 prize. And the prize will also entail covering the travel and conference registration fee costs for the presenting author of each winning paper(s). Winners will be announced at the annual meeting of the upcoming National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms, which will be held in Seattle, Washington in December 2024. One author of the awarded paper(s) will publicly receive the award and present their paper at the conference.”
Amount: $5,000 prize
Funding Agency: National Peanut Board (NPB)
Title: 2024 Food Allergy Grant Program
Application Deadlines: Letter of Inquiry due August 7, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due at a later date
Purpose: “NPB is pleased to announce its Request for Proposals for its 2024 food allergy grant program. Funding is available to support research into the prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment of food allergies. Health equity is a primary lens through which projects will be evaluated, and early-career researchers are encouraged to apply.”
Amount: Up to $250,000 will be awarded in total to qualified studies designed to advance food allergy solutions.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO)
Title: Water Power Innovation Network
Application Deadlines: Concept Papers due August 7, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due September 18, 2024
Purpose: “This opportunity will fund projects in one topic area, Water Power Incubation and Acceleration, focused on enabling entrepreneurship, accelerating water power innovation, and supporting business creation and growth in communities and regions throughout the United States. Providing unique commercialization services and support to entrepreneurs and small businesses in the water power space can lead to increased competition and innovation and enhanced economic development. Additionally, new or expanded incubators and accelerators will be able to collaborate with one another and build a stronger innovation network to accelerate water power technologies to market.”
Amount: $100,000 for Phase 1; $1,000,000 for Phase 2
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Title: USDA International Climate Hub Collaboration
Application Deadline: August 9, 2024
Purpose: “The goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity is to research and develop tangible outputs that analyze, demonstrate or predict climate impacts on global working lands and build resilience through recommended adaptation strategies or that reduce greenhouse gas impacts through recommended mitigation strategies; to improve international climate literacy involving the agriculture, ranching and forestry sectors; and to improve International Climate Hub information and services, and other related topics as proposed.”
Amount: $575,590 with additional incremental funding options
Funding Agency: Department of Defense (DOD): Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Title: Toxic Exposures Research Program (TERP): Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Application Deadlines: Pre-Applications due August 13, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due November 7, 2024
Purpose: “The vision of the TERP is to prevent, minimize and mitigate the impact of military-related toxic exposures and improve the health and quality of life of those affected. The mission of the TERP is to support impactful research aimed at identifying the cause and understanding the health outcomes, comorbidities and pathological mechanisms associated with military-related toxic exposures to facilitate the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the visible and invisible diseases and symptoms impacting Service Members, their Families, Veterans and the American public.”
Amount: $500,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Application Deadline: August 15, 2024
Purpose: “The CogNeuro Program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically advance theories in cognitive neuroscience by relating precise and rich quantifications of physiology, cognition and behavior with each other. Funded proposals also typically strengthen the field through, for example, outreach, mentoring the next generation of diverse cognitive neuroscientists and/or increasing awareness and utilization of the research the field produces.”
Amount: Standard NSF Grant
Funding Agency: Kansas Governor’s Grants Program (KGGP)
Title: Solicitation for Program Evaluation of the Federal Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Grant
Application Deadline: August 15, 2024
Purpose: “The purpose of the SCIP evaluator is to assess the impact recipients of SCIP funds are having on the gun violence and violent crime rates in Kansas. The Program Evaluator will learn about the strategies and corresponding goals and objectives of the programs receiving SCIP grant funds for the SCIP Plan Priorities. The Program Evaluator will assess a minimum of 12 months of SCIP Subgrantee data, with a preference for 18 months of data. By generating more knowledge about strategies used to address reduction in gun violence and violent crime, communities that benefit from SCIP funding will be better equipped to align their work with practices that are known to be effective and promising. The SCIP evaluation component is designed to support a broad range of evaluation methods, including data review. A strong evidence-based evaluation would help Kansas use federal funds more effectively and assist the SCIP Advisory Board in setting annual SCIP funding priorities.” Email proposals@wichita.edufor a copy of the solicitation.
Amount: TBD (Bid Opportunity)
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
Title: Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program ROUND 2
Application Deadline: August 28, 2024
Purpose: “The CFI Program is divided into two separate grant categories: (1) the Community Charging and Fueling Program Grants (Community Program), to strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, hydrogen fueling infrastructure, propane fueling infrastructure, and natural gas fueling infrastructure located on public roads or in other publicly accessible locations; and (2) the Alternative Fuel Corridor Grants (Corridor Program), to strategically deploy charging and alternative fueling infrastructure located along designated alternative fuel corridors.”
