Sr. Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
July 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 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 general list of requirements. However, it is recommended that you go to the specific competition as soon as possible and review the requirements to ensure that you are preparing what is requested since the required information for competitions may vary.
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Found a Limited Submission opportunity that interests you?
If so, please contact the PSFS office sooner than later so that an internal competition can be created for a timely, university-wide, fair and equitable selection process that allows for ample time for review, feedback and revisions.
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This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) efforts to fund projects that support the overarching goal of enhancing coastal resilience and reducing the impacts of climate change throughout our communities and ecosystems. Specifically, this NOFO seeks projects that enhance coastal resilience.
Coastal areas support the nation’s largest and often fastest-growing population centers as well as key natural assets. Strengthening coastal resilience means preparing and adapting coastal communities to mitigate the impacts of and more quickly recover after extreme events such as hurricanes, coastal storms, flooding, and sea level rise. Habitat restoration and natural and nature-based infrastructure and solutions are critical to doing so by protecting lives and property; sustaining commercial, recreational, and subsistence fishing; recovering threatened and endangered species; and maintaining and fostering vibrant coastal economies and lifestyles.
This announcement solicits applications for projects relating to -
- coastal habitat restoration
- coastal habitat restoration planning, engineering, and design
- coastal land conservation.
Institutional Limit: 3 LOIs
Internal Deadline: July 24, 2023 4:45 pm
Mandatory LOI Due: August 14, 2023 11:59 pm ET
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July 11, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
NIH is offering a pre-application webinar to provide an overview of the two NOFOs as well as specific requirements for applications submitted in response to the them.
The webinar will cover the objectives of the NOFOs and the review process, technical assistance on the development of the application, and answer any questions from attendees.
Potential applicants are encouraged to register here.
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September 27-29, 2023
Biloxi, MS
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) Translational Training Symposium is a two-and-a-half day learning event that gathers exceptional scholars and professionals of all levels of the translational career arc from across the Tri-State CCTS Partner Network.
Each day of the event is filled with a robust lineup of structured training sessions and workshops administered by subject-matter experts who bring a wealth of knowledge to elevate the learning experience.
For more information about the 2023 CCTS Translational Training Symposium contact CCTS Training Academy Director Tyren Lucas.
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Hanover GLC Offers NIH and NSF-CAREER modules
Hanover Research has developed a Grants Learning Center (GLC) on-demand grant development training portal that offers faculty enrollees the unique opportunity to receive targeted training in the form of self-paced, interactive modules with step-by-step guidance and templates for prospective applicants to develop compelling proposals. Auburn faculty interested in signing up for this training should contact Christine Cline at clc0165@auburn.edu for registration information.
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Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability
Slots available after September 14, 2023
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 (ventiaf@auburn.edu ).
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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. This is another good source for current STEM and humanities funding opportunities, tips and resources.
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As of February 2023, all Auburn University research personnel (faculty, staff, postdocs, students, and anyone who manages or administers research), regardless of funding source, are required to complete the CITI AU Basic RCR Training course every three years. This RCR training requirement is in addition to any other RCR training that individuals may have taken to date and applies to all personnel who conduct, manage, or facilitate research, including staff (accountants, contracts & grants specialists, grant writers, research fellows, technicians, etc.), students (graduate and undergraduate), postdocs, and ALL faculty (including administrators).
This RCR training requirement also applies to research that is not funded.
The AU-required CITI course AU Basic RCR Training for ALL Faculty, Staff, Postdocs, and Students satisfies NSF and USDA-NIFA RCR training requirements. Additional training for certain NIH awards may be necessary.
Go here to learn more about RCR requirements, to find resources and to access the course.
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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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention supports innovative, impactful studies in areas of suicide research that will achieve significant goals. The grant will support new areas of investigation with potentially high impact for the understanding and prevention of suicide. Collaborative projects with investigators experienced in suicide research is encouraged. Matching funds or partnering with a large healthcare system is encouraged.
The solicitation is open to all fields of inquiry.
LOI Due: August 1, 2023 5:00 pm ET
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March of Dimes is awarding Discovery Grants to seasoned researchers seeking to make consequential translational discoveries that will drastically alter clinical care for pregnant women and babies, whether through evidence-based prevention, diagnosis or intervention.
These grants are funding vehicles for researchers with inquiries that have the power to drastically reshape outcomes for mothers and babies in America and strike a decisive blow against the maternal health crisis in this country. Research inquiries should be practical yet ambitious, attainable yet groundbreaking and necessary yet transformative.
