Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
January Funding Focus Newsletter #2
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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 in this newsletter, click on the link below and search for your competition listed 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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Up to $4,000 may be requested to support an event that involves participants from more than one ORAU member institution, including students. Examples of such events include visits to an ORAU consortium member by a renowned speaker, conferences or workshops with a focused theme, or a technology transfer/business plan competition.
Applications will be accepted for events occurring between May 1 and September 30, 2022.
Institutional Limit: 1 per fiscal year (Oct. 1 - Sept. 30)
Internal Deadline: January 28, 2022 4:45 pm
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Suborbital flight can be used as a maturation step from ground-based research to downstream orbital flight research/demonstration or can be used for scientific research that can be accomplished in suborbital flight. Proposals shall state how suborbital flight will influence/mature the results/quality of any prior ground-based research or technology development and will provide insight into how the suborbital flight fits into a larger scientific research or space technology development context, as applicable.
Collaboration between EPSCoR and the STMD FO program will strengthen relationships between the respective communities and build experience and know-how in the EPSCoR community on the availability, usability, and value of U.S.-based commercial suborbital flight services. The partnership will engage the EPSCoR community with commercial suborbital flight providers, as well as open new paths for the jurisdictions to compete for and win larger spaceflight research projects.
There is no requirement that Science/Co PI's be U.S. citizens, however, foreign nationals (e.g., non-U.S. citizens who do not have a green card) will likely not be permitted access to NASA Centers. This may or may not be relevant to the research being proposed. The AU Science-I/Co-I's should propose for $228K (which will be a sub-award from UAH).
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: January 25, 2022 4:45 pm
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The NAPDC is a USDA-NIFA funded effort to convene diverse stakeholders to develop a blueprint for a national data framework to benefit agricultural producers. Key to drafting the blueprint is garnering input from those active in the field. Initially, the NAPDC will focus in two areas: educational webinars and a competitive grants program.
A launch webinar will be held from 1:00 to 2:30pm CST on Monday, January 24, 2022. To register, visit https://agdatacoop.org/webinars. Once registration is submitted, a post-submission page will appear with Zoom connection information. During this webinar, NAPDC leaders will introduce the project, share planned activities, and discuss their request for proposals.
Interested parties also may join the NAPDC listserv, which will be used to send messages about upcoming events and activities. To join, visit https://agdatacoop.org/get-involved.
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NSF Webinar on Current and Pending Support
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is launching a 2022 NSF Policy Office Webinar Series that will focus on specific topics of interest to the research community. The first webinar will cover NSF's Current and Pending Support policy and frequently asked questions.
This virtual webinar will take place on January 31, 2022 at 2:00 pm EST. There is no cost to participate.
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Federal Demonstration Partnership Virtual
January 2022 Meeting
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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. The most recent article is about NSF System Enhancements.
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Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability
Dates available after February 7, 2022
In order to provide resources for faculty and staff, Auburn University has partnered with Hanover Research for a number of grant development solutions including: Pre-proposal Support; Proposal Development; and Capacity Building. Their full-service grant development solutions are available to set goals, build strategies to achieve key grant-seeking objectives, and develop grant proposals that are well-planned, researched, and written. For information regarding Hanover’s core capabilities and project time lines, click here. If you are interested in a slot in the queue, please e-mail Tony Ventimiglia ( ventiaf@auburn.edu ).
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Hanover Research Funding Calendars
Hanover Research has put together several specialized funding calendars that include federal funders, foundations, descriptions of the programs and the associated deadlines.
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I&RC’s Adobe Creative Space Offers Assistance & Workshops
The Adobe Creative Space in the AU Libraries’ Innovation & Research Commons (I&RC) offers an Adobe help desk and Zoom room staffed with student employees to assist users in learning skills to complete academic and research projects using Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
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Find the Adobe Student Consultants’ schedule, areas of specialty, help desk location, policies, and Adobe Help Zoom room link on the I&RC Adobe Creative Space page at https://aub.ie/ircadobe.
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The I&RC also offers Adobe/multimedia workshops in-person and via Zoom at https://aub.ie/libraryworkshops and on-demand instructional content for students, faculty, and staff.
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Visit the I&RC Instructional Content page for workshop schedules and registration, on-demand video recordings, and more at https://aub.ie/ircinstruction.
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Auburn subscribes to several training modules via the CITI Program website that may be of interest to researchers and research administrators. Each module is self-paced and can be finished in one or multiple sessions. Click on the link above to read descriptions.
- Essentials of Grant Proposal Development
- Essentials of Research Administration
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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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Federal Agency Coronavirus Resource Hubs |
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New Funding Opportunities |
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Upcoming deadlines for current AHA funding programs include:
- Feb. 1: Mechanisms Underlying Cardiovascular Consequences Associated with COVID-19 and Long COVID
- Feb. 1: Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science
- Feb. 14 LOI/April 1 Full Proposal: The Role of Health-related Social Needs and Interventions in Hypertension for Women at Risk
- Feb. 16: Transformational Project Award
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This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages— languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. Made urgent by the imminent loss of roughly half of the approximately 7,000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in human-language technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documentation and analysis, and archiving of endangered language data, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding is available in the form of one- to three-year senior research grants and conference proposals.
Proposals Due: February 15, 2022
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The NSF Convergence Accelerator has issued a new funding opportunity for a new research track topic: Securely Operating through 5G Infrastructure. Partnering with the Department of Defense’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, OUSD(RE), the NSF Convergence Accelerator has published a Solicitation, NSF 22-538 and Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), NSFBAA-CA22-01, to provide two submission pathways for researchers and innovators to submit their proposal.
5G wireless networks are crucial components of modern communication systems and have become essential to national security. The goal of this track is to seek enhancements to end devices and/or augmentations to 5G infrastructure to enable military, government, and critical infrastructure operators to have the capability to operate through public 5G networks, while meeting security and resilience requirements.
NSF will host a series of informational webinars on January 27, 2022 from 3:30-5:00 pm ET, February 1, 2022 1:30-3:00 pm ET, and February 3, 2022 3:30-5:00 pm ET.
Register for the webinars:
Mandatory Letter of Intent Deadline: February 16, 2022
Full Proposals Due: April 12, 2022
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Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) research projects use fundamental research to produce knowledge about what constitutes or promotes responsible or irresponsible conduct of research and why, as well as how to best instill responsible conduct of research into researchers, practitioners, and educators at all career stages. In some cases, projects will include the development of interventions or applications to ensure ethical and responsible research conduct.
The program funds research projects that identify:
- Factors that are effective in the formation of ethical science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) researchers;
- Approaches to developing those factors in all STEM fields that NSF supports; and
- Why and how those factors and approaches increase responsibly conducted research.
Proposals Due: February 17, 2022
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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 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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Proposal Services & Faculty Support
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