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Congratulations to those who received awards in July! So far in FY2025, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted proposals in the amount of $24,003,570 and have received $1,894,681 in awards.
WSU Faculty, please note, applications for URCA and MURPA funding are due October 4, 2024.
If you have questions about the content of this newsletter, please contact research@wichita.edu.
AWARDS
DOUBLE PHASE MULTIAXIAL NANOCOMPOSITE FIBERS FOR IMPROVED ABSORPTION AND DESORPTION KINETICS OF HYDROGEN GAS - STATE
PI/Department: Eylem Asmatulu, Aerospace Engineering
Co-PI/Department: Jian Wang, Chemistry
Sponsor: Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $43,265
DOUBLE PHASE MULTIAXIAL NANOCOMPOSITE FIBERS FOR IMPROVED ABSORPTION AND DESORPTION KINETICS OF HYDROGEN GAS - FEDERAL
PI/Department: Eylem Asmatulu, Aerospace Engineering
Co-PI/Department: Jian Wang, Chemistry
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $125,000
INVESTIGATING THE MICRO AND NANOSCALE CRACK FORMATIONS OF MOISTURE SATURATED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES UNDER CRYOGENIC CONDITIONS (KNEP PDG)
PI/Department: Ramazan Asmatulu, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $21,850
RII TRACK-1: ARISE: ADAPTIVE AND RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURES DRIVEN BY SOCIAL EQUITY - A HOLISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION MAKING
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research, Inc. / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $45,131
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO WASTEWATER SYSTEMS FOR NUTRIENT REDUCTIONS (YEAR 3)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas
Amount: $100,000
BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN EPA REGION 7 THROUGH MULTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE CENTER AT WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY (MOD #3)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $38,000
BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN EPA REGION 7 THROUGH MULTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE CENTER AT WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY (MOD #4)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $85,000
PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT CENTER ACTIONABLE DATA POLICY LAB
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Health Foundation
Amount: $47,619
CONTINUED SUPPORT: FIRE MEDICAL TRANSPORT ANALYSIS
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: City of Topeka
Amount: $34,414
SECRET SHOPPER EVALUATION
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Dynamic Workforce Solutions
Amount: $7,000
KANSAS REGISTER OF DEEDS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Register of Deeds
Amount: $10,800
CITY OF LIBERAL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Professional Engineering Consultants
Amount: $33,500
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY GROUP AURAL WELLNESS FOR SENIORS
PI/Department: Katharine Fitzharris, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Co-PI/Department: Cynthia Richburg, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Sponsor: Regional Institute on Aging
Amount: $15,000
IMPROVING CULTURAL HERITAGE RESILIENCE THROUGH MODELING AND QUANTIFICATION OF EROSION RISKS TO HERITAGE SITES IN KANSAS
PI/Department: Matthew Howland, Anthropology
Sponsor: Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research, Inc. / Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $49,955
CONCERTO COMMISSION FOR WSU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WORLD PREMIERE
PI/Department: Timothy Jones, School of Music
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
FLEXIBLE SATELLITE TERMINALS FOR MULTI-TENANCY APPLICATIONS (SBIR PHASE I)
PI/Department: Hyuck Kwon, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Tiami, LLC / US Airforce
Amount: $40,000
SAFETY-CRITICAL CONTROL FOR COLLISION-FREE NAVIGATION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS (KNEP PDG)
PI/Department: Tamas Molnar, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $21,850
REACH FOR EXCELLENCE: WSU'S ADVANCE ADAPTATION INITIATIVE FOR EQUITY IN STEM FACULTY
PI/Department: Janet Twomey, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Co-PI/Department: Moriah Beck, Chemistry | David Eichhorn, Chemistry | Tiffany Franks, Office of Planning and Analysis | Linnea Glenmaye, Sociology | Rhonda Lewis, Psychology
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $1,000,000
MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL TOXIN-INDUCED PARKINSONISM: INVESTIGATING SUCCINATE AS AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE FOR DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS
PI/Department: Kandatege Wimalasena, Chemistry
Sponsor: Regional Institute on Aging
Amount: $15,000
BJA FY22 COSSAP ALL HANDS ON DECK (DRUG ENDANGERED CHILDREN IN KANSAS) (AMENDMENT 2)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Department of Justice
Amount: $134,000
CHWS FOR COVID RESPONSE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT 1)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $42,374
NATIONAL INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS COVID-19 HEALTH DISPARITIES (AMENDMENT 1)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $115,107
WICHITA COALITION FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION (AMENDMENT 1)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Children & Families / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $19,000
KBHCE GOAL PLANNING
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Community Behavioral Health
Amount: $11,517
THINK TANK CONVENING COACHING, CONSULTATION & FACILITATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Health Foundation
Amount: $13,600
COALITION REBUILDING SUPPORT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kearny County Hospital
Amount: $10,164
COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Via Christi Health System
Amount: $16,500
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $18,686,778 OF WHICH $17,340,971 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 Pivot account 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.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. Visit Pre-Award Services to find out more about applying for external funding.
LIMITED Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Title: 2nd Grant Cycle 2024: Direct Effort and Priority Impacts
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 3, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is September 17, 2024, with Full Applications due October 8, 2024.
