Sr. Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
October 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 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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The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers.
These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemical Sciences.
Nominees must:
• Have been born in or after 1982.
• Hold a doctorate degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.).
• Currently hold a tenured or tenure-track academic faculty position, or equivalent, at an invited institution in the United States.
• Currently conduct research as a principal investigator in one of the disciplinary categories in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, or Chemical Sciences.
One nominee in each category will be awarded $250,000 and be named a 2024 Blavatnik National Awards Laureate; additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists. Honorees will be celebrated at the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards Ceremony in New York City in October 2024.
*Please note that competition requirements for this opportunity differ from a typical limited submission.
Institutional Limit: 3 Nominations (One per disciplinary category)
Internal Deadline: November 8, 2023, 4:45pm
Foundation Deadline: November 29, 2023
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The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote scientific progress nationwide. NSF EPSCoR eligibility is based on a jurisdiction's recent five-year history of total funds awarded by NSF relative to the Foundation's total research budget for that same period.
RII Track-2 FEC builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) focus areas consistent with the National Science Foundation 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. Projects are investigator-driven and must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges, which neither party could address as well or rapidly independently.
RII Track-2 FEC projects have a comprehensive and integrated vision to drive discovery and build sustainable STEM capacity that exemplifies individual, institutional, geographic, and disciplinary diversity. Additionally, the projects' STEM research and education activities seek to broaden participation through the strategic inclusion and integration of diverse individuals, institutions, and sectors.
In addition, NSF EPSCoR recognizes that the development of early-career faculty from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields is critical to sustaining and advancing research capacity. The integration and inclusion of Minority-serving Institutions (MSIs), women's colleges, Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), and two-year colleges is a critical component of this sustainable STEM capacity.
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: November 8, 2023, 4:45pm
Funder-required LOIs Due: December 19, 2023, 5:00pm CT
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Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) member institutions within two years of their initial tenure track appointment at the time of application. These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members that often result in additional funding from other sources. The award amount provided by Oakridge Research Associated Universities is $5,000. AU is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This is a one-year grant (June 1 to May 31).
Research projects must fall within one of these disciplines:
- Engineering and Applied Science
- Life Sciences
- Mathematics/Computer Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Policy, Management, or Education
- Augmented Reality in the Workplace
- Supply Chain Innovation
Institutional Limit: 2 Nominations
Internal Deadline: November 8, 2023, 4:45pm
Association Deadline: Jan. 8, 2024, 12pm ET
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Applications due November 13th, 2023
5:00pm CT
CTSTP serves as a catalytic career launch for investigators at multiple stages and in a variety of roles, leading to new professional appointments, successful extramural funding, promotion, and tenure.
Join this six-month certificate program providing training in the areas of clinical trials, epidemiology, biostatistics, ethics, outcomes research, dissemination of results, and more.
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Application Deadline: November 30, 2023
The U.S. Department of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program offers hands-on exposure to Department of the Air Force (DAF) research challenges through 8- to 12-week research residencies at participating DAF research facilities for full-time science, mathematics, and engineering faculty at U.S. colleges and universities.
Objectives include -
- To stimulate professional relationships among U.S. Department of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program participants and the scientists and engineers at Department of the Air Force research facilities
- To enhance the research interests and capabilities of faculty (both new and experienced researchers) in the U.S. academic community
- To elevate the awareness in the U.S. academic community of Department of the Air Force research needs and foster continued research at fellows' institutions
- To provide the U.S. Department of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program participant opportunities to perform high-quality and meaningful research at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directorates, Air Force Test Center, the United States Air Force Academy, or the Air Force Institute of Technology
- To provide nationally accredited mentoring of academic researchers at technical directorates of the AFRL, Air Force Test Center, the United States Air Force Academy, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.
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December 4 – 7, 2023
Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Fall 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference.
Registration is free and opens November 8, 2023, 12pm ET.
For those who cannot attend the live conference, all recorded conference sessions will be available on-demand shortly after the event and posted on the NSF Outreach website and YouTube page.
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Center for Clinical and Translational Science Offers Mentoring/Training Programs
Applications due December 15, 2023
The CCTS is accepting applications for programs for early-career faculty and doctoral students in translational research focused on addressing health disparities and/or clinical conditions that disproportionately affect the Deep South.
Mentored Career Development (K) Program is for early-career faculty who have recently finished a research or health professional doctorate in translational research. The goal of the program is to impart the knowledge, experience, and perspective required to develop a network of independent investigators. The program culminates in lead-author manuscripts and an extramurally funded research grant submission.
