Sr. Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
December 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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Limited Submission Announcements |
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DOE’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program announces its interest in receiving applications for Building EPSCoR-State/DOE-National Laboratory Partnerships. These partnerships advance understanding of the physical world by supporting fundamental, early-stage energy research collaborations with the DOE National Laboratories.
Participation by undergraduate students, graduate students, or postdoctoral fellows is required. Early career faculty from EPSCoR jurisdictions are encouraged to apply. Utilization of DOE user facilities is encouraged.
Institutions are allowed two pre-applications in each of the program areas listed below as the lead organization:
a. Accelerator R&D and Production
b. Advanced Scientific Computing Research
c. Basic Energy Sciences
d. Biological and Environmental Research
e. Fusion Energy Sciences
f. High Energy Physics
g. Isotope R&D and Production
h. Nuclear Physics
i. Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response
j. Office of Electricity
k. Office of Environmental Management
l. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Buildings and Industry (including Advanced Materials and Manufacturing; Buildings; and Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization)
m. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (including Geothermal; Solar; Water; and Wind)
n. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Sustainable Transportation (including Bioenergy; Hydrogen and Fuel Cells; and Vehicles)
o. Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
p. Office of Nuclear Energy
Institutional Limit: 2 Pre-proposals per program area
Internal Deadline: January 3, 2024, 4:45pm
Funder Pre-proposal Deadline: January 17, 2024, 5:00pm ET
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(Tracks 2, 3, & Collaborative Planning)
The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable low-income students with academic ability, talent or potential to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of low-income students who graduate with a SSTEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs) not only to fund scholarships, but also to adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that have been shown to be effective supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.
The S-STEM program encourages collaborations, including but not limited to partnerships among different types of institutions; collaborations of S-STEM eligible faculty, researchers, and academic administrators focused on investigating the factors that affect low-income student success and partnerships among institutions of higher education and business, industry, local community organizations, national labs, or other federal or state government organizations, as appropriate.
Scholars must be domestic low-income students, with academic ability, talent or potential and with demonstrated unmet financial need who are enrolled in an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree program in an S-STEM eligible discipline. Proposers must provide an analysis that articulates the characteristics and academic needs of the population of students they are trying to serve.
NSF is particularly interested in supporting the attainment of degrees in fields identified as critical needs for the Nation. Many of these fields have high demand for training professionals that can operate at the convergence of disciplines and include but are not limited to quantum computing and quantum science, robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer science, data science and computational science applied to other frontier STEM areas and other STEM or technology fields in urgent need of domestic professionals. It is up to the proposer to make a compelling case that a field is a critical need field in the United States.
There are three types of projects subject to availability of funds:
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Awards for Track 2 (Implementation: Single Institution) projects may not exceed $2.5 million total for a maximum duration of 6 years.
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Awards for Track 3 (Inter-institutional Consortia) projects may not exceed $5.0 million total for a maximum duration of 6 years.
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Collaborative Planning projects may not exceed $100,000 for a maximum duration of 1 year.
**Please note Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: An institution may submit up to two proposals (either as a single institution or as a subawardee or a member of an inter-institutional consortia project (lead or co-lead) for a given S-STEM deadline. Multiple proposals from an institution must not overlap with regard to S-STEM eligible disciplines.
Institutional Limit: 2 Proposals
Internal Deadline: January 9, 2024, 4:45pm
Funder Deadline: February 20, 2024, 5:00pm CT
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EPSCoR RII Track 4: EPSCoR Research Fellows provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and to further develop their individual research potential through extended collaborative visits to the nation's premier private, governmental, or academic research centers. Through collaborative research visits at the host site, fellowship awardees will be able to learn new techniques, develop new collaborations or advance existing partnerships, benefit from access to unique equipment and facilities, and/or shift their research toward potentially transformative new directions. The experiences gained through the fellowships are intended to have lasting impacts that will enhance the Fellows' research trajectories well beyond the award period. These benefits to the Fellows are also expected to improve the research capacity of their institutions and jurisdictions more broadly. Principal Investigators must either hold a non-tenured faculty appointment at an institution of higher education or an early-career, career-track appointment at an eligible non-degree-granting institution.
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows offers the following two sub-tracks:
1) RII Track-4:NSF
2) RII Track-4:@NASA
While the two tracks are similar in achieving the same goals, RII Track-4:NSF is open to a broad community and RII Track-4:@NASA focuses on faculty from institutions with high enrollments of students from underrepresented populations in STEM to collaborate with researchers at NASA research centers. PIs who are eligible for both tracks may apply for only one track per competition cycle.