Purpose: “Grants are awarded to organizations that address the needs of people living with paralysis caused by spinal cord and other injuries, diseases or birth conditions, including (but not limited to) stroke, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.”
Amount: $5,000-$24,999 for Tier 1 (Direct Effect); up to $30,000 for Tiers 2-4 (Priority Impact)
Funding Agency: National Ataxia Foundation
Title: Research Grants: Seed Grant
Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due September 6, 2024; If invited, Full Application due December 2, 2024
Purpose: “Research Seed Money Grants are awarded to independent researchers to support new and innovative studies that are relevant to the cause, pathogenesis or treatment of hereditary or sporadic ataxias.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: Prevent Cancer Foundation
Title: Education & Outreach Community Grants
Application Deadline: September 10, 2024
Purpose: “The Prevent Cancer Foundation is investing in patient navigation efforts for cancer prevention and early detection for the 2024-2026 Community Grant cycle. Community-based organizations can apply for a $100,000 grant over two-year ($50,000 per year) to bolster their patient navigation efforts. Applicants that utilize best practices, have established community partnerships and are addressing health disparities in their community or practice will be prioritized.”
Amount: $100,000 over two years
LIMITED VentureWell
Title: VentureWell Ecosystem Futures Fellowship
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit two applications, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 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 September 25, 2024, with Full Applications due October 23, 2024.
Purpose: “Lead the future of innovation at your higher education institution with the VentureWell Ecosystem Futures Fellowship. This new fellowship is an evolution of our Course & Program Grants that focuses on scalable science, technology, engineering, and math innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem solutions through the lens of environmental and social sustainability and inclusive innovation. This program offers professional development, immersive learning experiences, and a supportive community of leaders. It enhances the role of faculty and higher education leaders as ecosystem builders in partnership with industry and government.”
Amount: $10,000 with $15,000 in travel stipends
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC)
Application Deadlines: September 13, 2024 for Type I and Type II; December 13, 2024 for Type III
Purpose: “Supports foundational research addressing the substantial environmental impacts of computing. Projects should surpass studies of energy efficiency alone, pursuing dramatic improvements to overall sustainability.”
Amount: Up to $600,000 for Type I Small Projects; Up to $2,000,000 for Type II Large Projects; Up to $100,000 for Type III Workshop Projects
Funding Agency: Sony
Title: Sony Research Award Program
Application Deadline: September 15, 2024
Purpose: “The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. Both the Faculty Innovation Award and Focused Research Award create new opportunities for university faculties and research institutions to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future.”
Amount: $100,000-$150,000
Funding Agency: Cytokinetics
Title: Corporate Giving Program: Health Equity in Cardiovascular Disease
Application Deadline: September 16, 2024
Purpose: “Equitable healthcare initiatives for cardiovascular disease in underserved communities to help reduce disparities. Initiatives must be U.S.-based and either a national effort or community-based program and may include public health and/or awareness programs; non-healthcare community support programs; community-led solutions; access to basic services; or new innovative approaches.”
Amount: Up to $20,000
Funding Agency: Workforce Matters Funders Network
Title: Fund for Workforce Equity Round 2
Application Deadlines: Letter of Inquiry due September 16, 2024; If invited, Full Proposals due October 31, 2024
Purpose: “The Fund for Workforce Equity is open to any nonprofit (501c3) organization, including fiscally-sponsored organizations, providing workforce development services primarily to or within historically marginalized or excluded populations, including workers and learners of color, Native Nations and communities, immigrants and refugees, and people with disabilities.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: American Lung Association
Title: Grant Opportunities
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due September 18, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due December 6, 2024
Purpose: “Today, through our Research Institute, we continue to support trailblazing research, novel ideas and innovative approaches with the goal of eliminating lung disease and improving life for those living with lung disease. We are investing in brilliant scientific minds of the future and supporting science with the potential to improve prevention, detection and treatment options.”
Amount: $50,000 for Catalyst Awards and Public Health & Public Policy Research Awards; $75,000 for Innovation Awards; $50,000-$100,000 for Indoor Air Awards
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation
Title: Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland
Application Deadline: September 18, 2024
Purpose: “The Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland supports scientific, scholarly, or applied research and/or educational activities investigating how personality, culture, and environment influence work behavior and health (mental and physical).”
Amount: $19,000
LIMITED Retirement Research Foundation (RRF Foundation for Aging)
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit one Letter of Inquiry per grant cycle, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 20, 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 4, 2024. The Letter of Inquiry will be due to the sponsor by November 1, 2024, and if invited by the sponsor, Full Applications will be due February 5, 2025.
Purpose: “RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network.”
Amount: Varies; see website for examples of previously funding projects.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: September 25, 2024 or September 25, 2025
Purpose: “…invites eligible academic or research institutions to apply for funding support to purchase latest scientific equipment that will enhance and modernize research-supporting operations of existing shared biomedical research facilities. Targeted are laboratory research core facilities, animal research facilities, and other similar shared-use research spaces. The goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to strengthen research-auxiliary activities of biomedical research facilities and to enhance the efficiency of their operations. The NOFO does not support the purchase of scientific research instruments or their components, nor components of building-level infrastructure equipment that indirectly support research activities.”