Amount: $500,000 minimum; Note cost share is required.
Funding Agency: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Title: Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards
Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due August 29, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due October 31, 2024
Purpose: “The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Award provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health.”
Amount: $375,000
Funding Agency: Thrasher Research Fund
Title: Early Career Awards
Application Deadlines: Concept Submissions due September 5, 2024; If invited, Full Proposals due October 29, 2024
Purpose: “The Fund is open to a wide variety of research topics. We do not focus on a particular disease, but all our funded projects deal directly with children's health. In the Early Career Award Program, the Fund is particularly interested in applicants that show great potential to impact that field of children's health through medical research. Both an applicant's aptitude and inclination toward research are considered. The quality of the mentor and the mentoring relationship are also considered to be important predictors of success.”
Amount: Up to $25,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Title: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Foundational and Applied Science Program
Application Deadlines: September 5, September 12, September 19 and September 26, 2024, depending on topic
Purpose: “The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture.” Topics vary greatly; for instance, proposals topics due in September include “Novel Foods and Innovative Manufacturing Technologies,” “Soil Health,” “Water Quantity and Quality,” “Sustainable Agroecosystems,” “Environmental Justice” and “Nanotechnology for Agricultural and Food Systems.”
Amount: Varies by topic but generally $300,000 for Seed Grants, $650,000-1,000,000 for Standard Grants and $50,000 for Conference and Equipment Grants.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Application Deadline: September 6, 2024
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits R01 grant applications that propose independent research projects that are within the scientific mission areas of the participating NIH Institutes or Centers. This program is intended to support New Investigators and At-Risk Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the health-related sciences. Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups, are encouraged to work with their institutions to apply for support under this program.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: March of Dimes
Title: Discovery Research Grants
Application Deadline: September 6, 2024
Purpose: “Discovery Grants are for established scientists with a long history of published work in the maternal fetal health and related fields. Areas of research include: Spontaneous preterm birth; Racial inequities as they relate to morbidity, mortality and access to care; and Cardiovascular health conditions developed during pregnancy or exacerbated during pregnancy.”
Amount: $200,000 over two years
Funding Agency: American Chemical Society (ACS): Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
Title: Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Grants
Application Deadlines: September 6, 2024
Purpose: “Proposals must be for fundamental research in “the petroleum field,” which is defined in our founding document as “petroleum, natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and like materials.” Fundamental research encompasses the properties of these materials, whereas the petroleum industry undertakes “applied research,” which is outside the scope of ACS PRF. However, please note that while the PRF Trust imposes certain restrictions, PRF currently funds many topics of current interest in sustainability and green chemistry.” These include, for example, new catalysts and upgrading/utilization of methane and carbon dioxide.
Amount: $125,000 for New Directions; $110,000 for Doctoral New Investigators; $70,000 for Undergraduate Research; $55,000 for Undergraduate New Investigators in direct costs
Funding Agency: National Ataxia Foundation
Title: Seed Money Research Grant
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due September 6, 2024; If invited, Full Application due December 2, 2024
Purpose: “NAF research grants are for new and innovative studies that are relevant to the cause, pathogenesis or treatment of hereditary or sporadic ataxias. Research grants are offered primarily as “seed monies” to assist investigators in the early or pilot phase of their studies and as additional support for ongoing investigations on demonstration of need. It is hoped that these studies will be further developed to attract future funding from other sources. Grants are awarded for one year only.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: September 9, 2024
Purpose: “Supports the development of theories, models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can inform the science of science, science policy, public outcomes and the advancement of the scientific enterprise, with a focus on the biomedical sciences.”
Amount: $100,000-$250,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Title: Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Drug Abuse Research (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: September 10, 2024 or January 13, 2025
Purpose: “…pilot, feasibility or exploratory research in priority areas in substance use epidemiology, prevention, and health services, including: 1) responses to sudden and severe emerging drug issues (e.g. the ability to look into a large and sudden spike in opioid or synthetic cannabinoid use/overdoses in a particular community); 2) responses to emerging marijuana trends and topics related to the shifting policy landscape, related to imminent policy change; 3) responses to unexpected and time-sensitive prescription drug abuse research opportunities (e.g., new state or local efforts);” and more.
Amount: Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year project period.
