Brain Research Foundation: 2025 Seed Grant Program

Brain Research Foundation (BRF) funds innovative neuroscience research that expands understanding of how the brain works, and provides educational programs for researchers, families struggling with debilitating brain disorders and the general public. The purpose of the BRF Seed Grant Program is to provide start-up money for new research projects and innovative programs that have the potential of becoming competitive for an NIH grant or other external funding sources. Our goal is to have this initial effort succeed in opening future opportunities for research, collaboration, and scientific advancement.  

To be eligible, the PI must be a full-time Assistant or Associate Professor working in the field of neuroscience, neurology, neurobiology, physiology, psychiatry, psychology, or related disciplines, proposing scientific projects with a focus on brain health and disease, including cancer.

Institutional Limit: 1 Nomination

Internal Deadline: September 25, 2024, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline (LOI): November 19, 2024, 5:00pm ET

NSF Webinar: Revision of NSF Award Terms and Conditions Implementing Revised 2 CFR

Thursday, September 12, 2024

1:00pm CT

Join the NSF Policy Office in the Division of Institution and Award Support (DIAS) for a webinar which will provide the framework for OMB's revisions to Award Terms and Conditions and how they affect NSF proposals and awards.

Register here.

CCTS Case Studies in Mentoring

Each Monday, September 16 - November 11, 2024

11:00am - 12pm via ZOOM



Explore the nuances of the mentor-mentee relationship. Case-based discussions help participants discover new strategies to maximize the benefits of this career-enhancing skill. All sessions are facilitated by experienced UAB mentors.

See Schedule and Topics.

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AU Libraries' Savvy Researcher Boot Camp

Take Your Research to the Next Level!  

Saturday, September 14, 2024

       9:00 am – 3:45 pm via ZOOM

AU Libraries' virtual daylong event is designed for graduate students who want to take their research skills to a higher level. Whether students are interested in locating scholarly sources in their field, writing a literature review, designing a conference poster, managing data, or organizing citations, the Savvy Researcher workshops will help them become better, more effective researchers. 

Featured Lunch Program Speaker: Daria LaTorre, J.D., Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives (Duquesne University), will lead an interactive discussion on the ethical and legal aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in higher education. Interested faculty, as well as graduate students, are invited.

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NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnership (TIP) Updates Webinar

September 18, 2024

1:00pm -2:00pm CT



Please join the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP) for a TIP Updates webinar introducing new directorate developments, including new programs, awards and funding opportunities.

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Hanover Research Webinars

Scaling Up Your Research

Thursday, September 26, 2024

11:00am CT

This session will focus on grant-seekers who are aiming to expand the scale of their research, whether it’s broadening the scope of their work, adapting to target larger-scale grant opportunities, or exploring collaborations across disciplinary lines.

Register here.



• Upcoming in October: What Deadline? Keeping Yourself and Others on Task in Grant Development
• Recently posted to the archives: Introduction to Grantseeking for Administrators

Alabama Higher Education AI Exchange

October 10-11, 2024 

Biggio Center Mell Classroom Building, 231 Mell Street

Auburn University, in partnership with the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, invites you to the Alabama Higher Education AI Exchange, an event to supercharge AI literacy, collaboration, and access for the state’s higher education community.  

The Alabama Higher Education AI Exchange will feature three tracks:

• The Research track invites presentations and discussions on how artificial intelligence can enhance research, as well as research focused on artificial intelligence and related topics. 
• The Teaching & Learning track invites presentations and discussions on the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence tools present for academic work, both inside and outside the classroom. 
• The Business Operations & Student Services track invites presentations and discussions on using AI tools to improve efficiency in administrative and managerial functions, with a particular interest in practices that enhance student services. 

Register for Pre-Conference Sessions

Register for the Conference



Submit a Poster or Serve as a Panelist!

All researchers and practitioners are invited to share their expertise and experience on artificial intelligence. Submit an online interest form located at the following link:

https://aub.ie/aipresenter

Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability

Slots available September 12 - 27, 2024 and after October 21, 2024



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. 

American Cancer Society Grants

Research Scholar Grants

Provides support for independent, self-directed researchers. Grant proposals are investigator-initiated and may pursue questions across the cancer research continuum, as long as they fit within an American Cancer Society (ACS) priority research area.

Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG)

Supports full-time faculty members in becoming independent investigators as clinician scientists. This grant is designed for people trained primarily as clinicians who want to maintain clinical practice and conduct cancer research.

Institutional Research Grants 

Awarded to institutions as block grants, providing seed money for newly independent investigators to initiate cancer research projects. The intent is to support junior faculty in initiating cancer research projects so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants.

Discovery Boost Grants (DBG)

Designed to support high-risk, high-reward exploratory cancer research across the research continuum. Investigators may focus on developing research methodologies, establishing feasibility, or leading pilot tests.



All Applications Due: October 15, 2024, 5:00pm ET

NSF: Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL)

The purpose of the RITEL program is to support early-stage research in emerging technologies for teaching and learning that respond to pressing needs in authentic (real-world) educational environments. RITEL supports future-oriented exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. 

Proposal Due: November 5, 2024, 5:00pm CT

NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

This program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their lifecycles that respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:

1. Research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
2. Enhancement or design of digital infrastructure that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.

There are three funding levels:

• Level I: new consortia or partnerships, user experience testing reports and evaluations, planning documents for next stages, alpha stage experiments, and pilot studies.
• Level II: working prototypes of tools, code libraries, or add-ons; beta version of the digital project; new workflows; and training data or models.
• Level III: launch of the expanded/enhanced digital project; release of final software, code, or datasets; robust outreach activities beyond the applicant institution; implementation of sustainability plans.

Optional Draft Due: November 13, 2024, 11:59pm ET

Funder Deadline: January 9, 2025, 11:59pm ET

The Dreyfus Foundation: The Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences

The Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences is awarded to an individual in a selected area of chemistry to recognize exceptional and original research that has advanced the field in a major way. The prize is awarded biennially and consists of a monetary award of $250,000, a medal, and a certificate.

2025 Topic: Electrochemical Processes

Nominations Due: December 5, 2024, 5:00pm ET

AU Libraries’ Innovation & Research Commons Offerings

The Innovations & Research Commons (I&RC) within AU Libraries offers Adobe/multimedia and other workshops in-person and via Zoom. Visit the I&RC Instructional Content page for workshop schedules and registration, on-demand video recordings and more.

The Adobe Creative Space in the I&RC offers an Adobe help desk and Zoom room staffed with student employees to assist users in learning skills to complete academic and research projects using Adobe Creative Cloud applications. 

Find the Adobe Student Consultants’ schedule, areas of specialty, help desk location, policies, and Adobe Help Zoom room link on the I&RC Adobe Creative Space here.