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The National Institutes of Health is taking steps to simplify its process to assess the scientific merit of research grant applications and mitigate elements that have the potential to introduce bias into review. The simplified review framework will be implemented for grant applications received on and after Jan. 25, 2025.
Under the new framework, the five current review criteria are being reorganized into three broader factors to help reviewers focus on crucial questions that determine scientific merit.
- Factor 1: Importance of the Research (Significance and Innovation), factor score 1-9
- Factor 2: Rigor and Feasibility (Approach), factor score 1-9,
- Factor 3: Expertise and Resources (Investigator and Environment), either rated as sufficient for the proposed research or not (in which case reviewers must provide an explanation)
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Auburn University has implemented a new Single Sign On (SSO) feature for the CITI Training Platform.
Available to all research personnel - including faculty, postdocs, students and staff - this new feature has been introduced to make accessing CITI trainings more convenient. Now, you only need to use your Auburn username and password to log in. Using the AU SSO also ensures that completed trainings are more accurately recorded and integrated into Auburn University's systems. CITI Training SSO is
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Uniform Guidance Changes
The Federal Office of Management and Budget is currently proposing updates to the Uniform Guidance for Grants and Agreements, now posted for public comment in the Federal Register. The comment period ends December 4.
Read updates and submit comments here.
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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 October 27 - November 10, 2023
and November 28 - December 21, 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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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 McKnight Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award (NBD Award) assists scientists working to apply the knowledge achieved through basic research to human brain disorders, and who demonstrate a commitment to equitable and inclusive lab environments.
The foundation is interested in proposals that address the biological mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders. This includes proposals that provide mechanistic insights into neurological functions at the synaptic, cellular, molecular, genetic or behavioral level across different species, including humans and vertebrate and invertebrate model organisms. A new additional area of interest is the contribution of the environment to brain disorders. Proposals that incorporate new approaches and provide potential paths for therapeutic interventions are encouraged. Collaborative and cross-disciplinary applications are also encouraged.
LOI Due: November 6, 2023
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The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.
Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.
Preproposals Due: November 29, 2023, 11:59pm ET
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The mission of the PVA Education Foundation is to fund innovative educational projects that enhance the quality of life of individuals with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D), including multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and/or increase the knowledge and effectiveness of health professionals in SCI/D, MS and ALS communities. Proposals should focus on -
- Consumer and community education to improve the health, independence and quality of life for individuals with SCI/D
- Professional development and education to improve the knowledge and competencies of health professionals who serve the SCI/D community, including fellowship and traineeship programs
- Research translation, projects that move research findings into practical application
- Conferences and symposia that provide education and collaboration opportunities for members of the SCI/D community
Proposals Due: December 1, 2023, 11:59pm ET
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The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.
The CSSI program anticipates three classes of awards:
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Elements: These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
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Framework Implementations: These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, and resulting in a sustainable community framework providing CI services to a diverse community or communities.
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Transition to Sustainability: These awards target groups who would like to execute a well-defined sustainability plan for existing CI with demonstrated impact in one or more areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The sustainability plan should enable new avenues of support for the long-term sustained impact of the CI.
Proposals Due: December 1, 2023, 5:00pm CT
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The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.
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. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
Proposals Due: December 6, 2023, 12:00pm Noon CT
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The purpose of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is to conserve endangered and threatened species and the ecosystems upon which they depend, and to take appropriate steps to achieve the purposes of treaties and conventions set forth in the ESA.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Ecological Services Program provides Federal financial assistance on a competitive basis to states, other Federal agencies, landowners, educators, non-profit organizations, researchers, and other potential partners to secure information about endangered or threatened species, to aid in the recovery of these species under the ESA, and to help conserve the ecosystems upon which these species depend.
The Recovery Challenge funding opportunity specifically provides a unique financial assistance opportunity for eligible, non-Federal longstanding and new partners working on high priority recovery actions as identified by the Service for ESA endangered and threatened species.
Proposals Due: December 19, 2023, 11:59pm ET
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Southern SARE supports farmers in their efforts to conduct new and innovative sustainable agriculture production practices. Emphasizing relationship building between researcher and farmer, On-Farm Research Grants must meet the following basic requirements:
- The proposed project focuses on sustainable agriculture practices and techniques to address a particular on-farm issue.
- Applicants must work directly with farmers/ranchers in their profession.
- Applicants must identify at least one farmer/rancher cooperator in the proposed project, and the work must be conducted on farm (either on the cooperator’s farm, or on a research farm with the cooperator’s involvement).
- The farmer/rancher cooperator’s primary occupation must be farming or ranching or they are a part-time producer.
- The proposed project satisfies the requirements of allowable expenses.
- An outreach component is identified in the proposal.
Proposals Due: December 1, 2023, 12:00pm ET
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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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