Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
July 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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2023 NASA EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN)
Each funded NASA EPSCoR proposal is expected to establish research activities that will make significant contributions to NASA’s strategic research and technology development priorities and contribute to the overall research infrastructure, science and technology capabilities of higher education, and economic development of the jurisdiction receiving funding.
The following are the specific objectives of NASA EPSCoR:
- Contribute to and promote the development of research capability in NASA EPSCoR jurisdictions in areas of strategic importance to the NASA mission;
- Improve the capabilities of the NASA EPSCoR jurisdictions to gain support from sources outside the NASA EPSCoR program;
- Develop partnerships among NASA research assets, academic institutions, and industry; and
- Contribute to the overall research infrastructure and economic development of the jurisdiction.
Please note that the requirements for this submission
differ from the standard limited submission. There are several associated documents to review:
Questions? Please contact AU Space Grant Director Brian Thurow - x46827
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: Monday, August 1, 2022 4:45 pm
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July 27-28, 2022 from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ET
Attendees will see unique use-inspired research solutions funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator. Last year’s event drew over 2,000 attendees from academia, industry, nonprofit, and government sectors and across multiple countries, and this year’s event is expected to be even larger.
During the event, you can connect with funded research teams, see live solution presentations across six convergent research tracks, and network with other researchers, innovators, and business and technical practitioners from academia, industry, government, nonprofit, and other communities of practice.
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Since the 2015-2016 academic year, the LAUNCH Innovation Grants Program has provided 20 awards totaling over $750,000 to Auburn PIs to further develop their innovations to advance them towards commercialization. While many of these projects are ongoing, six of them have successfully advanced towards the market in the form of license deals or follow-on funding.
The Office of Innovation Advancement and Commercialization, or IAC, announced that the 2022-2023 LAUNCH Awards will again use the accelerated timeline introduced last year. This allows for earlier access to funds for award winners. Instead of running across both fall and spring semesters, awards will be determined before Thanksgiving.
For more details on LAUNCH and on this year's schedule, go to IAC's LAUNCH webpage. Please note that any LAUNCH applications must be related to an invention disclosure already on record and active with IAC.
Applications Due: August 8, 2022 4:45 pm
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Building a Research Agenda — How Does the Water Flow?
A Virtual Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
August 11, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm ET
ORAU’s Research and University Partnerships Office, in partnership with Florida State University (FSU), is hosting a virtual stakeholder engagement workshop on Water Quality and Public Health. We invite interested faculty, researchers, and students at your institution to attend this event focused on discussing research gaps and frameworks to advance water quality science. The President’s Executive Order lays out a responsibility to “improve public health and the environment; to ensure access to clean air and water; and to limit exposure to dangerous chemicals and pesticides.” The Administration is establishing an Office of Environmental Justice within the Department of Health and Human Services, which will focus on climate change impacts to the environment and associated impacts to health based on where people spend most of their time.
Developing the Research Agenda and How You Can Help: To develop a comprehensive research agenda, ORAU and FSU are interested in gaining your input on how we can adequately address the following questions:
- What should the research areas be?
- What questions should the government and/or academia be asking?
- What are possible priorities for future research?
- What strategies/approaches/challenges should be proposed for possible projects?
ORAU and FSU want to lay the foundation for where academic research and government operations and services need to be in 5, 10, and 20 years. The output of this Research Agenda is designed to inform the government and academia and set up the framework for more detailed research to support the Improvement of our nation’s health and environment.
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The NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP) and the Office of Extramural Research (OER) invite you to join them for an informative webinar series focused on the new NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy which goes into effect on January 25, 2023. This policy reinforces NIH’s longstanding commitment to making the research it funds available to the public and sets the baseline expectation that sharing data is a fundamental component of the research process.
Registration is now open for this 2-part series. Registration is required separately for each webinar.
Understanding the New NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy
Thursday, August 11; 1:30 – 3:00 PM ET
- In this first webinar of the series, you will learn about DMS policy expectations, the applicability of the policy, how to prepare a Data Management and Sharing Plan, and considerations for sharing data responsibly.
