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.

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.

The Pathway to Stop Diabetes Accelerator award is intended to provide flexible, long-term salary and research support to early career researchers who are proposing innovative and ambitious diabetes-related research programs, and who have distinguished themselves as exceptionally talented and promising research investigators. Pathways offers two programs of funding: Accelerator Award and Initiator Award.

Candidates for Accelerator awards should be in the process of establishing successful, independent diabetes research programs, and have records of independent productivity in research. For this award, demonstration of independent productivity should include that the candidate is currently in an independent faculty position, has demonstrated the ability to perform a particular set of experiments at a high-quality level, including senior author publications (independent of training mentors) and/or has demonstrated the ability to obtain independent funding/support for their work.

Initiator award is designed to support early career researchers who have distinguished themselves during their research training as exceptionally talented and promising research investigators with a high likelihood of establishing successful, independent research programs and making seminal contributions in diabetes research.

Both awards are highly competitive and intended to support particularly innovative and

transformational ideas that significantly transform diabetes through research to improve the lives of people with diabetes. If funded, the Principal Investigator must agree to devote at least 75% of their total time and overall effort towards research.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries made while conducting academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. Specifically, the primary goals of this program are to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and to enhance their role in regional innovation ecosystems. In addition, this program seeks to effectively train graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in translational research, benefiting them across a range of career options.

A particular intent of ART is to support IHEs that want to build the necessary infrastructure to boost the overall institutional capacity to accelerate the pace and scale of translation of fundamental research outcomes into practice by supporting the development of a range of activities essential for this activity.

This solicitation seeks proposals that enable IHE-based teams to propose a blend of:

(1) activities that will help build and/or strengthen the institutional infrastructure to sustainably grow the institutional capacity for research translation in the short and long terms;

(2) educational/training opportunities, especially for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to become entrepreneurs and/or seek use-inspired and/or translational research-oriented careers in the public and/or private sectors; and

(3) specific, translational research activities that offer immediate opportunities for transition to practice to create economic and/or societal impact.

Auburn University can nominate two applicants for NEH Summer Stipends (summer 2025). Summer Stipends carry an award of $6,000 for scholarly projects including books, articles, digital materials, translations, editions and other scholarly resources.

The NEH call for proposals will be available officially on the NEH website June 18, 2024. Applications will be available here.

Applicants should read the NEH guidelines carefully and submit an electronic copy of a polished draft of the NEH application form to the Auburn NEH Committee by the deadline: July 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm.

The application is composed of

Applications should be submitted to Dr. Scott Phillips at who will be collecting them and coordinating with the committee this summer. Once the committee makes its selections , it will work with the selected nominees to refine their proposals.

NEH's anticipated deadline for applications is September 18, 2024.

Thursday, May 23, 2024

11:00am CT

To ensure future Hanover webinars align with your interests, PSFS requests your participation in a brief survey. By sharing your preferences for upcoming webinar topics, you’ll help shape the content offered.

The Biggio Center invites AU researchers to meet a representative from NVIDIA - a major supplier of AI hardware and software. Come learn how NVIDIA technology roadmap and its application can further your work, and also enjoy the opportunity to network with peers.

Lunch will be provided.

Unlimited virtual attendance via Zoom is also available. The Zoom link will be emailed to virtual registrants the day of the event. A recording of the event will be available.

In-person and Virtual Registration: https://aub.ie/NVIDIA_Research

Do you need to create a Pivot Account for targeted funding searches or need to refresh your current account for better notification results?

PSFS is hosting a Pivot Drop-In Consultation Clinic at Collaboration Corner in Foy Hall. Create or hone your account and get tips for finding funding matches.

Drop in any time between 12:00pm - 4:00pm or make an appointment here.

Bring your laptop. Light refreshments provided.

Are you interested in developing biomedical repositories and knowledgebases relevant to complementary and integrative health? If so, NIH invites you to a pre-application webinar for the NIH Biomedical Data Repositories and Knowledgebases (DRKB) Program.

This webinar will provide an overview of the trans-NIH DRKB Program and review the requirements of the funding opportunities including the application review criteria, and answer questions from prospective applicants.

Register for the webinar.

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.

Hanover GLC Modules for NIH, NSF-CAREER & Grant Development

The Hanover Research Grants Learning Center (GLC) on-demand grant development training portal 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. In addition to NIH and NSF-CAREER modules, AU faculty now have access to a variety of new modules on grant seeking, development and revisions.

Auburn faculty interested in signing up for this training should contact Christine Cline for registration information.

The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields.

The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects. It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.)

The Marconi Prize is awarded to established scientists who have created and scaled our connected world. Nominees are recognized for their impacts on widely-used technology, the scientific importance of their work, their entrepreneurial contributions, and the applicability of their work to social and humanitarian efforts.

The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer.

The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative and, if successful, have the strong potential for high impact in the cancer field.

NIH: Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Alzheimer's Disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Currently, more than 6 million Americans, most of them age 65 or older live with AD, and it is projected that the number of new cases of AD will double by 2025.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications proposing research on current topics in Alzheimer's disease and its related dementias. Further information on the high-priority topics of interest will be announced through a series of Notices published subsequent to this FOA.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's (NWFW) Southeast Aquatics Fund is a competitive grants program that supports voluntary watershed-based restoration and improved management within riparian and in-stream areas and the forest and agricultural lands that impact them to improve the health of these aquatic systems and secure populations of native freshwater aquatic species.

The Southeast Aquatics Fund focal geographies were identified as priority watersheds due to their high conservation need and the viable opportunities they present for restoration and management strategies that address the key threats aquatic species face in their waters.

Priorities for the Southeast Aquatics Fund include implementing water quality and quantity best management practices through providing landowner outreach and assistance, improving connectivity, restoring riparian and in-stream habitat, and supporting assessment and prioritization activities in targeted watersheds of the Southeast. This habitat-based approach benefits a diversity of species, from game species to at-risk aquatic species.

The long-range goal of the Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG) program is to strengthen the nation's scientific competitiveness by increasing the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences, be they in academia, government, or industry. The RTG program supports efforts to improve graduate student research training and professional development through structured groups pursuing collaborative research. In addition to graduate student trainees working with faculty members, RTG supported research teams may, but are not required to, include undergraduate or postdoctoral trainees.

The RTG program invites submissions in all fields within mathematical sciences; especially encouraged in 2024-2025 are those that align and integrate research in mathematics and statistics with emerging areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Quantum Computing, and Cybersecurity.

Thinking about a career in research or wondering how to move forward in your journey to becoming an independent researcher? Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, a postdoc, early stage or an established investigator, there is an NIH funding program out there for you.

Find out more on the NIH Funding Programs by Career Stage to get to know the different programs by career stage, learn useful tips, and better understand the lingo of NIH funding.