Amount: $50,000-$350,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare Safety (R18)
Application Deadlines: September 25, 2024 or January 25, 2025
Purpose: “…to invite grant applications that support healthcare safety by determining (1) whether and how certain breakthrough uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect patient safety; and (2) how AI systems can be safely implemented and used. AI has the potential to improve the safety, effectiveness, efficiency, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. However, as with most technologies, this potential must be balanced by identifying and mitigating potential risks for patient harm and user burden.”
Amount: $500,000-$1,000,000
Funding Agency: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Title: ACLS Fellowships
Application Deadline: September 25, 2024
Purpose: “ACLS invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. In the 2024-25 competition cycle, the program will award up to 60 fellowships to scholars across all stages of the scholarly career. Approximately half of this year’s awards will support early-career scholars. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, publicly engaged humanities project, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources.”
Amount: $25,000
LIMITED National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 24-597: U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only participate in only two applications as a lead or collaborative non-lead, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 26, 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 10, 2024. If selected, Full Applications will be due November 14, 2024.
Purpose: “The NRT Program accepts proposals in any interdisciplinary or convergent research theme of national importance and encourages specific priority research areas that change periodically. All interdisciplinary or convergent research themes should align with NSF or other national STEM research priority areas and have high potential to develop novel, innovative practices in graduate education. Proposers should describe the importance of the NRT project's thematic focus to the Nation and the need to train students for a variety of careers in that thematic area.”
Amount: Up to $3,000,000 for Track 1; Up to $2,000,000 for Track 2; Up to $100,000 per year for Track 2 Planning Grants
Funding Agency: U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Title: Good Jobs Challenge
Application Deadline: September 27, 2024
Purpose: “The Good Jobs Challenge supports regional workforce training systems to establish sectoral partnerships that train and place workers in good jobs. Good jobs are those that align with the Departments of Labor and Commerce Good Jobs Principles. The Good Jobs Challenge highlights workforce development as key to accelerating local economic growth and rebuilding regional economies so they are more resilient to future challenges, while providing good job opportunities for American workers to achieve economic mobility and security. The awardees funded by the Good Jobs Challenge expand opportunities across diverse populations, regions, and communities, focusing on coordinated and comprehensive approaches to removing systemic barriers for workers through support services such as childcare and transportation, and opening doors to a variety of paid on-the-job training opportunities.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$8,000,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Title: FY2024 Manufacturing USA Institute – AI for Resilient Manufacturing
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Concept Paper due September 30, 2024; If invited, Full Application due or around January 23, 2025
Purpose: “NIST issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a new Manufacturing USA Institute, with a focus on using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the resilience of U.S. manufacturing. NIST anticipates funding up to $70 million over five years to establish and operate this Manufacturing USA institute. NIST intends that the new institute will both contribute to and benefit from the expertise within the existing network of Manufacturing USA institutes. As required by the Manufacturing USA authorizing statute, NIST will ensure that the AI institute to be established will not substantially duplicate the work of the existing network of institutes.”
Amount: $70,000,000 over five years; Note, 1:1 Cost Share/Match is required.
Funding Agency: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 30, 2024
Purpose: “The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale.”
Amount: See website for examples and amounts of previous grants.
Funding Agency: Department of the Interior
Title: FY24 Candidate Species Conservation
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Purpose: “The principal objective of this Candidate Species Conservation funding opportunity is to accomplish conservation tasks for high priority candidate species (based on our annual Candidate Species Assessments) or other at-risk species in the United States, such that identified threats to the species may be reduced or eliminated. These efforts are based on cooperative relationships with states, non-governmental organizations, private landowners and those interested in habitat restoration or undertaking candidate and at-risk species research, surveys and monitoring, or educational outreach efforts.”
Amount: $1,000-$500,000
Funding Agency: Better Scientific Software (BSSw)
Title: Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Purpose: “The main goal of the BSSw Fellowship program is to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes. We also anticipate accumulating a growing community of BSSw Fellowship alums who can serve as leaders, mentors, and consultants to increase the visibility of those involved in scientific software production and sustainability in the pursuit of scientific discovery. BSSw Fellows are selected annually based on an application process that includes the proposal of a funded activity that promotes better scientific software through a publicly available artifact. Each 2025 BSSw Fellow will receive up to $25,000 for an activity that promotes better scientific software. Activities can include organizing a workshop, preparing a tutorial, or creating content to engage the scientific software community, including broadening participation or promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Amount: Up to $25,000
Funding Agency: Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP)
Title: ELDP Grants
Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
Purpose: “The ELDP provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages globally. ELDP especially welcomes applications from documenters from language communities, local scholars and students from the country where the language is spoken/signed, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. There are no restrictions on nationality or host institution, language documenters of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world with our funding.”
Amount: Up to 10,000 Euros for Small Grants or Legacy Materials Grants: Up to 300,000 Euros for Major Documentation Projects
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF): National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Application Deadlines: October 1, 2024 and December 2, 2024
Purpose: “…to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The primary motivation of the NOFO is to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and policy changes in the U.S. and abroad. A distinguishing feature of an appropriate study is the need for rapid review and funding, substantially shorter than the typical NIH grant review/award cycle, for the research question to be addressed and swiftly implemented.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the 2-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: VentureWell
Title: E-Team Program
Application Deadline: October 2, 2024
Purpose: “The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of up to $25,000 in grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.”