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Title: Research Grants on Education: Small
Application Deadline: September 11, 2024
Purpose: “The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Title: 2025 Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
Application Deadline: September 11, 2024
Purpose: “This is an institutional award, made to qualified institutions that can offer a meaningful research experience that supports the mission of the American Heart Association to undergraduate college students.”
Amount: $165,000 maximum inclusive of training salaries for students, travel, and administrative coordination by program director
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC)
Application Deadlines: Required Preliminary Proposal due September 11, 2024; Full Application due December 11, 2024
Purpose: “The IUCRC program provides a structure for academic researchers to conduct fundamental, pre-competitive research of shared interest to industry and government organizations. These organizations pay membership fees to a consortium so that they can collectively envision and fund research, with at least 90% of Member funds allocated to the direct costs of these shared research projects.”
Amount: $20,000 for Planning Grants; $150,000 per year for Phase I.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT)
Application Deadline: September 12, 2024
Purpose: “…to support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics).”
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Institutional Challenge Grant
Application Deadline: September 12, 2024
Purpose: “The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.”
Amount: $650,000; Note, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Center for Education Research (NCER)
Title: Education Research, Assistance Listing Number 84.305A
Application Deadline: September 12, 2024
Purpose: “In awarding the research grants, IES intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).”
Amount: $300,000-$800,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Center for Education Research (NCER)
Title: Statistical and Research Methodology, Assistance Listing Number 84.305D
Application Deadline: September 12, 2024
Purpose: “Under this competition, NCER will consider applications that address one of the following topics: Core Grants (which supports the development of new and improved statistical and research methods and their dissemination to education researchers) and Toolkits, Guidelines, Compendia, Review Papers, and Curated Data Resources.”
Amount: $100,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Title: Linking Early Neurodevelopment to Neural Circuit Outcomes Request for Applications (RFA)
Application Deadline: September 12, 2024
Purpose: “The Linking Early Neurodevelopment to Neural Circuit Outcomes RFA aims to bridge the gap in our understanding of whether and how developmental phenotypes caused by autism risk gene mutation lead to altered circuit formation and function. We strongly encourage proposals involving close collaboration between investigators of diverse expertise, such as developmental neurobiologists and circuit neuroscientists, in order to convincingly demonstrate causal links between disparate phenotypes in the chosen model(s).”
Amount: $300,000 per lab, up to $900,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Community Infrastructure for Research in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CIRC)
Application Deadline: September 13, 2024
Purpose: “…drives discovery and learning in the core disciplines of the three participating Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) divisions by funding the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure. This research infrastructure will specifically support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering.”
Amount: $50,000-$5,000,000 depending on category
Funding Agency: Learning Disabilities Foundation of America (LDFA)
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: September 15, 2024
Purpose: “Applications must be for projects which conform to the mission of the Learning Disabilities Foundation of America by responding to an unmet need in the field of learning disabilities. Funds are granted for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes or for the identification, ongoing evaluation, education of and services for children and adults with learning disabilities.”
Amount: Not specified
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL)
Application Deadlines: September 16, 2024 and February 18, 2025
Purpose: “This funding partnership between NSF and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages — languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. Made urgent by the imminent loss of roughly half of the approximately 7,000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in human-language technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research.”
Amount: $450,000
Funding Agency: National institutes of Health (NIH): Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Title: NICHD Research Education Programs (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: September 25, 2024
Purpose: “This FOA invites applications to develop and conduct short-term research education programs to improve the knowledge and research skills of biomedical and behavioral scientists conducting research in areas relevant to the mission of NICHD, including reproductive, developmental, behavioral, social, and rehabilitative processes that contribute to the health and well-being of newborns, infants, children, adults, families, and populations. Programs should be unique and provide compelling value to students and/or investigators in the field. Depending on the goals of the proposed training programs, the duration of the short courses can vary from one week or less to a maximum of 12 weeks. Recurring courses are allowed, if justified. The NICHD mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. The NICHD's broad research portfolio includes research related to conception and pregnancy; typical and atypical development in childhood; childhood trauma, injury, and critical illness; the transition from adolescence to adulthood; reproductive health; rehabilitation; intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities; and population dynamics across the lifespan.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $150,000 direct costs per year.
