Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
August Funding Focus Newsletter #1
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What is a Limited Submission?
A limited submission solicitation (RFA, RFP, etc.) places a cap on the number of proposals that Auburn may submit to a sponsor. Auburn coordinates limited submissions by sending out a notification via this newsletter and creating competitions in the Auburn University Competition Space (also known as InfoReady).To apply to any limited submission posted below, click on the link and search for your competition reflected on the page. Please refer to the Limited Submission Procedures page for a list of requirements.
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Limited Submission Announcements |
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The NSF INCLUDES Big Idea is a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The vision of NSF INCLUDES is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to work collaboratively for inclusive change, resulting in a STEM workforce that reflects the population of the Nation. More specifically, NSF INCLUDES seeks to improve collaborative efforts aimed at enhancing the preparation, increasing the participation, and ensuring the contributions of individuals from groups that have been historically underrepresented and underserved in the STEM enterprise such as African Americans, Alaska Natives, Hispanics, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Pacific Islanders, persons with disabilities, persons from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and women and girls. Significant advancement in the inclusion of underrepresented groups in STEM will result in a new generation of STEM talent and leadership to secure our nation’s future and long-term economic competitiveness.
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: August 20, 2021 4:45 pm
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The American National Election Studies (ANES) is a comprehensive longitudinal data collection. The ANES is responsible for providing gold standard data on voting, public opinion, and political participation in American national elections. ANES’s data are valuable for many reasons: they measure multiple variables; they allow complex comparisons across people, place, and time; they consistently and continuously leverage methodological advances; and they support dynamic hypothesis testing. Because ANES data have these attributes, they are used by researchers all over the world to answer questions that are vital to the health of American democracy. Through researchers who use ANES data, the ANES advances the progress of science and provides a vital service to the nation.
The project now known as the ANES has been collecting data and facilitating rigorous research since 1948. The project’s centerpiece is a series of in-person national surveys that are conducted in the weeks leading up to, and directly following, every U.S. presidential election. These surveys have been conducted using large sample sizes, many questions, and random sampling techniques. These attributes of the data offer researchers an opportunity to derive important discoveries from otherwise hard to see relationships between people, places, and circumstances that occur within every election cycle.
The ANES is known and respected among public users, academic researchers, and survey experts alike for providing the “gold standard” of election-focused survey data. As a result, any organization that runs the ANES is expected to explore, develop, evaluate, and use the best techniques available at the time.
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: August 20, 2021 4:45 pm
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Hanover Consulting currently has one slot available in their queue between August 11th and September 2nd for a proposal review. Within this time slot, they can provide a full edit to a proposal with a draft provided to them on or before August 12th or a review (no edits) with a draft provided to them on or before August 19th. If interested in reserving this slot, please email Tony Ventimiglia (ventiaf@auburn.edu). The first response received will be provided with the slot.
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Alabama State Council on the Arts
Virtual Drop-In Office Hours
Alabama State Council on the Arts is now offering virtual drop-in hours leading up to the September 1 grants application deadline. Bring questions on the programs and application process or take advantage of the small group setting to learn from the questions asked by other applicants. Join anytime. These sessions are free to attend; however, registration is required.
Drop-in hours occur on August 4, 11, and 25 from Noon until 1:00 p.m. CT
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How to Pitch to MRDC Webinar
August 11, 2021 1:00 pm ET
Pitching to the military requires focused awareness of the specific problem being addressed, why the problem is important TODAY, how the solution will alleviate the challenge facing the military, and how the solution (product) would be implemented. The desire for a dual market solution that benefits both military and civilians further complicates any pitch, as you must also take into consideration the civilian need and market.
This webinar will help inform members on creating material that resonates with military interest/requirements while including a dual use focus will be critical to successful engagements:
- Constructing an effective one-minute elevator pitch
- Developing an informative one page leave behind
- Crafting a 10 slide, 10 minute presentation that resonates with military interest/requirements while including a dual use focus will be critical to successful engagements
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CCTS Telehealth Network
Lightning Sessions and Spark Funding
Lightning Session: August 12, 2021
This zoom-enabled session will serve as a venue for faculty members with Telehealth research interests to learn, engage in discussion, and identify potential cross-institutional partnerships. Presenters provide a 3-minute overview of their Telehealth expertise/interest. Sessions will be divided into segments based on Telehealth Emphasis Areas. Time will be reserved after each segment for moderated group dialog.