Amount: $5,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: Library of Congress
Title: Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) – Regional Awards
Application Deadline: October 2, 2024
Purpose: “With this notice, the Library seeks to solicit project proposals from organizations interested in becoming Regional Partners. The purpose of this notice is to identify awardee organizations to carry out all administrative and programmatic functions associated with managing TPS and Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative (LHI) regional subawards on behalf of the Library of Congress. Awardee organizations must have the capacity, reputation, and relationships to conduct outreach and marketing to educators, operating in large and small communities, who wish to enhance their teaching programs with Library of Congress materials and pedagogical approaches.”
Amount: Up to $900,000
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 Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium
Title: Solicitation 4.0 – Innovations in Floating Offshore Wind
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit three applications as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by October 3, 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 17, 2024 with Full Applications due November 14, 2024.
Purpose: “This solicitation will fund projects that address several major areas of need for floating offshore wind, including innovation in ports and vessels, transmission technology, and uncrewed underwater vehicles for environmental monitoring.”
Amount: $450,000-$2,000,000 depending on project category
Funding Agency: Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO)
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: October 4, 2024
Purpose: “Grants are awarded to research, education and advocacy projects that advance FAFO’s mission: to protect and promote the organic industry and the livelihood of organic farmers. Within this context, FAFO is currently prioritizing projects that focus on: Projects that benefit family farmers who produce organic dairy, eggs, meat, produce, and grain/forage; and Projects that focus on organic soil health and biology.”
Amount: $5,000-$50,000
REMINDER LIMITED Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)
Application Deadlines: 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.edu by 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 Aging (NIA)
Application Deadline: October 8, 2024
Purpose: “The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity is to invite applications that propose the creation of short courses on utilizing the NIH Stage Model to develop behavioral interventions to promote healthy aging and prevent illness, improve care, foster disease management, assist with end of life decision-making and care, and support the needs of the growing older adult population.”
Amount: Up to $350,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: Pfizer’s Competitive Grants Program
Title: Addressing Healthcare Disparities in the Outpatient Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19
Application Deadline: October 9, 2024
Purpose: “Potential applicants are encouraged to identify and address the educational needs, barriers and gaps for equitable healthcare delivery in COVID-19 management among underserved and marginalized populations / communities.”
Amount: Up to $250,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (MFAI)
Application Deadline: October 10, 2024
Purpose: “Supports research collaborations between mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers and social behavior scientists to establish innovative and principled design and analysis approaches for AI technology.”
Amount: $500,000-$1,500,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: RADx Tech ACT ENDO Challenge
Application Deadline: October 11, 2024 for Phase 1
Purpose: “Awarding cash prizes to accelerate development of non-invasive technologies to improve diagnosis of endometriosis—a common and often debilitating gynecological disease.”
Amount: Up to eight winners will be selected as semi-finalists to advance to Phase 2; Phase 2 awards are $100,000 per winner
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: October 12, 2024 and February 12, 2025
Purpose: “The goal of the MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to facilitate a timely transition of promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds from their mentored postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent research-intensive faculty positions. The program is designed to support postdoctoral researchers who have demonstrated meaningful contributions and proposed compelling future plans to promote broad participation in the biomedical research workforce, such as activities that promote inclusive, supportive, and accessible biomedical research environments that support the success of trainees and scientists from all backgrounds, including individuals from underrepresented groups.”
Amount: Salary support and other program-related expenses
Funding Agency: Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadlines: October 15, 2024 and April 1, 2025
Purpose: “Research Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded twice annually to offset the cost of conducting research at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Competitive proposals will evidence a clear understanding of the existing research in the field and how the proposed work adds significantly to that body of literature. Applicants are expected to demonstrate both an analytical and descriptive grasp of the project and its centrality to the Truman era.”
Amount: Up to $2,500
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Title: Impacts of Climate Change Across the Cancer Control Continuum (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadlines: October 16, 2024 and February 16, 2025
Purpose: “…to support innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum, from cancer etiology and cancer risks through survivorship, and ways to prevent or mitigate negative health effects. This includes, but is not limited to, studies to improve knowledge of the impact of climate change related environmental effects on cancer risks, control and behaviors.”
Amount: $275,000 in direct costs
REMINDER - Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 25, 2024
Purpose: “The purpose of the Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools is to support small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for health professional, undergraduate and graduate students and enhancing the research environment at applicant institutions.”
Amount: Applicants may request up to $300,000 in direct costs for the entire project period of up to 3 years.
REMINDER LIMITED Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit one application as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by 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: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Title: Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices
Application Deadline: October 30, 2024
Purpose: “This program supports the digitization of rare and unique historical and cultural materials in various formats and the creation and promotion of online access to those materials. Any expenditures of program funds must be directly related to these purposes.”
Amount: $50,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
Purpose: “…to catalyze innovative research to elucidate the molecular landscape and functional implications of RNA modifications in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD).”
Amount: Up to $275,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc.
Title: Post-PhD Research Grants
Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
Purpose: “This grant program funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human.”