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)
Application Deadline: September 25, 2024
Purpose: “This Notice of Funding Opportunity invites Large Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) Project applications that focus on AHRQ's mission and/or any aspect of its specific priority areas. The Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project designed to develop, test, and evaluate health service activities and to foster the application of existing knowledge. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. AHRQ Research Priority Areas include Research to improve healthcare quality and patient safety; Research to improve healthcare delivery and practice improvement; and Research to enhance whole-person healthcare delivery.”
Amount: Up to $400,000 in any given year
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research
Application Deadline: September 25, 2024 (optional draft due July 15, 2024)
Purpose: “The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program makes awards to institutions and organizations conducting empirical field research to answer significant questions in the humanities. Archaeology and ethnography are important methodologies utilized by many disciplines across the humanities and social sciences that provide observational and experiential data on human history and culture.”
Amount: Up to $150,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Stephen I. Katz Early-Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: September 26, 2024
Purpose: “The Stephen I. Katz Early-Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early-stage investigator and for which no preliminary data exists. Applications submitted to this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) must not include preliminary data. Applications must include a separate attachment describing the change in research direction.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: Whitehall Foundation
Title: Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due October 1, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due February 15, 2025.
Purpose: “The Whitehall Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that is focused exclusively on assisting basic research in vertebrate (excluding clinical) and invertebrate neurobiology in the United States. Investigations should specifically concern neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.”
Amount: Research Grants typically $100,000 per year; Grants-in-Aid are up to $30,000 for one year period only.
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division
Title: Targeted Grants to Institutes
Application Deadline: October 3, 2024
Purpose: “The program is intended to support established institutes or centers in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. Our aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.”
Amount: $250,000 per year over three years
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 3, 2024
Purpose: “The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that develop novel methods to intuitively and intelligently collect, sense, connect, analyze and interpret data from individuals, devices and systems to enable discovery and optimize health.”
Amount: $1,200,000 ($300,000 per year)
LIMITED Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)
Application Deadline: Limited Because WSU may only submit two applications for Track 1, as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.eduby October 4, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is October 18, 2024. If selected, Full Applications due January 29, 2025.
Purpose: “Track 1 will support one Coordination Hub, to coordinate support for rising seniors from emerging research institutions (ERIs) or historically excluded and underserved groups as part of a national cohort to participate in structured professional development opportunities. FORECAST seeks to facilitate the transition from status quo graduate career preparation to a student-centered model with a particular emphasis on building entrepreneurial and innovation capacity at ERIs.”
Amount: Up to $7,500,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2024
Purpose: “The purpose of this initiative is to support research to develop and test community-level interventions to improve minority health and reduce health disparities.”
Amount: $1,000,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Application Deadline: October 11, 2024
Purpose: “NIDCD invites applications for early-stage dissemination and implementation research projects in the NIDCD mission areas of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language. Much research is devoted to developing evidence-based innovations (EBIs) that improve a person’s health and quality of life. To impact people’s lives, EBIs need to be adopted in clinical practice and everyday life. Unfortunately, wide-scale adoption of EBIs is lengthy and rare. Dissemination and implementation science is the field of research that seeks to close the gap between research and practice.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2024
Purpose: “The NIH Small Research Grant Program supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $50,000 in direct costs per year.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Application Deadline: October 17, 2024
Purpose: “This funding opportunity announcement supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: A budget for direct costs of up to $50,000 per year may be requested.
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)
Title: Pipeline Grants Competition
Application Deadline: October 22, 2024
Purpose: “Early-career scholars (anyone who is currently an Assistant Professor or Adjunct Assistant Professor, as well as Lecturers who received the Ph.D. after January 1, 2014) are eligible to apply. The pipeline grants competition is only available to faculty who have not previously received a research grant or a visiting fellowship from RSF. The program seeks to promote racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity and will prioritize applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences. RSF funds social science research that extends the methods, data, and theories of the social sciences as a means of better documenting and understanding the nation’s most pressing social, political, and economic problems. The foundation supports visiting scholars in residence and publishes books and a journal under its own imprint. It also funds researchers at other institutions and supports programs intended to develop new generations of social scientists.”
Amount: $35,000-$50,000
LIMITED Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: Limited Because WSU may only submit one application as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.eduby October 29, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is November 19, 2024. Letters of Intent to the funder are due December 17, 2024 with Full Applications due January 28, 2025.
Purpose: “Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to affect sustainable improvements in a jurisdiction's research infrastructure, Research and Development (R&D) capacity, and hence, its R&D competitiveness. Projects are investigator-driven and must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges, which neither party could address as well or rapidly independently. RII Track-2 FEC proposals must be aligned with the following focus area: "advancing climate change research and resilience capacity to expand opportunities for disproportionately affected communities.”
