1. FAQ: Responsibility Matrix
2. Upcoming Workshops
a. Getting Off to the Right Start: Supporting Your Research and Creative Activity
b. NIH ASSIST: Nothing But Net
c. Show Me the Money! A Guide To and Through Grant-Seeking Databases
d. Applying For Internal Research Awards Workshop
3. News: From NIH – The Predictive Nature of Criterion Scores on Impact Score and Funding Outcomes
4. Sampling of external funding opportunities
Transdisciplinary Arts and Medicine
a. GRAMMY Foundation Scientific Research Projects
b. NEA Research Labs
Biomedical
c. NIH Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings (R01) (R21)
d. NIMH Detecting and Preventing Suicide Behavior, Ideation and Self-Harm in Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System (R01)
e. NIH – Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01, R21, R03)
f. NIH -The Health of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (R15)
g. NIH Pilot Services Research Grants Not Involving Interventions (R34)
Biotech
h. NC Biotech Center – Institutional Development Grant
i. NC Biotech Center – Event and Meeting Grants
Defense
j. Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (PRORP)
Humanities
k. NEH – Collaborative Research Grants
l. NEH – Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
m. NEH – Humanities Connections
n. Samuel H. Kress Foundation – Digital Resources Grants Program
o. American Philosophical Society – Franklin Research Grants
p. American Council of Learned Societies – Fellowships
q. American Council of Learned Societies – Collaborative Research Fellowships:
r. American Council of Learned Societies – additional programs for Fall 2016
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1. FAQ: Responsibility Matrix
If you’ve ever wondered “Who’s on First, What’s on Second, I don’t know is on Third” while working on a grant proposal or contract, then wonder no more. Just check out the “Responsibility Matrix” on the OSP website.
That is where you can find out who:
- “Provides documentation for cost sharing”
- “Provides authorized UNCG signature”
- “Negotiates material transfer, confidentiality agreements, and intellectual property”
- “Establishes grant accounts in accordance with award documentation”
- “Initiates request for re-budgeting and cost transfers”
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2. Upcoming Workshops
a. Getting Off to the Right Start: Supporting Your Research and Creative Activity
Tuesday, 8/16, 9:00-10:00 OR 10:00-11:00 a.m
204 SOE Building
Dr. Terri Shelton, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, will be presenting at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquium, a day-long mini conference open to all UNCG faculty and staff. Come learn about resources and how to connect with key internal and external partners to launch a successful start to your research, scholarship, and creative activity. This session focuses on information new and early career faculty especially need to know.
While at the Colloquium, stop by the Resource Fair, pick up valuable information and meet representatives from the Office of Sponsored Programs. The Resource Fair will be held in 219 SOE Building from 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Registration for the Colloquium is encouraged. Go to http://workshops.uncg.edu
b. NIH ASSIST: Nothing But Net
This workshop will provide in-depth information regarding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposal submission/management portal, ASSIST. This includes: preparing the application package, submission, tracking, general formatting and NIH updates. See attached flyer.
Departmental Research Administrators, Faculty, and Students are encouraged to attend.
Tuesday, August 23th, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, 2711 MHRA Building
Please register by Wednesday, August 19th.
Click here to register: https://workshops.
Please contact Darneshia Blackmon if you have any questions: dsblackm@uncg.edu
c. Show Me the Money! A Guide To and Through Grant-Seeking Databases
8/30/2016, 12:30-2:30 pm, Bryan 211
9/16/2016, 11:00 am-1:00 pm. Curry 304
Faculty and graduate students often require external funding for research, scholarship, and creative activity. This workshop will explore how to get the most from grant seeking databases, including SPIN, GrantSelect, Grant Advisor Plus, and the Foundation Center. Participants learn to search for possible funding opportunities, practice identifying eligibility, and realize the importance of key words. Attendees will have opportunities to access databases and engage in searches related to their topic of interest. Presented by University Libraries and the Office of Sponsored Programs. See attached flyer.