Amount: Up to $25,000
Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Title: Identify and Evaluate Potential Risk Factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Application Deadline: November 4, 2024 (Optional Letter of Intent due October 1, 2024)
Purpose: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) is seeking investigator-initiated research that will further the understanding of potential risk factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), while supporting the National ALS Registry's mission. The National ALS Registry's goals are to estimate the number of new ALS cases each year, estimate the number of people who have ALS at a specific point in time, better understand who gets ALS, and identify what contributing factors, including environmental, may affect ALS. CDC/ATSDR is seeking investigator-initiated research that will identify and evaluate risk factors contributing to ALS, with preferred focus in this Notice of Funding Opportunity on factors related to military service, contact sports, traumatic brain injury, neuroinflammation, environmental exposures, and infectious agents.”
Amount: $300,000-$500,000 per year depending on funding option selected
Funding Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA): North Central Region (NCR) Sustainable Agricultural Research and Education (SARE)
Title: Youth Educator Sustainable Agriculture Grants
Application Deadline: November 7, 2024
Purpose: “NCR-SARE recognizes that youth programs are a way to introduce new and exciting farming and ranching options to youth, families, and community members. The Youth Educator program provides opportunities for youth to learn about Sustainable Agriculture (farming and ranching that is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially responsible). These grants help youth educators encourage youth to try sustainable practices and explore sustainable agriculture as a viable career option.”
Amount: Up to $6,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Dear Colleague Letter (DCL): Planning Grants to Create Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Ready Test Beds
Application Deadline: November 13, 2024
Purpose: “This DCL seeks to address these limitations by encouraging the community to pursue Planning Grants designed to develop AI-Ready Test Beds that can be used by researchers to test novel AI methods in potential real-world application scenarios. Because of the current limits in scalability and scope, the AI community is encouraged to expand existing test beds and infrastructure to make them AI-ready and appropriate for use in evaluating the impact and effect of AI tools and systems on users. To do this, proposers are encouraged to create teams of researchers who have expertise in AI as well as domain experts and staff managing existing test beds. Existing test beds and infrastructure can be found in a range of settings.”
Amount: Up to $100,000 per year for up to two years
Funding Agency: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Title: Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies
Application Deadline: November 14, 2024
Purpose: “In partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation, ACLS offers a travel grant competition for graduate students in a PhD program and non-tenure track faculty at any career stage. The grant supports travel for conducting basic research in China or conducting China studies-related research in databases, collections, and archives anywhere in the world.”
Amount: $5,000
LIMITED Funding Agency: U.S. Forest Service: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Title: Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2025 West
Application Deadline: Limited Because entities from the State of Kansas may only submit five applications, and must have the cooperation of the Kansas Forest Service, it is recommended that you reach out well in advance of the Full Application deadline of November 15, 2025.
Purpose: “The State, Private, & Tribal Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration competitive process is ‘intended to support high impact projects that promote collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes, leverage public and private resources, and advance priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or other restoration strategy.’”
Amount: $25,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: November 15, 2024
Purpose: “With this DCL, the NSF and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announce their intent to together establish a strategic leadership network on climate action engagement aimed at the transition from the linear economy of today to a circular economy of tomorrow, including one that will better integrate university research and community needs. With this investment, NSF and DOE aim to organize ‘Climate Action Ambassadors’ into an effective national network of professionals to develop evidence-based models, program concepts and recommendations that share, implement, and scale university-community partnerships in this national priority area.”
Amount: Up to $2,000,000
Funding Agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Title: Innovation Grants
Application Deadline: November 15, 2024
Purpose: “AFSP Suicide Research Grants support studies aimed at increasing our understanding of the causes of suicide and factors related to suicide risk, or that test treatments and other interventions designed to prevent suicide. At least one suicide outcome measure must be included in all grant projects. We also consider studies of treatment feasibility, and studies that add a suicide component (e.g., population or treatment) to an existing grant in another area.”
Amount: $50,000-$500,000 depending on type
Funding Agency: Gerber Foundation
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadline: Concept Paper due November 15, 2024
Purpose: “The mission of The Gerber Foundation (to enhance the quality of life of infants and young children in nutrition, care, and development) has remained the guiding beacon for Foundation giving throughout its history. Accordingly, priority is given to projects whose primary beneficiaries are young children from birth to three years of age.” Note, two pre-application informational webinars will be held in October; see website to register.
Amount: $30,000-$350,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
Application Deadlines: Preliminary Proposals due November 18, 2024; By invitation only, Full Proposals will be due March 19, 2025
Purpose: “Mid-scale RI-1 emphasizes strong scientific merit, a response to an identified need of the research community and/or fulfillment of a national need to enable U.S. researchers to be competitive in a global research environment. Within Mid-scale RI-1, proposers may submit two types of projects, Implementation (e.g., acquisition and/or construction) or Design. The Design track is intended to facilitate progress toward readiness for a mid-scale range implementation project. The Mid-scale RI-1 Program seeks to broaden the representation of PIs and institutions in its award portfolio, including a geographically diverse set of institutions (especially those in EPSCoR jurisdictions). Proposals submitted by, or involving partnerships between institutions are encouraged.”