Amount: Up to $4,000,000
Funding Agency: National Archives: National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Title: Archival Projects
Application Deadlines: Optional Drafts due August 15, 2024; Final Deadline November 7, 2024
Purpose: “The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history.”
Amount: Up to $150,000; Note, cost share is required.
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE): Office of Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO)
Title: Framing the Future Contest: Photos of America’s Industrial Transformation
Application Deadline: November 21, 2024
Purpose: “Industrial Technologies Photo Contest, a new prize in search of the best photos of the innovative technologies, processes, and people that will help the United States achieve a decarbonized industrial sector and a net-zero-emissions economy by 2050. A total prize pool of $27,000 will be distributed over six categories.”
Amount: $2,000 prize
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Archaeometry (AMTRY)
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Purpose: “The goal is to fund projects in two main categories: 1) to develop or refine anthropologically relevant archaeometric techniques. Examples include the development of methods to identify specific types of organic residues on ceramics or development of field applicable analytic techniques; and 2) to support laboratories which provide relevant services. This includes support of service laboratories which, for example, may provide dating trace element, isotopic and dendrochronological analyses. It also includes support for data archives, which function to strengthen basic archaeological infrastructure.”
Amount: Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds. See previously funded projects on the opportunity webpage.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing– proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics– Nov 1-15, 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics– Oct 1-Nov 15, 2024
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF)– proposals accepted anytime
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology– proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing– proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs– Sep & Oct - varies based on discipline
Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards–Aug 15, 2024 & Jan 15, 2025
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (EHR: Core)– Oct 3, 2024
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP)– proposals accepted anytime
Division of Materials Research: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
– proposals accepted anytime
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs (MCB)- proposals accepted anytime
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases– Nov 20, 2024
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks– proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology– proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering– proposals accepted anytime
Foundational Research in Robotics (FFR)– proposals accepted anytime
Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics– proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics– proposals accepted anytime
Linguistics–Jul 15, 2024 & Jan 15, 2025
Manufacturing Systems Integration- proposals accepted anytime
Mathematical Biology– proposals accepted anytime
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics–Aug 29, 2024 & Jan 30, 2025
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences– proposals accepted anytime
Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects– Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence– Aug 7, 2024 & Feb 12, 2025
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace– proposals accepted anytime
Security and Preparedness–Aug 15, 2024 & Jan 15, 2025
Social Psychology–Jul 15, 2024 & Jan 15, 2025
Sociology– proposals accepted anytime
Statistics– Dec 1-16, 2024
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE)–Track 1 & 2 proposals accepted anytime; Tracks 3 & 4 Nov 20, 2024 (LOI strongly encouraged for Track 4 – due Sep 18, 2024)
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs– Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Core)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – Various funding mechanisms available
Computer Science for All (CS for All)–Feb 12, 2025
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP)– Sep 30, 2024 for CAT, CSDM-B, and SYN; Oct 31, 2024 for CMI, ECS and MSN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program– Accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects– Varies by topic
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program– Accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)– Jan 23, 2025
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)–Aug 20, 2024 & Jan 21, 2025
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC)– Preliminary Proposal due Sep 11, 2024 or Mar 12, 2025
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program– Aug 6, 2024 & Feb 4, 2025
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT)– Sep 6, 2024
Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP)–Jan 16, 2025
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)–Aug 21, 2024
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science–Oct 9, 2024
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Biological Sciences (BIORETS)– Jul 31, 2024
Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE)– Accepted anytime
EDUCATION/TRAINING
WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include an Introduction to the WSU Office of Research with resources and contacts, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding utilizing Pivot, project budgeting and general grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
Hanover Research Upcoming Grants Workshops: August 29, 2024 and October 31, 2024
Hanover Research offers a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on August 29, 2024 is titled “Introduction to Grantseeking for Administrators;” and the webinar on October 31, 2024 is titled “What Deadline?! Keeping Yourself and Others On-Task in Grant Development.”