Diving Deeper into the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
Thursday, September 22; 1:30 – 3:00 PM EST
- In this second webinar of the series, we will expand upon the information presented in the first webinar and dive deeper into topics including privacy protections for data from human participants and justifiable limitations on sharing data.
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Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability
Slots available after September 19th
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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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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The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to solicit Technology Research and Development Center (TRDC) applications for the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN). The POCTRN catalyzes innovation in diagnostic technologies through a network model that enhances complementary strengths and builds multidisciplinary partnerships across scientific/technological, clinical, regulatory, and commercialization domains. Each TRDC will accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of point-of-care, home-based and other innovative testing technologies in a specific area of health research. The POCTRN TRDCs will merge scientific and technological capabilities and expertise with clinical need and market demand to address unmet testing, monitoring, and treatment demands.
(Optional) LOI Deadline: August 16, 2022 5:00 pm
Proposals Due: September 27, 2022 5:00 pm
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CZI seeks applications for projects that aim to use and gain insights into health and disease from existing single-cell datasets to help accelerate progress toward challenges associated with the compilation and exploration of large atlas-scale data. Given the growth of single-cell biology and the rapid increase in available data, CZI is looking to support projects that will advance the fields of single-cell biology and data science. Grantees will be expected to interact with a network among participating groups that builds community and accelerates progress. Applications are encouraged from computational experts outside the field of single-cell biology but with expertise relevant to overcoming current bottlenecks. Projects may include dedicated efforts to refine existing computational tools, benchmark classes of tools, improve standards, integrate available data that enables greater biological insight, develop new features that support interoperability of data or tools, and other major challenges brought forward.
Proposals Due: August 25, 2022 5:00 pm PT
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The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship to Promote Racial Diversity will provide critical financial support and continued career training to the most promising young scientists in basic and tumor immunology. The program is open to Black and Hispanic candidates and will provide additional support or mentoring and career advancement to these individuals. The long-term goal is to build a more racially diverse community of scientists working in Immuno-Oncology.
Applications Due: September 1, 2022 5:00 pm ET
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This program solicits applications for team-centric development and validation of innovative non-invasive imaging technologies that could have a transformative impact on the study of brain function/connectivity. Applications are expected to turn a novel concept into a functional prototype using this phased grant mechanism. The feasibility should be established by the end of its first phase and serve as a foundation for the transition to its second phase.
(Optional) LOI Deadline: September 13, 2022 5:00 pm
Full Proposal Deadline: October 13, 2022 5:00 pm
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The National Park Service’s (NPS) History of Equal Rights Grant Program (HER) will preserve sites related to the struggle of all Americans to gain equal rights. HER grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS, and will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including: architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to structures. The program funds preservation projects using the NPS report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties
Proposals Due: September 14, 2022 11:59 pm ET
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The PALEO PERSPECTIVES ON PRESENT AND PROJECTED CLIMATE (P4CLIMATE) competition is a coordinated paleoclimate science initiative that is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Divisions of Atmospheric and GeoSpace Sciences (AGS), Earth Sciences (EAR), Ocean Sciences (OCE), and Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the Geosciences (GEO) Directorate. The annual P4CLIMATE competition supports the scientific objectives of the National Science Foundation by fostering interdisciplinary research and synthesis of climate data.
The goal of the interdisciplinary P4CLIMATE solicitation is to utilize observational and modeling studies to provide paleo perspectives addressing the two research themes: 1) Past Regional and Seasonal Climate; and 2) Past Climate Forcing, Sensitivity, and Feedbacks. OPP will accept proposals to this solicitation A) with and without fieldwork in the Arctic, and B) only without fieldwork in the Antarctic. Proposals that have fieldwork in Antarctica should be submitted to the annual solicitation for proposals that have fieldwork in Antarctica
Proposals Due: October 20, 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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