Amount: $400,000-$19,999,999 for Design Track; $4,000,000-$19,999,999 for Implementation Track
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Application Deadlines: November 19, 2024 and June 17, 2025
Purpose: “This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is a continuation of an NCI program to enhance the diversity of the pool of the cancer research workforce by recruiting and supporting eligible New Investigators and Early-Stage Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups that have been shown to be nationally underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences. This NOFO will fund investigators to develop a larger research project grant application.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Scholarly Editions and Translations
Application Deadline: December 4, 2024
Purpose: “The Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Works from any humanities field may be the subject of an edition. Since the program’s inception in 1966, the NEH has funded editions and translations of some of the most significant historical, literary, philosophical, and music texts.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadlines: December 4, 2024 and June 5, 2025
Purpose: “The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to enhance the sustainability and impact of research software tools by enabling the use of best practices and design principles in software development and by leveraging continuing advances in computing. This NOFO is also expected to facilitate the creation of vibrant partnerships between developers and users of software and tools, and to promote FAIR practices for research software to maximize research value.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $300,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Application Deadline: December 10, 2024
Purpose: “NCI intends to support pilot/exploratory research that expands the current understanding of the confluence of cancer stigma and HIV stigma in people with HIV (PWH) diagnosed with cancer; assesses the impact of these two converging stigmas on cancer outcomes among PWH with cancer; leverages stigma reduction interventions at multiple levels to intervene on modifiable mechanisms of stigma that contribute to negative cancer outcomes among PWH with cancer; and promotes research in domestic and international contexts, focusing on regions in which the HIV-cancer burden is elevated.”
Amount: R21 Applications are limited to $275,000 in direct costs for up to two years.
Funding Agency: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
Title: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
Purpose: “These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members that often result in additional funding from other sources. The award amount provided by ORAU is $5,000. The applicant’s institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This is a one-year grant (June 1 to May 31). Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at ORAU member institutions within two years of their tenure track appointment at the time of application.”
Amount: $5,000-$10,000; Note, Cost Share/Match is required.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): American Made Challenges
Title: Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
Purpose: “The Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize encourages building new and newly focused placed-based coalitions to create quality, accessible jobs and training partnerships in their community. Each coalition is required to include, at a minimum, one coalition representative from each of the five key stakeholder groups below: Labor organizations, Clean energy employers, Community-based organizations, Public agencies and Education and workforce providers. These competing coalitions will develop and implement Coalition Action Plans that improve the quality of and expand access to good jobs in clean energy.”
Amount: $50,000 for Phase 1
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): American Made Challenges
Title: Direct Air Capture (DAC) Pilot Prize
Application Deadline: February 7, 2025
Purpose: “The American-Made Commercial Direct Air Capture Pilot Prize offers cash awards to technology developers that design, build, commission, and operate innovative and novel DAC pilot facilities capable of capturing at least 500 tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year.”
Amount: $500,000 for Phase 1 Concept Paper and pre-Front End Engineering Design Winners
Funding Agency: The Explorers Club
Title: Explorers Club Impact Grants
Application Deadline: Ongoing, applications considered on a rolling basis
Purpose: “Fieldwork in the following disciplines will be considered: Biological sciences, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy, as well as exploratory projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing environmental or cultural change. The Impact Grants align with The Club’s mission to foster scientific understanding for the betterment of humanity and all life on Earth and beyond – including our commitment to mitigate climate change, prevent the extinction of species and cultures, and ensure the health of our lands, oceans and all of their inhabitants. Further, we believe that explorers fulfill a critical role as a storytellers.”
Amount: $10,000-$25,000
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 –Jan 15 & Aug 15 annually
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 –Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Manufacturing Systems Integration - proposals accepted anytime
Mathematical Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics –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 –Feb 12, 2025 and Aug 6, 2025
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – proposals accepted anytime
Security and Preparedness –Jan 15, 2025
Social Psychology – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
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) –Jan 21, 2025
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposal due Sep 11, 2024 or Mar 12, 2025
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program –Feb 4 and Aug 5, 2025
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) – Nov 14, 2024
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 20, 2025
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 9, 2024
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Biological Sciences (BIORETS) – Jul 31, 2025
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.
NIH: National Institute of General Medical Sciences Pre-application MOSAIC Webinar: August 29, 2024
“Please join us to learn more about the MOSAIC program. During the webinar, we’ll provide an overview of the funding opportunities and application components and answer your questions. The Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) K99/R00 program facilitates the timely transition of individuals from diverse backgrounds from their mentored postdoctoral research positions to research-intensive faculty positions.”
Read More About NIH MOSAIC and Upcoming Webinar
NASEM: Climate Conversations: The Future of Sports Webinar: August 29, 2024
“Join us for a post-Olympics discussion about the impact of climate change on sports. Climate change is threatening sports. Changing conditions are making some environments inhospitable to training and competition, with some sports at risk of disappearing altogether in affected regions. Meanwhile, unpredictable and extreme weather events pose risks to youth, collegiate and elite athlete performance and health, such as heat-related illnesses and air pollution from wildfires. Sports organizations, athletes, and communities will have to adapt to new realities.”
Register for the Future of Sports Webinar
NIH: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Workshop: A Web-Based Tool for Autism Research and the Environment (aWARE): September 5-6, 2024
“The aWARE tool is a web-based project led by the Division of Extramural Research and Training and the Division of Translational Toxicology. Its purpose is to address the challenge of understanding environmental contributors to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by creating an interactive and visual tool to explore environmental ASD studies.The aWARE tool aims to comprehensively aggregate and characterize data from published research on associations between environmental factors and ASD, using a systematic evidence map (SEM) approach. Based on their interest, SEMs allow users to identify and display relevant information from published studies to gain greater understanding or inform research decisions. Prior to tool development, listening sessions engaged the broader autism community to gather perspectives.”