Register for Upcoming Hanover Workshops
National Academies: Strengthening Indigenous America: Building Resilience through Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery (A Workshop): July 8-9, 2024
“The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies will host a public workshop July 8-9, 2024 to explore opportunities to support the capacity of Indigenous American and Tribal communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and public health emergencies. Workshop participants will share stories of strength and resilience, highlight tools and best practices, and identify priorities and gaps where partners can strengthen and support the capacities and capabilities of Indigenous American and Tribal communities. Workshop discussions will examine public health authorities and agreements, innovative research collaborations with Indigenous American and Tribal communities, data sovereignty, and data governance within the context of disasters and public health emergencies.”
National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR): Gun Violence Prevention Research Webinar Series: July 9, 2024 and October 8, 2024
“The NCGVR is pleased to invite you to our 2024 series of webinars highlighting recent insights into gun violence prevention. Leading researchers supported by the collaborative will discuss these findings and their policy implications.” The webinar on July 9, 2024 is titled “Community Firearm Violence Exposure and Weapon Carrying;” and the webinar on October 8, 2024 is titled “New Findings on Firearm Violence in the U.S.”
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Emergency Response Webinar Series: July 10, 2024
The July 10, 2024 webinar is titled “ Clean Water Access During Emergencies.” Description: “Following an emergency event, communities need access to clean water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, showering, laundry, and medical triage. EPA partnered with WaterStep to develop a modular, mobile water treatment system known as Water on Wheels – Emergency Mobile Water Treatment System (WOW Cart). This webinar will present proposed capability expansion of WOW Cart to address the removal of heavy metals, brackish water, and pre-treat extremely poor raw water sources. It will discuss future deployments to integrate the WOW Cart into a packaged greywater reuse system and for use at firefighting camps. Dave Carney, with Kentucky’s Healthcare Coalitions, will discuss the integration of the WOW Cart into their Emergency Response Plan and the use of the ‘Lily Pad Concept’ to pre-deploy multiple WOW Carts across the State.”
EPA Office of Research & Development Emergency Response Webinar Series
National Institutes of Health (NIH): CARE: A Model for the Integration of Cultural Humility into Human Subjects Research Virtual Meeting: July 11, 2024
“Our speaker for this session is Dr. Sana Loue who is a professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds secondary appointments in the departments of Psychiatry, Global Health, and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, as well as in social work at the University's School of Social Work.”
NIH CARE Virtual Meeting Information
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Air, Climate and Energy Research Webinar Series: July 16, 2024
“EPA's Office of Research and Development hosts this webinar series to share current research activities and results related to air quality; impacts of air pollution and climate change; environmental justice; and responses to impacts of climate change, transformations of the energy and transportation infrastructure, and other emerging risks to our environment from atmospheric pollution.” The session scheduled for July 2024 is titled “Understanding Extreme Weather Events: Impact of Extreme Precipitation and the Urban Heat Island.”
EPA Air, Climate & Energy Webinar Series
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Diverse Voices: Nutrition and Health Disparities: July 25, 2024
“The July 2024 session of Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women is titled Nutrition and Health Disparities. The session will feature presentations by Lindsay Till Hoyt, Ph.D., M.A.; Alison Cohen, Ph.D., M.P.H.; and Natasha L. Burke, Ph.D., and Tamara Dubowitz, Sc.D., S.M., M.Sc.”
NIH Diverse Voices Session Information
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants Process for Beginners: Webinar Resources
“Did you miss the webinar on the NIH grants process for beginners? Not to worry, the event resources are now available!” Topics covered include NIH Grants Process: A Walk-Through for Beginners; NIH Expert Q&A Panel; Submission Policies; and Grant Application Tips.
NIH Grants Process for Beginners
U.S. Department of Energy: Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) Workshop on Transforming Industry: Strategies for Decarbonization Recording Available
IEDO Director Avi Shultz gave the opening remarks to the event. Then, in a discussion moderated by Andres Clarens from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, both Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Buildings and Industry Carolyn Snyder discussed the challenges and opportunities associated with a full industrial transformation. The event also included breakout discussions where industrial stakeholders provided direct feedback to help shape IEDO’s new Pathways for U.S. Industrial Transformations: Unlocking American Innovation vision study.
Watch Recording of DOE IEDO Workshop
REMINDER: WSU Information Security: Data Privacy & Security Training, Questions or Reporting
If your research includes patient medical data and you need to take HIPAA / Sensitive Data Handling training, if you have a questionabout data privacy or security, or need to reporta concern, please contact the WSU Privacy or Security Office.
