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.

This NOFO seeks applications for research and development activities that will establish and accelerate domestic capacity for advanced packaging substrates and substrate materials. Through this NOFO, the NAPMP program seeks to achieve the following objectives:

For additional information, please contact Sandy Krietemeyer in the Provost’s Office.

The purpose of the Daniel F. Breeden Endowed Grant Program is to encourage enhancement of teaching and learning through financial support of selected projects. Projects or travel should directly benefit the instructor, students, and the University’s overall teaching program.

Tenured/tenure-track faculty from any discipline, or faculty from the Lecturer or Clinician title series with appointments continuing through academic year 2024-2025, may apply for a Breeden Endowed Grant. Preference will be given to early career, pre-tenured faculty. Proposals for collaborative projects involving multiple faculty and departments are encouraged.

This seminar series covers the latest need-to-know topics in clinical trials, with sessions curated by investigators and their research teams. Investigators, regulatory personnel, study coordinators, and financial administrators won’t want to miss these sessions. One CEU available for this session.  Register

This is a single-session overview on how to implement a sponsored or investigator-initiated study, including key clinical, regulatory and financial requirements. This session provides basic tools for research study terms and helps those new to research avoid common pitfalls. Young investigators and research staff who are new to research, as well as anyone who could use a refresher course in key aspects of a clinical trial are encouraged to attend.

Register by March 8.

Dr. Martin Halbert and other NSF staff will discuss the emerging landscape of open science, including upcoming federal public access mandates and related open science matters. Their discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.

Register here to receive the Zoom link for the session. Please use an institutional email address for registration.

Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance through the registration form or by sending an email to epscor-live@nsf.gov. 

To view past EPSCoR Live presentations, please visit the EPSCoR Live! webpage.

Also check out these featured NSF EPSCoR webinar videos:



What happens to your proposal after you hit submit?

This session will cover the process that funders use to review, evaluate, and select grant awards. The webinar will cover common conventions in the grant review process, in addition to funder-specific insights for different types of grantmakers. This webinar will also touch on the process for becoming a grant reviewer.​

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 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 for registration information.

This FOA also supports high-impact technology R&D to accelerate the bioeconomy. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is focusing on applied RD&D to improve the performance and reduce the cost of biofuel production technologies and scale-up production systems in partnership with industry.

BETO is looking for bioenergy technology developers that have completed work at the laboratory-scale and are ready to advance to the pilot-scale. This may mean designing and building a pilot-scale unit, using real feedstocks, operating a reactor for longer times than before, finding the optimal operating conditions, and/or incorporating mass/heat recycling. This FOA does not seek a fully integrated pilot-scale unit, but rather a critical process step or steps. The expectation is that a successful project at the end of this FOA would then be ready to proceed to building and operating an integrated pilot-scale facility, or scaling up to a demonstration-scale facility.

Topic Area 1 seeks projects of a wide variety of allowable feedstocks.

Topic Area 2 specifically seeks the utilization of biointermediates.

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) invites applications for innovative and transformative research that supports producers and their communities, sustains the environment and enables processors and retailers to deliver foods that equitably nourish our population. Proposals must address FFAR’s Research Priority Areas:

Matching funds are required for this opportunity.

The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.

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. Our 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.

A key aim of this Ideas Lab workshop will be to identify an aggressive (but attainable) set of use-driven activities together with the infrastructure component breakthroughs, designer-facing components, and ecosystem components required to realize them.

There are two tracks of this solicitation:

Proposals in this track will leverage the progress in the design of small protein molecules to advance use-driven applications of: (a) molecular recognition to enable biosensors; and (b) cargo delivery systems.

Proposals in this track will focus on the design and application of enzymes and families of enzymes that can catalyze the production of new / rare materials, or enzymes that contribute to sustainability.

Established by the Alabama Innovation Act (AIA) and administered by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA), the purpose of the ARDEF Program is to encourage new and continuing efforts to conduct research and development activities within the state for the purpose of increasing employment opportunities and products and services available to the citizens of Alabama.

The Directorate for Engineering has seven new Dear Colleague Letters on the following topics:

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to continue the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program. The objective of the Program is to make available to institutions high-priced research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, or clinical biomedical and biobehavioral research.

The SIG Program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, state-of-the-art, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.

Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers. Applications for standalone computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.

All instruments, integrated systems, and computer systems must be dedicated to research only.

The objective of the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program is to make available to institutions high-end research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, and clinical biomedical or biobehavioral research.

The HEI program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, leading-edge, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.

In particular, the HEI program enables the introduction of advanced leading-edge technologies providing new capabilities to biomedical research. In such cases, a risk-return trade-off is expected and allowed. Due to the novelty of the technologies and the uniqueness of their implementation, specialized and technologically savvy groups of investigators will be needed to lead the adoption of such advanced instruments for biomedical research and to develop innovative biomedical applications. Therefore, if such a novel instrument is requested, the applicant should demonstrate special technical expertise, merging multiple fields of science and technology, such as biology, physics, and bioinformatics.

All instruments and integrated systems must be dedicated to biomedical research only.