d. Applying For Internal Research Awards Workshop
Wed. 8/31/16, 9:00-10:00 am, 1607 MHRA
Thurs. 9/1/16, 2:00-3:00 pm, 1607 MHRA
Workshop covering what you need to know to successfully apply for New Faculty Research Awards and the Regular Faculty Research Awards. The application deadline is 10/19/2016. For more information, guidelines, directions and forms, go to http://research.uncg.edu/
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3. News: From NIH – The Predictive Nature of Criterion Scores on Impact Score and Funding Outcomes
A newly published analysis of over 123,000 competing R01 applications, “found that by far an application’s approach score, and to a lesser extent, the significance score, were the most important predictors of overall impact score and of whether any given application is funded.”
Follow the links below for the full article, with details on additional correlates, including new investigator status, gender, and race.
Links:
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4. Sampling of external funding opportunities
Transdisciplinary Arts and Medicine
a. GRAMMY Foundation Scientific Research Projects
The scientific research projects grant program awards funding of up to $20,000 to organizations and individuals working to research the impact of music on the human condition. Examples include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition, and healing; the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals; and the creative process underlying music. Priority will be given to projects with strong methodological design as well those designed to address an important research question.
Proposals are due October 1, 2016, at 11:59 p.m. PST.
b. NEA Research Labs
In recent years, the National Endowment for the Arts’ research portfolio has focused on yielding new knowledge about the value and impact of the arts. Through a new program, the National Endowment for the Arts Research Labs (NEA Research Labs), we seek to support a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. Each NEA Research Lab will define a research agenda, conduct a research program to implement that agenda, and prepare reports that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of three areas of special interest to the National Endowment for the Arts: 1. The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being 2. The Arts, Creativity, Cognition, and Learning 3. The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
Biomedical
c. NIH Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings, PA-16-263 (R01) and PA-16-273 (R21) (NINR, NIEHS)
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting health, preventing and limiting symptoms and disease, and reducing health disparities across the lifespan for those living or spending time in non-traditional settings (i.e. playgrounds and nursing homes). These settings result in exposure to environmental pollutants and toxins that result in health risks, symptoms, and other health conditions/diseases; including lower respiratory disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, and complex environmental exposures that may be exacerbated by non-chemical stressors encountered in community settings, physiological function of organs and systems of the fetus/child/adolescence, and lower respiratory disease. Risk identification and symptom management include prevention and behavior changes and actions to maintain health and prevent disease with an emphasis on the individual, family, and community which will advance nursing science. For purposes of this FOA, non-traditional settings include, but are not limited to, places such as community centers; pre-school and non-traditional school environments (e.g., churches, daycare, home-based schools, dormitories, alternative schools, and playgrounds); child and older adult foster care facilities; older adult day care facilities; half-way homes; and assisted living and long-term care facilities.
R01:
R21:
Standard NIH due dates: http://grants.nih.gov/
d. NIMH Detecting and Preventing Suicide Behavior, Ideation and Self-Harm in Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System (R01) PAR-16-299
This initiative supports research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene to reduce the risk of suicide behavior, suicide ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSI) by youth in contact with the juvenile justice system. Opportunities for detection and prevention start at early points of contact (e.g., police interaction, the intake interview) and continue through many juvenile justice settings (e.g., pre-trial detention, juvenile or family court activities, court disposition, placement and on-going care in either residential or multiple community settings.) This FOA invites intervention strategies that are designed to be delivered in typical service settings using typically available personnel and resources, to enhance the implementation of interventions that prove effective, enhance their future uptake in diverse settings, and thereby reduce risk of suicide and self-harm in this population.
Also see the companion R34 FOA (PAR-16-298) supporting pilot studies in preparation for the larger-scale R01 studies.
Standard NIH due dates: http://grants.nih.gov/
e. NIH – Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01, R21, R03)
(NCI, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDA, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, NINR, NIMHD, NCCIH)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages investigators to submit research grant applications that will identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (e.g. behavioral interventions; prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and disease management interventions; quality improvement programs) into public health, clinical practice, and community settings. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged.
