Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented early career faculty in the chemical sciences. The award, which requires an institutional nomination, is based on an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of the nominee's appointment and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. 

Nominees must -

• Hold a full-time tenure-track academic appointment focused on the chemical sciences.
• Be within Ph.D. granting departments in which scholarly research is a principal activity and undergraduate education is an important component.
• Be within the first six years of their independent academic careers at the time of submission of the nomination.

Institutional Limit: One (1) Nominee

Internal Deadline: December 3, 2024, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: January 30, 2025, 11:59pm ET

NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3), FY 2025

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits proposals that are 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, as well as the economic development of the jurisdiction receiving funding.

Each funded NASA EPSCoR proposer shall work closely with a NASA researcher to focus on developing competitive research and technology for the solution of scientific and technical issues of importance to the NASA Mission Directorates and Centers. It is intended to strengthen the bonds among NASA EPSCoR jurisdictions, NASA, commercial partners, and other entities.

Other Eligibility

• Proposers (Principal Investigators and Science Investigators) that have an active NASA EPSCoR Research award (Basic Research, ISS and R3, Sub-orbital Flight Opportunity) are not eligible to apply for the R3 program. Proposers that have active Research Infrastructure Development (RID) sub-awards are eligible to apply for this solicitation
• Previously awarded EPSCoR Research Science Investigators (Research, R3, ISS, SFO), awarded within the last three years, FY22-FY24, are not eligible to apply for the R3 program. RID sub-awards recipients are eligible to apply for this solicitation.
• Letters of support from the Alabama EPSCoR director are encouraged

FY2024 NASA EPSCoR R3 Full NOFO

Institutional Limit: Three (3) Proposals

Internal Deadline: December 5, 2024, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: February 26, 2025, 11:59pm ET

2024-2025 CWSIS and RSP Intramural Funding Programs

Mandatory LOIs Due TODAY

November 20, 2024, 4:45pm

The Office of the Sr. Vice President for Research and Economic Development announces the 2024 call for proposals for the Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship Funding Program (CWSIS) and the Research Support Program (RSP).

Important Dates & Information

• Full Proposals due January 15, 2025, 4:45pm.
• Complete program descriptions are available on the CWSIS and RSP webpages.

Proposals undergo thorough internal evaluations. Selected proposals undergo external evaluation. A total of ten proposals across both programs may be selected for funding. Funding for awards is for a two-year period.

All Submissions Are Through The AU Competition Space (InfoReady).

• CWSIS LOI Submission Link
• RSP LOI Submission Link

Please contact Christine Cline (334-844-5929) for programmatic assistance; 

Laura Cauthen (344-844-7910) for InfoReady assistance.

Funding Opportunities

Folger Institute Research Fellowships

The Folger Institute offers long-term fellowships for scholarly and public humanities research and short-term fellowships for both scholarly and artistic research.



Applications Due: December 15, 2024

NSF: Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2) - Phase 1

R212 is a community- engaged team science effort to co-design high-impact solutions to climate-related societal challenges that leverage recent advances in fundamental climate change and Earth system science research. Each R2I2 project will address specific regional climate challenges and will develop and demonstrate solutions to those challenges that can be effectively applied in real- world settings. Targeted areas for establishing R2I2 incubators will be based on ten climate regions defined by the Fifth National Climate Assessment. 

R2I2 will be implemented in two phases, concept creation and implementation. This solicitation, focused on Phase-1, will fund a series of pilot projects focusing on project concept creation and refinement for solutions specific to a U.S. climate region.

LOIs Due: December 16, 2024, 5:00pm CT

American Parkinson's Disease Association Research Grants

APDA Research Grants are intended to support research aimed at developing new insights into the pathophysiology, etiology and/or treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Grant proposals can address research questions anywhere along the pipeline from basic science to rehabilitation-focused projects. APDA seeks to promote the entry of new investigators into the field of Parkinson research, as well as to support important new ideas in the field worthy of investigation.

LOIs Due: December 16, 2024, 5:00pm ET

PCORI: Cycle 1 Broad Pragmatic Studies Funding Announcement

This funding opportunity seeks applications addressing at least one of four of PCORI’s National Priorities for Health:

• Increase Evidence for Existing Interventions and Emerging Innovations in Health
• Achieve Health Equity
• Advance the Science of Dissemination, Implementation and Health Communication

For Cycle 1, PCORI identified the following Special Areas of Emphasis (SAEs) within the BPS funding opportunity:

• Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
• Health Communication Strategies for Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccine

Submissions to these these SAEs are encouraged, but not limited to only to these areas.

