- Deadlines approaching for Internal Research Awards
- Faculty first
- Digital Partners Grant from UNCG Libraries
- In The News: Recent Examples of Research Misconduct
- Survey from LEARN: LGBTQIA Education and Research Network
- How Do NIH Multi-PI Applications Fare?
- NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Policies, Instructions and Forms for 2016 Grant Applications
- NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Post-Award Forms and Instructions
- Sampling of external funding opportunities
- NEH: Public Scholar Program
- NEH: Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants
- Russell Sage Foundation: Project & Presidential Awards
- NSF: Social Psychology Program
- NSF: Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)
- The Retirement Research Foundation: Responsive Grants
- The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research: 2016 Early Career Research Awards (ECRA)
- NIH Physical Activity and Weight Control Interventions Among Cancer Survivors: Effects on Biomarkers of Prognosis and Survival.
- Summer Research Education Experience Programs (R25)
- N.C. Biotechnology Center – Collaborative Funding Grant (CFG)
- N.C. Biotechnology Center – Biotechnology Innovation Grant (BIG)
- HRSA – Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS)
- Deadlines approaching for Internal Research Awards
- Faculty First Awards are offered by the Office of the Provost thanks to generous support of UNCG donors. Deadline February 29, 2016, at 5pm. For more information see: http://research.uncg.edu/internal-grants-and-awards/
- Through a competitive process, the UNCG Libraries will award one quarter of an FTE of IT support for a year to help UNCG faculty produce and share digital scholarship, through the Digital Partners Grant. The deadline for proposals is Jan 12, 2016. The Digital Partners Grant submission form and more details are available at: http://library.uncg.edu/research/support/ If you have any questions, contact Tim Bucknall bucknall@uncg.edu
- In The News: Recent Examples of Research Misconduct
A number of high profile cases have recently worked their way through the courts. Former faculty have been held personally liable, and their institutions have also been found negligent of their duties.
Northwestern University, Professor Charles L. Bennett
October 30, 2014
“Former Northwestern Physician to Pay the United States $475,000 to Settle Cancer Research Grant Fraud Claims “
July 30, 2013
“Northwestern Pays $3M To Settle NIH Grant Fraud Suit”
http://www.law360.com/articles/461167/northwestern-pays-3m-to-settle-nih-grant-fraud-suit
Iowa State University, Professor Dong-Pyou Han
July 1, 2015
“US vaccine researcher sentenced to prison for fraud” “fined US$7.2 million” “sentenced to 57 months for fabricating and falsifying data “
http://www.nature.com/news/us-vaccine-researcher-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-1.17660
December 12, 2013-12
“Findings of Research Misconduct” “falsified results”
http://ori.hhs.gov/content/case-summary-han-dong-pyou
Background information and additional cases:
“…research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, and does not include honest error or differences of opinion.”
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/research_integrity/research_misconduct.htm
- Survey from LEARN: LGBTQIA Education and Research Network
If you haven’t already completed this survey….please complete and consider forwarding to UNCG faculty and students engaged in teaching and research at UNCG who might be involved, or interested, in teaching, research or scholarship related to advancing the health, wellness and quality of life of LGBTQIA populations through research, education and community development.
The LEARN* Steering Committee is seeking to build a network of, and provide support to, faculty, staff, and students interested in advancing the health, wellness and quality of life of LGBTQIA populations through research, education and community development.
LEARN is looking to document UNCG faculty pedagogy and research that includes topics relating to sexuality, queer/trans* studies, and/or LGBTQIA-related issues. We are inviting all faculty and students engaged in teaching and research to complete a short survey, with the goals of better understanding how these issues are being addressed in UNCG classes and in our scholarly activity and helping create intellectual and pedagogical community around these topics.
We hope that you will take just a few minutes (around 5) to complete this survey if:
- You are incorporating topics relating to sexuality, queer/trans* studies, and/or LGBTQIA-related issues into your teaching
- Your current or past research/scholarship focuses on, or incorporates, sexuality, gender expression, queer identify, queer studies, trans* studies, LGBTQIA populations, or collects data/information from study participants related to these issues.
- You would like to further develop your teaching and/or scholarship in these areas.
Thank you for your time and consideration. If you have any questions or concerns regarding LEARN or thissurvey, please contact us.
Paige Hall Smith, CWHW Director
Brad Johnson, LEARN Coordinator, Chair LEARN Safe Campus/ Communities Subcommittee
Roger Mills-Koonce, LEARN Research Director, Chair LEARN Research Subcommittee
Jay Poole, Chair, LEARN Pedagogy Subcommittee
Follow this link to the survey or copy and past URL into your internet browser:
https://uncg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5nWCjKhPS030SKV
*LEARN: LGBTQIA Education and Research Network
LEARN
- How Do NIH Multi-PI Applications Fare?