Standard NIH due dates: http://grants.nih.gov/
f. NIH -The Health of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (R15)
(NICHD, NCI, NIAID, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIMH, NIMHD)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committed to supporting research that will increase scientific understanding of the health status of diverse population groups and thereby improve the effectiveness of health interventions and services for individuals within those groups. Priority is placed on understudied populations with distinctive health risk profiles. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations. Basic, social, behavioral, clinical, and services research relevant to the missions of the sponsoring Institutes and Centers may be proposed.
Standard NIH due dates: http://grants.nih.gov/
g. NIH Pilot Services Research Grants Not Involving Interventions (R34)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage pilot research consistent with NIMH priorities for services research studies that are not immediate precursors to the development and testing of services interventions. While NIMH has moved to supporting all interventions research under FOAs that require use of an experimental therapeutics model, there is recognition that some important areas of mental health services research fall outside of that domain and have the potential to make significant contributions to advancing NIMH priorities and objectives. These areas include: 1) studies to identify mutable factors that impact access, utilization, quality, financing, outcomes including disparities in outcomes, or scalability of mental health services, which may serve as targets in future intervention development; 2) development and testing of new research tools, measures, or methods; or 3) testing the feasibility of integrating existing data sets to understand factors affecting access, quality or outcomes of care.
NOTE: Studies focused on the development and preliminary testing of services interventions (e.g., pilot testing of patient-, provider-, organizational-, or systems- level services interventions to improve care quality, coordination, outcomes, delivery, or scalability) should be submitted under RFA-MH-16-410. (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Standard NIH due dates: http://grants.nih.gov/
Biotech
h. NC Biotech Center – Institutional Development Grant
The purpose of the Institutional Development Grant program is to enhance and grow the infrastructure for biotechnology research at North Carolina research institutions. Grant funds support the purchase of research equipment or core facilities that serve multiple investigators. Maximum award of $200,000
Deadline: October 5, 2016 at 12 Noon
Link: http://www.ncbiotech.org/
i. NC Biotech Center – Event and Meeting Grants
NCBiotech offers two grant programs focused on events and meetings – the Biotechnology Event Sponsorships (BES) and the Biotechnology Meeting Grants (BMG). These popular grants encourage and support the lively life science community in North Carolina and help bring information and networking opportunities on diverse topics to a broad audience across the state. Note that the BMG program targets national or international meetings. Both programs have deadline cycles based on the date of the event or meeting. See the guidelines for details.
2nd Cycle Deadline Noon, Thursday, September 8, 2016 for events October – December
Links: http://www.ncbiotech.
Links: http://www.ncbiotech.org/
Defense
j. Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (PRORP)
Applied Research Award
Seeks applied research applications focused on advancing optimal treatment and restoration of function for military personnel with neuromusculoskeletal injuries sustained during combat or combat-related activities. It is expected that any research findings would also provide benefit to the general population.
Clinical Trial Award
Supports the rapid implementation of clinical trials with the potential to have a major impact on military combat-related orthopaedic injuries, or non-battle injuries that significantly impact unit readiness and return-to-duty/work rates.
Integrated Clinical Trial Award
Supports the rapid implementation of an interdisciplinary clinical trial that integrates both surgical and rehabilitation strategies and has the potential to have a major impact on both the treatment of combat-related orthopaedic injuries, as well as the treatment of non-battle injuries that significantly impact unit readiness and return-toduty/work rates.
Clinical Translational Research Award
Supports high-impact and/or new emerging research that may or may not be ready for a full-scale randomized controlled clinical trial. Projects should include translational research that evaluates the effectiveness of health care practices and/or interventions in neuromusculoskeletal injuries rehabilitation
Pre-Application Deadline: September 7, 2016 at 5:00PM
Application Deadline: December 7, 2016
Humanities
k. NEH – Collaborative Research Grants
Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive humanities research undertaken by two or more collaborating scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to disseminate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences.