Register for NIH aWARE Workshop
NIH: National Cancer Institute (NCI): Pre-Application Webinar: Impacts of Climate Change across the Cancer Control Continuum: September 12, 2024
“This webinar will provide information about PAR-23-153, “Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)” and PAR-23-152, “Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)”. These funding opportunities aim to support innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum, from cancer etiology and cancer risks through survivorship, and ways to prevent or mitigate negative health effects. This includes, but is not limited to, studies to improve knowledge of the impact of climate change related environmental effects on cancer risks, control and behaviors.”
Attend NIH NCI Pre-Application Webinar
NASEM: Global Perspectives: Water Resilience Webinar: September 24, 2024
“This conversation, in collaboration with the Columbia Climate School, will provide comprehensive insights into the complexities of water management in India, a region characterized by diverse climates, rapid population growth, and high water stress. Panelists will explore how climate change is affecting the physical hydrology of South Asia, how resource management and prevailing infrastructure have shaped regional water supplies, and how existing and emerging solutions for sustainable water management can help build resilience in India and beyond.”
Register for Water Resilience Webinar
Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2024: September 25, 2024
The 23rd annual Oklahoma Supercomputing conference will be held live via Zoom. The keynote speaker will be Amy Apon, Program Director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Register for Free Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium
Hanover Research Upcoming Grants Workshops: September 26, 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 September 26, 2024 is titled “Scaling Up Your Research” 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 (NAS) AI + Y 2024 Series Hosted by the Chemical Sciences Roundtable: AI + Scalability: October 3, 2024
“This episode on the AI+Y series examines ways of applying data-driven analytics to achieve economies of scale by improving energy efficiency, reliability, and safety in industrial chemical processes. Obtaining these outcomes would require improvements in process monitoring to optimize responses to faults and ill conditions and to provide predictions to prevent future mishaps. Discussions will include case studies on how statistical models have been effectively applied in characterizing large, complex data sets and how inferential sensors are used to predict key variable properties or performance. In addition to instrumental data, speakers will also touch on the use of business data (e.g. scheduling, operational data, production forecast, etc.) to solve scheduling and control problems often encountered on large complex chemical sites.”
Register for AI + Y NAS Series
National Science Foundation (NSF) Spring 2024 Grant Workshop Recordings Available Online
The NSF held the Spring 2024 NSF Grants Conference in Philadelphia, PA, from June 3 to 5, 2024. All conference sessions are now available for viewing on demand in the Resource Center.
View NSF Spring 2024 Workshops
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 question about data privacy or security, or need to report a 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 28th NSF 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.edu to 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
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM): New Reports
NASEM has issued two new reports that may be of interest: “A Plan to Promote Defense Research at Minority-Serving Institutions, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, recommends ways to develop and strengthen the research capacity of historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges and universities, and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) so that they can contribute more fully to defense-related research.” “The Federal Aviation Administration should update its methods for ensuring commercial aviation safety so that the agency can better evaluate and regulate new and innovative concepts for aviation operations and technologies, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Building on an initial assessment published in 2022, the report explores how the FAA can improve its practices related to safety risk management and safety assurance, foster a stronger safety culture throughout commercial aviation, and better position itself to oversee and regulate a changing industry.” Additional Publications from NASEM’s National Academies Press can be found here.
Read NASEM Report on MSI Research or Read NASEM Report on FAA Safety Practices
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Will Require Use of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current & Pending (Other) Support by May 25, 2025
“NIH will implement the Common Forms without change to any collection fields. However, in accordance with NIH’s Peer Review Regulations at 42 Code of Federal Regulations Part 52h, NIH currently plans to continue collecting three required agency specific data elements (i.e., Personal Statement, Contributions to Science, and Honors) to assess qualifications. These data elements will be collected separately from the Common Forms on a new NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement.” The Office of Research encourages WSU Principal Investigators to set up their profile in SciENcv and to email funding@wichita.edu for assistance in setting up their profile well in advance.