Answer: similar to single PI applications, according to the four years of funding data…
https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2014/07/11/how-do-multi-pi-applications-fare/
- NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Policies, Instructions and Forms for 2016 Grant Applications
Several pre-award changes will be implemented by NIH & AHRQ in two phases (Jan 25, 2016 and May 25, 2016), and will focus on the following areas:
- Rigor and transparency in research
- Vertebrate animals
- Inclusion reporting
- Data safety monitoring
- Research training
- Appendices
- Font requirements
- Biosketch clarifications
Details at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-004.html
- NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Post-Award Forms and Instructions
NIH plans changes to policies, forms and instructions for interim and final progress reports, and other post-award documents associated the monitoring, oversight, and closeout of an award. Implementation will take place from December 1, 2015 to March 25, 2016.
Details at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-005.html
- Sampling of external funding opportunities
1. NEH – Public Scholar Program
The Public Scholar Program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Although humanities scholarship can be specialized, the humanities also strive to engage broad audiences in exploring subjects of general interest. They seek to deepen our understanding of the human condition as well as current conditions and contemporary problems. The Public Scholar Program aims to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic. Books supported by this program must be grounded in humanities research and scholarship. They must address significant humanities themes likely to be of broad interest and must be written in a readily accessible style. Making use of primary and/or secondary sources, they should open up important and appealing subjects for a wide audience. The challenge is to make sense of a significant topic in a way that will appeal to general readers. Applications to write books directed primarily to scholars are not appropriate for this program.
Receipt Deadline: February 2, 2016 for projects beginning October 2016
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program
2. NEH – Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants
In recent years, research published by Humanities Indicators, among others, has revealed that humanities PhDs pursue careers in many different professions—both inside and outside academia. Yet most humanities PhD programs in the United States still prepare students primarily for tenure-track professor positions at colleges and universities. The increasing shortage of such positions has changed students’ expected career outcomes. NEH therefore hopes to assist universities in devising a new model of doctoral education, which can both transform the understanding of what it means to be a humanities scholar and promote the integration of the humanities in the public sphere.
Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants support universities in preparing to institute wide-ranging changes in humanities doctoral programs. Humanities knowledge and methods can make an even more substantial impact on society if students are able to translate what they learn in doctoral programs into a multitude of careers. Next Generation PhD Planning Grants are designed to bring together various important constituencies to discuss and strategize, and then to produce plans that will transform scholarly preparation in the humanities at the doctoral level. Students will be prepared to undertake various kinds of careers, and humanities PhD programs will increase their relevance for the twenty-first century.
Grantee institutions must provide funds (either their own funds or funds raised from nonfederal third parties) equal to the grant funds released by NEH.
Receipt Deadline: February 17, 2016 for projects beginning August 2016
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/challenge/next-generation-humanities-phd-planning-grants
3. Russell Sage Foundation – Project & Presidential Awards
The Russell Sage Foundation was established by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” The Foundation now carries out that mission by sponsoring rigorous social scientific research as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. In sponsoring this research, the Foundation is dedicated to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences. The Foundation’s awards are restricted to support for social science research within its program areas.
The Foundation typically makes external awards for research projects up to $150,000, including overhead. Any requests up to $35,000 are processed as Presidential Award applications and cannot include any overhead/indirect costs. We provide support primarily for analyzing data and writing up results and are particularly interested in innovative projects that collect or analyze new data to illuminate issues that are highly relevant to the Foundation’s program goals. We also encourage projects that are interdisciplinary and combine both quantitative and qualitative research.
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: January 5, 2016
URL: http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/project-presidential-awards
4. NSF – Social Psychology Program
The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span.
Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.
The scientific merit of a proposal depends on four important factors: (1) The problems investigated must be theoretically grounded. (2) The research should be based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation. (3) The research design must be appropriate to the questions asked. (4) The proposed research must advance basic understanding of social behavior.
Full Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2016
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712
5. NSF – Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)
DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children’s and adolescents’ development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, social functioning, and productive lives as members of society.
DLS supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development using any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults, and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that impact development change including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying learning and development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., learning, memory, emotion), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales (e.g. infancy, middle childhood, adolescence).