To present at the Lightning Session on August 12th, please complete the Telehealth Lightning Session registration form by August 5th, which requires your contact information, your Telehealth Emphasis Area, and up to three Telehealth-related research interests which will be used create a slide deck distributed to all registered attendees prior to the session.
Spark Funding Proposals Due: August 27, 2021 5:00 pm
Multi-institutional, multidisciplinary partners interested in working toward shared telehealth projects are invited to consider applying for Spark Funding. Each application must have two (2) faculty leads – one located at UAB and one at Auburn. Additional collaborators from across the CCTS Partner Network may also be included. Multidisciplinary collaboration and prior Lightning Session participation is strongly encouraged. The maximum award is $750. Examples of allowable costs include mileage, parking, food, event room rental, and publication costs.
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Federal Unique Entity Identifier replaces DUNS Number
The Federal government will stop using the DUNS number to uniquely identify entities in the System for Award Management (SAM) by April of 2022. The U.S. General Services Administration is assigning Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) numbers to replace the DUNS number. The Auburn University number is DMQNDJDHTDG4. When prompted for specific proposal systems (especially within Grants.gov/workspace) this is the new UEI to be used in place of the DUNS number. In addition, information that had been previously reflected on the AU Fact Sheet (providing information for proposals and awards) is now available directly on the Office of Sponsored Programs webpage. The UEI information is now included with this information (which includes updated fringe benefit rates for FY 2022, F&A rates, travel rates, contact information, etc.).
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Tiger Tips is a series of short articles that provide guidance on a specific topic of interest related to sponsored projects. These articles are intended to serve as a resource for Auburn project directors, administrators and departmental staff who are involved in the management and/or administration of sponsored projects. This month's article is about the AU Limited Submissions Process.
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Auburn maintains an annual subscription to this monthly newsletter published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC. Access is available only for Auburn University faculty, staff and students with a valid user ID.
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Hanover has put together a grants calendar for interdisciplinary research opportunities. They include federal funders as well as several foundations with a description of the programs and the associated deadlines.
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Federal Agency Coronavirus Resource Hubs |
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Funding Opportunity Reminders |
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Raymond is seeking proposals for academic research that drives new technology or innovative approaches to the material handling industry. Research themes for the program include:
- The Future of Logistics
- Improving Material Handling
- Truck and Operation Evolution
Concept Review Deadline: August 27, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: November 5, 2021
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Grants awarded through this RFA are intended to capitalize on the rat as a model system to advance understanding of the behavioral and circuit neuroscience mechanisms driving autism. This RFA will support a consortium of investigators to collaboratively use SFARI autism rat models to examine the biological basis of complex behaviors and the underlying neural circuits relevant for autism. They welcome applications from individual labs, as well as collaborative applications of up to three (3) principal investigators.
Proposals Due: September 7, 2021 5:00 pm ET
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The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both encouraged.
Letters of Intent Due: September 7, 2021 5:00 pm
Full Proposals Due: November 17, 2021 5:00 pm
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The AHA will offer training grants and early career funding programs this fall. Upcoming deadlines for programs include:
- Sept. 9: Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
- Sept. 14: Predoctoral Fellowship
- Sept. 15: Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Sept. 21: AHA-CHF Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards
- Sept. 30: Enduring Hearts Research Awards in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
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The Advancing National Space Weather Expertise and Research toward Societal resilience (ANSWERS) solicitation has the goal to bring together collaborative teams of solar and geospace observers, theorists, modelers, experimenters, educators and computational experts to address some of the most challenging problems in solar and space physics and space weather. The purview of this new holistic solicitation goes beyond the scope of each of the long-standing programs in the Geospace Section (GS) of the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Science (AGS): Aeronomy (AER), Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR), Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM), Magnetospheric Physics (MAG), Solar Terrestrial Research (STR), and Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE). ANSWERS enables deep and transformative understanding of the dynamic, integrated Sun-Earth system and the solar and terrestrial drivers of space weather and their effects “from Sun to mud.” In combination with forward-looking educational endeavors, ANSWERS also aims to advance the nation’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) expertise and build societal resilience against space weather hazards.
Please note, an individual may serve as PI, co-PI, or other senior personnel on no more than two (2) ANSWERS proposals.
Proposals Due: August 23, 2021 5:00 pm
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The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the production and use of official statistics.