Read NIH Notice NOT-OD-24-163 on Adoption of Common Forms
National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Aging (NIA) Request for Information on Strategic Directions for Research
“NIA is formulating its Strategic Directions for Research document for 2026-2030, and the Institute seeks public input on revisions to the current document and suggestions for new content. NIA's Strategic Directions for Research document serves as a statement of NIA’s scientific priority areas within the rapidly evolving field of aging research and provides a framework for systematic analysis of NIA’s scientific portfolio. The document both complements and forms a solid foundation for more targeted and specific planning tools, including the National Alzheimer's Project Act plan and milestones and NIA's forthcoming strategic plan for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Therefore, in addition to input on current and potential new goals and objectives related to aging research, NIA welcomes input on any related topic for which dedicated NIA planning processes exist.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Request for Information (RFI) on Opportunities and Challenges in Enabling and Advancing Precision Medicine Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Integrating Clinical Imaging with Multimodal Data
“Clinical imaging can play critical roles in prediction, diagnosis, treatment planning, and response evaluation across a wide range of health conditions. AI approaches have catalyzed new opportunities in precision, or personalized, medicine, to integrate clinical imaging data with a variety of other health data, including data from electronic health records, genomics, laboratory diagnostics, and other experimental imaging systems. The purpose of this RFI is to solicit public comments on the current challenges and opportunities in developing trustworthy, cost-effective, accessible, ethical, and sustainable precision medicine AI algorithms that integrate medical images with other patient-related data to support clinical decision-making.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Fundamental Science Research on Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches, Including Natural Products or Mind and Body Interventions
This NOSI describes “National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) priorities in innovative basic and mechanistic research or technology/method development research relevant to complementary and integrative health approaches and their impact on health outcomes, resilience, and well-being. Complementary health approaches include a broad range of practices and interventions that are not typically part of conventional medical care. Complementary approaches can be classified by their primary therapeutic input, which may be dietary (e.g., special diets, dietary supplements, herbs, prebiotics, and microbial-based therapies including probiotics), psychological (e.g., meditation, hypnosis, virtual reality, music-based interventions, relaxation therapies), physical (e.g., acupuncture, massage, chiropractic manipulation, light, devices related to these approaches), or a combination of psychological and physical (e.g., yoga, tai chi, dance therapies, some forms of art therapies). The dietary approaches include what have been previously categorized as natural products, whereas psychological and/or physical approaches encompass what have been commonly referred to as mind and body interventions. Integrative health brings conventional and complementary approaches together in a coordinated way. Integrative health also emphasizes multimodal interventions that aim to improve health in multiple interconnected domains, social, psychological, and physical, including multiple organs and systems.”
National Science Foundation (NSF) Seeks Proposals that Expand NAIRR Pilot Community: Dear Colleague Letter
“The NSF’s Advancing education for the future AI workforce (EducateAI) Initiative and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot both aim to promote and diversify AI education and AI workforce development. (DCL) announces the interest of NSF in receiving proposals that expand the NAIRR Pilot community under two different focus areas, one focus area on community outreach and training to new and emerging researchers, and the other focus area on educators bringing inclusive AI-educational experiences to classrooms nationwide. Submissions led by teams located in Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research jurisdictions or rural areas, and from Minority Serving Institutions are encouraged.”
NSF DCL 24-109 Educate AI and NAIRR Pilot
NIHCM Foundation Releases Infographic about Supporting the Health Care Needs of People with Disabilities
“The Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted in 1990. While this landmark civil rights’ legislation has been in effect for 30 years, people with disabilities still experience significant health disparities, barriers to care, discrimination, and poor health outcomes. This new infographic shares the latest data on health for people with disabilities, including demographics and the rising cost of care, as well as approaches to improve care, home and community resources, and research.”
NIHCM Foundation Health Care Infographic
NIHCM Foundation Releases Infographic about Ransomware Attacks’ Impact on Rural Hospitals
“Amid increasing cybersecurity threats aimed at urban and rural health care delivery systems, a novel study found that while ransomware attacks are less likely to occur in rural areas, the operational disruptions resulting from such attacks may have more pronounced effects on financially vulnerable rural hospitals. This study offers valuable insights for policymakers and health systems seeking to understand the ramifications of ransomware attacks on rural hospitals’ viability and operations, as well as the patients they serve.”
NIHCM Foundation Ransomware Impact on Rural Hospitals Infographic
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): Healing, Bridging, Thriving Summit Blog Series
“On January 30, 2024, the White House Domestic Policy Council and NEA co-hosted Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities, a first-of-its-kind convening to share insights and explore opportunities for arts organizations and artists to contribute to the health and well-being of individuals and communities, invigorate physical spaces, fuel democracy, and foster equitable outcomes. In this blog series, you’ll hear from the many diverse perspectives represented at the event—including government officials, policymakers, artists, advocates, academics, and arts leaders—as they share what ideas and inspiration they took from the experience, and how they’re working to advance a broader understanding of how arts and culture can contribute to other fields and unlock new opportunities for artists.”
NEA Healing, Bridging, Thriving Summit Blog Series
ARPA-H: Launches Platform Optimizing SynBio for Early Intervention and Detection in Oncology (POSEIDON) and Groundbreaking Lymphatic Interventions and Drug Exploration (GLIDE)
“ARPA-H’s two newest programs - POSEIDON and GLIDE - offer interested industry and academic institutions the opportunity to attend upcoming Proposers’ Days, form teams, and submit proposals. The POSEIDON program intends to develop first-in-class, at-home, synthetic Multi-Cancer-Early Detection tests for the most sensitive and specific stage I detection of 30+ solid tumors using only breath and/or urine samples, while the GLIDE program aims to develop physical, pharmacologic, gene, and cell-based therapeutic interventions to treat primary and rare lymphatic disease and chronic conditions complicated by lymphatic dysfunction.
Read More About These and Other ARPA-H Programs
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 Support form and are encouraged to reach out directly to Holly Wilson at hwilson@usd259.net early 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.net early in the process for questions/clarifications.
As a reminder, all proposals submitted on behalf of WSU must be reviewed by the Office of Research prior to submission. This includes proposals where WSU is a direct recipient of funds and proposals where WSU is a proposed subawardee/subcontractor. Please contact the Office of Research at proposals@wichita.edu to get started.
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