Privacy: 316-978-4HIP (4447) or privacy@wichita.edu
Security: 316-978-4SEC (4732) or askinfosec@wichita.edu
REMINDER - Save the Date - National Science Foundation 28 thNSF EPSCoR Annual Conference: October 13-16, 2024
“…welcoming project researchers, students, and staff from 28 EPSCoR jurisdictions -- plus leaders with the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.”
28th NSF EPSCoR Annual Conference Website
REMINDER - Hanover Grants Learning Center Available
WSU Faculty and Staff may now access course content through the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center by registering and using a referral code. Courses are designed for on-demand grantsmanship training.
Email proposals@wichita.eduto request the referral code to register for access to the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center.
Learn to Use BeoShock for your Advanced Research Computing Needs
Wichita State University continues to host Beoshock, a High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC). This HPC is available and free to faculty members, researchers and students engaged in course work or research activities. BeoShock runs the CentOS Linux operating system and features approximately 720 processor cores, two high memory compute nodes with 1.5 terabytes of memory, and four graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. BeoShock also has a variety of software tools that may be helpful in your research endeavors, such as Matlab, Mathematica, R, Python and many more.
Learn more about BeoShock High-Performance Computing and access the BeoShock High Performance Computing User Guides
ANNOUNCEMENTS
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): Technology Commercialization Fund Open Voucher Call
A new kind of opportunity created by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions and the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF)—the TCF Open Voucher Call—will provide the public with opportunities to receive technical assistance from researchers at DOE National Laboratory facilities. The $2.1 million TCF Open Voucher Call will help facilitate the commercialization of scientific discoveries by helping to identify pathways by which technological breakthroughs can make their way to market. Although a variety of technologies will be considered, applicants are encouraged to leverage the capabilities and initiatives of National Laboratories when developing their ideas so they can further develop their technology alongside the National Lab.
Read about DOE TCF Open Voucher Call
William T. Grant Foundation Early Career Reviewer Opportunity – Applications due by July 16, 2024
“The early-career reviewer program recruits early-career researchers to serve as peer-reviewers of grant proposals submitted to the William T. Grant Foundation for studies on improving the use of research evidence. Apart from reading and evaluating grant proposals in their areas of expertise, early-career reviewers receive personalized feedback from Foundation program officers and have access to additional reviews prepared by senior peer-reviewers. Altogether, this professional development program aims to build early-career researchers’ understanding of the proposal evaluation and peer-review process for use of research evidence grants to strengthen their own grant writing skills and ultimately advance their careers.”
William T. Grant Foundation Early Career Reviewer Program
National Science Board (NSB) Science and Engineering Indicators Report Available
“The State of U.S. Science and Engineering, details key findings from the nine thematic reports that make up Indicators, providing in-depth data and information on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all degree levels; the STEM workforce; public perceptions and awareness of science and technology; U.S. and international research and development performance; invention, knowledge transfer, and innovation; and U.S. competitiveness in high-technology industries. Indicators also includes an interactive, online tool that enables state comparisons on a variety of S&E indicators.”
Read National Science Board State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024
National Science Foundation (NSF): Join a CASA-Bio Workshop and Help Plan a Future to Advance the U.S. Bioeconomy
“Catalyzing Across Sectors to Advance the Bioeconomy (CASA-Bio) was inspired by the Executive Order (EO) on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy. Released by the White House in September of 2022, the EO laid out a grand vision to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing through foundational and use-inspired research and development in five thematic areas (EO Bioeconomy Themes): climate change, food and agriculture, supply chain resilience, human health, and cross cutting areas to advance all these areas. Moreover, the EO called for this vision to be enabled by collaboration among government, industry, the private sector, and public sector researchers. CASA-Bio is excited to announce our six Advancement Workshops, designed to propel the bioeconomy forward. These interactive workshops will focus on specific research and development challenges and opportunities for the bioeconomy, bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government. Each workshop will include participants selected from open applications from the R&D community and from suggestions by CASA-Bio organizations, ensuring a diverse range of perspectives and expertise. Each workshop will be fully virtual and take place over two days in July or August.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Environmental Health Disparities Centers (P50)
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities in partnership with the National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute intends to promote the continuation of The Environmental Health Disparities Centers program (referred to as the EHD Centers) by publishing a Notice of Funding Opportunity to solicit applications. The EHD Centers will conduct environmental health disparities and environmental justice research, engage in research capacity building, and provide training across diverse disciplines and backgrounds with a disease agnostic focus. The Centers program will be updated to align with recent executive order (EO 14096) focused on environmental justice. For this renewal the program will focus on the prevention and mitigation of adverse environmental exposures that disproportionately impact racial, ethnic, under resourced and underserved populations. Projects must focus on one or more NIH-designated health disparities populations within the US and its territories, specifically racial and ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and with the intersection of persons with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities, and persons from rural and/or under resourced areas.