Required LOI Due: January 14, 2025, 5:00pm ET

NSF: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE:EDU)

The IUSE: EDU program supports projects designed to contribute to a future in which all undergraduate students are fully engaged in their STEM learning. The IUSE: EDU program promotes (1) Engaged Student Learning: the development, testing, and use of teaching practices and curricular innovations that will engage students and improve learning, persistence, and retention in STEM, and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation: the transformation of colleges and universities to implement and sustain highly effective STEM teaching and learning.

All projects supported by IUSE: EDU must:

• Demonstrate a strong rationale for project objectives or incorporate and build on educational practices that are demonstrably effective
• Contribute to the development of exemplary undergraduate STEM education
• Add to the body of knowledge about what works in undergraduate STEM education and the conditions that lead to improved STEM teaching and learning
• Measure project progress and achievement of project goals

Proposals Due: January 18, 2025, 5:00pm CT

The BRAIN Foundation Grants 2025

The BRAIN Foundation primary focus is catalyzing basic and interdisciplinary translational research that leads to the development of effective therapeutics to improve the functioning of individuals with Neuro-Developmental Disorders (NDD) including Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Targeted Area of Research

Treatment Trials: Pre-clinical drug studies, Phase I/II clinical treatment trials or human treatment studies, animal or organoid studies, to evaluate efficacy of new compounds and repurposed drugs for treatment of disabling symptoms of autism. Higher priority will be given to human studies.

Applications Due: January 20, 2025, 11:59am PT

Important Updates

Hanover Research Webinars

Integrating Theoretical Frameworks into Grant Proposals

Thursday, November 21, 2024

11:00am CT

This session will dive into the importance of theoretical frameworks, the selection of the appropriate framework for your proposal, and the art of seamlessly weaving your framework into a proposal narrative.

Register here.

• Upcoming in December: Communicating the Impacts of Your Research
• Recently posted to the archives: Deadline? What Deadline? Keeping Yourself and Others on Task in Grant Development

Fall 2024 NSF Virtual Grants Conference

December 9 – 12, 2024

This free, virtual conference is an excellent opportunity to gain insights into NSF’s current issues, policies and procedures, and specific funding opportunities

For logistical questions about this virtual conference, please contact grants_conference@nsf.gov.

Register here

CCTS Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE) Annual Methods Symposium

Travel Awards Available

April 10, 2025

UAB Campus

Birmingham, AL

The 2025 COERE symposium will feature general overview presentations on large language models, machine learning, and AI ethics in health services research. Students, trainees, and early-stage investigators outside of UAB are eligible for Travel Awards.

Travel Award Applications Due: December 15, 2024

DOE Funding Opportunity and Webinars

The U.S. Department of Energy has issued Topics FY 2025 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). It is available at the following website: https://science.osti.gov/sbir/Funding-Opportunities. 

The DOE will hold two webinars for this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and application process:

• Thursday, December 19, 2024 - to present about the NOFO and application process
• Friday, December 20, 2024 - to answer your questions.

Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability

Slots available after January 24, 2025

(Please note: Hanover offices are closed 12/23/24 - 1/3/25)



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 timelines, click here. If you are interested in a slot in the queue, please e-mail Tony Ventimiglia.

Research Development and Grantwriting Newsletter

This online publication is a great source for current STEM and Humanities funding opportunities, tips and resources. Published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, access is available only for Auburn University faculty, staff and students with a valid user ID.

In the November Issue:

• Topics of Interest URLs • November 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News • NIH Replication to Enhance Research Impact Initiative • The Role of Reproducibility and Replicability in NSF Research Funding • Importance of Reproducibility and Replicability in STEM Education Funding • Analyzing NSF CAREER Reviews and Planning Your Revisions • Connect Funding Opportunities to Societal Challenges • The Dos and Don’ts of Writing the Statement of Purpose for a Humanities/Social Sciences Funding Application • Research Grant Writing Web Resources • Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps • New Funding Opportunities 

Auburn University Rural Health Initiative

The AU Rural Health Initiative partners with rural Alabama communities to increase access to high quality and affordable health and wellness care. Sites are being developed in 15 locations throughout the Black Belt and East Alabama, and team members and research to support the Initiative's efforts are encouraged.

The Auburn University Rural Health Initiative webpage provides a wealth of information on provided services, projects, research sought, funding opportunities and more. Check it out to see if your research can play a role in these important outreach efforts.