The MMS Program provides support through a number of different funding mechanisms. The following mechanisms are addressed in this solicitation:
- Regular Research Awards
- Awards for conferences and community-development activities
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants
- Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements
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MMS also supports Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. Please see the CAREER Program Web Site for more information about this activity.
Proposals Due: August 26, 2021 5:00 pm
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NASA is requesting proposals for short-term investigations or technology development projects that provide innovative approaches to any of the risks and associated knowledge gaps contained in the Human Research Program (HRP) Integrated Research Plan (IRP). Proposers may access the most current Web-based version of the IRP at the Human Research Roadmap (HRR) Web site at https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov. The results of these short-term investigations are anticipated to deliver new tools, techniques, or knowledge that could lead to novel breakthroughs addressing one or more of the risks and gaps in the IRP. These short-term investigations may provide initial results testing a new scientific approach, or they may provide the initial proof-of-concept for a new technology or method that has not yet been proven as a means to address a risk or gap in the IRP. All short-term investigations are expected to produce novel scientific knowledge or technology development that can stand alone to address a risk or gap in the IRP, but these investigations may also provide the necessary preliminary results to justify a full proposal to a future NASA solicitation. Proposers that request NASA archived data should fill out the Retrospective Data Request Study Feasibility Assessment Form posted alongside this Appendix.
Proposals solicited through this Appendix will be designated as 1) ground-based or 2) analog definition. For this Omnibus opportunity, proposals that use ISS are not permitted; however, proposals that use ground analogs and parabolic or suborbital flights are allowed. In addition, studies proposing new HERA mission projects are not permitted for this Omnibus opportunity, but retrospective data analysis projects may be submitted in response to this opportunity.
Pre-Proposers Conference: August 11, 2021
Step-1 Proposals Due: September 1, 2021 5:00 pm ET
Step-2 Proposals Due(By Invitation Only): December 1, 2021 5:00 pm ET
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The NIMH Instrumentation Program encourages applications from NIH funded investigators to purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available. Examples of instruments that might be submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include light microscopes, electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, and biomedical imagers.
Letters of Intent Due: September 8, 2021 5:00 pm
Full Proposals Due: October 8, 2021 5:00 pm
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The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions. Awards support innovative curricular approaches that foster partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs (such as business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science, and other technology-driven fields), in order to encourage and develop new integrative learning opportunities for students. The Humanities Connections Program includes two funding levels: Planning and Implementation.
Proposals Due: September 14, 2021 11:59 pm ET
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This LuSTR Opportunities Appendix is being released in support of STMD’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII); LSII technologies will enable human and robotic exploration of the Moon and future operations on Mars. As part of the LSII portfolio, LuSTR solicits ideas from universities for the creation of requisite technologies for lunar surface exploration and to accelerate the technology readiness of key systems and components. A tenet of the STRG program, and this LuSTR opportunity, is to foster interactions between NASA and the university-led teams to accelerate the infusion of technologies into NASA missions.
(Optional) Notices of Intent Due: August 20, 2021
Proposals Due: September 17, 2021
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for the creation and utilization of Patient Safety Learning Laboratories (PSLL). These learning laboratories are places and networks where transdisciplinary teams identify closely related threats to diagnostic or treatment efforts associated with a high burden of harm and cost. Following a systems engineering methodology, the learning laboratories stretch professional boundaries, envision innovative designs, and take advantage of brainstorming and rapid prototyping techniques that other leading industries employ. Promising prototypes undergo further develop-test-revise iterations, and subsequent integration as a working system. After further improvements are made to the integrated working system, its efficacy is evaluated in a realistic simulated or clinical setting.
Proposals Due: September 25, 2021 5:00 pm
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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications for funding to conduct Large Research Projects (R01) that propose to advance the base of knowledge for detection, prevention, and reduction of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs).
Proposals Due: October 5, 2021 5:00 pm
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Don't see a grant that fits your research area? Contact Proposal Services and Faculty Support to set up an appointment for a one-on-one or small group Pivot training session. |
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Reserve the Corner today for collaborative meetings, proposal development or to learn more about AU research resources.
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The monthly flights on the AU shuttle connect faculty to other researchers or agencies to further their research goals.
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Auburn University PI Handbook, agency guides and more to help you write a successful proposal.
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Subscription-based service that Auburn University provides faculty to find funding opportunities pertinent to their research.
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