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Developing and Testing Multi-level Physical Activity Interventions to Improve Health and Well-Being
The NIH Office of Disease Prevention and participating Institutes, Centers and Offices are issuing this Notice to highlight our interest in highly innovative multi-level interventions to increase and maintain health-enhancing physical activity in a wide range of population groups, including populations that experience health disparities, children, older adults, and persons at risk for mental/behavioral health conditions, and any subpopulations that can be characterized by the intersection of two or more of these descriptors. Relevant physical activity intervention research includes translational research for pilot, exploratory, or developmental work in preparation for full-scale, fully powered efficacy studies, as well as studies seeking to adopt existing evidence-based interventions in a new context (e.g., population, setting, etc.). Research studies should be based on well-established theory, existing data, and/or evidence-based interventions. Furthermore, studies may focus on establishing efficacy, effectiveness, or dissemination and implementation of multi-level interventions.
ARPA-H: Launches Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE)
To protect hospital operations, keep devices secured, and ensure continuity of patient care, the Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense (UPGRADE) program envisions an autonomous cyber-threat solution that enables proactive, scalable, and synchronized security updates. Importantly, this software platform will enable simulated evaluations of potential vulnerabilities’ impact and adapt to any hospital environment across a wide array of common devices. The program aims to reduce the uncertainty and manual effort necessary to secure hospitals, guaranteeing that vulnerable equipment is fixed and allowing staff to focus on patient care.
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Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS): Office of Minority Health (OMH): Request for Information (RFI) on Development of Public Health Vaccine and Prevention Educational Campaigns Involving Community Health Workers
DHHS OMH seeks input on involving community health workers (CHWs) to increase “cultural competency in educational campaigns on public health vaccines and prevention, including but not limited to influenza and COVID-19.” Responses are requested by July 11, 2024.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH): Request for Information (RFI) on NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research
NIH is publishing this Notice to solicit input from the scientific research community, clinical practice communities, patient and family advocates, scientific or professional organizations, federal partners, HHS and NIH staff, other interested constituents; and the public on topics to consider for the next strategic plan to optimize NIH’s research investments. Responses are requested by July 15, 2024.
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National Endowment for the Arts Introduces National Arts Statistics and Evidence-based Reporting Center (NASERC)
NASERC has created the Arts Indicators Project to track key measures across four domains: artists and other cultural workers, arts participation, arts and cultural assets, and arts and education. Indicators within these domains summarize important developments and trends in the arts by using the latest national statistics, which are updated as new data become available. Additionally, NASERC produces topical reports, practitioner guides, field scans, and literature reviews to support the work of policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and inform the general public.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Releases Innovation, Research and Development Strategic Plan
“The DHS Secretary seeks to ensure technological improvement efforts, both across DHS and with external partners, are coordinated and integrated to achieve optimal outcomes for its operators and other stakeholders. Innovation, research and development (IRD) efforts help build the capabilities needed to address the homeland security threats and hazards of today and tomorrow. The first-of-its-kind DHS Innovation, Research and Development Strategic Plan identifies ways to coordinate IRD investments to maximize impacts across our components and missions. The plan brings focus to our IRD portfolios by highlighting eight key, cross-cutting strategic priority research areas (SPRAs) that the Department will foster over the next seven fiscal years.”
REMINDER - Wichita Public Schools (USD 259): Advance Notice Required for Letters of Support and/or Participation in Research
Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) requests a minimum of 30 business days to process letters of support or participation in research. It is WSU’s responsibility to have appropriate support from the school(s)/personnel that will be involved in the project prior to submitting a request. Letters of Support/Grant Proposals: WSU personnel who need a letter of support or USD259 participation on a grant proposal, should complete the External-Request for Grant Supportform and are encouraged to reach out directly to Holly Wilson at hwilson@usd259.netearly in the process for questions/clarification. Research Requests: WSU personnel who want to conduct research in USD 259, must download and complete the Research Request Document. Investigators are encouraged to reach out directly to Will Graves at wgraves@usd259.netearly in the process for questions/clarifications.
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