Eligible projects include:
- research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities
- conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research
- archaeological projects that include the interpretation and dissemination of results
Prospective applicants may submit a draft of their proposal for staff review (submission of draft proposals is optional) no later than October 15.
Receipt Deadline December 7, 2016 for Projects Beginning October 2017
l. NEH – Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.
Projects must be undertaken by at least one editor or translator and one other collaborating scholar. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years.
Deadline December 7, 2016 for Projects Beginning October 2017
m. NEH – Humanities Connections
Humanities Connections grants seek to expand the role of the humanities in the undergraduate curriculum at two- and four-year institutions, offering students in all academic fields new opportunities to develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind that the humanities cultivate. Grant projects focus on connecting the resources and perspectives of the humanities to students’ broader educational and professional goals, regardless of their path of study. Through this new grant program, NEH invites proposals that reflect innovative and imaginative approaches to preparing students for their roles as engaged citizens and productive professionals in a rapidly changing and interdependent world.
Grants support the development and implementation of an integrated set of courses and student engagement activities focusing on significant humanities content. A common topic, theme, or compelling issue or question must link the courses and activities. The linked courses (a minimum of three) may fulfill general education or core curriculum requirements but could also be designed primarily for students in a particular major or course of study. The Humanities Connections program gives special encouragement to projects that foster collaboration between humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and pre-service or professional programs in business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science, and other non-humanities fields.
Humanities Connections projects have two core features:
- faculty from at least two separate departments or schools at a single institution must collaborate to devise new curricular arrangements; and
- projects must include provisions for high-impact student engagement activities that relate directly to the topic(s) of the linked courses. These activities could include individual or collaborative undergraduate research projects; opportunities for civic engagement; or a structured experience with community-based, project-based, or site-based learning. Community organizations and cultural institutions can play key roles in this regard.
Receipt Deadline October 5, 2016 for Projects Beginning May 2017
n. Samuel H. Kress Foundation – Digital Resources Grants Program
The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. Please note that this grant program does not typically support the digitization of museum object collections. ELIGIBILITY: Grants are awarded to non-profit institutions with 501(c) 3 status, based in the United States, including supporting foundations of European institutions. FUNDING: In 2014, four grants were made, ranging from $25,000 to $100,000.
Deadlines: Sept 30 and April 1
o. American Philosophical Society – Franklin Research Grants
Since 1933, the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. In 2015-2016 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $473,950 to 93 scholars, and the Society expects to make a similar number of awards in this year’s competition. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible to apply, but the Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. Independent scholars and faculty members at all four-year and two-year research and non-research institutions are welcome to apply provided that all eligibility guidelines are met. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Foreign nationals not affiliated with a U.S. institution must use their Franklin awards for research in the United States. FUNDING: Funding is offered up to a maximum of $6,000. Grants are not retroactive.
Deadlines: Oct 1 and Dec 1
p. American Council of Learned Societies – Fellowships
The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.
Proposals due September 28, 2014 at 9:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
Additional details at https://www.acls.org/
q. American Council of Learned Societies – Collaborative Research Fellowships:
The aim of this fellowship program is to offer small teams of two or more scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The fellowship supports projects that produce a tangible research product (such as joint print or web publications) for which two or more collaborators will take credit.
Proposals due September 28, 2014 at 9:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
Additional details at http://www.acls.org/
r. American Council of Learned Societies – additional programs for Fall 2016
- Programs in China Studies – Nov 9
- Public Fellows Program – Oct 2016 (hosts) and Mar 2016 (applicants)
- African Humanities Program – Nov 2
- Program in Buddhist Studies – Nov 15 and Jan 11 (see details)
- Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars – Sept 28
- Fellowships in American Art – Oct 26
- Dissertation Completion Fellowships – Oct 26
- AND MUCH MORE!