In both sub-tracks, the RII Track-4 provides opportunities for the participation of one trainee, who must be an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree program, or a postdoctoral researcher from an EPSCoR jurisdiction. Staff members, such as technicians or lab assistants could be considered as trainees when properly justified.
Institutional Limit: 8 Proposals (4 in RII Track-4:NSF; 4 in RII Track-4:@NASA)
Internal Deadline: January 9, 2024 4:45pm
Funder Deadline: April 9, 2024, 5:00pm CT
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Intramural Funding Opportunities |
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2023-2024 Pilot 4 CWSIS and RSP Intramural Funding Programs
Full Proposals Due: January 24, 2024, 4:45pm
Pilot 4 of the Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship Funding Program (CWSIS) and the Research Support Program (RSP) are now accepting applications.
Proposals undergo thorough internal evaluations. Selected proposals undergo external evaluation. A total of eight to twelve proposals across both programs will be selected for funding. Funding for awards is for a two-year period.
Please note: This competition is open only to those who submitted LOIs in November.
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PCORI: Virtual Town Halls for Funding Opportunities
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is hosting several virtual applicant town halls in January 2024 for applicants to learn more about the Research PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) opening Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.
Attendees will hear from PCORI staff about the PFAs and learn about submitting responsive Letters of Intent (LOI) and applications.
Town Hall Dates and Times:
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Auburn University Libraries: Newspapers.com Offered
Auburn University Libraries and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities announces that Newspapers.com is now available to all faculty, staff, and students on campus for your research needs.
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 916 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 24,400+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Search and view newspapers from around the world with the ability to print or save content in JPG or PDF formats.
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MCDC/ATI Conference at SxSW Festival
Mar. 9-10, 2024
Austin, TX
Advanced Technology International (ATI) will be participating in South by Southwest ( SXSW) Conference and Festival in Austin, TX, March 9-10, 2024. The conference will feature panels focusing on biotechnology/health and tech industry/startup and government.
ATI has secured rooms for Medical CBRN Consortium (MCDC) members at the Line hotel in downtown Austin for this event.
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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 January 2 - January 31, 2024 & after March 6, 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 (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 Whitehall Foundation aims to support scholarly research in the life sciences that is not heavily supported by federal agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The Foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest. Whitehall offers Research Grants for on-going research and Grants-in-Aid to stimulate new research.
LOIs Due: January 15, 2024
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The Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program serves a critical role in helping the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) focus on important emerging areas in a timely manner. The EFRI Biocomputing through EnGINeering Organoid Intelligence (BEGIN OI) solicitation supports foundational and transformative research to advance the design, engineering, and fabrication of organoid systems that are capable of processing information dynamically while interfacing with non-living systems.
The EFRI program seeks proposals with potentially transformative ideas that represent an opportunity for a significant shift in fundamental engineering knowledge with strong potential for long term impact on national needs or a grand challenge. The proposals must also meet the detailed requirements delineated in this solicitation.
LOIs Due: January 17, 2024, 5:00pm CT
Full Proposals Due: February 22, 2024, CT
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The ADDF seeks to support studies of cognitive symptoms due to health conditions, comparative effectiveness research, and epidemiological studies that probe whether the use or choice of drugs alters the risk for dementia or cognitive decline.
The Prevention RFP supports:
- Studies of Cognitive Decline and Risk Reduction:
- Comparative Effectiveness Research:
- Studies Leveraging the Consortium of Cohorts for Alzheimer's Prevention Action (CAPA)
LOIs Due: February 5, 2024, 5:00pm ET
Invited Full Proposals Due: April 8, 2024, 5:00pm ET
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The purpose of the Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL) program is to support early-stage research in emerging technologies for teaching and learning that respond to pressing needs 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. The scope of the program is broad and includes teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM.
RITEL supports research in all learning contexts and for all learner populations. RITEL is unique in its requirement that projects must advance research in both learning (and/or teaching) and technology.
Proposals Due: January 24 2024, 5:00pm CT
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NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. Institutes allow immersive study of humanities topics significant to humanities study and teaching; foster new fields of study and/or revitalize existing areas of inquiry; strengthen humanities teaching and learning in participants’ professional settings; and build lasting communities that foster participants’ intellectual and professional collaboration.
Institutes should:
- situate the proposed topic in significant humanities texts and related resources
- explore multiple, rigorous approaches to the topic
- consider how the topic engages recent developments in the scholarship, teaching, and curricula of participants’ professional settings
- provide opportunities for deep and collaborative engagement with the topic
- model excellent scholarship, teaching, and collegial dialogue
- reach the widest possible audience for whom the topic is relevant
Proposals Due: February 14, 2024, 11:59 ET
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Happy Holidays from Proposal Services & Faculty Support
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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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