Topics:
- Late Spontaneous Pre-Term Birth
- Racial Inequities as They Relate to Morbidity and Mortality Outcomes for Mothers and Babies
- Cardiovascular Health Conditions Developed During Pregnancy or Exacerbated During Pregnancy
- Maternal Stress, Its Impact on Pregnancy Outcomes, and How to Mitigate the Effects
Proposals Due: August 14, 2023, 2023 5:00 pm ET
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The National Science Foundation (NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), is launching a new program on Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO) to assess how investments in science and technology research and development will contribute to specific outcomes for the Nation. The APTO program will support a cohort of projects that will work together to complement each other's research and development (R&D) efforts on technology outcome models to accurately describe three types of technology outcomes: technology capabilities, technology production, and technology use. These models should be able to predict future as well as past states of technology outcomes. Of particular interest are prediction models that are generalizable across multiple technology areas. The outcome of this work will help assess and evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. R&D investments and generate information that decision makers could use to strategize and optimize investments for advancing long-term U.S. competitiveness into the future.
APTO will fund research and development of causal models that accurately describe past and future technology outcomes, specifically the capabilities, production, and use of specific technologies. These models should be able to predict likely future outcomes for specific technologies and what intentional investments could reliably change or accelerate those outcomes by correctly capturing the various causal relationships. Building and testing these models will require significant amounts of specialized data gathered from a variety of sources, e.g., historical sources, experimentation, expert elicitation, and others. Data extraction and processing tools may need to be developed as part of that effort.
Required Preliminary Proposals Due: August 21, 2023 5:00 pm ET
Submissions Due: October 30, 2023 5:00 pm ET
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With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Statistics seeks applications for funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Survey of Prison Inmates Research and Development (SPIRD) project to update the Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) instrument, field test the updated instrument, and prepare a national implementation plan to field the next iteration of the SPI. The goal of the FY2023 SPIRD project is to conduct research and development to produce national statistics of the U.S. prison population to understand the composition of the U.S. prison population and the changes that occur over time.
Proposals Due: August 21, 2023, 8:59 pm ET
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NSF Dear Colleague Letters - Proposal Requests
The Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) encourages the U.S. research community to submit innovative proposals for fundamental research to better understand GreenHouse Gas mixing/exchange, transport, and fate throughout the atmosphere in the Planetary Boundary Layer and Above (GHG-PBLA).
To address gaps in current technologies, modeling, and measurements of GHGs, particularly in the atmospheric boundary layer. NSF-AGS is inviting proposals from the U.S. research community in the following priority areas:
- Atmospheric modeling for improved understanding of GHG distribution processes to provide reliable GHG estimates and minimizing of concentration uncertainties.
- Measurement opportunities for improved understanding of planetary boundary layer (PBL) processes and reduction of GHG source attribution uncertainties.
- Modeling and parameterization to bridge the scale gaps and to better depict GHG transport and fate.
- Protocols for robust inter-comparison and assessment of the modeling of PBL processes and GHG exchanges between Earth's surface and its atmosphere.
NSF encourages submission of proposals to develop novel tools and methods that improve scientists’ abilities to measure, analyze, manipulate, or control critical aspects of cellular properties and functions in order to continue to push boundaries and open new avenues of inquiry in molecular and cellular biosciences.
Proposals should be submitted to one of the following two Divisions in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), depending on the range of applicability of the tool or method and its connection to a specific research question or to a more general topic or research direction, as detailed below:
- Any Core Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) – if the proposed tool or method addresses a specific research question or hypothesis defined by and to be used primarily by an individual user or group of researchers.
- Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) Program in the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) – if the proposed tool or method is applicable to a broad class of biological research questions or topics and will meet the needs of a well-defined community of researchers.
NSF encourages interdisciplinary research proposals that target new approaches across the core physics sub-disciplines within the purview of the Physics Division to push forward the frontier of measurement accuracy by substantial factors in order to contribute to one or both of the following long-term goals:
- improve the constraints on parameters in theoretical alternatives to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, or similarly overarching fundamental models in other domains of physics such as gravitational physics, or
- determine the values of known parameters to an unprecedented level of accuracy such that deviations from predictions would signal the discovery of new fundamental physics.
The development of new methods or techniques not previously explored for such measurements is of particular interest, although work that will advance mature techniques by unusually large factors will also be considered. Experimental designs that incorporate empirical exploration of unknown systematics are desirable. Proposals for theoretical work will benefit from describing how uncertainties in the resulting quantitative predictions will be assessed, and how they will be used to guide the development of new experiments and/or interpret experimental data. Conversely, proposals for experimental work will benefit from describing how the results will test fundamental theory. Proposals that seek to connect two or more of the core sub-disciplines above, and/or develop new methods that have not been previously demonstrated and that hold promise of advancing the current precision frontier by an order of magnitude or more will be given priority.
Proposals in response to each of these DCLs may be submitted at any time.
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The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education.
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. It supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career and proposals that span a wide range of topics and disciplines that innovatively investigate questions central to education.
The funder welcomes methodological diversity in answering pressing questions and is open to projects that employ a wide array of research methods including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, ethnographies, design-based. The funder is open to projects that might incorporate data from multiple and varied sources, span a sufficient length of time as to achieve a depth of understanding, or work closely with practitioners or community members over the life of the project.
Proposals Due: August 9, 2023, 12:00 pm CT
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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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