Full Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2016
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671
6. The Retirement Research Foundation – Responsive Grants
The Retirement Research Foundation is one of the first private foundations in the nation devoted exclusively to aging and retirement issues. RRF’s Responsive Grants program supports projects in the following four major areas:
Advocacy: Achieve enduring social change around issues that affect older Americans
Direct Service: Improve availability and quality of community-based and residential long-term services and supports
Professional Education and Training: Increase the competency of professionals and paraprofessionals who serve older adults
Research: Seek causes and solutions to significant problems for older adults
Full proposal deadline: February 1, 2016
URL: http://www.rrf.org/grants/responsive-grants
7. The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research – 2016 Early Career Research Awards (ECRA)
The Upjohn Institute requests proposals for Early Career Research Awards (formerly called Mini-Grants). These grants are intended to provide resources to junior faculty (untenured and within six years of having earned a PhD) to carry out policy-related research on labor market issues. The Institute encourages research proposals on all issues related to labor markets and public workforce policy.
Early Career Research Award recipients are expected to write a research paper based on the funded work and submit the paper for the Institute’s working paper series. The working paper will be included in the Institute’s repository—where it will be included among papers authored by a notable cohort of scholars in economics and public policy—and it will be submitted to SSRN and listed with RePEc. We also encourage ECRA authors to submit the paper to a peer-reviewed journal and to prepare a synopsis of the research for possible publication in the Institute’s newsletter, Employment Research.
Deadline for applications: February 1, 2016
URL: http://www.upjohn.org/about-us/news-information/grant-opportunities
8. NIH – Physical Activity and Weight Control Interventions Among Cancer Survivors: Effects on Biomarkers of Prognosis and Survival.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages transdisciplinary and translational research that will identify the specific biological or biobehavioral pathways through which physical activity and/or weight control (either weight loss or avoidance of weight gain) may affect cancer prognosis and survival. Research applications should test the effects of physical activity, alone or in combination with weight control (either weight loss or avoidance of weight gain), on biomarkers of cancer prognosis among cancer survivors identified by previous animal or observational research on established biomarkers other than insulin/glucose metabolism, especially those obtained from tumor tissue sourced from repeat biopsies where available. Because many cancer survivor populations will not experience recurrence but will die of comorbid diseases or may experience early effects of aging, inclusion of biomarkers of comorbid diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease) and of the aging process are also sought. Applications should use experimental designs (e.g., randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs), fractional factorial designs), and will require transdisciplinary approaches that bring together behavioral intervention expertise, cancer biology, and other basic and clinical science disciplines relevant to the pathways being studied.
R21: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-310.html
R01: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-15-311.html
9. NIH – Summer Research Education Experience Programs (R25)
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on research experiences for high school, undergraduate and science teachers during the summer academic break.
Letter of intent due 30 days prior to application due date.
Application Due Date(s)
March 23, 2016, March 23, 2017, March 23, 2018 , by 5:00 PM
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-184.html
10. N.C. Biotechnology Center – Collaborative Funding Grant (CFG)
Co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science, the CFG program supports university-company partnerships that help to transfer technology from the lab to the market. Grant funds pay for a postdoctoral researcher or technician in a university research laboratory who, under the guidance of a principal investigator, performs research that will help the company partner achieve a commercially significant milestone. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to contact us to discuss potential projects.
Next Deadline: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 (noon).
http://www.ncbiotech.org/research-grants/research-funding/collaborative-funding
11. N.C. Biotechnology Center – Biotechnology Innovation Grant (BIG)
The Biotechnology Innovation Grant (BIG) targets university technologies at the invention disclosure stage, funding studies that provide go/no-go decisions for future development. The project team must include an academic scientist and a commercialization advisor. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged tocontact us to discuss potential BIG projects.
Next Deadline: February 17, 2016 (noon).
http://www.ncbiotech.org/research-grants/research-funding/biotech-innovation-grant
12. HRSA – Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS)
This program promotes diversity among the health professions and nursing workforce by providing awards to eligible health professions and nursing schools for use in awarding scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have a demonstrated financial need and are enrolled full-time in health professions and nursing programs. Eligible applicants are accredited schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing (as defined in section 801 of the PHS Act), pharmacy, podiatric medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine, public health, chiropractic, allied health, a school offering a graduate program in behavioral and mental health practice, or an entity providing programs for the training of physician assistants.
Participating schools are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, making reasonable determinations of need, and providing scholarships that do not exceed the allowable costs (i.e., tuition, reasonable educational expenses and reasonable living expenses with a cap for the total scholarship award of $30,000).
Application Due Date: January 25, 2016
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=280235