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 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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NSF INCLUDES is a comprehensive, national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discovery and innovation, focused on NSF's commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in STEM fields, as communicated in the NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 - 2026. 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 diversity of the Nation's population. More specifically, NSF INCLUDES seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance equity and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM fields at scale. Significant advancement in the inclusion of groups that have historically been excluded from or under-served in STEM will result in a new generation of STEM talent and leadership to secure the Nation's future and long-term economic competitiveness.
With this solicitation, NSF offers support for five types of projects that connect and contribute to the National Network:
- Design and Development Launch Pilots,
- Collaborative Change Consortia,
- Alliances, (Please note: Auburn currently has an active Alliances Award)
- Network Connectors, and
- Conferences.
All NSF INCLUDES funded projects must operationalize five design elements of collaborative infrastructure - (1) shared vision, (2) partnerships, (3) goals and metrics, (4) leadership and communication, and (5) expansion, sustainability, and scale - to create systemic change that will lead to the substantially broadened participation of individuals from historically excluded and undeserved groups in STEM.
Institutional Limit: 1 proposal per project type
Internal Deadline: August 26, 2022 4:45 pm
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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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Webinar 1 - Before Writing: Faculty Readiness and Submission Considerations.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 2:00-3:15 p.m. ET
Webinar 2 – Determining Whether a Funding Opportunity is Right for You.
Monday, September 26, 2022, 2:00-3:15 p.m. ET
Webinar 3 – Writing a Competitive Application.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 2:00-3:15 p.m. ET
Registration is required to attend. The webinars will be recorded and made available for on-demand viewing after the event. You may also register if you cannot attend but would like to be notified when the recordings are posted.
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Are you prepared to make the most of research mentorship? As a mentor, mentee, or both, are you prepared to navigate challenges posed by mentoring relationships? Bring your experiences, questions, and concerns and join us for case-based discussions about the nuances of effective mentorship. Each session is designed to support participants’ development of strategies and skills to maximize the benefits of mentoring in research. Drs. Carey Andrzejewski and Alan Wilson are leading this professional development Fall 2022 series focused on research mentoring that is open to AU faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.
Calendar of Topics for fall 2022:
- Effective Communication in Mentoring Relationships (August 23)
- Aligning Expectations among Mentors and Mentees (September 6)
- Equity in Mentorship (September 27)
- Cultivating Ethical Behavior in Mentoring Relationships (October 11)
- Mentorship and Authorship (October 25)
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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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September 14-16, 2022
Battle House Renaissance Hotel, Mobile, AL
The symposium agenda contains 2.5 days of experiential training and career development sessions on translational and design thinking, grant writing, clinical trials, community engagement, funding opportunities, and more. Keynote speakers Dr. Neil Lamb, President and Faculty Investigator at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Dr. Michele Lamere, Assistant Director of Education Programs for the University of Minnesota CTSA, will be joined by other expert facilitators from across the CCTS Partner Network. Financial support for attendance is available (details at the URL below).
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Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability
1 Slot available for August 8th
Additional slots available after September 13th
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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The Fall 2022 Grant Cycle is now open. Organizations serving any part of the five-county Greater Birmingham region are invited to apply for a grant under one of the Foundation's five strategic priorities.
- Fostering Equity and Inclusion
- Creating Economic Opportunity for All
- Overcoming Persistent Poverty
- Driving Regional Cooperation
- Nurturing Thriving Communities
No special request for proposal (RFP) opportunities are planned for this cycle but they will continue to offer general operating support grants on a limited basis to smaller organizations (up to $100K income) that demonstrate need. Review their Grantmaking Guidelines before beginning the application process.
Proposals Due: August 19, 2022 12:00 am (Midnight)
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The ERC program supports convergent research (CR) that will lead to strong societal impact. Each ERC has interacting foundational components that go beyond the research project, including engineering workforce development (EWD) at all participant stages, diversity and a culture of inclusion (DCI) where all participants gain mutual benefit, and value creation within an innovation ecosystem (IE) that will outlast the lifetime of the ERC. The logical reasoning that links the proposed activities to the identified goals for each ERC should be clear.
Mandatory LOI Due: September 2, 2022 5:00 pm
Mandatory Preliminary Proposal Due: October 3, 2022 5:00 pm
Invited Full Proposals Due: May 8, 2023 5:00 pm
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An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem. The aim of this Ideas Lab is to bring together experts from diverse scientific and engineering backgrounds to develop innovative engineering technologies and solutions that will enable real-time and reliable sensing, communications, localization, navigation, and mapping of aquatic environments, including glaciers, rivers, lakes, and oceans, for scientific research and economic development in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner.
This Ideas Lab will seek and prioritize proposals which will measurably increase the diversity and participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM.
Mandatory Preliminary Proposed Due: September 19, 2022 5:00 pm
Full Proposals Due: March 1, 2023 5:00 pm
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The Cooperative Research Program (CRP) provides opportunity to compete for financial assistance for projects seeking to improve and strengthen the relationship between fisheries researchers from NMFS, state fishery agencies, and universities and the U.S. fishing industry (recreational and commercial) in the Gulf of Mexico (FL, AL, MS, LA, TX), South Atlantic (FL, NC, SC, GA) and Caribbean (USVI and Puerto Rico). The program bolsters partnerships by providing a way for involving commercial and recreational fishermen in the collection of fundamental fisheries information in support of management and regulatory options. This program addresses NOAA's mission to "Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources through an Ecosystem Approach to Management."
Proposals Due: September 30, 2022 5:00 pm ET
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The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research has opened its cycle for 2022-2023 funding pilot grants focused on cutting-edge prostate cancer research. The Foundation strives to become a global leader in the fight to eradicate prostate cancer through raising public awareness of early detection and funding research to end prostate cancer in memory of Mike Slive, a transformative leader whose vision and direction revolutionized the business of collegiate sports. Review the proposal and submission guidelines on their website.
Proposals Due: October 1, 2022 11:59 pm CT
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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support research on the underlying cause(s) of signs and symptoms that may persist following a Lyme disease diagnosis and antibiotic treatment. Studies submitted in response to this FOA should directly and specifically address possible causes of persistent symptoms in PTLDS. Examples of hypotheses that may be pursued include, but are not limited to, persistent infection with Lyme Borrelia species, autoimmune response triggered by initial infection, persistent inflammatory responses, co-infections, generalized (non-specific) post-infectious syndrome, or other infectious or non-infectious conditions.
(Optional) Letters of Intent Due: October 7, 2022 5:00 pm
Full Proposals Due: November 8, 2022 5:00 pm
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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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